Scarlet Shocker

I've been wondering this for a while and the thought is slowly permeating my conciousness into tangibility but I'm thinking we may well see a name change for the game sometime within the next year as part of a "rebranding" thing.

I don't think it'll ever stop being "City of Heroes" but we already have one of the clunkiest names/acronyms in the known universe and Going Rogue will more than lilely add to that confused moniker.

I'm not sure what you guys think but if you were marketing, wouldn't you be looking at that now?

Good find by the OP

I have to say if the Dev's do miss this then they will have missed a trick.

Even if it's something like the Mantipsyche's weeding event, that'd be a lovely touch.

In my day they said "Walls have ears." Guess times have changed.

I've only ever had a couple of purples since they were "invented" - which considering the number of hours I play is low and always has been

I've salso noticed a decrease in drops overall recently but I need to install drop stats to get figures

Elec/Elec Trollers/Doms

Good post from the OP. Shame the rest of the thread's got so bitter.

There's no right way to play the game I guess - it's all down to personal preference. I've done it old school and I've also used boosts to get me through some of the more grindy levels.

So long as you are having a positive experience with the game and playing within the game's constraints, all is good.

Ok the MA finally gets to work right. It enables player created content that people might actually be interested in playing as opposed to endless farm after farm.

Yet the same mission heads up the list. Every time you log in, go to the MA that one mission is the first thing to hit you between the eyes. Ad nauseum

It's not even a particularly good mission, especially compared to some of the stuff that's out there, but it's been in the list longer than forever and got a Dev's Choice because it was first, not necessarily because it was quality.

(I should point out I don't have any particular axe to grind with the author @Ground Pounder here, so I'm not questioning his/her ability as a player or as an author.)

But that mission, alongside "Welcome to Architect Entertainment", "Saul Rubenstein's Discount Task Force" and "The Do-It-Yourself Laser Moonbase Project" amongst others all hog the front page - and like a web page that never changes or evolves, stops being a tool for driving traffic, but rather gives an impression of staleness and a lack of imagination.

That's totally the impression the MA should not be giving. Instead it should be inspiring players to play and develop their own arcs. But why bother when you're still going to see the same old turgid missions on the front page? Are they the only Dev's choices available? No, of course not. There's dozens (although finding Dev's choice that do NOT have the mission in question on the top of the page seems tricky) and by now there should be hundreds.

What about Guest Authors? Why do they not make it to the front page, not indeed do Hall of Fame? Nope, they are buried unless you search for them but the same old Johnny hogs the front page. The MA should be literally screaming at you "You really need to be playing this excellent mission. The guys who make this game think it's great and we think you will too!" Instead we get 6 missions that we've played already and are very unlikely to play again in a hurry.

You might like to argue that with the search facility, players can look for missions they might enjoy. Sure that's very true, but the search isn't especially intuitive, and it also takes time, and then there's the biggest question: What to search for? Not always the easiest question to answer. But if I have a spare 45 minutes with a few mates in MA I don't necessarily want to spend time searching. I'd like to see something fresh and I will sample it, rather like a buffet. The Dev created content is the full sit-down banquet, the MA is the smorgasboard.

It's not that difficult to fix either. As I'm writing this I can only find 17 Dev's Choice missions. So, the Dev's aren't choosing, which seems odd, given this is such a flagship tool for Paragon Studios. So Dev's, extract digit please and choose more missions for your accolades and give the MA front page some much needed TLC!

This hasn't been a critical issue until the merging of the fora - but now we are all on a communicative level playng field, the can of worms has been opened.

Another thing of course is that CoH players do form a bond outside of the official game areas, for example I know of at least 20, probably more players from across the world, who love the game but who also spend time in Second Life. We'd love to get an SG going but to do that would mean that we in the EU would have to sacrifice Vet Rewards and SG bases (or buy an additional account + subs) which for many just isn't feasable.

I actually believe that universal server access would spread the load rather than deplete servers. I could be wrong but I reckon some of the bigger SGs would enjoy using that as an opportunity to swell their ranks.

Personally I have no real desire to move my home server but I'd love an opportunity to get to play with guys on here that right now I just cannot - and it's something of an artificial restriction.

Couple of quick points:

War Witch is on record as saying that the game engine is nowhere near running at capacity. There is a lot more that can be done with it (and the intimation there is that the dev's don't actually yet know how far it can go but it's a long way.) The limiting factor is policy - not to leave players with older/lower spec systems behind. (Which IMNSVHO is a good policy.) But given that CoV launched almost 4 years ago, most people will be on a machine of higher spec than they had then I would guess so there is room for a good deal of improvement I'd imagine.

Also the ATI/nVidia tends to be horses for courses, as does the AMD/Intel thing - they keep interspersing positions and status and will often have problems but for the lay user generally one tends to be as good as the other for the most part. It's only when you start to look under the hood that you notice much difference in my experience.

Very good

I play both

For me it's how the character grabs me conceptually, rather than their sex, that makes it a character worth playing.

Welcome back. Hopefully your PC is new and shiny

good luck buddy hope you get it sorted and hurry back

Just a follow up guys: I've got him almost fully IO'd now, and I'm loving playing him. Loads of fun... in fact I would go as far to say he's my 2nd favourite toon ever.

Thanks a lot for everyone's help and input