kusanagi

From what I saw of the game during my trial period, I get the distinct sense of someone deliberately repeating things that turned out not to work in practice in CoX in order to prove he'd been right the first time.

That line of thought /rarely/ ends well.

And that's where you lost me.

Unless of course they'd want to play something other than a fire/kin controller, a /smoke grenade blaster, or a perma-MoG or perma-Elude scrapper.

Most of those powers were adjusted for a REASON.

No, they wouldn't, because Villains didn't exist at launch and CoV was only added around Issue 6.

Also, the level cap would be at 40, there'd be no PVP, no Icon, no Eden, no Hydra trial, no respec trial, no Peregrine Island, no Portal Corp, no revamped Faultline, no zillion other things that have made the game so much better since launch.

Good god, that's one of the worst "professionally" designed sites I've seen in weeks.

There wouldn't /be/ any Brutes in "pre-ED" issues. Villains didn't exist before Issue 6.

Er, the last time I went through the Barracuda SF I was fighting Axis Amerika soldiers...

HELL.

No.

A lot of what I saw in my brief trial of CO very much gave me the impression he's trying what I generally call "to prove he was right the first time" -- IE, he's doing the exact same things that didn't work out because if he can make them work /this/ time he'll be vindicated and can blame the fact that they didn't work the first time on the people who called him off of it.

... But IIRC, at or around launch day they had to slap certain defensive powers with the nerf hammer so hard people's ears are still ringing...

As I recall, they really, REALLY wanted to give people some reason to 'upgrade' to Vista since the consensus was that XP pretty much had everything casual users and most gamers needed from their OS.

Of course, Vista turning out to be a major crock didn't help their case, and they burned a /lot/ of credit trying to force it on people.

In CoH, that happens a lot of the time in newer content, except without the "everyone freezes in place" bit. Try the final mission of the Faultline arc, for an excellent example.

The devs have the tech for cutscenes, and do sometimes add them in... But the problem with cutscenes is that they get old pretty fast.

... You /have/ been around long enough to see the Devs working hard to smooth out the leveling curve, right?

What you're proposing is making your extra ten levels one big grindfest by making it take ages to get to the next level. This isn't WoW, kindly refrain from trying to make it so.

If you'd bothered to search the boards, you might have noticed that raising the level cap comes up every so often. It's a bad idea every single time, and it's a bad idea now, and always for the same core reason:

"Okay, assume this goes through and you get to level 60. Then what?"


Raise the level cap again? Add even more "over the top" powers that will have to be balanced against everything else in the game including the already 'over the top' powers gained in 50-60?

Going that route's an endless treadmill, and forces the devs to devote more and more resources to the artificial 'endgame', leaving less and less for the lower levels.

Instead, the devs are trying to come up with things to do that allow people at the level cap to grow their characters without just raising the bar - and hopefully without excluding everyone who isn't at the cap just yet.

You say "integrated within the game proper" but I hear "effectively forced PVP" and if you think PVP as is is "impopular", it'll look like an open-armed embrace compared to the response to any suggestion that PvP should be crammed down everyone's throats so we'll learn to like it or leave...

Two hours later:

Good grief, dude. WARN people before sending them there...

Every time I run into him on a new character I can't help but think of him as Captain Not In The Face.

I mean, seriously, can't you just hear him frantically say that when he's about to get clobbered?

Thank you for condescendingly and summarily dismissing the every single good point the opponents of this idea have made, not just in this thread but in every single thread regarding this topic that's come up on a regular basis.

Also, thank you for implying that the devs would have to be short-sighted or stupid not to implement this; after all, when has being polite ever gotten anyone anywhere?