golstat2003

I disagree. I think the risk/gameplay is fine just the way things are.

Pretty much this. Shard's memory is spot on. AFK farming was a thing looooong before AE came into existence.

We get the idea. We simply think it's a bad one.

Just so it's clear, add me to the chorus of *&%$ NO! also.

Keep in mind for the last few months America (and much of the world has been affected by COVID). And let's keep in mind that these devs are a completely volunteer team, with REAL day to day DEV jobs.

Yeah, I know some games need to be online if you want to play the online multiplayer component (obviously) but I've played many that also have an offline component like Dragon Ball Fighter Z and Monster Hunter World

Seriously it becomes addicting . . .

Yep, my fire/kin corrupter got 1500 merits over a 3 week period. Ended up making about 4 billion across 5 toons using those merits for converters. "Making inf is hard and needs farming" /sarcasm

LOL, ummmmmmm. 🤣

Also this. The prices on live were ridiculous compared to what we have now. An LOTG +7.5% recharge IO was 100 mil consistently. Purples were also 100 mill. Some PVP IOs were easily 800 mil or more (and I knew of several folks with the stones to flip those!) In comparison an LOTG has been max 7 mill here on HC for months. With pvp and purple IOs being in the 20-30 mil range. (With some pvp IOs being even less). Keep that in mind. And farming and marketeering was probably more rampant on live than it was here.

I don't find it difficult to believe at all. Especially for folks who had 50s since early issue 3, BEFORE IOs. And has been said that's a lot of marketing slots to put your inf into, if you have multiple alts. By end of live, I had 75 level 50s and 30-32 lower level toons who were into marketing. And I wasn't one of the folks who had max altities. 😛

I agree to a point. HC needs to focus on a path that they feel is best for their server. And I say their as they are the ones putting in the major work. Ultimately we only play here because we prefer it. And we are certainly NOT sure that the highlighted above is in fact true. That's simply a conspiracy theory. MY understanding was that some players who play here in HC, and have been good with typical testing are the ones involved, based on the actual words JImmy just posted. Only SOME things should be design by committee. And most things shouldn't be. For the Dark Melee changes I would perhaps have asked what folks thought of maybe three possible design directions and gone with the one that had the most positive feedback.

As someone who is a professional QA, it's testing and re-testing issues and doing things like black box testing, regression testing, integration testing, functional testing, and other things that are simply not just "playing with the tool/game", or ooohing and ahhing at the "new shinies" or using it regularly. In doing so you keep asking about how things work, why they work certain ways and if they match the Acceptance Criteria laid out for the change, enchantment, upgrade, new feature/function. If I had a 25th hour of the day I would help out more with this testing. Unfortunately I don't. And after spending 40-60 hours a week, I just want to hop on COH and just play. More power to those in the internal, pre-public testing test who are squashing the king kong sized bugs before they get to us.

Pretty much what I meant when I said it wouldn't be nice. Not nice here on the forums when plans inevitably change.

Actually just get to level 20 and you get a message from a contact that offers you a mission to get you out. No matter where your storyarcs are.

No it wouldn't. Let them work. They can let us know what's ready to go when it's on test. Less forum drama that way.

My disappointment with it being in one "fake" amusement box and not actual player content integrated into the mission door tech across Paragon City was VERY VERY HIGH during open beta and the time it launched. The one redeeming quality was that it still had rewards. I wasn't the only one who felt like that in my player group. If HC ever integrates it into the actual world so that player missions actually come up mixed in with regular missions, newspaper/radios and tips I might consider using AE for something other than an alt PLer one day. At the time a few people made the suggestion that the AE dev awarded arcs be integrated as real story arcs. Paragon never got around to it. . . before, well we know what happened. EDIT: And I did try a few of the early stories released. They were . . . not good. Like REALLY NOT GOOD. That may have also soured me on the whole thing and it's intended purpose.

I mean . . . that's pretty much why the converter game works and still makes folks inf easily. If everyone had the patience to do it we would not be making money. 😛

And they were correct. Had it launched with rewards that weren't commensurate with the rest of the game it would have been abandoned on sight. Especially since NONE of the mission doors are actually in the actual world. Which in hindsight is what they should have done from the start. It would have integrated the missions with the rest of the world.

I'm just glad the game is back. Hell I would have take issue 23 of the game is that's what we could have gotten. 🙂

Yeah I'm addicted to Fury. I tried a few tanks post buff. Came right back to the Brute side.

Agreed. I don't think it's worth the limited dev time this team has. That's perfectly reasonable to say.

Agreed. Not seeing the issue here. It's why I kill sappers on sight and look for them first. That supposed to be an intentional part of gameplay. Their rank isn't the issue. The issue is that each mob in the upper levels (and some in the lower levels like Tsoo Scocerers) have a mob that you have to "look out for". I'm fine with this.

I would expect an announcement . . . when they decide to make an announcement. Best not to get hopes up, especially since we're still dealing with COVID19 and all the issues that brings. Especially with the new surges in 45 of the 50 states in the US.

Plant/Psi/Fire seems to be growing in popularity. I met like 5 over the last 5 weeks. I also built one. Was one of the rare 800-900 mil inf builds. But I seriously find farming with her more relaxing than my brutes. Link to the build discussion. Plant/Psi - Fire, 33% to all defenses, perma-hasten-ish, no incarnates. - Dominator - Homecoming