Valerika

I'm sorry, but that's not how I see it. PvP and PvE have been made separate for a number of reasons, not least of which because PvP is borked to hell and gone. A lot of people like the fact that this game's PvP is only in the PvP zones. In fact, spreading it through the PvE zone would only further dilute the existing PvP population, not to mention open up opportunities for griefing. No thanks. You have good intentions, but /duel is a bad idea. Just use the arena that's already been coded. We don't want a lagfest because people thought it would be cool to battle in highly populated areas.

Not quite. See previous statement about griefing potential and lag, no to mention teams slowing down while teammates /duel over e-peen size.

If you want to watch a PvP battle...GO TO A PVP ZONE AND WATCH ONE. Don't inflict it on people who aren't there for it.

Not all MMOs are the same. CoH is a niche market, and as such, has license to do things differently from others in the same genre. Technically, MMOs don't have to do -anything- other than collect revenue in exchange for providing a game that makes use of an internet connection. In my opinion, your argument comes across like "All desserts should taste like chocolate, and if you don't like chocolate, you shouldn't eat dessert."

Seriously...calm down. They're just making sure that they don't screw things up, and I don't blame them. It's frustrating, but I'd rather they take the time to get it right than rush it and end up doing a rollback or something equally maddening. BTW...your post is a bit ironic, given your signature.

Speaking of irony, I'm getting the general impression that at least lately, the biggest advocators of the social element in this game tend to act like complete and utter jerks while promoting their position. I get the feeling that they want to force others to interact with them because no one would want to spend time with these people otherwise. This is most readily evident in server consolidation threads, but it also pops up in threads about the new incarnate trials.

Really, being social is absolutely -wonderful-, and I'm glad people want to play together. That doesn't mean it should be the -only- way to play. There is nothing wrong with seeking out a smaller sub-community on a less populated server. There's also nothing wrong with wanting to solo. If you think that makes these people antisocial, fine, you're allowed to think that. But if you feel -disdain- for them to the point where you dismiss their opinions and desires as paying customers, ridicule them, and even seek out ways to make their lives difficult...you're even more antisocial than they are.

EDIT: This coming from someone who teams, plays solo, AND does trials.

Well, a hug wouldn't hurt...

Here's another vote for NOTHING. Ironman competitions are all well and good, but not everyone wants to participate, and not everyone plays hard to kill characters like scrappers, tanks, and brutes. People shouldn't be penalized for playing faceplant factory ATs like blasters if they want to do so. And really, if you insist on a debuff every time you die...just turn off another of your mitigation toggles each time you die. If you want to go to jail, then use the ouro portal to send yourself to Nebraska and walk back. Nerf -yourself- rather than call for debuffs for everyone else. "But Valerika, if I do that, no one will want to play with me! They'd say I was being pointlessly hard on myself and taking the fun out of the game for everyone else." Right. Think about that for a minute.

[EDIT]: When I say "NOTHING", I mean don't change the current death/debt system. I'm not calling to abolish debt altogether. I just mean leave things as they currently are

It's not insanity. It's good game design to allow people the same opportunities for soloers as team players. Up until now, team play would definitely bring you serious advantages over soloing in terms of greater rewards for shorter time, but soloing would still get you there. Also, isn't it a bit anti-social to call people crazy just because they're anti-social?

Soloing isn't antithetical to an MMO. At least not one that wants to cater to a wide audience.

There again, this doesn't match current COH experience, only your very limited interpretation. Just because you WANT this genre to require teaming, it hasn't, for the most part.

I'd suggest venturing out of your comfort zone and wrapping your head around the idea that soloing is a viable playstyle option for a superhero MMO, no matter what color you make the MM part

I find it more than a little ironic that you, who are in favor of forced teaming, rather than those dirty soloers, come across as so horribly obnoxious. "Suck it up?" People who say things like that must love forced teaming, because otherwise, no one would want anything to do with them. I prefer to team for fun, and not because I have to "suck it up" or "take one for the team" or "go outside my comfort zone" or any of the other silly catch phrases people use to describe being forced to do something you dislike. Please understand--NO ONE IS SAYING THEY WANT THE TF OPTION REMOVED. THEY ARE JUST ASKING FOR ANOTHER ROUTE. That's it. That's all.

I think I speak for a great number of soloers when I say--I have absolutely no intention of quitting over this. All I'll do is just ask the devs for more options, and pray they come through the way they did for earlier content, including pre-i19.5 Alpha. This game is wonderful, and even if they never add an alternate path, the game is great. However, if you choose to ridicule people for asking for that option, or tell them to "suck it up", I think that says a lot more about your intolerance than their supposed lack of genre understanding

God help me, but if they made it so that when you got a shard, a pink, sparkly pony rode across the screen trailing a rainbow like an old "the more you know" commercial, I'd crap skittles and explode in a shower of awesome.

We already *did* pay $10 to $30 for The Rogue Isles (CoV) and Praetoria (Going Rogue). And, unlike the often arbitrary gates that usually exist in F2P games, that money actually was well-spent in terms of value added to the game.

The ONLY way most F2P games stay in business is by nickle and dime'ing their playerbases to death. That's annoying, but what's even more annoying is the demographic it attracts. Without the commitment that comes from monthly subscriptions, people are more likely to show up for short periods of time, act like a troll, and get banned. Why not, they didn't have to pay anything, so losing their account costs them zero dollars. FREE LULZ. Ugh. No thanks.

And I'm sure that under a F2P model, these problems would get solved SOOOOOOOO quickly.



Quite frankly, adding voiceovers would piss a lot of people off. Myself included.

I think that the devs are doing a pretty good job of "modernizing and improving" CoH on their own, thank you. They're making very good use of subscription money and recent additions like the Incarnate system and Ultra Mode seem to justify their current subscription-based model.

So, given your example, what you really want is a console game version of CoH. That might actually be pretty cool. Why not just ask for that as a new, stand alone thing instead of recommending that they gut the MMO version of CoH? That way, you'd get your console game (that doesn't charge a subscription rate), and the rest of us would get to keep our MMO (that recieves regular free updates, new content, etc)?

That's definitely a matter of perspective. I'm guessing you were on a largely ranged team? The few times I've run Apex, I've played a melee character on melee-heavy teams. That doesn't pose a problem on Tin Mage, but it it's pretty hard to stay in melee long enough to do significant damage on Battle Maiden. In order to be effective, you have to stick and move like a small, fast boxer against a bigger, slower opponent. It's not impossible, but it's definitely harder.

Quite frankly, I enjoy enemies that require me to think like that, especially since it's still possible to beat them without any specific AT on my team if you use good strategy.