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Problem:
Chained quests like the COMIC BOOK missions are almost impossible for single players due to the fact that the END BOSSES health resets after you die.
Solution:
Utilize the AUTO GROUP system from the click to fight random boss boxes you see on the game screen (the ones what give you extra, XP,RESOURCES,GEMS ect)
Simple allow the same functionality to the mission sections so that for quests that requires more then one player, people can click to join YOUR Comicbook mission and enter as though they were clicking to enter a random boss battle.
This little fix will greatly appease single players like myself who struggle to find groups when questing.
Chained quests like the COMIC BOOK missions are almost impossible for single players due to the fact that the END BOSSES health resets after you die.
Solution:
Utilize the AUTO GROUP system from the click to fight random boss boxes you see on the game screen (the ones what give you extra, XP,RESOURCES,GEMS ect)
Simple allow the same functionality to the mission sections so that for quests that requires more then one player, people can click to join YOUR Comicbook mission and enter as though they were clicking to enter a random boss battle.
This little fix will greatly appease single players like myself who struggle to find groups when questing.
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Type that into Zone and wait for a response. If you are finding some solo missions difficult then there is no harm or shame in teaming up with other people to beat the mission.
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No putting "LF Healer or Tank @ [Insert Your Level Here] for [Insert Comic Mission Here] PM me pls" does not work 100% of the time.. normally I waste about 30 mins before someone responds, and then all they do is troll me for having a themed (Elec,Ice etc) build and not a ARCANE TANK MONGREL build to kill the bosses..
People like Themed Superheroes!
and your method does not cover all the Zones.. so you end up spamming each zone to get a response.
It's far better to use an AUTO GROUP system that CO already has to be used on group quests.
CHAMPIONS ONLINE .. Please make it happen.
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I was playing that computer glitch comic book with tank type character. And dispite my hardness. I kept getting owned by the spider in the end! And this was on "normal" not hard or anything.
Comic books have to be winnable!!
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It's hard for UK players to find groups around 11pm so my original suggestion fix's that.
You can't just "Zone" tell because you end up waiting ages for trolls and time waster's
End bosses are unwinnable for solo casual players who don't want to sacrifice themed superheroes for arcane tank mongrels.
Champion Online either needs to make a "solo" difficulty which stops all end bosses health resets on player death.
Or the AUTO GROUP suggestion I originally made.
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The radiation boss in wasteland.
MENTON in the Prison.
The purple gang leader.
to name a few...
I'm done with you trolling me! .. I've said my suggestions, they are solid and well founded and the AUTO GROUP system is already in place for instant team fights, so this wouldn't take much to implement. If you can't get your head around a simple suggestion, then you have no business commenting!
Also it's not as simple as you seem to think. The devs would have to rebuild the way you pick up the mission, either to add a queue, or create a new feature.
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They cold add them to the que UI tho, that'd be neat. You know that window that pops up when you click the fist icon on your mini-map?
My suggestion for a fix that might actually happen sometime this decade is find a SG, or get some friends in game and get them to run those with you.
Of course, if you don't end up finding a fix... feel free to skip the comic series entirely! They're completely optional content.
PS - we don't all play "arcane tank mongrels". In fact... most of us don't. I've solo'd comic series on squishy Archetypes... and that was back before they made players OP with on alert. With some practice you too might discover the strategies that allow you to solo these things.
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And the additional joiners are teleported to the Main Character's quest at the start so the mission can begin.
This concept of AUTO MISSION's is quite common on other MMO's (Rift for example) so why can't it be used here?
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I got no takers. No one wanted help! Or to help me!
The grouping system DOES NOT WORK!
I got back "join a supergroup" which I would if there was a UK players supergroup that plays on alternate nights from 11pm
Or "if you go to the auction house.. you can buy a "steelhead soldier" for 1 or 2 GP
Again this fails to address the problem.
You people saying "it's alot of work" are not suggestion filters for game resources, and without just trashing suggestions because you're all elites who have done everything!
Work towards something better.
I'm a casual player, who's time is limited, so I don't have hours to grind for the best gear and resources to make up for the lack of a good grouping system.
This IS an MMO afterall.
Listen, it's not that I've "done everything", it's that I know what's up with the people working to develop the game. Given the realities of what they have on staff, programming in new UI features is just not going to happen. I'm not shooting your idea down, I'm letting you know that what you're demanding is very unlikely to happen anytime soon. You may think you're making a super good Ace Attorney case, but you're barking up a tree that, quite frankly, doesn't even exist in the current context.
Just skip that content, level with the stuff you can do solo, or learn to solo that content, or get some friends or a SG with people in it who will do that stuff for you. If you're waiting for new UI stuff to make groups for you, you'll be waiting for a while.
PS - what you're suggesting has been suggested before, by me.
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Champions Online is "free to play" so bringing in more players means more potential customers for the shop e-commerce.
It's financially viable to improve the grouping mechanic, and allow more casual players to access and complete content which has already been created.
More players, more income.
Stupid things like end bosses health resetting on instanced mission's. This causes frustrated casual players, who end up rage-quitting because of bad programming.
Less players, less income.
The AUTO GROUP suggestion, is a good idea that will bring in more players.
Why didn't they do it?
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I think this is a suggestion that could be taken into consideration in the future but at the moment the devs seems to be focusing more on end game content to keep the current player base interested. My guess is that after the devs are satisfied with this they will start focusing more on increasing the player base but this could be anywhere from a month to a couple of years from now.
Your best chances currently are to just keep asking around, hope you can find someone to team up with and throw them a friend request. With any luck, they might be up for joining you on another adventure pack.
P.S. I am also a UK player and usually play untill silly o'clock in the morning so feel free to add me. I'm usually up for an adventure pack or any kind of team content. I'm often busy Cosmic hunting but I don't mind dropping out half way through a Cosmic if I feel that the group doesn't need me (looking at you dino >:) ).
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The problem you've got is two fold, really. CO Adventure Packs/Lairs/instanced missions ignore good game design and don't give you a save point before the boss fight, so that if you're getting creamed you can'y leave and go and get some more consumables, help, or whatever, without losing all your progress. They're not going to change that any time soon, so what you need is a deus ex machina - a sidekick, like the Until soldier, or the Harajuku Twins, a Become, which would give you some better attacks or - even better - one of those Backups! which summons a Champion to your aid. They drop in the current event, although I thnk the devs have got them lined up for a nerf, in that "making the game too easy" trip they're currently on.
Secondly - the important bit - is the people who want to play this stuff. Even if you can get help in Zone, half the time it's some bored speed runner or perk collector who has no interest in your enjoyment, they just want to zap through. The other half is the good part - meeting people with characters at the same level, who are into the game for the same reasons. Auto queue loses that.
What they could do - and which wouldn't be too difficult to add - is to have a NPC quest giver that sets up mini events; 48 hour missions with bonus rewards for completing a specific adventure pack, Fatal Error, Mechanon, etc. That would concentrate players on the same piece of back catalogue content at the same time and make it more likely that you'd find people who wanted to play it.
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You'd go up to it and it would look at a) your level, b) the missions you'd already done, and then give you a mission to go and start a new quest arc appropriate for your level. You'd get a bonus reward for completing the last mission in the arc, come back to the NPC to claim it, pick up another arc, Rinse and Repeat. If it's a double XP week then go off and play that, you leave as level 20, come back as 30... and it offers you the start of a level 30 mission chain. You're never out of sync.
The legwork (working out a list of starter missions for each level) could be done by the community, with the people that look after the wiki. Ask people to suggest their favourite mission chains and provide the level and starter mission, and we build a big list of things which are fun to play, but which people miss out on because it's not offered to them at the right time.
The NPC would also have a calendar of mini-events; missions to complete an adventure pack, stand alone story arcs like Fatal Error or Steel Crusade, the existing Lairs, those final Unity missions (Cazulon,etc), three Open Missions... again, that's just about building a list of content (team/solo) and the level it's appropriate for. That would keep the community busy and focused, especially when they hit level 40.
This NPC (let's make him a paper boy offering you the latest news)
And he tells you about the latest overarching threats befouling the city.
Each level range can have a main threat that all (most) of the quests are linked around the one big boss (think criminal mastermind that manipulates everything in the city to go wrong)
Also we need something to give capped players as well.. complete the chains get extra questonite gems.
I think the focus for level 40 is to give us team content balanced for level 40s.
As for leveling, I think an adventure pack daily is still a great idea ( like it was when I suggested it not too long ago unfortunately ). Some of those other things might be feasible too. Of course, let's not go overboard with it, otherwise you risk having people completely avoid doing anything other than these dailies while leveling up.
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