Post 50 powergain. Or "The dreaded level cap!"

kusanagi · 09-14-2009 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ToySoldierZolgar

But can you propose any fair method of increasing the "power cap", without it either leading to an endless grind, or requiring the devs to CONSTANTLY add new end-game content.

Think about this line for a while. Really think about it thoroughly.

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Sardan · 09-14-2009 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by CoyoteShaman

Don't I recall an interview pertaining to GR that said they're going to be introducing a post-50 advancement mechanism involving special enhancement-type slots? I recall it saying you will be able to get up to ten of them (no indication of how) and that each one would allow for some kind of significant advantage to the character. I'm almost certain I didn't dream that. Can anyone back me up on that?

EDIT: found the interview. It was with Boomtown.net with Positron (Matt Miller):

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Boomtown: Looking forward the first paid expansion has been announced – Going Rogue. Please explain to our readers what the new expansion will bring.

Matt Miller: I can’t release much information yet. Hopefully the name alone, Going Rogue, provides a good foreshadowing to what the game will encompass. But among other things there will be new zones, the ability to switch a hero to a villain and vice versa,and difficult tasks for level 50 characters to do that make them more powerful. (emphasis added)

More recently the dev presentation at San Diego Comicon reconfirmed it. This video is showing key goals of Going Rogue; at 1:37 is where they confirm GR will have a way to get "a more powerful level 50" along with "a compelling new end game".

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Originally Posted by Shadow State

Perhaps you're thinking of the Universal Enhancemant Slots from the Marketing Survey?

That's my guess. Here's a link, for folks who haven't seen it before. The particularly stupid phrasing of the article's headline caused a great deal of pointless debate in the forums before. The story was first posted when several users leaked the survey on the forums and it got its headline of "alleged survey". Later, community mods confirmed it was from NCsoft but they never changed the story's headline. [Note that even though the story includes the Mission Architect, power customization, and the going rogue side-switching ability, Babs pointed out that it must not be taken as a verbatim roadmap--some things articulated in the survey have either changed radically or been dropped, and some cool stuff that wasn't mentioned has been added (yay!).]

The bottom line is that the devs have officially confirmed a way to "power up" our level 50s as a part of Going Rogue, and they've been working on it since well before August 2008. So as creative as the OP's suggestion was, it's entirely moot. The devs already have a system designed and mostly or entirely implemented. If you're the OP, that's "the bad news." The good news is that we're going to have it relatiively soon. Major features can take roughly two years to get from being discussed to being released, so it's pretty damn cool that GR will address the OP's wish, albeit not with the mechanism he articulated.

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Anti_Llama · 09-14-2009 07:09 AM

I like the concept of the your system as a whole. I just don't like earning a new merit. Since there are vanguard merits, candy canes, AE tickets, and normal mission merits. Maybe consolidate all into a universal merit. But it is something to take a look at.