BlueRaptor

I like making a 5-mission-arc because you can. But then again I am me and I hope there's others who rather like making short arcs to make up for that. : )

I like being able to tell a slightly longer story though, and find it easier, more interesting and less tedious for the player to tell two parts of a story (where moving to different places goes well with the story at least) in two quick missions than somehow squeezing them into a single long one.

It's also easier to escalate a story when using more missions, introducing a custom fraction by using weak 'enemy groups' of it in one mission and stronger 'groups' in a following one.

I was positively surprised though that I can have a glowie that I still have to touch after leading the guy to it rather than it finishing immediately when he reaches it, for story reason.

The feature is worth wait a week or two of waiting imo. But it's been quite long now... : /

I try to make my custom critters as tough as the average canon critter, as much as the powers I want them to have (and not have) allow that, so that people can use the difficulty setting they are used to and not end up too surprised.

Fortunately the AE allows me to make some enemies weaker and some stronger, so I can have simple trooper groups and elite groups, where the former then likely ends up with less XP than the latter, but the I try to have the average in between close to canon difficulty.
(I find it hard enough to judge how strong my critters are against an average player, and to not leave any gaps in the final boss that might make him a laugh for some characters (like a nonflying melee critter) and neither making them unbeatable for characters that are weak in one aspect (like characters that are very hard to hit e.g. or have an insanely high resistance against one kind of damage).)

For a though boss I wouldnt like less than 75%, so he's worth the effort, and I wouldnt want the entire bunch of enemies to give only 40% XP, but aside from that I dont look much on the XP, but more on the toughness and feel of my critters.

(3) http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=195282

Oh, I didnt realize you meant just two options instead of 5, instead of a mere renaming to give the player a better idea how to vote. That does of course make a difference then. My bad.

I dont think only-1-and-5-star-ratings on youtube problem is like that in CoX to that extent, as on youtube or such the majority doesnt care for a video or whatever there is to rate, and doesnt bother to click that rating thing. (Let alone log in to rate it.)
While here we have a community, people do care about the arc they just played or they wouldnt have played it to the end (I assume), and the voting pops up automatically.
I am sure there are at least more 2, 3 and 4 star votes here than on youtube.

Good things, yes.

2: I still think there should be several categories to rate an arc in, though.
Like Story, Characters, and Action. Maybe also Difficulty.
Because how great someone finds an arc overall does not tell what they liked about it and stories that got rated low for something you wont mind at all or might explicitly be looking for (e.g. good Story, little Action) will be lost down there under the big pile of high-rated ones. With several categories you could look for a story with great X, and a bad Y value wont keep it from showing up at the top of that list. Just making stars into "I like" wont help that.

From a story perspective it would make more sense to kill the Inf in AE missions (after all you do not really defeat criminals, but you still train and thus can get valuable experience) but yes, less Inf and XP rewards for AE (50% would totally already do the trick I think) instead of countless annoying nerfs for this and that sound like a good thing to me.

No?
Cool!

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On the other hand, I think its a great and right step to allow things like side switching and grey zones in between and hopefully some day choices to do good or evil things in a mission.

Its something a lot of players really wanted, I dont want to sound all negative about it.
Its good and a step in the right direction imo, despite the immediate ill-effects.

Brutes will be rather obsolete, as they supposedly take lots while dishing out some, and maybe take the aggro for a team, but tankers are better at that.

Corrupters will be rather obsolete as they supposedly do lots of damage quickly at range, but blasters are better at that.

Stalkers may still be played because they are different form scrappers, Dominators I dont know much about, and Masterminds are pretty useless anyway as players dont fall for the pets things like PvE enemies do.

Villain builds that rely on not having to fight villain archetypes will become rather useless as everybody and their dog will want to play them on the blue side to be different.

Red side in general will become pretty much obsolete too imo when you dont need to play the ugly underdeveloped red side to play the villain archetypes anymore:

I am already happy that someone at NC realized the EU side is dying and wants to do something about it.
Instead of "It isnt real", "It will fix itself" or "We dont care". Its good to know.

Sorry, I was away from the tubes for a while. Added.

And yet they call them 'epic' and they have to be unlocked.
Yes, I know, they are just different and have their own quirks and are just not what a new player would best gather his first impression of the game with. And yes, admitted, a level 20 requirement still does that, and like I said, I can live with it.

Yes, the case that someone PLs to 20 never realizing how normal ATs play to get an EAT because they clearly have to be better since you have to unlock them, and then doesnt like how that plays yet never goes back to trying another AT, is probably not very likely and I probably worry too much.

I am surprised at all the good stuff that is rather unexpectedly coming with I17.

Do I think they overdid it at some parts again? Yes.
Its like they have this one technically nice guy that is like that Freakshow with the really huge hammers instead of arms. Whenever he is to fix something that needs a LITTLE tweaking...
(remember what he did to MA when people were farming? PEOPLE ARE FARMING? SMASH!!! ;D )

Like the more mission slots. 3 is not enough ? Lets raise it a bit then. To, Seven!
So people can finally push their missions onto a big pile to forget about them. This is not a fantasy RPG, if your missions are to mean something and have a sense of urgency, you must not have such a huge stack. Why not 4? Or 5? If that then STILL isnt enough, it can still be increased to one more.

Epic Archetypes at 50 took too long when getting there too years and content was few and grinding was lots and debt was tough? So we lower it a bit, now that content is plentiful, debt doesnt mean a thing, leveling is fast, plus you get patrol XP, to... TWENTY!
Why not 40? That's still about a half-down of the time. You get epic powers soon, then you can get epic archetype too. Or 35. Still fast. And can still be lowered later if it doesnt have the desired effect yet.

But who knows, maybe some of the missions slots are reserved for non pressing stuff like MA missions, an Oru Flashback, or one can hold a running TF?
And maybe the low level on the epic ATs is only so that people can go from the new Praetoria content right to those and the Praetoria content just doesnt go any further than 20 yet, and once it will, the limit gets raised along with that?

Either way, those are things I can live with, even though I often get the feeling this game is a being sold out (Get your super AT! Now at level 20! And if you take it now, you also get 10 free badges for doing so, plus an accolade for getting those ten free badges!)...
But there is lots of great stuff added that I am looking forward to that should more than make up for that.

I have to agree. Especially playing a /Regen scrapper is probably the easiest PvP of all. The high and fast damage output of e.g. claws gets you plenty of kills and a well built (and correctly played) /Regen makes it impossible for a lot of builds to kill you without bringing in two or three team mates.

Which is (among a lot of things not working anymore at all) the reason why you see hardly anything else in PvP anymore hero side, and the reason why you will NOT be loved for rolling yet another /Regen scrapper because it is so cool and lol overpowered.

And as mentioned, it makes you prone to misconceptions like, PvP is easy, everybody that falls to you must clearly have no skill, and that nobody needs to use inspirations in PvP because you dont have to.

Yes, ranged is always easier and cheesier to play if you can stay at the range, but a skilled melee-er and especially a mob of them will get their fists on a ranged character, and if you say that scrappers suck, go try a brute. And if you really want to cry, try a /Willpower one. Good suck.

Updated to show what was announced for Issue 17 .
Not quite sure yet if having to "exit the mission manually" means having to use the door. But seeing that some really good changes made it in, I now have hope again.

Good job devs!

OOOH! Shinies!
*goes to update his MA Feature Request Thread to show what of the suggestions were announced*

Hm, I wonder what that manual mission exit means though. Does it really mean you can force your players to use the door, like a good hero?