HeroicGamer2

I’ve been holding off posting about the impending closure of City Of Heroes, since I’ve felt too emotional about the situation to properly put my thoughts into words. I sincerely hope that the “Save Our City” campaign succeeds, but I’m feeling rather pessimistic about the outcome…

From what I can see, it appears that NCSoft has not tried very hard to sell off the CoX Franchise, and seems to have ignored multiple purchase offers. If NCSoft is indeed experiencing financial difficulties, as some people have suggested, then I should think that a sale of assets would keep them afloat more successfully than absorbing them internally.

NCSoft’s public relations response to the closing of the City Of Heroes has been very poor. This is no way to run a successful business. In fact, they will be losing me as a customer permanently. I have no wish to invest my time and money in products that a company will so readily close down.

In closing this message, I’d like to publicly thank the entire Paragon Studios Team for developing and supporting such a fantastic game. You folks are great!

Watching from the sidelines with fingers crossed and spandex at the ready….

Hey All,

Non-combat pets seem to have become quite popular in the Paragon Market. Personally, I've bought almost all of them as I really enjoy having in game pets. Unfortunately the number of non-combat pets (and buffing pets like the tier 6 Paragon Rewards pet) a player can have active at once was dropped down to one.

It used to be (prior to CoH Freedom) that I could have several pets out at once, but no longer. This is very frustrating as there are times it would be nice to have more than one pet out at once - for my character's theme in non-combat situations, and even in combat for the cool visuals.

Does anyone else think it inappropriate that NCSoft is releasing more and more purchasable pets, but at the same time severely restricting the number of pets we can have out at a time?

You raise some interesting points DreadShinobi...

Hey All,

Now that there are so many options for Incarnate Powers, there are times when one power might be better for one mission, and another within the tree for the next mission; or even at a different time within the same mission. It's currently possible to create more than one power, although only one can be selected at a time, and there is a cooldown from combat/zone change required before you can switch.

My suggestion is that each incarnate power would allow use of any of the crafted powers, but ONLY one use at a time. So for instance, a player could use Destiny->Rebirth, and then after the normal power cooldown (bypassing the combat cooldown), use Destiny->Barrier WITHOUT going through the process of changing what power is slotted.

This change could probably be implemented by removing the combat cooldown for switching active Incarnate Powers. This would open up the number of powers level 50 VIP players would have EASY access to, while maintaining the limit of only one selection for each Incarnate Power at a time.

It would also help if there was an improvement in how Incarnate Powers are added to the Powers Tray. One solution would be to automatically add an Incarnate Power to the Powers Tray once it has been slotted. These changes would not be difficult for the devs to implement, and would really open up the Incarnate Power system...

What do you folks think?

Hey All,

Thanks for all the replies! There have been some very good points raised.

I guess it mainly comes down to rudeness. The Trial Leader did not state any entrance requirements in their post, and never replied to me after my initial reponse of my level. They carried on recruiting and ignored me. I was left wondering if the entrance requirements to enter a Trial had changed overnight.

Yes, it's true that the individual leading a trial can have their own set of requirements, but I don't believe that being rude to other players, and not communicating specific entrance requirements is any way to run a League.

I've been on alot of Trials with other characters of mine (level 50 to 50+3), and teamed with some fantastic leaders, I have even lead a few (although I find leading a Trial to be quite challenging at times).

Again, thanks for all of your comments, and thanks to all the good leaders out there, your efforts are often unrecognised, but they are greatly appreciated!

Hey All,

Just a comment about joining iTrials: I'd be interested in hearing what the consensus is regarding entrance requirements for iTrials...

I just tried to join a trial with my level 50 support character, and was turned down because I was too low a character. The trial leader had asked me my level, which I assumed meant they were checking to make sure someone below 50 didn't join the league. I was apparently wrong - I never heard back from the trial leader, and no, the Trial league was not full. They continued recruiting for the Trial league.

I asked in broadcast, and was informed (probably by a League member) that I would not be accepted unless I was at least 50+. How is a level 50 support character going to get to level 50+ or higher if they are not even allowed in an iTrial. Yes, I know I could do a ton of task forces, etc but the iTrials tend to be a quicker way. I have seen many a person reach level 50, and start iTrials without first unlocking their Alpha slot.

I suspect this situation I experienced is because the newer trials are so difficult that leaders are being more picky with who they invite. This does not make it easy for new level 50's to become Incarnate.

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

Hey All,

I'd be interested in seeing what the CoX Community thinks of (a request to the devs) for the creation of a new zone (map) devoted to:

“A staging area for Leagues to form in preparation for starting an Incarnate Trial”.

The current cooperative zones often fill up very quickly, which makes it difficult for new league members to enter the zone. The new zone would have to:

1) Be a Cooperative zone so that Heroes and Villains can join the League.
2) Support more players than the current cooperative zones currently allow (2x the current limit would be nice).
3) Graphics of the new zone could be fairly simple (maybe a basic variant of Pocket D).
4) If lag was an issue, there could be suppression of certain powers within the zone.

I’d be very interested in hearing what people think of this idea, and also if they have any suggestions regarding features they would like to see in this new zone if it was to be included in the game.

Hi all,

I'm wondering as we celebrate CoH's 6 year anniversary if there was some way for characters to purchase the other anniversary badges, either through influence, merits, tickets, etc.

As a 5.5 - 6 year veteran with many chars made more recently, it would be REALLY NICE if the other anniversary badges could be made available to us! (fingers crossed)

Interesting ideas!

#1 - Sounds good, but there would need to be a punishment for false reporting or it could be abused. I vote that the extra slots are donated to charity though...

#2 - Excellent idea, hope it gets implemented. The star system is in need of a huge overhaul!

#3 - I like the idea of character based versus account based reviews! Every play might be a bit much - as stated by others, farms do get run alot...

Devs, I hope you are listening to FredrikSvanberg, he makes alot of sense!

On an unrelated topic, but relevant to the thread title... I have a published arc (still in testing though) that is using the villain group "Winter Horde". The group is a canon group (no custom settings or custom critters at all), and the group is level 1-54.

When I play the arc I get no XP from any of the mobs (although I do get tickets). Is this a known bug? Is there something else going on that I don't know about?

Part of me kinda wonders if they are linked too closely with the Winter Event, and since the event is not live, no xp. I seriously hope that is not the case though!

I thought long and hard before responding to your comments Clave_Dark_5.
I have to respectfully disagree with you though...

I do think the AE System is broken.
I also think the AE Rating structure leaves a lot to be desired.

I realize that the devs were unhappy about people being “Pled to 50 over the course of an afternoon”, but something that people seem to forget is that often the dev response to problems is very heavy handed! The way the AE situation is being handled is just more of the same. 60 month veteran players may remember their powers being reduced in strength to approximately 25% of what they used to be to “level the playing field”. As much as I love this game, I really dislike many of the heavy handed acts the devs have taken over the years.

One last thing to think about:
NCSoft continues TO THIS DAY to advertise that you can level from 1 to 50 entirely within the AE System. I’d say their actions contradict their statements.

Hey all,

Has anyone noticed a trend with players giving out lower ratings on AE Arcs lately?

I have an arc that recently got booted from page 3 (AE Search with no filters) to the bottom of page 291 (with no filters). This is an arc that has had great feedback and ratings in the past. Hundreds of arcs with 5 stars and only played once are now in front of my arc with 100 individual account plays. That just seems wrong.

It also seems like it's impossible to get an arc noticed or played much these days. And as for getting played by 999+ individual player accounts... significantly less than a possibility! This is no doubt partly due to the nerfs that were intended to kill farming BUT also hurt legitimate play of the AE system.

Still, back to my original question: Are people rating arcs lower now? It seems like it, and as an author who's spent HOURS working on one special arc, it's downright discouraging! (Heck, I even built an insect-human dictionary so that custom critter dialog was consistent.)

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