PeregrineFalcon

Nah, it's not a terrible idea. Charities and non-profits and people asking for money on Kickstarter do this all the time. If Homecoming chooses not to, or can't because of their deal with NCSoft, that just means that it won't happen, it's doesn't mean that it was a terrible idea. And, like you said, it's just a question/discussion topic. No reason that we can't talk about it.

This is completely untrue. Unless you can alter the game's code you need to convince the Homecoming developers to add it to the game. Now most of us in this thread aren't developers, but if you can't convince us how are you going to convince the devs to add it to the game? That's literally the purpose of the Suggestions & Feedback forum. It gives the devs a place to look at a suggestion and then see a back and forth debate by the players (and possibly by one or more of the devs on their alt accounts) on the merits of this suggestion. Simply posting a suggestion and then attacking anyone who dislikes or disagrees with it is far less likely, in my not so humble opinion, to convince anyone to seriously consider your suggestion. Let me know if you're interested in some tips on how to post a suggestion that the devs might actually take seriously.

The dichotomy on this forum is weird. People are constantly talking about how we need to add info to the game to explain stuff because it's way too confusing for new players, but then they'll also insist that the game is so easy that you can roll your face around on the keyboard and get 500 DPS. Both of these things can't be true at once. You all need to talk amongst yourselves and get your stories straight. Which one is it? Pick a lane!

Ya know, I've noticed that Suggestions threads, over the last year or so, usually fall into one of two categories. First one, an obvious alt account makes a post that's guaranteed to start another flame war and then disappears and starts a new thread after that one gets locked. Second category is the OP gets unreasonably angry and attacks everyone who disagrees with them, claims that they're breaking the rules by disagreeing with the OP, and reports everyone who disagrees with them. And then, after that thread gets locked, they start another one. Often the new thread is the same as the old thread just worded a little differently. I can't be the only one who's noticed this pattern.

Your suggestions are good, and many of them have been suggested before. However, if this is really how you feel about the missions then I recommend that you stop playing CoH. It appears to me that you don't enjoy playing this game. And, if that's true, then instead of trying to make it into a game that you will like via the suggestions forum you should just move on to a game that you will enjoy playing.

It looks to me like he's wearing a rubber suit. I don't know if that's the case, but that's what it looks like. He's gotta be dying in the heat wearing that. Can someone explain to me why that rubber suit, or whatever it is, is more fashionable than simple spandex? I ask because I haven't seen spandex in any of the superhero movies in the 21st century, all of them look like they're wearing rubber suits. Although they usually fit much better than that one. I'm guessing that spandex is no longer cool?

Five year old but unused account with just a couple of posts suddenly reappears and asks a question guaranteed to start some serious forum flamage. Yeah, this clearly isn't a long time player using an alt account to troll the forums and lure the mods into another banhammer fest. You know, like what we've been experiencing every other week for the last couple of months. I recommend just not taking the bait and not replying at all.

In WoW and SWTOR, tanks have an ability called Guard. You can place Guard on another player/NPC. Guard gives the person it's placed on some damage resistance, they draw less aggro, and some of their incoming damage hits the tank instead. If the Homecoming devs were to give the Tanker AoE buff to Brutes and then give Tankers a Guard ability it would accomplish three things. First, it would fix Brutes without making Scrappers obsolete. Second, it would allow Tankers to make use of the extra survivability that is generally just wasted in normal content. Third, it would fix the problem of Tanks damage output making many people feel that Brutes are obsolete.

I'm not holding anything against anyone. The OP asked a question and I responded to it. Then arcane asked a question and I responded to that. I'm not upset and I'm not holding anything against anyone. You're getting yourself all worked up over nothing, and you're imagining emotions in me that simply don't exist. It's ok, you can calm down before you work yourself up into a frenzy. No one's gonna attack your precious Homecoming developers. Take a couple of deep breaths, it'll be alright. I really don't understand why you and Ghost seem to think I'm upset. I'm not. I'm completely calm and just sipping my coffee and responding to your posts. In any case, I would like to thank you and Ghost for so artfully making my point about the DDL attacking people. Anyway, I hope you two are able to calm down and enjoy this nice Sunday. Peace.

It was a developer who, years ago, said they were going to publish a roadmap. I'm sure they knew what they had in mind. It doesn't really matter if you understand the term or not. You frequently "misunderstand" common words in your defense of the developers. Remember when I had to explain to you what the word broken meant?

No. I'm sure that you and/or the devs can figure it out. I'm not here to do your work for you. Nor do I subscribe to your "but if they posted that people would complain" BS. The mods seemed to have no problems swinging their ban-hammers in response to legitimate complaints in threads specifically asking for our feedback, so they can swing those same ban-hammers at trolls and people who attack the devs in bad faith. Why does the Council of 13 even have a forum with moderators if they're too scared to post anything? .

It's already been suggested that story content be changed so that players don't outlevel the contacts and that story missions exempt characters down to the highest level for the mission upon entering the instance. This would instantly make more content available to players. Oruboros arcs already do this, so the tech is already in game, and other CoH server already does this so we know it can be done. A developer said years ago that they would release a roadmap. Since then there's be no such roadmap and every time we ask for it we get viciously attacked by the DDL. It's been suggested many times that TOs should be changed to be level-less SOs that only work if the character is below level 22. This would fix the both problems "how do new players afford SOs" and "TOs are worthless" with one stone. I have no idea what they should do with DOs. The rest should all stay in game as people do use them. Add all of those lost missions (Respec Trials, cape missions) to a contact who talks to the character at the appropriate level. Storage bins are the incentive to be in an SG without penalizing solo play.

@Glacier Peak I just want to know when the new page/issue is going to the test server so we can all try it out. Any ETA?

This reminds me of a thread I started on this very subject 3 years ago.

George Lucas said, in an interview that I saw recently, "Princess Leia was the head of the Rebellion and she brought these two clowns (referring to Luke and Han) into the Rebellion." Does that sound like a movie that was "pretty much just about white guys"? If breaking canon established in the movies counts as a tie in then yes. And in regards to whether Gal or Gina are WoC or not, ok maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. Since I'm not woke I don't spend any time even thinking about people's ethnicity because, contrary to popular opinion, I don't care. The only thing I care about is if the story is good or not.

I think you're right about that.

Well, you're wrong again. It wasn't 3 seconds and yes I did read your post. The problem with your explanation is that you're about halfway to the truth. The truth is that recent shows and movies, woke details aside, suck. This isn't because they're woke, the quality of Hollywood's writing has been deteriorating since the 90s, but adding arrogant "this isn't for you fans" woke BS on top of the suck makes it worse. And then, after releasing a woke show with garbage writing, the show runners will take to Twitter, and do interviews, and attack the fans and call us all of the -ists and -phobes. Which is weird because we loved Wonder Woman (2017 - staring a WoC), we loved Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury, and most us were unhappy when Gina Carano (a WoC) was fired by Disney. And it's happened so many times in the last 10 years that now fans are just starting to knee jerk react and backlash against anything that appears woke whether it is or not. You can get angry and call us all of the insults, but ultimately the fault lies with the woke weirdos who keep making woke shows and then attacking the customers who refuse to watch their shows.

They've done this over and over again starting with Ghostbusters 2016, did you just notice that this has been happening?

I think it's all the freakin banjos that make you look guilty. 🤪

Die Schild und Schwert der Entwickler. 😁

Googly's followed a ton of people over the last couple of days. Since there's currently a closed beta test happening I'm going to guess that ole' Googly is preparing for the next set of focused feedback threads. I suspect it's not just me that's in danger.

I'd be an EA/EM Tanker. With Fly & Laser Beam Eyes.