EvilGeko

You're welcome to it.

Ninjas please.

PLEASE DEVS FOR ISSUE 20
Blasters
-- Dark Blast/Dark Manipulation (Dark Melee reworked)

Controllers
-- Pain Domination and Poison

Defenders
-- Fire Blast/Thermal

Scrappers
-- Mace and Axe/Ninjitsu

Tankers
-- Broadsword/Energy Aura (More Pretty; More strong)

Brutes
-- Broadsword/Regen

Corruptors
-- Psionic Blast/Empathy

Dominators
-- ILLUSION/Dark Assault

Masterminds
-- Sonic Resonance/Cold Domination

Stalkers
-- Ice Melee/Ice Armor

Well, BS is still better if you can back it up!

Statesman said that was his goal back in the day. Although given what we know now, Positron might have just been humoring Jack when Jack asked how the system worked!

Wrong. It's possibly the worst suggestion ever and the worst suggestion that will ever be. It is the alpha and omega of bad suggestions!

This game hasn't followed a more risk = more reward strategy in years. You know that. Merits demonstrated that.

True story. I was on my newly redeemed Dominator when I got a tell asking to do a Katie Hannon. I had about 45 mins. so I said SURE! Got in there, it was a group that hadn't ever done the TF before. No support, noob tank, real PUG disaster. 45 minutes later I felt bad leaving these folks to the mercy of a +3 AV that they simply didn't have the DPS to defeat.

Since we went to this Time:Reward strategy, this TF isn't done anywhere near as much as it used to be although it's objectively more difficult than TFs that give 4-5 times the reward.

I think the STF/LRSF was the absolute BEST choice they could have made. It was almost an obvious choice. Both from a story standpoint and given the developer's goals.

Picking a 'difficult' task force, but not one of the Incarnate ones, gives a good story based reason why the Well is taking Notice of you and it provided MANY players their first run at these TFs with scripted encounters.

Well, the good news there, is that the 100 merits will be most welcome!

That's not elitism, that's stupidity. What tank you bring is almost wholly irrelevant. Having a tank at all is a good thing. It's the whole team that matters, not any of the individual parts.

You were right to leave. But not because you were dealing with elitists, you were dealing with noobs!

Correct. Which is why we need to finish power proliferation and add Inventions where there are weak or incomplete choices (Targeted AoE) before we even think of spending the time to do pool and epic customization.


*Runs away from angry RP mob*

Or Tunisian; or possibly Jordanian.

This character has been standing still in Ouroboros for five minutes and doesn't have an powers on auto.

The Well of the Furies is slightly ticked at us for not taking its power all at one time. It was looking forward to thousands of already super-powered slaves and that damn woman Lady Grey had to go and ruin it.

"So screw you guys," the Well was heard to say. "You bastids want to wait for your power huh?"

"WELL HOW DO YOU LIKE FOUR WEEKS THEN BUDDY!"

Moral of the Story: It has nothing to do with padding. The Well of the Furies is a jerk.

That's worth a POTUS thumbs up!

I play both this game and that other game you're talking about. Taking aside which one has more sub numbers (which is irrelevant if you like the game), you are aware that the endgame is designed around grouping right?

The 'solo' endgame missions are nothing more than regurgitated instances from the leveling game that lead to inferior rewards than what is offered to teams. Listen, I bear that game no ill will (I'm subbed to it), but it doesn't offer anything to a soloist at the endgame. Which if I'm not mistaken is what we're discussing here. Give me a second I'll check the thread title.

/em Elevator music

Yeah that's right.

You mean that much newer and far more appealing to new players MMO that gates the game's best armor behind groups and raids? Just like you're saying the devs are doing here?

Well some people make those bonds. Others need to be coaxed. You don't have to believe me. Take the time, learn about it.

See the difference here is you see a penalty where I do not. You are not penalized by not teaming, you just don't earn certain rewards. When I was in high school, you earned a letter from playing on a sport's team or joining the band. There was no requirement in the school's rules that you had to join a team, but if you wanted to wear the school's emblem you had to play on a team (or play an instrument in an ensemble).

I don't remember anyone screaming "FORCED TEAMING!" at baseball practice, but I'm getting old so it's possible I forgot.

That's kinda what I expect anyway. This is a mechanics change and a minor one at that.

Absolutely the wrong question.

The proper question is "What reasoning is there to encourage players, via increased and exclusive rewards, to group?"

The reasoning is to strengthen the social bonds that players create in-game. Let me share a couple of papers with you: http://www.contemporary-media.co.uk/...ssertation.pdf AND http://www.trinity.edu/adelwich/worl...ris.taylor.pdf

You can do a simple Google search and find dozens of papers on social aspects of MMORPGs.

There's more, but I want you to focus on the anecdotes in those papers. It's been studied over and over, but the people who form the strongest bonds in a game, who will continue to play long after their real affection for the game has waned are those who have formed strong bonds with other players. And honestly, you don't do that by interacting with the market or costume contests. You do that by bonding together, helping each other, most often taking on great challenges. The devs encourage grouping because people remember groups, even if no one is talking. I know several people on the Justice server simply from doing runs of TFs with them or Hami Raids. I don't know anything else about them. They could be total jerks, but they are ace players and I feel a connection by playing with them. Is it even close to the connection with my real friends and family? Hell no, but it's enough that I love playing this game and love the community of the game and especially the Justice server (I am its Overlord after all).

I'm actually hoping the restrict it to level capped TF/SFs. The reason being that hero side has some real weird divergences among TFs. Can you imagine what a Katie Hannon week would look like. People have focused on how much a Dr. Q would suck, but really, all that would mean is that people skip that week. A Katie would probably cause a singularity to form in Croatoa from the mass of all the players there.

The endgame TFs are, for the most part, all of a reasonable difficulty and all would allow the use of Incarnate abilities.


I don't think the Well notices lowbies.

I asked the devs about the possibility of a matching function at Comic Con. They answered by looking around and mumbling something about not being able to answer. What that means, who knows. But there were other things I asked them about where they gave a flat 'no'.

I've just murdered ten Council Soldiers. Hundreds more will die if I don't get a Strike Target tonight.

That's easy. Get on a team.