NightshadeLegree

I've never played a TA/AR - it seems so unintuitive, although apparently the drawbacks of the redraw are not as bad as is generally perceived.

Defenders in general I find lots of fun in the very low levels, but they feel like their damage doesn't keep pace with enemy hit points as they go up levels. I've struggled with Defs in the teens.

Lots of good suggestions but these would be the big two for me. Particularly the travel powers. Flight is just too fast and hard to control to be used on most indoor maps, so being able to take Hover would be great, and Teleport without Hover is twitchy and awkward.

I find it slightly hilarious that you were considerate enough to take the time to fix his post, then disagreed with everything he proposed.

Sums up the Suggestions forum in a nutshell - Help with one hand, /jranger with the other.

I keep rare salvage - drop it into a vault or (if I've got one set up) a SG storage rack. Once I've got the SG base up and running I'll also store a couple of racks of the common and uncommon as well, just for convenience, then dump any extra on the market next time I'm passing a BM or WW. Since I don't 'play' the market I don't spend a lot of time mulling over prices.

Why does this make me think of the giant glowing shoulderpads that seem synonymous with a certain other MMO's endgame?

I don't usually change my characters' costumes much once they've been created, so the usefulness of stuff like the Roman armour is kind of lost on me. Like after the first time Nightshade completed the ITF when I played around in the costume editor for a few minutes before thinking - this character has spent 50 levels of villainy in a black suit and shades...* why on earth would she ever want to dress up like an extra from Quo Vadis now?

*because casual clothes may or may not be heroic, but they can certainly be vllainous!

That's good to know

All kidding aside I didn't know the chiefs were floating contacts - I've usually fled the issue 0 levelling experience for the Hollows or Midnighters by that point. I suspect a lot of people do and that's one reason why there's so much PLing past the lowbie blueside game. Only one reason among several, of course.

Going back to the original suggestion - a tip style system would be interesting, but would it work any better than simply giving existing contacts some short story arcs? The AP/Galaxy contacts are okay - simplistic missions sure, but coherent and they sort of tell a story. It's really only when you hit Kings Row onward and dive into the maze of existing contacts that the flow gets lost in among street hunts, chats with the security chief and very few actual arcs at all.

No, I'm posting a screenshot of the mission I was talking about in the post you so hysterically quoted in your reply. You know... the reply with all the bold, all caps and personal insults? That's the mission that follows on immediately from the talk to the chief mission. The mission that's showing as lvl 9 when it's given to a level 12 character. You still haven't explained that.

But don't bother. I've pretty much had it with your condescending, ill informed paranoid ravings and thinly veiled accusations that I'm somehow making this all up. None of which changes the fact that a lot of old blueside content is aimless, colourless and directionless.

P.S. CoHTitanWiki shows Linda Summers as a 5-9 contact. You should really edit that, eh?

No, I was given that mission at level 12, like I said in my initial post.

Keep up with the patronising comments. It makes the next bit so much more enjoyable for me.

You've been in these forums for almost 6 years and you clearly haven't learned how to read a post. I was talking about the mission I got when I talked to the Security Chief.

And here it is here. Note: Level 9.

http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/a...2-21-25-13.jpg

Now, once you've finished reading the security chief's briefing text on (9) Keep the Peace in Boomtown, do me a favour...

Show me on the map of Steel Canyon where Primer or the Cannonade is.

I'll wait.

If the KR contact is level appropriate why is she giving a level (9) mission to a level 12 hero?

This tour of the Security Chiefs isn't a story arc. There's no open book icon beside her. Frankly I'm surprised she's still offering anything - being used to CoV, where once you exit a contact's level range you get no more missions unless you're already in the middle of a story arc.

And when I do talk to the Security Chief he gives me level (9) Keep the Peace in Boomtown.

That's a level 9 mission in a level 11+ Hazard Zone. I repeat: how does that make any kind of sense?

'You don't have to do it' is an argument that could be used to excuse every piece of bad content in the game. That doesn't change the fact that it is bad content. This is pretty much my point - blueside involves an awful lot of running around looking for a half decent mission or story arc in amongst a lot of go here, go there, go hunt filler. The fact that you can bypass it by doing mostly superior newer content doesn't excuse it from being old, out of date, and in severe need of reworking.

Correction accepted. It was probably the Kings Row Security Chief. However my point about sending players into Hazard Zones still stands.

I got that mission this morning. Here's the proof.

http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/a...2-12-32-51.jpg

I just noticed that this is apparently a level 9 mission. So a contact in a level 5-10 zone gives me, a level 12, a level 9 mission that sends me into a Hazard Zone that starts at level 11. How does that make any sense at all?

I do agree with you on Golden Roller - an arc that really doesn't go anywhere at all. However I've never come across the two blueside arcs you mention - god knows how many hoops I'd have to jump through to actually be offered an interesting story arc.

Praetoria, like the rest of the content only more so, will never be as good the second or third time around as it is the first. I can live with that, and since I don't tend to redo the same arcs that often the fine details will usually have faded by the time I go back (except Marauder, but he's no worse than Kalinda or Burke in that respect.) I do like the more active nature of the mission design though - miles ahead of the typical blueside arc of a good opener, a good finale and 10 defeat alls in the middle.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the launch contacts. My main gripe with blueside in general would be that the only 'fix' the game offers to the old stuff is to throw in enough new stuff that you can almost entirely avoid it - i.e. AP to the Hollows to Faultline to Croatoa to RWZ etc, with Midnighters etc to fill in any gaps. I'd sooner see the problem fixed than sidestepped.

The blueside issue 0 contacts need to die in a fire. They have zero personality, all talk the same (literally, since they share the same missions) and those missions are usually utterly irelevant to their bios. Why isn't that 'nightclub promotor' in Kings Row sending me to fight drug dealing Skulls or gangsters or something he might reasonably be expected to know about? Why is he sending me into sewers to recover bodies stolen from a morgue by the Vahzilok and why is he talking like a cop?

That's assuming you actually get a mission. Most recently, at level 9, I got go talk to the AP Security Chief from some non-entity in Kings Row (I don't remember her name.) The Security Chief hands out Defeat 10 Skulls in Perez Park. Now I like street hunts and I love hazard zones, but newer players, who aren't aware of how the contact system works, are in for a serious kicking if they go to PP alone, and being new players without an extensive friend list and unfamiliar with global channels, they will go alone.

Anyway, off I go to PP to go hunt kill skulls (who happen to be on exactly the wrong side of PP from the AP entrance by the way - more fun) Having finished that I'm now level 11, but I decide not to go see Castanella at the Midnighters yet. I'll stick with my current contact.

"Go talk to the Security Chief in Steel Canyon."

Off I go to Steel Canyon to beat up some Outcasts. I'm now level 12. So I call my friendly non-entity in KR again.

"Go beat up some Clockwork in Boomtown.

Oh goody! Another hunt! In another Hazard Zone which I'm barely at level to enter!

At this point I said screw it and went to see Castanella instead.

Praetoria's content is fantastic and interesting, if a little limiting if you run a lot of alts (as I do.) Redside I love but there's just not enough of it and you have basically no options for where you want to level for a lot of the time because there's not much overlap between the zones. Blueside... there's plenty of changes of scenery, but the old issue 0 contacts are almost universally rubbish, and sifting through all the crap they toss at you in search of the rare good missions is sometimes more trouble than it's worth.

TLDR - /signed to anything that improves the low level blueside experience.