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It'd stop if they did their job and healed people properly! ;-)

He didn't, but the contract he did sign forces him to wear a replica Castle costume when at the office and when attending CoH/V related events. I hear the most annoying part is having to spirit gum on the goatee every morning.

Right back at you. Meaningful content is in the eye of the beholder.

You can make the argument that unless you play through every mission with every single possible powerset combination and on every variation of team composition, then you haven't experienced all the content in CoH/V. Although technically true, it is holding the content levels to an extremely liberal standard that is unrealistic. There might be content, but it isn't significantly different from what has been previously experienced.

My major interest is in canon storylines, of which there has been extremely limited updates for a while now. I16 continues that trend. I don't see I16 as a weak issue per se, but it is one that doesn't add much to CoH/V for me. That it lets players change their power colours and is a farmer's paradise doesn't add much to my gaming experience.

Story content. I15's sole TF per side was pretty weaksauce (and yeah, I do get that it was meant to be an anniversary treat, but here was one of the most requested characters in CoH/V lore and he gets a pretty lousy storyline and goes down like a chump. No build up, no excitement, just "Here's Reichsman, go show him a beat down"). A revamped zone. Something new to play through in a lore kind of way. New powersets for ATs - although exciting - aren't enough when I feel I've already played the content numerous times. And I'm a bit burned out on AE as well, which is why I wanted to see something dev created.

No. I try to keep an even hand on what I compliment and what I criticise.

No. Just do what I say when I say it. And like it.

I'm very easy to please if you do that. ;-)

Don't you understand that if a MMO launches without loot it is going to fail in less than six months? CoH needs loot if it wants to survive! ;-)

Yeah, proclamations of death on the forums are a tradition going back a long way.

My point was that although a popular change with existing players and maybe a small draw to new players, exited players who left for any reason are unlikely to be draw back just to turn their electricity black. The major complaint about CoH/V is that there is a lot of repetition in running mission maps over and over and over again, particularly on the same maps. It is a major complaint that hasn't been addressed since something like Issue 2 iirc, where early level mobs had some custom maps added that better reflected their origins. It isn't sexy, it probably isn't going to set the boards on fire, but that's what CoH/V needs. More map types with some neat tricks we haven't seen before.

This is why I believe GR really needs to bring something new to CoH/V. If it is doing the exactly same thing we can do currently in CoH and CoV, but with a change of scenery, then it isn't going to hold onto players who are coming back to test the waters. I fully expect GR to include public quests, but there are a number of neat tricks that already exist in CoH/V that are used as one-offs yet really add to the game (like the 'Trap Sprung' event in the Hess(?) TF, or the storyline in the Vangard missions complete with cutscenes, and so on).

Mathematically: yes. Practically: no.

I hope not, because an evil version of Blue Steel is a lot more fun to contemplate than yet another robot army.

It's a nice model, but we will grow bored with destroying them by the truckloads within the first week of GR's launch. However, what it does say is that there is a Praetorian version of the Clockwork King. Unless the King is good - that's always a possibility. I've always thought that the CK and Dr Vahzilok would make good resistance fighters against Tyrant's regime.

Were I evil, I'd suggest that it would make a lot of sense for Tyrant to keep the Clockwork King locked up, keep Mother Mayhem messing with him and use the Clockwork Army for free.

The other thing that model strikes me as is just a little bit... Nemesis.

I agree with this. There is no new content to play through, so it's not something I've gotten excited about.

This is the internet, where women you'd crawl over broken glass for in real life are dismissed with a "she's only a 9.5 out of 10, so not up to my usual standards".

So Swan is too fat, Sister Psyche's hair is too red and Dominatrix isn't harsh enough.

So, anecdotally you're sick of anecdotal evidence? ;-)

Going back to the original point - Freakshow having their xp rates reduced means very little. The farmers / powerlevellers will just move on. Battle Maiden appears to be the current preferred option of some farmers.

And again I find it odd that the devs make a change like this while also opening up the ability to set mission difficulty levels up for maximum farmage.

THE COH/V MOVIE WILL NOT HAVE MUSICAL SECTIONS.

I'll be damned if I'm going to watch a Statesman / Lord Recluse duet and dance number.

I thought about that, but the point is if the publisher can cut the dev staff once, it can certainly do it again. Post CoV there was a boxed expansion announced at the same time Positron was made lead dev. It was quietly dropped several months later. Why even announce it if Cryptic knew they'd be cutting their own resources on CoH/V?

It is all ancient history though and the fighting of wars that have already been fought.

This is the same argument DCUO is using the justify their lack of power colour customisation at this point.

Again, if people want to see D_R release more materials, you need to cough up money to help cover the costs.

Not sure if you've looked there D_R but http://www.istock.com was selling royalty-free audio.

First off, farming generates influence regardless of drops. This is always going to see prices at the overall level go up as only a small proportion (5%, I think) exits due to market fees. Other inf sinks - prestige conversion, contacts, etc - probably don't significantly eat up enough inf to ever meet the ever flowing ocean of inf into CoH/V. An improved ability to farm is only going to see inflation rates go up.

More purples would be cheaper purples, if they all actually made it to market. Some do. Some end up slotted on the many alts people play with. Some go to guild mates. Demand is pretty much always going to strip supply with regards to purples, so prices will continue to rise overall (as they have been doing since they were introduced).

More salvage doesn't equal cheaper salvage when the dedicated farmer knows what to keep and what to trash. As return rates change for certain salvage, so will farmers change what they farm. A lot of salvage / recipes earned by farmers are trashed so have no impact on the market.

Some IO sets might see costs deflated as supply increases, but these are ones with low levels of demand. IO sets that are seen as desirable (or particular recipes for popular frankenslotting) will - as you stated - get more expensive. Farming probably isn't going to change this, except perhaps for what is to be increasing in value with powerset proliferation changes.

I'm also assuming that there are more characters involved in CoH/V than there were 6 months ago or so - more characters means higher levels of demand which in turn drives prices up. When Going Rogue hits and brings with it a heap of new players and characters prices will go up then too. Marketeers will benefit from such changes, but for casual players it puts an increasing number of IOs out of reach.