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pvp IOs should be far more common.

Keep fightin' the good fight!

This type of "broadcast pvp" certainly does discourage many folks from participating in pvp. Most folks are playing for fun, and don't enjoy the verbal assaults that accompany a lot of pvp encounters.

People have been doing this (crying, whining, complaining, making excuses) since day 1 of CoX pvp, so this is nothing new.

The "hidden message to Castle" is pretty funny, as though no noob could have ever won a duel in the old days. Please.

Good post, and good suggestions.

I do disagree that pvp zones don’t fit thematically but whatever. :P

The addition of better rewards and games are the best things they could do to get more people into pvp.

Ah, I miss cox. I've been loggin' in every now and then and taking pleasure in interrupting duels. That's always good for a few minutes of fun.

Though I find this forum depressing these days, I did enjoy reading the last page of this thread again. Ravens was always good for a laugh.

Anyway, hope you all are having fun. Keep on keepin' on!

I'm SOOOO proud of you and your ability to use an X-Box controller to play a video game. That's truly a stunning feat!!

I've been zone pvp'ing while watching tv, listening to music, and monitoring/managing my fantasy teams for years. I don't know that the fact you can do those things now is proof that pvp has been dumbed down.

It's funny hearing people claim that pvp is both dumbed down and harder for new players to grasp.

Listening to some folks, you really could be led to believe that zone pvp in the old days really was rocket science. In order to succeed back then, you needed to devote yourself to strategy and planning. There was no button pushing at all and nobody ever used phase shift or hibernate.

Also, the pvp section of these boards has sunk to an all time low and it makes me a sad panda.

Woo Goo

When viewing your character's enhancement screen, dropping an enhancement on another of the same type will cause the two to combine automatically (or not, in the case of a "Failure").

Skipping the existing combination screen would be nice. As you drag an enhancement over one of the same type, a % chance of success could be displayed and releasing the enhancement would result in the same "Success!!" or "Failure!" messages you see today.

Small QoL improvement.

Thanks.

Build > Skill

Always has been. Players see a build that's successful and they copy it. That's how pvp has worked since the beginning.

AE has made copying good builds easier than ever before. As a result, you see the homogeny mentioned in the OP.

I have always wanted a pvp server with an auto-level to 50 feature that would eliminate the need to PL pvp toons. On a server like that, you would likely see a vast majority of players using the same FoTM builds.

People have always wanted to use the best pvp builds, but leveling up new toons takes time, especially for the masses (i.e., those who are not in a group that was willing to level new toons endlessly). That's changed with the introduction of AE.

I think it's a good thing. Now, after the l33t player pwns the nub and broadcasts "reroll nub" the player may do just that and come back the next day/week/month with a copy of the l33t toon.

When everyone's using the same toons, you can begin to see who is actually a better player than the next guy. Unfortunately, that does hurt the l33t player's ego a bit, as he realizes that it's his powersets that set him apart from the nub more so than his leet pvp skills.

Anyway, you can blame the dev's changes to pvp for all the FoTM's you see, or you can THANK the dev's for creating AE and making leveling so much easier. I, for one, thank the dev's.

If AE had been in place (as is) three years ago, you would have seen the exact same impact on the diversity in pvp zones that you are seeing now.

I'm so mad right now.

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IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR ME I'LL TYPE IN ALL CAPS. YOU ARE IGNORED. LEAVE ME ALONE. YOU'RE MAKING ME MADE!!!

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LoLLoLpop. I have no idea what Not Epsilon said lol. It probably has something to do with headaches and medicine and old video games lol. He lost and doesn't even know it.

He obviously got fired from his job and has nothing better to do than follow me around this thread posting about ibuprofen and pong lol.

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Listen Not Upsilon, you are now ignored. Take your headaches someplace else cus I don't want to hear it.

If you respond, you're a loser. Winners ignore people who don't agree with everything they say 100%. I'm a winner now.

You lose.

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That game looks pretty cool. I'm going to check it out.

"Free to play" has a nice ring to it.

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(Using the Ravens to English translator on babelfish)
"Villains are inferior to heroes, so people who play villains are generally more experienced than those who play heroes"

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I F'n love the "logic" I see from this guy. Always good for a laugh.

Its tough too, pinpoint exactly, which part off his posts our like the most funny two me.

Despite people who may tell you otherwise, all villains love to team all the time cus one time I went into RV and joined a team of ate and we killed everyone their.

/signed.

Please make it easier to transfer funds/recipes/etc. between characters on the same account.

Thank you.

I haven't paid attention to the new rep system changes I guess. I heard the timers were different but I'm not sure how that would make this idea exploitable.

/signed for allowing pvp io recipes to be purchased with bounty.


It won't happen, but it's a good idea. The pvp IO's should not be as ultra-rare as they are in my opinion. It's stupid.

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More builds please!

Strange that the outnumbered side is virtually always the side that's pushed back to their base. I can't figure out why that is.

There's a difference between players leaving because they couldn't transfer characters for free, and players maintaining a monthly subscription longer as a result of being able to transfer characters for free.

#1 Players are going to quit the game every month, for any number of reasons.
#2 If ncsoft can entice some of those players to stay, they will increase your subscription revenue.

We should all be able to agree on the two points above. Even if none of the players leaving the game gave the inability to transfer characters for free as the reason for their leaving, some of those players would potentially be enticed to stay and pay for another month (or more) if they could transfers characters to other servers free of charge. If the number of server transfers they sell each month declines to a certain level, they may reach a point where it's advantageous to make server transfers available free of charge.

Alternatively, if the game ever reaches a point where they shut down one (or more) of the servers, they will force players off the servers being closed, and I would expect them to consider allowing players on the impacted server(s) the option of transferring characters to the server of their choice free of charge. At that time, they may also provide a similar opportunity to characters on other servers that are not being shut down.

Saying that they will never (not ever) allow free server transfers cannot be proven wrong any more than saying that they will eventually allow free server transfers. You may have also said "they will never allow server transfers" or "they will never add loot to the game" or any number of things that eventually did happen. Eventually one side will be proven correct. Untill then...

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I could see granting each account a certain number of free transfers, or allowing free transfers over a certain time period (e.g., free server transfer weekend!), or a veteran award that provides a free server transfer to each character.

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Even if unlimited free server transfers is unlikely to happen in the near future, I could certainly see a limited number of free transfers being awarded to long-time subscribers.

You can join and make an open challenge to anyone. Due to inactivity, the winner would move to #1 on the ladder.

I bet you could find someone to fight you, depending on your server, and whether or not Test is up.

Anyway, no reason why folks can't challenge for #1...

My "eventually" comment was in response to your "never" comment. By "never" did you mean to say "in the next few months" or some other similarly short time period that is inconsistent with the use of the word never?

I understand that they make money selling server transfers, and they are not likely to give up that revenue.

However, I have no data on how many server transfers they sell each month, nor am I aware of the expenses they incur for processing a server transfer, so it's tough to speculate how much revenue they would be giving up by allowing free transfers. Free server transfers could also result in increased revenues for ncsoft if the change makes customers happy and they end up paying subscription fees for additional months that they would not have otherwise.

If ncsoft determines at some future point that free server transfers will lead to increased revenues, they will allow free server transfers. I think that could happen sooner than you think, if you think it will never happen.

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Timebomb is one of the most worthless powers in the game and should be replaced by something more useful.

Replace Timebomb with Build Up and you're golden!