KingSnake

Took me a second to understand what i was looking at, (i thought at first it was like a small part of there chest crests, not the whole cheast pattern) but once i got the idea of what i was looking at it was easy, 21/21. Only one i honestly didn't know what cammander courage... but i got it right because i know it wasn't on of the 3 other choices... who was he anyway?

KingSnake.

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1. SJ/SS have worked this way since launch and yet only now is it so much of a problem that it had to be fixed.

2. Disciplines were given nearly double duration because of the problems squishes had with mez, but only NOW are they being replaced with break frees that have a substantially lower duration which has the curious effect of making mez effects viable in PvP.

3. MoG and Elude getting changed although many regens and SR players don't respec out of all their other powers, unlike Unstoppable, but DO take on all comers in PvP.


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1. Actually, we've tweaked SS in the past; the issues with SJ have slowly evolved over time.

2. Disciplines haven't been around all that long; we've changed the way they work and their duration in response to player feedback - in PvE AND PvP. The "Break Free" changes started before the Arena was even implemented (internally, at least).

3. I think I explained the issues with perma-powers in the explanations. I've mentioned my concern about them for quite some time.

Is PvP a consideration? Sure. Is it THE consideration? No. Each of your points were primarily PvE issues.

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States, all you ever tell us is, in a nut shell... "There are PvE issues as well." It's you out. Nerf something for an OBVIOUSE pvp related issue, get called on it, say, "There are PvE reasons also." NEVER tell us them... and keep telling us your keeping your promose when your really not.

Kind of like no stealf nerfs a year ago... "We never stealf nerf, EVER." 3 or 4 stealf nerfs later, we begain to think you had the most imcompatinted patch note person on the planet... cause apperently he/she/it keep screwing up... because, you never stealf nerf now do you?

And you know what really kills me, is, you've WASTED, GOD knows how long on this crappy update, (which if you ask me, is nothing more then data mining and reasearch for CoV.) and the ONLY thing of value your adding to the game is PvP, which, i might add, brings the best out in people, it really does. Flame wars. Trolling. Challanges. Bragging. Leet Speak. Oh yeah, i'm really looking forward to this... OH, and SHOLDER KITTENS!?!?! Your giving us SHOLDER KITTENS. THAT right there will have me relloing an alt and sludging though ANOTHER 50 levels of the same, with a weaker charater mind you... for an ever SLOWER rehasing of the same crap i've alread done 10 times... OH YEAH, i can hardly wait...

And when, or maybe better but, IF, you ever get this wonderful updated finished and to live, I wonder how long it'll be before i accually get something NEW to do in this game of yours huh?

Gee, at the rate of 3 feaking updates a year, your better add some truly epic stuff to your game, or your player base, if they aren't getting board already, are going to be board into a coma by this time next year... if they'er hear at all.

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS THINKING? PvP will SAVE your game from it's own self distructive lack of contant? You know who PvP's the most? Young males, ages, 13-25 i'd beat is your PRIME pvp age group. And i'll tell you this right now, if your counting on THAT age group to keep you afloot... LOL. They have the attation span of fruit fly, and once the next "cool" pvp game is out, so are they.

Not a group i'd bet the future of my game on, if you ask me.

KingSnake.

I'm still trying to figure out WHY they are taking this new hardline stance with PLing NOW. It makes no since, the games almost a year old... (or is it a year old?) I'd wadger to say a good majority of people have already expearince the low end game to DEATH by now, and actively us PLing to get beyond it and into some more intresting stuff they haven't played to death.

You know, in a game like this, that's relitively SHORT for an MMO, your bread and butter is Char creation system and Alt aholicsism. People wanting to make and try new and different hero's and power combanations.

Take me for example. I've got my lvl 50. I've seen, done, and expearince prolly a good 90% of everything there is in this game. There isn't much new.

Now, at this point, i want to roll a few alts to find a good fit... Which i have been... for the last 2 or 3 months... I'm SICK of the Hollow... SICK of Skulls... VERY SICK AND TIRED of no travel powers, and SICK TO DEATH of MISS MISS MISS... So basicaly, i'm sick of the low levels... very sick of them.

I've been through, like 8 alts, finily finding 2 i like enough to get past the 22 mark for my SO's. NOW stuffs getting cool again, becasue i'm getting the the 10% of conten i missed the fist time.

But it took me 3 months... of REPETIVE game play, game play that got boring fast... I almost quit for awhile, cause I was sick and tired of fighting the clockwork.... i HATE the clockwork now... I want to wipe them off this bloody planet and grind there grears to dust... and pee and there ashes when i'm done i hate them so much..

So i tell myself a few weeks ago, Chris, (that's my name, Chris) why are you doing this to yourself? I'll just get my brother to PL any new alts up into the 20's real fast and by pass all this carp i've already done 10 times now.

I'd be willing to beat alot of people prolly feel the same way. This game isn't nearly as long or complex as games like EQ or AC are. With no loot, a finite amount of quests/task forces/trials to do, and a low level cap, it's quite possible to have seen and done just about everything in a relitive short amount of time. (In MMO standerds... it took what, 2 years for someone to finnily hit 126 in AC, and even then there was a ton of game left to explore... Me, i've seen the whole of CoH in about 7 months, and I'm not even a hard core gamer..)

IMO, at this stage in the game, where alot of people are rerolling for the sake of trying out new powers and new alts, taking this stance on PLing is only going to serve to piss us off. I know if i had to make a new alt and fight my way to 20 again doing the same clockwork crap agin, or, even better, street sweeping for 20 levels... well lets just say Matrix Online is looking REALLY REALLY promising right now.

This "fix" isnt going to stop noobs from finding a way to get a PL, esspecially if they can just sit at the start of a mission and get all that phat XP while there high lvl buddy goes to town. (please tell me you though of that...)

PLing will go on... and i guess if need be i'll just have my brother do that, run some high lvl missions and i'll camp in the frount to that and level past the crapply low end of this game.

You want to encourge people NOT to PL? Well, I'd suggest lossing that irom clad grip on the nerf bat and start working your tail ends off on some new contant... ALOT of freaking new content. You just don't have enough for this game to last. Without Loot, the only thing driving people to play is fellowship and content.

Fellowship you have, and in spades, but that alone won't save you if we have to do the same crap over and over and over again.

And no, PvP isn't going to do it either. Sure a good cross section of the gameing population will live and breath it, but they are normally a minority.(at least from my expearince.)

You want to target US, casual to slightly hard core gamers who are looking for a steady stream of cool stuff to do. And right now you just don't have enough, and your FORCING us to play it, when we've prolly already expearinced it a few times to beging with. Not Smart. Not smart at all.

KingSnake.

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Wrong more Peacebringer and Warshade story arcs will be in issue 4. New temp powers and mission art will be added to issue 4.

But then powerlevlers never cared about those things.

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Oh, great. WarShade and Peacebringer story arches. (I'd beat on one if your lucky.) And new art? *GASP* well in that case, i'm ready to roll my 10th alt and finish the Bonefire quest so i can see the pretty new art in the mission!!!!

Temp Powers? Oh gooide.

Let me lay it out for you kid/dude/oldtimer/whatever.

I've played since release. I've lvl'ed to 50 in 7 months, i've played well over 700 hours, and i have...

Completed 30+ story archs.
Found 100+ badges
Ran all but, maybe 2 taskforces.
Gotten all but, 2 Accolades. (I'm missing Vanguard and Archmage)
Completed EVERY trial. (Hollows, TV, Eden, and Sewer.)
Completed straga. Ran it's TF's.
Completed the Hollows.
Ran evey mission in the Shadow Shard...
Been a memeber of 3 Hammi Raids, all victories.
Taken part in Both Sever Wide Evens, (Halloween, Winter Loards)
Defeated every AV in the GAME, maybe twice by now.
And Level up an WarShade to 27 (who did my Straga island stuff.) till i couldn't take it anymore because he was a debt magnent and i wanted to rip my hair out..
Formed 2 SuperGroups, and am now in the process of RPing, YES RP'ING a superhero Duo with my brother, who i might i add i talked into playing this game with me.

There is very few, IF ANY content i haven't seen/done in this game. I love this game, but for an MMO it's pretty short...

Now basically i'm into Toon Building. I've ran through a few dozen alts looking for one that catchs my attation like Zero did, and, i think i may have finilly found one. (The Duo partener ship with my brother has breathed new life into this game.) But NOW, i no longer have the option of PLing me and him PAST crap we've already done, and in my case, 5 or 6 times now, to a point in the game where it's more intresting. (I've only been through my late 30's to 50 once.) BUT NO, it apperently ISN'T fun (wish someone would have told me that...) and thus, i'm now force to level my alt with the same old contant i've had the last 5 times i've done it... and the only prospect i have for NEW conten with my NON epic Alt is new ARTWORK AND TEMPEROY POWERS...

I'm bubbling over with antapisation..

KingSnake.

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I think people misunderstand why developers interfere and make changes. I could care less how fast someone earns influence. But I am concerned when someone is doing somethingg "unfun" in order to gain levels quickly and thereby bypassing other, more interesting content. Admittedly, "fun" and "unfun" are completely subjective, so people can disagree.

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Man, i'm thankful your here to tell me whats fun and what isn't. I must be way off base, cause I accually belive i had a good time in the wolf groups i got into. Silly me.

And to belive i was missing out on content when i was in groups... and here all this time i belived i ran out of missions. Obviously i was wrong, and my contacts were just playing hard to get. (I know Indego was hot for me. LoL)

And, i'm really really glad that i'm now forced to level up all my alts from here on out with the same contect and missions and story archs and TFs. i mean, since your working on PvP right now, i'm pretty sure extra content won't be added until issue 5.. and at the rate of release, that's what, 4 months away? (i'm being generious with 4. i'm beating more on 5 or 6 personaly... DOH, did i type that out loud?)

So for the next few months my choices for fun are partaking in PvP, which, for the most part i suck at and have never really like... AND RERUNNING all my old missions with my new alts?

Can you do me a favor and give me a list of FUN, and UNFUN activites so i don't make this mistake in the future? I'd really hate to think i might waste my time and energy on activities that aren't fun, and not even know it... so i'd appreacite your help in this reguard.

KingSnake.

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Skills is in Issue 5...

Issue 4 revolves around the Arenas (now under construction)....

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Ok... your the boss and all... but i though Skills were originally part of update 3... and that PvP wasn't even a major focuse of this game until later, like alittle before CoV came out... What happened to that plan? Why did PvP become so very importent to you all? Esspeically since a fairly large around of your player base isn't looking forward to it at all... heck, in light of how things have been changing lately, one could make the arugument that all the recent class changes that have been made, are more then likely an eairly attemtp at PvP class balancing. Something, i seem to recall, you said you'd not do. I know for one, i HATED, with a passion, having my PvE abbilitys nerfed cause they were deemed to UBER for PvP... a concern people rasied when PvP was mention as being added to COH. A concern i THOUGH i read you said wouldn't effect us much, because you wouldn't nerf a power in PvE because it was to good in PvP...

But wasn't it like a week or two ago, you stated that you would infact be balancing powers for PvP, and it would effect PvE, bacause you didn't want to confuse new players with two different sets of rules that there powers work by? why the change in stance? Or did i miss understand what you ment in the begning?

I remember when you were ALL excited about this your "super secret out of combat content"... I mean it was the talk of the time, the one thing everyone was eagirly antasipiting... and now, it's been months since i've hard about it, only to discover it's been delayed 6 months more? (maybe less, but at the rate you updates come out, 6 months might be a consirvite estamite. Not that taking your time is a bad thing, it's not, it's just... well, never mind.)

So, again, an honest question, why did you change gears and start focuing on PvP all of a sudden? You finding the skills harder to implement then you thought, or do you think PvP will keep the lvl 50's who are getting board with no high end content, yet have more then likely played through the low levels so many times it's mind numbling at this point, around longer, beating each others brains in? Eh, it could work i guess. I'm not into PvP myself, so tell me, what do I have to look forward to in issue 4? Or will it be 4 - 6 months before i get to be excited about and update again?

KingSnake.

States, what kind of comics do you read? I want to know, because you've been billed as some kind of comic book brainiac, and yet, your holding onto some idea that 1 hero = 3 white minions, and i want to know what, in all of comic books, do you find a hero so pethitic, he can only handle 3 MINIONS at a time? Man, even side kicks handle more then that at a time...

and now bosses can't be, or, better said, you don't WANT them to be soloable... becauce it's common place to see spiderman slowly wade through a warehouse full of thugs, only to get to the lead thug, and have to park it and phone of back up... yeah, like i said, what comic books did you grow up reading? I ones i grew up reading played out nothing like what your working to achive. Hell, even the leagon of superheros, a book that's very life blood was the super team, didn't protay there heros to be as weak as you want us to be. Even Matter Eather Lad could handle more then 3 thugs at a time if he had to.

But no, not us. We need back up to handle a boss now. (well, at least, that's what you want. as it is now, we, the higher level guys still don't find bosses to be all that challanging yet, which once you find out, i'm afraid will only result in more nerfs/buffings...)

And don't get me started on AV's. I've almost come to terms with the fact that, I'm not a REAL hero who can handle his own arch nemisis. I have not hope of defeating my own personal Joker. No, when the AV's show up, i have to tuck tail and run for help, no matter how unheroic or out of Char it is, and get help. "You just wait here Anti Matter.... I'm getting my SG on the phone, and were going to kick your !@#!@" Man, what hero's were are. Were using thug tatics to take out the thugs. How heroic.

And the funny thing is... what completely cracks me up is, dispite your best attempts at forcing the group... And yes that's what your doing, you remind me of the button men in IP."You don't HAVE to pay our "protection" fee, but...." You get the idea? No, we don't HAVE to group... we can street sweep blues and greens to 50 if we REALLY want to, but if we want to do anything REMOTELY cool, it seems we HAVE to group now...

it hasn't worked. LoL. I STILL can't get a team together to run missions. I can't get a team together for Zero G, nor any of the alts i've made over the last few days (trying to find a scrapper build i like... no luck so far.)

The ONLY people who want me on a team are PL'ers, (can you PL my new epic? "No, now go away and place me on ignore.) and wolf herding groups. (who only really want extra bodies or a bridge.) And That's it. Maybe it's just me, but i don't see any more grouping now then before, dispite all your changes, and the only thing these changes have done is make the squishies life's harder. THANKS ALOT.

KingSnake. (just another screwed squishie)

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I am level 47 and to get the badges I want for these rewards I have two choices: find a portal mission that contains these enemies and farm it over and over or run around the lower level areas causing havoc.

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Choice 3: Exemplar to an appropriate level Hero and help them get XP (and work off your debt) while you both get the badge. I know... it's just crazy enough to work.

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Your a Dev, you should know better.

People, much like water, follow the path of LEAST resisitince. (9 times out of 10 i'd say)

What's easier, doing what you said, or, using your near godly powers to get what you want faster and with less risk?

But i agree, this issues won't be an issure for long. People will get there badges and move on.

KingSnake.