When will we have base raids back and IoP's?

When will we have base raids back and IoP's?


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sorry, I just wanted to put that on topic again!

Realistically? Probably never. PVP isn't a development priority for this game. At the moment all indications are that only a tiny fraction of the total paying customers interact with PVP at all. When the PVP population was much larger, it was *still* small enough that when the devs announced the planned PVP changes, many of the more outspoken PVP players said "The entire PVP playerbase will quit if you do this." And the devs more or less answered "We'll risk it."

Since only a tiny part of the population uses PVP, it's almost certainly pretty difficult to get funding to do anything else with it. (Suit: "So, we can spend X amount of money, and add PVP features that less than 5% of the playerbase might possibly use. Or we can spend X money on this other feature, which 30% of the playerbase might actually use. We're going with this other feature.")

The fact is that the Cathedral of Pain was finally re-added to the game, but with any hint of PVP stripped out. At this point, I think it would be highly unlikely that the devs would add a second PVP version of the CoP, and probably even *less* likely that they would mess around with the current version to make it back into a PvP event.

Hopefully never.

IOPs will probably not make a comeback. The Cathedral trial was changed and has its own rewards now.

Base raids - who knows. They're a mix of two things that get almost zero dev attention - bases and PVP. And both need serious work to make base raids viable again. I'd say "In COH 2, if it comes out," is the most realistic answer.

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It looks like IoPs have been made into a strictly personal thing with the Cathedral of Pain trial. So it is likely that when Base Raids return, Supergroup Items of Power might not be with them. As far as Base Raids go, they might show up next issue or they keep on being pushed back.

What I want Base Raids to be is have the same type of setup as before, but have powerless Items of Power as one of the possible objectives. That way people can stare at Items of Power when not raiding, don't have to worry about losing it, and supergroup powered Items of Power can be added to the base when supergroup Cathedral of Pain trials are available.

When they fix pvp

So never.

as to base raids no im not interested

i do kinda wish they did bring back original IoPs since they still provide a benefit to the SG and give poeple more of a reason to do a CoP trial

i do also think the CoP should like actually give drops, 0 rewards of any kind except a fairly modest inf bonus at the end + reward table gives me no incentive to try to form these things up

Lets see I am siding with Lothic on this one BIG SUPRISE Frankly I never got into PvP and apparently neither did a good portion of the player base which NEWS FLASH is why the Devs gave up on it. Why waste time and resources on something the majority of your paying customers are ignoring? Then there is the whole idea behind base raids.. I'm sorry but my SG worked hard to earn the prestige that built our base and I really NEVER had a desire to accept a challenge from some other SG and let them come in and Destroy/Steal things that I'd have go go back out and work to replace. Actually the entire concept seems strange to me. Okay I know that in Comic Books, what the entire game is based on, some heroes and even hero groups don't get along with other groups but if we are all on the same side fighting evil what am I doing attacking YOUR base and stealing your stuff? Now Villain side made a bit more sense.. they are Villains! Every man for himself and if I take all of your stuff then MuWAHAHAHAHA I have more stuff than before!!

I think the new COP set up is great. Anyone can join in and everyone that does gets the option to get a week long IOP. I've run successful ones with several good SGs leading and had a lot of fun.

The PvP crowd got a lot smalled after the nerfs and it really isn't a huge issue in game IMO. Heck on Virtue I took my badger into Recluse's Victory to work on Pill boxes and Heavy Badges. On several occasions I had players send tells asking if I wanted to duel and I simply said No thanks working on badges. I never got attacked at all. I even had one guy ask if I'd battle him so he could test his new build but when he explained what he was looking to check it turned out it was an area my character was very vulnerable to so we figured it wouldn't be a good test for him. He found someone else later and I just kept defeating Pill boxes solo That should give you an idea of how HUGE the PvP issue is on Virtue. A few years back on Infinity my old Villain SG decided to do some PvPing and I joined in. I couldn't even get my Mastermind's pets summoned before teams of heroes showed up to send me to the hospital. After about half an hour of this we all just gave up and went back to PvE.