Massively Antisocial-player Online RPG?

I'm not sure if it can be auto-completed or not. She didn't have too much trouble with Recluse, due to a combination of Demonic Aura, Mind Link, Elude, and a whole bunch of Good/Phenominal Luck inspirations (which is similar to how my db/elec brute tackled Recluse). So based on that I figured she'd have no problem with States either. Boy was I wrong.

I suppose I could get help to complete the mission, but I like the idea of my Widow being so bad-a** that she can take on Recluse and States single handed and win.

edit: I'd also like to note that I run with, at most, common IOs. Maybe (probably) a Widow with the right sets wouldn't have any problems.

I mainly stick to common IOs at that level too. My widow Riffle is at 40 now, and will be taking the Statesman mission at 45, so I can easily level a ways past it if I can't beat it right away or auto-complete it.

My reasons for seldom teaming were listed in another post.

I would remember interesting people if I ever met any on a blind invite PUG, (the only kind I've ever joined), but all I recall were the annoying ones. Just an observation, not a justification.

Seriously, who said any of those things, other than yourself?

Going solo is your only escape

This. Well put Guy.

On a similar note I'd be willing to help just about anyone if they need a hand on a mish. Seeing how I mostly PuG/solo on one of my 50's I'm usually not to busy to lend a hand. I just helped a random guy the other day through the Alpha arc because he couldn't quite put out enough dps to drop trapdoor. If someone needs a hand with a mish on virtue feel free to send me a tell to @Boomie.

to be fair, the ways the portals continually spawn regardless of the player's presence (as opposed to say a demon portal that needs to be aggroed) caused people to think it was bugged.

Plenty of people beat it solo and it can be autocompleted for the people who can't, so it's really not a roadblock to any soloers there.

<.<

Good thing I came from Triumph and have several 50's there.

I don't care how people play but I do get annoyed when they complain about not getting the benefit of a different side of the game they refuse to touch.

If you don't like PvP don't do it, but don't complain when you are getting your shivians and one of the few PvPers spots you and smacks ya around.

Don't like marketing have fun with your drops, but don't complain about not being able to buy what you need or get piles of inf from those who have it to give away for shinnies.

Don't like to team don't ***** about TFs or rewards designed to be use don team based goals being harder to get solo.

Don't like to Min/Max? Neither do I! But don't complain about how someone with the same power sets who does makes your 50 look like 45.

The simple fact is that this is an MMO... Massively Multi-Player Online Game - if it was a Massively Single Player game you'd maybe have a point. The basic premise is that it's a team game and if your schedule doesn't fit that then it sucks to be you.

As for your point that it's more players beat a tighter community - that's highly debatable: I've a friend who plays on Defiant despite being based in Vegas and she has no trouble picking up a team at 4am UK time.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

Can I complain if I don't like PvP, but people are telling me to get shivans or I'm a stupid doo-doo head? Not in those exact words, but it has happened.

You know, once upon a time every mission which had an archvillain in it spawned that as... Well, as an archvillain. As we all know, AVs are really not something that is designed to be soloed and even the people who can solo them anyway will tell you it's largely not worth the time and effort for anything but seeing if you could. None of us expect to walk up to an AV and solo that, not even Johnny Butane, I don't think.

And yet archvillains kept coming up in regular content, and all the damn time in City of Villains. Every time I met one, I had to drop what I'm doing, spend time and effort gathering a team of complete strangers and then ending up leading a team I really didn't want to lead. Allowing archvillains to scale down into elite bosses is, without a doubt, one of the single biggest reasons I'm still here. It meant I was highly unlikely to ever run into another mission I couldn't solo, given enough effort and preparation.

Granted, there were a few elite bosses I couldn't solo, like that Smashing-resistant Ballista on my really crappy Stone/Stone Brute, but that was the Brute's fault more than anything else. You know what the problem was with those? Every time they came up, none of my friends were online. One time I had to yank I think it was EvilGeko off the old Forum Cartel channel, who made a character specifically for the sake of helping me, and I'm still grateful for that. But most of the time when this happened, I had to just invite random people...

And I don't really want to team with random people on days when I don't feel like teaming at all. Here's the thing - some like to talk about social vs. anti-social, but I'm probably one of the most social guys out there. I team when I want to BE with other PEOPLE. I object, however, to teaming for the sole reason of boosting my team size to add more warm bodies to the list. This isn't socialising. This is riding on the bus with random strangers. This is asking a random stranger the time.

In short - if I'm going to team, I want it to be because I want to be with other people, not because the game is forcing me to speed-date random passers by.

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I have nothing against team content, if it's tagged as team content and takes a team to start. But if the game allows me to start the content solo, I should have at least some expectation that I can finish it how I started it.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Uhm so get a Vanguard HVAS? No PvP required. j/k

That's reasonable enough, but unless your a twin or some other mutation when born, you start life out which contains solo content...sucking on a bottle and needing a diaper change are rough AVs to tackle though. Can't live without a team of at least one other person to feed you and wipe your a** for awhile. There are times in real life when you don't need help at all, but sooner or later you're gonna need a Controller or Tanker to help you get a loan or to take some aggro off of you.

The game seems pretty similiar.

Last I checked, this game wasn't real life. Did something happen when I wasn't looking?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I don't think so...but I was just pointing out besides the flying and laserbeam eyes (and technololgy is getting us there slowly but surely), it's really the same concept from a social standpoint.

If they are comparable, I can understand by your apparent attitude why you would be making a point about teaming/being social in a video game.

All I'm saying is I play games to get AWAY from real life. Yes, I know social interaction is part of real life, and indeed a part of the game. All I'm asking for is an option to NOT play the game like I'm forced to live my real life.

Like I've said before - I don't mind team-only content, as long as there's soloable content to go with it. If I can't run something without a team, I don't complain, I just don't run it. To this day I've never done an Eden trial, and despite what I keep hearing about it, I don't intend to.

The problem arises when you have a bottleneck, such as the Incanrate arc. The ONLY way to become an Incarnate is that one arc, and to make it not soloable means that there is suddenly no alternative. Now, if there were this arc to become an Incarnate and a TASK FORCE to become an Incarnate, I would not complain one bit about being unable to solo the TF. I'll simply pick between that and the (I assume) very soloable arc.

I'm asking for options, and it gets on my nerves when people come up to me insult me to my face and tell me that for some things, I SHOULDN'T have options, the anti-social punk that I am, and I should HAVE to team because, well, what the hell is wrong with me if I don't want to at least sometimes. Thing is, the times I feel like teaming never coincide with the times I'm FORCED to team.

Give me options, and I will not complain.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Whether it's in game or real life, as long as it doesn't impact me much I don't take anything away from people that want to complain about content...you have the right to do so.

I just see things a little differently b/c more times than not, I'm overseas and not able to play as much as I'd like to. I can't remember the last time I found anything I wanted to complain about in CoX b/c I'm usually just thrilled to play.

I hope the devs give you the options you are looking for man.

Yeah I had exactly the same problem with my Widow. Taking out Recluse wasn't too bad, but Statesman at the end of the VEAT arc was nigh impossible. It is auto-completable though fyi

*goes to the game to see if the name "Ubermegasoloer" is taken*

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Characters do not gain godlike power in that arc. Gaining the 'godlike power' is evidently going to take months and months of playing and possibly several Issue releases.

Unlocking the Alpha Slot is like obtaining a mounting board for the trophy Minnow you're planning to catch later on. First you've got to get the gear, the bait, and find the proper fishing hole. Then you've got to do the actual fishing. But until you catch that trophy Minnow, that mounting board is just a plank of wood.

That's my analogy and I'm sticking to it.