Lycantropus

Okay, THIS, is officially awesome!

Congratulations! Amygdala is a great trial leader. Every one Amy's led that I've been in have been successes

I like those ideas and have mentioned similiar in the past. Have you ever been in the Hollows and found the "stranded citizen"? Sometimes when you approach them, they thank you for the help, other times they trigger an ambush and call you a sucker.

I have also suggested the random spawning street contact. A citizen that calls out for help when you approach, and can be talked to like a regular contact, and they give you the equivalent of a tip mission. Someone stole their wallet, research papers, artifact, purse, whatever, or they saw some crime being commited... anyway, the bad guys ran into that building right over there!! (I even made a quick AE mission called "My Wallet!" as an example).

Or the long discussed "cat in a tree" make it a zone blinky with a little girl standing next to it crying about her cat. You click on it and she thanks you for the help and runs off.

Conversely the villains need mugging victims (and undercover agents who look like mugging victims), vandilization blinkies (puts a pre-set font of their name on a wall that lasts a while), random destrucable zone items- like in mayhems but just randomly in-zone, and of course most of your suggestions can apply to either side.

I think a lot of those can be done currently, maybe not as flamboyantly, but I think they're very possible. Instead of being dropped off in a chopper like you suggest, they come down from ropes like the Mercenaries MM's do, and such. I'd rather see them build more into this game than even think of a CoH2, and I think all of those are very possible.

As someone who has never been a hardcore, or even regular, PvP'er, I really wanted to like PvP. I would love to see an environment where the people who put a lot of time and effort into their builds were rewarded for it, while not completely putting out the less experienced/built (thereby dissuading any casual player from trying). I also agree that FREEDOM would be a great time to get into that- in fact- I think it should be a priority.

The folks who love this game are already here, or will return as Premium players. I think a lot of the Free to Play folks will be here to toy with it off and on, but I honestly think most of the folks that will bite at the F2P model will be doing it for the PvP.

As a non-casual(ish) and consistent player of more than 6 years, who has partaken of just about every element of this game, a total n00b at PvP, and about as middle of the road one can get to most of the things argued about on these boards, I think taking some time to work on PvP for FREEDOM would be desirable.

I have seen over the years a lot of threads, and I remember seeing some of the suggestions that would really get me interested.

Things like:

Removing Heal Decay and Tavel Supression (and some of the other nit-picky stuff).

Removing Rooting (slower speeds shouldn't mean less dynamic- that's the key!!!)

Goals other than just beating the crud out of each other (Capture the Flag style bank robberies and hostage situations, timed destruction derbys- where one side tries to destroy an area while the other stops them, etc)

Reward Drop chances if you defeat a foe, or if you get defeated. Each on a short timer to prevent exploit.

Remove the chance of Debt in PvP zones! Even for a lot of level 50 players, the thought of debt is frustrating and turns them off to PvP completely. Having NPC's in zone is good for tactical situations, but If that means NPC's offer no rewards for defeat if there's no debt, so be it. Shouldn't be in the zone to street sweep anyway... The rewards should lay in the PvP. Here's an idea, let defeats of NPC's give nothing but inspirations (good way to gather them so you don't have to leave the zone)

Those are the top sellers in my book, though with the removal of travel supression and rooting, I would place a strict hard cap on movement speeds. Allow teleport, but with a super-limited range. The thing that discouraged me about PvP was the 'invisible jumping bean' syndrome. Everyone SS/SJ/Stealth Spike Damage groups. Never considered that fun, even though that was the 'heyday' of PvP some would say. I liken that back to when folks would wait at the door while Tanks would herd the map (Yes it was fun if you were the Tank- I did it from time to time- but not much fun for the rest of the group).

PvP needs to be fun and dynamic (dynamic being the big word of the day) especially in a Super Hero/Villain game. The few times I went toe-to-toe with a player, or group of players that wasn't bouncing all over the place, I had a blast! I really think PvP can be awesome in this game, and it deserves to be.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. I have the feeling the new store will make things like that (and the Prestige Power Slide, DVD edition Cape, and CoV special edition cape) available again. I would be really surprised if it didn't.

On the other hand, I would be surprised if they were cheap to get with the points, but I wouldn't be surprised if things like that get added. If not to start, at some point.

Based out of the Rogue Isles, or the Praetorian eqivalent, geographically speaking?

First of all, they're based on a series of islands, and after reading the description of the new zone one of the areas is called Mercyview. Provost Marchland is a proud part of Emperor Cole's order, as opposed to being overthrown by Recluse in Primal Earth. Why would he play such a pivitol role unless he was holding down the fort on the Isles, more out of reach of Hamidon than a landlocked area would be?

There's no real mention of where Shroud City was located (Tyrant's hometown). Even if it was their equvalent of Paragon, it doesn't have to be in Rhode Island. In fact, it's very possible that like Primal Earth's Paragon City, RI., which is nothing here, but is a major center of trade and commerce there, the Rogue Isles in Primal Earth could have a very different face and history.

I've been trying to pin down where it would be located geographically in my mind for some time now, and I keep coming back to this possibility. I think it would be neat if I were right.

EDIT: Yes, I'm aware that most of the area's surrounded by forest past the water, but with Hamidon having the ammount of power he does, it's likely he's reshaping the land as he's spreading across it, making the world a huge jungle... just a thought...

I'm almost on the other side of the spectrum and agree with the original idea of the OP, if for any other reason, just because of the original runs of "Spider Girl".

That was a great series. May "Mayday" Parker, daughter of Peter and Mary Jane, was a really fitting continuation of the history and scope of the character of Spider-Man/Spider- Girl.

Peter had his 'happy ending' so there was resolution there. Now it was about his daughter, which was almost the same kid but with updated 'issues' (not in terms of comics, natch) and problems. We need that. That was the thing that hurt me most about 'One More Day'. I identified with Spidey as a kid, not for all the same reasons but because I was a kid. I grew up and eventually found the love of my life. Just like Peter, and that was a part of my adult life. It wasn't someone I expected either, but made me better from the experience... Just like Peter.

I won't get into how OMD messed up my view of the story, but I liked and bought two copies of the Spider-Girl series to express my feelings about it even before it became a 'thing'. One copy was for my teenage daughter who started to be interested in the Spider-Girl series.

Our heroes need to be rewarded and find our 'happily ever after', of a sort. New generations need to be born and experience the same things, because that's how it works. Trying to re-create the past only ignores growth, which is what makes them more than icons, it makes them fully-fleshed characters.

As long as the ones who come next follow the same ideals and paths, albeit a little differently, we'll keep reading, and so will the next generation.

That's my 2 cents, anyway.

Lyc, the 'look back on it' werewolf

I LOVE the change. I play buffers more often than not when I make Defenders or Corrupters. It allows me to get into the fight without having to focus on support for my teammates since I do it before and after, keeping me constantly doing something. This change makes that even easier.

It also doesn't hurt that I just got a new mouse with a couple extra buttons I've can attach my buff powers to

Already got those fixed on my Grav/Cold Controller, FF/Ice Defender, and when I pull them next my Sonic/Sonic Defender and my Demon/Therm MM (which I'm really looking forward to the increased performance on)...

OH! And Speed boost on my Ele/Kin Controller and my Kin/Assault Rifle Corrupter and my Stone/Kin Controller...

Yeah, I'm enjoying the change a lot

Thank you for starting a thread with the intent of being rational all around Though doomcrying like this, and the inevitable trollbaiting, seems to be par around here when something new happens.

I'm one of those ornery fence-sitters when it comes to stuff like this. I like the trials too, to a point. However I don't have near as much online time as I would like, and they can take a long time to organize and get folks for, much less doing them. The former can take almost as much time, if not more, than the latter. Granted once you get a good league going it doesn't take nearly as long but by the time that happens I've only run one or two trials and have to log. That or I'm running with my SG mates, who are long since sick of the trials even before some of them have unlocked all the powers. I'm not going to ditch out on my friends just to progress my character.

Which brings me around to my point.

The biggest complaint I've seen that I empathize with is that these trials are the only way to (reasonably) get a lot of the neat stuff unlocked. Not even game-enhancing stuff, the 'shinies'. I had enough of the merits saved up to unlock everything but the Emperian Incarnate armor and the costume change emotes. I honestly would have liked to spent those merits on actually finishing up my main hero and villain's (the only ones I have done trials with at this point) Incarnate stuff. However, I wanted the costume stuff more sooo...

I don't think anyone wishes the trials removed from the game. If they do, that's unreasonable. I just think folks want more options to reasonably gain similar rewards through some kind of solo/small team route as well. I know I'd really like them. I would like to build on my character's incarnate abilities even when I don't have the time to get into and do trials as well, which is more often than not.

I would have to say, finally!!!

I've wanted to see comic panels for our loadscreens since I started playing. I mentioned it forever ago and have thought about bringing it up again for some time. I wasn't even looking for anything relevant, something like a "meanwhile..." text box with some kind of combat between generic heroes and Skulls, or Freakshow, or whatever group's in level range, with occasional appearances from the Phalanx scattered in between.

I really look forward to checking it out, and hope to see more things like this to pay homage to it's comic-book roots.


Sigh... I miss getting my monthly City of Heroes comic