Captain Starstorm

So, to answer the original question.. I don't think it's dead, I just think it's changed a lil. Determined people on both sides will still eventually figure out how to make AE fulfil whatever needs it is they have.

Now, to adress a slightly different part of the discussion.. I don't think powergaming and roleplaying are mutually exclusive. "OH DEAR LORD" you may say "SPEAK NOT THY BLASPHEMOUS WORDS, YON NOOB". But really, they don't necessarily have to be. So when you're insulting powergamers, you're likely insulting some fellow roleplayers. And when you're insulting roleplayers, the same goes for insulting fellow powergamers.

Personally I consider myself a roleplayer. I'm still fairly new-ish so I'm not as deeply entrenched in the roleplay community as I aim to be, but part of that is likely due to the fact that games like AoC kind of scarred my mind when it comes to getting involved in MMO RP communities, anyone who's played Wiccana probly knows what I'm talkin' about!

Anyhow, my first character I played fully AEless for about my first two or three weeks on blueside. I then made a villain, and while about level 5 or so one of the people I was pugging with randomly said they were going to powerlevel the group (all about levels 3-5). Most people said "Cool" whereas I just thought "How the hell do you do that in this game?". Thought it, of course, because I didn't want to sound like the ultra noob that I was.

Anyhow, longish story relatively shorter, we went to the AE I leveled faster than I even knew was possible, and got into the whole AE thing to see how deep that rabit hole went. Yada, yada, yada, I was level 50 in like 3-4 days.

This might lead you to think I'm in the powergamer camp, but really I'm not. Whatever changes happened to the AE don't really bother me at all. In fact I'm kind of glad. As tempting as it was to level up a bunch of chars to 50, I doubt I could have. After doing it that quickly once I kind of got bored with it. Sure I might use it to get new characters high enough to get a travel power and whatnot, but not much more besides that. You can only kill so many freaks and mad slammers before it just gets repetitive as all hell.

The main point of this redundantly long post that I'm trying to make is.. Some roleplayers powergame, some powergamers roleplay, so the two groups whining at eachother like children really doesn't accomplish a great deal. We all play the same game, pay the same amount for it, and try to get from it whatever manner of entertainment we prefer. As far as I know there's no right or wrong in any aspect of that, and if you don't like someone's playstyle you can simply.. Not play with them, or use ignore.

Personally I think recognising the mechanics of your character in roleplay might help relieve the level 10 (or any level, for that matter) godmoders a bit, but that's a whole 'nother topic right there

I've only been around for a few weeks, but I have to agree with some here that, from the few times I've been there, Pocket D really isn't my kinda thing either.. Well, depends on the character, too I suppose. A nightclub setting would obviously suit some characters more than others.

It would be nice to see other hotspots get formed though, for people who don't want the catgirl/succubus/sex robot type rp or blatantly silly joke-rp, or what have you (I am NOT saying that that's the only RP that happens there, just that it does happen a lot, and it can kind of mess up the immersion level for some people unless you're highly skilled in in ignoring stuff, which not everyone is).. You could just find an SG and RP in your base or whatnot, but then it seems like you're missing out on other RPers or RP groups who may have a similar taste in roleplay that you do, but just happen to be in different groups/bases.

So if there are people who think it'd be a good idea to set up more focused rp hotspots for red and blueside (which there seems to be), I know I'd be willing to give it a shot as well. And if it doesn't work out, well, nothing's been lost. And you can still go to the D whenever, though it would be good to have a few more options.

Just my nubbish opinion anyway.

Idea aborted ages ago.

So.. I bought the game via Steam, using Paypal.
I bought boosters and item packs using Paypal.
I've subscribed to the game, to be charged monthly, via Paypal..

But I need a credit card to buy a rename token? Is there some way around this, because it seems quite silly that you can literally do everything through Paypal, except something as small as change your characters name.

Hopefully I just missed some option somewhere, which someone will point out. Otherwise this really doesn't make a great deal of sense.

Ive tried to contact support about 5 times and have gotten no response whatsoever.

On a side note, according to my verification emails, youre not limited to one code a day, it seems..

Does anyone know when the after effects of that master account downtime might be over? Getting kind of ticked off at wasting my money here.

Today I bought the following from the NCsoft Store site.

City of Heroes® Super Booster II: Magic
City of Heroes® Super Booster III: Superscience
City of Heroes® Mac Special Edition In-Game Item Pack
City of Heroes® Good Versus Evil Edition In-Game Item Pack

I've applied all the codes to my CoH account successfully, got all the verification emails, logged in and out of the game over 20 times over the course of over 6 hours, etc. And NONE of the additional items/powers/etc are available to me from these packs. Contacted Customer support, sent a bug report, etc, etc..

So far I've gotten no answer at all, from anyone. And I still haven't received access to any of the things I've payed for. So basically my question is... Did NCSoft just rip me off, or what's the deal?