Rudra

We already have Hardcore Mode. It's called players deleting their characters when they die. Even better, we can choose to end Hardcore Mode any time we want. By not deleting our characters when they die. (Edit: Also, as to Hardcore Mode not existing before City of? I'm pretty sure it did. Just under different names.)

This isn't anything added by HC. This is every mission/arc in the game. Some missions have the NPC give dialogue so others can see what the NPC is saying, but in the end the only thing I can say is either do the arcs yourself to see what is going or read it on the wiki when they finally show up there.

Seriously? That is your response? You are going to post saying another player that per the example does not want double xp needs it like you have any say in the matter at all, and so should by extension/implication have to get double xp despite not wanting it, and then continue like it is a perfectly normal or even acceptable thing to do? Who made you king of double xp to determine who needs it?

And who are you to say what player needs to be getting double xp? The example given was someone that doesn't want it but has a set play schedule.

Hells, if we simply had the option during x2 XP to go to the START vendor and opt out of the x2 XP weekend flat out, that would be great. Instead, we get told "go elsewhere". Like the game isn't for us to play as well.

You are still running a zero sum argument. I wouldn't care how many x2 xp weekends there were if there was an option other than 'go elsewhere' or simply don't get xp. There were no considerations for anyone else other than "go elsewhere" until @Greycat pitched the option for 50% xp to counter it.

Just get x2 XP from the START vendor if you want it. It's cheap, it's easy, it's free.

That is sooooooo not it. If people want to do something, but that something is changed and the response is go do something else? For most of the week? That is hostile. You may not mean it that way, but it is. Your response, regardless of how you intended it, is along the lines of who cares if you want to play the game. Go somewhere else for four days. Do you really think anyone needs anyone else to tell them that there are other things they can do? I assure you no one needs to be told that. I personally do many things over the course of the week. Playing City of is one of them. And being told 'hey, just go somewhere else for the next four days so I and my friends can have the game changed to the way we want to play but you don't' is hostile. Edit again: Because you are very much telling others to stop playing or play the way you want in a game we are already enjoying but don't want to have to put up with something you and others can already opt into any time you want but for those four days our only option is to not play or play with xp turned off.

Just wait until you run the story arc the TF overlaps with. It is longer than the TF and is the exact same missions. (Other than the Clockwork King at the end? Been a long time since I ran that arc.) (Edit: What makes it longer is it has missions the TF removed.) (Edit again: No, there is no Babbage spawn in the story arc. That is a TF thing.)

Yes, there are. If someone wants to play City of though and they don't want and never use double XP, and the response is to go elsewhere? That is pretty hostile. (Edit: And having a smiley face with it does not make it any less so.) It is you saying others don't matter, the game belongs to you and those that think like you alone, so it doesn't matter if those that don't want to play with x2 XP want to play, go somewhere else. That may not be your intent, but that is how it reads. You specifically said "go elsewhere". Not "okay, I get that others want to play different from me, so let's talk about how we can, like maybe asking for it to be an option", which it already is in START. It's "go elsewhere".

And if they don't, like I didn't? How considerate of you.

Do I have to say it or is it a given? ... I'll say it anyway. No thank you. Back on Live, the double XP weekends made sense because leveling on Live was so much slower. On Homecoming, we already level far faster than we ever did back on Live. Add to that, we have access to x2 XP constantly already. All we have to do is talk to the START vendor and have it applied. So, again, no thank you.

To be fair, a lot of people, myself included, can't tell the difference between leopard and jaguar rosettes.

No one has said otherwise.

They haven't fixed it yet....

And why should heroes not be able to use the emote? If you want a cash counting emote, then just ask for it without placing limitations on who gets to use it.

I can't speak for the devs, but I still find your pitch odd. The Trolls are there to party, not invade/conquer the zone. And things like glitter and glow sticks are old staples for raves. So if the Trolls have their own version for their rave that makes them full on glow? Good on them. Especially since it helps them be visible to players as part of the rave and not just random spawns near the rave. And when they get souped up on Superadine at their rave? When they OD on Superadine at their rave? They turn into Supa Trolls. Until they become Supa Trolls though? They are just your average Trolls. At a rave. To me, that is the story. Trolls holding what they want to be a wild party that the police are keeping contained until some Trolls get strong enough to break out and run amok as Supa Trolls. As for making the Skulls being present as EBs peddling their Superadine to Trolls at the rave? Why would they do something so blatant with police right there keeping everything contained? Firstly because the Skulls don't have any EBs. Secondly because the last thing you want your criminal boss(es) doing is going to a known gathering of punks known for breaking things to stand there peddling an illegal drug in plain view of the authorities in obvious attempt to make things even worse. That's not what the Skulls do, even with their breaking away from Family control and their leaders getting sufficiently empowered by whatever entities of death they venerate to become AVs and start moving the Skulls towards the big leagues. Something I find hard to accept with the near feral Trolls to progress to. As to the mission? The primary goal in my opinion is to contain the Trolls so their Supa forms don't cause a lot of damage across the city. (Setting aside that the zone is not destructible, so they can't. Or that one of the rave spawn points has the Supas running by Police Drones that zap them away on their way to the gather points to have the Supas moving through the zone.) You don't see any Awakened officers, power armor officers, or PPD robots there to deal with the raving Trolls. You don't even see SWAT or Ghosts there. So that tells you they are not a major threat. Still a threat, but not a major one. Because they are just Trolls. Throwing a party. That will eventually end, with the Trolls scattering because they're done, until the next rave.

And that is why I like it so much. Because Countess Crey is inept at hiding her activities but she is presented as a great dissembler. As opposed to Emil Christie who in my opinion is portrayed as significantly less capable of subtlety. Just my two cents as it were.

That's basically every zone event in the game. They are there with nothing saying "Urgent! This needs to be dealt with!". They are there and if players want to do them, they can. The only difference is that the Troll Rave, like the Arson, is only available for a set time before it goes away for a bit. This has been asked for before and I am as opposed to doing this now as I was then. Why? Trolls are a low tier faction. They have a single EB: Atta. And outside of the Pandora's Box bit, where Atta is still the only Troll above a boss, as low-end a faction as they are, I don't understand the desire for Troll AVs or even multiple EBs. The addition of AVs to the Skulls line up made sense given the story and how it was progressing, but adding EBs and AVs just for a random rave that the police easily keep contained until the Supa Trolls run off? Even the Arches from the Prison Break event are still just bosses, stronger bosses, but still just bosses.

Fair point, and I'm not against per se, but I do like the current text. Because it does read like self-aggrandizement. He is making sure everyone knows his name rather than trying to be indirect about it through an organization. Kind of like those "I am <insert candidate name> and I support this message", except as "I am Emil Christie, and now you know". From what little I know of him, this would seem to fit the character. If the plaques get changed though? Oh well. They got changed.

I don't find them more dangerous than Immunes Surgeons. More annoying? Slightly. That's it though. (Edit: Besides, we already had lieutenants and bosses that heal in the game. They have attacks and mezzes so they give xp, but just because the P.E.A.C.E. Medics don't give xp, that doesn't make them more dangerous.)

I didn't bother with any enhancements, was only a power test after all, so I'm looking forward to the results.

I just threw a pyrotechnic character together on the test server. After Glittering Column's Blast Off, the mobs attacked me, not empty space where the power had been activated.

That happens with a lot of arcs. The player has to contact the contact after the final mission to finish closing the arc.

Because the devs work on what they want or have scheduled as a group? Because lack of pushback or even the presence of support for an idea does not mean it will be done? Because the devs had much higher priorities they were working on and this wasn't a consideration? Because making new models for all three body types may not be as simple as you think or there may not currently be a dev that works on that?