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  1. On 10/1/2019 at 9:24 AM, Heraclea said:

    The profusion of these mechanics (and the resulting 'tank or go home' mentality and the devaluation of melee DPS) is one of the main causes of my abandoning other MMOs.  Seeing it pop up here is the camel's nose under the tent. 

     

    How dramatic 🙄

     

    It's one task force/trial, there's literally dozens more with other mechanics that you can do. Deal with it.

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  2. 44 minutes ago, GM Sijin said:

    At that point what you and others are basically suggesting with this is replacing the command with a power, which already exists and probably just needs to be improvedWhich was why I was trying to encourage the discussion away from the command.

    Sure. If I can just port to my base more often I don’t care how it’s done, it works for me. The current 30 min timers seem unnecessarily long, compared to the Ouro portal. I’m liking some of the suggestions in this thread: reducing the regular base teleport to five minutes, adding a base portal to Ouro, or even adding more zones to the Ouro out port so you don’t have to keep porting endlessly. 

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  3. 12 hours ago, GM Sijin said:

    First, I'd like to raise a point that seems to be simply ignored: This is City of Heroes and City of Villains. A game based on comic books where entities have tremendous abilities and powers via whatever methods. Those methods do not include using slash commands. Use of the command absolutely detracts from the intended feel of the game: Using cool powers and abilities to do stuff and things. Sure, it's convenient, but it doesn't fit. Any further discussion about the command in particular is, frankly, wasted time.

     

    Consider instead discussing alternatives and improvements to things that DO fit into the game. Improvements to the base teleport power such as those that have already been raised, or even alternatives such as adding a base portal to Ouro. What about inter-base connection points for SG bases? This has been brought up in other places, has plenty of different possible ways to be implemented, and definitely fits in this discussion.

     

    Get crazy. The Ouro portal takes a couple seconds on a 5 minute cooldown, isn't interruptable, can be dropped in a mission and is usable by your entire team (hell it can be used by the entire zone if you enter last). Why have a long cooldown or an interrupt period on the base teleporter power? Why not have it or a separate power drop a base portal similar to Ouro's so people around you can use it? There's probably reasons for some things, but the point is to challenge the mold of Ye Olden Time's design decisions in the context of the current state.

    Genuinely don’t get this argument, who uses this as a slash command? I have a macro, it looks like and works just the same as every other random teleport I earned/bought, just without a 30 minute timer. 

     

    Really, this teleport just simplified travel to: get to base, pick from a wide range of portals to get to end zone.

     

    Otherwise it’s go to Ouro, go to Talos, go to base, than take a portal. More steps. Kind of pointless. 

     

    If its breaking pvp add a 10 second delay for players. Don’t see how easier travel breaks gameplay otherwise. If y’all want to reduce timers on the other ports and add a base portal to Ouro, whatever, great, that helps as well. 

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Twisted Toon said:

    There are people that don't like over populated or crowded servers.

     

    So, I would guess that some people would not think it a great thing.

    I’m not sure what that even means. Zones are all instanced, so what’s the difference if you’re in Atlas 2 or Atlas 5? 

  5. 1 hour ago, Sura said:

    /macro SG enterbasefrompasscode <basepasscodehere>

     

     

    Just put your base code in there and you have a button that's a free teleport to your base from anywhere.

    that's... super useful. thanks.

  6. 5 hours ago, DSorrow said:

    Everything is a bunch cheaper. I remember spending around 8 billion on my main's build back in the day when the +3% Def PvP version was going for 2 billion a piece. A couple of full purple sets, 5x LotG, some Hami-Os, a full set of Panacea with the Shield Wall / Glad Armor uniques and all the other toys cost me an arm and a leg. On Homecoming, I've recreated a similarly expensive Ill/Cold build I also had for around 700M.

    Could you not buy IOs with merits as well, or was it only drops? (I’d left before IOs)

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