Silver Gale

Here's something to keep in mind when you're coming from other games: healing in CoH is just one aspect of support, and it's not the most important one. In a lot of MMOs, buffs and debuffs are secondary. In CoH, they're *very* good, to the point of somewhat broken game design.

A Team of all buff/debuff characters is ridiculously easy to play, because of how the buffs stack. +DEF on the team and -ToHit on the enemies make them hit a lot less often, down to a minimum of 1 in 20 attacks. +Res on the team and -Damage on eneies make whatever hits do come through be negligible. (In CoH, health regen is not floored when entering combat!) -DEF on enemies and +ToHit on the team makes hitting trivial. -Res on enemies and +Damage on the team makes even a support character hit like a ton of bricks.

I don't know what archetype and powersets you're playing, but if you have heals, then you almost certainly also have some other tools. Check out your power listing, and drop by your Archetype forums and ask how to make the best use of them!

There's a difference between powers and powersets. A powerset is picked at character creation from the ones that are available to you, and it defines what powers you earn as you level up.

Powersets were always player unlocked, whether by buying a game package (CoH came with hero powersets, CoV with villain powersets, GR with four new ones for various hero and villain archetypes) or by ingame actions (getting to level 50 or 20 to unlock Epic Archetypes and their powersets).

So, no, selling powerset unlocks is not really a new thing, and as long as the new powersets are balanced against the existing ones, it's not really comparable to buying powers.

If people are naturally good and don't want to be villains, why is it necessary for the writing to drive home the point how bad villains are and how you should never, ever enjoy pretending to be one? Can't you just have writing where the villains scheme, backstab and *win*, and then trust that players will feel bad after playing it?

No it won't, because the logical fallacy is referred to as "circular logic". "Begging" means "asking very insistently" and "question" is an interrogative statement made to obtain information. "That makes me really want to ask for a clarification" is a perfectly natural and obvious thing to get out of "that begs the question".

And the original meaning of "decimate" was "to kill exactly one-tenth of", not "to kill most of". If you try to use the first meaning now you'll only confuse people.

Language is determined by usage, not by some arbitrary Platonic ideal of correctness.

If you stopped paying your sub before Freedom you'd lose access to Incarnates too, along with everything else you paid to access with GR.

You don't need to stop them all *personally* - that's why there's 18-24 people there. Just before that phase I usually mention in League chat (whether I'm leading or not) "If you're a mez/slow/AoE specialist, focus on the minions, if you're a ST damage/debuffer, pick out the Lts".

Characters combining their strengths to accomplish something none of them could do on their own is one of my favourite things when it happens, in this game.

Check your e-mail connected to your NCSoft account - you're going to get a followup "how did the GM do?" letter. Give the GM their due praise in a response.

I'm not sure how any of that follows from what I said. Particularly the "have to give them" part.

When did I make demands? All I'm saying is, if the Devs are thinking about possible additions to the store or to Paragon Rewards, I would just like to note my interest in giving some of the newer powersets to characters who were made before those powersets were available.

I am aware of the technical difficulties involved. I don't expect it to happen next month. Or ever, really. But I'd still *like* for it to happen.

They had a similar "we looked into the crystal ball and didn't like what we saw" reaction to merging the markets. They had a similar "we'd rather not" reaction to "can you make Epic badges not completely ridiculous".

Granted, powerset respecs are more game-impacting then Epic badge requirements, and it's unlikely that there ever comes up a situation where making powerset respecs possible becomes much less time and effort consuming than trying not to allow them. Still, it shows that circumstances can change, and when they do, it helps that there is a history of players wishing for a certain thing.

Yes, and...? Sorry, are you saying that is a sufficient amount of appreciation forever and now they don't have to listen to anything long-time subscribers ask for, ever again? If not, then what exactly is the point there?

What if they only allow a single powerset respec per character, and only *to* sets that wasn't available for the AT at the time the character was made?

In short, if you can't find people to team with, it's not because they aren't there, but because the basic teaming tools in the game are kind of bad.

As I recall, there were fears that the revenue from the ads would be so great that the advertisers would start dictating ingame content. "Guns are too violent, remove all the guns or we pull our ads" and next thing you know several powersets are gone.

But they also want to make long-time subscribers feel appreciated, and one of those ways is to solve the dilemma of "the new/proliferated set would fit this old character so much better, but if I reroll I'll lose all those anniversary badges".

If it were a VIP Tier 9 reward, it would be an extra incentive to stay subscribed (and an extra thank-you to old-time subscribers) instead of a way for Premium players to avoid buying new slots.

Yep, only attractive women should dress in a revealing way, to better help men fantasize about them.

It's the same principle by which rich people should wear expensive suits so that the homeless know who they should ask for money. If you're wearing an expensive suit, you lose the right to complain about beggars - after all, you're dressing to say "I have so much money I can spend a bunch of it on this suit", clearly you want people to ask you for your money.

I still think it's worth it to keep bringing it up, because circumstances change. With Freedom, anything that players are likely to pay for is probably getting re-considered.

Hm... how do you define "outclass"? I mean, in some cases it's pretty obvious. Generic IOs outclass SOs at levels 35 and higher. A character slotted with generic IOs will always have bigger bonuses at 35+. Likewise, purples outclass normal IOs (though whether the improvement is worth it for the cost is a different matter).

But beyond that it gets very murky. What is a nice bonus to some people could be a necessary crutch to others. Imagine if the Shivians and Nukes, instead of being attempts to bribe people into PvP, were sold in the store. Would that be "letting people FAR outclass those who don't shop"?

As noted - an online game is not like RL. It would be far too difficult to enforce and not very effective in preventing harassment. Please do check out the guide to protecting yourself against cyberstalking if you haven't already.

So two or three batches of 1200 PPs. Well, there'll probably be costume slots and things that I'll want to buy in the store.