ClawsandEffect

Lower speed is the trade off on flight in return for no limitations on where you can go with it.

SS has no vertical ability, but provides stealth. You can avoid agro with it, but good luck navigating the Shadow Shard, Grandville or Terra Volta.

SJ is just as fast and has vertical movement, but you run the risk of landing in the middle of a mob you didn't see.

TP is the fastest straight line travel power, which also has no limitaion on where you can go with it, in return it is the only travel power that you can run out of end using.

Flight has none of those disadvantages, so it's speed is capped lower. You can go literally anywhere with no danger of drawing agro at all, it's only fair that it give something up in return for that. What it gives up is speed.

It can happen. I'm living proof.

I met my wife in CoH (on Pinnacle to be exact). The key to it is neither of us were actively looking for a relationship at the time. We got to know each other over the course of a year and a half. Since we were both here to play the game and not trying to find someone, our relationship got to develop naturally instead of feeling forced or artificial.

It can work like that, treating the CoH forums like a dating website probably won't.

With that said, good luck in your hunt.

Ths is easily the worst idea I've ever seen suggested.

I've seen a lot of ideas that arguably may or may not kill the game. So far this is the first I've seen that would definitely kill the game.

Think about it. After all the responses here, it is quite apparent that the mass exodus would make SWG look like a small migration. Thousands of people would quit, maybe even tens of thousands, and our population isn't big enough to withstand that.

So you would have perhaps half the current playerbase leaving when they find out that the characters they spent hundreds of hours getting just so are no longer playable.

And you would get little or no new subscribers when word gets out that getting to level cap means that you're done playing.

So, if the devs decide one day "I'm tired of working on this game...let's kill it." this would be their best option.

The amount of sheer short-sighted, overwhelming, blatant STUPIDITY in this suggestion is mind boggling.

There is not enough Hell No in the world to sufficiently smack this idea down. If we use some F*** NO!!! we might be getting somewhere.

For the record...if you get tagged with a random fire blast out of nowhere, it's because I hit Tab and an attack button....nothing personal

Okay, good to know it's not entirely hopeless then.

I prefer good-natured PvP. Fight hard, use every tactic available to you, but if the fight ends with you as the loser, don't take it personally, or seriously.

It's only a video game, there is no need to act as though the person on the other side physically assaulted you. Trash talk is fine, but when it crosses the line into being truly mean-spirited the person doing it needs to step back and realize that it's only a game.

That, in a nutshell, is what I don't like about Freedom. Granted, not everyone is like that, I understand that very well, but enough of them are that it kills my fun pretty quickly.

From what I've heard in my 4+ years in CoH, Virtue has a pretty friendly playerbase, and that's the kind of environment I'd like to PvP in.

I'll be there occasionally.

I'm not always logged on on Friday nights, but I'll come down and attempt to stab/burn/yell at/freeze/punch/kick people if I am.

I was going to move my PvP toons somewhere else (anywhere but Freedom), but if we can get some PvP CPR going on Pinnacle I'll keep them here.

I'm moving a few characters to make room, but I'm not leaving Pinnacle.

My home server is Pinnacle, and I have no plans to abandon it. But, I have a few characters that I never play except for PvP and I'm looking for a place to move them to with the free server transfers to clear up some space on Pinnacle. And because Pinnacle PvP is pretty dead these days, some fight clubbing in RV, but that's about it lately. (I'm fine with fight clubbing, but it's not what I want to do all the time)

Before it is suggested, I'm NOT moving to Freedom. I have had nothing but bad experiences on that server every time I have gone there (not even in PvP there, just in general). Nothing against the server, I know there are good people there, but the sheer amount of @sshattery I encountered just turned me off of it.

I know it's kind of odd to be asking about PvP on the unofficial RP server, but it's the second most populous server so I figured the PvP would be more active than Pinnacle at least. Hopefully I can find a home for these toons, because I really don't want to delete them. And hopefully wherever they end up their names are available (I'm not too worried about most of them)

Thanks in advance!
Claws

With the whole warning thing...sometimes I'll tell them I'm coming in broadcast...with my chat bubbles turned off of course.

My stalker has an optional bind tied to his AS. If I get close enough to someone to trigger an AS, he says in local chat "Psssst...you should probably run now."

It's not as sporting as it sounds though, he says it as the AS has already been fired. It does give them a split second warning though, the equivelant of saying "You're about to get ASed"

My level of sportsmanship is determined by how much is shown to me. I won't attack while someone is fighting NPCs, but they are fair game after the NPCs are dead. I don't want to be responsible for someone getting debt. If they are low on health after the fight and don't have the sense to heal up in a PvP zone, I have very little sympathy.

If someone attacks ME while I'm fighting NPCs I show no mercy and will kill them if I'm able to no matter what they are doing.

This thread is still in existence? How did it survive both the forum purges and the move to the new forums?

Kinda makes me wish what's his face was still around. I'd go stick a claw in his eye.

I have a Broadsword/Dark Armor scrapper that is now softcapped and damn near immortal unless I'm hit with a metric butt ton of defense debuffs.

I also have a Sonic/Devices blaster. I only know of a handful of others in the whole game (there's probably more than that, I only know of a handful)

Fire/Regen scrapper, rolled for concept and not for the fact that it's a PvP FOTM (which amused me no end when I found out)

Fire/Trick Arrow controller. To date the only controller I have ever leveled past 25.

My main is a Claws/Regen scrapper, and absolutely nucking futs. Still a blast to play 4+ years later.

Redside I have: Dark/Nin stalker, Dark/SR brute, Dark/Kin corruptor, Thugs/Dark MM, and a Fire/Rad corruptor (hmm, which of these things is not like the others?)

I roll mostly for concept, or because I come up with a name I dig. I'm fond of puns and wordplay, so I end up with some interesting names. Claws and Effect is my main, my Sonic/Devices is named Marshall Stack (it's actually his legal, given name), I have a Fire/Fire blaster named Return to Cinder. Pyrohemia is a word I made up that has an actual definition, pyro means "fire-related" and hemia is a blood disorder (like the suffix of leukemia). His blood combusts on contact with air, so he has a medical condition known as pyrohemia. (One of my favorite concepts out of all my characters)

I'm planning on going wth 4 Thunderstrike and 2 Devastation, or the other way around on my Fire/Fire blaster, who is the only toon I actually built for PvP, since I never use him for anything else anymore. The Devastation proc will be in there no matter which way I decide to do it. This is for Flares and Fire Blast, Blaze will get something else.

And just for the record, I didn't make him with PvP in mind. I never build toons just for PvP, I PvP with whatever I happen to have.

I actually like blaster/scrapper, blaster/blaster, or blaster/troller.

Then again, I like PvPing on weird builds, so perhaps my advice is suspect.