BellaStrega

This is pretty shocking and unexpected. I mean all the talk about issue 24, the news about tech knight (which I was really looking forward to), everything up until last night appearing to indicate that CoH had a future.

I purchased City of Heroes and activated my account on May 18, 2004. Unfortunately, due to a housemate having an overly aggressive intended-for-business firewall, I couldn't actually play until I moved out of that house on June 1st. I was able to play City at friends' houses, and even got them sold on the game by letting them try on my account. I remember letting friends use the costume creator pn my account to illustrate their characters for a tabletop roleplaying game (Aberrant, for the record).

I still play my first character. Well, only first on a technicality. She's a reroll of my first character, made less than two weeks after the first character. I've taken this character from a level 1 dark/dark scrapper fighting Contaminated in Outbreak to a level 50 Incarnate who's also taken on many signature characters single-handedly. And in that time I remember learning to play without reliable status protection and with armors that excluded each other. Dark Armor today is so different from Dark Armor at launch, and I'm glad I stuck with the character.

On the forum, I was fairly prolific. I commented in a thread that I wondered if there was a title for 10,000 posts as I was very close, and the first person likely to reach that point (although I believe Satanic_Hamster tried to give me a run for my money). CuppaJo PMed me to tell me that when I made 10,000 posts I could name the title - which I did, as "Forum Cartel." A forum joke at the time that someone else could probably explain far better than I could.

Anyway, I haven't been subscribed here without any breaks, although I wish I had been. There were times I couldn't afford it, and there was one time where I was so annoyed with a few people here that I didn't want to come back.

The best times I've had in this game were the first year, the City of Villains beta, the loyalty period prior to the launch of Going Rogue, and the time I've been subscribed since CoH freedom was launched. That last actually kept me here: All the new costume options kept me paying. I purchase all the costumes and I tinker with all of my characters' looks rather frequently.

Losing this game is one thing, too, but losing this community is pretty painful. I know I've been in a lot of arguments with people here, sometimes over things that seemed trivial or over misunderstandings, and sometimes just trying to make a point, and I really can be abrasive at times whether I want to be or not. But I have enjoyed being here when I could be here

I have also appreciated developer involvement over the years. There have been times when the devs have been more open or more quiet, but overall it seems that devs have often been open to some feedback and discussion. Coming back to learn that BAB and Castle were gone since the end of 2010 was a big surprise, as both were pretty open with players. Not to take anything away from anything done after they left.

(Also, I remember arguing with Tic-Toc years ago, but I remember nothing of the details - finding out BAB = Tic-Toc was a big surprise to me. Also, that iTic, iToc, iTank avatar is brilliant).

Anyway, thank you for the only game that could absorb just about any whacked out concept I wanted to throw at it.

This whole post is rambly. I am having a hard time processing my reaction to this. This was not the worst news I had today, but it's the one I have an easiest time trying to deal with right now.

- Kali Magdalene

I guess I should screenshot all my characters and costumes.

I'm at a loss about this, otherwise.

The only thing I care about regarding coffee talks is that there's no transcripts.

But as for the idea of the thing, I think it's great that they have weekly chats for players to watch, though. Some may interest me, some may not, but I am disinclined to expect that every one of them will be what I want to hear.

What I primarily care about is information. Social chit-chat just bores the heck out of me. I can't sit through an hour of that or mostly that. But other people like that sort of thing, and more power to them, as long as they don't try to drag me along.

Thread had significantly viewer views than codes when I first saw it (I think I saw 64 views). Now it looks like views exceeds codes*, but I'm not sure by how much. There are a lot of codes, and many of those views are repeat views, not unique views.

* Edit to add: Views were still lower than codes when I wrote that.

Much appreciated.

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey...stuff.

Yes, but this thread is essentially complaining that extra #237 appeared in episode 202 of <random TV series> after extra #237 who may or may not have been portraying the same character was killed in episode 118.

Definitely need to get a build for my brute.

I always feel bad for the spiders stuck in the bathtub. I get some tissue paper they can climb onto and put them on the counter, where they can explore more easily.

Also, I mentioned those three spiders in the memes being tiny because they couldn't possibly eat all of my liquefied guts.

A mission where one gets all crits is much more statistically noteworthy than a mission where one doesn't get any. I'd run a second mission to be sure, and then file a bug report if it continued. I might still file the bug report on the first mission just in case.

I started reading under the expectation of a completely different discussion.

I just don't even get that argument. "Hay guyz, the seven-year old (at Freedom's launch, eight years now) well-established communities on Virtue and Freedom didn't break up to reform on Exalted. This totes proves that VIP isn't worth it." Huh?