Forcing content: Disproportionate Rewards

Different tasks should get different rewards. A TF is not the same as a story arc. Why should their rewards be similar? If you normalize rewards, you'd be making the problem worse and not better.

There are folks that want to run arcs, and there's folks that want to run the ITF ten times a week. There's nothing you can do to make them change their minds. Why punish them for doing what they've chosen to do with their subscription time? They've weighed the rewards to their time spent and deemed it satisfactory enough to continue.

If you're having trouble finding teams to do what you want to do, perhaps you should alter your methods, rather than trying to alter everyone elses to fit yours.

Any TF produced in the last couple years will be miles ahead of, say, To Save a Thousand Worlds in terms of its variety (maps, objectives, if not necessarily enemies) and storytelling. They'll also be much shorter, which is nice for those of us who don't have six hours at a stretch to play City of. But that isn't the point I was trying to make.

The point is that the game should avoid, to the extent it's possible, directing people back to the same old content over and over again. The OP's seeming belief that players need to be actively encouraged to run the same arcs that've been in the game for five or six years is ridiculous. They should be directed toward the newer, shinier, more interesting stuff.

Obviously new content doesn't just fall from the sky, so repetition is inevitable, and the WST is a good way of getting folks to run a variety of things, rather than a particular TF over and over. But that doesn't mean that every last bit of content is worth funneling players toward (I for one will be taking the week off whenever Synapse is the WST.)

If you still really want to run Worldwide Red, bully for you; it hasn't gone anywhere. I don't see the virtue of asking people to run it over and over, or asking newer players to run it.

Incarnate is endgame. Endgame is (slightly) harder. Harder = better rewards.

Forcing content.... hmmmm. Naw. I do what I want.

Sorry but the TF's don't become magically harder just because they are this weeks strike target.

The Incarnate stuff is NEW.

You don't expect people to play NEW stuff? Yes, the TF's are old but the reward is great especially if you want to run a new character thru. I have a 50 I wanted to get started on his alpha - however Apex meant he was -8 to the bad guys.

I really don't understand the complaints and have to agree with Bashful Banshee and Claws&Effects.

If you don't like a particular part of the game, then don't do it. Keep doing what you like to do and your characters will level, get merits, get IO drops, get influence, etc. They will get everything . . . eventually. The problem comes if you try to "keep up with the Joneses."

If the complaint is that you don't like to team, or run TFs, or hard content, I can understand that. But other people do. Not every Issue will appeal to everybody.

The only thing I ask for from my games is fun for the time spent. Which is why I have only 10 hours in Modern Warfare: Black Ops, and almost 7 years' time into CoH.

If anything, the speed runs of WSTs have made me appreciate the fun of CoH even more. If I don't like the speed, I can solo or dual-box an arc mission (or auto-complete if I don't like it) to my heart's content. Pun intended.

--NT

The old content really needs a revamp. The new content is fantastic. Tip missions might have too much reward for too little effort.

Maybe increase the rewards on the old stuff but keep it deliberately below the new stuff?

The people who want to run the old stuff are probably going to anyway, so throwing them a bone can only be a good thing, but as long as it's below the standard I don't think your going to see people losing it and ignoring tips and the WSF. This solution isn't perfect but it'd alleviate the situation a bit at least.

I agree that some of the older content does need updating. It has also been a while since they did any Reward Merit tweaking to them. Perhaps I am wrong but I have not heard anything about it.

My initial comment was poorly phrased perhaps. More likely it simply wasn't expanded enough for which I apologize. I'll attempt to do so now.

I like many others suffer badly from Altitis, creating something new on a whim only to see her neglected as a new idea comes along. While I don't have 148 Alts that I enjoy playing I do have a few. Not all of them can be Incarnates, I wouldn't even try. Not all of them will hit 50. Heck, a lot of them will be lucky to ever hit 30.

So far I have one hero with the Alpha slotted. That would be my Claws/Fire Brute. The only reason she is the one is because that is who I was playing at the time Incarnates came along. I've joined more teams since hitting 50 with her then I have in a long time. Not just WSTs and TFs but just teams running around the city trying to save Paragon from a wide variety of issues ranging from Hellions in Perez to the spooky eyeballs in the Shard.

Will my Brute continue along the Incarnate path? Maybe. She is lots of fun and look forward to seeing what the Trials will be like. If they are no fun then I won't do them regardless of the rewards.

I can appreciate your wanting to make your hero stronger and that does take time. If you are only able to play for a limited amount of time each week I can understand that as well. The problem then becomes that it is not neccessarily the rewards that are limiting your abilty to become stronger.

If it is simply matter of wanting the shiny enhancements then spend an hour or so learning how to work the Market. There are guides a plenty in that section. It is so easy. If I can do it anyone can.

I got here late to the game, not quite four years now. I missed out on the days when we fought crime just for the sake of fighting it.

I did spend some time hooked on TFs, running Katies endlessly. That probably explains why I didn't run a TF for such a long time. Well one of the reasons anyways.

What I did learn after I stopped doing that was the reward (for me anyways) was to be a hero.

That is where I am coming from. I hope it makes some sense.

Play the game you want. Don't worry about the rewards because they do come.