Casual_Player

It gets worse: my wife's account, which we've been using and playing pretty straightforwardly for the last 2 years plus, always on continued pay, has suddenly been turned off. She never posts here, and we're now racking our brains as to which e-mail account, password, etc. we've signed up under.

Gee, thanks, account re-activation weekend. What a swell job you've done cancelling active accounts.

I'm now off to wrangle with customer services over something that should not ever have been an issue with us.

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I'm a substitute teacher these days and I've got a fairly good insight into the ways some middle schoolers use MySpace. In my experience, 200-250 friends is about the average for an 8th-grade girl.

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You visit the MySpace pages of the 8th grade girls you sub for?

/creepy

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No, I don't, as that would be creepitude verging upon firing offense.
I look over their shoulders as they point their page out to me proudly. For them, I'm willing to be a little forgiving. Making a MySpace is at least a tiny step toward the math/sciency world of webcoding, and I try to encourage the girls whenever I can along those lines, just like I try to encourage my wannabe rapper boys towards anything english-language-y.

Ex-Libris, however, is an adult, and needs a little needling whenever she wanders into pre-teen territory.

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We just topped out at 5700 and we get approximately 200 adds per day.

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Still on this kick, are you? Well, if you're going to make a serious go at it, you need to be emulating this guy. Weird Al's got what, 630,000 friends? Yeah. Puts that '5700' number into perspective.

Al's is the only MySpace page I've ever deliberately visited. And the reason I do so? Content. He's got songs, tour dates, fan club info, pictures, etc. posted there. Given that the CoH team can't come up with content for its own home page, I'm gonna go out on a very short limb here and say we're never going to see content on CoH MySpace. Ergo: fail.

Alright, let me modify that statement a bit. I just deliberately visited the CoH MySpace page to make sure I wasn't talking out of my [censored]. Nope. I wasn't. Content-free, unless you consider a link to the home and friend-referral pages content.

I'm a substitute teacher these days and I've got a fairly good insight into the ways some middle schoolers use MySpace. In my experience, 200-250 friends is about the average for an 8th-grade girl. So, you've boosted CoH awareness by about 25-30 eighth grade girls and are getting another one every day or two.

Woo.

You get what you pay for, Ex. Craptastic web-advertising will only generate a craptastic response.

And let me add that 'craptastic' doesn't even come close to describing the "community" there. A compilation of one-line text messages each trying to scream 'O Gawd, please, somebody LOOK at me' louder than the ones around it is not community.

I realize that the purpose of this abomination is to generate brand awareness and foster goodwill amonst the users. But Ex, you'd have more success in both those endeavors by giving homeless guys a sandwich and a CoH sign and asking them to yell the game's name from the streetcorners- with the added karmic bonus of at least having fed a homeless guy.

Regardless of the misperceptions involved, the general player answer was "No, I don't use MySpace and I'd find a CoH-dedicated MySpace page to be a useless waste of time and energy."

To which the Cryptic response was, "We don't and we're gonna do it anyway."

The players then counter-repsonded with "Why the heck did you ask us, if our answer didn't impact your actions in any way, shape or form?"

I still think they're missing some advertising tricks. I understand there's this service called "AOL" that has "rooms" set aside where you can "chat" about your favorite things. ZOMG! Why isn't there an official AOL CoH chat room?!

GET CRACKIN', EX!!

Or hey, there's these so-called "Fax machines" where you can send people messages WITHOUT using the mail? Whoa, there's another cutting-edge viral delivery system Cryptic's missing out on.

MySpace: old and busted.
Cryptic jumping on the MySpace bandwagon = mainstream media discovering LOLcats.

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Protector offically has so much drama, that i wont create a toon on this server...

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I might not go that far, but I think this thread and it's Dev attention now officially qualify Protector as the Emo server.

Crymoarkthxby!

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...As a result of this roll back to an earlier save, Heroes who had used the Consignment Market after that time may have a variety of issues – from duped items to lost items...

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Someone's dupin' rares!!

Unique Dragon was right!!!1!eleventy!!

Soooo....

No actual guides posted here, then?

Official Prima Guide to this thread: Threadjack Rating Level- Extreme!

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Thank GOD I stopped leveling my petless pistols mastermind :P

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/threadjack:
Really? How far did you get? At level 19, I'm starting to grind down on my petless pistols guy and I'm wondering if Stamina and SOs might make the difference.

Global: @Casual Player
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Location: Rockville, MD, just northwest of Washington DC
Height: 5'10"
SG Affiliation: The Bowling League
Most Recognizable Server Toons: Statesmonkey, Miss GoodWrench, Tattered Man

Hard call on that last one: I've teamed most with Tattered Man and Miss G is my highest level character, but Statesmonkey is pretty unforgettable. So I'm just gonna name all three.

My wife plays as well. In fact, the character I play with her is rapidly overtaking my main. Well, as rapidly as anything I do in this game.

Marry a gamer-grrl, guys! It's the only way to be happy.

I dont see this listed yet, so I'll add it in.

I have a Hydra badge that grants me some sort of Hydra gladiator.

I haven't tried gladiating yet and didn't read the badge too closely, so I don't know exactly what it is. But if you've done the Hydra trial, I think you'll get a Hydra thingie to fight with.

Bah!

Where are all the tough chicks?! This is supposed to be a city of heroes, not lingerie models!

Bring on da woikin' broads!
Miss GoodWrench (on Infinity)

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I posted this answer on another thread, but I'll pass it along here. The new guy from the trailer is Foreshadow.

WW

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Really? Oh, my.

I hope we don't see some superbeing named Conclusion or Epilogue in the near future.

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Blackguard, that might help you GET a seat at the table, but I'm pretty sure it won't help you keep it.

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Zing of the Day!
5 stars to you!

Did you read the part at the end where, at the costume call he wore it to, he explained that he wasn't Tron? He's a payroll withholding program that gained too much weight from all the changes made to the laws governing them!

I must caution all of you gouging your eyes out after seeing those pics to never go to a sci-fi con's costume call. Or worse, a comic con's. You will see things that turn that guy into Heidi Klum wearing a bikini by comparison.

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But im going to assume here that the Devs intentions were NOT to allow new players to lev up 20 levels in 2 days.

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And we all know what happens when you assume, right?