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Yeah I hope the devs get rid of that minimum requirement before next year.

/This 150%

Uhm you actually bother shooting the giant Shivan? I kill of the little guys because they are the ones you need credit for to advance to the next map, and then read a book while the giant Shivans dies like it is programmed to.

No, I'm not ignoring them. I'm just acknowledging the simple fact that they didn't have as big an impact on the majority of the player bases decision to avoid PvP as some would like to believe.

It's sad that what PvP community we do have is frustrated because they can't enjoy it. Even tho I can't stand PvP myself I honestly wish they had something they could enjoy like the rest of us.

I heard Hulk say "Puny god" thru the laughter but the scene I missed the dialogue because of the laughter was when Loki tapped Stark on the chest with his toothpick of destiny. Everyone started laughing at Loki's expression when he heard the "clink ...clink" and I missed Stark's response.

1. Prestige is meaningless. If a player foolishly thinks it matters its very simple to write down the prestige amount before transferring and upon returning and rejoining the SG he or she can convert some influence to prestige at City Hall.

2. Getting SG invites back into an SG is relatively simple if you let an SG member know what you are doing and ask them to invite you back in.

3. As long as your having someone invite you back in they can promote you as well.

3. Solo SG's are even easier. Simply use a second account to invite your own character back into the solo SG and promote him up to the previous rank. Prestige is even more meaningless in solo SG's.

Don't have a second account? Well it only costs $5 bucks to upgrade a free account to Prem and join your solo SG. Or a person can simply ask for help from one of the thousands of friendly and helpful players in the game or on the forums.


All that being said it would be nice if the devs decided to give us a pop up window where we could choose from a selection of options.

1. Server Transfer
2. Character Rename Token
3. Character Slots (I think 2 are the same value as a transfer, but my memory could be wrong)
4. Respec

Congrats, as Kitsune already explained you have enough transfer tokens saved up to get the 4 rename tokens you want.

Ya know if the devs asked he'd probably love the idea of an MMO doing a parody of him.

Dr. Steel
His Nurses (female NPC's)
His Scouts (female NPC's)
His Toy Soldiers (male NPC's)
Finally a variety of Toys

Heck give players a chance to earn badges (Toy Nurse/Toy Soldier) giving them (based on character being Male or female) an unofficial membership to the the Doc's toy army.

I wouldn't be surprised if it helped draw some of Doc's real life fans to become players.

Sally is our devs tribute to the Loch Ness Monster. The "attack" is the game mechanic the devs chose to simulate our attempts to get evidence she exists. It's also why we have to "find" her twice to get credit.

That's funny T_A, cuz I feel the same way about the new content. I wish to god the devs hadn't castrated the origin content in the starter zones and left players with no options but to farm DfB's or run those mindnumbingly boring Matthew Habashy/Twinshot crap.

The old stuff may have been run thousands of times but at least it gave me the illusion of variety and different scenery. When I got tired of AP, I could switch to Galaxy.


The new Atlas Park content reminds me of Kalinda/Burke and that boring linear content path is exactly why I stopped playing redside, and Praetoria.

When I see players leaving zones when raids start, or raids in progress where a handful of interested parties can't find enough people to participate to meet the objectives then I define that as not being a big attraction.

And where exactly did I make that suggestion? I didn't.

No I'm comparing it to all of our zone events, not just the Rikti Raid.

Oh I answered the question. You just don't like it.

And I respectfully disagree.

No that would mean I either didn't see the movie, but from my comments about scenes that can only be scene in the movie you know that's not true. Or that I'm lying about people avoiding zone events, but we know that isn't true. The only thing you can question is if I'm sincere about my opinion, and on that all I can do is assure you that I am.


I recall what happened when the devs turned the once popular Winter Zone Event into a trial, and how vocal the people that hated it were. I also recall how hard it was on Virtue to get enough people to do it.

What I'm doing now? You chose to engage me in a conversation by asking me a direct question after I posted my initial response and I politely responded. That is how communication works. One party says something and another party responds.

You've got to be kidding. Attracting and retaining the PvE players is the single most important thing PvP has always needed to do in this game. Without them you get the very situation we have right now where the devs refuse to waste time and resources on a feature 90% of the playerbase avoids.

If PvP had a decent following the devs wouldn't have given up on it, but by their own admission they told us that even when PvP was at it's most popular, only 10% of the playerbase set foot in the PvP zones/Arena or participated in base raids.

The PvEers did more than simply hit their ignore buttons on the jerks. They took it one step further and boycotted the feature altogether to avoid behavior they despise, and nothing sends a clearer message to the devs than seeing nearly all their customers refusing to even give PvP a chance.


Pray tell us how people that refuse to enter this games PvP environment because they wish to avoid the verbally abusive minority were frustrated by broken game mechanics they never encountered.

The truth of the matter is most of the playerbase couldn't tell you whats broken in PvP. At best they've only heard second hand complaints, but the most common response as to why they avoid PvP will be the desire to avoid the obnoxious minority.



Anyway back to what to do with what's left of PvP. If the devs do design a cross server teaming feature they might be able to use it to give what's left of the PvPers a way to more easily find each other. That way PvP could be removed from the individual servers to it's own separate server.

But rather than Co-op zones make them Villain zones with new content, to give redside a much needed boost in variety. Blueside could stand a good pruning of seldom used zones.

I think their position on offline SG invites also qualifies. As we were told if they added such a feature they would design it so we cannot send SG invites to our own characters on the same account.

Sorry bout that, from the power descriptions it sounded like you were aware of it. Not only are attack toys part of their gadgeteering power set, but their Winter Event big zone event is a giant killer Teddy Bear.

So nothing new just put everything into one event. That's what I thought. Don't see that being a big attraction. And from what I've seen our Events are already comparable to the movie invasion as long as they occur in a popular zone for players to gather. Less popular zones frequently have no one show up at all.

Event starts, the majority of players go somewhere else leaving a handful to fight off the enemy.
Aliens invade New York, only six super heroes show up. All the other NYC based heroes in the Marvelverse are mysteriously absent.

Why do you assume the people responsible for the exclusivity policy are Positron, Warwitch, or any of the other devs rather than some upper management twits that are using their authority to remain nameless?

I've never heard any names mentioned.

I haven't followed what happened at the Summit so out of idle curiosity, does this mean there's any chance of people getting Power Slide from the CoH Collectors Edition?

You guys are gonna love it.

Actually I figured X-Men were to far away to show up. I was thinking Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, FF, and Spidey.

And I get the movie rights thing, Just think it'd been cool if it could have been worked out.

Okay I can see how people who aren't sci-fi buffs might not know about the John Carter Barsoom books, but for us it's like not knowing who Tarzan, Superman, or Conan is before seeing the movie. Even if you don't read the books you know who they are.

I was surprised that people got bent out of shape over who died considering who it actually was.

/This.

Paint me as the bad guy all you like but the truth of the matter is that the minority of verbally abusive PvPers drove away more PvP curious PvEers than broken PvP mechanics ever did.

/This

I only worry about my alts that have everything back to the first anniversary badge.

Seen the movie, but didn't see much that we haven't already got somewhere in the game first.

Alien invasion? Check.
Hot chicks in tight outfits? Check.
Spaceships that blow up if attacked? Check.
Characters that don't get along until the big fight? Check.
Characters that switch sides? Check.
Nukes? Check.
Bombs? Check.
Copyright ripoff characters? Check.
Civilians that run around but never die? Check.
An AV/GM that gets defeated? Check.
Destructible environment? Check.
Base? Check.
Base Raids? Check.

So what exactly do you think we don't have?

Aside from

Bruce Banner showing up on a scooter.
Hulk sucker punching Thor (PvP) during the invasion.
Loki being thrashed like a rag doll
and actual buildings blowing up instead of just cars and stuff.

This is not true at all. There are actually very few things the devs have said would never happen. There is a huge difference between saying they'd like to add a feature right away but they can't because of the amount of work involved will take a long time and no they aren't going to develop a feature at all.

Power Customization was always on their to do list some day. It was players on the forums that twisted what the devs actually said into "it'll never happen" in their responses to the frequent Power Customization request threads.

Some items the devs have actually said would never happen are

Total respecs out of Power sets and AT's
Open world PvP
Allowing players to send offline SG invites to characters on the same account