Dalantia

The player running out of endurance because they're throwing out attacks, healing, debuffs (especially high-cost ones) constantly without any regard for their ability to sustain them, plus running toggles that negate portions of their end regen is.. precisely what the Endurance system is supposed to do, from what I see. There are (supposed to be) consequences to insisting on throwing out everything you have at every moment. Lessening those consequences or their frequency is, in fact, making the game easier.

Whether that's a good or a bad thing, I leave to the opinions of others. I'm cautious toward it, personally.

You followed through. It was directed at both of you, because you're both getting way too personal and self-righteous about this.

Now how about actually addressing the part that directly disagrees with your stated position, considering the facts as listed in Moo's post?

Isn't it said, ingame somewhere, that the ATs we see are the FBSA's classifications for character powers? That would make the AT a matter of public record for any registered costumed vigilante, or any critter with a Threat record..

I highly doubt the system can distinguish between "In your existing alignment" and not when it comes to Fame acquired. Tips cease to drop at 5 Fame, regardless of which alignment one is pushing for, so.

I also fail to see the point behind this, because it shifts the "daily play" to a different area - just the cashing in instead occurs on a schedule, instead of the currency inflow. I don't feel that would be good for the game, being able to grind up an obscene amount of alignment merits in the span of a couple days, then just popping on every week or two for the sake of cashing in.

And, well.. the system is still new, and players haven't had much time to tinker around with it and really contemplate it. Proposing the change -now- seems to be a "The system doesn't work in a way that lets -me- maximize rewards, change it so I can even if that doesn't match system intent" kind of post.

As it stands, the system seems intended to be the counterpoint to the Reward Merit system - Alignment Merits can only be earned slowly over time but give big rewards for their cost, while Reward Merits can be gleaned quickly but require many for the big stuff.

There was an explicit "no one shot rule" added not long after the implementation of PvP, theoretically to prevent Stalkers and other high-spike ATs and powersets from killing other players instantly.

However, the code only works if the player's HP is completely full - if even .1 of a hit point is missing, you can be killed immediately. The code also doesn't, say, prevent a DoT from killing you after you've been brought to 1 HP by the same attack.

That's perhaps the most insulting thing I've read in this thread, and perhaps the biggest turnoff to my decision to actually see it, if the fans are looking down at people who just aren't particularly interested, for any reason.

..but it's still fairly brutal on PCs that were running Cities fine before the implementation of Ultra Mode and now are struggling, muttergrumble.