Nethergoat

Because it stacks?

If rep was still a useful feature, I've +rep'ed this post with a supportive comment.

Since it isn't, I have to compliment you in public.

LOL sam!

so "more flexibility" = "level cap button with max gear"?

If that's where you need to go to defend it your argument is even weaker than I thought.

What makes sense is not implementing a system that anyone who's ever spent more than five minutes on a forum knows will be "controversial" (read: thin skinned users will cry about), and that the documentation TELLS YOU OUTRIGHT will be problematic. Heck, they disabled giving players stars on the OLD forums...could that possibly have been a hint about how rep would play out?

As someone who admins a busy forum, I understand the behind-the-scenes work that goes into keeping paying customers in line. If you don't want the bother of maintaining a system, don't turn it on. Especially when it comes wrapped in yellow CAUTION tape with a big warning label on the latch.

Bad decisions, crummy logic and lazy behavior deserve approbation whatever corner of the community they emanate from.

When people post lame, poorly considered retread ideas that have been floating around the forums for years, they deserve to take heat for it.


Whatever the perceived benefits of merging servers from the POV of one player who's too lazy to find a team or take advantage of the existing system of server transfers, the effect on the game would be tragic.

Only failing games merge servers. Prospective gamers will not want to invest resources in a game that stinks of failure. Better for the game and its playerbase to preserve the status quo even if some servers present more of a teaming challenge.

What I think we'll eventually get is a 'one server' model, which will be hearalded by combined PvP zones. Pooling players in that way makes sense, because you can sell it as an advance in gameplay. Merging a couple of lower population servers, not so much.

Indeed.
It's so very onerous, having to do the job you're paid for.

A few? Sure.
Most? Nah.

Your friends using /hide to get away from you doesn't mean the rest of us need server merging.

If they're not interested, that's one thing.

But unlike other MMOs of my experience anyone who cares to can compose a l337 build in this game, however time-impacted they are. The market is admirably suited to generating vast wealth for a player who can only log in a few times a month.

As opposed to "runs crummy blue side release content>is alienated by slow leveling pace>finds game is lame>leaves"?

The mythical "end game" isn't the only content dead spot in this game.
The faster new players get past the junky low level hero content, the better the chances they'll stick around.

Leveling speed has nothing to do with "harder" or "easier", it has to do with pace.

I've been here a LONG time and I've heard endless lamenting about how leveling was too slow. The original design expected players to play 1 character to 50, so of course it was slow. You can see the vestiges of the whole "slow the player down" concept in the low level hero game.

But most players don't play that way, so slowing down progress with pointless busywork have fallen by the wayside.

Other people's painfully limited imaginations aren't my problem.

I don't know why.
It's measurably better than it ever has been by any reasonable metric, the discontent of the PvP'ers aside.

Not taking forever to hit 50 is a feature, not a bug.

the comments, linked to the post that generated the rep, gave the system context.

Absent context it is completely pointless.

Whine and ye shall receive!

so where can we see our comments?

because that's the only entertaining aspect of it.

If you think it's too fast, the tools are there to slow it down.
If you think it's too easy, the tools are there to increase the difficulty.

The more flexibility players are given, the better.

then what are you crying about?

if anyone wants to level slower, they know where the brake is.

this is the simplest and IMHO most likely solution.

especially as they've made a point of saying you can switch back and forth between factions however many times you like.

Spot on.

Blue side, I regularly sell stuff I may want/need at some point because I know it'll be around. If I'm crafty, I can sell it 'high' and with patience buy it back 'low' and turn a profit.

Red side, this is not the case.
The Goat has a handful of purples slotted that he got as drops. Blue side, I'd have sold them & bought them back later when I was ready for a respec. My villains are far more likely to craft-and-slot or stash 'the good stuff' in base storage for later than my heroes.

In a game based on playing superheroes?
Huh.

The game now gives us the flexibility to present a challenge to even the most min-maxed character.

I mean, I get that some folks just don't care about performance, and that's great. But the game is designed in such a way that that even 'extreme' builds are a realistic goal for nearly any player, and is flexible enough to challenge those builds with suitably difficult content.

I have a concept 'all natural' ninja blade/willpower stalker who gets around with swift + hurdle + set bonuses (he has 3 Gift of the Ancients +runspeeds slotted now, with more to come).
I'll add in CJ at some point for extra vertical (and another place to stick a GotA), but he gets around fine right now with only occasional use of his temp travel powers.

It's not something that would be appealing to me blue side, but I'm having fun with it in the smaller, busier villain zones.

Aren't you glad being wrong didn't cost you 2 billion play monies?

=)

This is the key.

As an experiment quite a while ago I ran a fresh villain to some preordained but low level- 12 or so. Sold all his salvage on the BM, then logged into Wentworth's and figured out what he *would* have made as a hero using an average of the last 5. The difference was in the neighborhood of 3-1 Wents over the BM. The 100k or so I got for my drops villain side would have netted me 300k hero side.

Obviously, things have changed since then & YMMV.
But it reinforces the point that going forward everyone would be on a level playing field.

Prior to whatever issue introduced the ITF I had a character that was flipping some arcane rare en masse. I got distracted and lost track of him, and by the time I logged back in his solid row of 10 stacked salvage had depreciated by some gigantic percentage.

And let's not even get started on the market apocalypse MA unleashed.

Since truth is an absolute defense against libel, I have no such compunctions.

He's also an underhanded, self-aggrandizing hack with a lot of bass-akward ideas about MMO design.

Anyone inclined to believe his PR spin about the company who basically kicked him to the curb, drop me a PM- I have some prime Nigerian investment opportunities I'd love to discuss with you!

/edit
Also, I wish I knew who added the tag Doom That Came to Paragon so I could +rep them.
Hilarious!