Aneurysmo

Too much. I'll give you 2b for it, the extra .5 would take a while to earn.

EDIT: 2.5b it is, a kind buddy spotted me the rest. Come trade on Virtue server.

Give me a few hours to earn the other billion and it's a deal.

EDIT: My Gname is @Stygialus -- Virtue server

EDIT: Done, /t sent

Name: Super Go Force

Currently Recruiting: We're currently recruiting, although Sector One is regularly hitting the member cap, we do have other sectors open.

RP Level: Non-RP in /sg or in mentality. We've got an RP specific channel we've set up, but I'd warn prospective RPers that we're not at all geared towards RP.

PvP Level: We're casual towards PvP. We sometimes organise fun PvP events in which we'll all form up into groups and completely trash a PvP zone, but we're by no means PvP dedicated.

Theme/Concept: We're one of the few dedicated casual, non-RP SGs on Virtue server. If you like having a laugh, teaming and doing content with mates then you'll probably like the SGF. If you don't take yourself too seriously and just want to find a group of fun people to while away the time with then you'll probably like the SGF. If you enjoy regular teams, farms and non-RP oriented content then you'll probably like the SGF.

Activity: We're often hitting member caps on SGFS1 and we usually have 6 or more unique members on at one time at US prime time. We also have quite a few GMT (British) players in the SG too (myself being one of those!), so we get quite varied playtimes.

Requirements for Membership: Must enjoy a joke or two and be able to thrive in non-RP environments, other than that, none.

Leadership: Gamma Sorce -- Madam Shockey -- Aerius V -- Godspawn -- Caelius Starbreaker

In-Game Contact(s): @Ace Auto (Or @Godspawn for GMT players)

Out-of-Game Contact(s): Just send a PM to this forum handle or alternatively go post something in the guest section of our site

URL: http://sgfs1.forumotion.ca/

Other Details: The first few ranks of promotion are based upon (very achievable) prestige levels. All SGF members have the power to invite, so if you see one of us around then just get in touch.

Supergroup Directory (Heroes) - September 2011 to February 2012

Use the form below to post your listing. Entries marked with * are mandatory. Feel free to leave out whatever optional information that doesn't apply.
(Template copied/slightly modified from Grae_Knight's layout for Feb. '08 - June '08, copied again from ShadowWings' feb '11 - aug '11 template)

*Name: Your SG Name

*Currently Recruiting: State whether you are / are not accepting new members, not recruiting new members but looking for other players/SGs interested in RP, not looking for anyone new in any way but wanting to let others know you exist, etc.

RP Level: RP-friendly, RP-intensive, RP-lite, nonRP, /sg IC, 100% IC spatial, etc., what degree of immersion do you expect or require?

PvP Level: Casual, hard-core, arena, zone, etc..

*Theme/Concept: Briefly describe your SG's theme and/or concept (Longbow or other NPC-oriented group, Single Origin, Single Archetype, etc.) or general raison d'être

*Activity: How many unique members do you have, what times (of which time zones) are your members active, which days of the week do you see the most log on - when is your "prime time" (so to speak)

Requirements for Membership: Must be at least level #, out-of-game communication on guild forums (please also list URL forums if different from website), no alts in other SGs, no villains on Virtue, daily log-in, etc.

*Leadership: Character name(s) of your SG Leaders

*In-Game Contact(s): Your leader's Global Chat Handles. (Include the @!)

*Out-of-Game Contact(s): CoH's Virtue Forum handle(s) for PMs or email address(es) for those interested to seek more information when not logged in

URL: The group's website, if you have one.

Coalition(s): If you wish to reveal them here, you might also describe the nature of it: alliance, RP adversarial, functional, alt overflow, etc. or whether it is an IC or OOC associate.

Other Details: Feel free to add any other important information like base setup, frequency of TF/SF scheduling, prestige generation expectations / goals, or anything else of general but significant appeal.

Oh yeah I totally agree, and I've agreed with everything you've said so far. I got to the point pretty early on in Villains (because I too feel the writers wrote it in an "It's bad to be bad" style) where I just switched off and stopped paying attention to the story at all; I was tired of doing depressing missions in a depressing hellhole of a isle that looks like it's Boomtown 24/7. Shortly after my first villain was made I switched back to Heroes (and I'm glad they've added the long requested alignment missions because I love the Villain ATs). I too play apathetic, psychologically damaged villains because I can find no other way to justify a storyline which has me 'defeat' guys because some other guy doesn't like them, or 'defeat' large numbers of people simply because they were born on the wrong landmass. I mean, how could I glamorise a character who's willing to deliver riot inducing outbreak drugs to Paragon for no reason other than cash? A glamorous character just doesn't fit the scene.

That's all before we even take into account how disparate the concept of a 'glamorous' villain is with real villains (for those of us who've spent our lives amongst the little bastards). I understand that in comic books we get to create glamorous villains simply because they better carry the story, but I can't find a way to make such a character anything but two dimensional. Once we get to the actual motivations for the villainy, we can't just ignore the fact that most people have altruistic empathy drives which only the psychologically damaged lack.

I can't afford a keyboard, I had to type that joke with my mind.

Hard to choose.

I have a positional softcap (minimum 44.5% vs all positions) SS/Fire Brute that I'm currently loving. I also really like Warshades, they take some real skill to play as they should be played (the MFing way), but once learnt they're basically Gods (i.e. can comfortably hold their own on x4/+8 Fire ambush farms in which every other non-fire toon dies within seconds, as well as normal content).

Favourite AT is probably brute.

... Challenge accepted:

Scene opens on four veteran heroes leading a new player through paper mission content, flaunting their Incarnate powers as they go

Veteran 1: Doing well here.

Veteran 2: That we are, going at quite a pace!

Veteran 3: Thank God for these Destiny powers overlapping one another!

Veteran 4: It's a far cry from what it once was!

Veteran 1: Who'da thought, back in issue 1, that we'd be blasting through level 54 content like nothing?

Veteran 2: In them days we'd have been lucky to have even survived level 54s, let alone breeze through them like we are!

Veteran 3: Barely survive.

Veteran 4: With quite a few teamwipes.

Veteran 1: Even whilst using every inspiration in the tray!

Veteran 2: Even at softcap positional defence, too!

Veteran 3: Even at every stat hitting the cap!

Veteran 4: Or even beyond.

Veteran 1: But we were happy in them days, even if level 54 content was too hard.

Veteran 2: Because level 54 content was too hard! Our powers used to mean something back then. I used to say the difficulty taught us things.

Veteran 3: Aye that it did.

Veteran 4: Aye.

Veteran 1: And even them powers was harder back then. Remember defiance didn't used to buff damage?

Veteran 2: Buff damage? You were lucky it didn't decrease damage like Fury once did!

Veteran 3: Decrease it? Pah! Scrappers' critical strikes used to deal the critical strike damage to the scrapper!

Veteran 4: Is that all? Back in them days Defender's inherent Vigilance used to remove 5 endurance per second for each player on the team and increase recharge time and decrease damage for all powers.

Veteran 1: Of course, when I say it didn't increase damage, I mean beyond the -9999% damage buff that was permanently applied to blaster archtypes.

Veteran 2: -9999%? You were lucky back then. We brutes used to have -9999% and lose a power every two levels.

Veteran 3: You were lucky to lose a power! Scrappers used to have their powers replaced at random for self-destruct buttons that dealt damage to the team! Each time a new mission started it'd scramble the power so that it came when least expected!

Veteran 4: You were lucky to be left with some functional powers at all! Defenders used to lose four powers for every level, have -9999% damage, have all their powers turn into self-destruct buttons and every time they self destructed it'd delete their character.

Veteran 1:... Just one character? I'd have killed to have just one character deleted. Each time Blasters moved it deleted every character on their account.

Veteran 2: Sounds like you were one of the lucky ones. Each time a brute even logged on it'd delete their entire account details and ban their IP from ever forming a new one.

Veteran 3: Just ban their IP?! Each time a Scrapper even thought about logging into their account it'd delete all the characters, delete their account, ban their IP and continue billing their account every month.

Veteran 4: But you try telling this to these new free players and they wouldn't believe you.

Veteran 1: Not a chance!

Veteran 2: But we had something back then.

Veteran 3: Aye, that we did. We knew about difficulty.

Veteran 4: And we worked for our rewards.

Or alternatively, check out some old skool comedy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaS...eature=related

I have literally no idea what they did, but I genuinely found my level 50+1 SS/Fire Brute plonked in the middle of some random guy's first Kalinda mission.

Didn't we already decide this was some form of Australian plot?

Very wrong.

I went to access the AE and found myself in some other person's level 1 villain's mission with longbow and the player set as friends. Better yet, the player couldn't see me or hear my /l channel.

Well, being the dislikeable, pretentious snob I am, I tend to take people's opinions far less seriously whenever I spot typos or syntax errors in their typed speech. Common errors like 'your' vs 'you're' or 'their' vs 'there' that are extremely easy to fix irk me to no end because there are literally thousands of sources out there to help one improve one's grammar (hey, guess what! I have dyslexia too, but I took the time to actually learn to write properly to compensate for it). Other common errors that are less simple to fix (because they require a deeper understanding of grammatical concepts) like 'to' vs 'too', 'who' vs 'whom' and 'you' vs 'one' don't irk me because they'd take a bit of time to get right and hey! We're all busy people.

If these misspellings are working for you then I say stick to it. If it makes you feel more in-tune with your character then that's all that really matters (unless the number of tells asking about it are counter-balancing this effect).

However, wouldn't it make sense for an immortal to keep up with the language of the times? I don't know how far back his immortality has stretched, but he's not exactly speaking Sumerian, so mightn't he bit a bit moderner with his phonetics?

Very true, I'd also like to add that I have no problem with people PLing newbies to 50 as long as they're willing to teach that newbie the basics of the game once they've dinged 50. What I don't particularly like is farmers who just PL newbies and then leave them to get on with it, with no understanding of how to form or join teams, build their characters or play the game.

Dechs was what made me want to level mine. I then got bored (too used to ripping through stuff on a highbie to slog out life on a lowbie) until my highbie team tried to do x4/+8 Carnie runs, only to faceplant at every group bar one member. You got it, a Warshade. He just ate through everything. It's was scary to behold.

Played Tri-Form they can be truly terrifying.

I've read it a couple of times now, it's very funny!

I'm not sure I agree with his insinuated preferred playstyle for empathy defenders, but the point was very comedically written and made me laugh nonetheless.

Kudos!

Yar, but the tohit checks are generated each time a mob uses an attack, right? So -recharge decreases those incoming tohit checks and ergo decreases fury. That's been one of the main arguments against Spines for brutes.