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Originally Posted by Demobot

It's kept me subscribed.

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

I can't stand solo'ing. Doing my "daily" tip missions is the most unfun content I do in coh, and I doubt the DA content will be much different from that. I will still prefer to do Trials over soloing through incarnate progression, but having DA as an option will be nice to do occasionally.

Originally Posted by Beastyle

That's a nice piece! Happy holidays!

Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord

There's a lot of assumption in this thread. "No one likes Underground, TPN, and MoM." Um, speak for yourself. Underground is my favorite Trial. TPN isn't far behind. In fact, the only trials I don't like are Lambda and Keyes.

The main two problems with these trials are 1. weak leadership, and 2. people trying to bring unlevelshifted level 50s, or level 50s that are only levelshifted +1, to them. These are not trials that are meant for them. Either one is enough to sink the trial.

Whether anyone likes it or not, City of Heroes became an endgame raiding game in Issue 20. Like any other MMOG with endgame raiding, they have tiers.

Tier 1 (Level 50): Apex TF and Tin Mage TF

Tier 2 (Level 50+1): BAF Trial, Lambda Trial, and Keyes Trial

Tier 3 (Level 50+2): Underground Trial

Tier 4 (Level 50+3): TPN Trial and MoM Trial

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

Nothing I have said denies people the option to run whatever they want whenever fits best. But if you are level 42 and you want the best XP possible, you are going to run a defeat all ITF, not a Katie Hannon TF. What we have right now is the inverse of that, where the best rewards/time are lumped into the lowest tier Incarnate trials which are getting repeatedly spammed.

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

You seem to be very sensitive to any issue that involves tiers or haves and have-nots. I am not sure how what I wrote is elitism. I was merely using that phrase to prove a point. I certainly don't think that what the developers proposed was the best solution, nor do I hope that it is immediately implemented.

There is currently very little reason for people veer from spamming BAF and Lambda should their primary goal be to gain Incarnate powers. Once you have trivialized older content by gaining levels, it should not grant the same rewards/time that it did when you first attempted it; that's a fundamental law in any RPG/MMORPG/video game. Notice that I said it should not grant the same rewards, not that it should grant no rewards what so ever.




It's not just about level shifts-- it's also about the powers themselves and how they can contribute. I would list the current situation as:

• Tier 1 Incarnate: BAF/Lambda/Nerfed Keyes
• Tier 2 Incarnate: Original Keyes/Underground
• Tier 3 Incarnate: TPN/MoM

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

Isn't hard gating the inability of a level 1 to join a level 10-14 TF, or a level 15-19 TF, or a level 50 RSF?

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

It was clear, and I merely used 1-50 as an analogy for 50-53+ that we have so far in the Incarnate trials. These Incarnate powers and level shifts really are just a proxy for regular powers and levels. We even have our own iXP that applies to these abilities. I don't see how hard gating is fine for 1-50, but needs to stop for levels 50+ and something as simple as effective soft gating is anathema to gameplay.

Your thoughts about smaller servers are spot on and should really be addressed by a comprehensive cross server Team Up Teleporter. I personally would much rather log in and have access to the entire CoH population than be relegated to Freedom, which already has a large population.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Pretty sure that mid to late January still stands...

I didn't say *right after* the new year...maybe shortly after.

Originally Posted by mauk2

...really.

You're really not grasping the whole "Away From Keyboard' thing here, are you? The whole point of the AFK farm is that you set it up and then it runs automatically. The player then goes away and does something else, while his toons happily auto-slay and auto-rez, with nary a human interaction in sight.

That's not 'playing the game' that's bots farming the most valuable stuff.





Really?! I did not know that.

So, since I have a good income in Real Life, I can simply crush everyone else by throwing cash at the issue, and you will, of course, consider that perfectly fair play.

Good to know. (Pulls out debit card and waits patiently.)



You know, I'd wager that at least 75 percent of all pvp hours spent on the game right now are bots auto-killing each other.

A sad state, that is.

Originally Posted by GATE-keeper

No, he's complaining about people getting PvPIOs by not playing the game.

Whereas, he's using A-Merits to get PvPIO's. Last i checked, A-Merits can only be earned by ... playing the game.

Originally Posted by mauk2

True, but only because the market caps at 2 billion. Most sales happen in off-market channels.

Also, as I suggested, have the PVP IO's available via other tracks: Increase supply.

Last, I have several PVP IO's, despite the fact that I neither PVP nor actively farm them. Alignment Merits For The Win!

It is nonsensical that the best way to amass in-game resources is to NOT play the game. How does that make ANY kind of sense? Change the code so AFK farming doesn't work any more, and increase supplies of PVP drops via other channels.

Originally Posted by TRTerror

People that wants to pvp in this game. Stop. Go play a game where pvp is supported.

Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus

Other MMOs have PvP that is relatively balanced. Its not impossible.

Originally Posted by Erratic

And what is to say they do not have sufficient numbers amongst themselves to keep the selling value exactly where it is? If you have 100 billion influence under your sleeve, you can buy anything you want and not care, so 90+% of the market refusing to buy isn't going to keep you from buying. Likewise, whatever asking price you set isn't producing income you absolutely have to have to afford something new so you can post for a price and let the item sit there for weeks and months until it sells.

It may not seem reasonable that people with lots of cash squander it, but its what I've been observing in the market on my server. Recipes you can go to the university and purchase for 12K are selling on my server for 300K. Why? The only thing I can think of is because some people have so much influence to spend it literally is worth it to them to not make the side trip to their base or the university to go ahead and be overcharged 2499% as opposed to taking the extra minute to get what they want for an appropriate price.

With that type of money sloshing about and the number of people it must be to sustain such ludicrous prices I doubt a boycott would have much impact.

Edit: For the record, I don't care one way or the other about AFK farming. It would seem to me to be like what other players have said--a means that produces more goods than would otherwise be available.

Originally Posted by Issen

Beam Rifles required a purchase and wasn't a melee set. But you've seemingly already addressed that point.

I'd also point out just how darn POWERFUL the two new melee sets are. Street Justice is basically Dual Blades on crack, and Titan Weapons AoE-fest makes melees weep for joy (seeing as melee sets tend to be somewhat lacking in the AoE department save 1 or 2 attacks).

I have no doubt that Staff (based on what we know of the mechanics) won't be just as buff.

Originally Posted by Issen

I already know who the architect is, and frankly, given I've already given away what happens from parts 1-4 in this thread? There's no reason to hide it.

And honestly, if what you said is the case? Then it's incredibly poor writing on the part of the devs. Who's going to care about the Arc on Blueside if they don't feel motivated to play it because the writing forces idiocy?


As Mokalus said, I -could- be calling doom and gloom early. A distinct possibility I realize. I'm just feeling a little sore from the fact that the story THUSFAR feels like nothing of a series of "Look-at-how-stupid-Heroes-are".

Originally Posted by Xzero45

A victory on the side of evil every now and again builds tension and makes the villains much more menacing and threatening. I imagine that's what the first few parts were for, along with Statesman's death. Build up the villains and give us a reason to hate and want to them, rather than present us with a bag of HP that the game tells us we should hate as is the case with most TFs and the like.

Also, constant victory on the side of evil just makes for a depressing story where there is absolutely no hope whatsoever. The villains get boring, and heroes become laughable. This is why I believe the story will soon pick up and the heroes will layeth the smacketh down.

Originally Posted by SentinelBeta

After this is all said and done, I want someone new to the game to stare at Statesman and think "Who is this clown?"

Originally Posted by Hqnk

I'm not touching that "other game" until it's ah...relationship patch...goes live. CoH, the Distinguished Competition, and various offline rpgs, are more than enough to keep me occupied.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

I've spent the better part of this week in Coruscant, Tython, Korriban and Hutta. But City of Heroes is my heart. I'm subbed through 2013 for goodness sakes. But I've always been a two MMORPG guy, so for now it's CoH and some other game taking place a long, long time ago.

Originally Posted by Rodion

What's so outrageously bogus about getting one-shotted by a civilian is that a few seconds later we're in the building shrugging off energy blasts and RPGs while still "Pacified."

If the Telepathists have debuffed us so terribly that simple rocks can kill us instantly, the RPGs the IDF are launching at us should be rending our constituent atoms to plasma, leaving us not merely dead, but really most sincerely dead.

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

The amount of new content since Freedom went live has been amazing. I have no problem with these super packs if they help generate additional content for the game. In less than three months, we have so far received:

6 new power sets

• Titan Weapons
  Beam Rifle
  Time Manipulation
  Street Justice
  
  *and coming soon*
  
  Staff Fighting
  Dark Control

Many new costume sets

• Celestial
  Barbarian
  Gun Slinger
  Elemental Order
  Carnival of Light
  IDF

And lots of new content

• First Ward
  Keyes
  Underground
  TPN
  MoM
  Mercy 1-20
  Atlas 1-20

Even if you don't want to delve into the Super Packs, and wish that you could just buy the items a la carte, you WILL STILL BENEFIT FROM OTHER PEOPLE BUYING THEM.

Originally Posted by TrueMetal

And if the changes you're hoping for is for them to cancel the packs altogheter, well, even I realize that that's just not going to happen.