I don't think it would get to that point. McNasty will eventually figure out that he seems to be having a hard time finding teams since so many people are globally ignorring him. If players realize being an a-- on one character adversely effects all of their characters, they will probably moderate their nastiness. Can't just make a throwaway character for when I feel like being a troll, and occasionally replace it when enough people have ignored it. On the other hand, people who get too happy with the global/Legacy ignore button will also find themselves having trouble finding groups after they have ignored a significant portion of the active population for relitively trivial reasons. That will self limit. Eventually the chronic trolls and chronic ignorers will find themselves very much alone and maybe moderate their behavior.

Yep, the sound it makes can make or break a saber.

Right, the first person to log in after the deadbeat guild leader hits 28 days gone is the new Guild Leader. Many games have a version of this. The time limit may be different, and who can inherit the guild may be different. In WoW, for example, only those above a certain rank may inherit a Guild in this way.

After while I realized... Harkun is an excellent teacher of Sith. Remember, Sith and the Dark side are all about anger, hatred and fear. Who incites more anger hatred and fear than Harkun? He's an a-hole, but he is trying to teach you how to be a Sith, which means making you mad and stirring up your anger and passions. The madder you get at Harkun, the more powerful you are, and he knows this. He is intentionally inciting your passions to make you stronger. He is intentionally putting you in bad spots to make you work harder. He knows Ffon is a fairly mediocre Sith and doesn't have the mental capacity (Ffon doesn't successfully solve a single difficult problem the entire time), let alone the force strength to succeed. But, by seeming to favor him, he gets you to always put in your best effort. Think about it, he never really challenges Ffon, gives him easy trials... pats him on the head and tells him how great he is. He challenges you, makes you mad and inspires hatred and passion and forces you to always get better and stonger. Which one is he really getting ready for the life of a Sith? Vemrin would have eaten Ffon for lunch...

Don't underestimate the importance of this. If the game becomes unprofitable due to not enough subscribers, or even not profitable enough, the game goes away. Those of us who have lost games we loved due to this know why we pay for our games. I have kept a constant subscription to this game for its entire run, even when I didn't even log in for months at a time, because I want it to still be here when I feel like playing it again, and I like it enough to do my part to keep it alive. There have only been 3 games that have been able to keep my attention for more than a couple of months at a time; This one, WoW and City of Heroes/Villains. One of those is no longer around, I try to do my part to keep the other two alive.

I thought about your post for a moment for a moment... the solution seemed somehow familier. In that 'Other" game (WoW) what is my first key-press on my BM hunter or a WL using a Void Walker? Something that sends in my pet. In this game, back before all companions could fill any role, what was my first key-press for characters with only tanking or DPS companions (especially classes that didn't absorb damage well)? Send in the companion. For some characters, before their healing companions became available, it was just part of the rotation; send companion, attack... Some of us have been spoiled and forgot when this game wasn't so ridiculously easy and we didn't all start with a heal-capable companion. Back when, on a difficult mob or boss, pulling aggro with a JC without letting Kyzen grab aggro first could make things difficult. Babysit companions? That used to be a part of the game... using your companion effectively... there is a reason your companion has an attack button, we used to have to use it sometimes. So, the workaround is go back to that play style... a bit of an imposition, but not anywhere near the major obstacle some here are whining about.

I just want Kixi for my Smuggler (slicer encountered on Coruscant)

Talk to your guildies, keep them active and interacting. Someone comes online, say "Hi" especially if you don't know them. As an officer, talk to everyone, especially those nobody else is. Hi Tyrloch, how are you today? Need help with anything. Hey, we have a XYZ group going, wanna join in? Anybody want to get a group together and do XYZ? Hey <NewGuy or UnknownGuy> how about you? For officers, pick people who are interacting, and acting like the above. Not your personal friends. A major problem I see is you end up with a core group that talks and plays, and when you recruit new players you don't try to get them involved, or ignore them when they are on. People who are not in the inner clique don't feel involved, don't feel 'part of the team' and eventually lose interest or leave.

I was forced to change 3 names in the merger. And, I can't hate the person who stole my names... since it was me. It seems I used the same name on multiple servers a few times. All 3 were as such. in 2 of the 3 the higher level character got to keep the name (34-20 and 58-17), but in the 3d, a lvl 66 Sentinel lost his name to a lvl 25 Sage.

I'm with you there... CoH wasn't really my first, but the first I stuck with for more than a couple months. As the OP said about AC, Paragon was my full time online home for 2-3 years and was my place to return to when I burnt out or just needed a break from whichever MMO I was playing at the time after that.

Also a casual on Shadowlands... and BC... Empire on SL, Republic on BC. Although I have lvl 65s in each class, and have taken each through the first 9 chapters of KotFE, I, at this time, have no desire to bother with the most recent expansion. I did take one character further into KotFE, but I don't think I completed it. I have done all of one Op, and the Guild that let me tag along was very nice helping me gear and letting me join in and try not to screw up too much. I think I only had one or two stupid deaths, and I don't think I caused anyone else's. Strangely, In WoW I enjoyed healing... 5 mans, Heroics and Raids (I was part of a decent 10-man raiding guild for WotLK and Cata, and LFR'd my way through Mists). I never really "felt it" for Warlords and cancelled my account 6 months in, and have never returned. But, I have never attempted healing in SWTOR in the, maybe, couple of dozen instances I've done. I think I remember attempting Tanking once, and doing OK, but Tanking intimidates me... LOL I only read about the first 5-6 pages of this thread because I wanted to respond to it, because it so well described me. Was anything done about that "Guild for Casuals" thing, if so, where can I find it? Can I join the club???

Lemmy was technically last year, but, Lemmy, Bowie, Rickman, and last night Gilligan. Yea, OK, Bob Denver wasn't the greatest of actors, but his character was an icon and part of my childhood.

I had played maybe a few hours of Everquest and SWG because friends recommended them. I loved the idea, but they didn't hook me. A friend of my daughter introduced us to a private server Ragnarok Online. That was cool, but not quite what I was looking for at the time. Then a RO player who we knew in the neighborhood brought over a trial version of CoH. This was about a week before City of Villains launched (Oct '05?). Oh, and I had been given a 2 wk ban for... umm... using items I wasn't supposed to. I never returned to RO. From then until Aug '07 my wife and I were completely addicted to CoH. I can be a bit ADD, so I started to burn out. Wife and I decided to try WoW. We'd heard of it, of course, and gave it a go. A week later, a very old friend of mine told me he had been playing since launch and asked us to create characters on his server (PvP-Alliance) and he would help us. We didn't purchase BC yet. We decided we would when/if one of us reached 60. We only rteached 42 (or so) that time. Well, he was a hard core raider and his guilds RL, so he didn't really have much time to help. We found a guild who was a little more helpful. But still after about 3 months we tired of WoW, and went back to CoH/V. But, during that time the guild we were on decided to create a Horde guild on another server. Back to CoH for 9 months. I thought I would just keep it like that, Primary CoH, WoW when I needed a break. Aug '08, both wife and I were laid off within about 3 weeks. Wife went to help her parents in Michigan, I stayed home, got bored, decided to give WoW another go. But, this time I decided to go ahead and purchase BC, and decided to give Horde a try (my highest Horde character was lvl 9, I think). I found a guild that was far more helpful than any we had found Alliance side previously on that other server. Wife returned, got BC, made a Blood Elf... done... 3 years of Horde addiction (seriously, getting her to make a non BE was like pulling teeth). We would return to CoH for maybe for a month out of each year for a break from WoW. Even tried Eve for a month once, also. Then after yet another guild disintigrating due to drama or some such, left. CoH for a couple of months, Tried Rift for 3 months. Aion for a month. Then a friend told us about the SWTOR Thanksgiving Beta just before release. Pre-ordered immediately. Played until May, then Tera for a couple of months. Back to wow for a couple of months. Pandas didn't impress me, realized I didn't have much time left to enjoy CoH so played until it went away. Cool story about that. I was playing CoH when the servers went down. Played the last night, finished 1 more 50 (my 15th) then decided to play one last mission with each of my 50s in the order they got to Lvl cap, then Park them under Atlas and switch to the next one.. It was difficult logging ni that last hor, everyone who ever played CoH must have been there to say goodbye. Anyhow, I was having difficulty getting my Corrupter to log in. When midnight came, My character was still in the process of logging in. I expected It never would, after all, the game had gone down. Then it did. and i was alone, Grandeville, empty... spent a couple of minutes in an abandoned Grandeville flying around after everyone else had been kicked off. from then until Sept '14 split time between SWTOR and WoW. But when Warlords dropped, I was not impressed. Got my main (Troll Shammy) to 92, left, came back here. I would log into WoW about every month or so, but nope, still not feeling it. Finally shut down my WoW account in July. But, what happens when I burn out on SWTOR? No CoH, and WoW bores me. I actually played Civilization for about a week. Wife demanded we find another MMO to play. So, we've been playing The Secret World for about two weeks now. I play SWTOR when she doesn't feel like playing TSW. For the person who said they would like to find another non Fantasy MMO, you may want to try it. But, I miss CoH, if it were still around, I would be there. Sorry for going on for so long.

As I said in another thread, maybe they should go investigate what Vet rewards are from the now deceased City of Heroes game were. Much better concept of how to reward long time subscribers.

You are correct, not worth the hype. But over the top tantrums on the forums doesn't solve anything either. I wonder why 6,8,10 years later game companies are just getting around to finally offering and giving players stuff City of Heroes was doing years ago. Maybe Bioware should look into how Paragon did Veteran Rewards. Actually useful and cool stuff/abilities given at regular, predictable intervals.. That would probably go over much better.