golstat2003

Ehhhh I kinda see Bill's point. If I'm not able to solo at a steady pace with a given powerset setup I'm more than likely not to bother getting it to 50. Because I'm not guaranteed to always have teams available at some of the times I get to play during the week. /shrug.

Oh I'm not saying ignore them. I'm saying what should be the BASE game be, and should that including having to interact with the inventions system at all? The "selling point" of COH was always that you didn't really have to craft gear or deal with an auction house. Is it high time that selling point goes away? Maybe. But maybe not if it means taking significant time of our limited volunteer team to have to rebalance large portions of the game. If it's easy let them have at it. But I bet it's not and I'd rather have them spend that time more wisely. Fix outliers (like they just did in the last deployment) sure, but spend large amounts of time rebalancing the game (and potentially introducing new bugs) along the way for something that may not have that much payoff compared to new costumes, low level story arcs, new at, new powersets etc? . . . no.

Exactly, it's not really the GMs job to solve bugs, there is a dev and QA team for that. Their primary focus should be getting players back into the game and having fun. They can pass on what they learn to another team that can do that actual SQL or code research to track down the underlying issue.

This . .. actually doesn't seem realistic for all the GMS to drop whatever they are doing and try this. It would be more useful for them to have their QA/BA team try this (do they even have one)? or the devs who could look at the underlying code while trying this. EDIT: Might be a good test case for the next large scale beta or closed beta test group, whenever the next Page is ready for testing. I say all this as someone who works in QA in IT for a living.

Folks gave you plenty of reasons why in the other thread. Not going to rehash them all here. This is unreasonable request for the team we have now and not needed. And you have not given a clear definition of power gamer. This sounds like another absolutely useless rail against powerleveling in disguise As said absolutely unnecessary.

You're asking them to devote resources to potentially two different code bases. That seems unrealistic with the VOLUNTEER team we currently. Also completely unnecessary.

It was unpopular because it was completely unrealistic with the amount of (VOLUNTEER) manpower HC devs have.

Except when you start getting into build discussion that's not a brand new hero . . .

To me feeling super isn't just about me alone feeling super. I actually LIKE that more teams can blow through mobs of trash in missions, with the AVs being the main "show". That feels closer to team comics to me than what Jack's vision was. Just saying.

This discussion also leaves out if HC has the manpower to do the balance pass that would be necessary to re-balance everything around various types of IO builds. They don't.

See the rest of my reply. I edited while you were typing. Sorry. The Inventions system (I consider crafting to be a part of that, just like the AH is) was said to be optional. I don't think that should change. EDIT: Also I have some characters that use pure SOs, some a mix and, some frankenslotted with SOs, Common IOs and Set IOS, some full on SET IO builds

The answer to that is no. The game should be continued to be balanced around SOs. Full stop. If and when FULLY CRAFTED Common IOs and setIOs start dropping from casually defeating Minions, LTs, Bosses, EBs and AVs THEN and only THEN should they start to think about balancing around IOs. The Inventions system (I consider the AH and the crafting of all IOs a part of that) was always said to be optional. Starting to balance around IOs breaks that idea. Some may say it's past time that the Inventions System stop being optional. I would vehemently DISAGREE. I'd bet many more than in the forums echo chamber would also say so if they were asked.

And was absolute idiocy as a game vision. Especially for anyone who actually read a comic book. . .

Sure, if it's optional based on difficulty settings you the player set. And if folks who join your team are told ahead of time that you set this.

I pretty much only use it to get stuff to convert into to make funds and then use those funds to buy what I need. And to sell purple recipes. Any other time I'm vendoring yellow and white recipes I get.

To be fair that was true on live as well even without incarnates and super IO builds.

Nah, no thanks.

Unless something drastic has changed the Devs had already made it clear what style of aggro they want here on HC in various threads. I wish luck to those who hope to change their mind. Honestly if it changed it would make the game vastly easier for me. 😄

And would make the game hella more boring and even easier than it is. I think you'll find a very vocal group of folks who DON'T want the game to get easier. They've been all over the forums for months saying so. LOL

The thing is I don't find most teams to be 8 soloers. I'll just agree to disgree and say you and I are playing vastly different games. lol

Ummm, absolute BS. So no to the suggestion. The already limited volunteer dev team CANNOT handle two different code bases. Hard pass.

Herding was boring as hell. I say hard pass on increasing aggro is that is where we intend to go back to. No thanks, the other servers can keep that.

Right, which makes me question what the point of increasing the aggro cap would be.

You want at least ONE in some incarnate content. More than one, questionable. And you definitely need tanks in the Hamidon Raid.

Meh tanks and brutes already have a reason to be. To me having the cap be increased would give LESS reason for a SECOND tank or brute on the team, and more reason to invite more AOE. If they do it great, but I can see it making this game even easier than some folks complain about already. I'm okay with making the game even more easy though. 😄