DarkShmoo

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PvP has no purpose, really, unless it's just a duel with friends, outside of RP, and even then it's kinda silly, but, meh, I wont get into the whole true RP would be perma death.

Either way, I dont want to be forced to particpate in it, at all. They should have Seperate PvP servers, or something, but I do like the above mentioned idea. That could work, and I do like the rise to the challenge idea. But you should throw in 'Run, Rise, or Stay at current level'.

Plus i'm kinda sour on it, because there are alot of annoying twits that do PvP outside of RP, and think that since their 'the [censored]' and your 'not', that somehow the fact they just beat my [censored] in a fight, really matter's in the grand scheme of life, to me or anyone outside of their own kind.

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Statesman told me personally at E3 that there's no way anyone will ever be forced into PvP, he told me face to face, you don't have to worry about it.

And, damnit, there are different types of PvP. You didn't just ambush some guy buying his morning groceries in Dark Age of Camelot, you went into specific zones, got in a group (in a safe area), made a plan, and went out to engage the enemy. It was a hell of a lot of fun (and I'm sure still is). You can't just dismiss all PvP as pointless except for dueling with friends, that's insane.... ;P

I also think it'd go a *long* way to have online support (during most or all hours) of at least one person per server monitoring PvP areas, ready to intervene quickly if necessary. I understand this may be economically impossible, but it'd go a long way to making people feel more safe I'd imagine. Hell I'm sure some players would love comp accounts to help do it for free, uhh, or something. I dunno, not me, just sayin'.

Having played DAoC, I'm pretty damn convinced that Cryptic will take a similar tack. I'd imagine in PvP areas you'll load / spawn in a safe room / building, and then walk out when you're ready (without having to load, and get killed before you're done loading). The safe areas will likely be completely off-limits to the "other side." So unless for some insane reason, this isn't the case, I wouldn't worry.

I do think "banter" would be a lot of fun in PvP, I mean, it's a comic book game! Personally I'd suggest a new, "banter" channel. Or maybe just use broadcast / local, that way if someone's going too far, well at least they're not jumping all over channels. If they do, *ding* griefing. My $.02.

I still think tunneling would be funny. Heehee.

You're *actually* working on a difficulty slider? WOW, I'm friggin' amazed. That seemed so psychotically out of character for an MMO, I just can't believe it, wow. I'm not personally really waiting on it, but I'm *damn* impressed you're going to deliver one!

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I don't care about all that I just want to know when we are going to put a wall up around Paragon to keep out all the foreigners and illegals. Also would like some sort of watch on possible Terrorist activities within our borders.

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Heeheee. Stop glaring people, he's kidding.

Well my own personal religion of disliking all other religions *demands* that they *only* release new content on days when it'll piss people off. So they totally dissed my religion-anti-religion on issue 1 and when the game first went live... so there.

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This has to be the dumbest issue I have ever seen in any game.

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Clearly you missed or forgot the "light the flag at night" thread back in May or so. *duck*

People, chill please. I'm as unpatriotic as they come, and then some (and expecting to shoot down to one-star for saying it) - but even *I* don't care if they toss a badge or two into the game that they think is neat.

Hell I'm still upset that the cars in CoH don't use turn signals, but at a certain point you need to just relax and let people code and play their games how they like.

Great guide! Sadly tornado was one of the main powers I was envisioning when I started down the path of a storm defender. Ahhwell, maybe it'll get a change in issue / content 2? I think I remember reading someone on the forums somewhere saying it may have changed? I'll keep my eye on your FAQ for any updates you post to it. Lightning storm sounds like a good deal of fun.

Anyway I find that freezing rain and snowstorm are really the best powers I have to contribute in groups, although I mainly solo honestly. I'm not sure, but it seems mobs caught in freezing rain have been falling over a bit more often since I decided to throw one SO damage enhancement into it. Not sure though,

I will also say that while Hurricane is a great power sometimes, other times I wind up just spreading the mobs out, which isn't so great when I have snowstorm and freezing rain going (let alone thunder clap). It also sounds like the accuracy debuff doesn't apply at all unless they're physically touching the hurricane, meaning it doesn't help much if you're surrounded by 10 mobs with guns - ahhwell.