Aett_Thorn

Lifetime subscriptions are great ways to make quick money on game startup, to help repay investors quickly. They aren't that great for a game that has been out for 5.5 years. At this point, as much as I love this game, but it will soon begin to fade as newer games come out, vets get burned out on it, etc.

Does this game have enough life left in it to make it worth a lifetime subscription? Does it make economic sense for the Devs to even offer it at this point in the game's life? Do they need a quick infusion of cash more than they need the steady stream of income?

Pre-change Tanker Frozen Aura.










What?

First off, just so you know, petitions are pretty much breaking the forum rules. That said, I would like more options like this. And THAT being said, you should probably put this in Sexy Jay's costume request thread, since he's the Dev in charge of creating the costume bits, and he reads his thread fairly often for ideas.

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I do not mean to be rude, but this has been known since inventions came out. It was even stated in the issue patch notes, and I think is mentioned in the invention tutorial. I think you'll be pretty much preaching to the choir here.

But, always good to teach newer players some things.

Also, the rule should NOT be done away with. Otherwise, it would be even easier to trivially get a lot of bonuses that can imbalance the game. It was put in to specifically not let you easily rack up a ton of big bonuses just by slotting the same set 10 times, or something like that.

I believe that a fix to Mid's will be out shortly. Though, I will gladly take this issue up with him if I can find him on.

May I ask if this is across all incarnations of it, or only for a certain AT?

Yup, Blazing Aura gets a bit of a boost for being in the 'offensive' primary, and because out of the original four Tanker sets, it was the only one that didn't have some sort of auto-hit Taunt aura going for it. So it got the bonus damage to help compensate a bit.

It goes away. It no longer exists. They're called Influence sinks for a reason.


If you want a more RP-ish way of dealing with the loss, the Influence goes to paying for local schools to get afterschool programs (gotta keep the kids outta all of the gangs in the city), while Infamy goes into the "Make Recluse look FABULOUS" city fund.

I would definitely appreciate this change.

No updates that I've heard of.

A few things, if I may:

1) Against All Odds should NOT be taken that late. It is your aggro aura, and you are going to miss having it as a Tanker, and your team is especially going to miss you have it considering that you're also not taking Taunt (which is fine, but it means that you'll be relying on Gauntlet and your aggro aura to hold aggro). Take this much earlier.

2) Ice Patch is definitely nice to have, but if you have enough mitigation elsewhere, then you don't particularly need it. However, it can make a decent difference in survivability, especially in the mid levels before you start really putting in IOs.

3) Hasten can be put off some levels. You've pushed back a lot of great powers to fit that in so early.

4) Phalanx Fighting is a great early-level power. It's a straight-up 5% Defense power to stack with your other Defenses, and is free to run. If you've got a teammate nearby, it goes up! I'd say try to get that earlier if you can.

5) True Grit: you are overslotting this power for the +HP effect, and not slotting it at all for the Resistance. Any reason why?

6) You can put off Build Up for a while to fit other things in earlier. Your damage isn't great anyways. Might as well work on other things first.

7) Without seeing the full numbers, it looks like you'll be over the 45% Soft Cap for Melee defense, but under it for Ranged and AoE Defense. You may want to switch around some sets to shore up your Ranged and AoE Defense values to bring them up to 45%.

8) Deflection, your basic Melee Defense shield, seems underslotted for DefBuff. I'd add another slot to it.

9) I think that your choice of Ancillary Power pool powers are fine. Ice Storm probably won't go with your build that well, but Fireball could be a great power for you to help with your damage. Since you've got few good single-target attacks, Fire Blast is another good choice.

Kruunch, if you really think that CoH could have ever compared to WoW, then I really don't know what to say.

Blizzard was a well-established American company with several successful brands (Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo), and had access to very large advertising budgets, not to mention the budgets to have a permanent, decent-sized staff to work on the game. It also based its first MMO on the most popular of its series, so before it even came out, it had a decent following. It was also attractive to current MMO players that had not played a Warcraft game before, simply because it was still a Fantasy-genre game.

CoH was produced by a company that was little-known in America, and made by a company that was just getting off its feet. It had little advertising money to throw around, and the game title had no history behind it. It was also basing itself off of a new genre in terms of MMO players.

There was no way that CoH was ever going to compare to the population that WoW got. It just wasn't going to happen. I honestly think that even Blizzard was surprised at the numbers it got for that game. Which then led to it having even more money for advertising.


CoH wasn't trying to hit the WoW marks (even though the WoW marks weren't there yet, because CoH released first). It was trying to be a successful MMO that did things differently. And guess what? It has worked for 5+ years now, which makes it a pretty successful game. Has it been the best-populated game? No. Has it been unsuccessful? No.

I do think that WoW is throwing off your idea of what a typical MMO has been able to garner in terms of game populations.

[QUOTE=Kruunch;2120885]So according to you, reaching L50 is the end of the game?

And you see that as a working model for a subscription based service?[quote]

Yes, and it seems to be working fine for his game. This game has constantly tried to show that they can do what other MMOs don't do and succeed. So far, it's worked. It's worked so well, that the game has survived for over 5 years now. That's more than some other MMOs that have come on the market since and tried it with the 'proven' method.

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Quick question: what are you planning on doing with Salt Crystals?

Well, I'm sure this'll clear it up for the OP then. ;-)