GreenFIame

Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm

LRSF is Hard.

Originally Posted by graystar_blaster

O please explain i dont understand. What do you all mean.

Your not being fair. Just try to understand this game got really hard now with all the nerfs. Its not fair that the xp and badges are like totally impossible now.

U cant even get a team on freedom anymore how am i supposed to get the badges in the shadow sharp(the tfs and the explore ones)

I think they should nerf the badges that at least would keep people going.

Or maybe cap the prices of purples to like 25 mill so people could get them there are so many things they could do at this point to make it easier.

Originally Posted by Vega

OK Devs, you have shown us that you do remember that you can add stuff to Ouro. How about adding the Villain stuff like

Like Paragon of Vice
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Willy_...hnos_Personnel

Srikebreaker
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Lorenz...#Badge_Mission

and

All Mayhems

With all the XP smoothing and supersidekicking going on, it is very easy to out level lower level villain content, and have no way of accessing it solo. As these are needed for accolades, I cannot see any negatives.

Originally Posted by Slope

I'm just throwing around some ideas here, i know a ton of people want outer space content (no idea how easy that is) and i have a few ideas for a possible expansion
- New villain groups. Aliens or like space explorers who experiment evil stuff.
- Trainers, Stores, etc. will be located in Space Stations. Normal movement
- When "Space Walking" automatic hover (to represent no gravity) but gravity packs can be bought that are used for more speed.
- Rockets take you from Space Station to Space Station.
- Planets are the Hazard Zone type things.
- Astronaut costume parts (includes flags as a detail)
- New origin- Alien. Origin Power- Something like a poison or toxin.
- Alien costume parts (antennas, bug eyes, etc.)
- To get from Paragon to Space, you take a Space Shuttle (probably in PI)
- New base items (space windows, Station looking items and such)
Those are just a few ideas i came up with, leave anything you would like to see and people who know the engine well, would space work or would it be really hard?

Originally Posted by marc100

I'd say probably the last 10 sg's I joined, their teleporters were impossible to find. I would have to run around the base literally 4 minutes to find them.

Is there a reason for this like people dont use teleporters that much? thats kind of the only reason I use SG's and stay in SG mode is to use the teleporters

Originally Posted by Talbein_Vikshus

Recently I finished up my shield/war mace tank project, which was to do EVERY contact and their associated storyarcs on the way to 50 (not via Ouro). This necessitated turning off xp earning many, many times heh.

After nearly 6 years of being on this game, I still try to do every storyarc for all toons be it tanker, defender, etc etc. The feature of turning off xps makes it so much easier than simply using debt though that can be fun too.

Before that feature came to us, I'd get ribbing from friendlies or people I don't normally team with for running to monster island to get whacked a few times for debt cap.

So the question here is...how many others have a 'compulsion' to complete every storyarc for each contact for every alt? Probably be difference of opinions for 5+ year vets as opposed to a newer player but all welcome to chime in. If I'm alone on this, tell me where I can seek counseling heh heh.

Originally Posted by graystar_blaster

As stated the nerfs to xp are extreme and hard. Since no one is playing why make it harder for the ones that are here, why nerf the xp and why nerf the drops.

I would think that making it easier for the ones that are playing and the drops would encourage new 50s and make it a stronger player base for when GR hits.

Even more so since i17 has nothing at all in it except 2 arcs and a new posi which is just a similar posi kinda updated.


why not reward people for staying with the game and make it easier for the ones still playing instead of harder which only makes people go to other games?

i think its another case of the devs diconnect with player base

Originally Posted by RottenLuck

I'm not sure if this fits here or not but I'm posting my random thoughts.

I don't PVP in this game thought I would like to. The problem like many I don't like the PVP rules. Why?

Well the basic is this from level 1-14 I learn a the game mechanics. I get used to said powers how they perform. What they can do to said foes.

Then level 15 and going into Bloody Bay. WHAT THE HELL! What I spent getting used to changes. It's a whole new system to get used to.

Much like driving when someone learns to drive an Automatic transmission and then they sit into a Manual Transmission car. This change is what bothers me I simply don't enjoy the changing systems when going from a PVE to a PVP Zone. Yes people had said the technical flaws in PVP I'm not going to bother with that.

Really who does? It's how it FEELS how it PLAYS and the mentality we players get from it. The way it seems to me is we have not one City of Heroes/Villains but Two. The PVE CoX and the PVP CoX.

Okay this Rant is over. Am I wrong?

Originally Posted by Kioshi

Wow that post was hard to read. Firefox and Google Chrome have built in spell checkers you know. I'm no grammar nazi, English is not my native language but ouch, reading that hurt my brain.

I always played on Freedom and Virtue and never got kicked because of my build, be it a dm/da scrapper, earth/sonic troller, dark/traps corr, em/nin stalker before the stalker buff, dm/ea stalker, whatever. I did PUG and channel TFs with all kinds of group setup and lots of powersets. I've seen a lot of unusual combos in Freedom and Virtue like say, MA/Dark Armor scrappers, Sonic resonance defs and trollers, loads of blasters with /fire, /devices and /ice secondaries and I've teamed with a lot of WSs and PBs, deleted my WS at 35 because I didn't enjoy the playstyle.

Just go hang out in AP in Freedom, there are all kinds of 50s with all types of powersets, same in Virtue's Pocket D.

Been leveling a DB/Elec and a FM/SD scrapper, both are squishy at level 25, and with both I 'tanked' for big teams because I had support. As long as you are a respectful player and don't do stupid stuff like aggro more than the team can handle, you'll be fine in most cases. I've just NEVER been booted because of my build on Freedom or Virtue in 26 months, blue or redside, even when I was playing Stalkers a lot and they were known as 'lolStalkers' (before the i12 buffs).

Freedom has enough variety, it seems you only pay attention to the FOTM builds which will always exist in ANY server.

Then again, I can't say I give you a lot of credibility since I've seen you post that you solo AVs without insps on a SO dark/dark defender and that your Fire/Fire tanker outdamages 'all scrappers'.

And Mid's is a great tool, whether you want to plan a build and IO it up to the wazoo or even just calculate the number of slots you want in each of your powers, especially useful for Warshades and PBs for example. Not everyone is trying to softcap defenses, stop thinking that the scrapper forums is a reflection of the whole game, most of my friends in-game don't even access these boards.

But I saw people telling you all that stuff already and you still question Mid's and say that everyone has the same builds, so either you're a troll or you just refuse to change you view on the subject, so why ask this again?

'Fear of the unknown', L-O-L. Nobody's afraid of trying powersets in this game except for new people who think they might be going for gimped builds with their first toon. After 3 months or so teaming / playing, any reasonable person won't be 'afraid' to try out a new powerset, knowing they can just delete the toon if they don't like it. Well since you fail at understanding basic things like Mid's utility even on SO builds (you don't need to use Mids to at least acknowledge it can be useful), I wouldn't include you in the 'reasonable people' category. And if you don't like Mid's, why do you seem to get bothered by people who use it? Nobody's forcing you to install it.

It's just a little program that helps you manage your slots since they're limited especially on SO/common IO builds without multi-aspect IOs, check if your end costs are okay, if your powers are well slotted for acc/dam/end/rech/whatever, if your set bonuses aren't over the cap in the case of IO builds, if you're chasing the right set bonuses when you wanna build for defense/recharge/regen/recovery/hp/etc, and for me, also a way to try to help people fine-tune their builds when I'm able to offer helpful advice.

No build is gimped except in 'srs business' arena PvP where you can make horrible horrible choices especially with the new system that made so many builds almost useless, like my ice/psi permadom who relied on slows and holds in i12, both are laughable now.

Well you CAN make a gimped build in PvE if you roll a petless MM or an Emp Defender with the Medicine pool and only one attack, but that's the player, not the powersets' fault.

Originally Posted by Kioshi

Wow that post was hard to read. Firefox and Google Chrome have built in spell checkers you know. I'm no grammar nazi, English is not my native language but ouch, reading that hurt my brain.

I always played on Freedom and Virtue and never got kicked because of my build, be it a dm/da scrapper, earth/sonic troller, dark/traps corr, em/nin stalker before the stalker buff, dm/ea stalker, whatever. I did PUG and channel TFs with all kinds of group setup and lots of powersets. I've seen a lot of unusual combos in Freedom and Virtue like say, MA/Dark Armor scrappers, Sonic resonance defs and trollers, loads of blasters with /fire, /devices and /ice secondaries and I've teamed with a lot of WSs and PBs, deleted my WS at 35 because I didn't enjoy the playstyle.

Just go hang out in AP in Freedom, there are all kinds of 50s with all types of powersets, same in Virtue's Pocket D.

Been leveling a DB/Elec and a FM/SD scrapper, both are squishy at level 25, and with both I 'tanked' for big teams because I had support. As long as you are a respectful player and don't do stupid stuff like aggro more than the team can handle, you'll be fine in most cases. I've just NEVER been booted because of my build on Freedom or Virtue in 26 months, blue or redside, even when I was playing Stalkers a lot and they were known as 'lolStalkers' (before the i12 buffs).

Freedom has enough variety, it seems you only pay attention to the FOTM builds which will always exist in ANY server.

Then again, I can't say I give you a lot of credibility since I've seen you post that you solo AVs without insps on a SO dark/dark defender and that your Fire/Fire tanker outdamages 'all scrappers'.

And Mid's is a great tool, whether you want to plan a build and IO it up to the wazoo or even just calculate the number of slots you want in each of your powers, especially useful for Warshades and PBs for example. Not everyone is trying to softcap defenses, stop thinking that the scrapper forums is a reflection of the whole game, most of my friends in-game don't even access these boards.

But I saw people telling you all that stuff already and you still question Mid's and say that everyone has the same builds, so either you're a troll or you just refuse to change you view on the subject, so why ask this again?

'Fear of the unknown', L-O-L. Nobody's afraid of trying powersets in this game except for new people who think they might be going for gimped builds with their first toon. After 3 months or so teaming / playing, any reasonable person won't be 'afraid' to try out a new powerset, knowing they can just delete the toon if they don't like it. Well since you fail at understanding basic things like Mid's utility even on SO builds (you don't need to use Mids to at least acknowledge it can be useful), I wouldn't include you in the 'reasonable people' category. And if you don't like Mid's, why do you seem to get bothered by people who use it? Nobody's forcing you to install it.

It's just a little program that helps you manage your slots since they're limited especially on SO/common IO builds without multi-aspect IOs, check if your end costs are okay, if your powers are well slotted for acc/dam/end/rech/whatever, if your set bonuses aren't over the cap in the case of IO builds, if you're chasing the right set bonuses when you wanna build for defense/recharge/regen/recovery/hp/etc, and for me, also a way to try to help people fine-tune their builds when I'm able to offer helpful advice.

No build is gimped except in 'srs business' arena PvP where you can make horrible horrible choices especially with the new system that made so many builds almost useless, like my ice/psi permadom who relied on slows and holds in i12, both are laughable now.

Well you CAN make a gimped build in PvE if you roll a petless MM or an Emp Defender with the Medicine pool and only one attack, but that's the player, not the powersets' fault.

Originally Posted by Smurch

I've been playing since 2006. I don't use mids nor do I do FotM builds (at least, not that I know... I don't pay attention). I've never once been booted off a team for any reason, much less for what build I have.

The closest thing that happened to me was I got a tell asking me if I was interested in an ITF. I said "maybe, as long as I can bring a friend" (was running duo with the wife). They then started asking me a bunch of questions about my powers, my build, and "what can you bring to the team" like it was a job interview. I told them to just forget it.

That's my one and only brush with build-snobbery in the past four years.