Ruin Mage

Oh hey someone went and downvoted like 10 posts of mine. Thanks, random forum citizen.

Yeah it usually happens from the "don't trust the devs.", "a few people are driving all these changes." "DONT TELL ME HOW TO PLAY!!!!" and so on crowd. That's why you give them the haha reacts rather than thumbs down.

Giggity.

Slight growth since my last post.

As far as I am aware and have read, them joining has been to explain snippets of why the changes were made in the first place. Not as an open invitation to offer different solutions, but again I could be reading it wrong.

MMOs inherently tell you how to play, so using that as any argument against a change is certainly something. It's unfortunate that the AE is the #1 source of All Major Rewards (bar the Aether w/ P4), and while they won't outright obliterate that? Prior dev posts have indicated that something has to give. If leaving it as is was on the table, either change would not have been a thing. Something in some part of the game has to change, and waiting for a Better/Perfect Solution is not on the table either from my understanding.

I wonder how many people posting against it have actually tested this.

Correct, as 4-Star Hard Mode is not something you would want to bring a 35 to. Though never? Unsure about that one. Some teams may not understand what 4-star means at first, so it could still happen. You could get away with it on 1 star and maybe 2 star if 7 other people are doing really well/are coordinated.

Page 4 has paid its dues in downvotes.

No.

Again, that is attributing the idea that changes were done by pressure - that the devs can be pressured to implementing changes. One can flip that and point at the AE change (no XP post-50) being walked back as a case of pressure going the opposite direction. Sure, both can be true but they are not inherently related.

Oh dear.

The decider is the dev team. It's that easy. You cannot stop this. It happens with any MMO. That doesn't mean Blizzard, Ubisoft, Riot, or other companies have an inner cabal of players deciding the direction of their games. Just because there are cheerleaders is no proof of some puppetmaster whisper-whisper group. Not all suggestions are equal, and sometimes just sometimes the devs can disagree with them or want to go a different direction. God forbid, right? I hate the word transparency and that's my only addition to this.

Lying about a private server does not naturally lead to "They're using alt accounts." - its two very different things. There's no real proof of it. Like some devs post plenty as is - Booper, Faultline, Cobalt, Caretaker, and Powerhouse. They're pretty open about things when things hit beta and sometimes elsewhere. Why do that much and then suddenly use alt accounts? At least make it make sense rather than using "WELL BECAUSE THEY DID X THEY'LL DO Y." Personally, I don't believe it to be malicious after all this time. Was it a good thing to do? No. But malicious? Heavens no. This entire "ALT ACCOUNTS!!!" theory proves that it wasn't a bad idea to be a little hidden about it. Because some people are nuts when things don't go their way. A lot of what's happened after Page 4 went to Brainstorm shows this. Obviously, opinions differ on that matter.

It's me. I'm using eighteen accounts to sway the vote.

You lost me. Why would a bunch of volunteers spend their time trying to convince people that these changes are good through alt accounts? Like does that not sound insane at face value? Just because certain individuals lied about some super sekrit server does not correlate or relate to "oh, there's some inner cabal directing the changes of the server." Changes can be done because the dev team wants to try and tackle x. Just as much as it can be springboarded off a suggestion and done their way. The whole "they're using alt accounts." attributes a maliciousness to people that none of us really know outside of Homecoming and that is baffling to me.

Polls are bad. Unless done by me, the Chad Inner Circle.

There is no Inner Circle in Ba Sing Se. I get that the devs not (rightfully) listening to the Suggestions and Feedback forum is cause for conspiracy theories, but not every theory is true. Just because The Other Server existed does not equal some sinister puppetmaster cabal that decides all the changes exists. They are two very different things, and it's getting wild to see the same few regurgitate it without critical thinking. Does it not make more sense that the Devs want to deliver their vision of City of Heroes? Or must everything have some sinister or extra unseen motive behind it?

I am the entire Inner Circle, Flea. There is no Inner Circle in Ba Sing Se.

I don't want to derail the thread too hard, but you're close. Anyway, I find it odd to see a "first come first serve neener neener." elementary school mentality to names. That's...not how it worked on live (where they did this very same name release, just...not the same time limits) and just because we're a private server/"ROGUE" server doesn't mean we need to not do a policy as well. It harms no one but inactive people to have their names freed up. "Oh but get a thesaurus" doesn't quite work in the long run.

One theory being true does not mean all of them are true. Look up some other conspiracy theories unrelated to HC. I'm just saying, this whole "inner circle/cabal" theory is hilarious and pointing out where it falls flat tends to piss off those who believe there's some secret inner group.

The Inner Circle demands that names be released, or so the conspiracy goes.

I pissed off conspiracy theorists since my last post and I've now seen an increase.

Again with the inner circle stuff. Yikes, my dude.

Virtue had this in drives, but NA vs EU are two very different mindsets. So long as it doesn't break rules, they'll do as they desire - and more power to them.