Omega_Man

Actually, they did this to reduce street sweeping and encourage people to do door missions. Teams of street sweepers were leveling faster than they wanted and ignoring all the content.

Sewers til you can get to Perez til you can get to Boom til you can get to TV... etc

It didn't have anything to do with solo appeasement.

To everyone (not just the quoted):

I would venture to say that the average MMO player teams and solos. The average MMO player enjoys persistent worlds that has regular updates. Being in an MMO doesn't mean you are here to play with everyone all the time, usually you have a select handful of folks you enjoy playing with. You can meet new people and they might be new friends, too.

Many changes to the game that made it more "solo friendly" according to the "it's an MMO!!" crowd benefit everyone, not just solo play. Some were implemented to help smaller groups. For example, reduced prestige costs to help the smaller SGs... not all SGs are roster capped juggernauts, many are made up of a handful of friends.

I mostly solo. This is because of my time constraints, the hours I play, but also because I am kind of picky about who I spend my leisure time with. I'm here to have fun. I have fun in teams. I have fun solo. I never have fun with annoying people. In the online world, there's lots of annoying people. To some folks, I'm among the annoying people. That's cool, too. We're both happier not interacting.

I've been here a long time. Of course I want to enjoy new stuff as much as anyone else. My money is worth the same. What I want is worth as much as what you want. What the devs want is for both of us to be happy and keep paying our money.

I'm never asking to exclude someone else's style of play. Never. I only want to ensure that I'm not excluded, either. I need new stuff, too, if they want me to keep paying.

I am often confused by "hardcore" team players wanting challenge, but also insisting their way should be both of more benefit (xp bonus, drop bonus, whatever) and also faster. This is the opposite of more challenge, isn't it? You get things easier and faster....

When I ask for solo content, I'm not asking it to be exclusively solo content (unlike exclusively team content which seems to be championed by some I'd consider short-sighted). I'm simply asking for content to be accessible when solo. I don't mind paying the dues for my choices, but give me my choice.

If you exclusively team, you don't miss out on any game systems or content (with the rare exception of a couple Praetoria missions). If you exclusively solo, you do miss out on a few rare things, but can even still enjoy some "team" style things (you can still go on a Hami raid while not on a team/solo, you can still hit the Rikti Mother ship, but you can't do everything). My concern is team exclusive bits like the recently discussed higher tier Incarnate goodies.

Excluding people will drive them away sooner or later. Driving away players means less money for development and maintenance of the game. This becomes a downward spiral that doesn't benefit anyone but competing game companies and eventually loses you this game, entirely.

I've been with COH a long, long time... I believe since even before NC Soft was with it (not trying to establish cred, just pointing out I'm easy money for the devs). I'm happy to stay. However, excluding me from things can and will eventually influence where my money goes. Everyone interested in the longevity of the game and continued added features should share my concern. People who scoff and believe COH won't miss my piddly $15 are mistaken. It's why they charge me the $15 to begin with... if they didn't care, they'd let me keep playing for free

... that stink.

I'm all for it. Names without globals have been inactive, what, four years? They aren't coming back. Heck, I'm all for opening names that have been inactive for a year (but maybe not less... a year seems more than fair). And by that I mean ALL names, regardless of level achieved. Want to keep it? Re-up your sub 1 month a year. Don't care that much? Then let some other poor slob have at it and enjoy themself.

If it's really that "easy to make names" then the people coming back shouldn't have any trouble using their rename tokens.

That said, most folks are lucky, and I'm sure you're all happy, that I have no real say in the matter.

...and it's not insulting to call RPers wakos. RP level IS a good thing to list in a SG recruiting thread so people know if you do or don't, just like PvP and so on.

Considering Virtue is and has always been the unofficial gathering spot for the bulk of RPers, chosen before the game even launched, and the bulk of the population consisted of RPers (which is what baited the non RPers who can't handle Freedom to the server "I want a high pop, but not the highest...") you're just like a vegetarian who goes into a steakhouse and is offended by all the meat.

There is no "goal" of making non-RPers unwelcome, there are plenty of people who are not interested in RP who are great people, great players, and don't feel they have to annoy, harass, or insult others who enjoy things they don't... and there are plenty who do come along specifically to grief people just trying to enjoy their game their way. The latter is definitely unwelcome.

I wish you much success in your recruiting. It's much easier to avoid "unwelcome" people when they all willingly label themselves with their own rosa winkel (in this case: the same SG tag).

Have a peachy day!