XP Smoothing and Real Numbers

[Sofaspud]

CrimsonKMR wrote:

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Sofaspud wrote:

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I'm just pointing out that the Constant Quest For Higher Damage was something I found annoying about other MMOs I've played.

Can't you just... turn them off? hehe

Yes.

But it's the other players and their (potential) attitude about it that I'm talking about, rather than whether or not numbers are visible to me. I
like the idea of real numbers, I'm just not sure if it's going to affect how people play the game -- and if it does, what direction that will go.
That's what I was asking about.

That said:

Kokuten wrote:

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I think that the amount of effort required to _reveal_ the real numbers is going to help maintain the attitude you speak of in CoH. I also think that having
the real numbers available is going to help bring or keep the minmaxers in CoH, which is all to the good.




And if someone starts waving their e-penis, remind them that you're a member of the best supergroup in the game, which gives you a responsibility to be
kind to those lesser than you, and refuse to talk about the subject again.. .

You have a definite point -- two of them, in fact. Heh. I'm not sure that attracting/retaining minmaxers specifically is a
GoodThing(tm), but they're players and CoH needs as many as it can get.

--sofaspud
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