Red_Raccoon

Also, once you find the key, a yellow star on your map should indicate the location of the door it opens. Check your map to verify if you've found and opened the correct door. Some of these warehouse maps have multiple doors, some of which may not require a key to pass.

I'd be very, very, VERY surprised if they added a mechanic that involved losing levels.

Just my two cents, but I really don't see it happening.

It also sounds like it doesn't account for the fact that some enemies appear much more frequently than others. So while the information is very interesting and gives a general indication of how common certain damage types are v.s. other types, those numbers can't be relied upon as being very exact. That's the point I was trying to make earlier. I think you could use this data to give advice for builds, but you'd need a "your mileage may vary" disclaimer.

This reminds me of when I first played CoH. One of my first missions was to find and defeat some Vahzilok. I followed the compass to the location indicated on my map. Although the arrow was in fact pointing to a mission door, there happened to be a group of Vahzilok zombies standing close by and I assumed the arrow was pointing to them. Unfortunately, they were +3 to my level. It wasn't until after several trips to the hospital that I realized those outdoor zombies had nothing to do with my mission at all!

So yeah, there are a few things in this game that can be confusing to a new player who's not used to how things work here, but it doesn't take much time at all to get the hang of it.

Here's my own two stupid misconceptions:

Until I started playing CoX about a year ago, I had never played an MMORPG before. Way back when CoH was first released, I was eager to play it until I found out it was an MMORPG. I didn't think I'd like MMORPGs, mostly because of some bad assumptions I had:

1) I thought when playing an MMORPG, you HAD to team with other people. (I was uncomfortable about teaming with strangers) I assumed solo play just wasn't an option.

2) I thought PvP was everywhere. I assumed that at any point in the game, there was always the risk of another player coming up and killing you.

It was only after a friend talked me into trying out the game on his account that I saw how wrong my assumptions were. The ironic thing is, I've since run with pugs and tried pvp, and neither is as bad as I expected (although I still mostly solo in PvE when not playing with friends)

There was also a super booster Cyborg pack ( the "tech" themed set). And I assume there will be a mutant booster pack before too long.

Here's the thing:

When you play a game that involves teaming, you need to be a team player.

This doesn't mean that you can't role play. What it does mean is that if you plan to team, you should find ways to role play that do not interfere with being a team player.

I've only played MMORPGs for about a year, but I have a long history of playing pen-and-paper role playing games. Unlike online games, where role playing is really optional, pen-and-paper games almost always involve heavy role playing. Most of the players of those games understand the importance of team play. They will create characters that are motivated to work well with others so that they can freely role play without having to disrupt the team dynamic. However, occasionally, I've come across a player that plays their character in such a way as to cause problems for other players, even to the point of derailing the whole game. The excuse is always "I'm just role playing my character!" The problem with this excuse is that there's no good reason to create a character whose personality, when properly role played, is going to be disruptive to the game. Why deliberately design a character that's going to cause problems?

Solo play is a valid option in CoX. You can certainly make characters that don't work well with others, but you might want to reserve them for solo play. When teaming with others, break out characters who could plausibly be team players when called upon.

Role playing is great--it doesn't have to be an obstacle to team play unless you insist on making it so.

Here are two things I've long thought would be cool additions to the game, but I know would provide far too minor a benefit to be worth the Dev's time (thus I wouldn't even bother posting these in the suggestion forum)

1) Customizable signs for bases.

Back when I formed my first supergroup and built up the base, I wanted to organize the salvage bins by tier and rarity, so that there would be one bin for tier one commons, etc. I figured this would make it easier to find specific salvage and would help ensure a good variety of salvage types. Unfortunately, no one but me (and sometimes not even me) could remember the system, so pretty soon the salvage was distributed rather randomly among the bins. I thought it would be great if I could create text labels that I could attach on or near bins that would indicate what kind of salvage each was for. In fact, customizable signs could serve a variety of practical and decorative purposes in a base. Sadly, even with profanity blockers in place, this option could be abused and we'd see bases filled with all kinds of offensive and inappropriate messages, so it isn't really a good idea to have something like this.

2) Complete career defeat statistics.

I was looking at my progress bars for defeat badges on one of my characters and I thought, "wouldn't it be great if you could pull up complete defeat statistics for each character?" Not just how many mobs of each faction, but also how many lieutenants and bosses for each faction, as well as the the unique named enemies that character has defeated. Also, tracking which arcs each has completed would be nice too. I have so many alts, I can't remember what half of them have done. But I know there are far more useful things people would like to see, so I don't imagine developing something like this would ever take much priority.

Also, on the subject of game statistics: my first day playing CoH, I ran into an information kiosk on a street corner. It looked like the one in the tutorial, but seemed designed to provide ongoing player statistics. Except it listed "no information" under every category. Most of the time, I don't even notice those things anymore, but every once in a while, I'll come across one and check it. It's always "no information."

I don't think I've ever known anyone to mention them. The wiki only seems to mention them in the section on features included with issue 2: