Noxilicious

To elaborate on this, I think originally you were supposed to do TFs in multiple sessions. This becomes even more apparent in the Shadow Shard TFs. Of course the dooming flaw is that that would require lots of planning and with various people of various schedules of free time and it would bar everyone who's not in an organised-enough SG to ever do Task Forces.

So naturally the players circumvented this issue by playing TFs in one sitting. The devs noticed that behaviour and realised that longer does not equal better, so eventually new TFs are short but sweet, generally gravitating around one and a half to two hours.

Long story short, the devs actually look at how players play the game and make new content accordingly. Multi-session TFs are just horrible to organise and nobody cares for that so instead we get one-session TFs that, might I add, also have less filler content.

Well, why is it awful?

I'm personally ambivalent towards the idea. It would be a nice gift horse, and while I don't know how much money NCSoft usually makes with server tranfers, I don't see them being quite that generous.

Still, though, it's a better alternative to merging the servers. Not that that needs to happen, either, but we all know that MERGE THE SERVERS comes up every week or two.

May I point you to the closest "where is everyone?/is the game always empty?" thread? With the exception of Atlas Park, you'll only see Heroes at Wentsworth's, too. At this point it's almsot redundant to point out, but this is a heavily instanced-based game with almost no reason to stick around in the zones. True, the villain population IS smaller, but neither side has zones sprawling with player characters.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you say in another thread that what others find challenging you find simply tedious and frustrating? I think it was in one of those "why red-side is better" threads.

If the fun of a TF comes from being done with them as soon as possible, I'm not sure "fun" was ever meant to be part of the equation.

I will never be able to accept the Citadel TF as an actual TF. In no way can a TF that repeats the same mission over and over and explains it as "explore this Council base. Now this one. Now that one" be called quality. It's a single step up from AE farms.

This pretty much sums up my stance on this, too.

All my toons start out as character concepts in my head, a vague idea about their backstory, personality and goals and from there I work out costume and power-sets.

I also love Mids'. When I started out playing, and even today when I play without having made a build first, it can take me like ten to twenty minutes to decide on a power or where to place my slots. With Mids', however, I can have easily work out the progression of my characters and, ironically enough, I can carry on with my characters' themes without caring too much about build anymore afterwards.

This really seems to be a non-issue, but then again, you seem to be aware of that yourself.

I dunno, after Indigo's arc I got rather annoyed at Crimson. He had a man kidnapped and tortured by Malta and ACTIVELY PREVENTED you from saving him, just to test the loyalty of his partner, only then to just say "oh, I totally trusted her all along". After that I had an easier time trusting Westin ******* Phipps than Crimson.

Anyway, that said, I'm sure you all noticed the blue Hero or red Villain tags that show up in your active mission list. Most, if not all, blue-side story arcs have the Hero tag while most, if not all, red-side story arcs have the Villain tags.

Now we know the moral progression goes Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain and Villain -> Rogue -> Hero, with Vigilantes and Rogues being able to do missions on both sides. Obviously you can only become a Vigilante/Rogue in Praetoria since blue-side has mostly Hero arcs and red-side has mostly villain arcs, but once you can freely go to the other side, I imagine if you do enough normal story arcs there, your status will eventually switch over to the other side.

Or I'm totally wrong and that's not how it works. It's all baseless speculation.

Well, the idea is that the Skulls and Hellions ARE real villains that the PPD cannot keep up with anymore, so a hero like you, even a fledgling one, needs to step up to the task.

Of course, eventually the PPD got SWAT teams, psychics, combat armors, combat robots and even a dedicated Peacebringer squad, so that comment doesn't really ring true anymore.

Laziness =/= altitis.

If anything, the game encourages making as many alts as possible, not levelling a single toon all the way through. A move like that only shows the devs understand that.

If only all businesses could be sustained on happy thoughts alone.

Especially in these economically difficult times, making a decision based on "it might be bad, it might be good, who can say for sure?" would be a sign of insanity.

There is such a thing as an educated guess. Assuming that new people won't shell out 200 bucks for an old game they have tried for two weeks at most when there's new shinies on the market is an educated guess. Assuming that long-time players will jump on such a deal so they don't have to pay anymore to play in the long is a safe guess.

You're doing the opposite. You assume that lots of people will see a six year old game they may have never heard of before (let's face it, unless you actively follow the MMO scene, you won't have heard about CoH. It's marketing team isn't really trying to make the public aware of the game) and shell out money they could use to buy an entire console instead, and that die-hard fans won't jump to the chance to play the game for what is after two years essentially free. That requires such an utter subversion of human psychology that I can only assume you are in fact posting from Bizarro Earth, where these things are common occurences.

For Life Time Subscriptions not to be disastrous a series of unlikely events need to happen. Hell freezing over first may or may not be included in that series of events.

You see, I don't know for certain that I won't be ***** if I decide to take a walk outside at night, naked, in the shadier parts of the neighbourhood, but I'd rather not take my chances.