Teke184 wrote: Any chance of sharing unused covers in rewards with other alliance members? It could be a way to progress some members of the alliance along, as I can send my extra Amazing X-Men Wolverine or Modern Cap covers to a newer member who could use them when I finish in the ** area of a tournament rather than just cashing them in for a miniscule amount of ISO.
AsianInvasion wrote: Moon 17 wrote: I like the idea of gaining extra benefits through alliance participation, but I don't like the idea of a leaderboard. EVERYTHING in this game is competitive...another leaderboard would just be one more way for the gap between old gamers and new gamers to widen. Why not just make a separate checklist of Alliance progressive rewards? When your group amasses a certain number of top 5 finishes in PVE, everyone gets a prize. When your group earns a certain number of wins overall, everyone gets a prize. And so on. It would make alliances feel a lot more casual and not simply turn them into one more fierce area of direct competition. I love the idea of expanding the size of my alliance. My wife is already sure she's going to be a member of mine, even though she doesn't really play enough to make the cut. Shouldn't be too expensive, though, or it will just feel like gouging--especially if there still isn't any benefit to being a member of one. Chat would be handy, of course, and private alliances are fine (although you have the option of kicking anyone whom you don't want now, so they kind of already exist). All of those extra features are meaningless, however, if there isn't a mechanism in place to reward players for alliance participation. Until a good leaderboard or progressive track to reward alliance members exists (hopefully it's the second of those things), there's no incentive to spend time with the other features (especially if they cost heropoints). What would this game be without competition? I don't just want those top placement rewards, I want the satisfaction of stepping over 200 to 1000 people to earn them. If you want participation ribbons go play Candy Crush.
Moon 17 wrote: I like the idea of gaining extra benefits through alliance participation, but I don't like the idea of a leaderboard. EVERYTHING in this game is competitive...another leaderboard would just be one more way for the gap between old gamers and new gamers to widen. Why not just make a separate checklist of Alliance progressive rewards? When your group amasses a certain number of top 5 finishes in PVE, everyone gets a prize. When your group earns a certain number of wins overall, everyone gets a prize. And so on. It would make alliances feel a lot more casual and not simply turn them into one more fierce area of direct competition. I love the idea of expanding the size of my alliance. My wife is already sure she's going to be a member of mine, even though she doesn't really play enough to make the cut. Shouldn't be too expensive, though, or it will just feel like gouging--especially if there still isn't any benefit to being a member of one. Chat would be handy, of course, and private alliances are fine (although you have the option of kicking anyone whom you don't want now, so they kind of already exist). All of those extra features are meaningless, however, if there isn't a mechanism in place to reward players for alliance participation. Until a good leaderboard or progressive track to reward alliance members exists (hopefully it's the second of those things), there's no incentive to spend time with the other features (especially if they cost heropoints).
IceIX wrote: Ghast wrote: Any plans to let us share rewards with Alliance members instead of/in addition to Facebook friends? Nothing planned for near term, no. That's one of my personal crusades as well. Not everyone has or wants to use Facebook after all.
Ghast wrote: Any plans to let us share rewards with Alliance members instead of/in addition to Facebook friends?
JimRichey wrote: Long time lurker here... Just a heads up that on those random reward screens where you could choose to "share with FB friends or discard" it's now changed "share with FB friends or Alliance Members"
IceIX wrote: That's one of the things on the board but it's not nailed down yet. So don't depend on it appearing, but it's definitely something we''re looking at. I love the idea of the Alliance working together for bigger goals personally.
IceIX wrote: Expand Alliances – Players will be able to spend Hero Points to expand their Alliance, adding more friends to their existing Alliance.
kaganb wrote: IceIX wrote: Expand Alliances – Players will be able to spend Hero Points to expand their Alliance, adding more friends to their existing Alliance. Is there a particular reason why the Alliance was limited to 5 people to start? I had to exclude some friends from the Alliance which was not a very fun conversation.
Toxicadam wrote: Will 'sandboxed' players be able to participate in alliances?
IceIX wrote: In completely other news, I just went and changed my Live account to IceIX. So now if you see that name in PVP you know who you'll be beating down.
IceIX wrote: Toxicadam wrote: Will 'sandboxed' players be able to participate in alliances? Don't know why they would. They're in their own sandbox for a reason. They can always chat with CS to remedy that. In completely other news, I just went and changed my Live account to IceIX. So now if you see that name in PVP you know who you'll be beating down.
IceIX wrote: NorthernPolarity wrote: So would this be more along the lines of a couple of weeks or a couple of months? Probably closer to the former than the latter. I don't think we'd wait months before rolling out any more character changes. I just don't have a timeline to give unfortunately.
NorthernPolarity wrote: So would this be more along the lines of a couple of weeks or a couple of months?
Purty Hawkeye wrote: Just out of curiousity what was your screen name before. I have a feeling we met on the PvP field before.
IceIX wrote: Purty Hawkeye wrote: Just out of curiousity what was your screen name before. I have a feeling we met on the PvP field before. I was using Alsandair01 before that. The 01 was because Alsandair was used before the game was Live and we flipped the DB over. I never bothered going in and changing both usernames so that I could have the original.
EvilSonGoku wrote: so you wanna join my alliance or would that be cheating