Gemesis

In short, I'd like to see Domination, for Dominators to get power customization.

At length...

While the explosion of light when Domination is activated isn't too bad, the sparkle aura for while it's running is an eye sore for some concepts. I tend to not use auras that are unlocked at 30 with the mish, just because most don't fit the concept behind my characters. But when playing a Dominator, and use the inherent power that comes with, I'm forced to sparkle like a Twilight vampire.

So just whenever power cust 2.0 comes out, I'd like to see Domination in there as well, where I can either have to 'No FX' option, or just change the accompanying aura.

I whole hearted agree. Safeguards/Mayhems are one of the things I love the most about this game, but also hate, because of the grind of the newspaper missions to get them. I would run them over and over again but I dislike the newspaper/radio missions to get them. They're fine every once in a while, like if I just don't feel like running the next mish in a story arc, but when I'm in the mood for a safeguard/mayhem, and I have to run through three to five random missions just to get to the safeguard/mayhem, it kills my enthuziasm, and I end up rushing through it.

The other day I was helping out a coalie do mayhems so he could get some of the badges, and I honestly couldn't remember the last time I spent over 30 minutes in a mayhem, and still had fun with it. I didn't even mind when I died, and had to escape from jail.

Mayhems and safeguards should be Ouro'able, so they can be more exciting and fun to do.

Also the thought of merits for doing them via Ouro comes to mind. I would think that there could be a way to reward merits based on how long you're in the mission with the timer running. This is just a first thought, and I know some people might have an issue with that based on Mayhems the timer starts right away, but Safeguards, the timer doesn't start until after the bank robbers are stopped, but unless they change that, I only see one other possibility. 1 merit for every member of the team. You run it solo, you get 1 merit. You run it with a full team of 8, you get 8 merits. The reason I don't like that option is that it would be far too easy to start up a merit farm.

The main problems I see with this idea, aside from increasing cost to maintain 16 new servers, and another at each drop of a new issue is...

1: Everyone who hates one particular thing that's changed would flood to these servers. For instance, PvP. A lot of people would go to servers that don't have the current set up for PvP.. I think it dropped in I13, but not sure. So then any new player who's interested in PvP, would have a harder time finding it on their local server.

2: New power sets/power proliferation would be inaccessable on servers for issues that they hadn't come out on yet. Bug fixes, and balancing. A lot of things undone for just a bit of nostalgia seems... wastefull.

3: You said newer players would get a better understanding of game mechanics. How is that exacty? A new player picks one of the servers, prossibly before ED. They play on that test server, learn the pre-ED game mechanics, and then comes back over to a live server, and... "WTF?! Why are my enhancments not working?!"

I understand to a point what it is you're trying to accomplish, but overall I just don't see it working. Instead, I ask(since I have no right to tell you to) to look forward to how much more the game can change and improve itself, as opposed to looking back, and living in yesteryear.

I'm gonna have to say... dunno. As far as I know, devs never realeased the numbers on the server transfers. Secondly, without knowing which server you play on.. there's no way to know if your server had a lot of people vacate(which if you tell me now won't help since again, we don't have any official numbers)

Lastly, your server feeling empty now could be just your perspective. I've seen there be suggestions in the "For Fun" sections of the forums for there to be server merges because their server is dead and it's impoosible to find a team, and there is always someone who comes by and says the exact opposite of that same server.

So to reitterate... dunno. :/

Ok, I feel this is never going to end, so I'll respond to this last post, and then I'm done. I don't see the point to going round and round with you over this any more

Can't say as I've ever heard of or experienced this problem myself, but my first thought would be to check your SG settings. Try exiting out of SG mode first, and see if your original costume colors revert to normal. If so, then you'll need to edit your settings to make sure your SG colors aren't taking over.

Of course if you're not in an SG, you've got another problem all together, and I'd recommend sending in a bug report.

Remaugen,

I feel the need to make a statement here, and I want to make sure you understand me clearly.

There is no valid reason at all for in this game of City of Heroes/City of Villains for the level cap to be raised.

Stop! I know what you're thinking. You want to keep progressing your heroes. You want to get more shinnies, and make your characters feel more special, and epic, like those heroes you read in the comics. You want more reward. Unfortunately the only reward your fifties get is inf. You the player wants reward, that's what you get. You get money! How is this not enough for you?

To the point of my statement, you have given us the reasons you want the level cap to be raised. And every time we have come back to you telling you why it's not necessary.

1: Hitting 50 means retiring a toon for many people
-This is a choice and opinion that many people disagree with.
2: Adding new content
-Moot point. New content is being added with every issue. Maybe not your preferred/desired content, but new content none the less.
3: It would bring back players that have previously left.
-And upon reaching the new level cap(Regardless of length it takes) they would leave again. Hence, time is better spent on maintaining the influx of new players and retaining the current subscribership.
4: You feel 50 is too soon to stop a characters growth.
-And you're welcome to your opinion. Opinions are like... well you know. Everyone has one, and they all stink(Yes, mine too!). The devs have stated their opinion on this, and it completely disagrees with yours.
5: 50-60 will take longer, possibly even the same amount of time it takes to go from 1 to 50.
-Okay... so it takes longer to get to the end. Upon reaching 60, wait around for a year, when the level cap gets increased again. Upon reaching the next level cap etc. etc. etc. Where exactly does it end? A line must be drawn at some point, and that line is 50.

Those are all the reasons that you gave, that I could find, with the responses given against those reasons. There were also reasons given that were not in direct response to your reasons for the level cap increase. Such as...

A: Going Rogue is coming out soon, adding new content for all level characters, not just those at 50.
B: Purple sets/Hami-o's would become pointless.
C: The time spent on making all the content for 50-60 can be better spent increasing content for 1-50. Especially if the content needed to get to 60 from 50 would take the same amount of time to complete as it does to go from 1 to 50.
D: Getting to level 50 doesn't mean you beat the game. There could potentially be hundreds of hours of content you didn't do on your way to 50.

There's probably others, but I'm getting tired at this point. Either way, until you can come up with new reasons, that are good reasons and make sense, and could convince the development team of this game, you really shouldn't expect a level increase to happen.

Think of it this way. No matter how hard you train, how much you do, and how long you do it, eventually you will no longer be able to be any better than what you are. You have a limit of how much you're capable of doing. So do your heroes and villains. When they reach level 50, they are at their pinnacle. They can keep doing everything they've done before, fighting/making crime, put out/starting fires, protecting/injuring the timeline. But it won't make them any better at it.

/signed
(Just wait, I know what you're thinking)
/whites out signature

/spills white out all over the idea, then in attempt to wipe it off, 'accidently' drops the idea into the paper shredder.

In short. No.

At length. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!(Gotta love the classics)

Your statement about getting to 50 means retiring a toon is subjective. Granted you did say 'many' and in a game with as many subscribers as CoH/V has, the word many doesn't mean the majority, just that there are a lot who feel this way. It's vague. In that same sense I can say many people feel that the markets need to be merged. If you read this forum often, you would know that there are a lot of people who feel this way. But you're not addressing at all how many people feel differently. So in that same sense, there are many people who feel the game is the best at 50, and prefer to play lv 50 toons as opposed to leveling up alts.

Also, if reaching 50 means it's time to retire your toon, then what about when you get to 60? Ok, now 60 means retiring the toon. How does this actually fix anything?

In regards to the expanded travel powers... why? Is it just so there are new powers to pick once the level cap is extended? Because these expanded travel powers seem unnecessary. Cool? Maybe, but there really is no need.

To point #2: Again, why is this needed? This would make these characters way over powered. At least in my opinion. There's also the point of lag that this would create. Imagine a rikit ship raid where a bunch of level 55 toons use these pet powers. The number of NPCs on the screen would generate so much lag for even stable machines, not even to mention the people who run the game on the low end.

#3: Again, I have to ask why? What purpose would an over the top AoE power serve? For those power sets that already have one nuke, and possibly 2 depending on their primary, and secondary powers, why do they need another on top of that?

Ok, I did a quick search and the only relevant threads for this were back in mid '09 and in '08 so if this has been brought up since then, I do apologize.

One of the first relevant threads I found when I searched stated that the devs said when power prolif was first coming out that Empathy for villains would never happen, and Poison for heroes would never happen. Well, we got Pain Domination as an analog for Empathy but nothing has come about for Poison. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

First, I'd like to suggest that Poison be proliferated to Corruptors. I think it's an interesting set, and don't understand why this is a MM set only. Now originally I was going to say that Defenders and Controllers could use this set just as well, but then I saw the previously mentioned post, so I thought an analog could be made for heroes.

So I give you Elixir!(Note, I'm not a numbers cruncher in the least so if these seem off, again I apologize)

Elixir: You are a master of chemistry and can create mixtures of potions and liquids to heal your friends. When used correctly can also weaken your enemies!

Remedy: You create a mixture of herbs and salves used to alleviate pain, and heal the wounds of your friend. This remedy will also give your friend a resistance to toxic damage.Single target ally heal.
Recharge: 5s
End Cost: 14
Toxic Res Dur: 90s
Toxic Res: 12.5%
Heal:17%

Acid Toss: You hit your enemy with a mild acid that will degrade his defenses and cause mild toxic damage to him, and lower his regen rate. Ranged Foe -Def -Regen
Recharge: 9s
End Cost: 10
Duration: 45s
-Def: 24.5%

Potent Potion: You've mixed together the right ingredients to strengthen your allies, and at the same time focus their senses making them more accurate. Single Target Ally +Dam +To Hit
Recharge: 120s
End Cost: 12
Duration: 30s
Dam Buff: 23%
To Hit Buff: 14%

Lucid: This elixir makes your allies more resilient in the face of danger, freeing them from Disorient, Sleep, Fear, Confuse, Hold and Immobilize, and also resistant to Placate. Single Target Ally +Res Dis, sleep, fear, confuse, hold, immob, and placate.
Recharge: 4s
End Cost: 5
Duration: 120
Mag: -8

Rejuvenate: You pour this liquid into the mouth of a fallen friend, bringing them back to consciousness with a renewed strength. They'll will do more damage, and hit more often, as well as their attack speed, and movement speed will increase. However after the effects wear off your ally will feel weakened and drained for a short time. Ally Res +Dam, +To hit, +Recharge, +SPD, (-Recovery -Recharge after duration)
Recharge: 180s
End Cost: 40
Duration: 120s
Heal: 100%
Dam Buff: 10%
To Hit Buff: 8.25%
+Rech: 7.5%
+SPD: 5%
-Rec: 5%
-Rech: 7.5%
Secondary Dur: 20s

Stink Bomb: The pride and joy of any high school kid who's bored in chem class. You release a beaker of a noxious fumes at your foes making them feel ill, and less resistant to your attacks, as well as slowing their attack speed. Ranged AoE -Res(All but Psi) -Recharge
Recharge: 300s
End Cost: 15
Radius: 20ft
-Res: 30%
-SPD: 70%

Sedative: This will make your enemies fall fast asleep. If woken they will be drowsy from the effects for a short period of time making them less accurate, and slowing their attack speed. PBAoE Foe Sleep, -To Hit, -Recharge
Recharge: 240s
End Cost: 9
Radius: 15ft
-To Hit: 15%
-Recharge: 25%

Petrify: This concoction will make your enemy stiff as a board, and unable to move or defend himself. Ranged Foe Hold
Recharge: 13s
End Cost: 12
Duration: 8s
Mag: 3

Endow Valor: This very special brew will make an ally feel overcome with resilience and power giving him additional defenses and resistances to all damage(Except Psi), resistant to Knockback, increase his perception, and To Hit. Single Target Ally +Def(All damage but Psi) +Res(All damage but Psi) +Res Knockback, +Perception, +To Hit.
Recharge: 360s
End Cost: 16
+Dam Def: 20%
+Dam Res: 30%
+To Hit: 20%
Duration: 90s


There you go. Tell me what you think. Even if this isn't how it should be emplmented, I think it's at least a good start.

As everyone has said, we don't know. As most have said, the prestige, and stuff in the bins of your SG aren't yours, it's the SGs. Did you earn it? Yes. Can you keep it? Presumably only if you don't switch sides.

Now, something to keep in mind, you can stop being a hero, but not go full villain. Now, I would assume that if you go vigilante, or rogue(The two grey areas between Hero and villain) that you would not be forced out of your SG/VG, but that you can still go to both Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. So if badges are all you're concerned about, it shouldn't be an issue.

Now if it's content, switching sides doesn't mean new content. It's the same content you already have available, just not to all your toons. The new content is the missions to switch sides, and Preatoria. Going to Preatoria won't mean your hero suddenly becomes a villain, so the new content there will still be accessible.

Lastly, I just have to say something about this statement...

Hey all,

I've just gotten my first tank up to 48, it's a stone/WM/Energy, and I love the survivability of Granite Armor, but the damage I deal is just so pathetic to anything that's not even con. The toggles have been an issue with keeping my end up, but since getting to where I can slot lvl 50 IOs, and have both Stamina and Physical Perfection, End hasn't been an issue. Just actually being able to kill something without it taking 10+ attack chains would be nice.

So what could you professional tankers recommend for me? Just slotting more +Dam, or going the route of set bonuses that increase global damage.. or even a combination of the two.

Also, cost isn't an issue. I don't have a lot on him right now, but I'm patient when it comes to getting a good build made.