Percival

Played a great legless crazy Elizabethian ship captain on Black Adder II as well.

Not that this has anything to do with posts rotten or otherwise.

We take a pretty scrapper heavy group into RV, but the one Storm Defender that goes helps quite a bit. We also have a decent empath that accompanies us from time to time.

Tom Baker is my favorite Dr. Who.

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Tell me this, in fact tell all of us, how has Suppression, DR, Heal Decay, Mez Resistance, removal of -Max Run Speed and overpowered NPCs helped to make PvP viable and fun for all ATs?

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3 posts in a row just to ask this? How weak considering its already been answered. And ironically by one of those fluffy pad posts of yours: Simple, to slow it down.

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Weak? Your entire counter argument is because you couldn't keep up, it had to be slowed down. That's like saying the NBA should ban people taller than 6ft because you aren't tall enough.

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Overall I think your arguments are good, but this particular one is a bit weak. The NBA makes their money off the enjoyment their customers get watching their product. COH makes their money off the enjoyment their customers get playing their product. Its in the NBA's intrest to develope elite talent for this reason. Theoretically COH has a bigger chance at profit shooting for the mediocre PvP player versus the elite players. I guess I understand the move to change PvP for this reason.

What puzzles me is the way in which the game seems to have disregarded what appears to have been a loyal customer base. Long time customers are worth making happy. You should at least make them fell like they've been heard.

Just my take, but there seems to be as much agreement that the present system needs to be fixed as there was for the old system to be fixed. If the fix generated more PvP players that's fine, but the million dollar question is "Did it?" Also, I wonder how much and what kind of resources were allocated to PvP in the first place. I imagine it is not the foundation of CoH's profitablity. That probably has more to do with the state of PvP then anything else.

I wonder why they just didn't set up zones based on differnet rules rangeing from total balance, to equal to PvE and then let players decide which they prefered.

Anyway, just my thoughts, and I admit I don't have much experience to back them up so I'm open to correction.

As a disclaimer I do PvP and like it, but never played under the old system. I probably would have had problems with the speed. But I would have tried.

I've ticked off people a couple of times breaking up duels. I just have a hard time recognizing a duel for a duel unless I've been previously informed.

See, I enter zone and see a hero fighting a villain. Im a hero. I wasn't in zone when the duel was set up, so I assume its a free for all and we heroes need to stick together. I assume this because that is the nature of the zones. I also assume this because of the multiple times I've been ganked by teams of stalkers who very rarely wait to check whether or not my 1 on 1 with a villain is duel.

That said, if it's obviously a duel, ie groups of both villains and heroes standing peacfully observing a 1 on 1 match, then I don't mess with it.

In short. It's the stalkers fault.

My impression was that the devs look at farming and PLing the way I look at gum chewing in class.

Im not goint to say its allowed. I'll make you spit it out if I see it. But, its a waste of my time to spend all my resources trying to catch you with gum. So, what I don't see I don't know, so dont let me see.

Using the gum chewing analogy, Some of the MA farms were like a kid passing out gum to all his friends, smacking his gum as loudly as possible and then engaging in a bubble blowing contest with the rest of the class as the teacher looks on.

and gratz to the winners.

Thanks for holding the event. I learned alot.

Thoughts I jotted down.

Pay attention to chat and broadcast.
RV must be really sparse right now.Dang, Bushido is first.
Dont like en drain. It should be banned.( I tease, sort of.)
RTTC needs to be fixed for PvP, guess I need Aid-self.
Oh, you can buy web grenade. Wish I'd known that before round 6.
I hate the cage map.
Remember build up then headsplitter.
Darn, dead twice already. How much longer is this match? ooo.

I really enjoyed it. Thanks again.

I want a heroic stalker.