EvilGeko

Options:

1) Start a team;
2) Get on a 'shard run' or 'kill most' TF where people are killing most of the mobs for shards. Plenty of time to read the contact info.
3) Have Paragonwiki up in window when you do it. I used to do that for TFs I wasn't the leader so I could get the parts of the story told only to the leader.

It's been two issues.

They aren't your powers. They are powers that you're taking (or being granted) from the Well of the Furies.

Complete and utter nonsense. No one cares whether Sam Tow likes the Incarnate trials. What folks have been saying for months is that the developers can and should create interesting team based content. You might not like it, but if you want the rewards you should at least try it.

This martyr complex is what has gotten me to snap.

Folks like Sam don't know how good this game is for them compared to other MMORPGs. You posted even half of the nonsense I've seen, folks would tell you straight away to go find another game. Hell, I've seen the devs tell people that. Games built around social interaction are going to encourage social interaction. It's that simple.

As I've told folks before that was Issue 18, Going Rogue. A 90%+ solo expansion. I was told to just try it, I was scolded how solo friendly COH is and how we should all embrace it. "Your endgame was coming EG", they told me.

SO I shut my trap and ran tips and even took a couple of characters through Praetoria. I didn't create 154 posts about how Praetoria sucked. I didn't troll every thread regarding Going Rogue. I complained, but then I moved on.

I could live with that, if he didn't have the gall to suggest that he really hates arguing on the forums. I tried with Sam, but all I got was nonsense from him about how others were ruining the forums for him.

I will not ignore anyone. I will call them on their crap. I've never put anyone on ignore. There's not one poster that I've seen who doesn't have something of value to contribute.

I find Samuel Tow's ideas on the issue of the Incarnate content to be ridiculous, but I don't have anything against him as a person. He stated above that I didn't like HIM. That's absurd. I don't even know him. I don't have enough information not to like him. I just object to his ideas.

I fight with a variety of posters all the time, I don't suggest that I'm always right. Hell, most of the time I'm being an unreasonable jerk. But so are they. People can have strong opinions on the boards. There's nothing wrong with that. The only thing that really grates on me is when people feel like they should be able to post whatever they want without opposition on a forum. Forums are for discussion and debate. If you don't want to argue then use the in-game feedback or PM Positron or something. But the forums are about interaction and that's not always going to be positive.

Don't let us keep you.

You know. Part of that comes from the attitude being expressed on the other side. Sam had the extreme gall to complain that I was making the forums worse for him. When all I've seen from him for MONTHS is how this or that or the other thing is bad for the game. Things that I like a lot.

When I or Zombie or Arcana or anyone called him on his BS, it was, "Oh why can you let me have an opinion?" He can have his opinion, and we can have ours.

Now who needs glasses. I said above, that I don't like badges, but I don't feel the need to complain when they're added. Just like I don't complain about anything being added just because I don't personally enjoy it.

I'm getting really sick of people acting like I'm the one being unreasonable. I've never said that there shouldn't be solo/small team content. I've never said all content should be for teams. What I have said is that people should realize that sometimes there will be difficult or team based content in the game and that's a good thing IMO.


No it's not. But you're ignoring that there have been people who have stated quite clearly that they don't want the devs to add this content at all.

Well said.

Nobody is forced to do this content. The people citing it most often are folks that can't let other people have content they might like because they'll feel "forced" into it.

Instead of just letting people enjoy the trials, we've had to hear for weeks how this is going to hurt CoH. Same BS I heard when Inventions launched. By some of the same people. It's of equal weight. I.e. none.

No that's exactly what's being asked for. The dismissive tone that's displayed when it comes to these trials tells the tale.

And here's an example.

Eh... I really don't care about badging. Every issue has them, I just continue to ignore them. I skip past that part of the features. I don't feel the need to write dissertations about why badges are bad for the game. They aren't. As you say people like them.

Sam gets on here with the revisionist history about how he doesn't hate group content when all he does is complain about group content. That's what I'm reacting to.

Personally, I think badge hunting is one of the most useless things in this game. I don't feel the need to complain when they add new badges however.

I don't really care about new costumes at this point either. There's already more there than I can use.

Of course I love the last two, but I'm not going to take a whiz on the whole issue just because it isn't everything I wish it could be.

Zombie's because we've been hearing the BS for weeks. We get it, folks want the whole game to be a soloist's paradise. Never mind that it already is.

You've been complaining non-stop since Issue 19 about how the game is being destroyed for you and when people have tried to argue with you, you get pissy and complain that it's causing you physical illness.

I'm not with it. You're basically trolling the forums at this point.

The hell you didn't. You've done so directly. You've written multiple pages about how grouping kills your concept of the character.

So be it. Know that I will continue to respond to your nonsense.

I'm not hounding you, you're telling me how it hurts you when people challenge your ideas. But you don't have any problem putting yourself out there. You're complaining about something unfairly, and you should be able to accept when you're challenged on your ideas. The fact is that all you people playing an MMORPG and then complaining when the devs create content for teams are being wholly unreasonable.

This isn't a single player game played on a shared server. The devs have to create content for teams because GUESS WHAT, some people enjoy playing in teams. All this complaining about a very content rich issue is silly. Some issues don't have anything for soloists. A WHOLE FRIKKEN EXPANSION had one recycled trial for groups and you people are here whining when the content that should have been in the expansion is just now coming.

We talked recently about this. I've been holding my tongue and not really arguing against you with the stridency that I am known for. But I feel at this point that you are being needlessly provocative for someone who claims to not like arguing on the forums.

If you continue down this patch of arguing against what I believe are very positive changes to the game, then I shall respond in kind.

Sure. But it's time for folks that are upset to do what I did during Issue 18. Wait your turn. I didn't quit after Issue 18, I grumbled and did tips until the love that was Issue 19 dropped. It's time to recognize, that not every issue is going to be everyone's cup of tea.

I too would like more powerset proliferation and other things, but to say that this issue is anything but an incredible addition to the game is wrong. It's not just an opinion, I disagree with. It's really unfair and an insult to the devs who have really put out some amazing content in the last year that puts other games to shame.

You know how I felt during Issue 18. An expansion I paid money for.

OK, that's reasonable.

Before I wrote the post you quoted I looked back at the last ten issues. The last issue (Issue 18 notwithstanding since it was an expansion) to have this much content was Issue 12. I'm being nice when I said people are being ridiculous. For some reason I thought of two capital Qs!

Anyone who thinks this issue is light on content is being ridiculous. A cursory review of the other issues shows that this issue is on the beefier side.