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Originally Posted by Adelie

This is really getting tiresome. I have been doing some Tip missions recently and I find them very well written. I get into the story and then invariably at a certain point I am to talk to some NPC. The conversation proceeds through clicked dialogue and then at the end the NPC goes hostile or an ambush comes.

There is zero time to read the last bit of text, which is often multiple paragraphs before having to fight. The text box is right in the middle of the screen so I can't see what I'm doing without closing it. Sometimes I try to read it as I fight.

There has to be a better way.

Also, text bubbles of NPCs move way too fast to read and don't stay on the screen long enough, or they activate while you are attacked, forcing you to go back and sort through NPC text. I created a chat window just for NPC text but it still is more trouble than it should be.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

The horrible, garish colours, the bloated, ugly menus, the over-large goofy buttons, the unnecessary gradients... Oh, where do I start?

Is that really what it would look like if I lost all sense of reason and swapped to the new teaming interface?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

But why do they have to? You say that like it's an obvious fact, but it's only that way because some writers chose to write it that way. What's wrong with making our characters awesome enough to bring down a gang AND Misspelled Apocalypse in the same day?

Originally Posted by Adelie

I have long disliked how the more you progress in this game the more you need to team up with others to accomplish your goals. The more powerful I'm told I am, the weaker I feel.

It has been this way ever since I first joined this game way back in i1 or i2 (i forget which). The low level TFs like Positron only required a handful of players. The higher you got in level, and the more you "progressed" the more people were needed for each TF. All of the high level TFs required 8 people if I recall correctly. When City of Villians came out it continued this trend.

Now that Incarnate stuff has come out it magnified this even more so. I am told that I have drawn uber power from the well of furies and I'm some kind of super super super hero now, and yet to accomplish anything important, like beating up that Maelstrom guy I beat already a number of times since level 20, I need the help of a bunch of other super heroes. And when I say a bunch, I just don't mean teaming up with a handful of others, I mean a whole lot of them.

The more I progress in level and power, and the more Powerful the game tells me I am, the weaker I feel. I wind up feeling like a useless cog in a giant machine, instead of somebody truly remarkable.

This is so backwards.

Originally Posted by Test_Rat

I don't think its the case in CoX, but honestly PAY TO WIN is the future of gaming.

The writing is on the wall.

Originally Posted by CactusBrawler

And if (like I do) I happened to want the costume change emote for say a Titan Weapon or Staff melee character?

Originally Posted by Vexen777

Medusa should also be reminded as a female only costume. Males cannot get.

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

She can kill you with a tray, if she so wanted.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That's what I mean - melee don't NEED other people, so you know that every time you log one in, you can play come hell or high water. "Squishies" can often do better, but they're dependent on who's available to do what at the time. In essence, I can play melee all the time or squishies some of the time, and that makes for lopsided popularity.

That said, Masterminds are the AT I feel needs the most love. Especially a new primary. I'd LOOOVE to see some Storm Troopers or Space Soldiers or anything futuristic that isn't pure robots.

Originally Posted by Dispari

Mostly because someone had to:



Bride of Clockwork

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

As far as I'm concerned, Crimson is and will always be the height of City of Heroes storytelling, because he has the [three things] that everything made since him has shunned...

Originally Posted by Lothic

The Wolf Pet might be a "Halloween trial only" reward but I'll bet a lot of people will be upset with that if that's the case. The Bat aura and Murder of Crows CCE are both arguably Halloween oriented but I can see where the Wolf Pet might be considered far more generic and non-holiday oriented than that. If the Wolf Pet is locked behind the Halloween Event there's going to be a lot of grumbling about that.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

No, we should revive it and stop pretending it's dead. The storyline needs to progress with level progression.

Originally Posted by reiella

However, I'd suggest that the comparison is better made against First Ward. 600 points for 7 story arcs and one world zone. Whereas with the SSAs, it's 400 points for 1 story arc and modified mission maps. I do understand that modified mission maps have a bit of difficulty to them, however, I don't believe they warrant the arcs being 7x expensive as First Ward.

Originally Posted by Voidstalker

Actually, the server transfers can have other uses. I used 2 of them as a MacGyvered name change for one of my toons yesterday.

Originally Posted by VoodooGirl

Someone - or at least a group - should offer in-game seminars on how to effectively run TF/SF's/Monster Raids/Incarnate Trials and alternative ways to run them (and no; not alternative like alternative lifestyles alternative.)

Originally Posted by graystar_blaster

Why isnt active defense active. Why is it a click. It seems that cause my recharge is so high it always gets in the way of my attack chains. It kills a power with build up.

Can we make that a toggle please....

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

I saved some dude in Nadia's arc and he showed up later on in Noble Savage's story arc as a combat ally.

I'm playing through it on a second character and I killed him on that character. I haven't gotten to the appropriate mission yet on the second character, but I hope I get some flavor text in a nod to killing him - or maybe get a different combat ally, or something.

I really did do a double-take when my character stepped into the mission and the guy hailed me. "Hey! I remember that guy!" Loved it.