Ironblade

The workload would be, quite simply, too much to be worth it. Removing the War Walls would be a minor Quality Of Life improvement. Instead, we could get new powersets, new content, etc.

I had one 'vampire' back on live. He was a dark/dark tank. I put vampire in quotes since he didn't drink blood; he was more of a life/energy leech. I haven't remade him and probably won't, since I remade my invuln/dark tank.

I obviously don't have the original EULA at hand, but I'm pretty sure it granted NCSoft the right to use your characters (likeness, bio, etc) but not ownership. This way, they could use them in ads, screenshots, videos, etc without having to get your permission (since you already gave it). You were free to continue to use the character yourself.

True, but I haven't seen any GMs telling people to stop whining and just deal with it. It's some of the players taking that position.

Actually, it sounds like they set up and maintain and pay for the server, so they make the rules. Using the word "totalitarianism" is way over the top.

It's not an 'exception'. It's simply acting in a manner consistent with the law.

Well, I have to admit that all three of your examples sound like clueless players, though I can think of possible reasons. The empathy defender with the aid powers might be in an RP SG and needed a power that looks like a Star Trek tricorder. Plenty of stalkers will have Hide *AND* Invisibility. I learned this when one attacked me unseen while I was running Tactics and Focused Accuracy. I asked him or her why I hadn't seen them coming and they explained that, just as my +PER powers stacked, their -PER powers stacked. I can't think of any reason an Invuln tank would take Acrobatics. I mean, I could see Jump Kick because some people like the animation, but I can't see any reason for Acrobatics.

um.... bullshit. That's not how I worked. Of course, I wasn't involved in selling any software as I was doing database development for my employer. My code was documented scrupulously and I wrote a 50+ page user manual.

Nope. Because he is also, indisputably, a mythological figure that predates Marvel. Thor had a major appearance in the Sandman comics. He was a red-headed, drunken lout. He looked and acted nothing like the Marvel character. That's 100% legit and nothing Marvel can do about it.

Well, legally, anyone can use the name of Thor since that is an historical/mythological figure. They just can't pair with the likeness of the version owned by Marvel. Will Homecoming handle it exactly that way? Beats me.

Get a Warburg missile. The Chemical Burn payload is a serious debuff to enemy defense and resistance. Alternatively, find a way to buff your pets. My empathy defender 'soloed' a lot of things using a Shivan with Fortitude & Adrenalin Boost.

If by "reboot the instances" you mean "close that instance and start a new one", then yes. Those are temporary settings that are specific to that instance of the game. Since they are temporary, I had them as part of a huge bindfile. I set max fps to 35 on the main instance and maxinactivefps to 5 on the second (and sometimes third) instances.

Back when the game was live, I had 3 accounts and could triple box on one pc. I would estimate my current computer could run 6-8 accounts. Back then, as a paying customer, I multi-boxed if I felt like it. On this server, I do not currently multi-box. (It is allowed, but only during low usage times.) If this game gets licensed and moves to a subscription system, I'll probably start multi-boxing again.

I think we need a metric that looks at your rating vs total number of posts. This has nothing to do with the fact that I'm currently at 79 rep out of 101 posts (counting this one).

One would think so, but this is already being tested. I guess it was under development for a while already.

So the only issue is did it add enough time, because making it take longer was *THE* entire point. Hamidon still may not conform to the target 'time vs reward' metric but now it's closer than it used to be.

Wait, what? The zone cap addresses both of those issues. Maybe not in a way you'd like, but to say it solves neither issue is just false. It completely negates the first issue and addresses the second one. Is it the best possible solution for the second issue? I doubt it, but it gets it back closer to what was originally intended.

Yeah, from the description that doesn't really seem like a great solution. I guess I'll have to try it and see how it plays out.

I haven't done any Hami raids since Homecoming came around, but I did every role (except raid leader) in the various raid formats on live. Currently, my only 50 is a scrapper. Since I want to get back into raids, what would be most useful for me to level up? Hopefully it's either empathy defender or tank, since I'd like to level those guys anyway. 🙂

This is definitely an issue. If it was a zone with no missions or task force, the cap might be fine. But the RWZ is what it is so the cap needs to be higher.

So by "right this second", you mean the bug that has been in place since *MAY*. And yes, 400 merits in an hour is completely broken. The correct comparison is not AE farming. The correct comparison is the stated time/reward rate where an average player/team will pull in about 1 merit per 3 minutes (or 3-1/2).

So far, every character I have made has been one of my previous characters. I've been picking out the most fun and/or useful ones and systematically recreating them.

Which is why the change was absolutely required. It was either reinstate the zone cap or nerf the hell out of the reward. The target reward metric, if I recall correctly, is 1 merit per 3-1/2 minutes of effort - based on average performance. So a super-team can blaze through an ITF in 10 minutes while an average team takes.... whatever, an hour? This is why the Dr Q task force rewards like 120 merits. On average, it's a tedious slog.

I have an opinion. This is a guy who has dedicated YEARS of his life to this game without compensation and has now been asked to "step away". This concerns me.

Yes, it's just you. 😛 I had every character build recorded in Excel, including slotting and IO sets. When the shutdown was announced, Titan Network created a tool to export character data to an XML file. I used it on every character 'just in case'. Well, now that the game is back, they created a tool that lets you extract the costume data from the XML files and save it in CoH costume file format.