Idea for future Issues

***My idea for future patches.****

PLEASE try to bring back the old stuff. -- I've been a fan (This is my "home-game") since 2004 and my favorite things to do were to "Hunt" groups of enemies on the street (Especially in Perez Park) and have it mean something. Getting a group of people to go hunt Giant Monsters in Peregrine or the random ones like The Kraken and actually have it mean something. Gather a team,going from zone to zone and ACTUALLY doing story arcs instead of "I'm looking for this mission,nothing else".


PLEASE FORGIVE MY RANT HERE. RETURNING PLAYER WITH OPINION - lol

So I've noticed something. Now i have been gone for quite some time now,and am not as "I know everything about everything about CoH" like i use to be,but from what i can tell from reading over the issues I've missed and playing the last like...2 issues -- The issues seem to be "Running together" and i'm honestly thinking "Why do the last few issues seem to be the same thing with small changes? I could be wrong here,so forgive me.

It seems as though all this end game content is turning CoH into uh... *The Unspeakable*...The new endgame stuff is basically GIVING players new ways to try to be "Better than everyone else NO LIFES,that rub it in casual player's faces and put them down when they don't have the best things." THAT is one of the main reasons i left *The Unspeakable* to come BACK to CoH. It turned into "Have/be the best or don't play at all" - I feel CoH is starting to take that turn. Seems that what ALWAYS happens in MMOs. The Hardcore players whine and complain that its not challenging enough and all the end game content is put in to challenge them and nobody else. It says in a loading screen "The addition of IOs didn't make the game harder,and they aren't required" -- Seems the opposite to me.

I don't mean to be rude, but the "casual" players got 18 issues of stuff. I'm okay with giving the players who want end-game content a few issues, and I'm a casual gamer. I have yet to Alpha slot any of my characters, because I'm an altoholic. I'm slowly leveling up a KM/SR Brute that I will want to Incarnate out, but I'm in no hurry, and I'm still having fun with all of the "old" content that is still there.

The new content isn't taking any of my fun away, and I'm sure that once the Incarnate stuff is done, we'll get more content in the lower levels to do.

But some players have been clamoring for an end-game in this game for a long time. The Devs should give them something to do.

The beauty of the new Incarnate System is you don't need it.

Really, you don't.

I'm serious. You don't need it. The new +2 level shifts only work in the new iTrials.

Guess what - when you hit level 50, if you unlock your Alpha slot, you'll start earning Shards - which, at your leisure can be converted to Threads, which at your leisure can be converted into iXP to unlock the 4 new slots, and, again, at your leisure can be converted into components to craft and slot powers for these new slots.

Again, all at your leisure.

Let me stress that again, at your leisure.

Thanks for the input (No sarcasm) - but im just so "Sad" to see all the wasted old content....I dont know the last time I've seen people go to Dark Astoria to find Adamastor or Crey's Folley for Jurassik. I dont see anything but "LOWBIE LFF" and "CC STARTING IN AP IN 5 MINUTES! PRIZES ARE STUPID AMOUNTS OF MONEY!" (Which generally,only the Atlas Park "Sitters" win anyway)

I consider myself a casual player (I only really get to play on weekends, maybe a task force on a weekday evening after work if I'm lucky) and I have two 50s with Very Rare Alphas slotted. So it doesn't really require that much of a grind. (Of course, I don't really have an active social life on weekends, so I guess maybe take that with some grain of salt, but I don't grind out TFs all weekend either.)

I find it very interesting that you compare the current state of the game to The Unspeakable while at the same time lobbying for more zone-wide non-instanced content (by the way, check out the zone events in the 3 Praetorian zones, they're quite fun and don't need a large gathering of people to complete, they're even soloable for most 50s). My understanding has always been that instanced content is what sets CoH apart from its competitors, while at the same time leading to the misperception of low population due to zones seeming "empty".

None of this should suggest that non-instanced content doesn't happen, by the way. I don't know when you left the game, but in the past several years chat activity has moved out of Broadcast and into global channels (usually themed to a specific server, but not always, and still global anyway). Try joining your server's most active global channel (for Pinnacle, you want PinnBadges or Cozmic's Playground); although you will still see a good amount of TF teams forming, you'll also see teams running tips missions, newspaper/radio missions, and running other badge content, which yes does include GMs. One night a year or two ago I actually put together an impromptu "Giant Monster Death Panel", bringing a team across Paragon defeating every GM blueside (except for Jurassik, who had very rudely not spawned). It was loads of fun, but it was put together in PinnBadges.