Marshal Valor

My SG is already considering leaving and going to one of the other servers. We will if this goes through for sure. As an aside, another option would be to set it so you can use asci characters like other games, thus also letting people get the names that they want. This plan is just awful. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to sit there and stare at a screen for a while, while I login my characters "because I have to". I'd rather spend that time playing. Your naming policy as it stands will CRUSH casual gamers, and casual gamers make up the most of the gamer population out there. Remember, it's been how many years since CoH shut down. People are older now with families, and that means less CoH time them, and more playing the "login game" for them. I could see how it would turn people off.

Compare Regen to Bio Armor or Radiation Armor and it's completely inferior. You shouldn't have to take other powers to compensate for the lack of strength of the set. Sure when you have Moment of Glory it's great, but that's got a recharge time of 240 seconds, and that downtime is alot of time to be down. I have been running with IO's since 25 and put nothing but IO's in, whenever enhancement slots were available. It's ok against normal stuff like bosses and what not, as long as you aren't being hit by alot of them. But... the minute you have to fight something like an EB, it crumbles. Unlike say Bio Armor or Radiation Armor that gets a shield that totally protects them, allowing them to take down the EB. It's really nuts. Then we have some defensive powers that give us only a few points. I mean seriously? We have to take powers OUTSIDE are set just to make our set work? That's what you call broken! They should have just moved regular old regen over and let us have instant regeneration. Not having that cripples the set.

The game does not use character name and global interchangeably. Globals only exist for the purposes of the chat server - they have nothing to do with character data. This solution would be ideal, and obviously literally anything can be coded into anything else, but there is no expectation for this anytime soon. Thank you, I really appreciate (from the tone of your message) that the devs and co at least considered it. I know it's spotty from what you said, but hopefully we'll see it someday!

As far as the "getting to level 21" is easy. So what are people who have jobs and lives supposed to do? That's just too much. Yes my original suggestion is what Champions Online does. The system works believe me.

How do you know? Are you a programmer or a Dev? Alot of things can be done these days with programming. The policy is fair in your opinion. To be honest I dislike it enough to consider leaving and I have heard some other people say the same thing already. I shouldn't have to be punished and have names stolen just because I am too busy to play a "login all my characters" game. That is just unfair.

The naming policy is awful. It goes overboard. It's too much. A better solution would be to tie character names to Global Handles and then people can have whatever name they want because there is only one @Marshal Valor. So if I decided to make Steel Phoenix as a character, as far as the character process goes, it is Steel Phoenix@Marshal Valor. Another player could also make Steel Phoenix and his name in the system would be Steel Phoenix@Arbiter. Doing it this gives everyone what they want. I tried so hard back in the day to get the devs to implement this. I urge you to consider it, please. We know how horrible it is with the naming and people not able to get names that are taken. Also even though you let level 50 characters keep their name indefinitely, what will happen then when they never come back? That name is forever lost. FOREVER. It's not hard to get to 50 at all. Please implement this. It would benefit everyone and then everyone could have any name they wanted.

I know you like Regen, but I have played a regen ALOT to know how it works out. The worst thing that they did to the Sentinel AT was take away Instant Healing. The set sucks for regen time. It actually lags behind other sets like Bioarmor, Willpower, and Radiation Armor. The shield from Instant Regeneration is nice, don't get me wrong, but it pales in comparison to Instant Healing, even with the shield. I had been maining a regen Sent, and all I can say is just how disappointed I am in it compared to some of the other sets. Even Willpower while lacking in defensive percentages, blows Regen out of the water with it's actual healing done.

I'd be curious to hear about it too.

That's really what I was afraid of. I miss old PvP from when CoV launched. God that was so much fun, and I remember being in RV, and seeing pretty much every AT. That was so much fun. I have a feeling I'm about to be disappointed when I PvP next. Maybe we will get lucky and these guys will fix it.

Is it pretty much useless? Last time I PvPed in any of the PvP zones the ONLY melee AT's that I saw were stalkers. Everyone was moving and zipping around so fast that it almost seemed like it was just pointless to play melee. I have not PvPed since the incarnate stuff was added and I am sure that has a pretty big effect on everything.

Thanks but no thanks. I'm not going to submit myself to the "opinions" of some "committee" and I am pretty sure everyone in my SG will agree with that. Every time we've seen these things in games, people wanting to be shot callers for everyone on the server, it never ends well. Typically ending with an elitist clique that wants to lord power over others. I saw this when I played on Virtue as well. I'll RP with you guys and I always try to be nice to everyone, even people I don't agree with. Hell I am a man of faith, and I have friends of all different faiths. I even had someone who I was friends with in a faith that directly opposed mine. That said, my SG and I are going to stick to our own channels. Not that we are snobs or anything, but this is something I am VERY uncomfortable with. It's way outside my comfort zone. I've just seen this end badly way too many times and it's unfair for ANYONE to think that another player should be beholden to them "just because". Server admins are one thing as they are the authority, but... other players are a huge no no. If you see me around don't hesitate to say hello, or hell even ask me for help if you want or need it. Our group of RP'ers are pretty friendly and like I said we try to love everyone. This just isn't something that I would ever commit too.

I was looking at Mids which is setup for I25 builds. Is there any chance that we'll see the new power pool abilities such as utility belts and what not? There are some other things too outside of that. I think Time as a secondary for blasters was one. I hope all these things get added in the future.

When you say beam I assume you are referring to beam rifle? Why is that so much better than all the rest?

From what I had heard the Sentinel was a Dev AT that never made it into the live game. I had read that it was developed by Paragon Studios but thanks to NC Soft shutting down the game, the Sentinel never saw the light of day.

I was in Virtue with my SG 1st Fist of Light (we're here now too) from pre release on. While we moved servers eventually because we saw too many things going on that were outside our comfort zone, I came back and dabbled from time to time. I played Marshal Valor (Hero) and Vincent Goodnight (Villain).

Which is better? Electricity or Energy Blast? My character is a Sentinel by the way. I'm really torn between the two. I can see benefits to both in PvP. I couldn't find a thing about Electricity in PvP anywhere online. I'd love to hear thoughts from my fellow PvP'ers about which they think is better and why.