[Gratitude. Because all I have against hate is love.]

9 minutes ago, Haijinx said:

Reddit is kind of a Scary place.

 

You can find people who will say nasty things about anything there.

To be fair, I have seen a fair amount of decent CoH discussion over there, when I check in (I'm not signed up).  Filter out the junk, as it always goes online.  😃

[Gratitude. Because all I have against hate is love.]

33 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

I don't know exactly what, because no one will give out any details.

I ran across a ton of this on reddit and saw zero reasons given for it, just as you said.  Nothing.  That's why I don't pay it any mind.  When there's lots of smoke online, usually that's just smoke.

 

Let the haters hate; block them and go on enjoying yourself @Aeroprism!  It's best way to live.

[Levelling advice 40-50]

40 to 50 stuff was designed, best I can see, to help you level reasonably quickly, "here's some big maps just full of foes, go have at it!"  The MJ arc and the ITF are just the thing for you.

[Favorite characters you play]

• Whoever I'm leveling or just leveled.
• A random 50 that I was logging in to sell off stuff with.

To be clear, I have a number of 50s I practically never log in on, but that second group alone might be something like half a dozen easy.

[Reward Merits]

On 4/22/2024 at 4:12 AM, Tambrielle said:

I don't NEED AE for Merits. Gaining 0 Merits over hours of play is what keeps me from exploring the imaginations of others. 

These two sentences seem kind of contradictory, and that's not the AE's choice or fault, that's your choice, which is OK, that's your way to play.  But if you're looking to just boost merit numbers per minute of gaming, then AE is not for you and probably never will be. 

 

Let me suggest that instead, you start your gaming day by farming merits via whatever method you do, until you feel you have "enough"*, however you'd define that, then go have fun with the AE.  Homework is over, time to cut loose!

 

*BTW, I have never farmed merits, and I've had more than I will ever need for a couple of years now.., so I suspect you too will hit that sweet spot very soon.  Look, around, there's so much of the game to have fun with, counting beans is but one part.

[Welcome to Homecoming, Original City of Heroes Team!]

"All your accounts are banned" Ha!

[Share Your Puns/Amusing Pet Names]

One Beast MM was called Capt Sam's Space Zoo (yes it just fit) and I named all the pets after planets, stuff like Mars wolf, Jupiterian Lion etc. 

 

Another Merc MM is King Pumpkin Spice and his henchmen are all named after the spices that you blend oy make pumpkin spice, Ginger, Nutmeg, etc.

 

These pet names to me are part of the character concept, so I sweat the details with them too, yes!

[Reset Hide Strategies]

On 4/10/2024 at 5:49 PM, wyrmclaw892 said:

{combat TP]

Interesting idea. It looks like it can get you out of combat in a hurry if you're in over you're skis

I rarely need it for that (or maybe I'm too slow to use it for that anyway) - I usually set up a macro to take me to the $target to make all the scrapping and ASing and ATOing all that much more fast.  I kind of follow the "a good defense is a good offense, because no one can hurt you if they're dead" method of play.

[The sound!]

7 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

I turn the sound track way down because it repeats so much.

I often do as I  may be listening to other music already.

[Dual boxing]

I've seen one guy five-boxing (I think) during the last ToT at the Murder Hotel: one MM down in the center of the parking lot, pets set on Aggressive, the MM itself spamming a heal to "look active" to the server; four other toons doing nothing but standing just inside the door up in the AE hologram room (the AE building is right next door to the hotel, see), doing jack-all.

 

Devs frown on that, but at the same time best I can tell they also won't ban for it.  They did unlog the guy (for server speeds) a few times but as it was put to me "he just keeps coming back." 

[EXP gains should be shared to all players in a particular neighborhood]

12 hours ago, megaericzero said:

Yup. I was speaking vaguely about progress as a whole. Leveling, badging, enhancing, incarnates. Completely severing effort from rewards will do the opposite of incentivizing engagement.

 

The issue with your suggestion as posted is the complete lockout of merit earning outside of a daily handout. The part I quoted was to respond to the assertion that people would be upset largely or solely because of instant gratification.

 

 

Oh, also: HC is free to sign up and play so people are just going to make infinite accounts and reap infinite merits under this proposed system.

 

 

Yes, yes, those pesky people who like to game their system I know them well.  This is also a game where people spend hours on their costume, without any reward other than their own satisfaction.

 

You're providing me with evidence that outside of "make my personal number bigger!" *coughs*, some players would be lost.  Yes, I know they would be.  And again, it was presented a silly idea that has no chances!  You can let it go.

[EXP gains should be shared to all players in a particular neighborhood]

2 hours ago, megaericzero said:

Having agency over character progression is a sizeable chunk of the drive to play an RPG. Otherwise it's a trophy collection with extra steps.

 

EDIT: or a sandbox.

You say this in a community of people who badge.

[A very easy way to improve AE stories]

8 hours ago, chuckv3 said:

I do think it would be close enough to have 3 accounts, each of whom can have 3 published stories, for 9 total stories.

You do know you can ask for and receive three more mission slots at any time, perfectly free, right?  Just send a petition in-game, ask nicely (and perhaps offer some cookies) and the Devs shall bestow them upon you with no caterwauling. 

 

Heck, I bet if you said "I have this crazy idea for a super branching story and need fifteen extra slots please" they might give 'em all to you on the spot.

[The Rich Alt's Guide to Perma-Dom]

1 hour ago, Dauntless said:

 

Those don't count against each other?  Sigh, you don't want to know how many years I've been getting it wrong. 😞

Nope - apparently LotG has it's own category within the Rule of Five counting system, so you may use five of them AND up to five +7.5%s elsewhere.

[Differences between CoH and CoV missions?]

10 hours ago, Ashford said:

The difference is you will have a harder time finding groups for missions on villain side because everyone is a hero and just use villain content as a passport

"Passport"?  To what? 

 

Maybe you mean to access stuff like Patron Pools and 4* Aeon speedruns?  But that'd be a passport to the content, not the other way round.

[The reason you failed that last trial was because:]

If we always failed because some guy was high, well... I'm not sure we'd ever succeed.   I bet it was that Frikkin Jeff who wasn't reading chat and doing that one thing.

[Welcome to Homecoming, Original City of Heroes Team!]

[EXP gains should be shared to all players in a particular neighborhood]

On 4/20/2024 at 5:15 PM, wjrasmussen said:

Share all exp earn over all the servers and all the characters, be they online, off line, parked for namesake, etc.

Along similar lines of thought, I've had a crazy thought burrowing into my already swiss-cheesed brain that whenever you log in an account (not a character, an account) - boom you get 100 merits (maybe two hundred, but you get the idea).  And that's the only way to get merits, no more need to farm or cheat your way* to more, so you can go play whatever you want to you and enjoy yourself. 

 

I enjoy pondering if some players freed of the the self-imposed mad scramble would know what to do with them selves, or what they might do instead...  But that's just fever-brained thinking, because even suggesting to people they don't need it all right now at once riles them up like a hornet's nest in their drawers.

----------------------------------------------

 

*See: Scrapyard being so aggressively farmed that the devs had to act within a week or two to stop it.

[strange effect auras]

17 hours ago, Ghost said:

I may need to make a new character...  Unipire?  Vampcorn?  So many things to figure out...

[What year is it?]

Those could be 80s monochrome screens though...

[Random Archetype Enhancer question]

But now I wanna figure it out too!  Leaving threads up helps others learn things too.  😃 

[strange effect auras]

You've just experienced a burst of power so strong that's warped time and space around you enough to refract the very light into its various wavelengths and you wanna complain?! 

 

Everybody's a critic...

[What year is it?]

4 hours ago, Haijinx said:

The cars and brick cell phones look 90s though.

 

So it's comic book time.

Cellphones yes, but the cars, many of those are boats and seem pretty 70s to me.  But then there's computers on a lot of desks, so who even knows?

[Share your Puns/amusing Character Names]

15 hours ago, SpookTheHerd said:

Destroevsky

These were all solid, but this one's next level.

[Reward Merits]

If you can farm 120 merits that way, why do you need to get them from AE?  😃

 

I general I like the idea of emphasizing the AE, real work within the AE, not farms, though.  I think I posted here once that I'd like to see the Devs return to/ramp up their Dev's Choice program, by a lot, and really encourage players to get into it more, to help keep the game material more diverse (and cheaply so).