Aisynia

Someone hasn't played Asheron's Call.

That's exactly what MS tried back then. Turbine bought the game from them to save it, MS was gonna shut it down.

This is why I'm largely done with online games, at least ones where I can craft a world for myself and get super attached to. Planetside 2 is a blast, but if it gets shut down, I'm not going mourn heavily or anything.

I have about zero f***s to give about what he thinks to begin with.

Pretty much any piece of land you step foot on anywhere on earth has been conquered and reconquered since time immemorial.

Your point is invalid, and he was being ironic.

Fat chance. Not that I won't dance around and do backflips if they succeed.

This. I know they can do it. Whether they plan to, I don't know.. I just know that if they did this, the game would be ten kinds of amazing.

Yep. This.

I'm playing and enjoying Planetside 2 and trying to keep my mind off things, but this still sucks to me. If the game is sold and saved, I will play. And that's about it.

It's "CoX".

Channels are CASE SENSITIVE.

Looks like people are migrating from CoX Refugees to just the "CoX" channel.

Also, your individual character name won't help anyone find you. Character names in CO are non-unique (There can be 100s of characters named "Thunder Knight" for instance). This is necessary because the game uses a one server system that just instances itself when it gets loaded. Positive side effect of never needing to try to get a name and have it come up as taken. Instead, /tells are handled through global names. PM me here for my global, I will help you out if you need it.

They restructured a lot of the content. I played 1 year apart 3 years in a row, and every time I came back, the game was put together more smoothly. They have you level in MC during the beginning of the game, and don't move you out of the city until around 15. At that point you can go to either Desert or Canada and they seem to be the same level. We did Canada and had outleveled the current Desert stuff, so there definitely seems to be better splitting of content.

I can't speak to whether leveling has been sped up (again, didn't play enough), but I know when STO was acquired by PWE, leveling was sped up pretty dramatically.

Also Vibora Bay used to be a 35ish and up zone and we just got a mission to go there at level 20 (mission is 22). Not sure how much is there for our level, but it's interesting that they did that.

Game balance has changed dramatically since the time I first played, for sure. A lot has been completely changed, so that you won't end up with "one amazing power that does everything" but instead, a selection of powers that fill different roles and purposes. For a well designed freeform build much past level 20, "tankmage" is the word of the day.

As do I. This is the story me and my friend went with:

The Battalion arrives to invade Earth in the very near future. Many die in the initial onslaught and the death toll is incredible for both hero and civilian alike. The war against the invading force is desperate and bloody. The Elder Gods come down from their Grand Pantheon to help, Earth's allies from space and alternate dimensions arrive to help defend.. the true and ultimate power of all those who live here and who help is unleashed. It's barely enough.

The Battalion is defeated once and for all, the Wells liberated, and Earth survives, but much of the world is in ruins, and billions are dead.

The Elder Gods, even they having been at the mercy of its power for so long, turn their attention to the uncaring and unfeeling Well. Using their combined power in an unprecedented show of nearly omnipotent power, disperse it forever, with the consequence of every Well sharing the same fate.

This act forever unbinds human potential, but also unmakes the super powers of nearly every being on Earth, human or otherwise. Their fates would be their own, but the powers they once held would need to be rediscovered naturally by future civilization.

The Elder gods themselves are severely drained of their abilities and retreat into the dimmed Pantheon, while the few left on Earth with any superpowers find that their powers don't behave normally. Most people with any power left are people from other universes using alien magic, or had reached this potential through completely natural means, though again, they are not unaffected.

Primal Earth, for the most part, reverts to being an almost completely mundane world. Heroes take off their masks, villains are reduced to thugs, and the world as a whole takes steps towards rebuilding in this new reality.

There is a future to be forged.

* * *

Some time after this, my main tried to return to her home universe using her planar magic, and her friend, a minor god of battle who thought earth was getting too boring, decided to come with. With the magic all funky though, they ended up in MC instead.

Did it the other day. It was pretty easy. I died once cause I wasn't paying attention.

Yes, but the game is balanced around it, just like CoH is balanced around its systems.

We're not saying you're incompetent, you put that word in there, not us. Are we puzzled that you could be having such a hard time against him? Yes, but we haven't been calling you names. That's unfair.

If you right click on your chat tabs, you will bring up a second window. On the Channels tab, type in "CoX Refugees" (case sensitive) and click join. Lots of CoH players in there, and some would be willing to help you.

More proof that Mishii is about as full of sh** as I thought she was.

Give it a couple months, we'll be freezing our rears off.

Oklahoma has two seasons, Hell and Antarctica.

All I can say to this:

So?