Remove the Midnighter unlock requirement

OK everyone can't we all just get along I say remove the level cap leave the badges and story arc's. I have been here from issue 2 or so and i can tell you those early days of constant death was not fun. Running every were no travel power till 14 (all ways thought was stupid because that's not how the comic book characters super man with out fly come on) Sorry back on topic I like Rping as much as any one else but do not see how removing a level cap will stop that as long as the mission arc's are there to tell the story and the badges for those who hunt them so we all win.

Don't have time to go through the thread so I don't know if anyone's suggested this yet:

Add the ability to pay Astral Merits to unlock Midnight for our other characters, the way we can now with capes, auras, and the Alpha unlock arc. That would neatly solve the problem of (most) vet players getting frustrated while still keeping it there for newbies.

For internal game-world reason it makes sense to have a lock on getting into the Midnighter club. It's a club and they can have any entrance requirement they want. There's nothing that we actually NEED in the Midnighter club, except the portal to Cimerora.

But there's no reason to limit access to Cimerora based on club membership. There's at least one other mission that sends us to Cimerora without dealing with the Midnighter club.

What the devs should do instead is make Cimerora another one of the zones accessible from the portal in Ouroboros. The only way back out would be Ouroboros, unless you happened to be a Midnighter Club member.

This would require a change to the mission teleport logic, probably, which won't let you teleport to a Cimerora mission unless you've got access to the Midnighter Club.

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Originally Posted by Chef_Inferno Next people will ask for a level 50 toon for signing up for VIP.[/qutoe] Y'know what I'd love? For people to not get all hyperbolic about things because of wanting to remove one of the last locks in the game. This is not "dumbing down," as much as some of these opposing responses seem to indicate it may be needed. You'd still have to be 35 to run missions, etc. in Cim. You'll still have to fight romans for costume bits, and run the ITF for others. And this has absolutely NOTHING to do with "making a buck." What does it have to do with? Removing the need for a tedious arc that's inconsistent between sides on when it's awarded. Removing the *last* zone unlock left (a co-op zone, as it happens.) Perhaps you'd like to read the original post again and actually try *thinking* about the response before posting it. And don't go into the "Walking uphill through ten feet of snow at thirty below wearing nothing but a fifth-hand pair of worn khakis, damp cloth wrapped around my feet, no shirt, for fifty miles just to get a drink of water" nonsense. I've been around long enough to have seen the same things, and removing the silly restrictions has done nothing but make the game *better* and more enjoyable.

The point I was trying to make and did a poor job of it was; From my point of view, the game was not broken before, I enjoyed it with those restrictions in place. My comment about the "dumbing it down to make a buck" is more about attempting to make the game more enjoyable to a wider number of people before Freedom went live. Which is not a necessarily bad thing, but I do feel there have been some unintended negative consequences. Even with that said, I still do not like the idea of any strange hero off the street being able to just walk on in to the Midnighter's Club. As a poster before pointed out alternative access to Cimereora could be a good idea if implemented correctly.

One last thing, please stop with the personal attacks. Never singled out anyone.