Increasing lvl cap, is it to be done?
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Posted on: 2008-10-17 22:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I think it would be awesome, but they seem to be keen on adding more features at the moment rather than more levels/content.
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No I dont think they will, they've said a few times that it's not on the agenda. Then again you never know.
Personally I'd hate to have to start pushing my 50s up another XP hill, more powers make the characters unwieldy and they're generally powerful enough at level 50 to deal with all situations (a lot of times I'm wishing for more slots rather than powers at the higher levels)
Still we shall see.
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More enhancement slots might be possible at some point, but not anytime even remotely close. I am sure most of us know a place or two where we would like just one more.
i got a strange feeling they may be saving some sort of possible lvl cap increase and payed for expansion for once the dc mmo and CO hits to bring old players back and get the name out there again
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And make all the purple recipes useless? This isn't WoW, where you make your character good until the next update make him/her rubbish again.
Assuming they did make it 60, how long do you think it'll be before you're saying "raise it to 70"?
This discussion is very old.... Here and on the us forums.
The playerbase óbviously don't want it (the majority of the forum users that is). What they had done in the past is raising the power levels of 50's by other means.
- xp to lvl 50
- IO sets for set bonusses
- Purple IO set for higher set bonusses
Things being mentioned are ...
- Global IO set for set bonus working on all
- More craftable recipes for temp powers (maybe some only to be used/dropped by 50's, like the purples)
Personally I would hate to go the WOW route.
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The devs have stated many times that they have no intention of ever raising the level cap. Doing so is a false economy as they would have to spent months and months crafting new content, new powers, new animations, a new GUI for the slots etc; all for something that people would play through in a week or two and then be screaming for more.
The effort involved just isn't worth it.
Instead, they gave us inventions. Through these we can continue to progress our characters and improve their abilities beyond basic level 50 stats. There is plenty of content to play through in the game, and in any case, CoX is not like WoW, where the game STARTS at the level cap for most people. CoH is all about the journey, and rolling alts to experience as much of it as possible.
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I agree, CoH is all about alts... so for a altaholic like myself it is a very good game, especially since they increased the number of slots available ( I actually left at one point because I didn't want to delete any characters ).
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Well is it being considered by the devs?
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Hopefully not. They've said no many a time in the past and the reasoning against a cap-rise trumps the reasoning for - or it does as long as the devs come up with things for 50s to do. There are much better ways to expand characters without raising the level cap.
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Are they thinking of increasing the lvl cap to 60-70?
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Gawd - I hope not. See above.
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Players are getting bored (I hear it alot in the game) and want more powers more diversity and more balance between AT's etc.
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I also hear lots of players in the game say:
* don't click the glowies in the CoH respec
* get him in the water!
* Don't eat yellow snow.
You'll no doubt know that, whilst not always bad advice, there's often no real reasoning behind what players say. Treat the views of players in game as you would co-workers (or the rest of the class if you're still at school): Sometimes they may be right but maybe not significantly more than your average beagle. Generally it's safer to treat them as well-intentioned imbeciles better for amusement value than for facts.
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The lvl cap being increased would help improve the game, thats my advice =)
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Y'know, I don't know why I still read these threads 
The answers always the same.
Maybe it's just to see if there are any choice insults thrown in there that I can copy down for personal use later Though pretty much everyone here is far above that unless it's been a particularly bad day.
On topic though, look at it this way. A level cap increase is technically possible, looking at other games, but there's no justifiable storyline reason to do so. At level 45-50 you are already saving the planet/metaverse from the most dangerous threats out there. See A Hero's Hero arc and the RWZ for example. That to just suddenly bump on 10 or even 20 levels of stuff saying, "Yeah, good job, but look at THIS as an even more evil and diabolical plot by an even more dangerous bad guy than anything mentioned up to this point in the whole game."
So yeah, it could be done, but without massive amounts of work and rewrites of the whole game would just be an add on that no one has ever heard of. Unless of course those particular arcs I mentioned get moved to the new level cap, in which case all the existing 50's are probably gonna have to do those arcs all over again... 
well, you know, ask a silly question, get a silly answer.
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Players are getting bored (I hear it alot in the game) and want more powers more diversity and more balance between AT's etc.
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People are bored not because of diversity and balance between AT's. Heck, raising the lvl cap would even further the balance between AT's. They are bored because they go through the same mission maps, same old "rescue/kidnap him/her" and "get/steal x".
When raising the lvl cap you've got to look and think. It may sound all awesome at first but at the end of the day when you raise the lvl cap you:
1. Make people who dont want to play their old 50s again play them.
2. Make our l33t lvl 52 or whatever SOs useless.
3. Make people having to spend more on builds.
At the end of the day, it's about what raising the lvl caps actually do to the people with lvl 50s. If they ever raise the lvl cap then my 50 Ill/Sonic Troller will stay where he is.
When you reach 50, you get a sigh of relief that you've done what you set out to do. You've made friends and you've learned along the way - you've learned what you needed to know, the hard way. People simply aren't ready to go on these characters again.
Do you think WoW is any better because they raised the level cap? Well, I don't believe that. In fact, if they ever did raise the level cap, I would probably leave.
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In fact, if they ever did raise the level cap, I would probably leave.
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You know, considering some of the very recent arguments for and against this, I wholeheartedly support this now. In fact, it should be implemented today!!!!
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If level cap was raised i'd be finshed with COH.
The games got a fine level cap, it does NOT need to be raised.
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The developers have said several times that there are no plans to raise the level cap. And last I heard, one of them said that even *if* they were to do it there would still not be more powers or enhancement slots to pick from.
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Also I like to point out that theres already been a level cap raise since back in early US beta the maximum level was lvl 40 and thus Ancillary pools was born! So I also don't think they have any plans to raise the level cap any time soon
You know, serious answer, I would only ever like this idea if they raised the cap to 100 from 50 and put in a whole new game's worth of content in to make the whole thing worthwhile.
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Well is it being considered by the devs?
Are they thinking of increasing the lvl cap to 60-70?
Players are getting bored (I hear it alot in the game) and want more powers more diversity and more balance between AT's etc.
The lvl cap being increased would help improve the game, thats my advice =)