EvilGeko

Flag on the play: Cottage Rule Violation

It's easier than that. All you need to do is remove the ability to slot UNIVERSAL DAMAGE SETS. Then you're done. That's what I expect they will do. Let's see how they deal with folks who have already slotted one though.

I've done that quite often. You really learn to play when you don't always hide behind elite builds.

Don't have school age boys then!

As suggested, my boys demanded to see this immediately. I thought it was...OK. Decent reboot, the boy who plays Peter doesn't look even a bit like a science nerd. It's entirely sensible he would end up with someone like Gwen Stacy (as played by Emma Stone).

Sally Field as Aunt May...wow. But she's 65 so it's not a stretch really.

Didn't know that part. Always thought it was a chance to proc, not automatic from hide. With that information, yes, you're right this makes no sense. Thanks!

The arc hasn't been altered. It's just that the Night Ward's version of the Midnight mansion has the badge and you don't have to do anything to enter it.

I've always found it interesting that folks who play MMOs and deeply care about customization never pushed back stronger on this point. While in most MMOs putting rare loot in the item shop is a no-no (or at least causes consternation, like here) it's been totally fine with most people to put cosmetic gear in. I know some folks here complain about it, but I hardly see it elsewhere.

It's very, very strong. But I've been wondering how would one change it. The easiest (cheesiest) nerf is to simply not allow the power to accept Universal Damage sets anymore. But that's a noob GM move. However, nerfing the proc or the power doesn't make sense since neither is overpowered except in powers like Bonfire.

Sam and I argued about what he writes above incessantly during Issue 19's timeframe. But what I find intriguing is how he frames it here. While I like games with challenge and achievement, I like playing with digital action figures too. More than half my characters aren't IOed to the gills and don't seek to conquer every challenge in the game.

I think many people believe that my primary goal in this post is to complain about the Marketplace. It isn't. It's just a discussion. What the marketplace does is alter (to use Arcanaville's terminology) how I feel about the game. I don't feel it's a game anymore. It's much more what Sam says above. It's a place to play with toys. You can buy more toys if you want. You can earn some toys, but if you have problems earning those toys, the game will let you buy what you need to earn them. Now, I've not thought of City of Heroes as a particularly challenging game, but the existence of things that allow you to circumvent what challenge is there means that this is no longer a game at all to me. It's a place to create and play with concepts for super heroes. Nothing wrong with that. I can find games elsewhere.

Well, I think of the marketplace IOs that turned my Dark Controller's Fear into a very decent Cone attack.

I also think of the amplifiers which will allow any blaster to have perma snipe and mez protection at all times.

There's others, but the way I see it, with some exceptions (Bonfire) all this IO does it make powers functional that sucked.

No....well not exactly no. I have farmed in the past just to see if what the fuss was about. For example, I had a Spines/Ninja Stalker that I got to 35 in AE. The character meant less than nothing to me and was deleted the next time I needed a spot. And by 'less than nothing' I mean exactly that. The character actively bothered me because it was AE farmed. It had no story. It's an 'it' not a him or her. Like my Kinetic/Ninja Stalker who only gets played occasionally, but he is played justly and I like him and his story and although he's only 24 after more than a year, I value his 24 levels more than the Spines/Ninja above whole existence.

I guess one could say I farmed Katie Hannon back in the day, but I love that TF quite a bit and can honestly say I would do it more if I could get teams for it so I don't feel that was farming per se.

Yeah, I don't know about that. Some of the stuff in the market has a much more meaningful effect on the game than this IO.

I don't agree. There's nothing inherent in what happens during the grifter's dialogue that makes any reference to gender at all. The only possible reference to sexuality (as distinct from gender) is the "flirt" and it is wholly possible for a woman to do that.

As for saying something crass, we are not told what is said and there is no reason to believe that it is necessarily sexual or male centric. For example, Joan Rivers says many crass things in her act. Often sexual. But her words are not odd for a woman to say, except for being crass.

No. It it wholly irrelevant what others can do. I recognize that this premise is difficult to wrap ones head around, but it is the truth.

You have correctly stated how I feel.

And other things yes. But there was a fix, but the devs explained that many players would go nuts if they had to respec every character. This wouldn't have been a free spec, this would have required a mandatory, as soon as you login respec to deal with the issues the change created.

To be precise it would have required everyone to respec, which is supposedly really bothersome to a large number of players.

Kinetic Combat, both pet recharge sets, Eradication, and few othes disagree with you.

I agree, but I suspect this is only an introduction for this mechanic.

This x 1000.

NCSoft has chosen a direction. All we can do as players is choose whether or no we want to patronize the business. Arguing about it among each other isn't going to accomplish anything.

I think that relies on a reading of my question out of the context we're discussing.

EDIT: (Not in response to Arcanaville, I just didn't want to make a new post)

What I find absolutely fascinating about this discussion is the complete inability of the participants (on both sides, I count myself), to accept what the other says at face value. I am becoming more convinced by the post that this is exactly like politics or religion. We come at the problem from different starting points, different value systems and so when I say something like, "Some items in the marketplace bother ME irrespective of the actions of others", others who disagree can't even comprehend how that can be true. Many responses to the question I posed are along the lines of "we believe you are not lying, but you're still wrong." Which is amazing to me because I honestly can't see how either side could be wrong here. People can like different things. I see this as little different than saying, "I like the color green but not the color orange." I doubt anyone would feel the need to ascribe motive to that statement. It's just a statement of preference.

Likewise, I don't like certain parts of the game being sold away in the marketplace. I am an attorney and have spent many years arguing both sides of an issue. I fully understand how to tease out biases. I do not care what other players do (in this context Arcana...meanie!). I care, because I think selling certain things make the experience of earning them meaningless. I also realize that no matter how many times I state that, some folks will nonetheless believe that I am trying to control what they do. I can't change that. Nor will I argue against it any longer. I see no point. We have different beliefs. That's not going to change.

Just to let folks know, I don't object to the market or even selling many items in it that affect the game. I have very deep reservations about selling the amplifiers, what goes in the super packs and the purple IOs. Other than that, I use the market often and am quite happy about how it's helped fund such quick expansion of content.