{"id":113,"date":"2005-04-11T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/04\/balance\/"},"modified":"2005-04-11T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T21:50:27","slug":"balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/04\/balance.html","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statesman speaks out about <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=Dev&#038;Number=2636037&#038;Forum=,All_Forums,&#038;Words=&#038;Searchpage=0&#038;Limit=25&#038;Main=2636037&#038;Search=true&#038;where=&#038;Name=509&#038;daterange=&#038;newerval=&#038;newertype=&#038;olderval=&#038;oldertype=&#038;bodyprev=#Post2636037\">the balance goals of City of Heroes<\/a>, in terms of what sort of opponents should be solo-able, and where the devs think the current state of the game needs to be changed.  Much interesting conversation (if not necessarily anything that seems to be changing Statesman&#8217;s mind) ensues.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, some <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=Dev&#038;Number=2636338&#038;Forum=,All_Forums,&#038;Words=&#038;Searchpage=0&#038;Limit=25&#038;Main=2636338&#038;Search=true&#038;where=&#038;Name=509&#038;daterange=&#038;newerval=&#038;newertype=&#038;olderval=&#038;oldertype=&#038;bodyprev=#Post2636338\">changes on tap for Issue 5<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">1) Instead of the first five levels being debt free, the first TEN levels will be debt free.<\/p>\n<p>2) XP debt will be halved on mission maps (that includes outdoor mission maps, too).<br \/>\n#2 should encourage mission play, vs. street sweeping (which goal is near and dear to the devs&#8217; hearts).  #1, though, only delays the Ceremonial First Major Debt Face-Plant to moments after dinging Level 11 instead of moments after dinging Level 6 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statesman speaks out about the balance goals of City of Heroes, in terms of what sort of opponents should be solo-able, and where the devs think the current state of the game needs to be changed. Much interesting conversation (if not necessarily anything that seems to be changing Statesman&#8217;s mind) ensues. Meanwhile, some changes on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/04\/balance.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}