Phil's Suggestions (aka personal rant)
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BBQ_Pork,
Posted on: 2010-03-26 20:38 in Suggestions and Ideas
Not going to comment on the other stuff since I have no opinion. But as far as the email goes, we are getting the ability to email stuff to each other in I17.
Also you currently have the email options you are looking for under menu, options, general tab. Scroll down about half way down and you will get to the Email section. You can either totally disable email or make it so you can only get email from friends or those in your SG.
phil, let me just start by saying, go read the stuff about i17 and Going Rogue. some of the things you are talking about are already comming. as for storing recipes, you all ready can in the form of a made enhancement. and insps, all you have to do is set the permissions on the storage unit, if you are the base super leader. and we will be able to email infl/inf to our own toons. and for end game, we are getting something that is end game like. and please do not speak for everyone. you are not everyone.
as far as names, they run a script from time to time that removes names of toons that have not been played in a while or are not past a certain level. they haven't done it in a while but i'm sure they are getting ready to do it again. for now though, all it takes is some imagination and a thesuaras.
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What's wrong with rolling another alt?|
Originally Posted by Phil_Wood
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Once a toon hits lvl 50 most players 'lose the love' and move onto a new toon. The reason is because there are no more 'fun pellets' for pressing the buttons in the skinner box. So lets introduce some. Up to level 50 the 'fun pellet' was a new level, and rather than simply extending the level limit (again) can we think of something new. |
This game has always been not just alt-friendly, but alt-encouraging. It's good for experienced players to roll new alts, team with new players and inadvertantly be thier teachers.
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New missions and zones only work for a short time, they are like changing the colour of the 'lights' in the skinner box, but no new 'pellets'. There already are 'fun pellets' - set recipies, but they come so infrequently that there is not enough reward to justify continuing to press the button. So lets increase the reward frequency (a little). If level 50's could directly purchase Reward Merits for Influence (at a reasonable rate) then it would be worthwhile playing a level 50 toon. It would also lead to mis-use as each player used their lvl 50 to equip all their other toons with full sets. So maybe a lvl 50 could directly purchase lvl 50 (or 53) set recipies from the Merit Vendor for influence. Or create yet a new 'Reward' point system just for lvl 50s which could be used to purchase lvl 50 (53) set recipies. |
L50's have a startling ability to gather $Inf simply by playing the game normally and using the Market in the most basic way.
Seriously.
Those L50 common recipes will vendor for around $100K each, those SO's that drop are worth a fair chunk of change vendored and those Set Recipes that drop....well, some of them are worth more at the Vendor than the Market, but some are worth a lot of $Inf at the Market (Wentworths/Black Market depending on your bent). By a lot I mean multi-millions for some.
And any Salvage that you don't personally need for crafting can be sold for $Inf at the Market, usually for more than the Vendors will give. I would laugh at the idea of taking 5000 Inf at the vendor for rare salvage that sells for 1-2 million.
If you say that buying good Set Recipes at the Market is too expensive, then you are forgetting that prices are equally high for you when you bring equally good recipes to sell.
Every green-con or higher foe is a potential pixellated pinata` for your $Inf needs. So "go, hunt, kill stuf".
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False. Most good, obvious, one-common-english-word names may be, though.|
Originally Posted by Phil_Wood
Names
Most good names have been taken by now. |
There's still plenty of decent names out there.
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I would like a Teleporter that fits in the same space, but allows three or more beacons.|
Originally Posted by Phil_Wood
Bases
Please bring back the free minimum size base. Some players like their 'Fortress of Solitude' Also you have had 'Basic Teleporters' for years now. Are you going to release 'Advanced Teleporters' which allow three (or more) teleport locations? In a base I can store Enhancements (reasonable), Salvage (reasonable), and Inspirations (!!). Let me repeat that, I can store an 'inspiration' in a device and another toon in the supergroup can get it out and use it even if they have never met me. However I cannot store a recipie. Shouldn't a recipie be easier to store than an inspiration? Please allow recipie storage devices. And on the same lines, please increase the maximum number of storage devices for a base. We hit the base limit way before we hit the limit for each room. Since I am ranting ... umm 'talking' about base storage if you allow 'inspiration' storage why not allow 'influence' storage. It makes as much sense and then people in the same supergroup can easily transfer influence around without having to make sure they are both online at the same time. This is also a back-door approach to allowing a player to transfer influence between each of their toons. Obviously many players want this and so obviously the devs have decided not to give it to them. They have a variety of reasons and explanations, but they probably come back to the same root belief of maintaining game balance. Also We can throe a person out of a supergroup when they are offline, but cannot promote or demote them when they are offline. Please allow offline Promotes, Demotes, and invitations to a supegroup. |
I would like to fit two beacons into the 2x1 (smallest) Teleporter room. (Would help make my hallway with teleporter alcoves.)
What recipes other than Costume Pieces (cheap), Temp Powers (usually cheap) and Respec Recipes (rather expensive!) can you not craft and store as enhancements? I guess Recipes could be stored. Increase the capacity of the Salvage Rack (30 is a tad small) to a larger number and have a Recipe take up say, 5(?) times the amount of space as a salvage piece?
Offline SG Invites? Only from Gfriends or my Alts, please. Don't want another round of SGI-spamming. Would be nice to easily invite my alts, though by having one of my characters toss an invite to another of mine.
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Roll an Alt. This game never was about being level 50. It about the journey, not the destination.|
Originally Posted by Phil_Wood
I am aware that some of these suggestions have been considered and deliberately excluded by the Devs. I am still putting them in to let the Devs know that there is one additional player who disagrees with them.
End-of-Game Once a toon hits lvl 50 most players 'lose the love' and move onto a new toon.... |
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| If level 50's could directly purchase Reward Merits for Influence (at a reasonable rate) then it would be worthwhile playing a level 50 toon. It would also lead to mis-use as each player used their lvl 50 to equip all their other toons with full sets. So maybe a lvl 50 could directly purchase lvl 50 (or 53) set recipies from the Merit Vendor for influence. Or create yet a new 'Reward' point system just for lvl 50s which could be used to purchase lvl 50 (53) set recipies. |
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E-Mail This is another tool which could be used to allow players to transfer tradable things in the game between two toons without having to physically meet-up or even be online at the same time.... |
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| please, Please, PLEASE put in the same spam tools which exist in Outlook Express (TM). I get so many emails for 'buy your influence here' Websites that I never actually read email, I just automatically delete it. My ignore list has been full for months and every person I click as Spam just frees another address from my ignore list. If I could just have a tool whihc scans the email for 'Specific Word' and automatically deletes it, then I could use the Email tool confortable in the knowledge that when I have email I probably want to read it. |
Also, in the options menu, there is a setting to only receive emails from friends/SG mates. Flip that on to never see the spam email again.
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Names Most good names have been taken by now. If I want to use the name 'Pointy Eared Natural Scrapper' I have to misspell it or add special characters so I end up with something like 'Piontii-Eared.NaturalScrapper' Nothing wrong with players who got the good names continuing to use them, but... I am sure that not all of the players are still playing. Would it be possible to send an email to players whose account has been inactive for more than two years letting them know their toons are being renamed to "Toon#####" in order to free up the names and if they have a problem please send you are 'do not rename' email? Even in comics old names are re-used by new superheroes if the old one is retired (e.g. When Dick Grayson stopped being Robin and became Nightwing). |
Plus, they've done name purges for inactive characters in the past, and not many names were freed up at all.
Not going to comment on the base part since it doesn't really concern me. I never was interested in Supergroups.
Arc ID: 348998 - Becoming a villain
Arc ID: 373341 - To Save a Hero
Got Inf?
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I like that you seem to have good intentions and a positive attitude, and thus I don't see this as a rant. Those are unhelpful, non-constructive and pointless.|
Originally Posted by Phil_Wood
End-of-Game
Once a toon hits lvl 50 most players 'lose the love' and move onto a new toon. The reason is because there are no more 'fun pellets' for pressing the buttons in the skinner box. So lets introduce some. Up to level 50 the 'fun pellet' was a new level, and rather than simply extending the level limit (again) can we think of something new. New missions and zones only work for a short time, they are like changing the colour of the 'lights' in the skinner box, but no new 'pellets'. There already are 'fun pellets' - set recipies, but they come so infrequently that there is not enough reward to justify continuing to press the button. So lets increase the reward frequency (a little). If level 50's could directly purchase Reward Merits for Influence (at a reasonable rate) then it would be worthwhile playing a level 50 toon. It would also lead to mis-use as each player used their lvl 50 to equip all their other toons with full sets. So maybe a lvl 50 could directly purchase lvl 50 (or 53) set recipies from the Merit Vendor for influence. Or create yet a new 'Reward' point system just for lvl 50s which could be used to purchase lvl 50 (53) set recipies. ...... That ends my rant. If no-one disagrees with this you can call me 'The Chose One', but since we are not clones I am positive that if you are reading this you disagree with some or all of it. I would welcome suggestions on how to also meet the issues I see in the game. But since none of them stop me from playing the game I will continue to 'live with them' and 'Don't worry - be Happy'. |
Anyway, with your statement, I somehow get the feeling (you didn't state it, but..) that you don't slot IOs until L50 and don't use the Market to buy/sell IOs on the way. Be aware that those mid-L40s-ish recipes are almost as good as straight L50s, and those L30-40ish ones are quite servicable. Throwing a few of those into your build on the way up will reduce your feeling that your freshly-dinged L50 has a lot of work to do to get fully kitted out.
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I had an idea for a Preatorian come GR, and on the off chance tried the name|
Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork
False. Most good, obvious, one-common-english-word names may be, though.
There's still plenty of decent names out there. |
Heroine One was available, so I have an alt holding it for me.
That was just a couple of weeks ago
@Catwhoorg "Rule of Three - Finale" Arc# 1984
@Mr Falkland Islands"A Nation Goes Rogue" Arc# 2369 "Toasters and Pop Tarts" Arc#116617
And as far as the "free smallest sized - one-man supergroup base" goes, it still exists.
You get the smallest base plot for free and *so long as you don't put any storage devices in*, there's no rent either.
Rent for bases is now determined by how many storage bins you have. And even with a few storage bins, it's exceptionally easy to pay base upkeep even with a one-man SG. I've been doing it for years.
6000+ levels gained and 8 level 50's
Hello, my name is Soulwind and I have Alt-Itis.
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I think you'll enjoy GR - and really enjoy I19 |
Originally Posted by Phil_Wood
End-of-Game
Once a toon hits lvl 50 most players 'lose the love' and move onto a new toon. The reason is because there are no more 'fun pellets' for pressing the buttons in the skinner box. So lets introduce some. Up to level 50 the 'fun pellet' was a new level, and rather than simply extending the level limit (again) can we think of something new. New missions and zones only work for a short time, they are like changing the colour of the 'lights' in the skinner box, but no new 'pellets'. There already are 'fun pellets' - set recipies, but they come so infrequently that there is not enough reward to justify continuing to press the button. So lets increase the reward frequency (a little). If level 50's could directly purchase Reward Merits for Influence (at a reasonable rate) then it would be worthwhile playing a level 50 toon. It would also lead to mis-use as each player used their lvl 50 to equip all their other toons with full sets. So maybe a lvl 50 could directly purchase lvl 50 (or 53) set recipies from the Merit Vendor for influence. Or create yet a new 'Reward' point system just for lvl 50s which could be used to purchase lvl 50 (53) set recipies. |
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Welcome to the forums. I'm impressed you made it this far without reading any of them.
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
I actually like the idea of buying merits for influence might cut down some inflation who knows.
I am aware that some of these suggestions have been considered and deliberately excluded by the Devs. I am still putting them in to let the Devs know that there is one additional player who disagrees with them.
End-of-Game
Once a toon hits lvl 50 most players 'lose the love' and move onto a new toon. The reason is because there are no more 'fun pellets' for pressing the buttons in the skinner box. So lets introduce some. Up to level 50 the 'fun pellet' was a new level, and rather than simply extending the level limit (again) can we think of something new.
New missions and zones only work for a short time, they are like changing the colour of the 'lights' in the skinner box, but no new 'pellets'.
There already are 'fun pellets' - set recipies, but they come so infrequently that there is not enough reward to justify continuing to press the button. So lets increase the reward frequency (a little). If level 50's could directly purchase Reward Merits for Influence (at a reasonable rate) then it would be worthwhile playing a level 50 toon. It would also lead to mis-use as each player used their lvl 50 to equip all their other toons with full sets. So maybe a lvl 50 could directly purchase lvl 50 (or 53) set recipies from the Merit Vendor for influence. Or create yet a new 'Reward' point system just for lvl 50s which could be used to purchase lvl 50 (53) set recipies.
Bases
Please bring back the free minimum size base. Some players like their 'Fortress of Solitude'
Also you have had 'Basic Teleporters' for years now. Are you going to release 'Advanced Teleporters' which allow three (or more) teleport locations?
In a base I can store Enhancements (reasonable), Salvage (reasonable), and Inspirations (!!). Let me repeat that, I can store an 'inspiration' in a device and another toon in the supergroup can get it out and use it even if they have never met me. However I cannot store a recipie. Shouldn't a recipie be easier to store than an inspiration? Please allow recipie storage devices. And on the same lines, please increase the maximum number of storage devices for a base. We hit the base limit way before we hit the limit for each room. Since I am ranting ... umm 'talking' about base storage if you allow 'inspiration' storage why not allow 'influence' storage. It makes as much sense and then people in the same supergroup can easily transfer influence around without having to make sure they are both online at the same time.
This is also a back-door approach to allowing a player to transfer influence between each of their toons. Obviously many players want this and so obviously the devs have decided not to give it to them. They have a variety of reasons and explanations, but they probably come back to the same root belief of maintaining game balance.
Also We can throe a person out of a supergroup when they are offline, but cannot promote or demote them when they are offline. Please allow offline Promotes, Demotes, and invitations to a supegroup.
E-Mail
This is another tool which could be used to allow players to transfer tradable things in the game between two toons without having to physically meet-up or even be online at the same time. However it would also allow players to transfer influence between each of their toons. Maybe a cost could be assigned based on the value of the things transferred. Maybe this wouldn't really stop people using the email tool in way the Devs currently are opposed to.
please, Please, PLEASE put in the same spam tools which exist in Outlook Express (TM). I get so many emails for 'buy your influence here' Websites that I never actually read email, I just automatically delete it. My ignore list has been full for months and every person I click as Spam just frees another address from my ignore list. If I could just have a tool whihc scans the email for 'Specific Word' and automatically deletes it, then I could use the Email tool confortable in the knowledge that when I have email I probably want to read it.
Names
Most good names have been taken by now. If I want to use the name 'Pointy Eared Natural Scrapper' I have to misspell it or add special characters so I end up with something like 'Piontii-Eared.NaturalScrapper' Nothing wrong with players who got the good names continuing to use them, but... I am sure that not all of the players are still playing. Would it be possible to send an email to players whose account has been inactive for more than two years letting them know their toons are being renamed to "Toon#####" in order to free up the names and if they have a problem please send you are 'do not rename' email? Even in comics old names are re-used by new superheroes if the old one is retired (e.g. When Dick Grayson stopped being Robin and became Nightwing).
That ends my rant.
If no-one disagrees with this you can call me 'The Chose One', but since we are not clones I am positive that if you are reading this you disagree with some or all of it. I would welcome suggestions on how to also meet the issues I see in the game. But since none of them stop me from playing the game I will continue to 'live with them' and 'Don't worry - be Happy'.