Ready for an influx of new players? Make the game even more newb and solo friendly!

Simple fact is there is a large chunk of players who want to be able to solo. Getting teams together and keeping them intact is often frustrating when you got a kid to take care of or are on limited time or you just want to take breaks between missions.

Lots more people will be attracted to this genere ala Champions Online. Lots will get frustrated with the forced grouping dynamics. Many will be directed here.

As it stands now, AE missions provide good soloing ability to level 50, however, the ability to take a ingame mission to -1 and -2 from the fate vendor might work. Dropped enhancements should also be +4 so they are actually useable.

Also, better explaination and instructions for getting a travel power should be explained in the generator. Maybe even open the travel powers up at level 6- that's the one thing that hooks in new players as it makes the game 1000% more fun and playable.

I am puzzled- this is an extremely solo-friendly game. Where do you perceive forced grouping?

SOme opponents, even as Elite Bosses, are tough, especially for some ATs, and there are the few multi-click adventures. But in general? Anyone can solo.

I think what they are getting at is CO has forced grouping and that will upset a lot of the soloist that go there, in turn sending them here.

What I'm confused about it whats this really asking?
We're already getting all this and some chips with the update to the difficulty slider in Issue 16.

This game has always been solo friendly, after i16 it'll be even more so.

Well, mainly this was posted to warn the developers not to listen to the small but vocal minority that wants to nerf the AE and force more super grouping into the game.

Now would be the worst possible time to cave to the people whining about not being able to find PUs anymore.

I also feel that many new players have been lost to this game because it does start out pretty difficult for a new player. Leveling to 14 is the most tedious part of the game, constantly running out of endurance and having to street travel with sprint. You really do not feel like a super heroe at this point. A few wrong choices in powers and now the new player is looking at what seems forever to get his travel power and stamina. No respec until 24.

For veteran players this is all meaningless. But I do feel it's the first 20 levels or so that should be made even easier with architypes like brute and scrapper pretty much hand held in the direction of stamina and a travel power each level.

Let people coming out of CO start soloing around quickly with actual super powers and not constanty resting for endurance. This would tend to retain many more of them. Maybe get rid of training enhancements and just replace em with DOs then drop SOs to 18. And explain to new players about the 3 enhancement cap. Something that major should be documented in game. Perhaps even a easy to obtain and solo respec quest at level 12, and bumping stamina over health in the fitness pool.

I think a problem with this game is it seems really tedious for the first 20 levels and then, if you made your build right, it totally kicks ***. I personally have a few friends who have tried this game and did not continue past the first 20 levels. It would not effect overall balance in any way to simply make the lower and tedious levels into easy mode.

Just some thoughts...

Nobody told me I should have been forced into a group when the mission giver advised me to bring some friends along. Usually I'd just throw my head back and laugh in an heroic/villainous* maner and did the mission by myself.

*Delete as appropriate

This looks like a thinly-veiled complaint about changes to curb farming, after its subsequent posts.

I'd be in favor of a travel power being available much earlier than 14 - and I'm not sure it'd upset the balance of the power pools that much either.Maybe open up the travel pools at the avatar creation process instead of 6, so you'd pick your primary power set, your secondary power set, and your travel pool, so you could take like Hover right from level 1, and then at 5 or 6, you'd get your second pick from your travel pool, which would match up nicely with you being sent out into the wider city after you'd done the starting zone.

Which CoH have you been playing?

With the ability to turn the difficulty into friggin' -1 to your level soloing has NEVER been easier. Issue 16 will bring faster lower leveling, violent art, and a new teaming system.

And why the heck are you complaining about not being able to run the AE in issue 16?

As a 60 month vet you get access to actual travel powers at level 6 when the pools open. No OTHER pool powers that way, but the 4 travels.

And there are a lot of us, actually...

But yeah you can still get a reasonable ability to get around at level 5 or 6 doing mayhem/safeguards, and if you act appropriately polite and sensible about it you can just get on a supergroup with a teleporter setup.Travel is not an issue, really.