The Hero Problem

Discussion in 'Gotham City (General Gameplay)' started by Psycho Tech, May 29, 2022.

  1. Psycho Tech Dedicated Player

    Why after so many years, are heroes still allowed to mess w villain seasonal objectives? Its extremely annoying to say the least. We cannot mess with the spawns they start, why are they continuously allowed to annoy & pester us, destroying our objective ffs..

    Edit: its still “doable” but tacks on so much extra unnecessary time especially running over a dozen characters
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  2. Hraesvelg Always Right


    It's especially irritating that every time the heroes have been slightly inconvenienced by the villains, they rush to remove the "problem". "Ooh, I sometimes get bounced at the Valentine's Race! Ooooh, villains are healing the open world bounties....!"

    Heroes grief the villains? Generally nothing. Many players just chime in with "LOL, your villains, heroes always win...!" and other assorted BS. I mean, I like a little interfactional rivalry and poking...but unilateral disarmament is galling.
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  3. Reinheld Devil's Advocate

    I actually DON'T run this seasonal on my Villain...just for this issue. It takes 3x as long to do the outdoor part, which pays the best and is normally all I run on alts. So she gets a break this seasonal.

    Don't get me started on X-Mas when they can roll up and chuck the colored balls down the street (but we can do that too at least).
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  4. Psycho Tech Dedicated Player

    I dont touch the hero side. All villains
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  5. Reinheld Devil's Advocate

    [IMG]
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  6. K3str3lDC Dedicated Player

    Yeah, it's so annoying how they just decide their quest is more important and valid than ours just because they're "heroes". Not very heroic behavior, if you ask me. I swear, some of these players have a hero complex and just decide that gives them the green light to be total bullies to any villain players they see just because they feel like it. Are we sure the factions are labelled correctly? :p
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  7. KHALONofOGUN 10000 Post Club

    Shouldn't have gone down a path of crime. ;)
  8. Eve Creator League, YouTuber

    I never do it, heroes or villains, when they already start. I rather find my own and people join me. I don't like to "Steal" or be a bother, as I understand that from the perspective of enjoying playing solo. If people follow me around on purpose, this is when I don't care anymore lol but for the usual, I will avoid interacting with objective someone already started from any faction.
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  9. Psycho Tech Dedicated Player

    I def dont mind ppl getting credit, but the ones destroying objectives are pos. & they follow u around & continue being nuisances
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  10. KidKretz Committed Player

    i was trying to get these done on day 1 right before reset at 4 in the morning my time, and i hopped onto my one and only villain and i was amazed at the fact it took me 3x as long to finish :(

    i had a hard time even finding any near the spawn location which was part of the time it took :(
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  11. Tiffany6223 Devoted Player

    I have the same troubles on my ebil, (that's what we call villains in the league I belong too, GO JUSTICE GIRLS DARK!). It takes longer, a lot longer than on Hero side anyways but then when you factor in the "Heroes" jumping in an messing with you, it really takes longer than it should..
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  12. Pale Rage Dedicated Player

    Hmm. So what you're saying is, heroes are like Homelander from "The Boys" lol.
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  13. Elijah Seed Well-Known Player

    I agree with OP. If this is a feature then it should be balanced so that ALL players can particpate.

    But I have never had this issue and it is not something that interests me where I would actively grief other players in open world content.

    And I have to wonder how this can be that much of an issue unless you play EU which usually only has a couple of phases up to 150 players per phase for open world areas and only one phase for all other content. On US (US PC at least) there can be up to a dozen or more phases to go to and these seasonal objectives are literally spread out ALL over Gotham (and Metropolis when it's their turn.) Just go to another phase and then another part of the city to find them and complete them.

    Unless I'm missing something other than the principle of the matter? Which I don't think I am.
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  14. Tiffany6223 Devoted Player

    The problem is for villains when we are trying to complete the seasonal objective "Heroes" come swooping in to ruin our efforts be it deliberate or otherwise. Opposite factions can't interact with each other as like factions can and the villain will loose the credit for the objective. I have both a Hero and a Villain character so I know how it feels when this happens. Switch phases, yes that's a option as one is minding their own business trying to complete the objective when the SAME THING happens again & again. Plus they are sparsely spread out across Gotham for this seasonal event for some reason.

    But doesn't happen to you so no probs right?
  15. Tiffany6223 Devoted Player

    I apologize for my frustation
  16. Cyclonic Dedicated Player

    Imagine contributing to the creation of man eating plants, murdering poor dudes in hazmat suits, and then having the audacity to complain that somebody interfered with your evil antics.

    I think I'm going to set aside an hour today to grief villains because of this post.
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  17. Reinheld Devil's Advocate

    Nah, if it's the same faction, I'll join in. Generally I'll do the kills and let them do pickups or vice versa, that way everyone gets credit for sure. If a villain beats me to one, I move along...we won't get credit anyway, or if we do we won't get everything we need, only kills.

    This seasonal sucks anyway with the fact you can be so objective lopsided...whacking 1/2 of the villains stuff won't help that at all. I generally end up drawing the spawns that only generate 1 civilian save and end up having to go to 6 or 7 to get things done...long after I've killed enough plant creatures...so why bother f'ing with the villains?
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  18. Proxystar #Perception

    I can't help but feel like you're exaggerating this as an issue.

    I've run my villain heaps of times and never ever encountered heroes, because I farm around the Burnley night club, Gotham park area (poison ivy npc area).

    Even running my 15+ heroes the only place I've encountered villains is when I farm around the Diamond District Police Station, which is that entire block around the PD.

    I've seen villains try to farm there, but the reason heroes do is because that's where the warp menu to Gotham takes them and most just go there.

    If you're trying to farm there as a villain then I'm sorry but that's a little silly and the issue doesn't even present itself if you don't attempt to farm quite literally around a hero safe house.
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  19. Tiffany6223 Devoted Player

    I have had a different experience as some "Hero" made it a point to follow me around and sabotage my farming. It's frustrating, so much so, that I'm not farming Gotham open world anymore, I'm just going to the Market Place and buy my seeds with real $$$. I can get 50 seeds just like that immediately.
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  20. Proxystar #Perception

    If you're going to go down that track it's cheaper to reset the indoor instance because you have to spend $10 anyway to get enough for the currency.

    $10 = 50 seeds

    $10 = 350 replays / 12 = 29.16 (29 resets) x 6 seeds = 174 seeds. ( think it's 6 right, but honestly yeah can't remember when not logged in, if its say 4 then it's still 116)

    Never buy the seeds outright, yeah they're effortless, but they're also a rip off.
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