One thing your post seems to ignore, is that many people play muds not to compete in pk terms.....but simply to RP.

About two years ago, I started getting role Ideas, that I found I had fun playing, nomatter what the skill % or pkrat was.

My current character has alot of trouble with solo pking, I think because I never spent more than 10-20 minutes total on spamming skills, and alot of those skills fail *ALL THE TIME* in pk...whereas in the past I have played the same class and have spent the time to work all the skills up to 100...sure, I was more successful pking, but did I have more fun?

No.

I have fun logging on and becoming that person for a bit of the day, a person that is not like me. And that really has nothing to do with the amount of time it takes to rank or perfect skills. Heck, I've known people who on their first player can "compete" roleplay wise and have just as much or more fun, with their string of rp characters that never get past 35-40, as people have spam-practicing and ranking and pking.


My point, is that YOUR point would be valid, if cf was a Pk mud that gave a passing nod to Rp, like it was in the early days. But nowadays, I think they are trying to get a REAL balance between Pk and Rp, having both be important and fun.

And to tell you the truth, I think that whole "hero in a day, perfect everything in 2 days...pk until your bored then try something else" doesn't leave much room for Roleplaying.

Does cf have the perfect balance of pk and rp so both are equally fun for those looking to get different things out of their time in cf? Maybe, maybe not, I'm sure there are those who will debate both ways. But I'm sure that a making your changes about making ranking easy and practicing easier isn't the answer to make it balanced.


I have always been in favor of the first idea you stated. Age death based on real world time.

Perhaps peg Elf life at aprox 8-9 months. Peg Arial life at aprox 4-5 months. And the others fall inbetween.


My point, is that if (as you stated at the end) you won't play cf unless it makes those large changes to make pk more fun and accessible, ignoring what impact they would have on the RP atmosphere...then maybe cf as it is now isn't for you.

Sure, City of Heroes is really cool. Sure it takes maybe 2 hours to get the hang of. But it's fun level goes down fast, because of the utter lack of anything remotely resembling Roleplay.




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