Hello ppl (players, moderators,devs), im a 12month vet soon to be 15month and would like to post, making a retrospective of my vet time and also talk about what i think is the game's current state, being the following my personal opinion.
I have seen 3 Issues (10,11,12) since i joined CoH, wich were good additions to the game, some better than others, bringing us 35+ coop. zone and content, weapon customization, ouroboros, power proliferation, VEATs, Cimerora and other improvements.
I sumarize this as I10 being a great addition on content, I11 being a good game inovation issue and I12 being a bit of both but weak on content and customization.
One of the important additions to the game was the weapon customization, it has remained with what was launched previously, i think that a major improvement like that should permanently get new stuff to complement it to give new weapon choices to players.
Ouroboros was great although all those badges were in excess. Increasing a new character's badge collection means having to do ouroboros all over again.
I find that this wouldnt be a problem if at least the 35-39 and 40-45 range arcs were a bit smaller like some but that can only change if new content in that range is added in the future so that getting the badges as well as new badges wont make it a worry or a bore.
The pacing of issues lately has reminded me that we used to have each issue in 4 months and that was brought to us until the end of 2007 that way. I12 in 2008 came within 6 months after last issue. I also understand that the more issues come out probably means more waiting as new stuff is implemented to enhance what was previously done but from what i saw it lacked content and customization and still took that amount of time.
With cimerora i was hoping that the new zone was a low level zone with new arcs in the range of 10-20 since we already had a 35+ zone with coop. and lots of content. Having to wait till 35 to get into the new zone is a bit frustrating seeing that players start characters and have to play the same old missions in the same old maps before getting there.
A new zone for low lvl characters would be great.
Moving on, security ingame was buffed up lately and players stopped receiving annoying spammer emails like I did and that is to be praised, so thankyou for making the game safer and more enjoyable.
Having said that, id like to leave my contribute.Some ideas came to mind that id like to share and see in the future.
-Having the costume editor to allow total combination of all pieces you want even if that means ending up with the wackiest toon, and include forms that arent just human/humanoid.
-To enhance the powers without restriction on amount of percentage.
-Zone events in zones that arent used much by players.
-Changing the way you travel in shadow shard and put in new mobs.
-To have new travel powers and to get them earlier instead of having to walk/run.
-To have a badge for bringing down a rikti drop ship
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-To have invasion event randomly spawn in the city instead of waiting months to get accolade.
To finish let me say that a new hero based mmorpg is rising to the challenge as most know, im thinking of the impact it can lay on CoX, comes a time to implement new things that can make CoX distinct from others, i think that first of all a stability in expansions is required to bring what ppl are always expecting in each issue, new powers, new content, more customization and when possible new zones that can astonish players and then inovate the game presenting players with new ways of playing the game, to give the players more choices making each character as unique as possible and fun to play.
I enjoy playing the game, hope that the devs keep up the good work.
To all, thankyou for your patience reading this, and feel free to comment or add any idea that can help, nuff said.
