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Originally Posted by Eisenzahn

I really hope GR doesn't have any PvP content. It's my belief that the developers have already devoted far more time to PvP than it deserves, relative to the comparably small size of the PvP community even at its peak. PvP will never be big in this game. Every resource directed towards PvP is one that could have benefited a vastly greater number of players if it were directed towards any other gameplay element you care to name. I am 100% in favor of leaving PvP alone and never touching it again. It is a failed experiment.

This is not to say I don't have some sympathy here. I'm a Base Builder. I spend almost as much time tinkering with my VG base these days as playing my characters. And I think Base Building is about as much of a hopeless cause as PvP, for all the exact same reasons. If a paid expansion came out full of new Base Goodies, I'd be thrilled. And I'd also immediately recognize that the rest of the player base just got screwed out of a lot of developer time, to benefit me and a very small group of people like me.

Originally Posted by Antigonus

Issue 13 killed any hope of ever seeing significant PvP population in this game. Until that debacle is reversed, it's going to stay low.

Originally Posted by DMystic

The reason PvP receives the least amount of Dev support is because the least amount of members in the community participate in it.

The same thing happens to CoV PvE.

To: Ares Supreme

I'm not particularly interested in PvP. I tried it in I4 and didn't care for it. I tried it in I6 and didn't care for it.

While your post has useful information it doesn't do anything to tempt me into trying PvP again.

Originally Posted by Mirage_Mage

I hope not a new zone, we dont have enough PvPers for the zones we have already.

Originally Posted by je_saist

My guess is... probably not.

NCSoft's more than gun-shy about funding PvE games to work on PvP play after the debacle that was Tabula Rasa. From a financial standpoint, NCSoft would much rather push players towards AION, which was, as it seems to be represented, built for PvP play from Day 1.

For the short term, and possibly long term, this means that any serious PvP development is probably over for City of Heroes. From what we know about game subscriptions, CoH never has built up a PvP player base that's actually capable of providing the funding just on subscriptions alone... and seriously doubtful on providing the money through a PvP themed booster pack.

Originally Posted by SlimPickens

I think this is a video of the panel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBhceg6ooY

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Well, it'll mean the team makeup in RV will be quite different for a start

Originally Posted by Blondeshell

There's a hidden badge on the Badge-Hunter Supergroup badge listing for the Improved Energy Turret that seems to match the description for this. No idea what the base item would have done, though.

Originally Posted by Catwhoorg

Unless via a bug, there will be no-one with this badge.

Each successful run of the CoP got you an item of power.

IIRC the maximum a SG can have is 5, and you can't delete them.

Ergo the maximum legitimate progress from the single cycle the Cathedral was active will be 5/20


If the Cathedral ever comes back, the whole system will be overhauled and thus some of the details known right now maybe in error.

Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven

I don't know what the badge is called (the Wiki doesn't seem to know either) but it is not currently achievable.

Cathedral of Pain

Originally Posted by Hart

Actually, I've found that some of the better farms post i16 are 5 maps, because of the ticket bonus. They're 5 farm maps, granted, but missions after the first have an increasing bonus to the number of tickets you get.

If I were really hardcore about farming something solo for tickets, I'd put together a brute that could handle a mission on +4/8. I'd design and test a mission that gave him about 400 tickets from kills, with a single clicky that ended the mission to double that number.

Then I'd copy that mission 4 more times and string it in after itself for the stacking ticket bonus. You're going to run it more than once anyway, you may as well take the free tickets. Since you're probably logging in and out at the AE, it also gives you overhead for the AE day job ticket bonus on completion.

..then I'd fill each mission with it's own stack of limericks. Looks like I'm up to 150 limerick storage spaces, which would cover the entire top 150 from Limerick DB.

Well, I know what I'm doing tonight. Can someone suggest some reasonably farmable lieutenants? My old map was all slammers, but they got buffed to the point of being unreasonable to farm. I tried Council lieuts, Cage Consortium, and PPD, but the AoE got a little brutal at higher levels. I also tried werewolves, which were OK except for the Willpower tank eating 16 thrown rocks and faceplanting. Maybe something with a single target DoT as a ranged attack and some single target melee or PBAoE attacks as filler?

Originally Posted by Grae Knight

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Can you level up a toon to 50 in 10 minutes?

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Before Issue 16 goes Live:

1. Burn your freespecs (/respec). You'll be getting a new one and they don't stack.

2. Get your costume slots nao! You'll be getting a free token per character per costume slot. It costs influence to customize your powers, and a lot of customization at once will be expensive. So, maximize your Tokens by doing costume slot missions tonight.

3. Copy your toons to Test. Choose your color combinations. Save the costume with a unique name. Go into your Test folder and move that saved costume file to the Live folder. Then when Issue 16 goes Live, you can be one of the first to show off your custom costume colors.

4. Go into the Test forums for I16 and read the release notes and the most current combined Test patch notes and other patches. And Known Issues.



After Issue 16 goes Live:

1. Read the Release Notes and Known Issues pages. Read the Issue 16 Wiki page and the Guide to Super-Sidekicking (see my sig below).

2. Go into Menu > Options. Look, it's been a bit reorganized. Accustom yourself to the choices. Select the option to only receive email from Friends to block the spam.

3. Go to a Tailor and load up the saved costumes you made and transferred from Test, or, start customizing your powers. Use your new Costume Tokens to pay for it.

4. Create a new toon with one of the proliferated powersets.

5. Go to a field analyst or fateweaver and set your new difficulty level with the new sliders.

6. Use the freespec you just got if you want. (Assuming the freespec came with the Issue and is not being issued a few days later.) Especially see if your AT is eligible for a new power choice in your Ancillary/Patron Power Pool. Here's where you can burn that new freespec.

7. Check your badges. Some difficult ones were made easier to get. You may have gotten an Accolade and an accolade power (or may be very close to earning it).

8. Take your low level heroes and go to the Shard to buy a Jet Pack! Level restrictions are gone for hazard zones (but not for TFs, Midnighter Club, Cimerora, or Ourobors.) Organize level 1 footraces (no Peacebringers) from Back Alley Brawler to the Storm Palace (or any other type of exlporation badge quest).

9. Be amazed as your pets zone with you, even into and out of missions! You just might want to dismiss them out of missions if your traveling across a zone. (/releasepets)

Originally Posted by Satanic_Hamster

Is this a weekly thing now, to pull up a 2-3+ year old screenshot of a bug?

Because if it is, I got some good pre I1/2 era ones.

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Originally Posted by IamVT

Even if they did manage to do that, I doubt they would have already received the "Isolator" badge in RV (seeing as how the only other way a hero can get that is in Outbreak and GR will doubtfully take that route)

I call shopped.

Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms

Someone managed to violate NDA on Going Rogue before it even went to Alpha?

Originally Posted by MaestroMavius

The Ninja MM being on a team of Heroes without being in a Co-Op.

What'd I win?