I16: Super-Sidekicking Explained

Seems like a loveable system... EXCEPT the early game speed-up.

If anything I'd prefer to get a quicker end-game rather than the early game, which is already pretty quick and is pretty much a neccessary learning step for newbies.

This makes me so happy Positron can bear my children!

Love the changes, moving on to my one concern, the email issues.

Am I wrong in thinking you don't need someone's permission to /friend them? (as opposed to /gfriend) Seems totally silly to allow someone to /friend you, then email you, and won't stop spam at all. Seems even sillier to make us go through every one of our characters and /friend every one of all our friend's characters just so we can circumvent the spam.(which won't happen with /friend) Use the global name as a test...I doubt most of us use /friend that much at all, currently.

Common sense would seem to suggest the global friend...I'm just...shaking my head at using a character's friends.

But the rest is glorious, and much appreciated.

I recently posted what was clearly just a rant in this topic, I apologise for wasting time and forum space and will attempt to provide helpful opinions and ideas in future post's

Hmm...I have a few things?

I asked a few weeks back why the cryptic logo was still on the login screen and someone replied that cryptic still owns the program code to the game but not the IP so the coding is still the same...can it be that the actual program code for CoH and CO might be the same...if that is the case can we get their magic and beast body types and their creature heads?


I feel that the Devs buffing the XP curve is a backdoor nancy ploy to avoid adding any new content? This is the same way when we had a bugged mission we could call it in and a GM would tell us if it is and release the mob...instead now we can auto-complete this mission? I feel like the Devs are trying to avoid doing stuff by padding?

I mean how much harder would it be to add another room inside Fort Darwin with another contact? or how much harder will it be to add a new contact that has two new arcs for levels 1-10 and add some for 11-20? Instead of making it faster to level out of 1-20 give us more ways to level in 1-20...and by more ways I don't mean AE! The Devs did the same thing with radio missions and paper missions, instead of adding new contacts they gave us generic missions.

I still feel that AE was the lame way to avoid adding new content and create new systems that pad the games faults.

I am not doomcasting, I am just making an observation.

I can make complete sense of the leveling curve buff in the 1-20 range and the SSK to mirror AE, the Devs are trying to correct a major F-Up...

I didn't mean in a literal sense, as in simultaneously = gaming while having sex.
Although... on the other hand I suppose, (in theory) that could have bordered on being truly "Epic Gaming" - in a whole new sense.

Then again, that would depend on the players in the group...
The 'male to female ratio' that tended to occur in the average RPG gaming group (at least back then) - would've ruined the whole experience or just prevented it from starting more often than not - and potentially been a whole new level of "Epic Fail".

But it could bring a new meaning to the phrase, "That's how we Roll..." - our dice. There's a few other jokes just begging to be made... but I'm not gonna 'go there' - (at least not at this hour) - people are trying to eat breakfast, or something - maybe lunch/dinner on the other side of the pond.

Uhm, back to the announcement:
I was thinking about that 20% bonus "across the board" from 1-20 - it might be neat if it included drops. Maybe make-up for the loss of chances for drops due to the prior "XP-curve smoothing" = bonus at lower levels, that they already gave us!

I mean more XP per kill, = less kills, = less drops overall... right? I already turn off XP too often as it is - especially Villain-side, if I want to have a contact to buy inspirations from in Port Oakes... "The Radio" doesn't offer them (which makes sense I guess), but it's already REALLY easy to hit level 10 and not get any of the "starter" contacts there, if your not careful.

And you can pass 14 WAY too fast to finish a Contact's missions in the lvl 10-14 range. And as mentioned - the Mayhem & Safeguard Missions are really easy to outlevel with just about any given character, (meaning you have to get someone else to start them or do it with another toon on a 2nd account.)
I end up turning off XP at level 9, 14, and 19 - way too often already, so extra XP from 1-20 seems like overkill IMO. But a 20% bonus to recipe drops at those levels - would be something that I (and I suspect many other folks) would appreciate. But extra INF, TO's, or level 10/15 common recipes at those levels is kinda silly.

BTW, why do we get common recipes for levels that we've already passed? That end up being useless most of the time.

Then again... leveling is so fast at that point, level 10 common IO's are already kinda silly - and after the last XP boost/"smoothing" even 15's are a waste (unless you're turning XP off and planning on staying in that level range for awhile).

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.