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* Villiangroup Name: Corruptor's Incorporated
* Website (if any): None yet.
* Leader or Recruiting Officers: @Eiger, @Chasa2, @Multitude.
* Preferred Method of contact: Either a PM, Tell.
* VG Description: No drama. A group of older, mature, adults who are experienced veterans of the game. We're currently in a Traps powerset groove, but CI accepts AT's and powersets of all kind. We also take any level character as well.
We have a base, zone teleporters, and storage bins. We don't force people into playing in SG mode, but encourage it for obvious reasons (at least to L-24). The only other thing we'd like is for people to team whenever possible with other members of CI. You won't regret it.

PvP: Never wanted to participate. Tried it a few times, not really my bag. I'm sure if I researched it as heavily as I did the PvE content, I'd be good.

My grief is I wish there was a way to turn off PvP abilities while in a PvP zone. What if I'm only in the zone to get badges? Some MM with a Gang War unleashes an attack on me, then a Corruptor or Brute comes in and finishes the job.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

I just feel that if you are going to put rewards in a PvP zone that don't require an actual participation in PvP, then PvP should be something that can be toggled on or off.

Let me toggle my PvP off, collect my exploration badges, plaques, etc. and then let me go on my way.

But, I guess that's the allure of the PvP zone for PvP people: attacking people who don't fight back and killing them a.s.a.p.

For those who claim that PvE is boring, I can't imagine killing defenseless characters who intentionally don't fight back can be that much fun either. It's got to get boring if there's no challenge. Isn't that the arguement against the L-50 content? No challenge?

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To me the problem with the new, and for that matter the past couple of Updates is that the changes in the Power Sets completely overshadow the new content.

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How many people, after already eclipsing the level range for Striga, went back to to the Buckholders Bane TF? How many people went in to collect the badges?

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let's stop worrying about play balancing beyond the fundamentals and start concentrating on new content, new powers, new enemies.

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Tell that to the hundreds of people during peak hours of the evening who solely stand in Portal Corporation and BEG to be powerleveled, be a bridge, or find their way onto a PL team to pad the spawns.

I know there are people out there who actually want to play the game the way it was designed to be played, but it seems like no one past the level of 36 actually wants to play the game. They all want to get PL'd to get those next three slots, that next power selection, or the bittersweet and sad achievement of L-50.

What about the TF in the Storm Palace? Does anyone really ever go into Fire Base Zulu anymore? How many of you have the Rularuu badge?

I've been a L-48 Spines/Regen scrapper for awhile now, and I am sitting on AV missions I can't solo. No one wants to make the time committment (or take the risk) to actually be on a team where heroes actually fight ArchVillains.

To those of you who still want to actually play the game; I salute you. The rest of you should go play a different game.

-Bill