PeregrineFalcon

I was just on Brainstorm testing this. I was solo with a level 50 Tank doing radio missions on my island. I could see the difference in enemy powers, it made things interesting again, but it wasn't enough to save them.

He specifically said "a lot of people." Are you "a lot of people"? No, you're JebidiahBeetus. So he clearly wasn't talking about you. Maybe you're not aware of this, but many of us have noticed over the last 5 years that we're been posting on this forum that people will post a suggestion and then absolutely lose their marbles and attack anyone who disagrees with their suggestion. Even if someone mostly agrees, but just wants to tweak the suggestion slightly, posters will often go off on them. Now I'm not saying that you would do this, and Doc did not say that you would do this, but if your suggestion is implemented those people who freak out when people disagree with their suggestion will use the ability that you're suggesting to delete every post, and block every poster, who disagrees with them. People disagreeing with suggestions is a good thing. How do you know if most people like the suggestion if the OP can simply delete the posts that disagree? How do the developers know? And lastly, how will you know if your suggestion is a good one or not if people aren't allowed to disagree with it?

Team Balance Bonus is my suggestion.

Hope this answers your questions: Yes, there are plenty of people playing on most of the servers during most hours of the day to making teaming easy. Most populated server is Excelsior, but you should stay away from that one for awhile as the recent surge of new players is causing issues for that server. Yes, very little healing is needed at level 50+, unless you're running Hard Mode Content. It is very slow and/or difficult to solo with most controllers. I recommend a Corruptor, they do more damage. You can mail Influence to your own Global Name and then pull it out of the email on whichever server you're on. Also, if you send an email to @Yomo he'll send you 100 million Influence, just cause he's cool like that.

Yes. It's the same reason why Force Field Defenders and Masterminds are support but Force Field Corruptors and Controllers are not.

I've had this happen to me before too. Were you logged off in the Vanguard base or Rikti War Zone? There's a Day Job Badge that awards 2 Vanguard Merits upon mission completion.

Remember when folks spent nearly a year flooding the forums with "Game too easy, bruh!" threads? Well, if they're now complaining that just a bit of challenge has been added to the game then it looks like the developers hit the target spot on.

Originally they were, and the Requiem and Fascist thing was a retcon. Either way they were a Nazi Super Group who took their orders directly from Der Führer. Don't play this story arc if it makes you uncomfortable. My villains are members of the VG The Fifth Column: Warwolf Division. This VG was started on Virtue back around Issue 8 or so, back before the Fifth Column returned, and are currently on Torchbearer. They were a division of the Fifth Column that survived the war against The Center and went into hiding. That being said I in no way endorse or condone The Fifth Column's beliefs or Nazi beliefs. Sometimes it's fun to play the villain in a video game specifically because I would never act like that in real life. Not because I'm afraid to, but because I see those beliefs and actions as evil and I choose to not be evil. Having villainous video game characters and teaming up with other bad guys isn't endorsing their actions. I used to play GTA all the time, IRL I would never condone stealing someone's car. And what exactly does "red flag" even mean in this context? Does that mean I have to sit in a penalty box for 3 minutes if I like this story arc?

I agree with you that this game still running is amazing, and the Circle of Twelve is amazing for reviving it and keeping it running. However, that does not mean that we cannot criticize their decisions. They even start feedback threads where they ask for criticism. So white-knighting for the developers makes no sense. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not defending Eldriyth's insulting posts nor his inability to capitalize proper nouns. But if the moderators are ok with him posting this nonsense then why are you jumping in trying to defend the poor helpless devs? This is not a rhetorical question, I would really like to know the answer.

No. This is not controversial. This is a feedback thread and some people are for it and some people are against it. No one is angry, none of us are "haters", no one is "gatekeeping", etc. Some of us are just against this particular feature for the logical and rational reasons that we've stated. Wow. It sure is weird all of these accounts that I don't normally see just coming out of the woodwork to comment in this particular thread. Not other threads, not commenting on other subjects, just showing up to comment in this particular thread and no other. It's almost like the call went out to come here to this particular thread and defend this feature. This thread has far more posts, especially if you include all of the hidden ones, than any of the other focused feedback threads. Before my post gets deleted ask yourself why that is.

How would you know how many people were logged onto the retail servers? I don't remember Cryptic or Paragon ever showing those numbers. Did you work for either company? If not then how do you know what the numbers were?

I seem to remember that the name was originally City of Heroes Homecoming. Then the name, and the URL, was changed and we were told that it was done as part of the negotiations with NCSoft. Based on that, I'm going to guess that the name isn't going to change further because this is the one that NCSoft has approved.

Well... you're nothing if not consistent. I'll give you that. Just FYI, the reason that so many of us were pushing back in the last thread you started is because we knew that this update was coming.

You have to set your pets on "Defensive Follow". Then, and it takes a couple of seconds for them to complete the switch, they will start taking damage for you if they're within Supremacy range. I'm at work now or I'd write you up a keybind and macro for it. I recommend checking out the Homecoming wiki.

Thank you very much for keeping City of Heroes alive, and for continuing to develop it. I know that I am, and will always be, very critical of every update to this game. I don't do this because I'm a "hater", as the kids say. I do it because I really do enjoy City of Heroes, I'm grateful that it's back, and I want to see Homecoming become the best iteration of the city that it can be. Peace.

You think so? There's two active threads on the forums right now where people have been asking if Enhancement Diversification is still a thing. Do you think 18 years is a reasonable timeframe to figure something out? I saw a posts a week or two ago where someone who has played for years said that they didn't know that they could mail Reward Merits to their other characters. I think it's safe to say that after years of gameplay they're no longer new players.

You don't need a doctorate in economics to see that increased supply lowers the price. This, along with the fact that new players won't even know they can sell PAs, defeats Cobalt's stated purpose of getting more Inf in the hands of new players.

But it's not just one Prismatic per day. It's (1 Prismatic/day) x 1,000 players x 1,000 days = an extra 1,000,000 Prismatics in play after less than 3 years. And that's exactly the argument people will make if you try to take it away from them. What's 1,000,000 Prismatics x 3,000,000 Inf? That's what they cost on the market currently. That's a lot of Inf changing hands. It will have an effect on the economy. And none of you know what that effect will be. Finally, if it's such a tiny amount that it doesn't really matter, then why are people trying so hard to make sure that this feature makes it into the game?

There's no need to implement another in-game system to reward diversity. We already have two, time and success. Diverse teams are already more likely to succeed and in a shorter time frame than badly composed teams. Encouraging more diversity with more in-game rewards will also encourage toxic behavior as people strive to enforce the requirements to get that extra reward that you're offering. And, according to your own admission in this thread, too much inf is already a problem and this will only exacerbate that.

*sigh* The Homecoming forums are going to be nothing but juvenile NSFW jokes for the entirety of 2024. You kids get off my lawn!

Former network executive on She Hulk 2:

You clearly didn't read a lot of the posts in this thread. A lot of people, including myself, made posts that very constructively and specifically outlined why the OP was a bad idea. Getting offended on behalf of the OP, and telling people what they are and aren't allowed to post, isn't going to help you get a Junior Forum Moderator badge. Like I said earlier, feel free to report my post if you disagree.

Your character has to be at least level 25 for Rikti or Zombies to port in and focus on you.

Welcome to the suggestions forum, where your idea will be subject to a trial by fire. I can get you a tissue if you need one. A post by a moderator in this forum specifically says that we are allowed to disagree with suggestions. Feel free to report my post if you disagree.