Frosticus

This is 100% accurate. While there is nothing wrong with offering some rewards that are desirable to pve'ers to encourage them to check out pvp, the meat of the rewards need to be pvp centric. They need to reward pvp'ers for pvp'ing.

The place to focus on more pve centric rewards for pvp activity would be if they ever introduced pve content that had elements of pvp like the oft enamored Real Bank Robberies and such. But since the i13 rule-set has made such endeavors impossible that shouldn't be the reward system they employ. And yet it is the one they employ.

yes.

This is something we simply don't know. My gut says more people moved into the city (freedom/virtue) than moved out to the sticks (other servers). However, the population of Freedom/Virtue certainly didn't swell, but then again the entire player base has shrunk around that same time.

You are absolutely right though. Existing sg's and friend groups provide a significant barrier to leaving one's established server. Given the age of the game it would be misconstrued to assume that many of the players haven't formed strong ties on the server(s) they frequent.

Even for a player like me that uses a solo sg/vg for my toons the decision to change servers would be weighed heavily. Significant preparation would be required for me to ensure I could move with minimal loss of goods and then significant work would be required to set up again on a new server. And that is ignoring any server friends that I may be hesitant to leave. I'd need to be very confident that the new server would provide a lot more enjoyment than the one I'm on because it isn't as simple as clicking "x-fer this toon".

In other words, things need to be pretty bleak for a player that is well established on a certain server(s) to uproot to another. If there was any statistically significant movement trends during that time imo they indicate a pretty serious problem. If it was just random musical chairs then fine.

ok. It has largely the same status effects and power arrangement, just from range. But ok.

You seem to be one of those people that thinks def psy blast is a lot better than it actually is. Or at least your description of the design progression between the sets seems to imply that.

You don't just say:
blaster psy < MA < Def Psy
you say:
blaster psy <<<<<<<<<< MA <<<<<<<< Def Psy

The first premise probably isn't true, so what does that say about your position?

Nophase disagrees with you. There is a 90 second period after using a phase power before you can use it again.

Not really interested in what you guys are talking about at this point, but you know that in a merger people would lose their sg, character name, etc? For a fact you know that?

Would those hypothetical people that quit because they lost those things still quit if they didn't? What does that do to the totally-made-up forecast that is based on absolutely nothing?

The actual fact is that we don't know what would happen in a merger, but it is a safe bet that they likely wouldn't proceed unless (ignoring the business side of things that I already talked about earlier) they could ensure that the majority of people kept their unique identifiers.

It would be nice if people stopped using the fear of losing personal identifiers as their silver bullet in these arguments because that fear is unsupported. It's a valid concern that needs to be addressed, but continually stating that it would definitely be one outcome is very misleading. I'm not accusing you personally of fear mongering, but I know that the infamous list quoted earlier in this thread relies on that tactic heavily and is painfully transparent and weakened as a result.

When you are taunted the target gets a highlighted target box that is more accentuated than a normal target box. You can target other stuff freely, but the moment you try to attack you automatically switch to the taunter.

Being taunted does not shut of any toggles that you had going previously.

I suppose. Did you dislike the launches of coh and cov because they didn't offer the full 1-50 system?

Which sort of begs the question: who thought it would be a good idea to offer a taste of the system with absolutely nothing to use it on?

I'm not sure that is a better premise than it being broken. In fact it is considerably worse because it shows a large disconnect between the devs and reality.

This game (and especially this forum) is at the stage where it is mostly lifers. There is almost nothing this dev team could do to people that you wouldn't see numerous posts supporting. It's illogical, but it is what it is.

Additionally you've probably noticed that some people are saying they don't care about lvl 50 content so they don't care about your opinion. That may seem rude, but the inverse is also true. I personally couldn't care less about the 1-20 game. If they said that part of GR was being pulled I wouldn't care at all. I wouldn't clamor to see if I can be the first to get on top of their pole like some are in this thread and others, but I wouldn't have much sympathy.

If implemented I think this would largely be the point of implementing it rather than a problem. Just like how we use taunt to keep heat off of squishies so would they.
I know assault already offers resistance. Line of sight makes it expire. If the taunter perma locks you then I guess that is good incentive to kill it first.

Oh man you want to make fighting Romans fun, have the bosses taunt!

Well if the plan that was in place for the 1st one wasn't working it is probably a safe bet that the other 9 will need revision as well assuming they were anywhere near being done, which is very doubtful.

So in short, they probably couldn't answer your question if they wanted to.

From 80ft it is unparalleled in its supremacy. Stay with the conversation. For that matter from any range it is still one of the best options.
To save you time continuing being incorrect, it has the following mez/mitigation powers with 80ft range
st stun
st sleep (80% chance)
st knockback (60% chance)
2x st -30% rech, 6 sec duration

The next closest is ice which has
st hold
3x st -20% rech, 6-18 sec duration

edit: none of the other sets have any mitigation with 80ft range.

While totally irrelevant to the conversation you'll be happy to know that ROA will be back to laughing at SC soon enough.

The thing that comes before the Beta slot.

The people that can give you a precise answer aren't allowed to. Open information is that it is the first level of the incarnate system.

I was mostly just being nice to set it up for someone else to get the kill on this issue when I said "I think". Of the lvl 50 AV's I just checked:
Baphomet
Countess Crey
Vanessa Devore
Black Scorpion
BaB's
Numina
Scirocco
Black Swan
Agent Crimson
Requiem

This is what they show:

Triangles Up


Triangles Down


Second or so while the Triangles activate

Indeed. I'd say this is pretty concrete evidence supporting the fact that it was expected for some time to be included:

They aren't shy if they think the venture won't turn a profit or continue to turn a profit. We know CoX has fulfilled that first requirement and it is safe to assume that it has low enough overhead to fulfill the second for some time. That has little to do with population as we are discussing it, or the relative health of it.

Well of course I have. So has every single person that has ever thought about population. It's all just a matter of opinion and there is no absolute line that says "this is healthy" and "this isn't". There are however lines of profitability, which again have little to do with population as we see it. Even the person doing the accounting for the game commenting on population would be a matter of opinion because their analysis is more dependent upon revenue which is derived from multiple sources in this game and as we all know subs != population (though it is a solid indicator).

My point is; every comment you've ever seen about the population of this game whether stating it is awesome, fine, or dead is a matter of opinion. Even when we had more accurate numbers from the company comments about the "health" of it were opinion.

My opinion is generated almost solely by my ability to log in and quickly do the things that I like to do in this game. For me there are only two servers that can satisfy those desires consistently. At the same time I know that for others there could be no one else in this game and they could do all the things they like to do.

My opinion on the population is no less valid than a person that would say the EU servers are great. And just like they will argue it I'll argue it because these forums would be incredibly boring without such arguments (imo). The only difference is I try to avoid fear mongering, or picking and choosing facts when talking about it (I'm far from perfect, my soup de jour is insults judging by the number of pm's sitting in my inbox from mod12 ). But we all do what we feel is necessary I suppose.

edit: As for me extrapolating my opinion to whether people stay with the game or not all I can say is that people go where people are. If you need evidence to support the accuracy of that claim you needn't look far.

I welcome this as a secondary effect for Toxic Blast.

From the sounds of it those "changes" would be buffs because it is weaker than they want. Everyone loves buffs!

I'm slightly worried because like mentioned above this sounds like it might be taking the incarnate system back to formula.