Chad Gulzow-Man

I think the word "God" is blocked. I tried to make an Egyptian god-themed Scrapper named "Desert God Set" a while back on Victory. A quick check said it was available, but I couldn't use the name.

I changed it to "Desert King Set," but I really preferred Desert God.

Just a quick correction: it has been confirmed by a developer that there is only one intermediate stage between Hero and Villain. There is no "true neutral" side that you can become (starting Praetorians can play as such until level 20, but then must pick either Hero or Villain).

The chain goes:

Hero -> Vigilante -> Villain -> Rogue -> Hero

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As for people saying that Arachnos troops shouldn't be allowed to switch sides, why not? Isn't that really a choice to be made by the person playing them?

Maybe my Arachnos soldier was brainwashed and is starting to recover his original personality and wants to use his training and knowledge to help the Heroes fight back against Lord Recluse?

Maybe my Widow joined Arachnos to make a difference in the Rogue Isles and is finding that their influence is causing more harm than good? She's become disillusioned with the Arachnos regime and wants to liberate her homeland.

Maybe my guy is a spy for Longbow and is coming back to Paragon to report what he's learned? Maybe he's actually a double agent and is intending to come to Paragon to steal secrets so he can then return to the Rogue Isles and strengthen his position within Arachnos?

Maybe I just want to run around as a Crab Spider and do the teabag emote in front of a bunch of Heroes that can't do anything about it?

Or maybe, just maybe, I'll decide how to play my characters without your input.

Not at all.

By that same logic, having an Intel processor and an Intel video card should be awesome. (Hint: It's not.)

Pretty similar to the 9800 GT. It's not the monster card it was when it came three years ago.

Well they ARE trying to make the Anniversary badges global... but no, they'll probably not give those particular badges out again.

Please don't misunderstand, I was not implying that it's okay to judge people by their post count and reg date. I was simply saying that's one of the reasons that the OP was receiving what she considers "flames," and sadly, it proved to be true.

If anything, the line you were quoting was a jestful poke at Panzer.

Not sure what you're trying to say about me editing exactly, but I did it since you and I both posted at roughly the same time and I didn't want you to think I was referencing your post. You were questioning the reason for the sarcastic posts, and I was letting you know why you were getting them. And then Panzer came and blatantly proved one of those points.

I don't personally care how many posts you have. You came here wondering if CoH is gonna be okay, and I wanted to let you know that yes, it will be okay.

It's all good. You're still cool in my book. As cool as any random internet stranger in my book can be, anyway.

My point #2 is made.

In my wretched attempt at what you'll probably consider a flame, I say this: "Physician, heal thyself."

By that I mean, take your own chill pill. The game is doing fine.

Hey, speak for yourself future lady! I'm a flier!

I saw a character named "The Angle" once when Issue 8 came out and gave us wings. I'm only mildly ashamed to say I made a lot of really bad jokes at his expense.

"The Angle: parallel to justice, perpindicular to evil!"
"I don't mean to be obtuse, but your costume is acute!"

... You get the point.

Jack had already stepped down and passed the Lead Developer torch to Matt at least a year before NCSoft bought the game from Cryptic.

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As to all this "nobody is playing!" conjecture, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't things pretty slow for the few weeks between the Halloween event and the release of the November Issues in '07 and '08 too? I'd posit that the "issue" we're having now is that there's not a shiny new Issue to be released this month.

And even with the release for those Issues, activity would spike for a couple weeks and then drop off until the Winter Event started. We'll probably be seeing a lot of familiar faces this time next month.

Just use both hands.

... oh man that was awful...

There are lots of reasons you'd want to become one or the other. For starters, there is no real "middle" beyond level 20 in Praetoria--you either lean towards being heroic or being villainous, so you're forced to pick either Hero or Villain from that point on. From there, you can become a Vigilante Hero or a Rogue Villain, which allows you to visit the opposing city.

The reasons why you'd want to become a Vigilante or Rogue are:

• Easier to find teams, since you're not locked into either city
• Obtain badges from the opposing faction's side
• Roleplay reasons

The reasons why you'd want to shift entirely from Hero to Villain or vice versa are:

• To access the enemy's markets and/or trade with the opposing faction
• Roleplay reasons
• An undisclosed character improvement system to be released with Going Rogue that can power up a level 50 character (currently there's no concrete info on this, other than the fact that it's not just limited to more new Invention recipes)

I'm sure that lots of people have more reasons to add, but those are the big ones for each. And really, it all depends on what you as a player want to do with your characters.