PumBumbler

You should go back to dancing.

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Seriously though, the devs have created Brain Storms, Vanguard Merits, TF Merits, Candy Canes, Tickets and a dozen other reward systems on top of the standard influence reward.

What is wrong with distinctive shinies that are not reward merits? I'd be happy with a single use non-stackable Hammer of Justice or whatever instead of more merits...even costume pieces like the KHTF has.

Since CoP is supposed to be SG based...they should award a temp power/bonus when you have SG members on your team or something to that effect, but the whole idea of simple merit rewards/min per task is pretty much the road to extinction if you ask me.

Soon there will be Alpha junk to go around as well...another form of non tradeable currency that will inflate everything else around it.

That is the crux of the problem...the rewards for the activity are ultimately self defeating. In other words, never look a merit horse in the mouth. As for i9, I had specifically cautioned that merits would pretty much create a merit bonanza for some people and increase the gap between the have and have-nots, as opposed to narrowing the gap.

There isn't really a point to building an uber l33t toon to do most activities. It's sort of the reason why emps are considered unnecessary...what's the point to bringing a healer to def-capped, health-capped super powered teams? In essence, you could solo everything so a team is unnecessary, so is there a point to the massively-multiplayered part of a RPG?

The rewards simply feed the cycle even more since they're not simply shinies. They keep making your toon(s) more uber and actually make an easy game even easier. Taking challenge out of the game isn't necessarily going to make it more fun, although in the beginning it sure seems great. I guess I'd rather be Batman than Superman.

I suppose the entire reward system needs to be refigured, although doing it at this point would be like trying to refit a leaky submarine whilst out at sea. If the rewards didn't feed into the functional performance of a toon so cheaply and quickly the game would probably have fewer problems like the power and influence inflation that we see today.

I'm going to be contrarian here and say that I kinda like things the way they are. In fact if it was made harder I wouldn't mind either.

I think the whole game has been on a downward slope to easy street ever since the Hero respec trial was toned down.

The Master of ... badges were indicative of the general idea of why PvP also is a failure in CoX. Almost every single game/scenario/task force is geared such that the player wins...every time. Games where you win 100% of the time is frankly boring.

There should be events where only a few people are able to finish a task but the player base has been fed such pablum that everyone expects to be able to cruise through things without much difficulty. This leads to people leeching, door sitting or pouting just because they can't get their way.

I want some fiber in my diet. I know everyone wants nice things, but I really don't care about the rewards anymore...sometimes increasing the reward means that people just get greedier. Of course, finding people to help you do difficult tasks is compounded when they all say they want to do something that yields a better merit/minute number...

The CoP will involve much standing around and waiting, for the foreseeable future anyhow.

Most people haven't run the CoP trial before so usually there will be a large percentage of people who won't know what to do.

Having up to 24 people in a raid means there is always someone who AFKs or switches or needs shivans/HVAS/nukes at the most inappropriate time.

Since the two phases of the CoP require a strong degree of coordination between everyone involved, a lot of time is spent by the team leaders trying to figure out ways to make sure everyone is synced up and listening. Probably the majority of the time is spent working on this, actually. If you've ever done an Abandoned Sewer Trial, just imagine having 3 teams instead of 1 and you can see where the source of frustration can be.

The AV at the end has a huge amount of regen so timing and pacing are needed to overcome him in the narrow window of opportunities that are given between spawns.

As usual, good teams/leaders will make the CoP look easy. Poor teams/leaders will make it look hard. YMMV. Until the majority of each team knows their roles and responsibilities, count on more downtime during raid formation rather than actual CoPing.

Heh. Love the reg date and number of posts. New player or just new account?

Um...never.

The only use for EoE outside of Hami raids are for LGTF or MoLGTF. Not sure if AE has any use for EoEs but probably not.

*spins Cai around*

I hate that Cai guy. He brags too much.

Fixt that fer j00.

People spend merits? Next thing you know, brain storms will actually be worth something.

Any description on how to enable crossfire support in CoH?

What was interesting was that on another run of CoP (after the gracious Flea showed us how it was done) with the LoJ folks, we were better prepared to drop the AV. When we first went in everyone threw everything at him, including the kitchen sink.

He didn't even have a chance to get hurricane going and we dropped him before the first respawn came in, so the new folks were thinking it was quite anticlimactic. 11 minutes from beginning to end, although the gathering phase was quite prolonged for other reasons entirely.

Just remember that if you can't finish him before your buffs/temps/pets wear off that it will be unlikely that you could finish the trial without restarting.

Probably getting some Widows over from the other side would also help with having Mind Link on the raiders and pets. If anything it would reduce the amount of chaining that would go on. Nothing more annoying than being terrorized during the critical phase.

Ideally the raid leader should advertise and plan a ship raid right after a Hami raid just to keep the vmerits train rolling.

Given the fact that Justice tends to use ship raids to herd rikti, capping vmerits should be pretty easy within a few raids. 600-1000 merits per run should mean that there should never be a shortage of HVAS during hami raids. Or CoP for that matter.

Um...what you've just describe fits the description of a welfare state. Why do I need to bother learning it if you're there to fill in the blanks for me?

Reminds me of my linear algebra class where the teaching assistant put a ? with some other guy's name it. I didn't know or care since I got them all correct but a year later the guy who's name was on my assignment came and thanked me for the 'giving him' the answers. Turns out he fished out my copy from the submission bin and scribed it.

People tend towards laziness and selfishness unless they have no other choice.

I say we run through Justice and behead the leaders. Nothing like creative destruction to allow the shoots to grow into lubberly trees.

Because CoPs and robbers can't get along.


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Thanks ladies and germs! I'll be here the rest of the week!

I didn't have to chase you that much last time. Are you sure you're running?