Fanservice

Let's face it, you can't get people to behave around roleplayers if they don't want too. The fact people feel so strongly about thier right to run thier toggles because it'd take a harrowing 30 seconds to turn them on (Though really? My Willpower is fairly toggle heavy and it barely takes ten) shows how much of an uphill battle that'd be.

So hey. Why don't the Roleplayers move to Studio 55?

Seems like it'd be the best solution for everyone. No trials, still a bar, still accessable at a low level and by both sides and barely anyone to be a pain in the *** there.

I feel awesome if people are excited when I join the team, for whatever reason. So far it's getting there.

I like Group content. Honestly if I wanted to play on my own I wouldn't choose CoH to do it. MMO's just aren't very good single player games, but they're great for finding other people to play with. The whole point for me is to have fun with some other people, make some bad jokes, get enthusiastic about downing the bosses or whatever and generally have a laugh.

Now I realise it's not for everyone. But what is? I don't like Single Player Content. I don't do it and have no real interest in it. I'd rather Duo single player content and take an XP hit than do it alone. I join PvP servers on other games because it forces people to stick together, so I get more teaming in. Heck my favourite game ever was Planetside because of it's teaming, which I'll resist the urge to wax on about like an old man remembering the good old days. I like to see the world react to me or a story unfold if I'm playing on my own and MMO's are a terrible system for this as they're, by thier very nature, fairly static.

Going Rogue wasn't bad for Single Player focus but it was hardly excellent either.

'The game doesn't make me feel special' is just so nebulous it's not really a complaint. The NPC's complimenting me doesn't really make me feel like a badass no matter how hard they try, but other players being happy to see me join a group does!

I like to spread it about a bit too, if people did a good job leading the raid I'll give credit where it's due, if someone caught my eye as doing something 'neat' or even just has a cool looking character I'll mention it. It usually loosens people up a bit and makes it all the more fun as people start to talk and give the recognition to each other that the game simply can't emulate.

But to address the original point? Yeah, don't tie progression to Raid Content. Just because I don't like Solo play, doesn't mean I want them to miss out.

And the Regen would benefit the team a lot better than the HP. Regen it is then thanks!

Do you think it's worth going the Heal/Max HP route for a Willpower tank with Rebirth to benefit from the already quite insane regeneration? I'm useless with numbers!

For some reason the one you've linked has a ton of slow motion replays of what happened. It really messes up the sillyness of it all.

Here's the video, without the suck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrg0B_yJAo

I'll agree that when we're not talking about the people mentioned in the video that yes, it probably is quite dangerous. I'm not disputing that.

But I'm talking about the people who dress up as superheroes and 'patrol' city streets. Not extremist groups. Not people who rush in on domestic disturbances. There's no real link there. They're completely different people.

The police generally support these people. They're not doing reckless things like rushing in to interfere with domestic disputes because that'd be dangerous and profoundly stupid.

If someone can make community action more fun then good luck to them.

My old university had a great story about how two students dressed as Batman and Robin, on thier way to a Costume Party at the Student Union, helped push someone's car until it got started then ran off into the night with a cry "Good look citizen!"

So yeah, more of that please! Little bits of sillyness like this don't hurt anyone, don't be so curmudgeonly.

Ta!

Well to keep the musing on this going then, I guess one of the reasons we do this is actually to 'help' accessibility to new players. (And old players who took a break too)

You can join in on any of the Unionverse without really having to worry about making mistakes. Everything in the gameworld is pretty much how it looks. You might not know about the player created SG's, but generally people are all too keen to explain that bit.

Yeah we let an awful lot of stuff slide, fighting Frostfire is something of an in-joke between the Heroes at this point as it seems practically everyone's done it at some point. Even got played for laughs with one character who was mega excited to have finally beaten the ultra notorious Frostfire, only to have their excited bubble deflate when they learnt why exactly he was so famous.

For unique Villains, it's fairly open. I know I've made some up on the spot for a boring day, just to give people something to talk about. Rushmore's got the best gag Villain's Gallery ever! And I quite liked the Baron when CB was playing him, his constant grand schemes (That always went horribly wrong) amused me a lot.

So a large section of wiggle room is needed. Yes it'd be nice if we could all run grand 'Global Crisis' events, but it doesn't really work out. And you spend a long time explaining what's happening to all the people who aren't in the know anyway, which gets old.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that..

We're British! We love a good moan.

We don't usually run off to defuse bombs because .... well we can't RP while doing that and it's a bit boring. Sometimes one or two will go off to do it and good luck to them!

Other than that Z covered it pretty well. You may have seen people at GG treat it as OOC. But not any time recently I'd bet.

Thanks Shadowe! For backing me up on this.

Obviously communication with the player first is important, but if they're interested in your plot I imagine most people would be eager to offer something up. We all love a chance for our characters to get angry over losing something.

You got to realise Paragon's news is probably a bit more blaise about this sort of thing. I'd say unless you say the news went insane, it probably wouldn't. It's still fairly boderline though.

Several dozen? That's fine. Few Hundred? Probably going over the top, there's no reason for the number to be that high. It doesn't really serve the plot any better than several dozen and would indeed get people fairly hysterical.