Antaean

I've been here since beta. Not an active forumite anymore but I for one am going to miss this game and the crazy, tight-wearing, catchphrase shouting heroishness it brings

City of Heroes will always have a warm place in my heart. To those I teamed with over the years I say farewell and to those I never teamed with I say.......farewell. Hmmm, would've been easier to have just said "farewell" to everyone, but I digress....

I have spent several years and thousands of dollars specifically on the Champion server and I ask myself the question: "Was it worth it?"

My answer: Hell yeah - it was worth every damn penny!

I just want to thank you for allowing the option to purchase some decent IO sets from the store. It was a shame about the Numina error but i'll be picking up a lot of them when the problems are fixed and they're put back up for sale. I'm glad to know that any additional money I invest goes straight back to the game, so anything worthwhile that appears on the market i'll be buying.

I'd like to see more items made purchaseable in the store. I for one would be prepared to pay for:

- Purple IOs
- PvP IOs
- Incarnate material (salvage, shards, threads, Astral/Emp merits, etc).

Lastly, i'll throw in an extra vote alongside Myrmydon for adding Eradication to the list of IO sets to put in the store for the future.

I agree with the OP that any damage taken should count towards the badge.

I disagree that they are harder to get. These badges are not "hard" to get, simply time consuming.

Could a function be introduced in the game to allow us to "auto" more than 1 power?

I know a number of different builds across multiple AT's (Shield users, Super Reflexy-types, Perma Dom-Doms, Super Strengthers, Trollers with Indomitable Will, Boost rangers, etc, etc) that would benefit if they could place 1 or 2 extra powers on auto.

Alternatively, could I have an icecream instead?

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Well, the internet makes the most money and garners the largest memberships on 'adult sites'. So maybe we should add peep shows showing the latest 'adult' video offerings at some suitably seedy spot in Paragon or the Isles.

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This is an excellent idea.

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If you plan on running Granite 24/7, don't slot it. Put a GotA +Runspeed in there, or use a slot and add a LotG+Rech as well.

It is by no means a waste of a power, unlike Gale for storm controllers, jab/barrage for tanks, etc, etc.

Mission name: The Bookmaster

Mission ID: 68526

Recommended difficulty: The mission can be soloed on all difficulties, so long as you follow the instructions in the final mission. That said, it will always be better on a team.

Recommended team size: 1-8

Background story: The Bookmaster, a dastardly villain with the power to alter reality so that it resembles any fictitious story of his choosing, is planning a scheme of epic proportions. Can you stop him in time?

Your Global name: @Antaean

I agree.

As Beef said, the Hall of Fame status can sometimes vanish mid-mission.

Once Hall of Fame status has been achieved, the mission should remain a Hall of Fame mission.

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Epic Travel Powers
- available after lvl 40 (to coincide with Epic Pools)

Either as:

a) fifth power in each travel pool (easiest), examples:
- Fly -> subsonic (fast but LOW maneuverability, long turns)
- Superspeed -> "boost jet" (allows maximum CJ+Hurdle heights while SSing)
- Teleport -> team recall or combat blink (10 ft straight ahead)
- Leaping -> "glider" (slows down the landing speed?)



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/signed.

Nice idea.

I thought I had signed this awesome idea, but I guess I forgot.
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So......
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/signed for thee, oh Ultimate Ultimus!

Wahoo!

Thanks a lot Crestent!

My apologies for the late reply but i'm a tanker......I didn't know where the keyboard was.

Hi Crestent!

I only have a few pieces of artwork, but feel free to test your talents on me if you wish .

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My dad plays, and he's 52. Whenever people are talking about their ages, it's like he has an automatic 'I win' button.

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Damn that was funny.

I'm not that old, but I remember secret squirrel.
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And Star Wars.
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And Batfink.
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.. Dammit I am old.

Verily, thou hath created a guide of nicenessness!......or something.

I also like your cheatsheet in your sig - nice printable 1-pagers for the win!

Terrible guide. Just terrible.....I mean.....oh hell, I can't keep this up.

Excellent guide.

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Human nature often demands immediate gratification. Sometimes, this comes into conflict with the long term enjoyment.

uhm, hence the lack of lvl 50 content for non pvp types?

In the case of making the higher level game more fun, I want to make the difficulty of the later levels resemble early gameplay.

great - they will be removing the debt system............no, hang on. I think I read that incorrectly.

At first, some players will decry "but I can't do what I used to! Ack! I can't solo two +4 bosses anymore?" True - but they'll have fun battling 3 white minions - which is something you can say at level 15, but not at level 35.
Actually, I personnally hate the pre SO lvls and consider them a grind until I get to "hero" stage (lvl 22)


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And more to the point, they are heading their game in the right direction in the broad sense.


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Sorry. I disagree with your view Krunch. I dont think this game is heading in the right direction at all.

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Simple question.....have you ever seen a Jedi invis themselves in any of the movies? There is no Jedi Mind Hide trick......Show me otherwise.

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Please insert Star Wars Episode IV into your DVD/VCR and watch very closely when Obi Wan and Luke are speaking with Han Solo and Chewbacca to negotiate passage to Alderan. It is in this scene, where Storm troopers arrive looking for Obi Wan and Luke in the cantina, that the Jedi Mind hide trick is clearly displayed.

Hope that cleared things up for you.

Ant

Big thanks to the OP. Very nice guide to help those of us that RP. Just thought i'd post some of the information I found when creating one of my villains.

Thule beliefs and a bit of background history

A primary focus of Thule-Gesellschaft was a claim concerning the origins of the "Aryan race". "Thule" was a land located by Greco-Roman geographers in the furthest north. The society was named after "Ultima Thule" — (Latin: most distant Thule) mentioned by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem Aeneid, was the far northern segment of Thule and is generally understood to mean Scandinavia. Said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, they placed Ultima Thule in the extreme north near Greenland or Iceland.

The Thulists believed in the hollow earth theory. Thule had among its goals the desire to prove that the Aryan race came from a lost continent, perhaps Atlantis.

Rudolf von Sebottendorf was deeply influenced by Sufi mysticism, other Eastern philosophies, and in particular, the writings of Madame Blavatsky. He used Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine to launch his own recreation of ancient Germanic myth, positing a coming historical moment in which he theorized that the Aryan race would be restored to prior glories by the appearance of a race of Supermen. Von Sebottendorf eventually became the prime mover behind the Thule Society, which was one of the most important precursors of the Nazi Party, although the Nazi Party itself, once it had become ascendant, obliterated the Thule Society.

The Thule Society, which espoused ideas of extreme nationalism, race mysticism, virulent anti-Semitism, and the occult, was formed shortly after the end of World War I in Munich by von Sebottendorf. It attracted about 250 ardent followers in Munich and about 1500 in greater Bavaria. Thule agents infiltrated armed formations of the Communist Party in Munich and plotted to destroy the party, hatching plans to kidnap the party's leader, Kurt Eisner, and launching an attack against Munich's Communist government on April 30, 1919. The Thule Society also started its own newspaper, Müncher Beobachter, in 1918, and eventually approached the organizer Anton Drexler to develop links between the Society and various extreme right workers' organizations in Munich.

Drexler was instrumental in merging the Thule Society with a workers' party that he was involved with. The merged organization became known as the Munich Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP), or in English, the German Workers Party. It was the DAP that Adolf Hitler was introduced to in 1919. By April 1, 1920, the DAP had been reconstituted as the National Socialist German Workers Party (abbreviated from German as N.S.D.A.P., referred to in slang as the "Nazi Party", and von Sebottendorf, who was accused of negligence in allegedly allowing the names of several key Thule Society members to fall into the hands of the Communists, resulting in the execution of seven members after the attack on the Munich government in April 1919, had fled Germany for Switzerland and then Turkey. He returned to Germany in January 1933, but fled again in 1934.


The Nazi Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft organization was founded by Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth, and Walter Darré on July 1st 1935 as a research foundation. It was incorporated into the larger SS in January 1939.

The name of the society literally means "ancestral heritage", and it was originally devoted to research concerning the anthropological and cultural history of the German race. Their headquarters was at Wewelsburg castle.

Their initial aim was to prove Nazi theories of racial superiority through historical, anthropological, and archaeological research. Himmler summarized its goal as "to restore the German people to the everlasting godly cycle of ancestors, the living and the descendants."

Like the Ahnenerbe section of the SS, and due to its occult background, the Thule Society has become the center of many conspiracy theories concerning Nazi Germany. Such theories include the creation of spacecraft and secret weapons. Because the group helped Hitler with his speaking skills, some have even suggested that the society somehow granted him magic powers that contributed to his later success.

It is also claimed that Thule-Gesellschaft possessed a psychic named Maria Orsic, who convinced them that the Aryan race didn't originate on the Earth, but came from Aldebaran in Taurus — some sixty-five light years away. All of these theories are great when helping to create a background for a game such as COV/COH.

I'm not here to debate historical facts, and whilst I understand that there is no documented proof that Hitler was a member of the Thule society, some of the "conspiracy theories" surrounding his involvement with them make for an excellent background for a character.

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eww another invul tank

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I would slap you if you weren't so rediculously overpowered and asking for a nerf

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or after you are defeated admit you made a mistake. I certainly had a God complex before meeting with Quason. I was humbled.

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God complex for the win.

By Zeus' popcorn-flavored Beard!!!!

For the last time. I AM ANTAEAN!!!!! Greek God of Meady Goodness and bringer of drunken stupiditious thingydoos to all!!!!

I work in a fudge factory, and my job is to place the fudge into the boxes as they move along the belt.

I still don't know why it makes my friends laugh when I tell them that I pack fudge for a living.......

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I'll give you $25


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I have a level 50 tank, and a level 50 blaster and several in their 30's. i'm sure it will go for a couple of hundred bucks on ebay

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i'll give you $30.......and some magic beans.

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If you really want to be the center of attention, just grab the villain by the foot and let out a bellow as you start swinging him around as a club against all the other villains.

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This is a great idea. We should be able to grab villains and throw them. Yeah. Love it.