Tshober

Wow! The whining in this thread is incredible. Get a grip people. This is CoX. It's the only MMO where you don't NEED any of this uber [censored] to be a viable hero or villian at level 50. That's right, your level 50 is still viable for all content in the game at the highest level with ZERO merits and no IO sets at all. Think about that. In other MMO's you are required to have the top loot just to do the uber content.

Whining that it will take you longer to attain uberness, that you don't really need to enjoy the game anyway, seems to be a bit over-dramatic to me. It's a game. Playing it longer should mean you are having more fun, not less, particularly if it does not prevent you from enjoying all of the content. I like leveling and gaining in power as much as anyone but if you are treating your character's progress as a destination, instead of as a journey, you are cheating yourself. And when you treat it as journey, it really does not matter all that much how long it takes.

I really don't give a crap about merits, or IO sets for that matter, so my play will not change at all. As long as they are not required to enjoy the game, I will continue to not care about how long it takes to acquire them.

There are both advantages and disadvantages to creating your characters on the busiest servers. The advantages are, most of the time, there are more players to team with or to gank. The disadvantages are there are more players, particularly during events, to make server performance suffer. You take the good with the bad.

Other large MMO's try very hard to encourage you to make your characters on their lower utilized servers. Some even offer free moves from overpopulated servers to underpopulated servers. I see this as really no different than any other MMO. They all have imbalance issues.

I play on Virtue, Infinity, and Victory and, not surprisingly, I have had many more problems on Virtue than on the other two over the years (though I had no major problems this weekend on any of them).

I agree with much of what you said but I think I would have done it in 3 paragraphs, rather than 30 or so.


Brother Tshober