ZeroMorph

Mez Res? When I was in arena with my 2 accounts I looked and saw all 0's for Mez Res and Protection. Check it again, maybe something changed from last time you were on, or maybe I'm misunderstanding you.

But you are absolutely right, if they would implement a way to shut off the rest of their silly rules Arena would be a beatiful thing, and alot of PVPers would probably come back myself included.


Below is a collection of Questions written to Floyd "Castle" Grubb back in October of last year asking him about the new i13 PVP rules. I found this very interesting, check it out.

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Concerned Fan: "Why should you be rewarded when you have put no effort into something?
That's a Rule of Life, work for what you want, it's not just going to be handed to you."

Castle: "Any competent PVPer should be able to beat any "casual" player using identical characters more often than not. Your "work" results in better skills and situational knowledge in terms of PVP encounters. The fact that you also know how to build a character so that it performs better in PVP is another aspect of your "work" paying off.

These changes should mean that the disparity between an average player and a PVP spec'd hardcore Player is lower.

Exactly how easy do you want your kills to be, anyway?"
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Concerned Fan: "Because in high level PvP, where you have a ladder and rankings....no one's gonna bring an AR/Ice blaster.

Those kind of matches at the "high" end are "for real" as one would say. So you bring your A game, not your 'lol' build, your best."

Castle: "See this right here? THAT is what I am trying to fix. "For Real?" "LOLBuild?" Totally should not be the way things work. And, right now, that *is* how it works.

We won't get this perfect. But we definitely want to make it so that there are far fewer "lolbuilds" and a far greater variety of things that work in PVP"
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Concerned Fan: "The general reaction I'm seeing is that there are varying degrees of dislike for these changes except for travel suppression. This is uniformly being singled out as a terrible change that will make this part of the game unappealing to both the current crowd and those that currently don't enter into PvP for whatever reasons they may have."

Castle: "You are correct. It is nearly unanimously hated.

It was NEVER our intention for bunny hopping to bypass the old suppression, nor is it our intention to let it bypass the new suppression, although this may be unpreventable at the moment. It was NEVER our intention that Speed Boost/Siphon Speed/etc. could move about unsuppressed; we just didn't have a method of preventing it prior to issue 6, and never wanted to revisit the issue without other changes after that.

Some form of movement suppression will be instigated into PVP. The points of discussion are how slow/fast it should allow movement to be and how it should affect Teleportation (I'm not happy with shutting it off completely, but have not found a better solution yet.)"
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OMG can you believe this guy? Floyd "Castle" Grubb knows that everyone hates the new PVP system and clearly doesn't care?!?!? In fact he doesn't even address the fan's concerns about how everyone hates the new rules, he simply agrees with the fan then starts talking about travel supression. His liberal nonsense of "Everyone should have an equal chance at kills regardless of dedication and hard work of the hardcore pvper" floors me.

He obviously doesn't understand that alot of fans take PVP VERY seriously and doesn't understand the concept of an "LOLBuild" or "ForReal" because he is so out of touch with City of Heroes PVP culture.

I hate to say this about a developer but this idiot clearly has no business developing MMOs and should be fired!!!

But like I said before, you don't solve a problem by taking away something from one group that has had whatever it was for the past 12 issues, and give it to another group. That just makes no sense and is bad business.

Here's an anology:
Big Brother is eating a candy bar and little brother wants it. You don't solve the problem by taking away big brother's candy bar and giving it to little brother, no you simply give little brother his own candy bar. Make sense?

You don't take away PVP from hardcore PVPers and give it to noob PVPers, no you simple create a new PVP zone dedicated to noob PVPers. There were 100 better ways to implement this and the Dev's chose non of them. They alienated one group to make another group happy when they didn't have too, it's madness.

Simple fix, "Block ALL Challenge Requests" Now you don't have to decline because nobody can invite you.

I'm not talking about heroes fighting villains, at least not at first. Before Going Rogue comes out this would be a solution for heroes to challenge heroes in PVE zones with PVE rules, and Villains challenging Villains in PVE zones with PVE rules. After Going Rogue comes out then Villains and Heroes could challenge each other as well.

For Heroes and Villains to challenge each other pre-Going Rogue, we would have to have a PVE option setting for arena battles in Pocket D, I don't see any other way around that, and maybe in the future they could setup a PVP zone with PVE rules.

And sure the Devs may be making changes to the PVP system in every issue, but if you try to improve something thats broken and it's still broken, it's not really an improvement is it.

And last but not least, the PVP system IS clearly broken, simply read the monumentous cries of anger and frustration on the boards. They took something away from one group and gave it to another group, this is not how you solve problems. They should've added to the game, not replaced.