Simple fix for those that have the idea of PvP base raids: Your base is flagged for attack by NPC mobs.
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Way I see it, if the trial has been backburnered due to fear of PvP, then change up the rewards a bit. Give a triumphant SG the option of either a trophy that offers a very minor buff or a trophy that carries a full-strength Item of Power buff, with only the latter making you a raid target (and no, the PvE reward does not stack with multiple successful trials).
I am also in utter agreement that we need content for the Supercomputer, especially blueside. Bill's idea of making new base items the reward for said content is, to put it mildly, bloody brilliant.
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I don't think it's "fear of PVP" so much as (a) requiring a lot of work rebuilding it from the ground up and (b) a low, low, low percentage of the population that's, quite honestly, interested in PVP - specifically interested enough to redesign their base around it - as well as (c) the fact they'd have to change base pathing *again* which could seriously tick off even more people - the "hardcore base builders" as well as the casual... basically, a good chunk of everyone with an SG base. |
Originally Posted by MartyRallner
Way I see it, if the trial has been backburnered due to fear of PvP, then change up the rewards a bit.
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It's not a position I'd want to be in, quite frankly. Something's going to break somewhere, at this point.
That said, there are people who want to base raid, who want a COP-ish trial, and I hope they find a way to bring something similar in.
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| I am also in utter agreement that we need content for the Supercomputer, especially blueside. Bill's idea of making new base items the reward for said content is, to put it mildly, bloody brilliant. |
Though it's just, to me, common sense - it's a SG task (or several,) the SG as a whole should get a reward.
Not saying "No, don't bring back the CoP or something similar." But the fact it would open your base up to raiding, and you up to PVP in those raids, is enough to keep people from doing it. Yes, I know, for others it'd be the entire point, but I don't see it being reason for all that many SGs to do so. Especially with the base pathing turned off (or down) like it is now. PVP just isn't particularly popular in COH.
That said, I'd like to see more SG-oriented "stuff" anyway. There's no reason, blueside, to have an oracle/mission computer at all, and only one SF redside. (Even with the COP type trial back, for many groups there wouldn't be.) I'd like to see a mix of single, small group, full group, and multigroup missions/TFs/trials added in there anyway. Let them reward other SG items, functional or decorative.