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Ah, OK. I partially see your point; I actually regard them as a bonus to encourage alts, though. Playing a Villain badger gets you badges as a Hero and vice-versa. For example, I recently rolled a Dominator that I ended up not wanting to play, after which I came back to a Scrapper I had been working on earlier. The feeling that I had wasted time on the Dom was mitigated by the sudden increase in Day Job progress on my Scrapper, which of course had felt very slow when I was playing her often.


Yes, this would be nice. It would extend the glee of Mayhem Missions out over the whole game, and the existence of Mayhem Missions proves it can be done. All they really have to do to perfect it is (1) let knockback work and (2) make it harder to accidentally target objects when you're going for enemies.

I played Freedom Force before I got City of Heroes, so the absence of environmental damage was especially disappointing to me.

Huh? A large fraction of tier-one recipes in CoH require salvage that often goes for 50k to 100k per piece, and this is usually the common salvage. Granted, patience can get it for you faster, but not always by much. Is 100,000 just worth more in Wow?


Is this serious, or sarcastic? I guess some day job accolades are useful, but I never see them breaking the game. Is your post intended to emphasize the current quality of the game by identifying something completely trivial as the most important problem in the game, or do you actually have something against Day Jobs?

Actually, this was what I meant to suggest, but I was tired when I made the post...

Yes, I would also be giddy if I could glide with tech wings, especially with rocket boots and a flypose.

Make all of them robot-ninja-zombie-pirate-catgirl ghosts!

Or minions of Nemesis after he took over the world in some portal dimension.

Or Arabian.

Double-post to complain about double-posting, with no apparent reason for not using a single post in the first place.

Trivia: I use "Suck [element], evildoer!" as my default battle cry for characters when I can't think of one. I'm always amused when someone gets the reference.

You're unlikely to get the team leader and you're too likely to get someone in a TF or Ouro. It works, but it's needlessly clunky.

Ah, this would probably be my fourth choice. It's riding low for me right now, though, because I've been playing Star Trek Online for the last week.*

The ability to filter out people on teams when searching is long overdue, as is the ability to directly request to join existing teams. The ability to search for existing teams would take more to implement, but it too has been requested for a very long time.



*Seriously, STO has seven PvP maps. Seven. That's actually even less than it sounds like, because the 4 space maps are virtually identical in practice (you're in space), and the other three maps are small, symmetric, ground maps. It's also a very PvP-centric game, to the point where one faction (out of two) has only PvP; imagine if CoH had only 4 maps in addition to Pocket D, but travel time was longer to get to missions. It's atrocious.

PvE content isn't much better. Guess what percentage of your total time is spent in either totally free space or an asteroid field, neither of which are distinct from space PvP. (Hint: It's over 2/3.)

Ah, is that where those come from?
Is there anywhere else?

Ugh, bad comparison. All four of those sets required a lot of fixing. (I suppose you could say they were a real "headache" for the Devs, if you're not worried about getting slapped. ) Trick Arrow and Sonic Blast still get a lot of hate in comparison to many other power sets, and Sonic Resonance was so bad that it was literally physically painful. Even Archery is now regarded by many as basically being one good power and a bunch of filler, and it's more popular than it used to be; its sister set, Trick Arrow, arguably has the worst balance issues of any Buff/Debuff set, in the direction of being too weak.

I'd much rather have two good sets than another i5 fiasco.

What do you expect me to do, bubble faster? Force Fields isn't an extreme example, either; it actually has worse endurance problems than, say, Empathy or Dark (due to the expensive toggles, tendency towards an aggressive playstyle, and considerable expense of single bubbles). Really, Vigilance isn't completely useless, as it's nice if you use a nuke or an EMP (after they're past the point of being needed). However, its stated purpose--"to protect the team... the Defender is able to look deep within him or herself and rise to the occasion"--is in contradiction to its mechanics. All it ever ends up being good for is blasting.*

I started in Issue 3, so I'm aware that Vigilance was never supposed to be a real power. (It was introduced for symmetry reasons; Defenders were about to become the only AT with no inherent power, but the Devs didn't want to change the status quo. Thus, they gave us a pseudo-power; this is also probably why they didn't bother to correct it before Issue 15, and nobody tended to notice or care that it actually increased the cost of your powers on most decent teams, even though it was a widely-known bug.) The reason I complain is that Defenders are now far less popular than anything else but Kheldians and (maybe) Stalkers, so I think they at least deserve a real inherent power to boost them a bit.

Besides all that, there is the usual concern that it is distasteful to give people a bonus for performing poorly.


*This is a bit of an exaggeration; Rez powers tend to be very expensive, but Defenders don't care much because a dead friend is worth a lot of Vigilance, so Defenders don't pay full price. This is a trivial case, in my opinion; if the Devs are worried about the very specific problem of Defender Rez costs, they can reduce them individually.

All completely true, but we are comparing to Vigilance here. It doesn't really matter what I said or what I was thinking. I can't honestly think of any powers, inherent or otherwise, I like less than Vigilance.

And catgirls. (But why does she have four ears?!? )

Well he didn't say he wanted pictures.
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Minus the "daily basis" part, this has actually happened.


Mostly because this would require them to put on significantly more clothing than they ever wear normally. (At least we got to see Psyche in the bath.)

It almost did, for a while. Wasn't it issue 2 where the Devs said, "OK, you guys won the Psyche TF, she's back in her body now?"

Edit: gec72, I usually use the word "casual" in forms 2 and 5. Someone who only plays 2 evenings a week, but who has used the same 2 characters for the last four years and therefore has a purpled-out Warshade, could possibly be casual. Someone who downloaded Mids', spent five hours reading guides, ran numbers on ten builds, and then took 3 months to get the resulting character to 50 while playing nothing else--still possibly casual. It's entirely possible to do casual marketeering, casual build optimization, casual RP, etc.; I'm still very unimpressed when someone who does all of these things every day claims to be a "casual player."

I don't really understand why people even bother claiming to be casual players. I get the general idea--that they expect to be catered to as some sort of marketing-targeted group--but people usually sound ridiculous trying to defend that position. ("YOU CAN TELL BY HOW LOUD I'M SCREAMING THAT I HAVE ONLY A PASSING INTEREST IN THESE DEVELOPMENTS! RAAAAAGE!")

You're aware that all the story arcs give merits too, right?

You don't have to farm TF's. I use them as my primary means of level progression; I may only play one or two times a week, but it's not usually hard for me to find the 1-2 hours necessary to do a single TF when I do play.

I can't make any promises about getting Tf's reliably in that time slot on a low population server, though I have been able to start some in that time slot on small servers regardless, and if you move to a larger server--top 4 or so--it's actually somewhat easy to start your own TF at that time of night.

I like TF's because of the distinct encapsulated feel, actually. They're good for casual sessions because you can get that feeling of "OK, I finished this 'stage,' time to quit for the night."


I don't think you need to antagonize Tokyo, he's making himself look silly well enough on his own. (PVP? RP? 30 minutes of market time daily? More than a couple speed TF's per week? )

Yes. Sorry for the vague wording; by "what I chose," I meant that I actually made one. It was a blast, and (incidentally) the gold & blue color scheme I chose for both sets was one of the prettiest power setups I've ever done.