Dark_Oracle

Happy Anniversary and many thanks for an incredible game! I've only been playing for a little more than a year but I'm in it for the long haul. Can't wait to learn all about the new, upcoming content too. Keep up the fine work.

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For those complaining about Small SG's:

You must have around 8 membes right? Well, your best bet would be to form a full team of SG members in SG mode and just start cranking out missions. After a couple of hours of this you should have at least 100 K. A couple of days of this per week and after a couple of weeks you should have enough prestige to build the base you want. Grab a couple more members to make use of that 20 K Prestige Bonus up to 15 members

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Were you qouting the person who responded to my post, my post, or the person whose post I was responding to? I don't see an 8 in there at all (okay, to be fair, I did say my actual number of players is 18, so I guess there is an 8 in there). Where did you pull the number 8 from?

Now true I could go around grabbing up all those people that aren't in super groups and add them to my roster to get the bonus (oh wait, the bonus tops off at 15 members, and I have 18). Ok, that part was shot down, but I could still add more members (oh wait, everybody else and their freaking henchmen are recruiting for villain groups too. Why? Because of the new base features mostly).

Now this isn't a rant that I can't find members, because I can. I've nearly doubled the size of my hero group as far as active players go. Truthfully though, I don't WANT an uber base right now, or really even ever. Wait, did I say that? Yes I did. I don't want an uber base, but merely one that can allow me to do something with all this salvage and maybe get some super group missions from that spiffy computer I hear about before the end of the year would be nice. As it stands now, no way that's happening (notice I didn't even include a hospital or teleport options in what I would like).

I would like to see a lower cost "starter" base (no, I don't consider the entry room a starter base) that's achievable in 4 to 6 weeks for us smaller groups. Let the grind for those who truly want the uber bases be that. Those 75 memeber super groups that earn a massive PvP base with all the bells and whistles and multiple items of power can brag, and they deserve to. Great job for you guys (no sarcasm). I just want my dedicated players who have stuck with me to have something to have fun in too.

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I think a lot of those that have are Established SG with High level Characters that also have a lot of Inf to spend on prestige.

The newly established SG/VG that don't have High level characters to rely on I bet are having a hard time getting anything Functional.

My VG are all under 15 in level and are just havng problems getting enough InF to pay for thier Enhancements much less using it for prestige.

And we are averging 50K a week now so to earn 1 mill for the minimum functional base that has been presented in previous posts would take 20 weeks at our current rate and membership

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This is a pretty similar situation to what my villain group is experiencing. We have about 25 members right now (actual players are closer to 18 given some alts) and have about half of us in the 14 to 20 range and the other half in the 2 to 10 level range.

All of us in the 14 to 20 range are having a hard time getting our DOs. We have no level 50s to give us a million infamy here and there. We are all playing in super group mode to build our base faster, and all the while suffering somewhat with less DOs.

We're averaging about 50K right now too, so we'll be joining everyone else in about 20 weeks. I was hoping to accomplish this in about half that time, but giving how dedicated our people are already, I know we're not going to get much more production out of anybody before it starts becoming a second job.

I already play almost every night, to the woes of my family, and all my villains are in the same group, so whoever I play is earning prestige for our group. At least we followed another poster's suggestion on another thread some time ago (sorry I forgot who that was) and made our 2-room base filled with decorative stuff so at least it's somewhere to go.

I've waded through these posts for the last two days and see several things quoted and hurled back and forth. As several others have pointed out, we're just speculating on something that might not be as bad as everyone is building it up to be. We've had one, wait let me rephrase that, ONE red-named post in 30+ pages of thread. That one sentence didn't answer many questions, but everyone seems to be feeding words into what they want to hear, and most of it is doom and gloom.

The other thing I see alot of is quoting "so and so" hero from Marvel or DC doesn't do this or that. This isn't a Marvel or DC game. I understand the reasoning, and agree that the SG mode needs to be overhauled, but quoting comic characters' looks or group cohesion is pretty pointless. Also what's the deal with everybody whining about SG colors when don't have to pick them anyway? That should just be dropped. Although it does make me wonder, what groups are all of you joining? The l33t squad? Come on. I've joined and started several SGs and almost always been happy, or at least okay with, the colors and symbol chosen. Is everyone just joining the first SG that sends you a request? I always ask questions when asked to join. I would figure if you're recruiting for or joining a SG, you would do something similar to make sure you find people that you want to have in your SG. Also, I've formed brand new groups with founding members standing with me, so we decide on what everyone will be happy with right then and there. Yes, not every symbol will fit and not every color choice will work, but remember I said SG mode needs to be fixed (see above).

We also need to remember that villians in CoV will all be level one, no super group (or villian group or whatever it will be called) and will be a long way to level 50. All the level 50 SGs won't have any bases to raid for a long time, so except for whatever other material will be given to bases (hopefully SG missions and such) they'll be waiting anyway (I'm sure a thread will be started about that soon). Don't worry, I'll be working at leveling my villians up as fast as I can, but even the fastest power levelers (which I am not) won't get a full SG worth of people up to or near 50 anytime soon. A fair playing field needs to be set, so I'm against datamining too, unless it involves the time frame real close to the CoV release.

Prestige might work, once we have all the details. I'm sure there's going to be people that will complain anyway, because there always will be. Hopefully though, the system will be balanced and fair, whatever is decided. Until we get more info, all of this rant is purely for what... ranting?