The_Real_Energon

I don't see why anyone would play CoV as a stand alone game. Almost everyone I have talked to wants to play a villain so they can have PvP. There is nothing wrong with making it a requirement to have CoH to play CoV. That kind of marketing is standard and they usually include the original game in the add on for free or a little bit higher price.

Now they certainly will not charge two seperate account fees for someone to play both games as they are mergable so when a player will only have one account after ading it to their existing account.

Remember NCSoft is the company behind the soon to be released Guild Wars which is an MMORPG that you play for FREE so I doubt they are stupid enough to try and hit players of their biggest succes with two fees to play an expansion, no matter how large, of their best game.

The I shall call him George bit is from a Bugs Bunny cartoon about the abominabl snow monster. When he catches Bugs he says "My own little bunny rabbit. I shall hug him and squeeze him and love him and pet him and call him George. "

I would certainly hope the Witches get to re-appear as permanent villains in an up comming Issue ( maybe #3 or #4 ) "The Coven" seems like an ideal villain group and gives the game a second female baddy group to fight and of course the Streng would be their minions/servants as they were the only two mobs created just for the Halloween event. Seems a waste to go to the trouble of creating them and then only using them one weekend.

The moment I heard what "Treats" would be available for the Halloween event and that "A Rock" would be one of them I knew someone at Cryptic was a Peanuts fan. LOL I used to watch that cartoon every October for over 20 years. I finally got a rock. ( All they ever gave me as a kid trick or treating was candy... sheesh!! )

What would really be cool would be to have the 5th Column invasion preceeded by ambushes of large groups of 5th Column on the Heroes who have aken out the most of them over their careers ( use the stats from the info quiosks ) and trigger them for when each of those players logs on ( give them 5 minutes to get settled in ) The idea would be for the 5th Column to take out their greatest enemies first.

I think this is a great step in making the game a lot better. I don't know anymore detail than anyone else, but I hope it leads to doing missions that do not require combat or are combat excluded so if you took out a baddie you would fail the mission, maybe it was just recon for a larger task force or something. I love the combat system, but it is too mechanical in its repetition. I would love to see the game become more like the worlds of the comic books with secret identities and even lives for our characters other than crime fighting and to satisfy the casual gamer who does not wish to worry about all that they could be optional parts of the game.

It would be cool to have to undertake a mission to stop your secret identity from being revealed

As to the poster who did not like the SSOCS idea ( he was on the 2nd or 3rd page ) It is too bad you raced your way to L50 probably one week after issue 1 came out before you finally figured out their is no "Hey look at me and how cool I am for having this item." content in this game to get yourself the attention of all the other players. Badges are 100% optional to go after and the defeat so many of whatever boss ones are something most players would likely accomplish as they progressed from L1 to L50 normally. Just because you were already there and viewed them as something more than they were does not make them useless or fluff content. If you really want to enjoy the new content already adde and soon to be added I suggest you make another character and play him/her through the game and try to enjoy it all from the perspective of a new begining. It really can't be that much of a grind if you have had a L50 character for so long since the game is only 7-8 months old it did not take you much time to get to L50