Obsidius

Fixed.

Edit: Reference

Mostly because the bonuses granted by these IO sets are greater than their lower-level cousins. for example, a lvl 35 IO set might grant a 2% increase to recharge, whereas a lvl 50 IO set might grant a 5% increase. Generally, it' s a mechanism to balance out lower-level sets with higher-level ones, at the cost of loosing those bonuses when playing below a certain level.

I know, right?

If it were a dictionary, I would agree. Given the invariable nature of online wikis, however (as anyone can modify them, experts or no), they aren't valid resources of citation. I can't use wikis as sources in school due to this reason, but I could cite Merriam Webster's online if I so desire. Perhaps I'm being too exacting for a game forum I fully expect to loose rep due to this.

I think the main weakness of your arguments are the bases upon false analogies. I can only rebut your argument based upon what I suspect are the issues, since no examples are cited in your OP.

For example, hard work is not equal to exploiting the systems put in place to reward players for risk. Without reciting previous threads, there were certain exploits in the game concerning the Mission Architect, whereas players could easily gain rewards regardless of ability. This debate is already covered in several other threads, so I'll spare a full recap for the sake of brevity.

If one thinks that devs are punishing players for their hard work, that is false. On the other hand, if one thinks the devs are punishing players for abusing the Mission Architect, that is almost certainly true. Changes constantly happen to MA, TFs and other high-reward systems to ensure that they work within the devs' design, and also to fairly reward on risk versus reward.

In addition, citing other MMOs does not discount the fact that other games can and often do make adjustments in order to remedy exploits, normalize gameplay, and so forth. The best example is Champions Online, a game you cited. They in fact made a major adjustment (nerf) on launch day, of all days. If you look at the patch notes for any other MMO on the market, changes, both adverse and beneficial, happen on regular bases. In saying that players will switch to other, greener MMOs on the other side of the fence is, IMHO, a gambler's fallacy (based on perceived (but not actual) odds); or a fallacy based on novelty (newer things are always better).

As for socialism? The game is hardly taxing the marketeers to give the casual players an advantage at the market; nor is it taking away PvP IOs from those who earned them to give casual players a PvP advantage. This is the closest parallel to socialism I can think of within CoX, and it's not what is happening in the game. There's a difference between reading a definition of a word on an online wiki (a wiki nonetheless; not even an online dictionary, which would be a better reference), understanding the definition of that word, and then finally applying that definition towards the subject. IMO, you only accomplished the first step, and used the furor of current political RL events in order to stir the masses, which IMO failed to accomplish your objective.

In short, your thread is poor satire at best, and a gross exaggeration at worst. Despite your recent malaise of the game, I encourage you to understand the problems in your thread in order to post constructively in the future and, hopefully, in the right forum.

/headdesk

Respect

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Respecification

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I would say respeccing., respec'ing, respec'ed, etc. Because the "T" in respecification is no where near the "C".

Also, it's precedent.

And yes, it was completely necessary

Indeed. It seems that rumors of his death were greatly exagerated

Positron_CoH: I live and have returned to work.

Edit: Now if we could only get Mod8 back to clean up the forums

NP, was hoping it would be something easy

Got school Saturday (Math nonetheless), and then Disneyland on Sunday (season pass holder). I get to see the sun this weekend

In that case, have fun winning all you can. Although throwing alt accounts into the mix was interesting, it's become too rabid for my tastes (and that's coming from me). I'm off to enjoy the weekend without the burden of a forum game.

Think I'm going to resign from this game anyhow. The last thing I want to do during the weekend, or next week, is continue this game

Is there a max post limit per thread?

Edit: NM, I got it - posts are dropping off for no apparent reason.

Sorry, I'm a one server guy, so in that case, my rampage shall continue!

My offer still stands for the Knives costume code though. The cool thing is, I can give this one out to anyone regardless of your server! So if anyone from Protector wants it...

Can I get my prize delivered to Triumph if I do a Benedict Arnold?

OTOH... offering Inf is easy. Even HOs or SHOs can be easy. Anyone from Protector want to turn Benedict Arnold for an exclusive Comic Con Knives of Artemis costume code? Yes, I do have one, fresh and pristine.

To be fair, the devs were talking about CoV before CoH even launched That was more conceptual than anything else though.