Wonder what the devs regret?

Well, there is evidence of some things they regretted, since they had to nerf them. ED and the Global Defense Nerf being the most major, but individual powers can be pointed to as well; change of Regeneration - Instant Healing from a toggle to a click, two separate reductions of the -resist from Radiation - Enervating Field, and so on.

I suspect another major regret is how the math works for defense and resistance. If they had set up the formula properly, as Arcanaville has discussed, then 5% defense would always mean you take 5% less damage, rather than as now, where if you add 5% when you were already at 40% you take 50% less damage. That would remove much of the problem with stacking buffs/debuffs, and balancing content so that both soft capped and SO enhanced characters can play alongside each other. Balancing that must be really tough when one character is taking 10x the damage of another one standing right next to them with the same power picks. It might have even removed the need for the Global Defense Nerf those many years back.

On the topic of AE, it might have been safer if they had launched it with something like 10% of normal XP rewards, then it would have gotten an initial rep of "used by storytellers" rather than "used by powerlevelers". That would have bought some time to let them make tweaks to it and raise rewards slowly until they found points where somebody came up with an exploit worthwhile at, say, 40% of normal rewards, then fix that. Meanwhile they could have used things from it to generate canon content by moving "best of" arcs over to the real game, with full rewards. Too late now, though.

ED/GDN
PvP - this was at least fun imo
PvP 2.0
AE - so much promise

They would probably regret making Hasten as powerful as it is. And Air Superiority is pretty ridiculous for a pool attack as well.

And I agree on the +Defense. Way too much of it in the Invention system. When Blasters are softcapping, something's very wrong.

I'll bet they wish they'd made Knockback more desirable as well. This is a comic book inspired combat game, after all.

WARNING: I bold names.

Impossible to know what they regret but here are some areas they may not be too happy with.

1) Praetoria zones. They look awesome but they separate the players yet again. Those areas are rarely used. The resources used for those zones should have gone into new missions maps and TFs etc.

2) Older TFs/SFs. They just suck especially blue side.

3) Map designs. I don't think I have seen a more odd looking city. Just some brutal layouts in the city and buildings. Offices are just illogical by way of design.

4) Dividing playerbase in any manner.

5) PvP

6) Repetition of content and low quality content (lots of filler missions that are not fun).

Mostly minor issues but issues.

I'd say they regret whatever it was in the original design and coding that seems to make UI modification so time consuming and difficult.

Jack Emmert was quoted in a Gamasutra interview (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=11496) about lessons learned from City of Heroes/Villains, and he cited bases:

“We spent more time developing [bases] than any other feature in City of Heroes or City of Villains.

“What happened was players hated it. It’s the most underused facet of the game. It received almost no coverage in the press.”

Posi mentioned in an interview right after the Going Rogue expansion that he regrets the War Walls in Paragon City, and they are looking for ways to get rid of them.

I'd guess that the devs regret Bases, PvP, and Architect. This is pure speculation, I just think that these systems share the unfortunate characteristics of being promising, imperfect, underused, and abandoned as lost causes by the developers.

I'm still glad that these systems exist, though, even if I don't use them with enough frequency to justify the (probably massive) amount of work that went into creating them.

Always the negativity towards the Devs, isn't it?

Ever wonder what stupid crap it is the players regret pulling over the years with all of the incessant whining and moaning about this and that?

I'll give you one: I bet players regret every single nerf that has ever happened because of their droning dissonance

I bet they regret not producing a single user version. With blockbuster sales of certain sp fantasy & war RPGs this month taking in $bn & CoH trying to squeeze a few more cents from their user base.

I like Arcanaville's reasoning on behalf of CoV.

I'd toss buff stacking and defence into the ring.

And toss in a side of AoE zerg-fest. Players often say things like "mob positioning tool" when talking about repel and KB, but the simple truth is that those powers were supposed to be about keeping mobs away, not clumpingthem. The devs completely buggered up the single target, tactical game (in alpha, there were even targetted body shots, apparently) which, in turn, buggered up such concepts as "distance as damage mitigation" (it's usually MORE dangerous to spread mobs out because you fug up AoEs) which in turned marginalized an entire class of powers.

PvP's an obvious one, as many have mentioned.

*I* regret that the devs let bases slip into irrelevance for the majority of players. For that matter, I don't even bother with SGs on new toons, and can't remember the names of the ones my older toons are in.

They just need to heavily nerf farms in AE and heavily buff xp in regular missions to make them worth running.

Seperating the game into CoH and CoV.

How the ATs are set up.

Tanker/Brute should be combined.

Scrappers/Stalker should be combined.

Blasters given Defense Secondaries, and made them the lawnmowers (mass minion killers) with weaker single target versus the Scrapper/Stalkers (and to limit degree Tanker/Brute) being more of the ST specialists.

Defenders/Corrs made into one AT...Like Defender with Scourge.

Trollers would of been Doms right off the bat.

MMs, you know, I think they're good as is, but they may have decided to turn the pets into a power pool pick for those who want the pets.

Then made Epic ATs, to be more specific to content.

Speaking of which...no war walls...multiple cities...so bigger maps, but less of them! Much like DCUO has done with Gotham and Metropolis.

Then have other cities possibily, but not as many, with some smaller "special" zones...like a Moon Zone, alternate dimension zones.

PvP fixed right off the bat.

And I really hope they regret making some of the game mechanics as IC things.

Enhancements, Inspirations, Auction House, Power Proliferations...would of left all that as OOC game mechanics. No auction house to go to, just a slash command with a button to click for the same command.

Making healing others so predominate in the game.

Not having the money to block a companies court battle and tell them to stick it.