Eva Destruction

Agreed.

With the current system, yes. However, the process doesn't need to be as unwieldy as it is....
Agreed, agreed, and triple agreed. It should only remove powers you no longer have.

There is a respec guy in Port Oakes now. I think he's near the arena.

We also shouldn't have to go through the entire respec process to change a single power, move a few slots, or swap out some enhancements. Yes, these things should all still use up a respec token, but they shouldn't take as long as they do. Something like Mids' "dynamic" mode would be awesome; you only change what you want to change, and everything else stays.

Drama, maybe. I think it's tagged as that also. Mystery, eh, I always think of "mystery" as applying more to detective-style arcs. Your character doesn't need to care about the WHY of what is happening, you're just trying to take somebody's stuff. Sci-fi, sure, in our world, but not so much in the CoX world. I don't use any of the million player-created tags simply because there are so many I don't know what they all mean, and they've largely fallen into disuse. The romance tag amuses me. Why, just the other day, I said to my husband, "if I die, promise you won't build a highly destructive robot copy of me." He said ok.

I would really like it if there were some other way to get this kind of information across to the player, but there really isn't. So you interrupt a lot of monologues. As for the combat dialogue, extended trash talking is a staple of the comic book genre. The ability to say an entire paragraph in the time span of a single punch is a super power all it's own.

I've never liked the "optional" objectives. I find them immersion breaking. I use the nav bar to deliver character knowledge as much as possible, and your character doesn't know those blinkies are relatively unimportant to the overall story. Hence, nav bar objectives such as "find out what they are looking for;" your character doesn't know. If I give it all away at the beginning of the mission, it's confusing to the player (at least, it's confusing to me when I encounter such information out of nowhere), and then I can't use the mission itself to progress the story.

I know a lot of people do use the "optional" thing, and I don't hold it against them, but it's just something I personally don't like doing.

Anything allied will fight when aggrod. Using allied critters doing the "unconscious" emote has been tried, it doesn't work in any mission with patrols and will also fail if the player drags enemies to them.

Yeah, well I like that map, so pthhhht! Not our fault there's a serious dearth of maps that are on fire or otherwise severely damaged, and all the other ones are small.

He's been crammed down our throats as "the" hero of the CoX universe since release. We've been told and shown repeatedly that our characters will never be as cool as him and his friends. Meanwhile, he's just not that interesting of a character. He's a one-dimensional extension of his creator's ego. Is it any wonder he's the butt of so many jokes? Or that people enjoy beating the snot out of him so much?

Nemesis had his Ouroboros minions retcon it out of existence, so Tyrant never went there. Future Nemesis is all about good clean family values.

Don't forget the time he got curbstomped by <villainname> and a giant robot spider in Mender Silas's arc. That's right, pwnd as part of a Nemesis Plot. And a time-travel plot at that.

Um, no. The Alpha Slot was done. There wasn't enough time or resources to develop new incarnate content to go along with it, and people complained about having the Alpha Slot released without new content to go along with it. It could have gone live as it was.

Except that all kinds of "fluff" game changes that weren't tied to Going Rogue have been implemented since i14. We've had Doppelgangers and fancy new mission tech added. The "developers won't do this" attitude comes from over a year of asking for things and being ignored.

Your entire post is completely irrelevant. We all know damn well what "resource allocation" is. The point is THE DEVS WON'T ALLOCATE RESOURCES TO IMPROVING AE.

The fight would just get easier as it went on.

It's pretty much still tank and spank, and you need enough DPS and debuffs to beat the final form. The initial forms would be considered a joke, much like non-nictus Rommy is.

We have those. We have Recluse. We have Aeon in the STF. We have Reichsman in the Barracuda SF. The only thing that makes Neuron special is that there's a badge for killing his clones rather than just ignoring them.

Again, we have the STF already.
You're complaining about Battle Maiden and then you want this? Not that I'd object to these kinds of mechanics, but think about it...."It's a decoy, don't attack!" *pet charges the decoy* "Dammit!" If you complain about half your powers being useless in a running fight, how many powers do you think a squishy gets to use when they're stunned or killed by untargetable seeker drones?

It would still come down to tank and spank.

This I will agree with. I love the idea of the reactor. Of course by its very nature such a thing is failable, so if the encounter is in the least bit difficult (which it would have to be, that's kind of the point) it would have to show up early in the TF, so if people fail they won't have much time invested in it. Otherwise nobody would bother doing that TF.
And yet, people complain about Director 11. And you're complaining about Battle Maiden. What are those but encounters full of environmental hazards? Again, if they're not hard, there's no point.

I wouldn't. I don't want Imperious as a pet either. They're morons. From a story perspective, sure, it would be cool for BaBs to show up and help you, but from a mechanical perspective, the AI is too stupid. Go villain, take a PPP, get a pet. I fail to understand people's obsession with pets and helper NPCs. They are usually more trouble than they're worth.

Because it's easier and faster for the devs to make more humanoid AVs.

Moronic AI, probably. Also, (standard "not a programmer" disclaimer here) I don't think map creation and base building use anything remotely resembling the same tools.

If she stuck to one target, she would knock it back...then knock it back again...then chase it, to knock it back some more....into the next spawn, which would aggro to her, kill her, then aggro to me. So we would both be dead, because that stupid **** seems capable of sticking to your butt like glue in those missions where she's an optional "helper."

It also wouldn't fix things like Overdrive chasing after a runner into the next giant mob of Arachnos in one of the Rogue tip missions, or Lady Jane chasing, well, everything...in fact it would just make it worse, since they'd be taunted to their target and would HAVE to chase them.

It may not be an exploit, but it could be a farm. The devs have stated that AE is not for creating farms. So if you filled a map with standard Council, with "kill stuff" as the mission intro and "box" as the objective, they would be fully justified in taking it down as a farm. On the other hand, if you actually wrote out a detailed mission briefing, added some clues and NPC dialogue, and gave the player a reason to beat up all those Council, that exact same mission would be fine.

As for average ticket earning rates...impossible to gauge. Non-farm missions contain such a variety of enemies, and so many other variables, even if they're all using Standard dev-created foes, that there is no way to determine an "average." It can take me over an hour to run a five-mission player-created arc. I run on +1/x6 or higher. I can't cap my tickets in that hour. I'm also pausing to read everything.

And another thing: since higher-conning enemies award more tickets, +0/x8 is not necessarily the most efficient setting for all characters. It's certainly not the most efficient for non-farm arcs, which can't be instantly completed once you hit the cap, and high settings usually put you over the ticket cap on the smaller maps a lot of story-focused arcs use.

They need a leash. Seriously. Something that keeps them from roaming more than 50 feet or so from the player. Then if they try to chase after an enemy, the player can pull them back.

In Fusionette's case, that would just cause her to aggro the whole map that much faster. Even worse than Fusionette would be Lt. Sefu Tendaji or however it's spelled, since he's less squishy than she is. NPC allies just shouldn't have knockback. Ever. They are too stupid to use it properly, and then they chase it.

Oh and another thing, allies that must be kept alive or the mission will fail shouldn't get any melee attacks. At all. Unless they have some kind of defensive powers. This especially applies if the mission is all Nemesis. That General Z was ever promoted to general....it makes me glad we don't trust the safety of the CoH universe to whatever military he's part of.

A bunch of people complaining on an internet forum =/= the general community. Neither does a bunch of people going on an internet forum and complaining that everything is being made too easy and dumbed down for the mythical "casual player."

That would be stupid, since it would require crafting more IOs than any one character could possibly use, and if everybody was doing it you wouldn't be able to give those unused IOs away. Getting Field Crafter is a long, tedious process with very few rewards along the way.

Except purple sets are already somewhat gated, in that they only drop from level 47+ enemies, so if you're playing "normally" you don't get any for the first 45 or so levels. They are further gated in that you must be level 50 to slot them.

The community is already divided. There are already divisions between the stealthers and the steamrollers, the powergamers and the pause to read everything crowd, the soloists and the teamers, the billionaires and those who pool all the inf from all their alts to buy a single IO....You act as if this divide between those who can and those who can't or won't is something new. It isn't. The only difference is that now the divide is made clearer, and those who can't or won't suddenly find themselves shut out not by their own actions (or inaction, as the case may be) but by developer decree.

Yes, because having your Alpha slotted is the barrier. I'm not entirely sure why characters without the Alpha slotted are even allowed to join in the first place, honestly. It would make it easier to find a filler for that last spot if needed, I guess.

"Apex TF looking for someone to doorsit so we can get the Babysitter badge." Um, no. Sure, there are plenty of people who would be willing to be that guy for free shards and loot, but those people shouldn't be encouraged.
Nope. There is a HUGE difference between somebody whose powers recharge a little slower or who actually needs the bubbles they're getting and somebody trying to fight +8s. The slower recharging powers are still effective when they are recharged, and the guys whose defense isn't softcapped are the reason we invited the bubbler. Against +8s, you do pretty much nothing.

I'm not entirely sure. I don't know why the game design would allow characters to join a TF where they are essentially useless. Now if the Posi TF allowed you to start with people under level 10 on the team, but they couldn't enter any missions....you can bet everyone would be scrutinizing people's levels before they started, and not allowing people who hadn't met the requirements to join.

Which is so awesome it transcends dimensions.

I thought it was clever.

So? You know what? I'm not the greatest Tanker. If I try to tank, it might cause teamwipes. It might cause people to complain that their tank sucks. I might be used as an example in a thread about bad tanks. I KNOW I'm not the awesomest tanker, so I usually AVOID TANKING in situations where a good tank is desired. I don't feel that I'm entitled to be the team's tank just because I'm online. I don't feel that I'm entitled to successfully tank all the AVs in the LRSF just because I pay my $15 a month.

I also don't PvP, or RP, or play Kheldians, or hang out in Pocket D, or do all kinds of other stuff that has been added to the game over the last 6 years. Just because they added it, doesn't mean I'm automatically entitled to do it, and do it successfully. All of these activities would require me to adjust my chosen playstyle in order to be good at them, and since I don't want to adjust my playstyle to accomodate them, I just don't do them. New content is no different.