Balorn

I've got so spoiled by CoH. Are there even any other MMOs out there that even have all or even most of of:

• Level syncing, up and down (I think FFXI, does, but...)
• Ability to do most content either teamed or solo (without making the solo option stupidly tedious)
• Build flexibility (what if I don't want to make a cookie cutter FOTM?)
• Team flexibility (not everyone likes the tank/heal/DPS trinity, especially when you have to spend an hour searching for whichever is missing)

Sigh... and once again this happens while I'll be out of town. Seriously, I only leave 2, maybe 3 weekends a year, but at least half the 2XP weekends seem to happen when I do. Maybe next time...

I'll add more at some point, but...

We really need a checkbox to have the costume creator NOT disable options it thinks might clip.

For example, having a jacket with sleeves disables most of our glove options. However, if we choose short sleeves, then they wouldn't even come close to clipping, but we still can't choose big gloves.

It's nice that the creator tries to keep some of the more obvious clipping issues from happening, but it would be nice to be able to override it for situations like that where its blocking too much, or even to create interesting combinations from the clipping. I don't care if you make it pop up a half dozen strong warnings when we try, I just want to have the option there.

Edit:
One other thing - the pre-tinted gold in some of the recent pieces (Imperial Dynasty, Elemental Order jacket) isn't a color available to us, making it really annoying to try to have other costume bits match it. The gold used is partway between some of our yellow/orange options, but doesn't quite match anything we can pick.

Somewhat old pictures (I've since rearranged and added a few, but haven't brought my camera back to work):

My (not very serious) guess:

Everyone dies except Manticore and BAB.

Dark Watcher shows up.

Tells Manti to use an Oil Slick Arrow where the rest of them died.

BAB says "Oil Slick, WTF?" as Dark Watcher uses Howling Twilight to rez them all.

Beam Rifle/Trick Arrow? Pick Mace as PPP. Call him Captain Redraw.

The facepalm wasn't that it was generic'd, it was that it was generic'd due to Marvel, not Random House.

My favorite facepalm-worthy story about trademarked names on CoH characters was when I teamed with someone who had made a spot-on Thing One (from The Cat in the Hat) costume, but their name (not costume) got generic'd because of Marvel Comics' trademark. <Insert comment about some poor GM having no childhood.>

You know what you doing.

(And I had *just* finished putting together a general build using another set as a placeholder.)

http://www.l4eclan.com/manlynames/

Myself, I went with a name from Disgaea 4's random name list and created Uppercuticus on Virtue.

The awesome Amile (who also dew my avatar) just sent me the commission I had her do of two of my characters:



That's my tank Balorn on the left and my dominator Kay Volt on the right.

I was thinking something like this:

My only complaint so far (aside from the merit costs of some of the cosmetic items, but that's been brought up elsehwere at length):

One question I still haven't seen answered:

If one member of a leveling pact drops from VIP to Premium, does that break the pact? What if they don't pick the pact member as one of their playable characters?

* 3-paragraph post everyone ignores

As a follow up:

Changed to Rogue, went to Talos. Door at about -3161.2 190.9 1807.1 (on one of the islands way up North). Was able to complete the mission with no issues. It was a Council cave, so I couldn't tell if it was using a hero or villain map (non-council caves are colored differently).

I admit, I kinda cheated. I had to be at work while the invasion was going on, so I just logged in and picked up a random AE arc to stay logged in. But I contributed to the 4000ish! (Twice, since I did it for both my accounts.)

Alternately - I didn't even have to do anything, just stand and glare at Cole's invasion forces, and they decided they'd better withdraw.