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That was input. It was as much input as the idea merited, it just wasn't the input you wanted. This is not a new topic by any means, and if it was added as a new vet reward you'd still be at least two years from getting it.|
Originally Posted by One_and_Only
whatever............no input = shhhhhhhh be quiet
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| Hey Cox universe! It's the Protector born, Freedom migrant who everyone love/hates to read from |
Perhaps you're a frequent poster on the Protector and/or Freedom boards, but the server forums aren't quite as widely read as the main sections. Expecting to be recognized by "everyone" is presumptuous at best, delusional and egotistical at worst. i post regularly in many sections of the forums and have no expectation of being immediately recognized. (If i'm lucky.)
(Stroke Victim Smiley agrees with me.)
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
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You get two large inspirations if you do the tutorial. I often get 50K for them, once I save up the fee for listing them (which isn't that hard really).
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Originally Posted by Mighty_Pain
I countered with a more reasonable ten or even five thousand - that's a windfall for a level 1.
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http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/p...eathshot11.jpg - a troll hanging upside-down from a tree
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Originally Posted by One_and_Only
...AE, for the past 9 months, was a perfect tool to pl new characters. ...
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Okay, let's view this objectively, shall we? (Bear with me a second here.)
A brand new player coming into the game has only the bare minimum powers available to them when they hit the tutorial: Brawl, Sprint, a primary power, a secondary power, and an origin power. Five measely powers to get them to Stamina at 20. (Assuming that's the path they'll take, as it seems most popular.)
The devs have, over the 5+ years of the game, smoothed the leveling curve, fixed the Hollows so that it's nowhere near the death trap it once was, instituted AE, pushed debt out to level 10, and halved debt from 10 to 20. They've also granted temporary travel powers you can unlock through radio missions. Further, you can do a sewer run to quickly get your toon from level 2 to 8 (or even 10) as soon as you leave the tutorial, with just a few hours effort.
And let's not forget that the developers have stated that low-level content is under review. They've heard our cries and are doing something about it.
Now that stuff is all accessible to any player who doesn't have veterans rewards. If you've amassed veterans rewards, you have a few tricks up your sleeve that makes your leveling speed even faster. Blackwand (a low-grade snipe), Nemesis Staff, Base Teleporter, Sands of Mu, Ghost Slaying Axe (beats the crap out of COT Spectrals), and a Buffing pet. You should have far more attacks in your attack chain than a toon just starting out, meaning you can level far faster than they can.
It seems to me, in retrospect, that the devs have ALREADY done a ton of work to make it much easier for characters to get from 1 to 20 in record time. Can you do it in the time it takes you to design a costume? No. And nor should you. Bypassing that learning phase is a bad idea.
If you build a new toon, with new powersets, and you join a team I'm building, I expect you to know how those powers work together. If a level 20 character has to stop frequently to completely rearrange his tray, or research his powers, reslot them or respec out of a power because they don't work the way he thought they did, it tells me he has no idea what he's doing, and he'll likely get his teammates killed.
How does that benefit anyone?