Commander

*Arachnos Commander removes his helmet for the last time*



The name is Sean Godfrey. Been a player of CoH since 2004 but found my villainous calling when CoV launched. I've been playing as Arachnos Commander since the 3 day CoV headstart.

I'm been a video store manager most of my early Coh career. Now I'm a web developer and owner/admin of Daevas.com, an AION social community. I've travelled all over Europe spreading the world about AION. I just wish I had the same opportunity for CoH. I've also been writing a screenplay for the past 3 years... just keep getting distracted :P lol, I almost forgot... was, for a short time a professional wrestler.

Through my CoH "career" I've met many people. Some great friendships have been formed, broken, relationships formed and broken, but because of CoH I've met my soulmate and we've been together almost 5 years. I'd tell you her name, but she'd kill me for mentioning her. But let's just say she is the pinkest, cupcakenest, cutie-bot of Virtue United.

I want to thank all of the developers and especially the players that kept me here over the years. Without the friends I've made, the Arachnos Commander would still be lying in a grave. So thank you to Blazing Tiger, Kegan, Sandolphan, Xanthicsnow, Andra, Belle, Xad, Misfortune, Ley Line Walker, Hasdrabul Skaras and the entire cast of the Arachnos Elite from 2005-2012.

Going to miss you all.

I've been playing AION for a few years but always come back to CoH as it's always been my home. Now my home is burning down.

I guess I'll stay in AION till those servers shut down.

I go by the name Blackbeard on all NA AION (Elyos faction) servers as well as EU's Perento (Asmodian faction) server. I've been running the AION fansite, Daevas.com, which is kind of what CoHFaces is. A social networking site for players of AION.

So, if anyone from Virtue plays, or ever decides to (though I doubt many will since NCsoft is the one that set fire to our house) feel free to look me up.

I also play The Secret World and GW2 as Arachnos Commander. But not so much anymore.

Thanks for all the years. Take care.

- "Arachnos Commander"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwC_DpJLANE

Take care all. It's been a pleasure serving Lord Recluse all these years.

-Arachnos Commander

Ok, I feel the need to just jump in with a couple comments about the "other game" mentioned in the first post, as I am just as much of a fan of it as I am of CoH.

1.) Their Devs are in Korea. The MMO in question is one of the most popular, if not THE most popular, MMO of it's kind in Korea. The game itself, over the past 3 years, has been changed significantly to cater to the Western market.

2.) Their "Double XP server" is just that. NCWest didn't lower the XP on the normal servers. That was from the developers on the other side of the world. The reason: when their patch 3.0 was released in North America ( a good 9 months after it was released in Korea, Russia, China, etc. ) they boosted the XP gain on all of the live NA servers to almost double.

Their goal was to allow NA players to get as close to the where the Asian players were. Since they had the game 9 months before we did, they figured the XP boost on all of the NA servers was the best way to do this. Once again, this was the call of the Developers in Korea, not the call of the Community Staff in NA (who seem to take the blame for it anyway.)

Since they decided we were "caught up", they lowered the XP gains to what they were before 3.0. So now, XP rates in NA, Korea, etc. are all alligned.

Their goal, now that another company bought the publishing rights in Europe, was to release upcoming patches for the NA version within a month of a release in Korea. Since NCsoft no longer has to translate the game into German, French, and English they only need to translate to English which is an easier step. (Look at the EU version of that game. It's been 6 months since 3.0 was released in NA. In EU, they are just now finalizing the beta test to publish 3.0 in French and German... six months later.)

Since that game was designed as a PvPvE (full world PVP) game and that many NA players left because they would like to only PVE, they created a "Fast Track" server for PVE players. This server is a Double XP boost of the pre-3.0 boosted XP rates. Which means you are earning the same XP on the "Fast Track" server as you were on the other servers after they were boosted for 3.0 content... while avoiding PVP 100%.

Now, in 3.1, the XP rates have been returned to their "international standard" (it's true because the same is going to happen with the Gameforge run EU 3.0 version of the game.) Sure, the communication could have been better between Korea and NCWest, as NCWest had no clue on the returned XP rates. But the XP rate does not change what the game is. It's just easier to be spoonfed then complain when someone takes the spoon out of your mouth and tells you that you are a big boy now and that you can feed yourself.

The biggest problem I have seen with "that game" is the lack of beta testing the NA version. Since the game is already bug-fixed in Korea due to their early release, they don't see it necessary to beta test in NA anymore. So some issues fall through the cracks like what was seen in last weeks 3.1 patch. Some switches were not turned on and NCWest had to wait a week before they were allowed to flip them on.

I believe the other game is just as good as CoH and their developers, albeit without any connection to the NA playerbase, are just as dedicated to their product as Paragon is to theirs. But it's also like comparing apples to oranges.

Personally, I feel that the Paragon Staff, coupled with an amazing playerbase, is what sets City of Heroes aside from the rest. While I like the other game and play it just as much as I do CoH, the community and the interaction of the CoH Developers and staff is what every other game should be envious of.

Just a note to the Virtue ERP'ers that use the arena matches for their, um... yeah.

Please check the option to disallow others from entering the match as a spectator. I wanted to check out how some players fair against another. Not watch you use your Demon Summoning MM to whip your "opponent's" Phantom while making comments that would make even Howard Stern blush.

I wish they would bring back the original Paragon Dance Party and have that as the gathering spot to be used as the den of iniquity. But then Pocket D would be completely dead, wouldn't it?

So you made a thread to promote another thread you are going to make about the subject of this thread?

/highfive

I have Hurricane Gloria and Curtis E. Flush on Virtue :P

1.) How does a power's aura visibility affect PVP?

2.) If threads get locked due to necroposting, why not just set the forum to auto-lock anything over a certain age, thereby making Necroposting impossible?

3.) What would happen if a Praetorian Clockwork and a Primal Clockwork that really loved each other... you know... ?

4.) Are all of our characters stuck in an alternate dimension of CoH and we just don't know it?

5.) Bacon Primary* and Waffle Secondary. When's it happening?

6.) When are you going to reveal details on your "secret project?"

7.) Does Zwillinger own hundreds of hats, or just one that he alters every night?

8.) Who bakes the best brownies in the office?

9.) Who's the only one here who knows secret ninja moves from the government?

10.) Toe-may-toe? Toe-mah-toe?

11.) What incarnation of CoH will follow Freedom?

12.) Really?

14.) Has anything ever been left out of CoH due to superstition?

15.) Is the soda machine a Nemesis Plot?

16.) Passport badge. When?

17.) What dev, back in the day, decided the color scheme would be "blue=heroes" and "red=villains?"

18.) Is it true that Base Salvage will be re-introduced around the same time we get a major Base update?

19.) Will we ever see a system to de-level alts that you wish to retire incase you plan to start over again without losing character/badge/etc. progression?

20.) Are there any plans to implement a new "achievement" system so we have something else to collect besides badges, salvage and pets?


PLEASE NOTE: Only Rednames may answer this thread. No players have permission to answer any questions provided.** However, you (said players) have permission to create your own questions in demand for the Rednames.


* Bacon
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If that's the case, I hope they make some kind of announcement to "not use" the XP boosters during the event.

Edit: Did we have XP boosters during the last event? I mean the 20% ones? I can't remember.

The way the NCsoft backend works, it's not possible to create a "one thousand use" serial key? I mean a code that is just one set of characters that has a re-use amount of 1,000?

Even a 50 use key would solve the problem of people not being around to claim an item.

The problem with social network contests/giveaways is that you're not telling people "Hey, casually come to our Twitter or Facebook page. While you're here, pick up a code."

You're telling people, "OMG!OMG!OMG! GET TO OUR PAGE NOW OR ELSE YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OUT OF LUCK!!!!!!!!!"

Zwil, Hit Streak, or whoever else...

Can we get clarification on if the Double XP boosters we've bought in the store will stack with Double XP Weekend to create a "Quad-XP" event?

I didn't read through most of the posts so I don't think anyone has brought it up...

Tyrant, now, may be shown as wanting to rule over Praetoria with "noble" albeit skewed visions of doing more good than harm to the people. Let's not forget that he killed his best friend to keep him from gaining any power of the well.

Do you think that Marcus Cole's first thought was, "Hey, I need to use this power to make the world a better, stronger place," or, "Hey, I need to kill everyone that has a chance of gaining power to match that of my own."

As much as I dislike some stuff that Jack did, I don't think that anything needs to be read into why Tyrant is around and Statesman isn't.

Hey all,

I've loved playing my human-form Warshade for a few years. Now I think it's time to respec my Tri-Form Peacebringer into a Human form. So I come to you all.

I'm looking for Perma-Lightform. Also looking to be able to have room for both sets of Kheldian ATO's (well at least 5 of the 6 parts to each set.) Throw in some purples, Numina's, LOTG's, etc and just make it the most bad-*** Human Form Peacebringer it can be. Spare no cost. I've got enough inf. to take care of it.

I'm not looking for PVP IO's because, well, what's PVP? :P

Hope someone's up to the challenge!

Thanks,
AC

Take directly from the Paragon Market:

It's Crytpic's way of getting back at people for still playing CoH. I believe they send out a signal that gives the popup then once someone clicks it... BLAMMO!™

They plan to do this to every account. FYI.

/conspiracytheory

I don't think that this will affect CoH in any way. If anything, they are trying to cash in on the Asian games before NCKorea releases "Blade and Soul."

Since Aion is still a huge money maker in Korea, I'd say NCKorea is looking to pass off Aion and some of their other games to Nexon so they can focus time and money on Blade and Soul.

There is a DJ Phoenix on your station too or is it the same DJ from TheCape?

I'll throw my character in since I've been waiting for a long time for someone to draw how I envisioned him. He is a human-form Warshade, so he's always got the Penumbral Shield effect going.

Name: Arachnos Commander (Virtue)

You know...

I recently watched the series "Jericho" for the first time. All throughout the series, whenever something ominous was about to begin, they would use the the Kheldian form-transform sound effect.

It's funny because I mainly play a Warshade and watched the series while playing CoH. So everytime I'd be running around, while the show was on, I'd stop in my tracks and rotate the camera view to see what Kheldians were in my area transforming. I didn't realize it till about 2 episodes later that it was actually the show.

I'll be flying in from the US to go to the event in Cologne, Germany on 4th-6th of May. Just wondering if any other CoH'ers from the EU region will be there?