Lothic

Well if a guy wants to have fun with the fembots they are going to have to make sure the impotence cures still work. But since the fembots could easily be programmed to like balding men I'd agree that line of research is probably not going to be necessary in the long run.

Yep I'll agree it's a nice feature with a misleading name.

Heck as a case in point there was a time (and perhaps they still want to believe this to some degree) when the Devs assumed that players would only use travel powers while traveling in "non-combat" situations. They fully expected and intended for people to always turn off their travel powers while in combat. This is why powers like Fly used to have -ACC penalties and large END costs because they seriously wanted to "encourage" people not to use them while fighting. Even now the main purpose of Travel Suppression today is their last ditch effort to try to make fighting with travel powers on just annoying enough to make us not want to do it.

This was a clear example of the Devs trying to shoehorn a play style over top of their players' general desires. *shrugs*

Because it honestly would make more sense to be able to buy it than the way it currently "works" which is almost the very definition of insanity. There should be absolutely nothing awardable in a MMO that hinges on whether or not another human (in this case a Dev) arbitrarily wants to give it to you or not. Put it this way: what if we had to get permission from a human Dev to be able to level a character from level 49 to 50?

Heck I'd probably give them $10 or $20 bucks for it. As a business if Paragon Studios doesn't want me to throw free money at them for something dumb like that that's their problem, not mine. *shrugs*

As silly as this idea sounds at least it would be more deterministic than a badge who's only criteria to earn is "a whim of a Dev".

Well we could quibble over the exact sub-version number, but I can at least accept that you understood the basic idea I was going for.

Actually comparing today's CoH to April 2004's CoH I'd say we're currently playing CoH version 1.98 now. The Devs have done a remarkable job pushing the limits of what this 10+ year old (counting pre-launch development time) game system can do. But I think to believe that this game can continue much past another few years without major overhauls is betting against reasonable reality.

Eventually either someone will create an -actual- CoH 2.0 or this game will come to an end without a path forward.

I thought everyone knew that if you had a complete collection of all these base salvages on your character that all the nerfs this game has ever imposed on you would suddenly be removed.

That's cool. I didn't even bother to check the "coming soon" sections of my local theaters because I didn't think that it'd could go national in just a couple of days.

With 20/20 hindsight I can certainly agree that the Devs could have handled the situation better at the time.

ED was a bitter pill to swallow regardless. Even though I can now accept that it was ultimately good for the game in terms of overall balance it wasn't really sold that way to the playerbase. Perhaps if the Devs had better explained what they were trying to accomplish the transition would not have been so traumatic. Lessons learned and water under the bridge I suppose...

I don't know too much about Thor, the comic book character, but one would think that he ought to be speaking some kind of "ancient Norse/Germanic" dialect. Even if he knew modern English he'd likely speak it with a heavy accent the way a non-native speaker would. I suppose the comic book just glossed over that detail the same way Star Trek pretty let every alien automatically speak perfect English.

I replied to the suggestion in just about the only way that was useful. *shrugs*

My point (which I now realize you probably didn't pick up on presuming from your forum join date that you are relatively new to the game) was that people have been suggesting various ideas like yours to improve PVP in this game for years. Many years. Long before the specific game you're referring to was even a glint in its Lead Devs' eye from a galaxy far, far away.

I realize that you did not demand that you wanted X, Y or Z by such-in-such date. But the very nature of your hopeful suggestions implied that you might be happy even if it took what seemed like a "reasonable" amount of time to create. Problem is things basically have not fundamentally improved with this game's PvP for years. The overall concept of PvP in this game has become a very low priority sideline and probably will always be from now on.

When CoV was first introduced as a "standalone expansion" back in October 2005 one of the main concepts behind it was the SG base raiding PVP system. It was clearly going to be the cornerstone of the original "end-game" vision long before the Incarnate system even existed. Unfortunately the feature never really worked - too much server lag made the whole thing a craptastic disaster. It literally only managed to stay in the live build of the game for a few weeks in total before it was permanently pulled back out. In fact I think it'd be easy to nominate the failure of the SG base raiding system as the single most embarrassing and costly development misstep this game has ever suffered through.

Since then the support for the entire PvP system in this game has faltered and been effectively deprioritized by the Devs. The Arena system (and the related Gladiator feature) quickly faded away unused by a majority of the playerbase. Even the population of the open zone PVPers (in Bloody Bay, Sirens Call and Recluse Victory) has diminished to a handful of diehards.

As I said before I'm not against PVP improvements for this game. I simply counter-suggested not get your hopes up about this. This game has been leaning strongly towards the PvE side of things for years and if the Devs aren't willing to "fix" even the basic PvP problems (as you put it) how likely do you think it would be for them to want to try another ambitious stab at new PvP features (along the lines of your suggestions) after the humiliating and costly failure of SG base raiding system?

Let's just say I don't really need to "stomp" all over your suggestion - it appears the Devs have already beat me to it.

I loved Robinson's portrayal of Elim Garak in DS9. In many ways he made that series worthwhile to watch all by himself. But I'm pretty sure if it wasn't for stories like this one the folks who worked on DS9 wouldn't have had a good model to follow when they created Garak in the first place.

As an actor Oldman has a pretty amazing ability to span a wide range of "types" of characters. I have little doubt that he'll pull off this role quite acceptably. Unfortunately since the closest theater to me playing this right now is an 8 hour drive to another state I'm probably going to have to wait a bit before I get to see it myself. You'd think there'd be a least one theater in all of Florida that would be cool enough to a rate a movie like this.

All I know is that even if their ToHit buffs are allowing them to supposedly "cheat and grief" then I must be getting old because I never really noticed it. I've thrown several different AT/powersets at them with characters of various levels and I still killed them pretty much as fast as anything else. *shrugs*

This thread sounds once again like the classic "My Scrapper is suddenly facing one of the very few things I can't kill in 0.002 seconds" syndrome. It's funny how players who are used to instantly mowing down 99.9% of their opponents get when they stumble over something that actually challenges them.