Lothic

I always thought it was a little weird for there to be two identical copies of Ouroboros, one "red" and one "blue". They probably should have figured out some way to make it a single co-op zone from the beginning.

But on the other hand there is so much about that zone that is "side dependant" that I'm not sure how easy it'd be to merge them at this point. You'd have to include a bunch of conditional "if villain/rogue do A, elsif hero/vigilante do B" code to all the contacts and missions. You'd also have to put those checks on the portal crystals for the flashback system too.

Sadly I think there's too much unique side content in each Ouroboros now to merge them easily. I'm sure it could be done, but the effort it would take may never be justifiable by the Devs.

Yeah I'll have to agree that the "no Warburg nukes in the CoP Trial" change seems, when considered by itself, like a very random and nonsensical reaction from the Devs.

The main problems with the CoP trial right now are that:
A) The AVs can shoot through their "affect only self" shields. This is an obvious bug that needs to be fixed.
B) The AVs Regen rate is quite likely set way too high, especially on the "stormy" AV.

How does the restriction of an unrelated temp power affect those two things?

As long as these two problems exist Warburg nukes are almost REQUIRED to have a successful CoP trial. Now if the Devs plan to have the two actual problems fixed very soon after this "no Warburg nuke" patch goes in then maybe it'll work together as a multi-part solution to the balancing problem. With those two problems fixed Warburg nukes would (in all fairness) probably be overkill on the AV.

But that still raises the bigger question others have mentioned here: How can the Devs arbitrarily decide that a certain temp power will not be allowed in a given trial? That's almost like the first step towards forcing everyone to have to play the CoP Trial as if it were a "Master of CoP" Trial. I think this is a slippery slope the Devs are going to ultimately regret: having the OPTION to run a Master of CoP is one thing, FORCING people to run it that way is a very bad precedent to set.

The arc listing in Ouroboros can be a little hard to sort through. Some of the arcs are in different level ranges than you'd expect. But as far as I know as long as you are high enough level all the arcs needed for badges will be available there without having to "unlock" anything. Case in point: I just went through getting all the redside badges on a level 50 hero-turned-villain and I didn't (as far as I could tell) have to unlock any arcs first to get to what I needed.

It's possible you have to be like 5 or 10 levels higher than you'd think you'd need to be to get a given arc. But because most of my experience with Ouroboros is with level 50 characters I don't have much knowledge about what Ouroboros displays to characters lower leveled than that. *shrugs*

This seems like a simple enough suggestion. They'd probably have to limit the length of the new base name field to something relatively small (30 characters?) to make sure it could fit into any existing GUIs but otherwise as you say it'd probably be easy to "shoehorn" this into existing code.

I think many people would rank being able to rename their SGs at a higher priority than this, but beyond that it's a reasonable suggestion.

There's nothing wrong with suggesting QoL improvements. But you have to look at the same "Bigger Picture" the Devs are going to be using to judge these things. They consider all sorts of factors when balancing their game.

While I can sympathize that herding a bunch of henchies around can have its annoying aspects you have to think that after five years the Devs have reviewed how the MM AT plays in countless scenarios. One has to assume that if they thought the amount of time/effort it takes a MM player to set up all their henchies in ANY given situation was unreasonable compared to their strengths they would have changed it a long time ago.

I suppose if you could somehow prove to the Devs that MMs are virtually unplayable because of this then you might have a case. Problem is the tactics of thousands of players over many years are likely going to stand against you on this. There are several ATs/Powersets I don't typically play simply because the tactics required to play them well don't really appeal to me. Maybe MMs will prove to be that kind of thing for you. Who knows, but good luck regardless.

While the hypothetical idea of trading "character slots for costume slots" has an interesting appeal it's far from being a practical idea. As others have said if the Devs could actually provide us a way to gain more costume slots for existing characters why exactly would we have to lose character slots for that? That's definitely an "apples and oranges" situation there.

I'd much prefer a system we know already exists, at least in another game at this point. Champions Online provides a way for players to buy additional costume slots for their characters via its microtransaction store system. That way people who would want effectively unlimited costume slots on their characters can get them there if they want them. Back when I toyed around with that game I had one level 5 character with a dozen costume slots.

I propose that this game simply copy that feature from CO. I realize that might not be a trivial thing to do, but ultimately it'd be the most reasonable and flexible solution for this game.

This is going to motivate movie theaters to replace their relatively comfortable cushion seats with like hard plastic or somesuch. *sigh*