City Of Heroes Freedom Friday: 2/10/12 - Did You Know That CoH Is A Clone? Neither Did I!

Originally Posted by Fire_Away

Good post with several valid points. Since you asked me specifically, I'll respond one last time (this subject is near and dear to my heart but I don't want to threadjack this too much... we can take this to the base construction forum if you wish).

First off, there are lots of bad consequences from a "systems" perspective with continuing with the status quo. With mounds of prestige piling up with absolutely nothing to spend it on but decorating, nobody should be surprised that mansions of glory have spung up everywhere consuming considerable server resources. Next, add in limited storage capacity and next to nothing in terms of supergroup activities and rewards and people (especially the devs) should expect major growth in solo bases. And, I'm sorry but, it will take more than banning offine sg invites to stem this tide which is another "bad thing" according to the devs. The "do nothing" alternative is not really as attractive as it might first appear.

I'm going to forego the temptation to list bullets (again) to answer the question of what I'm looking for. Suffice to say that has been done many times over... mostly to no avail (although many of the included ideas are quite good; see base construction forum stickies). Ultimately, what I'm really looking for is a change in mindset. I'm looking for a dev that won't do "the pained eye roll" every time you mention bases face to face. I'm looking for a dev that can look beyond liability and see opportunity. I'm looking for a dev that sees that supergroups tie in very nicely to the lore of comics in general and can tie in nicely to the lore of this game. There once was such a "vision". But it's been warped by players after being largely abandoned by the devs. I'm looking for it to come back. Will it? I dunno.

And with that, I'm out.