Paladin_Musashi

I'm aware thank you. I played it years and years ago. My point was that there's no point in translating CoH, which has all sorts of awkwardness inherent to it because it was designed to fit the MMO mechanics, when there are already games like Champions which do not have those ridiculous elements in their settings/game mechanics because they were designed for the vastly more flexible realm of pencil and paper and imagination.

I'm going to say those were by far the exception rather than the rule.

I did doorsit a couple times, but only when my team needed a tanker, or defender, or something, and we couldn't get it. I really wanted to level with the toon I was on, so I would bring in whatever we needed off my second account and have the first toon door sit. But that's not really the same thing, since I'd probably do that with a non-farm team too.

Um... You must have never actually played on AE farms. The only people doorsitting were the truly pathetic who were paying people to afk PL them. The rest of us were forming PuGs and doing our own killing of the bosses. Nobody was taking doorsitters unless those door sitters were paying.

And the ones who pay for it are still getting PL'd while door sitting. So...

When was there ever a lack of sewer teams? Even when Boss Farming was all the rage (And, btw, there IS an easy way to get almost the same exp as the old boss farms) I never had trouble finding a sewer team. And this was on Virtue, which is the only place I will ever play. I would always roll a new toon and broadcast "looking for sewer or AE", and get one or the other within 5 minutes. 75% of the time it was a sewer team too. The simple fact that blueside HAS the sewer meant that AE farm teams didn't really like to take people under level 10, since if they were any good they could just grind the sewer for an hour or two and be level 10.

Actually no... I wouldn't like a game that went on forever... I mean, I would, but not one that I had to continue levelling up in forever. I'd much rather have a game where my character is actually finished at some point, so that I can then have fun playing the game.

So I guess I agree with folks who say we need level 50 content... But I don't think it should be the same textbox, run to door, fight mobs in instanced mission, run to contact, new textbox, etc.

Needs something genuinely new.

I was just saying the other day that the problem with MMORPGs is that there are only two ways to measure one's progress in a game: Impact on the world/storyline, or development of the character's power.

The whole reason there are PLers and farmers in the game is that there's zero, yes zero capacity to affect the game world, or storyline. Nothing I do actually changes the game world. So, the game inherently becomes one of getting more powerful. Coming up with better builds, levelling to 50, and grinding for the IOs to make them uber. There's nothing else to do, really.

Well, RP, but that's not really part of the game, that's something we do while we play the game. And don't get me wrong, I like RP. But I could do that just as easily with a bunch of friends sitting around a table in RL, or in a chat room somewhere, and it would be basically the same RP as I could do in this game. It's not really related to the game mechanics in any way.

Which is a problem with CRPGs in general, no real relation between game and RP. And even in cases where there is some relationship it's generally exceedingly shallow and/or immature (Good/Evil morality points for actions changing your character's alignment/appearance/etc are an example of this).

I think if you're going to have level 50 content, you're gonna need to give us a way to have a tangible, visible impact on the game. The story and world can't stay static. Or it'll just be one more thing to farm so that we can "win" and be done.

And I'm most certainly not talking about shallow PvP mechanics. Items of Power and base raiding don't work here. Playing tug of war between villains and heroes for damage and defense bonuses isn't really having an impact.

What would be much better would be missions where your success/failure has consequences for the city. I mean, we've all been sent to save the Terra Volta reactor. But what if it would actually explode and be unavailable for a while if we failed? What if the Rikti could attack because the power for the War Walls was down?

What if we were sent to stop Dr. Vahz, and failure meant that Vahz spawns would increase throughout the city?

Even better... What if it's not just the level 50s who have an impact? What if enemy groups became more or less powerful depending on how actively they were being hunted, and how many missions against them were being accepted, declined, dropped, won, or failed?

And what if that was what would eventually culminate in some member of Freedom Phalanx contacting a higher level player out of the blue to say, "Hey, <Archvillain> of the <Enemy Group> is about to <insert diabolical scheme>. He/She/It must be stopped!"

There could even be multiple tiers involved... One low level group isn't being hunted much, so a level 20 mission spawns and a call is put out to heroes around that level... And then if that mission is failed or ignored, it escalates to higher and higher level players, with bigger and more pervasive consequences for success or failure at each level.

See... This would actually get me interested in life outside the AE again. Let me actually save something! Let me do something that matters.

And again, I stress this should be PvE content. PvP creates an atmosphere that isn't particularly conducive to hero or villain roleplay, and exposes all the biggest weaknesses of the game (Hey, didn't I just kill you 5 times in a row? Why won't you stay dead? What exactly is the point of our battle, if no one can die, and therefore neither of us can ever truly win?).

But, those are just my thoughts.

This statement makes no sense to me whatsoever.

If you're not on the highest possible difficulty setting, you're not really playing. And you're certainly not Bruting.

I will though. The AE is the only place I really have fun in this game aside from working on my SG base. I hate fedex missions. I hate running around talking to contacts. I just want to smash things. With an 8 man team. That's all.

I miss the mass crowds in the AE because of the way you could log on any toon, any level, red side or blue, and be in a PuG AE mission in 5 minutes flat. And just nonstop smash until you got tired of it and went to work on your base, or your costume, or logged for the day.

I will miss that a lot

Oh well. At least I have the Majesty 2 demo to play with (And the full game in like another 3 days.

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