Lemur Lad

Something I'd like to see as an option when Freedom hits, is a change to the Refer a Friend/Reactivation system.

Instead of just an additional month subscription time (and presumably the Paragon Points that come with it), I would like to see the option to take your bonus as purely Paragon Points (800?).

The extra month is nice, but as a 6month at a shot subscriber, I think under the new system I'd get more incentive from some extra points now, as opposed to the points I'd be getting anyway and a free month somewhere down the line.

Basically, more freedom in Freedom please.

Welcome back!

Welcome back to the folks recently returned!

Not a true comedy, but an action/drama/comedy I'd recommend is Burn Notice.

It has a lot of snappy dialogue, doesn't take itself too seriously, and really solid comedic moments. And of course, Bruce Campbell.

Great news.

Actually it goes in Suggestions and Ideas. Development is for specific bugs or feedback on things they're working to add already.

I'd also like to be able to flag mobs in ambushes as Unique. For example at one point I wanted to make a villainous mission where while they were destroying objects they were attacked by a Hero "team" trying to stop them. Problem was I could never get the game to spawn 1 of each member, regardless of team size.

I was gonna write a couple paragraphs explaining my use of the word broken and why I think it's valid. But really we're in violent agreement about what needs to be done in those zones and it's just a quibble over semantics.

Happy anniversary.

Interesting thought. You ought to account for the fact that anyone who runs the Mortimer Kal Strike Force is effectively an Agent of Prometheus though.

Well they've said for years that when revamping an old zone it's like starting from scratch most of the time. I'm not sure why that's terribly surprising. Even so I've never wanted them to revamp old zones because I thought it would be easy, but because I felt they were going to waste in their current broken state. Boomtown, the Shards, and Astoria need help, even if it does mean starting from scratch.

Interesting version of history but not particularly accurate in it's language.

Let's try again.
After City of Villains was released, Cryptic slashed the dev team for the entire game to less than 20 people, so the studio could focus on new projects and still technically meet their contract with NCSoft. The dev team made a conscious decision that the things they could do should be things that had the biggest impact for the most players, so neither side got much in the way of specific development. NCSoft saw it was a money maker for them and a game worth improving, so when the time came they bought out Cryptic and took over the dev team and made it much larger.

That's a severely trimmed version of events, but it's more accurate than the slanted synopsis you were given. Beware oversimplification, the full story is often a lot more complicated.

You really think an arbitrary number has more to tell you about the worth of what someone has to say than the things they say? Sad.

When I saw this list the other day and made my first reply, I knew there was a movie I was trying to think of that I couldn't believe wasn't on the list. Now that I've thought of it, I can't believe no one else mentioned it before me.

Mystery Men

And yeah, I know the inevitable "If you couldn't think of it it must not have been that good" is coming next. I don't care. My inability to think of it had more to do with sensory overload at thinking about all the movies that did make the list and trying to see what was actually good about them to warrant them being on the list.

You didn't learn anything except that people are still wrong about stuff. Your prior knowledge was correct. The person informing you was not.

What gets spawned in the mission is either the size of the team, or the mission owner's multiplier, whichever is greater.

Just so we're clear Sam, what you're asking for doesn't exist in any game going. No automatic teaming system I've seen or heard of covers all aspects of the game content.

As for socializing more on automatically generated teams, you may plan to do it more, but I can tell you as someone who has made a lot of use of these systems, it doesn't work that way for most people. You're meeting strangers. Over and over again. You haven't spent any time with them so you're focusing on not screwing up at the same time you're watching to see if they do. You don't have anything invested except the time you spent in the queue, and for most people that commodity becomes cheap if things go bad. In other words, if the least little thing goes wrong people bail instead of trying to stick things out and make them work. Usually they do it with a lot of not nice words for the person who screwed things up.

Yes there are other times you meet someone nice, but it matters less and less, because your chances of seeing them again are slim to none in the queue system. In the end quite a lot of people use the queuing system like a vending machine. They click it, wait for the delivery process to be over, and walk away with their points/loots/whatever. Encounters happen on automatic pilot, and no one gives any thought or time to the players there with them unless they queued up with people from their friendlist or guild.

Automatic teaming is not a silver bullet. It works in some games on a pretty limited basis, only because the structure of the teaming system is very rigid and the encounters are highly designed. Even then it leads to almost class warfare because certain classes get premium queue times because they are in demand, and others end up sitting around. That isn't as likely to happen here since by it's nature the teaming rules here can be loosened, however that opens another can of worms. How intelligent can a queuing system be made? Is there any way for it to know that certain encounters become very slow with 8 scrappers while others are unfairly easy? Can it be smart enough to spread buffers around pretty evenly without making people wait forever to get one, or giving them an unfair queue time advantage?

Your premise is this game should have one, then you extend it to all aspects of teaming, and call it a necessity. I only agree with one of those 3 points.

Thanks for the quibble correction, but I do know the difference between trademarks and copyrights. If it were something more important than a tossed off forum post I would have bothered being specific.

The rest of your correction is inaccurate in one important point. The GMs can take any reason they please. It's their game. And in practice, if a character name in CoH is the same as one from someone who appeared in a Marvel or DC comic, they're not going to let you keep it if they notice it. They err on the side of caution.