ivanhedgehog

its math. math is the same for all of us. in this universe

on what planet? incentive structure has everything to do with enticing players to do certain conduct. Its like a job. people do it to get payed. stop paying and they stop doing. The problem here is that different people find different content FUN. I dont find itrials fun. at all. I dont do them unless my sg is insistant. using rewards to disinsentivise content is just social engineering. just like the games that put the cool rewards behind pvp and try to claim that the people doing it somehow find pvp fun. they dont. you arent being overtly forced, but if you dont do this the little kitty buys it. it is still force. using your power as a dev to ruin the farmers fun so that they will be good little drones and do itrials is still force.

there is also the risk that the players leave the game giving you nice empty zones and less and less raids/tfs etc.

its faster than anywhere else because you are defeating more. do the devs want us to play less? to stand around atlas and make odd comments rather than being productive? The defeats in ae grant less than outside, so it is not rewarding more per kill. Is that why they are buffing npc agro, nerfing player(not npc) defenses and not upping the damage cap. to make us less efficient and add down time to make us meet some metric? that doesnt sound like a fun game to me. And people telling me the changes dont do anything but are really needed tells me they are trying to sell me a bridge made out of gold somewhere out west.

I will say I saw some mission titles that I will be looking up and doing. I need to go do some of the pi arcs also

did you test it on toons with so's only?

I am tired of people trying to tell me how to play. farmers are no more hurting the game then marketeers. No, the game economy is not a real one. No, I will not in any way be joining you in running arcs. I play with my friends, or solo. I dont particularly like itrials. It isnt that I cant, I just dont like them. I will do everything in the game possible solo, including soloing a dr q. I see these changes to agro and the like as trying to micromanage a game that already works. I never converted emps. probably never will.

I am not excited about this drive to "make the game more challenging" to satisfy the karens among us. a toggle to do that FOR YOURSELF would be fine. changing the basic game for everyone not so much. we see agro being buffed but the damage cap remains. wow devs did the same thing in cata and saw the greatest loss of subscriptions ever. I dont see the elitification of coh as a good idea. toggles? yes across the board, no

groups standing in my nuke and not taking any damage never made sense to me either. we get the worst of both worlds. more of them can attack us and we can only damage the same amount. a blasters defense is supposed to be "range". now they have less of it and they cant kill any faster.

c)winning solo costume competitions

peperidge farm remembers

You are wrong. this time its the outer circle. those guys are sneaky!

If it was already being formed by a 50, can a 35 join? What will happen is almost every team that forms will want 4 star. under 50's will not be accepted. The same behavior is part of what makes wow so toxic.

I was referring to the idea of 4 times rewards for 4 star ITFs. a level 35 will never get on a team.

could be people afk in their base. I dont get much accomplished while afk in my base but I do like the decor.

If we are trying to fix people that have too much inf, wouldnt we go after marketers? Simply make items only be sold 1 time unless improved.(create the recipe, attune it etc) that will stop simple flipping.

My question would be why are the devs trying to force coh to a hardcore game mindset. Pretty soon after this change, you couldnt get on an ITF with a level 35. Why try to be another wow? Is that the game we all wished would come back? before you can solve a problem you must define it. I see a change, what is the purpose for the change. does the change solve the stated purpose?

tfs are end game content. as are hami and ms raids. as are a lot of things. so much for that concept

if its so unimportant, why do you want it so bad?

someone has something you want. you get building maintenance to let you in so you can get it. you then can say "I didnt break in so its not theft". if its someone that moved out in the night 2 years ago, fine. If its someone that is at work and not home, not so fine. That being said, the year that the devs set for most 6-49 toons is fine. I dont care about lvl 1-5. Its not borrowing if you never intend to return it. I have just watched people go on for years that because they used a name in ultima online that it is universally theirs and they should be able to evict anyone that uses it.

the first time this runs will free up the names of the current old inactive accounts. after that it will basically be just an annoyance for people with a bunch of alts. Do we have to have a permanent great name theft system or could we run it once a year? is this system adding overhead on the game servers? if not, no big deal.

It is still about taking something that belongs to someone else. people keep using name squatting. Name squatting is taking that which someone else owns and using it against their will. On live, I had someone that wanted a name I had. I had to eventually get the gms involved because after I ignored them they would use other people to contact me. The changes the devs made to the time frame of this have helped ease my mind about this change. While I am against the concept, this change will be fine.

If that was what they were going after they would just have a under lvl 20 6 months unplayed gets freed up policy. over level 20 you had to play it and its not just a place holder

I have always been an advocate of the first person that gets the name keeps it. This insistence on stealing other people's names bad. The common idea that these are just "name campers" and not someone that doesnt happen to play exactly when you do is wrong. People will be back in the forums whining that they cant get the name they think they deserve soon after this goes into effect.

If we buy him beer and BBQ he will almost certainly revert it. If not, it cant hurt to have good will in the future!