Power and Bonus Caps

I have a question, why have power caps? I understand you don't want players to be UBER....but come on. At level 50, with sprint and superspeed 1 slotted with Runspeed IO's, it's capped. Same with Jump/hurdle, and Swift/Fly...just 1 slot and it's capped. Can't help but wonder if thats true with other powers.... Why cap tohits at 95% if you can get bonus sets that put it over that. Hell, I bet you hit 95% without the set bonuses which would make the bonus sets wasteful. I think the caps need to be raised to make the bonuses worth something. It's like winning a broken Television.

Some caps (like movement speed) are for technical reasons, i that instance the problems with rendering things if a character is moving faster.

I am not sure about the 95% thing - if you mean that we always miss on a "20" that isn't a cap. Higher to-hit (or accuracy, or whatever) is still useful in overcoming high dfefenses, but even if you have a 20 godzillion percent chance to hit, you will "miss on a 20." But if you face an opponent with 19 godzillion defense, you still only miss on a 20.

There is a harware issue with traveling over (something like) 92 mi/hr. So they limit it so as to avoid bugs.

As for to hit, you can hve something like +300% ToHit, but since there is a 5% miss chance no matter what, you can only ever hit ~95% of the time. Anything above that goes to protect you from -ToHit. So If you are taking on 17 dark dealing enemies, all their stacking ToHit Debuffs won't bottom out your accuracy like they would on someone with a simple +95%. That second person will be in negatives and will be depending of that auto 5% chance of hitting (as well as streak breaker) to deal any damage at all.

It is just like the debate between Shield Defense, and Super Reflexes. Both can soft cap at +45% fairly easy, but SD dies to defense cascade much much easier since SR has both resistance to def debuffs and can easily go well over the +45% soft cap.

Simply put the limiters are there to both save you (having a 5% chance of hitting no matter what is the trade off for having a 5% chance of being hit no matter what), and blance the game. But that doesn't make going over those amounts worthless, just not as desirable.

Go fight a horde of CoT spirits and be thankful you have above the "cap" of ToHit.

Fly does not cap with 1 slot. You need at least 2 slots. Pretty sure you need 2 slots to cap Super Speed as well.

To-hit is limited to 95% because the devs want you to always have a 5% chance to miss. This is not the cap, which is actually 200%. Higher to-hit values are useful to offset foe defense.

There are plenty of other limits which are hard to hit. Its pretty near impossible to reach the +recharge cap (+400%) without outside help. Damage cap (+300%, +400% or +750% depending on AT) is tough to reach without a kin. Regeneration cap (2000% to 3000%) is near impossible without outside help. Defense cap (45% soft cap) is reachable but costly to do.

The 95% hit rate goes back to DnD. Roll a 20 sided die, and you have a 5% chance of critical failure and 5% chance of critical success. Thus, 5% to hit no matter what, and 5% to dodge no matter what.

As for going over 95%, my Widow has 101% ToHit before considering accuracy. She also gets +23% from Build Up. She can still get deflected against certain enemies, and it boils my blood when she does!

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Superspeed is capped because of game engine limitations. If you went much faster you would be running into empty space because the server couldn't render terrain fast enough. When you stop, you might end up inside something.

Flight is capped so much lower because of all the advantages it has. You will never run out of endurance while traveling like Teleport. You have vertical mobility, unlike Superspeed. You are not prone to being attacked when you hit the ground like Super Jump. Because Flight has none of those problems, and is the safest travel power by far, it is capped the slowest.

Defense softcap and to-hit cap are the only ones you can hit wthout outside help (some tanks can hit resistance cap to a few damage types, none can hit ALL of them)

As far as the to-hit cap goes, if you had 6000% to-hit you will STILL miss 5% of the time, because that's how the game was designed, nothing is ever guaranteed.

adn yet the Devs are fine with 100% resists for NPCs

Statesman, The Honoree, Reichsman, Citadel ...

Wasn't it Ex that said NPCs were cheating poo-poo-heads because the AI is terrible? Of course, 100% resistance to any common damage type is just stupid but hey, I don't see that kind of stuff getting fixed anytime soon...