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Originally Posted by Mylia

Taxes are a wonderful thing that helps quell certain issues. A "piracy tax" which gives money to the company losing it is, helps stop the inflation you talk about.

Originally Posted by Mashuguna

I started playing my 45 fire/kin after a long break. What defenses do I have against being held and stunned? As soon as I get in a block of ice, stunned, etc. I am dead in seconds. I don't mind a challenge and I am not a farmer by any means - just want to run normal missions. But - well, this is not fun.

Thanks for any help!

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Seriously, you can explain any background in this game. Call it alternate universes, or clones, or deals with the devil. It's not like those kinds of things never happen in comic books.

Originally Posted by BurningChick

Ganked? Maybe once or twice.

Repeatedly? By the same person?

That's coming up on being a textbook example of griefing.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

This is true in theory, but I don't find it true in practice. I'm not going to spend the time earning hero merits on nearly a dozen characters. I have a few heroes that I run them on, and anything they earn using them I can send to anyone on either side. Meanwhile my Rogues and Vigilantes can attend any trial, SF or TF for the other side except the CoP, which concerns me very little. Most of my villains have become rogues, and I see no need to move them further.

Originally Posted by Starcloud

If you want to make me smile, DUMP these plans to integrate City of Heroes into the NCSoft Launcher. It is a bloated piece of crapware with very poor performance. Either that, or continue to support the current, fast, tiny, and efficient City of Heroes updater while you struggle with the tech issues in integrating City of Heroes into the crapware that is NCSoft's "all in one" game updater and launcher.

Originally Posted by Toony

Forums exist for discussion be it negative or positive. Not just glowing praise. The devs want feedback, not yes men who think everything is sunshine and roses.

I don't think it's bad to air ones concerns as sometimes they turn out to be true.

Originally Posted by TrueGentleman

I was surprised at how comparatively unpopular Rogues and Vigilantes are:

Switching my main Stalker to a rogue was the first thing on my "to do" list for Going Rogue and Vigilante for my DP Blaster is next (now that I've taken my main MM ). Are Alignment Merits the deciding factor, or is it down to general player preference?

Originally Posted by Ice_Wall

To be fair, a well built Brute can be nearly as indestructible as a well built Tank. In fact I would say given an identically powered and slotted Tank and Brute, you'd find only a small percentage of places in the game where the Tanks extra survivability would really matter or come into play.

I've run masters runs without tanks, only brutes and they worked just fine. Having Brutes able to go both sides, makes tanks fairly obsolete, as there is not much that can really stop a well built Brute, especially on a team with buffs, and they do more damage to boot.

I'm not saying Tanks aren't more survivable, I'm saying there are few times in the game where that extra toughness makes a difference.

Originally Posted by Bronze Knight

I'm not asking you to "unlearn" anything. I'm asking you to learn.

Learn as in acquire new skills or compensations for situations. Something every one is capable of. You as an introvert may have difficulty with that, but you can do it. Continually placing yourself in situations were you need those skills was simply the fastest way I could think of for you to acquire them.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

Also at stake is the assurance that the Incarnate content will be "the most challenging content yet". That is also a direction undesired by many players, and telling us to simply skip the new advancement system to avoid it is likewise unacceptable.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

You can play without a Tanker, because this game is awesome, but you can't play as if you had a Tanker without a Tanker.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

Never mind hitting the BAF or Mother Mayhem's hospital or whatnot...

I think the next Praetorian Trial should be an all-out, guns-blazing, that-sucker-is-coming-DOWN raid on Cole's Tower in Nova Praetoria. Do it like the CoP - one team comes in from the roof (here comes Wardog and a bunch of Resistance as backup), one from the sewers (with Hatchet and Marty leading ghouls for backup), one through the front door (Ricochet and some friends), like the ultimate Mayhem Mission.

Desks and cubicles and computers exploding. Doors blowing off their hinges. Fire spreading like rumors on the forums. Battling your way through Powers Division, the PPD, the Seers, the Praetors, until you're face to face with the man himself.

"IT'LL BE ANARCHY!"

And the badge: "Look On My Works, Ye Mighty".

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by Void_Huntress

Thinking on the monthly letter idea.. I haven't been able to go through the entire thread (though I've read most of it, in scattered sections), so it's possible this might have been touched on by someone else..

I think what would help cement these as actual communication for a lot of people is if we regularly get actual information from them. Vague hints to the future are enough to stir up some excitement for a fair number of people, but similarly, a lot of folks need to feel they're being told something they couldn't have known for sure some other way.

The developers over at CCP working on That Space Game are a good example of this. They tell us bits about things they've done in development.. What worked, what didn't, and then they share with us why. Often by sharing datamining results. It'd be interesting if the CoX team could let us know hard facts about things like how the introduction of the Alpha Slot REALLY changed TF activity. We can SEE that it changed, we can speculate on how it changed based on the bits we see, but having the god's eye view on it would do a lot for our ability to usefully discuss it.

They also regularly share random interesting trivia about the world on occasion. I'd find it fascinating to know, for instance, what the most common teaming AT in January was, or which corruptor secondary was the most common for solo players in February.

At the producer level, some of this information may already be available for you in reports, some of it you may be able to get yourself.. Some of it you may have to ask a developer to spend some hours on, but in my experience.. While some developers need to keep in their groove, some folks actually work better when given an occasional chance to mix things up, look at things from a new perspective.

You could get fun things to share with us as a community, help build rapport with us as players, AND increase productivity of employees.

Doesn't this sound like a win?

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

I never said we were coordinated.

Originally Posted by TheWeaver

This. There is apparently a militant wing of the casual community with which I'm unfamiliar. Seems pretty clear to me that the dev team understands COH's somewhat unique position in the market as an MMO you can treat as an occasional recreation and not a second job. If the forthcoming Incarnate stuff follows the same basic pattern as what they've already released then I don't see that changing.

Originally Posted by Cauda

While I certainly appreciated any community interaction from the Devs, I have to ask: will this wind up like Manticore's Ask A Lore Question thread?

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

GG, I know you think you're being helpful, but you're clearly an extrovert. Introverts can actually empathise with extroverts because the culture forces your point of view on us, so we have no choice but to do so. But you clearly simply do not understand what introversion is.

It's not a defect, it's not a deficiency. It's simply a difference. We are not inherently inept at dealing with people (many introverts that are are so largely due to lack of practice), we are not incapable of dealing with people (I work a help desk. I get paid to deal with people, and am surpassingly good at it, if my performance reviews of the past five years can be believed), we simply are drained by doing so.

Extroverts are recharged by going out and mingling with people; interacting with groups, friends and strangers all get an extrovert pumped and relaxed, making them able to continue on with whatever tasks they need to expend their mental energy on. Introverts are the reverse; dealing with people drains us, and we have to recharge by withdrawing. That difference doesn't cripple us - it's just a difference.

Just like some people train for marathons for fun, play sports for fun, or engage in any other tiring activity for fun, an introvert can interact with people for fun as well (I do it all the time). But just like no one can run a marathon constantly, an introvert cannot interact with others constantly.

With as much as modern American society enforces the idea that extroversion is the only norm and introverts are somehow broken, we are often forced into that interaction even when our reserves are already drained. Forcing us into that is a lot like forcing an exhausted marathon runner to run another mile - you're not helping any one, and are very likely to be doing active harm.

I know you mean well, but seriously: stop it. You're not helping.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Just think of it as a kind of therapy to help you come out of your shell

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

I have two Incarnates (and another two waiting for me to care to play them enough to get the shards to fill their unlocked slots) already, that I got through soloing and light TFing.

"Challenge" is the issue here; my VG still fails the occasional ITF/LRSF/BSF. Not everyone I play with can solo x8 content or AVs (like I can). "Challenges" that require not only a team, but a team of Incarnates each capable to tackling challenges above and beyond the standard +0x1 difficulty themselves are going to be content I cannot access.

Thus far, the only such content in the game is the Hamidon raid (thus only because I have no desire to ever be in the same place and working with 50 people simultaneously; as an introvert, that level of interaction would simply be far too tiring and stressful to be something I'm going to do in my spare time) which was added so long ago as to belong to a different era altogether (the Mothership raid requires less coordination and less interaction. Being a large scale war, you actually can just charge in and bash things (once the shield is down) enough to still rank as "participating".)

Nothing else in this game requires a team of highly skilled and coordinated players - nothing requiring even a fraction of such needed by the monster MMO that I quit playing because its endgame required such five years ago - to complete (though some of the content already exists at a level that it is by no small means a surety that it will be completed by any team that tackles it, as the highly casual players I team with can attest.)

The addition of such content is not something I welcome, relish, or desire. If nothing in the game ever existed beyond the "difficulty" of the Barracuda Strike Force (or the Lord Recluse Strike Force, or the Imperious Task Force, whichever you wish to view as the capstone content), I would be overjoyed.

The direction shown in i19 for end game content - something I'm not just going to ignore, because there is no reason I should have to ignore any content in this game; I haven't had to for six years, why should I have to start now? - is not one I welcome.

Tin Mage is ... okay, if you take out Director 11, who is just patently ridiculous. Apex is ... meh. The hydra pylons require specific builds or strategies, something mostly unprecedented and greatly unwelcome, and Battle Maiden is just a gimmicky "phased" fight of the sort that drove me away from other MMOs. Neither is an ideal direction I would like to see the game travel in.

More content along the lines of the ITF/LRSF (Barracuda would be okay if Reichsman had about a third the health he does; the ambushes and the temp powers to deal with them are actually pretty interesting, but beating down Reichsman is less so) would be welcome. More content along the lines of the Apex or Tin Mage Task Forces, however, would not.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

Brutes are not Tankers. Masterminds are not Tankers. Redside does not have a parallel to the Tanker, and I think the only reason Tanker didn't rate higher on that list is because Tanker is overall a less popular AT.