BlueRaptor

New mission ideas are all nice and good (though not rare either) but can we PLEASE not have any more "villain content" that is recycled hero save-the-world content because its clearly such a great evil that villains will all suddenly act like heroes too?
Its not only unfitting for a lot of villain characters and annoying and been totally overdone, its also totally stupid to have. If someone wanted to save the world, they'd play a hero. Or go over the good side to play hero content when Going Rogue comes out.

"Villains are allowed to play the new save-the-world missions too" is NOT villain content.
Thank you.

You mean you HAVEN'T been asked for your autograph in the game yet? Pfft! I get that all the time.

Yes. In a city that probably has more super heroes than firefighters...

And CoX has a LOT of such citizen appreciation for you already. I'm fine with that. Sometimes even annoyed by it. And not every hero from comic books ever got their statue or parade you know.

That is sadly pretty true from what I have seen.
I'd rather see it if TF content just wouldnt scale down (or only very little) when you have less than the intended number of players, yet allow you to start with less than the recommended teammates, like than being "so difficult a task that it needs a full team" means that you need 8 to start it, then 5 can leave again and the rest plays the downscaled TF. Or that all but one log off, that one starts the mission, and then everybody logs on again to rush through the mission that scaled down for one.

I know people sometimes have to log off, and it would be so cruel if its more difficult for the rest then. But it already is now when someone logs in the middle of a mission.
As a compromise to prevent people hopping on and off to make missions easier they might also only count someone as not there if the logged out BEFORE the previous mission ended. So those who still want to help with that trick at least wont get mission reward.

Can be done by less players than stated but becomes more difficult then? Great.
Suggested team size 6, minimum to start 4, but it wont scale down below 5? Fine with me.
Intended to be solo-able? No thanks.

Wow. That really wasnt in there yet. *adds it*

As I understood they dont want it because someone might make a powerful buffing ally that helps the player in combat. Because it would make things way too easy(TM) and allow riskless farming of usually dangerous foes.
For the same reason allies that DO have an attack sets steal your XP and inf when they defeat stuff so that you cant just lean back and have them do the work for you.
You can of course still make an ally with one buffing and one offensive set and remove all his attack POWERS to get that effect I guess. Until that is found to be too abusive and seen to as well.

Added a request for all powersets to be available thus.

From what I gathered on the forums, the prevention of such purely passive support characters is exactly why the devs didnt allow two defensive sets. Do you still want it put up as a request none the less?

Well that's not QUITE all covered by (38) so I put it up.
You do realize though that the devs most likely wont allow group to consists ONLY of 'unique' characters since a spawn couldnt scale up in size properly then?

Not at all I think, as its something totally different.
As I understand slots are not affected, and enhancement % values are tuned down, and set bonusses only work if all enhancements that produce them are no more than 3 levels above your fighting level. Correct?

I dont think people think three or four star arcs are bad. But they are bombarded with 5 star ones, as those are spamming the top, and five stars is even better.

It'd be like book stores only having their books sorted by popularity rather than genre and making you go up the stairs to the 5th story to get to those that are not judged as a super bestseller.

I dont know a method against it other than showing arcs by genre randomized and without stars, so you have to judge them by their 'cover' summary text, but as long as you have to explicitly look for something with a worse rating than what you get by the dozen on top of everything else, people wont play many 3 or 4 star arcs.

While all of that may be true, which I cant know since I am note of the devs mentioned, it makes claiming there is only one normal sized and one giant sized premade animation for each power effect no less wrong.
Which is all I said. I never said "But Size Changing iz Pozziobel Becuz I knowz It!"

Indeed!

I dont indeed. Do those 'heroes' there look like gang member too though?

I didnt mean to say anyone's actions dont make sense, just that for those who want to reach 50 on this character they just rolled as fast as possible, selling the few low level stuff they still get (when playing normal content in their level range instead of level 50 missions with friends or AE missions) is not a very rewarding thing to do.
And think there are a LOT of people that want 50 as fast as possible. (And that thus only play this one char of course, as every break from it would make it take longer)
I am not one of them mind you. But I think its one of the main reasons for bad low level supply.

But yes, when am level 35 and see a level 38 Touch of Death and a level 40, I will buy the level 40 and wait till I level twice to slot it, because its simply not worth buying the 38 for just two levels, now that they fly by so fast imo. Sure, maybe 38 is special for those who know they often exemplar to 35 and have everything else on 38 too so they'll keep their set bonus then. But usually people'd either prefer to be coolest at 50 or will want it at minimum level then, not 38-some. And many might also not know or not notice their bonuses being removed, among all the other gimping when exing down. *shrugs*

Something like that yes. But also levelling goes very fast these days, and you also spend a lot time fighting outside of your actual level range with super-SK-ing. All in all it seems to mean a drastic reduction of the time spent at a given low level fighting as that level in content that gives normal drops. You can also see that effect at salvage:

I sold a mere Spiritual Essense for 850,000 recently. Richest level 10 character I ever had. Had to sell a few other low level common salvage for a mere 50K each to make enough cash to put it up.

But few people seem to do that still. I am told it is great that you can level so fast now, and that for a lot of people the game only starts when they are level 50. When rushing there is your goal, you probably stick with content where you level fast and often, and running to Wenworth's to put low level stuff up for sale would be wasted time, as it's mostly for a gain that wont be worth anything for your character anymore by the time it sells, as you're gonna be a much higher level then already and can make more cash by beating up stuff in the time it would have taken to put those items up.

Also, since levelling is so fast, few people will want to buy e.g. said level 38 Touch of Death now when they can make the needed two levels to slot the 40 one in an hour or two. Buy sub-maximum just for that big of play? Doesnt make much sense anymore. And since your auction slots fill up fast too I guess a lot of people dont bother putting up the few lame-level recipes they still do get:
So yes, for those that want to fly to 50 fast, low level drops are few and there's very little incentive to auction them.

You can also just map 'target nearest enemy' to your e.g. middle mouse button. Best of both worlds.

Frankly, I liked it much better when programs did what I told them rather than doing what they think I clearly must have meant instead.

I'd like it a lot if more 'criminals' were labeled as civilians until you actually watch or overhear them do a or plan crime (like they're neutral until they pass that lady and grab their purse, or you listen to them long enough to hear how they robbed or want to rob that store.) or have the mission to hunt them. Or maybe the defeat badge for them so you know who's a member of that group and needs to be taken down.
I never found wearing a gang-style jacket and just minding your own business was a reason to be beaten up by a hero.

And police cars / ambulances / firetrucks heading for random emergencies in the city that pop up in red on your police radio. That kind of OhNoWeNeedAHero! stuff.

Well, the game could easily CALCULATE if a slot switch is valid from how many slots are placed into the powers up to each new power selection though.

*slightly more sneaky bump*