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Pretty much why I stopped playing COV on Live for long stretches of time. That, the depressing atmosphere and the atrocity that was Grandville back on live. Thankfully alot of the memory leakiness seems to have been fixed since then via the work of the private servers for that zone. Either that or it's cause our computers got better. 😛

This would effectively end my time playing on Homecoming. I bet for a lot of other folks also.

You should be able to put in an exemption in McAfee for the site you download Mids from. I haven't done this in McAfee in ages, but pretty sure it exists. Also the other option is to temporarily turn off McAfee then turn it back on, after you download/use Mids.

With that said after you have gone as far as you want in the Incarnate path, nothing wrong with converting them into Reward Merits and then those Reward Merits into enhancement converters and making some money, err inf on the market. It's what I do after I'm Tier 4'd out on my Incarnates. 🙂

Lore wise it might get a bit confusing if they haven't left yet . . . but that doesn't seem like a large drawback to this suggestion. I say do it anyway. Consider this a bump.

Ahhh that makes sense.

They could use the "master of" settings and just add rewards for them. Add a disable all set bonuses feature to that.

This. I'm pretty much done with lower level content. I'd like to use my full EARNED abilities in content. Shape or call that however you like.

They can create both stuff that is a level higher (aka, yes you do need to be more in line with where they need you to be when doing the later trails) and stuff that's more beginner like the BAF that can help unlock the early parts of incarnacy. (not sure if word) They can do both.

Meh, no thanks. I'd prefer for level progression to actually mean something. Other servers tried this and it was aweful.

Sure, ONLY in a pvp zone.

Unfortunately some of those powers are absolutely useless for anything but mule slotting them or just getting them to get to the power you actually want. I'm not sure what can be done about that either.

Honestly they would have to have been drastically more incarnate content at the start if we were told they could not have been used in regular level 50 content cause if not I would never have bothered with incarnates at all.

As much as I'd like this I can imagine how much of a nightmare this would be to code. Based on past discussions with the live devs and HC devs here on these forums, that code related to pet mms is not straightforward at all. I seem to recall they had a hell of a time working on melee vs no melee for mm pets.

I think the issue of player retention is a tricky one. What might keep one player (or drive another away), varies from player to player. It will take a careful balance of new stuff, fixes, and balancing things out. And folks have to realize that not everything they do will be something you like or currently want. For instance they just released two new story arcs. I don't really care for them after having played them, but that's fine. I'm glad they were made as there has been a drought of lower level content for years. I've been asking for more higher level content. Others may not feel that is as important as balancing. (To be clear I don't think balancing is more important that new content at all as I don't think there are nearly as many folks worried about that as the forums portray.) Bottom line is everyone won't always get what they want. Especially with the size of this team. And we need to keep our expectations realistic.

I would be wary of the echo chamber of the forums. I've found when saying some of the opinions here in the forums in game, most times folks don't agree. Many folks aren't looking for the game to get any harder. It mainly seems to be something on the forums mostly.

I'd be down with with this. It would make me play mms more. Between now and live I've only ever had 3 mms in my COH playtime. Sadge, as the kids say.

I could agree with this. Logging in once per 120 days shouldn't be an issue.

Pretty much the bolded. Anything else anyone else is saying is just utter bu$%#%^. The only parties that know are the ones IN the actual negotiations. Doesn't matter if you've been a lawyer for 50 or 60 years. They're gonna take as long as they take. Nothing for any of us to do but just enjoy the game and whatever updates HC releases.

A yup. If they negotiate something, awesome. If they don't, well I got to play this game again for over a year+ versus never ever being able to play it ever again.

This is one of the most useful threads ever! Bookmarked! 🙂

We don't. We're hopeful one will. But no one expects anything to happen or not happen. We just here waiting and seeing and enjoying the game while it's here. /shrug. EDIT: I'm sure other players feel this way. If a deal is struck, great. If not . . . there are other servers out there. I came into this with my eyes open that this could all go away at any time. I don't have any expectations except that I'll be able to enjoy the game as long HC is here. Which I am.

/shrug. Let's wait and see. I'm personally not in any rush. We get to play the game. That's all that matters to me.

It can take this long if one of the parties aren't in any kind of rush whatsoever. NCSoft has nothing to gain or lose, so they are in no rush whatsoever.

And how exactly do we know it's a trivial deal? We don't even know what HC is actually asking for. (I'm talking about the contract specifics).