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We just saw it as a studio...

And everyone went to schwarma for lunch.

Regarding the film: HO LEE CARP. Well done Joss, well done indeed.

We're seeing it as a Studio tomorrow morning, so if the devs come back with some craaaaazy ideas, you'll know why.

His accent, much like his plots, is a mystery.

Just a reminder that this will be happening.

Oh this is easy:

Trolling Deterrence System: Every time you're caught trolling, apply 1 hour of power suppression account wide.

I'm pretty sure that would inspire endless rage.

It wasn't restricted to PVP, but rather to all questions.

We didn't really have a Q&A session as that was not the focus of the Player Summit. We instead focused on 2 workshops (design a power set, design a costume set) and a make your case workshop (zone revamp). The only Q&A sessions revolved around Lore and Story and the Paragon Market.

In short, PVP wasn't singled out. We didn't take questions about Powersets, AE, Bases, crafting, etc...It wasn't a topic open for discussion.

Will it be at further Summits? Who knows...it's possible.

We all know that PVP is not a priority for the development team. I've never blown smoke regarding that fact and will always be very up front with it. There's a multitude of reasons, but if I have to point at two:

• Once we start opening the Pandora's Box of PVP we cannot close it. PVP is a constant battle requiring constant tuning, power balancing, nerfing, buffing, etc, etc...To be honest, that's not our focus. We have limited numbers of Systems Designers and their primary focus is on creating new Powersets, proliferation and revisiting older Powersets (when there is time.)
• PVP activity is not a priority for the vast majority of our Community. Yes, I agree that the argument could be made that it's a symptom of the cause rather than the cause itself, however it is what it is. For better or worse, City of Heroes is a PVE centric game where (many, *not* all) players would rather the challenge of designing an amazing costume than duking it out in the arena.

Many of you have stopped reading and are rapidly hitting quote, deleting the rest of the message and are preparing to rip into me about one or two specific things.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

Now that you've started reading again, here's the rest of the story:

We continue to plead the case of the remaining PVP Community to the development team. I continue to push for changes to PVP to be made and improvements to be considered (Keep in mind, improvements in recent memory such as the individual settings for Arena matches were done in one developers spare time, after hours.) There are ideas, and even devs who really want to do things with PVP, but *anything* we would consider requires code work, possibly animation work, and definitely a significant amount of systems designer work. The designers, engineers and artists are already tasked to the max, already working multiple hours of OT and already pushing extremely hard just to get the content we are working on out the door to the players.

There is no lack of desire to do something, anything, with PVP. There is a difficulty proving that it's better to work on PVP over a new Powerset.

And to answer the OP: Yes, I occasionally PVP on my personal account. No, I won't tell you what my global is and no, I will not 1v1.

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A premature reassignment on our part . We'll fix it.

With Issue 23: Where Shadows Lie, we'll be rolling out a new look for the City of Heroes website and forums. I figured that since so many of us spend hours looking at the forums, why not let the Community have a say in what the skin of the forums will look like?

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