I16: Super-Sidekicking Explained

Bravo! The soloist in me thanks you!!

Can't wait for this change now!!

Hrm. This causes me a dilemma. I reeeally don't want to exemp down and lose all of my powers, and even more so I don't want to get invited to a team and then be like "I don't want to team with you because I don't want to get exemp'd. lolbye".

On the other hand, this update kinda removes the need to do any sort of leveling before you get the reward of some of the high level content such as the hazard zones and RWZ.

I dunno, I really want to like this feature, but there's bits of it I'm not agreeing with. If I can keep my powers (maybe scaled down somehow?), then I guess I'll be happy. Goodness only knows how I'll manage when one minute I'm fifty and the next I'm less than twenty with no stamina. >_<

Xegreny - Blaster|Level 50|Energy Blast Energy Manipulation Force Mastery|Vigilante
Taxibot REBIRTH - Defender|Level 50|Empathy & Sonic Blast & Psychic Mastery|Hero
Acton Blake - Dominator|Level 15|Electric Control & Electric Assault|Praetorian-Loyalist

Don't know if this has already been asked but will the level limit on Ouroboros still exist?

This is awesome Positron. Just as long as you fix that power loss thing for being a few levels ahead. Don't want to be punished for being 49 and playing a 47 mission.

PS. The email options sound good but I never use the character friends list because we have the global one and my friends have multiple character And my SG is so large it spans multiple supergroups so our "true" member roster is our global channel which ensures we all stay in touch regardless of our characters or which SG division we're in. See a pattern here? Being able to only accept mail from the Global friends list and being able to designate the denizens of global channels as "safe" would be great. (Or even better, why not make the email global too?)

It seems I'm in the minority on this, but I really don't like this change. It seems more like a knee-jerk reaction to AE destroying spontaneous grouping than anything else. Please tell me that boss farms are going to be nuked in to oblivion as a result of this change, because if it isn't then the only reason the hordes of AE babies are going to shamble out of Atlas is because of some shiny new badge that they have yet to doorsit for came out.

As soon as the email thing is added, I am turning it OFF on all my characters.

Could we have the OPTION to:

TURN OFF EMAIL on Entire Account

These are some quality changes! Can't wait to try them out.

Okay, not gonna read all of this thread right now, just gonna pop in my two cents.

LOVING all of this, especially the implication that power-loss when exemping might be fixed as it always irked me to join a team with someone, exemp down and not be able to fly, or effectively play as I had been for most of my recent career because I'm back down to one or two powers. If they've gotta be scaled down in power accordingly to access while exemp'd then so be it, I just want to be able to use them to relatively the same end.

The only thing that's making me a liiiiiittle one edge is the whole "20% more rewards in the lower levels" thing. I know it sounds fantastic and most people love the idea, I do too as it means I can join my friends with higher level toons sooner when I roll a new one, but what about story arcs that can be outleveled? I have yet to play through ANY of the epic archetype exclusive stories because I've been working on other toons and I'm worried that I might outlevel Sunstorm or Allen Deslock's missions and end up at a loss for what's suppose to be happening. Is there possibly going to be a re-adjustment to content that can be outlevelled to prevent this, or if we get close will we just have to switch off XP earning? I know I'm just another voice in the crowd but frankly I think any string of missions should be given the story arc treatment that once you've started it you can always come back to it even if you outlevel the contact. Maybe a little less obtrusive in that you can ignore it if you wish to, but you should be able to finish it. Like Veluta Lunata, I've heard of people getting up to her last one or two mishes and outlevelling her, which royally sucks.

Anywho, just my two cent initial reaction. Overall: AWESOME, just a little concerned about levelling TOO fast for us story-centric players.

Story people

Its quite easy to turn off your own exp, if you truely want to exp the story.
I turn mine off and then on and off and on, on my badge collectors.

Um... I like the idea of this "super sidekicking," but I'm a little concerned about the MANDATORY nature of the change. I liked fighting a couple of levels above what a mission is set for. It's not rare that I'll leave a mission behind and it will be a level or two below me. I don't feel like exemplaring to it, honestly. I also like levelling up mid-mission and suddenly seeing the rest of it become easier. I'm also terribly worried about what this will do outdoor travel, especially with exemparing put into account.

It's an interesting idea, but is fighting powerlevellers reason enough to make it mandatory?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.