Xanatos

My example was illustrating that the power-related problems you cited were more due to the devs being bad at foresite, rather than actually not planning to include PVP in their game.

In regards to your behaviour in this thread: stop acting dumb and trying to be smart at the same time. It is painfully transparent.

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Yeah I saw. I liked it haha. We're gonna be hosting an RP wedding in RV at some point I think.

Broken record yo

I marked out so much at this bit. Absolutely awesome mate!

While I can see you hinting at me being elitist/a godmoder...I have to say you're spot on for the most part. I am looking at running RP events in the future that spotlight the two groups, but not to the extent of making everyone else observers/insignificant. (It does seem arrogant to even assume I'm capable of the latter!)

If anything the RP events will be: "[ERA] is behind [some bad stuff] and [The Challengers] [needs your help] stopping them"

Anyone who feels marginalised by this theme is more than welcome to make their own events. I feel having one clear villain & hero group as antagonists to the other makes it easy for people to jump in and get involved. So far it's worked.

Should also point out that ERA & The Challengers have rosters that are completely different. I'm one of the fews players who is actually in both teams. It would be unfair to refer to them as "our SG" or "our VG" because they each comprise of different groups of people. In truth they're just two cool groups that I thought would be great to run events with. There's no reason we couldn't run something similar to the "ERA of Challenge" at a later date with completely different groups/characters.

Hope that clears it up for you.

Says the guy who spams posts for attention. Haha.

"The ERA of Challenge" isn't really an event. It's just a nickname I've given to the current time period on Virtue. (As it coincides with the introduction of The Challengers & ERA to the Virtue server.)

Here's what started it:

I wanted to put together some epic roleplay events on the Virtue server to get us back to how we used to be. I figured with COH:Freedom on the horizon, the server population was going to increase with those interested in superhero RP. So if ever there was a time to promote it...it's now.

The ERA of Challenge is basically my attempt to promote The Challengers & ERA to the Virtue server. (I don't lead either group.) As it's basically just promotion with no overall metastory you don't need a jump on point. Just make your own thread entitles "ERA of Challenge #Number: Name" and go with it. So far, each issue has started with a different villain meeting with Sebastian Kain. Each issue is self contained. (Mine, for example, does start with Baron Blitzman meeting with SK, but it's going to focus more on Xanatos as it progresses. It won't cross over with any of the other threads directly.) The only real "rule" is that the stories have to refer to The Challengers or to ERA in some way.

There's no over-arching meta-story other than "ERA has started and it doesn't like The Challengers, here is a tale of what some of the people involved are doing right now". That is how the story is going to end. The idea is that BECAUSE of Sebastian Kain forming ERA, and BECAUSE of Red-Havok forming The Challengers, Paragon City is now entering into the "ERA of Challenge". The whole purpose of this is to establish two groups that can host events on the Virtue server. (Such as RPVP events, forum story RP events, big meetups, etc.) The ERA of Challenge is basically setting up a foundation upon which future serverwide RP events can be run...on both heroes AND villains. The big events are coming, this is just the prologue. We're just trying to find our feet and encourage public RP again.

My ultimate goal is to have private inner-sg rp events for The Challengers & ERA independent from one another. But public events that involve both on a monthly/bimonthly basis. That way the private RP can be the ongoing, complicated, in-depth, story/team-driven stuff. Whereas the server-wide events will be a series of one-off events that anyone can join in on due to not needing to know months and months of story progression. I'm treading lightly though, because Red-Havok runs The Challengers, and SK runs ERA.

If you're still unsure of what all this is about. Just wait for me to finish my thread. (ERA of Challenge #1: Xanatos) As that will basically explain everything.

Fantastic.

Thanks guys!

I'm pretty sure the game had PVP designed and put in it. That's why we can PVP. If you're gonna start being a "purist" and argue against anything that deviated from the original concept of the game, then you're gonna have to deny the following as being "legitimately coh": Archetypes, Inventions, Raids, The AE, Respecs, going rogue....

"farm xanatos"

I get that you don't think PVP is competitive. But the fact you go out of your way on a regular basis to point this out is very odd.

If you genuinely believe you're bad at PVP...then why do you still take part in it?