Anti_Proton

Originally Posted by IanTheM1

Devouring Earth infected Seers. You may begin screaming...now. (Very Half-Life-esque. I like.)

Also don't forget the Carnival of Light.

Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades

I would have a PvP zone called Valhalla.

In Valhalla the Valkyries would rip your soul out of your corpse and return them to a new body. Your foes would see the carmage and the sight of winged beauties diving from the sky would signal more foes to defeat.

I would have an AE style of PvP design where all powers, travel and maps could be editted.

It would include options for leagues and a terminal where you could see the stats for all teams/players.

Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy

I am still trying to determine exactly what you feel is evil about this situation? Prior to making the the fitness pool inherent if a player wanted Stamina they had to wait until level 20 and take 2 other pool powers to obtain it. Also prior to powers like Ninja Run becoming available players needed to use 2 more pick below 20 just to obtain a travel power so they could stop running everywhere. That was 5 pick out of the first 12 you get just to have stamina and the ability to go places faster.

What we have now is the ability to get more of our primary and secondary powers early and still have stamina and that travel power. I'm to the point now where I don't need to take a 2nd power from the travel pool to get my travel power so I picked up another slot there as well.

I use those extra picks to further enhance my characters abilities..

I take picks like Manuevers or Tactics from the leadership pool to increase my defenses or accuracy.

I take Combat Jumping from the Leaping Pool to again shore up holes in my defenses

I take Hasten from the Super Speed pool to make my attacks faster when needed

I've taken Recall friend to help team mates or Crant invisibiliy and invisibilty to aid teams I join.

I haven't used them myself but others here have already mentioned the Fighting pool which offers 2 more attacks and 2 powers that increase defenses and of course the medicine pool alllows you to heal team mates and yourself and even rez fallen team mates.

None of what I have described seem like horrible choices to me and they all either help YOUR character be better or assist any team you may join. So like I said exactly where is this EVIL you talk about?

Originally Posted by Traegus

the real question would be, what are you missing by taking these? now if you were forced to take pools powers and miss out on something else, then i could see your issue, but having to use two extra powers that are, for all intents and purposes, free...... dude, sounds like a bad case of self importance to me, as you are in essence, whining about nothing....

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

On the other hand, riddle me this: You're playing a Katana/Super Reflexes Scrapper. What Epic pool is there that clashes with your powers less than, say, Fighting or Speed or Leaping?

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

well, i guess that wanders into some strange semantics when one looks at an abundance of choice as an anti-choice, but you know, harsh as it sounds, some time, removing the choice of someone, particularly someone who may be unfamiliar with a facet of the game, to screw up and miss a defining characteristic of the game i.e.inability to take a travel power because you want all your prim/sec/epic powers, is beneficial because it protects them from ruining their game.call it hand holding or whatever, it happens and it is justified by reality. so they make sure you have the number of slots, even if it may cramp a meta-concept by making you take a power of some sort, even if you just bin it and maybe slot a io.

the biggest problem i see is that if you give all players the same number of available powers, there is simply no way to give people who want some looseness in their build to take most of their prim/sec/epic and still have some variety and also support the ones who want that meta-purity, the math doesn't work out. so you have to look at who is inconvenienced less, people who are cramped build-wise, or people who take a dog power or so, but still can keep an effectively concept pure character. and looking at those options, the person binning 2 powers simply is less inconvenienced than someone who is straitjacketed by overly tight builds. This is not saying there is NO inconvenience to you, but i dont think you could conceive of a solution that did not inconvenience the second group far worse.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

I've yet to see any convincing argument for why the Trial/teaming path "has" to be "faster" than any solo path.

Or, for that matter, a convincing argument for why time-gating isn't an awful idea to start with.

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

You deliberately point out Everquest and then conclude that a game the age of City of Heroes is doomed? I think you might need to run a diagnostic of your logic circuits.

SOE doesn't keep EQ around because they're so sentimental about it that they're willing to subsidize it off of the profits of their other games. They keep it around because it still turns a profit. They've been more than willing to shut down unprofitable games in the past.

City of Heroes is profitable. In "the current video game climate" that's a pretty damn good reason to keep it open. It's also the biggest reason why there should not be a "CoH 2". Everquest 2 didn't bring in much new business. (Though the recent freemium version is finally doing that.) What it did very effectively, though, was fracture the player base of Everquest. EQ had 500k subscribers at the time so they could handle it to some degree, but when WoW arrived, both games were negatively affected.

Given that there are several superhero games out there now (CoH, Champions, DCUO, Superhero Squad) and that CoH is still the acknowledged leader in that niche, I'm puzzled what the basis is for a prophecy of doom unless they replace it with something new and shiny?