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Issue 13 Power and Responsibility Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Issue 14 Architect Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Issue 15 Anniversary Monday, June 29th, 2009

Issue 16 Power Spectrum Tuesday, September 15th, 2009


not sure how those factor into the quarter dates .

that's what i don't understand

"the Incarnate system"

so are characters are gonna be as strong as statesmen and recluse since they are Incarnate?

"what' up with that, i don't know"

the Going Rogue system is for 20-50

posi said the 1-20 stuff happens in praetoria so the 20-50 is ....a what?

"i don't know"

doesn't really give me warm fuzzes, if i don't know what i'm buying .

sounds about right .

content wise it has been lacking for awhile and let's face it ...less than stellar design decisions that has changed the game for the worse, yeah AE i'm looking at you.

I haven't purchased going rouge ...i'm in the waiting and seeing crowd things haven't been fully explained, but i know this if the max level you can get is 1-20 i'll probably pass it entirely since getting to that is a walk in the park.

i'll try an explain it another way in reference to your post .

in the past it use too take planning on what contacts you wanted to get certain badges for accolades and most of the times multiple deaths getting exp loss so you didn't miss a certain contact .


the way contacts where set up you would miss some missions unless a friend had them ...which was a good thing.

social interaction,teaming,challenge,missed content.

issue 11 ruined that .

it made things easy

it made the content worthless because you could hit 50 and go threw all the arcs and get rewarded with "oreo badges".

no longer was there any planing on what contacts you would hit up ,or discussions with missions or challenge in any way it made badgering worthless ...now getting badges are just a number back then it was "oh wow how did they get that".

and this is just with "issue 11" i have had gripes all the other issues all the way up till issue 17 but with the other i don't have a deep a gripe because in all actually not much has been really added to the game far as content the one good thing though with issue 17 is they have excellent mission arcs .

"edit: i know task force's have been added ,but i don't consider that content same goes with AE i don't consider that content either the on going game lore didn't progress fan fiction doesn't count"

for the record

i'm just saying the quality of life couldn't be better ,in fact it maybe too good !

now if development would work issue's that revolve around something that resembles a comic book and do that for atleast 10-12 issues i would be happy.

^ fateweaver/hero corp worked just fine before the change

it helps high level solo farmers ,it has no use for a low level ...what's a level 10 gonna do solo versus a mission set for +8 ....i'll tell ya ,nothing but cuss

so hows the teaming going ?

was the game better before or after all these fancy changes?

i would go with before ,but that's just me

that's your prerogative and i respect that.

but i have an opinion and that was what this thread was about so i thought to contribute .

if you don't want to read my comments feel free not to read my run on sentences

i remember back when issue 11 dropped and people said the same thing about how much "value the issue was" and back then i couldn't understand why people said that .

i'll break down ...both issue faults

issue 11
added absolutely nothing to the game in fact it took alot from the game itself previously you had to take certain routes to visit certain contacts if you wanted certain badges or you would miss out i remember visiting red tomax's site trying to do the best course of action to receive certain missions.

which made not all contacts available on one play threw on the path to 50 ...you needed either to shout in zones or talk too friends if they had certain missions which added some challenge to the game .

also note you didn't have access to all the contacts or missions you had actual variety plus hidden contacts..

when issue 11 dropped all that went away missions and contacts could easily be re done what made it worse is they actually gave you badges for doing the flashback missions

inadvertently doing all the content available in the game ...nothing was new anymore .


issue 16

adds nothing either far as content being able to change the colors too powers ....and that's it .

and the Enhanced Difficulty Options which itself just alienates teams more and is basically only good really for someone that's farming .


for real go back and check the issue's and you can see a trend in the quality of issue's

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_10

issue 10 was awesome ..then it progressively got into the realms of more detail went into costume packs than actual issues.

but like i said i expect going rouge to pull people back into the game.

i noticed this thread a couple days ago and i agree with this post ,but i would like to add i think people in general do care about this game "alot" but the devs just haven't added anything really worth to keep people's interest since around issue 12-13 things started to go south.

i know i started to lose interest with issue's that revolved around changes to pvp ,dayjobs?, Architect entertainment , change your power colors ...mix match power set's or the new shadows and shiny windows issue.

whatever happened to the coming storm? ...or the moonbase...or that thing where you could view your character from the webpage i forgot it's name...but it was in development.

or what about i don't know maybe upgrading the existing maps for missions like say a new maps to run threw cept the same sewer cave and office building cet feeling fancy and updating the ui every other issue >.>

10,000 people dropped by when issue 17 hit the 28 of april ....i'm guessing people are waiting for going rouge because well it is actually something new for a change .

but for me, i resubbed today because of boredom ,not because of the new issue last time a new issue actually did interest me was issue 10 invasion.

i resubbed a couple days before i16 was released and noticed the zones that less people where in it.

.....and when i16 was release a time when the zones are usually packed when a issue is released, i didn't notice much if any changes in player numbers .


there just wasn't many people on....and haven't been compared to the way it use to be .


i don't know why people are giving you a hard time with this,it's obvious player number are down.

i for one would love to continue "the coming storm" storyline or findout who that mysterious person is that is leaving notes in the Ouroboros missions.

maybe even take that trip to the fabled moon base that was mentioned ?

stuff like that would get me excited ....the mission architect didn't and hasn't appealed to me ....because it's just using the same maps "office building,cave,sewer," you can't make something from scratch your just using the same maps you have ran threw hundreds of times already.

you mention issue 10 and i for one loved that one it was awesome i been waiting for another issue like that...the invasion when it first happened was really fun ..collecting merits to get costume pieces,badges ...missions ..

it added more than people think http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_10

that's what i'm talking about and totally turned me off playing this game.

i'll explain i play on villain side and i was excited about finally being able to get the troll badge
Regenerator.

because the only way you can get it is well paper mission from 10-20 with a team size of 8.

ok so i repeatably did the mission solo and got the badge and that was it.

was the experience fun?

not really and then i started to realize that i was plotting what badges i could obtain next now that i was able too set the team size ...and i stated to think ....do i really want to level a toon just too collect badges again.

not really.

collecting badge's can be time consuming ....but i can honestly say fun never actually factored in it.

more like "it was something to do"

that's why i say i hope they add some new content soon ....yeah this stuff they added in this issue is ok ....but in hindsight is the stuff added worth spending a monthly fee waiting until another "soon" content laden issue and or expansion comes out ,no not really.

when that happens i'll be happy to shell out the fee.

edit: cough or if pvp was changed back before it was issue 13