Jagged

Yeah, its a weird thing but people do seem to genuinely believe that grind equates to hard! When the truth is closer to grind equates to dull.

Incidentally I did the Weekly Strike Target Terra Volta Trial yesterday and in between the very slow waves of Rikti a discussion arose as to why people were doing the trial. No one suggested it was "fun". I was there for the badge. What's wrong with this picture?

Now I did enjoy myself, but I haven't done TV in years and certainly won't do it again for quite some time. A couple of people in the team were complaining they wouldn't get a "Notice of the Well".

Oooh! I am so telling on you!


ps: Welcome back from one recent returnee to another

Role Playing lolz

Solo<>Easy.

Grind<>Hard.


Soloing an EB is far more interesting and harder than a team wailing on an AV. Plus, for some strange reason, EBs seem to use wider ranges of powers than AVs. Maybe thats just because 8 characters smacking an AV causes it to do down before it does anything interesting.

If you want "Easy" you make an 8 man team and do anything.

Deciding that jousting was a bad thing that needed to be removed, instead of somehow incorporated into the game was one mistake amongst many.

Echo what others have said, CoX PvP needs to be about objectives and not defeats.

For camp sillyiness / greatness you can't beat the original video

Unfortunately your idea of a solo path looks like its designed for the kind of people that do multiple raids a day.

Thats exactly what the EB setting does. Of course not all builds can solo an EB but most can. Last weekend my favourite toon smacked down Lord Recluse solo, to rescue that wimpy Stateman bloke who had got himself caught yet again! (You know I am begining to think there is more to their relationship than they let on ). I then tackled Ghost Window. Poor Stateman couldn't take it and passed out, but I defeated her and freed Positron and the rest of the Freedom Phalanx. Lord Recluse then let loose his latest war machine. The Freedom Phalanx and I attacked it and while the surviving members of the Phalanx were eventually knocked unconscious I remained on my feet and eventually took down the giant spider.

So yeah, felt pretty much like a top flight Super Hero when I finished that mission.

Correct

Thats cool. Can't see me ever doing that until they make the auction house interface available as a website

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I can understand that. It sometimes shocks me when I remember that when I first registered on Cryptics website was the year 2000 (or just before, my memory is *rap) after seeing an article on Bluesnews.

I think this is why I am unlikely to find PvP an enjoyable experience.

I twitched when I read this. I agree with you, but I was remember the arguments

Agreed. Its an excellent mission for making you feel like a "real" comic book super hero.
I hope they expand the number of tip missions. They need a lot more, specifically ones with heroes being naughty and villains being good.

So a villain character can only come to Paragon if a Hero runs the "One Good Spider" mission, right?

I feel much the same way. Which is why, incidentally, I think that the introduction of the ability to downgrade AVs to EBs was the single greatest addition to this game since the game began.

The issue is of course, resource.

I have no problem with new dedicated raid-type content being introduced to CoX but I am concerned at the suggestion that they will be adding them every Issue. I've come back to the game tempted by new content but raid-type content isn't for me. So if they dedicate resource every issue to raid stuff there will be less of the rest and I won't be back for long.

So whether or not it does make good business sense will depend entirely on whether it increases subscription numbers or subscription duration. I am sceptical that "raids" will pull in great numbers. I think CoX does better forging its own line than following in the footsteps of other MMOs

I think they came to an agreement. Cole gets America, Hamidon gets the rest.

I have to agree. I consider myself a "concept" player and generally speaking I find the generic IOs far less "intrusive" than the single origin ones. That might be just me though

This ^

Ah, I was there when Quake went WASD. One of the developers released their own keyboard config that used "Mouselook"! $Diety that was hard going from arrow keys to mouse, but even harder going back

Nah. In the UK "Regimental" would mean formal and "going commando" means the lack of pants. Yes, I did say "pants", which is the correct name for underwear and not a term to be used to describe trousers

Thats for suggestions you want the devs to read. If you want players to read it, post it here


Is there also a "No shouting" initiative?

Have to say as someone thats just returned after a year and a bit I am finding it all very confusing!

I know one that practically encourages it!

ps: I've just finished a Task Force. It required a team of 1 to complete

Agree. But an accolade would be short lived like the badges, your 3 options should be enough