MaestroMavius

I fail to see the purpose in you calling anyone out Pacur. Why be that antagonizing? Besides that. I SPECIFICALLY recall him stating that the iTrials are trivial... Which of us is right and does it really add anything to the conversation?

If I wanted to engage in forum PvP I'd say prove it, link to his complaining about it being too hard. But I'd prefer if everyone could avoid this sort of pointless one upmanship...

No detailed information yet. Just a teaser pic of one of the auras.

I plan on remaking my Bots/Storm into a Bots/Time though!!

This happened to me on my throw away alt I made for the Freedom invasion event back on the 27th.

Half way through the night my screen flashed white with the amount of powers being thrown. Next thing I knew I had nothing in my trays. All my powers were greyed out as well and unclickable.

I was still flying though as I had been when it glitched. I have fly bound to my mouse button and clicking it did nothing. I was stuck flying.

I zoned to Atlas but it didn't revert. So then I just proceeded to fly around zones watching the mayhem and trying frantically to spot a Dev.

I haven't logged back in since then though so I can't say if it fixed after logging. Was one of the more... Unusual bugs I've experienced.

For all intensive purposes, my very 1st creation and namesake has always been an Incarnate.

The name Maestro has no connection to music, rather it stands for Master without trying to sound condescending. In short. He is a human that was able to utilize 100% of his mind and subsequently force his own evolution to a higher state. Upon doing so he was raised to another level of reality or higher consciousness. He then decided to return to our realm to save as many souls from The Coming Storm as possible through enlightenment.

Since he is by default a Master of our reality he can technically break the world. He can alter reality anyway he see's fit. However, his morality prevents him from abusing this power. Instead the most 'bending' he does is in the form of materializing costumes or music or various other small time tricks.

He is represented in game as an Energy/Energy blaster. I've never really bothered to RP with him that seriously though. His blasts are simply his power of choice, since he can use any power he wants this is what works best. Allowing him to knockout opponents without serious harm, he can't die so instead TP's to hosp to regroup etc. etc.

So, when I 1st heard about Incarnates I figured he'd be a natural to take down that path. Then I realized, he already was one. In essence his character could use the Judgement powers if he truly wanted without ever touching the well since he is beyond this reality. Mavius has never had a reason to use more power than his blasts or fists and I see no reason to change that now.

An Incarnate to me has more to do with the story than the power. True when you think of a demigod you picture immense levels of power but it could just as easily be someone with immense levels of intellect etc. The reason they have that power is more important. Born that way, trained, enraged, touched by a mystic power. This is more important than being able to punch the Earth into pieces as I feel non Incarnates can reach that level of power. Superman for instance. I don't classify him as an Incarnate.

When I first learned of your tourney all those months ago it made me cringe...

Reading how much fun you get from it makes me smile!


Still, I'm really really hoping you can reach 50th level this time around! IF that happens be sure to announce it here before hand so we can throw you a party.

Forget that. What on Earth is with her face???

I'm afraid it's not that cut and dry Tony...

To wit:
You love playing COH, doesn't matter what your doing you just love playing. Then one day the Dev's release a new issue that forces you to hear Hansen's MmmBop NONSTOP while you play. You can't mute it either, if the sound isn't coming through your speakers the game shuts off.

Now how many weeks would you continue to enjoy playing? How many days of that could you take? Probably not much. Very quickly the game would go from being enjoyable to 'why bother torturing myself'

Now this is an extreme example to be sure but it takes extremes to get the point across sometimes.

For some players, iTrials represent a seachange in the direction of this game. For some players the fact that they now have no choice but farm the hell out of a handful of trials is as annoying as my example. Literally.

Just saying 'Suck it up' because you have to do Y to get X is a disservice at best. While true in concept it slyly dodges the real issue at hand. Should we remain loyal or cut our losses?
That's the main question bringing us these threads daily.

I'm saying all this from the perspective of someone who doesn't play 50's and could care less about Endgame. Never have, never will. However, I keep playing because of Alts. It was really easy for me to decide not to bother with the iTrials once I realized the only place I'd really need those abilities is on more trials. However, they then decided to start locking interesting new tech (path auras) behind this system in an effort to get more players grinding.

This is having the opposite effect though. As the ones that are okay running trials would have kept doing them without the added perks while the players those perks where designed for feel slighted.

It doesn't matter if it's right to feel that way. All that matters is that paying customers are feeling punished.

This issue isn't going to go away before Freedom hits. IF we do get an influx of new players then perhaps it will become muted for a few months. Eventually though we'll have a second round of these threads when all the new blood gets to 50.

So you saying "Deal with it" expecting that to be the magic answer is akin to forcing you to listen to Spice girls at full volume while playing, sure you can deal with it, but how long will you?

This isn't about entitlement or wanting stuff for free. In the end it boils down to fun. If players aren't having fun they'll come here to find out if they can ever expect to start having fun again. If the only answers they get from us boil down to 'Suck it up' or 'You don't have to be an Incarnate' they won't become ViP's.

Which in the end is what we all want. So to that end I say this. Players are going to continue to bring this up. Cluttering up the threads with pointing out how stupid they are only serves to keep the subject fresh.

From now on if you (plural for anyone bothered by this topic) see one of these types of posts, move on. Don't bother to make your case. Because it's all been said before by both sides. Let the thread die quickly. They'll get a handful of posters agreeing with them and then it will vanish from the front page since it's not a constant back and forth PvP match.

Really? Were you not here for the oh so serious Carp Armor requests?

The longer we can prevent our game from turning into yet another 'Race to the cap' type MMO the better.

Now, I'm all for them adding PP or something just as enticing to some of the content ingame that gets ignored. Perhaps 100 PP when you take down a GM. On a month long timer per account, to prevent farming PP.

This way GM teams would become common again. Or something similar for long abandoned TF's and things like Terra Volta etc. etc.

Maybe a small PP reward for gaining the particularly timesink badges ala Overseers and the like.

Has an early days of FreddieW feel to them. That's a plus by the way!
If your going for realism the only thing I'd look at would be the energy effects. They seem a bit to... crayola colored. Otherwise Bravo! Looking forward to more tryouts.

Zwill, I say this with utmost sincerity. Ask some longtime PS employees what the significance of this statement is if you need clarification...

You have just surpassed CuppaJo as my all-time favorite Communtiy rep!!!

One thing I suggest is something that's long been 'off the table' from the Dev's point of view. Seeing as F2P was off the table at that time I feel it's appropriate to reintroduce the prospect.

NPC costume parts!

The helmet from Carnival of Shadows Strongmen? 150 PP please!
Always wanted the Councils jacket? 150 PP please!
Now you too can look like a Goldbricker, only 400 PP for the whole set minus working jetpack.

Excluding the signature NPC pieces and items with major clipping issues such as dresses of course.

Wow! That Rocks

Must've made your forum viewing afterwards... interesting to say the least.

Hehe...


I've been playing for 7 years and have bought a total of 3 Lotg. 2 of them with A-merits. I've been in possesion of (1) one purple and that netted me my largest payday at close to 200 million! Can't recall what it was...

I also only have 3 50's and severe altitis with little interest in endgame but there ya go.

I do feel like this is one of the largest untapped markets going into Freedom. The overwhelming majority of those that left over PvP did so because it became overly complex and just plain boring.

I expect more than a few of the new players we attract will be highly interested in PvP and having little to no knowledge of the bemoaned system we have, will be quite turned off upon trying it. Thus being less likely to become a ViP.

However, from the sounds of the PvP bootcamp participation. It'll probably be more of a 'just adapt' strategy with the current system never changing, only our opinion of it once PvP starts hopping again with players that never knew how it was 'before'.