PVP is Alive and Well in City of Heroes!!!

Yeah believe it.

Ok, first of all let me say a huge thanks to Nakai for organising the RV event last night (Sat 31st) on Defiant. It was - as I'm sure all participants, red and blue alike will agree - a blast. A load of fun, played in great spirit, with a lot of fun and excitement and shiny shiny shiny badges!

Also big props to those villains who participated to help us get the shiny stuff and add some extra spice to the night.

Now, I've been a pretty harsh critic of PVP in this game. I've never claimed to be a great PVPer, I'm very much in the casual category and with a penchant for squishies so I guess I'll always struggle and frankly I wasn't impressed by the I13 changes. That said, last night worked fantastically, which leads me to draw something of a revised conclusion - maybe it doesn't actually matter what changes are introduced, provided that the participants are there to play in the right spirit.

That's not to say that all changes are now "ok" but it was really encouraging to see and the mechanics of the game didn't (to me at least) have any negative bearing on the event.

Maybe there's hope for PVP after all... or maybe it's just cuz it was on Defiant

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I tend to think of it this way: Even people who hate football and sports (Ie, me) can enjoy a kick about with their friends in a park.

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He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.

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This.

One of the main things that first attracted me to CoH was the fact that it had no PvP. But I still managed to have huge amounts of fun at FNFC.

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However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator

One evening with more than 2 people in a zone dont constitute alive and well sadly.

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Basically I think the community managers need to kick in and arrange a few good bashes, like the sirens invasion for pvp to take off.

If they did it on a regular basis, people would soon be expecting it and basically arrange it themselves if the CMs doesn't show up. I can't say I was much of a Bridger fan, but he did take part of the actual game, even of 'stone' will always win in my little world!

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Basically I think the community managers need to kick in and arrange a few good bashes, like the sirens invasion for pvp to take off.

If they did it on a regular basis, people would soon be expecting it and basically arrange it themselves if the CMs doesn't show up. I can't say I was much of a Bridger fan, but he did take part of the actual game, even of 'stone' will always win in my little world!

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Well nobody can say FNFC wasn't regular... and in that both Prox and I tried a few variations on a theme... I remember a lot of fun in Warburg one evening.

I firmly believe that if people try to organise events, then others will join in. But sadly not many do, and events don't happen spontaneously

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-looks around from marshalling his and someone elses Arachnos Regiments-

Just you wait, do-gooders! /em shakefist
It will happen. Bear with us.

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