Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at forum so bear in my and suspend your respect for proper ettiquette. And unable to figure out how to start a new forum string, my post winds up here.
I've sent several ideas/suggestions to Admin via in-game suggestion petitions. I've come to the conclusion that that's--well, for lack of a better term--useless.
Here are several ideas that I think would refine some things. Althought I am virgin to forum, I am however a seasoned veteran. I've thrown a few of these out as jokes, others legit:
1) Install a "Team merge" capability allowing team leaders to send other team leaders merger invites. No more of this "you quit yours, i'll quit mine" nonsense. Two teams consisting of a total less than 8 combined would then be able to invite, leader to leader and form a new squad altogether. Inviting leader would than recieve "star-power" and Receiving leader would then be successive in command if Chain of Command were to break.
2) Fix Trick Arrow. Oil slick for controllers at current status is STUPID. For those that do not know, Oil slick, once lit on fire does two things: 1. Damage inflicted does not count as yours, the damage is contributed to the oil slick itself and displays on-screen as greyed out and 2. A lit oil slick will REPEL and often PARALYZE pets, they will stop fighting to run, stop moving entirely and wait to die by the hands of your newly agro'd adversaries. It is my conclusion, unfortunately, that this is by INTENTIONAL design. This power is particularilly why I chose Trick Arrow and it's broken? Am I to discard my 50 now? Fix the powers design or include a warning in the power description.
3) Non-combat oriented XP. In many cases, by circumstance or by choice, people end up alone. I, in particular, feel the sting of "no-one's on" in the late evening/early morning hours where I often find my free-time, ESPECIALLY on new toons. A remedy for that is to impliment a "Hero Training Program" where simlulated achievements can be traded for XP. My original thought was to open an "arcade" of sorts where players can go and purchase gaming tokens and try their hand at "A game within a game" where even lvl 1 tankers can experience momentarily what it's like to be a lvl 50 blaster. These "mini-games" could get very creative, having enemies reach into the "Level 100's" and beyond if your successive streak were so impressive. Mini-games designed to actually teach new players Speed, platform jumping, combination kills, flight skills, teleportation, taunting, HEALING and other skills that make a true blue hero.
4) Character Level Taxing. This is one that I am a firm believer in. Ran it passed several in-game friends and they didn't stop for a second when they emphatically said YES! You're a lvl 50 Regen Scrapper, a nerf comes that removes MoG from the set. Some would love it, some would hate it. Not to worry, for a price, you can can give up your old life of healing for a new one of focused strength from the netherworld. What's the price? Well now you're a lvl 40 Dark Armor scrapper. Get it? Many would give up more not to restart the character and take a different name, they would rather go back to gaining XP and bite the bullet in aim for a better result. If you think about it, if I've been a professional Martial artist for years and decide to pick up a blade, my defensive skills will not be any more lacking just because i want a new weapon. This system would allow "Change of Primary" "Change of Secondary" "Change of Power Set" and for a VERY heavy tax, say 25 lvls, you could even "Change Archetype"
5) IO's for the fun of it! I would love to see an Empathy Defender running around with ONE Fire Imp behind him because his IO on his damage had a 5% chance to spawn a Fire Monkey. Things like that would add so much fun to the game. What can one fire monkey do? Nothing really. But it would crack up the user almost every time it happened. Spawn Rubble, Spawn Swarm, Spawn Random. Fun fun fun.
6) Hummina-Wha??? You wanna do what? Add ANOTHER Veteran earned archetype? He's a crazy man. Yes...Yes, I am. With the successful completion of your FIRST VETERAN TOON, meaning a lvl 50 Warshade or Peacebringer, you are granted something a little bit "more flashy." The "Create-Your-Own Arch" that allows you ANY Primary paired with ANY Secondary regardless of weight, class, arch, gender, tax, title and/or license. Builds like Gravity Control and Psychic Blast, Ice Blast and Energy Melee, Empathy/Trick Arrow, Spines/Kinetics! Totally sick toons that would make for rediculous and FUN situations. After all, it is a GAME. If 2 50's aren't enough, make it 5. Some players have made The City Of Universe a lot of money and would enjoy perks of that magnitude.
I have more but I fear this post is getting WAY TOO LONG. I'll save my other suggestions for another time
