Noxilicious

This game is not WoW. WoW may have been build to have its level-cap raised all the time, but CoH is balanced around the magic number 50, not to mention that level-cap raising doesn't just magically fix something or add something new, all it automatically does is make you grind more to reach maximum.

If you can add more level 50 content, why not do that? In fact, isn't that preferable to make something you can access right away than to make something you first have to grind for?

'Fraid there can't be done much here. You already get HO enhancements that are better than the SO stuff, even though the HO you get is random, and you get quite a good amount of merits with which you can just buy your invention recipes of choice. Hell, merits are already half-way there on trivialising random drops.

And, at least here on Virtue, we have weekly Hami Raids on both sides, and I am fairly sure most even do them just for fun, not any tangible reward. I mean, yes, rewards are nice and the best incentive an MMO could probably have, but if you don't have fun doing a Hami Raid now, will you have fun doing a Hami Raid when it gives you a Plus One Gold Armor?

Here's the thing: If the players get twice as many slots, they'll be roughly twice as powerful as well. To counterbalance that, enemies will also need to become twice as powerful. Best case, nothing actually changes and we're back at square one. Worst case, the game becomes so difficult that the leasurely teams are not possible anymore. No more throwing teams together just for the sake of it, only TANKER SCRAPPER HEALER from now. I don't wanna see that myself.

It's a question of game balance. If you want to be so powerful that nothing can faze you, or the majority of the player-base, the two obvious solutions are nerfing players or making enemies more powerful. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

See 1.

You want more end-game content, but you also want to push the level-cap up every year? That's not how it works.

Right now, the level 45-50 end-game consists of two raids, four task forces and the several end-game story arcs that nobody ever cares to mention. Too much? Just right? Not enough? I leave that up to you to decide.

But now push the game to 60. The current end-game content had YEARS to build up. If we now have a new leve level 55-60 end-game, it'd either take extremely long to make and be a drain on Paragon Studio's resources just to get something equal in quantity to the level 45-50 range, or you'll get one raid and one TF and a couple of story-arcs. And what then? Will you then again remark about the lacking end-game content?

Long story short: More end-game content IS always welcome, it's even one of Going Rogue's intended purposes. You just can't have both more end-game content than before and a new level-cap.

SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY CASUALLY PURPED-OUT WARSHADE.

Let me break this myth for you: Purple sets don't make your toon into an unstoppable juggernaut. True, they do make you more powerful, perhaps significantly though, but the real reason to have purples is just to show them off, like bragging rights, so to say.

In fact, purples ARE supposed to take forever to get. Aside from the raids and TFs, they're the big end-game scavanger-hunt of the game. You can't both demand more end-game and demand it's done in a month. Again, you can't both have your cake and eat it, too.

And on that one, I actually do agree with you. Generic missions, like Radio/Paper missions, might suffice with generic maps, but the thing is, you see the same warehouse, office building and laboratory map all the bloody time. In a game that is all about instances, actually unique environments are more than just nice to have. While MMOs, by their very nature, are a lot more about repitition than other video games, it's about how you hide the grind.

Quite honestly, it's hard to tell what the difference between farming and doing a Citadel Task Force is. Actually, there's a key difference: At least farms stick to the same place.

I'm not a PVPer at heart, so I can't say too much on it. It's true, PvP is more or less just tagged onto the main-game. CoH was simply designed as a PvE game. I really can't say more about it because I just don't PvP much. I dabble occasionally in some of the PvP zones, but that's it.

Now, mind, the game isn't flawless, far from it. As far as I'm concerned, the early content is showing it's age, coming from the EQ design school of 'let's make the game as tedious, slow and repititive as possible AND THE PLAYERS WILL LOVE IT'. There's nothing wrong with adding new stuff, either. I like new stuff, I think everyone likes new stuff. You just need to take a minute to think what kind of new stuff we need. Your shotgun approach of THIS AND THIS AND THIS hardly adds anything valuable.

Oh, and please, use some bloody line-breaks. Do you know how painful it is to read a list when you can't visually tell where the first point ends and the second starts? Show some bloody courtesy when you post on a forum and use the enter key.

To be fair, City of Villains started out as a sort of stand-alone expansion of sorts. You could play CoV without first purchasing CoH. So if someone said they played CoV, you could at least assume they only own CoV.

Of course, the point's moot now that they combined the games for good, so yeah, I suppose technically calling both City of Heroes as a whole makes sense, But City of Heroes and Villains have a history of starting out as separated, at least I got used to either referring to them separately or as CoX to refer to the whole.

No thanks, I think I'll stick with bras.

Actually, what he did wasn't exactly against the EULA or ToS. If you give someone Inf and they run off, there's nothing a GM can do. Really, it's like handing someone your bag full of expensive stuff because you forgot, I dunno, to buy a packet of milk back in the shop, and when you return, you find he's nowhere to be seen.

The only thing you can do is find a regular player or several you are reasonably certain you can trust and ask them to help you with inf-transfers. Asking strangers is just too much like playing Russian Roulette and you already found out what the bullet's like.

Neither do I, so I'm probably wrong. My point still stands, though.

Peter Parker, Reporter Nerd just didn't have the same ring as The Amazing Spiderman.

Look no more.

And yet, the people who came up with Spiderman already had the name figured out before drawing the first panel.

On the same token, when creating your character, you are not your character, but your character's author. And honestly now: Which self-respecting author forgets to name their characters when writing their stories and only comes up with one halway through? Especially after the first half has already been published?

I can see why people want something similar to CO's naming system. I don't, and I personally prefer the current, restrictive naming system much in the same way I like sonnets, but I can see where those people are coming from.

Your suggestion to have a mid-way namechange or something, however, seems awfully specific. Right now, I'm just not convinced it's something the playerbase needs but rather something you, as a single individual, wants. That's fair enough, mind, but unless you can rally up some more support for your specific idea, I'm just not convinced it's something the playerbase would largely benefit from and encourage long-term subscriptions.

So, basically, you're just saying "I WANT MORE GR INFORMATION NOW!", eh?

I understand, I really do, but I'm afraid you just gotta show some patience. It's all scheduled already, so at least we know how long to wait until the next dump of vague and blurry information.

Why yes, I, too, am impatient.