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The guy fully admitted that the majority of his issues were of his own doing. He burned himself out by playing for hours every day 7 days a week and needed a break. There's nothing wrong with that. Sorry that I don't care about someone I don't know or will ever meet leaving a game for reasons they brought upon themselves. As for other people being pricks, I can totally empathize with him there and no one should have to be subjected to it. Let the guy take his hiatus for a while. He even said it doesn't mean he'll never come back right in the video.

Ok but this doesn't work as an argument. The overall results are the same whether it's content in AE or outside of AE because they're the same mechanics. It's silly to believe that it's a good design outside of AE while being bad design inside of AE. Again, AE could disappear tomorrow and people will switch to farming content elsewhere against enemies who cannot hurt them. Players will build to the weaknesses of whatever NPC group they want to farm and tune their builds to it. I don't think anyone was claiming that lack of badging is what balances anything out. They were (correctly) pointing out that XP and inf aren't the only rewards in the game that have value. No, I don't believe you're understanding the builds you're looking at or why anyone would want to use them. Sure, you can make a cheap farming build, but if you can afford a better one that offers more dps output and skipping pools for more offense, why would you build on the cheap? That's a fair concern to have yet I'll temper it with I've yet to come across any new player who was instantly PL'ed to 50 right after logging in for the first time. I just don't see the flood of first time AE babies that some here are claiming are so pervasive. It's also important to remember that this game is continuing to be developed by the people here and for all anyone knows the next wave of content updates are going to give all our 50+ incarnates something to do.

Love the idea. All for it.

Sounds like most of his issues are his own doing. There are quite a few bad seeds here though and I can see how they'd be pricks harassing someone over stupid stuff. The rest is his own fault really.

LMAO!! Calm down and change your diaper man. DCUO is not City of Heroes Homecoming, so linking what another game does doesn't work. Following your example, I can link a couple of other MMOs that offer max level boosters and all kinds of other stuff that you've been crying about on here, and since those other games do it we should have them here. They're all MMOs after all. Give me a break.

Disagree entirely. I alone know quite a lot of people who are farmers and rabid badgeaholics. You're also assuming people are farming just for inf. Lots of people farm up alts for the same reason lots of people run DFB - to skip the lower levels. I know it's a shock to some, but there are people who don't care for the early game and want to skip it. I can build a melee character right now that is essentially immortal for all non-AE content by fine tuning a build. How's this any different than people creating farms in AE? I don't think you're understanding some of the builds you're looking at there. Winter sets provide much much more than just fire resists. You're also getting big bonuses to recovery and DEF to fire which does work a lot better for mitigation than straight resists. You can also avoiding certain pool picks by slotting them.

What's DCUO got to do with this game? LOL You can build characters now that can easily solo anything at +4x8 with ease outside of AE with zero risk of defeat outside of sheer stupidity. There are people posting in this thread who regularly solo TFs at +4x8 meant for teams. Are they cheating too? ^This.

First, I'm not holding any grudges against anyone. I'm just stating facts as I see them based on my personal experience. GMs and Devs are people too and that automatically doesn't make them saints to be worshiped. There are a great number of unknown people who aren't GMs or Devs who are helping others, organizing in game events, teams and other activities every single day who don't seem to be included anywhere in your idolizing and hero worship. The community is made up of everyone playing the game, not just the select few or their fawning admirers. If you want to put a select few on pedestals, more power to you. Don't expect others to do the same though and do try to respect that others have a different point of view.

Can you show me where I said it was a fact? I know it triggers a lot of people here, but yes people can have and are entitled to their own opinions and some of them aren't going to be glowing praise and hero worship. I certainly won't begrudge you yours, however based on experience from what I've seen here and in game, that post is spot on describing some of the folks here. Feel free to disagree.

Would upvote this a million times if I could. Well said.

This is @Troo

But but but.... the story!! You have to experience the story for the umpteenth time because reasons!! Joking aside, I totally agree. I've played through on enough characters now that leveling up normally isn't bringing any new experience for me. The game doesn't have that great of a variety of mission types either. The names and levels change, the activity remains the same. I actually like the idea of being able to unlock level 50 tokens through gameplay and badging. That's a much better idea than just paying inf for it.

Could not agree with the OP more. The visual spam from this gets annoying very quickly and makes Master of runs unnecessarily difficult when you lose sight of what's going on. Were the Suppress VFX when close and other sliders to actually work by actually removing all outside VFX from my character, I would happily use it. It doesn't work like that and having to turn down my graphics settings so the game looks like complete shit just so other people can use their badly designed powers isn't a solution that works for me. This game is in desperate need of either a Suppress All Buff VFX from Teammates option or a Null option to decline all team buffs. We're getting buried under layers of color and VFX that make it difficult to see and enjoy what's going on.

I like the idea of making hazard zones actually hazardous. Someone made a suggestion a while back to repurpose the old Galaxy City map into a new incarnate hazard zone. That would be pretty sweet IMO.

There's a Dev response in this very thread - one that makes perfect sense btw... Sure that can happen, however the same handful of people keep doing it despite being called out and questioned on it repeatedly. Maybe it's just me, but that speaks to intent other than honest mistakes.

To my knowledge, there is no Dev post saying this topic is closed or is forbidden to discuss. It's a non-suggestion for you and there's nothing wrong with that, just don't try and say it's that for everyone because it definitely isn't. ^ What @Troo said. Definitely isn't speaking for me neither. I don't think it's really needed either, but I do agree there are a couple of ideas about it being some kind of an unlock instead of a straight inf cost are interesting and worth discussion. Sadly, more and more this is what's happening on these forums and the forum mods here really don't seem to care or want to do anything about it. There's a select few forumites (yes they do whiteknight and gatekeep regularly) who've taken it upon themselves to speak for everyone and/or for the Devs. Anyone who disagrees with their point of view has to be shouted down and bullied. It's a sad thing to see really. It doesn't foster any sense of community at all.

What you're suggesting to do doesn't give it any more useful information especially since most of the metrics you landed on are definitely misleading. Active supergroups who are recruiting are advertising here, in game, on Discord and other social media. That's reaching a broad audience and those people are much more informative a resource about a particular group than any info screen in game would ever be. I'd also wager that given how prestige was removed from the game allowing for people to make solo SGs for their alts, these are more prevalent than huge SGs. I don't have any hard data to back that up, it's just my personal observation so take that with a grain of salt.

No, you didn't read what I wrote and you're incorrectly assuming what I meant and attacking me because I disagree with you, which to be honest doesn't surprise me on these forums anymore. Instead of asking for clarification or trying to engage in discussion, you took my disagreement as some personal slight against your idea, assumed what I wrote and then accused me of not reading your post. You saw the word prestige in my post and ignorantly assumed I meant the old in game prestige system. I did read your post and I wasn't discussing prestige as in SG currency at all. I know your suggestion has nothing to do with the old prestige system. I was addressing some of your suggestions on what you were considering to show measures of activity. People with several accounts farming or running alts through TFs isn't going to be an accurate measure of activity. Those kinds of things can be farmed or can be misleading and arbitrary measures of activity. Also, bigger/more members doesn't always mean better and doesn't necessarily tell you anything other than the group plays a lot or a little. I also don't think PVP or RP flags are necessary either. At least to me, it seems like a lot of work on something that in my experience gets little to no use. The forums here are a much better place to advertise and showcase your SG/VG in my opinion. Were it up to me - and I personally think this a better suggestion - remove the registrar window entirely. It doesn't serve much of a purpose and never really has in my experience, even when prestige was a thing. Next time, try engaging in discussion instead of assuming.

I did read it. It's not something that I personally see as needed, so I'm going to disagree with it. If that's ok with you of course?

None of this is needed in my opinion.

Defeat badges can be snagged by defeats from others on the team. But to be fair, I can't see people cheating these all that much just to unlock a level 50 token when it's easier to just farm it up in the AE.

So you are speaking for everyone then? Pretty sure you don't.....

Hard pass on all of this from me. Pride and prestige of a supergroup should be coming solely from the satisfaction of its members and the joy/fun they have in playing with their fellow SG mates. We do not need some arbitrary set of numbers on a screen that people are only going to farm for and do not tell you anything truly important about the group in my opinion.

I'm struggling to understand where/how you got any of this from my post. Never said one word about the ingenuity of the player base Never said there would never be speed runs, nor do I care what power gamers can do on base settings as it's not a crowd I run with Never said anyone is forcing me to do any content Were you to actually go back and read what I wrote instead of knee jerk reacting to defend this new content from some incorrectly perceived slight, you'd see I made several compliments about it. I also specifically mentioned running it on higher (as in not base) difficulty taking too long for my (as in me personally, not anyone elses) play schedule. Reading comprehension skills go a long way.

Right so you mean you. Got it. Again don't think this is needed since it's pretty easy to PL to 50, however the excuses for how it would destroy the game and the economy don't hold a lot of water either in my opinion. There's MMOs out there that offer these under certain caveats so it's not like it's a foreign concept.