Stormbird

There have been people with several hundred.

That said, I don't see why people DON'T diversify servers. I'm not shooting down the idea, since I wouldn't argue with more slots, but it's not that hard to get started on another server. Use it for retired characters. Use it for villains or praetorians. Have people you like playing with? Bring them over with you to kickstart a new SG with a new theme. Meet new people.

But that's just me.

And both are rather potent debuffs on their target. Unlike regular heals, I tend to think of these more as debuffs that have a healing side effect (and are useful solo.)

Frankly, I don't think (certainly hope we won't) see a targeted AOE heal. If we do, I'd hope it would have enough of an END cost/recharge/be a poor enough heal that it wouldn't encourage people to just sit back and spam it - rockin' the (risk-free) remote aura, if you will. And I really doubt we'd see it on a mastermind set.

The game's not difficult as it is. We don't need an even bigger dose of easymode slapped on it.

Don't tempt them. We'll have Null the Gull take over from Statesman, but you'll have to fight some Praetorians and get permission from the Bucket of Annoyance to do anything with him.

Seconding the "You're doing it wrong." IN fact, if that's the issue you're having, you're doing it VERY wrong. As in trying to fly by jumping off a cliff wearing swim fins, a lead suit and cement shoes wrong.

PEBKAC.

Post the build, post what you're doing, go through the guides people have made (there are several good ones.)

You'll see it as you try to put in the enhancement, as I recall.

And getting respecs tends to be easy. If nothing else, wait for the next issue. Big changes to a few powersets and to the Stalker AT = practically guaranteed freespec.
... which ignores IOs. Yes, you can only use one enhancement type (EndMod,) BUT there are multiple *sets* you may want to 4, 5, or 6 slot for for various reasons, from the +END proc to the set bonuses.

And 100% agree to the ST rezzes.

And 8 before that (up to when NC did the combined COH/COV for everyone.)

.... right. The only reason it's not done is that the devs are busy swilling beer and watching Youtube at work. Couldn't possibly be anything else. Obviously it's really easy to do, and the devs are just lazy. Yep. That must be it.

Sheesh.

1. lol @ "easy."

2. Why would a graphics option be a "Null the Gull option" as opposed to being in the tailor? That would be like saying you can alter your costume at a trainer or at icon, except for head options which need to be done at the Science stores.

Search. People have asked for alternate/minimum FX options, permanently attaching one of the Flypose options to flight, etc. for other powers for at least as long. Just because YOU may not care about the others doesn't mean other people don't.

Not a great example - unfortunately, a lot of real-world examples are lousy with this.

For instance, suppose I want the second Indiana Jones movie. My local merchant only has the Indiana Jones Three-and-lets-not-talk-about-it pack. With them, I have the *option* of going to ebay, or going to amazon.com or any number of other merchants *to* get what I want (plus price shop and the like.) The only result is that merchant doesn't get my business for that item.

For COH and these costume packs... show me where else I can go to get the costumes without the silliness of the packs. The only alternative is "You don't get my business."

Of course, there's this attitude:
If it's not something of interest to you, why are you complaining about people complaining? Some people want as many costume options as they can get. For them, it IS an important part of the game, and this is a frustrating, irritating way to get to those parts (just like having gun skins drop from *one* trial, and be fairly rare last I looked for them on the market.)

"Required" is a strawman. You can play the game in nothing but basic Tights. However, costumes bring some people (quite a few, I'd guess, given how the costume creator is praised) a great deal of enjoyment. The choice is "enjoy the game, but be anything from disappointed to annoyed at the way these parts are going to be supplied because there's no guarantee of anything but spending money" or "enjoy the game more because there's an alternate way of getting them."

At least we're not PVP.

/this.

Unless they're selectively asking a certain smiley abuser and using that as their sole feedback. As it is, once it hits beta, unless there's a massive gamebreaker (like the Kheldian form powers / Domination not working a couple betas ago) it goes live pretty much as it is... regardless of what's said. Perhaps a little tweak here and there.

Beta's pretty much just a mid-level stress test for the issue before live, plus a bit of marketing.

YOu don't see sonic blast because people don't want to *hear* Sonic Blast. It's such a mishmash of effects. (And it's even weirder coming from a female character.) "Braaagh! AAaaagh! Awoooooooooo!" .... wha?

They really need to make an alternate sound set for that.

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SWG, as mentioned.
APB (kinda-sorta, later purchased and re-lauched.)
Hellgate: London (kinda-sorta-MMO-wannabe.)
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There are a lot of times I dont' agree with Xanatos, but he's really hitting the nail on the head in this thread... all the nails, frankly.

Just had to quote this bit because it's something that irritates the hell out of me with the way the current team is going, even MORE than sticking Praetorians and the Well in everything.

... except, of course, that the game wants to encourage alts - more money coming in, after all - which would give people reason to roll more and buy more slots.

That's far more narrow than origin specific.


I really think some of you need to be exposed to sets of story arcs like this to see how good they can be. (Assuming the dev team does them decently, of course.)

There are cutscenes in single player missions, as well....

The flip side of that is the whole "We don't want to continue any old ideas, we just want new new new!" that personally I find really, REALLY irritating as an attitude. Blood fo the Black Stream? Nope, screw it, even if what we know sounds interesting. Other epics? Nope. How about just adding content to DA? Nope, have to nuke it and put something else vastly different in (and limit access.)

And "Finally claim City of Heroes as their own?" How many of them were there well before becoming Paragon Studios? It already IS their own, so that argument really isn't one. They've hardly been "in the shadow of their predecessors." Jack lost interest, what, after issue 5-6? He had his "super secret project" (which has yet to see the light of day in anything but some many-years-old concept art) and then the Marvel MMO which siphoned people from COH and eventually became CO.

I don't think they've "felt like the crew of a low budget sequel" since NC bought them, hired most of the team and gave them their own offices and a fresh cash infusion.

Somehow I don't think you actually thought about this and decided to just recycle a response. How would an origin related story chain, as described, interfere with anyone's origin story or background?

For instance, with your own objections:
Do you think Crey, on seeing some new tech, would *not* be interested in getting their hands on it and trying to reverse engineer it, regardless of where it came from? It's the OUTSIDE GROUP'S interest after seeing the character.

And this would prevent an OUTSIDE GROUP from being interested in it why, or interfere with someone's backstory how?

COT, BP (or, hey, there's actually a group that would like to eradicate magic because they did so on their home world - the Rikti. Hmmmm... look at that, in a way the suggestion is partially in place already.)

So, say, the Devouring Earth (and yes I know they're more level limited) wouldn't be interested in finding out about what caused a mutation in order to advance their own interests?


Does it affect *anyone's* backstory that, for instance, the Malta Group is just working against (or trying to capture/subverty) any "metahuman?" No. Is anyone's backstory affected by having MAGI, GIFT, DATA, etc around? Nope - and they've been there since day 1. The OP's suggestion wouldn't affect anyone that way either.

The OP's suggesting story content. Not making (say) Mutant have a higher resist cap or something. And if you're really adamant that nobody would have any outside interest in your character, you could ignore the arcs.

Why would the GMs know better? They don't just service this game, and they certainly don't keep up with the individual comments of each game's devs/community service reps.

They did exactly what they're told to, namely, "Refer suggestions to the suggestions forum."