Ukaserex

I guess what makes it bad is the fact that the end recovery will be impacted when they make the adjustment to correct it. Then, I'll have to respec, which I don't particularly enjoy.

Hmm, I guess I can just burn an unslotter and put in the regular kind, just hate to level up a toon, expecting to have a certain amount of end, and then, all of a sudden, i won't.

Actually, since I'm sure the other readers would like to know, I was in fact mistaken about who was doing the double boxing. In this case, it wasn't you. But, you aided in the cover up.

It was a Manticore task force and we had 7 players, the bare minimum. I was the last player, or second to last player to join.

Three of the other players were @kobato, @obsidian ram and yourself. @kobato's character had the star. The other 6 of us were in the map. The first mission was completed and the leader never made it to the mission. Well, real life happens, I get that. I waited. Half way through the 2nd mission, I ask the leader if he is ever going to get to the mission.

You replied with "Oh, he's taking a break for now." (or words very close to that)
A break from what? Then it occurs to me that based on your comment that you were trying sneak the dual boxing by the team - otherwise, you'd have mentioned it up front.
To be fair - you didn't have the star, @kobato (who is also @Obsidian Ram did) Still - instead of "taking a break", I would have expected someone like yourself to say "hey, we got tired of waiting for a 7th, so one of us is going to bring on an alt."

But, this was not the case. Both alts were on the team before I joined it. I cannot be certain, but seeing as the alt that wasn't being played had the star, I firmly believe that there was never a thought about NOT dual boxing, regardless of wait time for the team to form.

So sir, you see, I consider you dishonest. Do what you like on your own, but when you team with others, be up front about what you're doing.

For the record, it is not dual boxing that I have an issue with, it is the shameful way in which it was done.

Dual boxing to fill a task force is fine. Dual boxing to fill a task force and keeping said toon on that task force (instead of having that toon quit) and not disclosing said fact to the team before hand is not fine. At least not fine with me.

And note that I said if worst comes to worst - -meaning that it is, in fact, a worst case scenario. It is not what I would want to do, but if the player base can't come up with 6 level 50's and only comes up with 5, I'll ask someone to volunteer to switch to a 50. If no one does, I'll let people know up front that my level 50 will remain at point du hoc and moved only occasionally to prevent afk-logging off. There will be no "oh, that toon is taking a break" cover-up/flat out lying about what I'm doing. Not like you, sir.

And, if there are only 4 50s, I just won't lead it and find something else to do.

I think Tony has brought forward some things to ponder in an eloquent matter. Others have also made some solid points.

I think that our player base is a broad spectrum, a diverse group. Different ages, different socio-economic factors, etc.
The only way I think to assess how people will react to any given change is to look at similar changes in the past and see how things went.
Let's take a look at the iTrials. When BAF, Lambda and Keyes came out, I think it's safe to say that most preferred to do BAF. Why? For me, it's because it was fairly straightforward. There weren't many hoops to jump through to get the reward, unlike keyes - which initially, was an exercise in jumping around avoiding green death rays and a lot of repetition.

With a diverse playerbase that includes 6 year olds playing on their father's right side and single mothers that have asserted control over the account because their child has out grown the game, or no longer finds it fun for some reason and unemployed people who have a lot more free time than they'd like, answering the question is going to be different.

I'm thrilled for the solo path, because when I'm sort of tired and grumpy, I don't have to herd the cats. What an appropriate description that is sometimes! On my server, it would seem if I want to do an iTrial, or team,
I have to look through the global list and see who's solo and would like to come along. Invariable this will be 1 to 4, leaving me with having to fill the rest.
Because zone story arcs and tip missions don't have any greater significant reward at the end when teamed as opposed to solo, there is nothing that motivates me to put up with the recruiting delay.

And its more than just a recruiting delay -there's an incredible amount of "wife aggro", "baby aggro", "gotta put the kid to bed", "roommate tried to commit suicide", etc. On some teams, a teammate sitting out for a minute is not that big of a deal. Other times, because of bad team composition, a tank can make a bad team pretty good. Sadly, not much can be done about recruiting delay, except maybe have the contact assemble all members of the team to the first mission door, but nifty as that would be, it doesn't solve the problem.

We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us. There is no greater obstacle to teaming in this game than the player. We each have our goals for our characters. If there's "nothing in it" for our character to make us "feel" like teaming at that time, then there's not gonna be any teaming at that time.
For most (definitely not all players) forced teaming would be like summer camp. You wouldn't want to go, but once you got there and got in a routine and made some friends, you'd have some fun. Probably more fun than if you stayed home. (solo) However, there are always a few who are mal-adapted and just can't team up. Bad/old computers, physical maladies which inhibit game play in the typical manner, mental deficiencies, etc. are all reasons for some people not teaming. If it were forced, those people would likely become frustrated and quit.

After much thought, and getting bored (already!) with new DA, I'm up for a superteam starting in goldside.

I have 3 brand new level 1's that I made ahead of time, so they can accrue the patrol xp, and I'm in the process of crafting the IOs I like for all my lowbies to have until they get to blue side.

First ward is fine by me-- but only if I go blue side and join my sg first, which I'm pretty sure I can.

Sorry Noy - you may have misunderstood. I was suggesting 6 in total - one level 50 to lead each team. The use of buffs and debuffs would almost be mandatory - a SSK'd toon to level 49, against a level 54 Elite Boss is going to be either a very long fight, or a very quick one, with the level 49 losing without them.

You know this, I know this. But many of our playerbase have never heard of the purple patch. And they rarely look at league chat, because they're too busy drooling over their xp bar, watching it move.

I could be wrong, I very often am. But I have a strong suspicion that we'll have several players that show up with lowbies - but will be only too glad to switch, provided they can get back in zone.

And this is why they'll want to be sure to come with their higher level toons initially. (they may not get back in!)

People like Mystic Fortune and Tax E have both already expressed they're not concerned with XP, so that *could* be a couple of players that would show up. At a minimum, I suspect that their thinking is not very different from many other players. Should be a little shaky, but once in the bowl, all should be fine.

I'm thinking it would have had to be(arc/badge requirement) removed. The short time I spent on Beta was doing that trial with you - and we succeeded. And my character hadn't done any of the other content.