MajorPrankster

So if someone shows a you a build that will never run out of endurance, that is not sufficient to you? You have been shown builds that can do that, I have seen them in the same threads.

Do you even read what you type, Ultimo_?

Wow.

This is why people that don't know anything about how networking, computers and technology in general should never be allowed to make laws about or design things having to do with technology.

OP, just give up on this one, you have NO idea what you are talking about here.

The OP is not interested in balance, only his idea of how the game should function, which, from numerous posts and heated arguments, is not what the majority of the posters here want, nor, it seems what the developers want.

No amount of reasonable or unreasonable discussion has ever gotten through to the OP about the fact his expectations of the game are the problem, not the game.

Sad really.

I cannot recall anything I have seen you post being positive toward the game, thus my post. It's not just this particular thing with you from where I sit.

Perhaps you love to hate it?

I am simply bored with people who don't seem to like anything about the game but never stop playing it.

I am so very glad my brain chemistry allows me to have fun.

Sorry about yours...

HA!

I think it's "chump change" and I am well aware of how the world works.

I was raised dirt poor..electricity and water got cut off regularly, I ate food given to my family by charity, etc.

You know what? Sometimes you can afford things and sometimes you cannot. THAT is understanding reality.

Just because it is out of your price range does NOT mean it is overpriced.

Being poor SUCKS. It does not, however, mean that people who are not poor should not enjoy what they are fortunate to have financially or that they do not understand the real world. It just means that they are lucky enough to not be poor.

Yup. Sadly, I have to hire and fire these entitled brats.

Sure you should provide feedback. Just don't expect those of us without entitlement issues and irrational logic to agree or let those opinions slide without comment.

Honestly, in the end, the final straw for me to leave this game, if it happens before they turn off the servers, will be knowing I might accidentally team with one of the entitled masses and help them level. The idea of that alone makes me leery to except team invites already.

I sure hope so.

Perhaps he will take some of the rest of the entitled with him, but that's really dreaming...

Nothing like mining/farming would be of interest to me personally.

I was mainly responding to the idea that these things could be done within the genre.

I don't think it adds much to gameplay either.

Hypocritical patronizing much?

I doubt you can even see it; you have obviously shown that you think you 'know better' than the Devs.

What MMO have you built?

To the specific point here, like for any business, it's all ROI. I have yet to see anyone come close to proving a positive ROI on allowing multiples of the same name on the same server. I have always wanted same names to not even be allowed on other servers, so obviously there are a number of points of view at work here.

Can it done? Certainly. Would it take a terribly large amount of coding? I doubt it. Would it be good for the revenue generated by the game? That's the real question now, isn't it?

Players need to be emotionally invested in their characters to remain loyal. While there are a number of factors to the emotional investment, name and look are two of the most compelling. Trivializing the name component (obviously someone can already copy your look) would, IMO, lower the emotional investment many players have. That points directly to continued subscriptions and thus revenue.

I see nothing but negative ROI. If the Devs see positive ROI, then I am sure they will make the change.

If we get cross server teaming, then obviously some change will have to be made. I have seen server merges in other games us the ideas posted here; simply use the 'of ServerName' moniker. While I don't personally even like that, at least you are the 'real' thing from your 'alternate universe'.

Dude, make up your mind. You were/are on at least one Devs ignore list already for calling them stupid from what I have read on the boards.

Or are you not the 'real' Johnny Butane?

My reply to you is lrn2live. You want hard? Get out in the real world and find something to challenge you. The rest of us will be relaxing with a fun pastime taking a break from challenging lives.

You want a hard? Take up chess and let us know when you hold some international titles. Or perhaps the stock market and shower us all with your billions because you beat everyone at 'the game'.

It's a text book definition of insanity to think you are the only one that is right.

Thanks, that make perfect sense based upon what I am seeing.

Would anyone mind watching a grown man cry now? I hate me some jaggies...

I play melee characters that have KB themselves.

I play melee characters that have team mates that KB.

I have never, ever in any way, shape or form, felt neutered because of this.

Nor I am an idiot with my KB. Of course it's rude to KB some targets, depending upon the situation. Duh!

If you get this worked up over KB, then you might want to consider the decaff.

OK.

Your opinion is that these things need to happen, and that, as an opinion, is quite valid.

There are, apparently, several thousand paying customers that simply do not share that opinion, proven through the data mining talked about here as well as the personal comments.

I have been here pretty much from the start like many of the other posters and I am not board with the game, even after a dozen or so 50's and who knows how many other characters at this point. All of my RL friends that play the game are not board with it either, the ones that have been here form the start as well as the new ones.

It seems obvious by your remarks on tactics as well, that you desire a different game. City is what it is. There are thousands of us that like it the way it is. I have a very, very stressful, mentally challenging job. The last thing I want to do with my free time is have to come up with and follow a complex strategy in my video game world. I just want to kill lots of pixels and laugh with my friends as we send the bad guys flying off of buildings on fire.. I know I am not alone in this.

With other MMOs, the things that you think need to occur as well as more complex combat strategy can be found and that's where you can find them. Plenty of us, hopefully enough to keep the game going, love the way it works here now; love that the game does NOT start at 50 and love getting 'more of the same'.

As an addendum, that 'other' MMO just released statistics stating that less than 30% of the players every get past level 10. Even there, 'endgame' is not the only game.