ToySoldierZolgar

You forgot something though:
Sonic would automatically render you, and every player you ever played with deaf and partially blind.


(I dislike the sounds/graphics of sonic, I really do.)

You didn't hear it from me..
But I heard a rumor.. From a friend.. who knows a guy who's got a guildmate who's roomate's brother rides the bus to work with the guy that sweeps the floors at Paragon Studios..

According to rumor they've solved this.
They're just gonna delete EVERYTHING and start us over from scratch.

While they're at it, they're un-naming every character in the game, because "all the good names are taken"..

>.>

Correct, it's not broken.
It's just absolutely useless.

Immob protection can be done better by Combat jumping, which most fire tankers/scrappers take because they want acrobatics for the KB protection.

The damage is minimal, unless.. oh hell, it's been said 5 times in this thread already so I won't go there.

It's recharge time isn't all that great.

The scatter effect is just outright annoying..

It's pretty much a power for those who REALLY don't want to go with an alternative immob protection than what their set offers.

Honestly, when they put the scatter effect in (which I FULLY agree with. because it was bloody well broken) they should have undone the damage and recharge nerfs it took.. I've got a 50 fire/energy tanker, build in the burn-tanker's prime, and a 40 spines/fire scrapper (built at I16 release).. Neither has burn.

But really.. naw.. you can leave Burn as is..
It's nice having powers you can skip without feeling bad, which fire is good for >.>

that.. is actually the point.

CoH here has one MASSIVE problem in it's economy.
There's no real inf. sink, especially not now that so many people bypass SOs entirely and go straight to IOs.

Prior to that, enhancers were a solid inf sink at low levels, a decent one at mid levels.. but of course were no longer a sink at 50. Because the money you spent on them left the games economy because it went to NPCs.

IOs: someone pays a relatively small sum to the game world to craft it, and if it's sold on WW, they pay a small sum to WW for the sale, but most of the inf that is paid for that enhancer, goes to them.

Pair that with the fact that if you have a 50 it's insanely easy to make money, especially if they're a speed killer (my ill/kin is anything but, and still makes money too easily), it causes the price of everything to slowly but surely creep up because more people have more money and less to spend it on.

The enhancer loss on respeccing is the closest to a sink in this game. >.>

This is why I say make the unlocks account based, or at minimum allow us to choose which characters we give them to.

Unlocks as a per-character reward would work.. if they weren't so selective. I can never use weapon unlocks. Why?

My higher level toons:
Fire/Energy tank
DM/WP brute
Ill/Kin controller
Crab Spider (without any rifle attacks)
Spines/Fire scrapper
Thugs/Pain MM (without any pistol attacks)

You might say "Well that's just you!"

No, it's not. More than half the characters in the game cannot use any weapon unlocks, and of those that can only a select few can actually use X weapon unlock.
Is an AR Blaster going to have any use for the Tsoo katana?
Or is a Claws scrapper going to have any use for the Nemesis rifles?

Pre level 14 you run everywhere. Post level 14 a lot hof heroes still run/jump everywhere.

There tends to be a lot of running this way and that in missions.. etc. >.>

... But, you're quite right, you can be Tubby McTubinson, and still be in good physical condition. Another example is the guy who makes a lot of appearances in Jackie Chan movies (and has a few of his own) Sam Ohung.

*sigh*

MMO kids these days.

What would you have done in the glory days of UO and EverQuest? Even Horizons..

Games where you had very little options for increased travel speeds, and would often spend 10+ minutes just running to where you wanted to hunt (I think in Horizons my favorite hunting ground was 15 minutes from the nearest city), and then spend that same time running back to where you had to go to sell loot.

With very few exceptions, even without anything but sprint, running across 2 zones is like.. maybe 7 minutes time. Most travel powerless builds boost their run speed through Swift, and slotting Sprint. And most people don't even DO no travel builds.

this game gives us incredible travel options, and even considering that, it's rarely ever a long run back to where you need to go. There is no real reason to reduce the travel times further.

Why not just give everyone a 30 second recharge mission teleporter, that will take them directly to the mission objective?

I .. liked Heath Ledgers portrayal of the character he was playing.

I do not like that the character he was playing was supposed to be The Joker. >.>

Usually however they are in one at least somewhat convenient to the zone as the mission.

And this pretty much indicates "I want my transport hub improved, but need an excuse to suggest it." to me. It really does.

I also said people tended to lean one way or the other on certain issues. This is one that I lean towards type 3 on

I feel the suggestion is pointless. I do not LIKE the idea, which is why I'm not for it. But if they implemented it, it wouldn't bother me much.

And, my analogies were actually not flawed (especially because it's how I see it ):

You said "I want to be able to do X without meeting the requirements." my examples might cheapen other peoples play more, but that is because I specifically use somewhat over the top examples to make the point.

Yes, "rules" have changed over the years, like level restrictions on zones being removed. Sometimes I feel the changes are good. Others, I feel they are not.

It's simple..
There are 3 standard schools of thought about making a game (or parts of it) "easier".

1: I want it easier because *insert reason*
2: I don't care one way or the other, I play the game to have fun, and as long as my fun is intact, you can play the game however you feel like.
3: I don't want it to be made easier because it will (Reduce people looking for teams, make X less special, dumb down my game, etc).

You obviously fall in to type 1.
I, and the majority of the MMO populace actually fall within type 2 (with some degree of lean to one side or the other on certain issues.)
Lemur here is a type 3, at least on this issue. Regardless of what his specific fear, it still puts him in the type 3 mindset, which translates to "making the game easier is bad." No matter how much it it pointed out that his fear is unfounded (which it may or may not be), he will likely as not continue in his mindset.

....

Now my opinions on this:
I do not believe they should offer increased merits for making it harder, the additional reward for making it harder should be the extra inf/xp/drops.
On the same token, een if they make it soloable, it should still take as much, if not more time to complete, ergo the merit reward should still be intact.

I would like to see even better difficulty options.. but I do not really see the need for them to make TFs soloable. As I see it the requirements of the TF are part of the game, asking to be able to run them solo would be like... Asking to be able to disable PvP in PvP zones so you could hunt there, or asking to be able to craft IO set pieces without having the required salvage. Essentially you are seeking to bypass a basic mechanic of the game.

So while if this were implemented it wouldn't spell DOOOOOOOM to me, I also do not support this suggestion, ergo:
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