Krucial

Since there is more downtime today, effectively killing two days of play time for me, I am asking that the devs please delay the cut off on level pacts.

I have two accounts and have the same issue.

So I finally finished my first play through. I lost 2 member, Jack and Legion. I am guessing because they are not loyal. Legion took a shot to the face closing the door. I am not sure when Jack died. I repeated the last mission to make sure that I had my non loyal mambers with me, but Jack dropped the bubble so I lost Grunt I've got to figure out a way to keep them all alive. Most likely will do it on second play.

Too many trial accounts. It doesn't look good

I feel your pain OP, I tripped over the law of five once. Mids has been a huge help

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To the other players:

SUBJECTIVE: During the winter event, do the following: Get a team of 6-8 people, run around opening presents, kill Winter Lords. 20 merits in an hour, guaranteed. Bonus: Do this in Croatoa so you can respond to a Jack/Eocholai fight and get even more GM merits.



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Two things:
The Christmas event lasts what two weeks? What then, still be shortchanged at every turn?

Villains cannot get into Croatoa.

Villains need content. Have needed and asked for it since I-7. All of the pleas have fallen on deaf ears. It is really discouraging.

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Not completely true. The did add more stuff for villains to do via co-op. The issue NOW, is that we need more villside content and less co-op.

so it's technically not entirely true that we've been waiting since I-7.

If one feels that co-op railroads vills into acting heroic, that is a different argument to make.

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I am sorry, but I do not feel as if co-op content is Villain content. It is what it is called CO-OP. It is not Villainous

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To the other players:

SUBJECTIVE: During the winter event, do the following: Get a team of 6-8 people, run around opening presents, kill Winter Lords. 20 merits in an hour, guaranteed. Bonus: Do this in Croatoa so you can respond to a Jack/Eocholai fight and get even more GM merits.



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Two things:
The Christmas event lasts what two weeks? What then, still be shortchanged at every turn?

Villains cannot get into Croatoa.

Villains need content. Have needed and asked for it since I-7. All of the pleas have fallen on deaf ears. It is really discouraging.

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Villains have more story arcs than heroes. How long can we stand this injustice? Villains sf's are better written and quicker than tf's. Which means you can do more of them back to back without going [censored] crazy.

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Do you realize that if you DID do every villain SF in a day, you end up with 160 merits. DO you realize that the Hardest SF/TF in the game gives out less merits than its heroic counterpart? Do you realize that Heroes can farm merits in said heroic counterpart? I guess not. Stay on topic. Talk to the Devs, not to me.

Do this. Create a new Hero, run the sewers to 10. Go run Positron, then run a couple of faultline arcs, then run synapse and tell me how many merits you get. (this is doable in a day)

Then create a Villain and slog through arc after arc to get to 15. Run Cap, slog through more arcs to get to 20 and then run Silver Mantis and tell me how many merits you have. I bet you the Hero comes out ahead. (good luck doing this in a day)

Story Arcs do not make up for the 500 + TF/SF merit discrepancy. The number of arcs thing is a load of malarkey since almost half of said story arcs are in the 40+ range in Grandville.

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To the other players:

SUBJECTIVE: During the winter event, do the following: Get a team of 6-8 people, run around opening presents, kill Winter Lords. 20 merits in an hour, guaranteed. Bonus: Do this in Croatoa so you can respond to a Jack/Eocholai fight and get even more GM merits.



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Two things:
The Christmas event lasts what two weeks? What then, still be shortchanged at every turn?

Villains cannot get into Croatoa.

Villains need content. Have needed and asked for it since I-7. All of the pleas have fallen on deaf ears. It is really discouraging.

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This has been a very informative thread and a lot of good points have been raised here. I play City of Heroes too and I see a lot of room for growth and improvement in the Merit system. I wanted to let you all know that we are listening even if we're not always posting. I plan on making some tweaks to the system to make Merits, as a whole, more approachable and enjoyable for everyone, though changes take time. Keep the feedback coming; the more constructive, the better. I'd appreciate feedback using the Objective/Subjective format detailed in Ex Libris' original post. We're listening and will take it into consideration in future updates.

Thanks,
Synapse

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Purely Subjective:

The REAL problem here is that none of you seem to realize the problem that City of VILLAINS is facing. It is either that or you just don't care. CoV is in a sad state SF wise compared to CoH's TF's. I hope it is not that you don't care, but since Beta, the discrepancies have been pointed out. I do understand that you all are tired of people complaining about the lack of content when there were boatloads of stuff that people simply weren't doing on the Hero side, but that stuff was omitted from the villain side, so now villains like myself are wondering if we are being heard or listened to.

Please do or say something that will restore my confidence. NO, I do not feel like being a tag along on Hero content on my villains all the time to get merits (Lady Gray, Imperious). No, I do not feel like spending 4 hours organizing a Hami raid on a low pop server to get merits on the red side.

This issue cut me off at the knees. My game used to be grinding through level after level so that once I got to 45, I could get to my favorite part of the game, and test myself against the Freedom Phalanx in the RSF. Now the RSF isn't even worth doing unless I am looking for Hami O's. We used to do multiple runs per night. Since the last issue, I have run more STF's than RSF's. Why? people are playing where the merits are. People want to be able to have the best gear. With the current system, it's just not worth doing much on the red side.

I have done something that I have never done since I got here three years ago. I have let my villain account lapse (my main account). I am seriously considering letting this account expire next month as well.

There seems to be a disconnect between the development team and the red side game.

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Good lord people, here I thought this was the City of X forums and not the World of Whinecraft forums. What the hell is wrong with some of you.

I come here to get away from all the cry babies on the WoW forums and all I see are people crying over time frames of announcements. Good god some of you are pathetic.

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some of us are getting a little annoyed as to the way things are "forgotten" If you don't like what I say, put me on ignore.

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Live Publish--December 17th 8:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST
This outage is to grant Holiday gift from NCsoft to all City of Heroes active subscribers of Freespec and Tailor Token.

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Wasn't the freespec to happen AFTER the 21st?

<a href="/showflat.php?Number=12723565" target="_blank">Official post</a>:
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Right now, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility is live on all servers. There are lots of new things to do and try out, so get out there and explore the new Day Jobs, Pact Leveling, Shield and Pain Domination powersets, and more! We’ve made a ton of changes to powers, so a Free Respec has been granted to all characters. I know we didn’t give much notice on this Freespec, so to make up for that, and in the spirit of the season, another free respec will be given out before the end of December. Remember, these don’t stack, so if you want to take advantage of both, you need to use the one you have currently before we issue the next one sometime after Dec. 21st.

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Last line.

Again, we get (less than) two days notice of a change in the granting of respecs. Can you please tell whoever is throwing darts at the calendar that they need to pay a tiny bit of attention to previous announcements?

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Seriously, this is getting a little old. Also, how about making these announcements like in the AM instead of 5 minutes to 9 when east coasters are playing and not reading the forums. I just see this now, not even on the front page anymore, the only reason I found out was because there was a patch so I came looking for patch notes. Had this been posted at a reasonable time yesterday, I could have done my respecs last night.