Memphis_Bill

Luring into the hallway no longer works. You must play as the devs decree and stop trying to solve problems. (Can't tell I'm still not fond of that decision, can you?)

That said, I'm somewhat surprised you had problems - soloed him the other day on a Grav/Kin controller running SOs (except for one power, Wormhole.) Admittedly the pet helps keep holds and such spammed on Trappy.

Consider who's posting and his history.

That said, there's no reason - given the hydra types were hauled in by the Rikti - why a trial around the same theme wouldn't be introduceable villainside.

/This.

Heck, I've unlocked the incarnate (I solo mine, yes, including new trapdoor the other day on a Grav/Kin) on mostly - or completely - SO'd out characters.

It's fine at low levels. At 40+, it makes the process much longer than it needs to be.

"..... ooooh, I've lost count."

Some on Virtue can be ((a little anal)) about ((doing things just right)) and ((wearing out your keyboard's parenthesis.)) Most won't care. And RP is not unique to virtue.

How to RP correctly:
1. Respect others - if they're not comfortable with the way something is going, change direction.
2. Have fun.

Yes, I do.
Because I PVP. Might notice this guide down in my sig, meant to try to get more people who PVE into looking at PVP. I do have a vested interest in PVP - but which would you rather see:

"There's a thriving PVP community, PVP is fun, and this little booster pack might help me a bit," or
"I'd spend $10 on that, but there's nobody ever in the zones or around the arena terminals, so why should I bother?"

PVP needs a(nother) overhaul, this one a bit better worked through. Castle and crew could have had their list of PVP changes and introduced them a bit at a time, seeing how each individual one works (or doesn't) and improved the PVP game as a whole, but instead we had *everything* dumped on us at once. The zones - where I tend to prefer to play, though I run through arena matches with friends on occasion - went from Siren's Call (primarily) and RV being busy to being dead zones. The last fight I had with anyone was around a month ago, and THAT was the first time I'd seen anyone else for months. (And I tend to server hop, so it's not just one server.)

That's a BIG disappointment to someone who cut their teeth on multi-team PVP in those zones from issue 6 onward.

And, frankly, there's even *more* now that would need to be changed - SSKing, especially in the *lower* zones, needs to be removed *from* PVP zones, IMHO. It's no good saying, for instance, that Bloody Bay is for 15-25 when you can have up to level 30 powers available (see: Masterminds with all 3 pet tiers,) or Siren's Call with primary Tier9s suddenly available (which was complained about when people were uisng an exploit, pre-SSK, to fire them off,) or Warburg with APP/PPPs.

There's just too much that needs to be done to make PVP "viable," for lack of a better term, once more - and that's not even touching on base raiding.

Basically, a suggestion for a booster pack for PVP is like looking at a rusted, non-starting car with oil leaking everywhere, broken windows and flat tires and saying "You know what? Some shiny valve covers and fuzzy dice in the mirror would be just what this needs!"

Valid reaction, though.

PVP booster pack? No. Even though you're restricting these to PVP, advantages shouldn't be bought in the NC store. Add to that a small PVP population (who likely have them anyway) - I'd rather see *any* PVP related work go to fixing the overall problems with it, not something a minority of a minority might buy.

Yeah. When Yahtzee has trouble finding something to complain about in a game, it's for a reason - I think it's happened, what, once? Twice? (Portal and maybe Bioshock, apart from light criticism of indie games?)

Right. After all, they've lasted seven plus years and... wait, no they haven't. Or are you looking at the original "ooh, new, shiny" population spike and labeling it "doooooom?"

Er... I think it's more along the lines of "We now have a third sort of "money" involved, with a third market, and isn't this getting just a bit too complicated? Merge 'em."

Hmm. Top 10 in no particular order:

Kheldians. Saw a Peacebringer emerge in Nova form in issue 3, and had to have one. Got it in issue 4. Been happy with mine since.

Defiance 2.0. No more silly "Just come close to dying and you get a buff! Really! Tell anyone healing people not to touch you!"

Domination 2.0. They wanted to get rid of the "ups and downs," and did.

Croatoa. OK, there are some issues with "neighborhood hunts," and Sally was on a ridiculously long timer at first (bugged, of course,) but it's the first time we really had mobs actually fighting each other *and doing damage* as opposed to just shadowboxing.

Faultline revamp. Finally, what was an unused zone (save for a hunt or two,) especially when people didn't bother street sweeping, got a massive facelift. Plus arcs. Plus we were allowed behind the dam, which was... well, rare beforehand. (Unfortunately, it also seems to have skewed the sense of some devs who point to it and all the work to adjust the zone when they're asked about putting content in, say, the Shard or DA - zones that don't need anywhere near as much work, just *content.*)

RWZ - as opposed to it just being the empty RCS. For once, we could have Hero-Villain teams running arcs year round, and raid something other than the Hamidon! Though I think it helped skew dev attitudes toward the amount of work to bring a dead zone to life. (I should've left some character in the RCS - I actually DID for a while.)

Inspirations and everything done with them. From dumping Strength of Will (well, except for Siren's) and the... other thing and combining them into a non-confusing Breakfree, to being able to combine them, to getting them dropped on you when you level, they've done some nice things with these little wonders.

Gleemail. Need I say more?

Trains and ferry improvements. From not having to go zone by zone to combining the lines, they've gotten more useful.

Social improvements - from global names to supergroups, upping global limits, gleemail again, they've done quite a bit to keep us finding each other, talking with each other, or ignoring each other when needed.

He's talking about making a site.

Maybe, perhaps, "Which of these categories fit your groups? PVP, casual, RP, farm, scheduled TF" and the like? I know, crazy thought.

...

So, if I - someone looking for a supergroup, hearing about this resource and wanting to find one that fits what I'm interested in - look for a group, I shouldn't be able to filter them out?

Yeah. That makes lots of sense.

Strike a nerve, did I? Only reason I can think of for you to start protesting about things I didn't even say. Do show where I said someone "gamed the system" or "Cheated." My entire statement regarding prestige was that it was *utterly meaningless* as far as a ranking. It tells you nothing about the group. If I'm looking for a group with, say, weekly PVP matches, having 10238057129381209 Prestige doesn't tell me anything. Nor does having 9827349082 prestige tell me how it is regarding RP.

Where you're getting all this other stuff from, I have no idea, nor do I particularly *care* to know.

Basically, there's nothing worthwhile to "rank" SGs by - most notably prestige, but definable filters like I mentioned WOULD be a useful tool.

And I wouldn't. Ranking by prestige means nothing. It could be a lousy SG with a few dedicated farmers and a high churn of members.

I'd say make a few ranking categories (and filters,) so if I went there looking for an SG, I could filter out, say, dedicated PVP groups, or RP-heavy groups, or "uniform required" type requirements as well as the obvious ones like "by filter."

Sending the devs and NC web folks a big cake at the one year anniversary of the "Keep being logged out..." thread?

It's irritating. I've got a few DP characters I'd *like* to play more often, but watching all the flip-twirl-spin-pirouette ... I keep wanting to go "Just SHOOT the guy already!"

Tends to stay in view for me. Not like we don't have some nice, base animations from MM Thugs pistols and the pistol temp power.

And there we have an example of "How not to win friends or influence people."

As for the OP:

I wouldn't hold my breath as far as bringing back base raids or IoPs. Base raids pretty much require a decent population with an interest in PVP, and PVP itself being *fixed.* The former hasn't ever been big in this game, unfortunately, and much *less* interest seems to be here now. The latter... well, I think it's somewhere on the Devs list below "Scrub toilets with tongue."

As for the rest? Quite a bit that's been asked for repeatedly. As well as just a flat-out new editor with things like "holding areas," shared walls (I really *don't* need a hallway between two rooms, thanks) and the like.

I've gotten rather pessimistic about ever seeing improvements to bases/the editor, but that doesn't mean I don't *want* to, or that it isn't needed. Maybe if it can be tied into the endgame fetish the devs are under at the moment...

... couple of years back, halloween event. Something/Rad Corruptor joined our GM hunting team.

Any toggles? Nope. No debuffs at all. HA, AM, the rez and the medicine pool, as I recall. At 35. It made me very sad to see.