FredrikSvanberg

Nice.

Yes, it's a copout. It's made that way instead of having to program an A.I. which can figure out on its own all the loopholes that thousands of human players can find a way to abuse.

One character's weakness is another character's strength. An enemy with no fire resistance and only fire attacks isn't particularly weak against an ice tanker. Put it up against a full-fledged fire tanker and it would be at a clear disadvantage. The game can't really change rewards by comparing your powersets to the enemy's attacks and defenses, so it would be quite impossible to make a system like what you are asking for.

It's (hopefully) worth 100%. That's not "nothing".

I think you'll find that the risk vs reward mechanic has been replaced in City of X with a time vs reward mechanic instead. Since there is virtually no risk involved, even if you are defeated 100 times in a row you will only progress slightly slower for a short while. You never actually "risk" losing anything except time.

The developers will be "handcrafting" them and thus know what they are capable of. They can then decide if they will be worth any bonus rewards, like the Rikti for example. The developers can't babysit the MA and check every new critter players create and decide on what they should be worth, so in order to prevent abuse they have simply capped the rewards. Not a perfect solution but better than the alternative of no rewards at all.

Too easy to game the system and make an incredibly deadly bad guy who just so happen to be incredibly weak against certain things, then use those things to farm that bad guy and get inordinate amounts of rewards for something that isn't really worth that much.

This can be done with the system we have today, too, but since the rewards are capped at 100% it isn't more profitable than regular content, so it's usually not worth the trouble.

I'd go one step further.

Enhancements would not even have levels at all. The enhancement's tier would determine at what level they could be slotted (Level 1: Training, Common Invention; Level 12: Dual Origin, Uncommon Invention; Level 22: Single Origin, Rare Invention; Level 50: Ultra-rare Invention, Hamidon Origin). The enhancement bonus would be determined by your own level and the tier of the enhancement. No enhancements would ever become obsolete, but their effectiveness would be capped at a certain level.

I would then remove the salvage level tiers and mix up the recipes so that all salvage would potentially be useful at all levels.

Oh I thought the thread was about powers that didn't make sense even within the context of the game world. Carry on.

It's not natural, it's Natural, with a capital "N". It's what action movie heroes have been using for decades.

So set a timer on it, same as for switching builds for example. Being forced to maintain two copies of the game just to test out powers is a rather crude method when it could be made much more elegant and easier (for the user, at least).

That seems correct.

Allow us to unslot enhancements for a fee. Make the Inf cost depend on character level and the rarity of the enhancement, and possibly on how many enhancements you unslot within a certain time period. Inf sink introduced, problem solved.

The current system we have where we use respecs to remove enhancements 10 at a time isn't really an Inf sink. Sure, some Inf is destroyed if we buy respec recipes on the market, but mostly it's just a matter of moving Inf between different player accounts. Personally I can probably clean out any character I have with my veteran reward respecs alone, so I would never have to pay a single Inf to recover all my hard-earned Enhancements. I would still gladly pay an Inf fee if it meant that I didn't have to go through the tedious respec procedure over and over and over...

I actually have no idea what "match compensators" are. I tried googling it but only found pages talking about this game. But I like the bulky look of those guns.

Match compensators. The only gun that's worth a damn.