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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2009-10-02 04:52 in Player Questions
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Originally Posted by Mr_Body
Why do you see lower population servers as something that needs to be fixed?
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Originally Posted by JenniferJ
How then do you suggest COH go about getting more people to be active on certain servers?
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
We're talking about a character that has been allowed to join the esteemed ranks of SG-X, a collection of world saving and sickeningly rich superheroes/villains each led by individuals with a net worth of greater than a billion inf.
Individuals whose sole jobs are to run around getting paid to beat the hell out of enemy-y and get paid handsomely to do so. The only goal of the group is to do the same and doing so efficiently is the only way to do so. In order to assist that efficiency, group leads fund the shaping of lowbies. |
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
Well, if they turn out to be a thief, why would you bother demoting them? I would just kick their sorry butt out of the SG. And that works fine when they're offline.
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Originally Posted by Santorican
I HATE when people say this, Influence/Infamy is currency. Why? Because you can't buy a fusion reactor by just being popular. You need money
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
I know; it's total BS. And the RP'ers have conniptions trying to explain how I can hand you a billion influence. Or I can sit in Wentworths and 'earn' a billion influence.
Maybe at once point, it could be explained as actual 'influence' but, when the devs gave us the market, that ended the charade. |
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Originally Posted by JenniferJ
1)Well having read all the responses ranging from intelligent to the annoyingly smug.How then do you suggest COH go about getting more people to be active on certain servers?OK forget the kill a server idea/thought whatever..got another idea?
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Influence/Infamy evolved into currency and the devs replaced it with Merits that can't be traded with other players.
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
The RP connotations of merits are even more bizarre. What actually provides them? Are they like XP or more like badges, which once had the connotation of being awarded by city hall and/or Statesman? Who are the Merit Vendors, who can convert merits into a wide assortment of things both abstract and concrete?
The whole Merit Vendor thing actually bugged me a lot when merits came out. There's no explanation for them or what they do. It's not like I'm deeply immersed in the game, but really obvious lack of effort to provide an in-game explanation for something like that really bugs me. If they had been some sort of crafting station I think it would have bugged me less. |
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
The RP connotations of merits are even more bizarre. What actually provides them? Are they like XP or more like badges, which once had the connotation of being awarded by city hall and/or Statesman? Who are the Merit Vendors, who can convert merits into a wide assortment of things both abstract and concrete?
The whole Merit Vendor thing actually bugged me a lot when merits came out. There's no explanation for them or what they do. It's not like I'm deeply immersed in the game, but really obvious lack of effort to provide an in-game explanation for something like that really bugs me. If they had been some sort of crafting station I think it would have bugged me less. |
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Originally Posted by Lightslinger
I can't stand the merit vendors based entirely on their costumes.
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| That is an exceedingly proscriptive and narrow view of an SG. Are you in charge of writing everyone else's backstory too? |
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
What a silly question. Of course not. But can you tell us how one advances in this game in any other way than by defeating enemies? No?
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If servers were ever merged, I would expect enormous problems with players that have filled their character slots (even purchased extra slots, how do you handle a player with 32 toons on both the servers? Do they magically get 64 slots? But 32 is the max) and SGs/VGs
Even the low-traffic servers have great communities that would be severely distrupted by a server merge. If you have a 5 yr old SG names "Heroes of Liberty" with millions and millions of prestige, how would they take to Liberty being merged with, say, Pinnacle?
I would never support an account-based bank system, although I might look into an account-based credit union if I qualified, and was looking to refinance my SG base mortgage.
I play each of my characters as a separate entity. They all start with jack crap and work their way up on their own merits, which really hasn't been a hassle since Wentworths hung up its shingle. But even back when SO's were the big boys on the block, I never transferred influence between characters. Hell, I've never even taken influence from strangers wanting to "help out a lowbie". Part of the fun, for me anyway, is making the best character I can with the resources I have available.
So an account-based banking system wouldn't really get me all hot and bothered.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
What a silly question. Of course not. But can you tell us how one advances in this game in any other way than by defeating enemies?
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I could technically get to 50 by dropping +4 missions every three days!
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Originally Posted by Westley
And get to 50... in another 5 years.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
Hey, it took me 2.5 years to get my first 50, and I have lots of other characters who will probably never hit 50. That's not too bad a rate!
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Originally Posted by Westley
It took me ONE year to get my first 50, and that was on an FF/Elec Defender, mostly SOLO. Wow, you must suck.
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Okay, you have the same quote in your sig that I do, that's creepy. I must change mine!
There's that's much better.
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Originally Posted by Westley
Okay, you have the same quote in your sig that I do, that's creepy. I must change mine!
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no wai! i must be you-neek!
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Originally Posted by Westley
It took me ONE year to get my first 50, and that was on an FF/Elec Defender, mostly SOLO. Wow, you must suck.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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