ScottyB

Rejoining a trial is supposed to work, but is finicky. Sometimes you can get back in, sometimes you can't.

A minimum number to start is sufficient to communicate to normal people that something is meant to be done on a team of a particular size. If crazy people want to fill to start, they're aware of the difficulty. Creating limits to discourage them won't work - they can just find people willing to door-sit. They're already thinking about ways to get around the rules.

The only people hurt by this are normal players.

Don't labor the point.

(The Life of Brian, I assume, in case someone don't get it, and in case Doctor_Gemini doesn't remember that part of "What have the Romans ever done for us?" and thinks I'm being hostile or something.)

He forgot to mention leagues, which also work for raids and zone events.

Even though it's just one conversation and an alignment choice, talking to Kang after finishing Anti-Matter's arc is probably one of the most hope-filled moments, due to it being Kang and what he's asking you to do. If Kang of all people can make a decision like that, well... Link to: spoilers!

He may not be a "good guy", but I like to think he's starting on a path of redemption.

I managed to get into a few open leagues using the LFG queue recently. But I knew there were a few "last calls" for forming trials, and I was lucky that they didn't fill. They didn't have a problem with me sneaking in, either.

I agree that the queue needs to show how many other people are queued. If you see it growing, you're more likely to stay in it. Otherwise you end up leaving, because you'd still be waiting around for at least as long as it takes a league to fill - and of course, if a league is full for its intended trial, it doesn't matter how long you've been in the queue. They'll be queued for all of 5 seconds while you're still waiting for a trial with room to form.

I'm very surprised that you can make an "open league" join the queue even if it's at the maximum for a trial, meaning it's still a handpicked league, while getting the "open league" credit. I could have sworn that was brought up multiple times during beta as an obvious way to abuse the stated intention of the system. It's disappointing to find out it's still around.

I'm still doing trials because I enjoy large-team content, not because there's anything left to earn. (It's also why I join at least one Hamidon raid a week.) I'd rather spend my time in a group even if I don't earn anything useful, than do stuff alone even if I can get a decent reward. In fact, before 20.5 it would have been more advantageous for me to spend my time soloing tips than continuing to run trials.

The more the merrier.

What is there to nitpick? I certainly don't see a grammatical error or an edit timestamp.

Thanks again! As long as I'm not posting at 4AM I'll get the apostrophe right.

For ultimate clarification:

• City of Villains released as an "expanshalone" in October 2005. At this time, you needed City of Heroes purchased separately to play a hero.
• In September 2006 the Good Versus Evil Edition was released. The code for this edition activated both heroes and villains simultaneously (or whichever side was missing, if used on an existing account).
• In July 2008, players who still only had Heroes or Villains without access to the other side gained that access without having to buy anything extra.

Players who already had Going Rogue and remain subscribers aren't getting anything extra (compared to players who currently don't have it, but will by virtue of continuing to sub), but the time we've had to use the GR content, I think counts as enough advantage. (Plus if we lapse and become Premium, we've still got it.)

But will that announcement be an awesome list?

I think that shows a flaw in your experiment: value for money isn't about how much is in the store, it's about whether or not you place a value on something equal to the value of your money.

Will you buy the components of the Party Pack when they become purchasable with points? Your experiment proposes buying all non-consumables, after all. If you won't, why not? What if a new set of social emotes comes out and seems similarly worthless to you? Do you buy it for the sake of the experiment? If you don't, then someone might question why you bought X but not Y when they place more value on Y than X.

I think there will be a large amount of content available with the hope that everyone will buy some things, and that VIPs will be able to use their points on the things they want most (but still have to buy points if they want moar nao). There's no easy way to factor in whether or not a player values a particular item, but that's the kind of player the new system will favor by letting players cherry-pick the parts they want and ignoring the rest until they have a use for it, or until the next billing cycle gives them more points.

By the way, a timeline of all packs except GvE (the only item pack available prior to 2008):

Feb 2008 to Aug 2009: Cyborg, Magic, Science, Wedding*, Mac [Pack] (6 gbp each, according to the wiki) = 30 gbp
* Wedding Pack was in February, everything else (24 gbp worth) was August to August.

Aug 2009 to Aug 2010: Science, Martial Arts, Mutant (6 each) = 18 gbp
I don't know what GR's cost is in gbp, but expansions don't come out often. It also came with a lot of content that can't be compared with costume/emote packs. If you go by just the costume/emotes/[inherent]power, then the GR item pack (not necessary if you bought a physical GR box; not sure about online order?) is 5 gbp, bringing the year's total up to 23 gbp.

Aug 2010 to present: Party (5) + Origins, Animal and Steampunk (6 each) = 23 gbp

Justice for me, and just folks to smash missions with, but yeah!