Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35353971-20180515012801/@comment-27148044-20180515023530

"Treasures. This is a complicated issue. With more starred alien treasures, the Starred Aliens will become a complete joke. If the Super Cosmic Cyclone were buffed to 100% rather than 1100%, it would be by far the easiest. I doubt PONOS wants that."

Simple, increase their strength magnifications. PONOS gave most of the Aliens in Into the Future Chapters 2 and 3 a strength magnification of 250% and 500%, respectively, so they'll probably do the same thing for Cosmos Chapters 2 and 3.

Scars of War is a complete joke, as is the stage Ancient Trial in Sea Polluter. Maybe PONOS will just let the old Starred Alien stages be super-easy. It's happened before.

"Then there's Mystery Mask. What will it be used for? It can't be used to weaken God Cat, because that would be useless as you would have beaten him already, and units can't have negative buffs?"

Simple, it'd weaken the final boss of Chapter 2.

"And on the subject on Cat God, he seems like a pretty fitting final story boss. I can't think of many things that could outshine him in this. With more COTC chapters, Cat God wouldn't be the final boss anymore, and that would ruin the point."

The final boss could be almost anything. I'm sure PONOS will come up with something interesting. Whatever it is, it'll be something no one expected.

"And then there would need to be MORE ALIENS. Aliens are already one of the widest enemy traits, and starred aliens just made it bigger. We don't really want aliens to completely dominate, they are already pretty common in mid-late Stories of Legend, and if Stories of Legend were an alien fest like ITF and COTC, it would ruin the point."

Into the Future Chapters 2 and 3 introduced four new Aliens each, excluding the final bosses. Now this is just speculation, but I'm guessing Cosmos Chapters 2 and 3 will introduce three new Starred Aliens each (again, excluding final bosses), but two of the ones in Chapter 2 will probably be Youcan and UltraBaaBaa, so that amounts to just four new Starred Aliens when CotC is finished. Again, that's just speculation, but my point is that there won't be as many Starred Aliens as you're making it seem like.

As for the SoL, it's extremely likely that the green SoL chapters will focus on Ancients. After all, the Ancients' color appears to be dark green, and guess what color the new SoL is associated with?

Now that that's over, let's get to evidence that there will be a Chapter 2.


 * The first 48 stages of Cats of the Cosmos are found in Chapter 1: Beyond the Exosphere. Emphasis on "Chapter 1". Would they really call it that if there's never going to be a Chapter 1?
 * Empire of Cats and Into the Future each have three Chapters. It would be odd to have three Chapters, another three Chapters, and then just one Chapter.
 * When tapping the Cats of the Cosmos button in the main menu, it takes you to a Chapter selection screen. If there's not going to be more Chapters, you would think it'd just send you directly to Beyond the Exosphere.
 * Without the Dark Matter Treasure, the energy limit is 810. Seems like a pretty arbitrary number, right? The Dark Matter Treasure increases the energy limit to 840, which is still a bit odd. If there we ever get Cosmos Chapters 2 and 3, however, the energy limit will be a perfect 900. That makes much more sense than 810 or 840.
 * Without three Enigma Fruit, Titanium Fruit and Antimatter Fruit Treasures, anti-trait cats can never be quite as effective against Aliens, Metal and Zombies as they are against Red, Black, Floating and Angels.
 * The reward for beating Chapter 1 (70% discount on Cat God's miracles) is very underwhelming, similar to Into the Future Chapter 1's reward (a new set of Cat Combos).
 * The restrictions are a pretty interesting mechanic, but most of them are severely underutilized. The only restrictions found outside Cats of the Cosmos Chapter 1 are "Rare + Special Cats only" and "Normal + Uber Rare Cats only". I personally think it would be a real waste of potential if the other restrictions go unused outside of one Chapter.