Question: Hammy Os, PVP and you. - City of Heroes Forums

Darknesse · 04-25-2005, 04:53 PM

Okay, let me fire off a question.

How do you feel about Hamidon-Os for PVP?

Personally, even though I have them, I am against them.

I do not want PVP to become a case of the haves vs the have nots. As it stands now, the Hand can kill a SR scrapper by hitting him every time because of the overpowered hammy os (example: I have 6 in headsplitter, giving him an additional 300% damage and 300% Accuracy, which totally negates the entirety of SR).

Also, it seems to become less about the skill of the player, but rather about the Loot from the O's. I don't like it one bit. What to do about it is the question. Is it fair to decrease the effectiveness of the "O" so that it only works as well as an SO, while still effecting 2 different abilities? I believe so.

Your thoughts?

Noble · 04-25-2005, 04:59 PM

Considering what you have just stated as an example, Hammy-Os do seem to be just a "tad" overpowered.

As for a solution to this problem for PvP, I haven't the slightest idea.

Cryogentic · 04-25-2005, 05:01 PM

I don't like the idea of them either since it does give you an edge against others that can not get them. I've been giving mine away to blasters when I get them.

Its a nice idea to have some reward that is hard to get, but something like that in PvP might be a bit much, at least with the accolade powers they really don't affect PvP much

Akamaz · 04-25-2005, 05:04 PM

it does seem a bit overpawered (at least for PVP) but then again, i've not seen that many pvp fights and most of those are for the lower weight classes

Esbat · 04-25-2005, 05:05 PM

Maybe, instead of taking teh nerfbat to them, there be some kind of designation/icon/warning that this person has been "infected"/"encountered" the Hamidon and came away "enhanced" or something.

vyxzuw · 04-25-2005, 05:09 PM

One idea for Hammy-Os (That won't be used by the Devs, cause people would scream murder...), would be to allow only ONE Hammy-O in any given power.

Which means, you can have one Hammy-O for each power, but not fill a power with them...

(Most people will replace an Acc enc with a Acc/Dam, for instance. Thus increasing the Acc from 33 to 50 and the Dam by another 50. This is a nice boost, but not 'game-breaking')

Darknesse · 04-25-2005, 05:09 PM

Don't know if that makes a difference. You can know it's coming all you want, but you wont be able to do anything about it.

Darknesse · 04-25-2005, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Esbat

Maybe, instead of taking teh nerfbat to them, there be some kind of designation/icon/warning that this person has been "infected"/"encountered" the Hamidon and came away "enhanced" or something.

Don't know if that makes a difference. Even if you had a warning that you are going to die, it's still going to be like Final Destination.

vyxzuw · 04-25-2005, 05:11 PM

Plus, then people may not play with Hammy-O owners...which seems like a punishment, for doing beating the Hamidon...

Or someone may only own ONE Hammy-O, and people think he is loaded with them...

Cryogentic · 04-25-2005, 05:14 PM

What about a handicap meter or something, it could also help with the any level is welcome to join fights so the lower level people have a better chance