Dante

So including myself, I count four EU accounts here all locked out by the same bug. Sounds like an issue with EU accounts then.

I'm particularly annoyed as I didn't have this problem until I followed the 'official' advice to change my password so I could log into the forums. Now I can access the forums fine but I'm locked out of the actual game.

I'm hoping that it can be resolved soon so I can enjoy this so called headstart over the weekend but I'm not holding my breath.

We only interacted briefly, mostly on Dr Who threads where for a change, I got to see the shows before the US. I had always figured that with the nuking of the CH/VC forum, he'd given up posting.

However, I always enjoyed his threads, his love of the Whoniverse and his appreciation of certain redheads.

Travel safely Lord of Time.

Changed my game password.

Now able to log into forum.

Cannot log into game at all.

Not happy.

I'm in hell with this.

Last night I could log into the game but not the forums. So I changed my password.

Then I couldn't get into either of them. Finally I was able to log into the forums but now, I can't get into the game at all. I either get:

The username or password you have supplied is incorrect or

You must complete your Username and Password before logging in.


So I'm not particularly happy right now. With this issue and the added downtimes smack bang in the middle of EU peak times, my 'official headstart' has lasted approximately three hours in total.

We need pictures! The all furniture costume contest and the winning costume entry... a small hunkered down thing that appeared to be... having trouble with his undercarriage... urk.

I'm staying quiet this time.

I learnt my lesson last year.

I made my Dark/Kinetics Corruptor with a Vampire/Leech theme to him. Not only is Siphon Life up very regularly, with a Kin, I can siphon speed, health, endurance and damage.

Not so hot solo but quite powerful on a team. My other vampire is Dark Melee/WP but you said you were only after Blasters and Corrs for now.

EDIT: Dammit! Ninja-ed!

From the Wiki:

Sometimes I wish I knew less about Ouroboros than I do.

Many moons ago, just before Ouroboros were about to be introduced, I overheard some very interesting information about them while at a player meet from someone who shall remain nameless. But it was about as close to an official source as I could get. What I heard though, sounded absolutely awesome which is why I’ve been looking forward to this storyline for so long.


*SPOILERS INBOUND*

From what I was told, Nemesis is not responsible for the Battalion invading but he is responsible for crippling humanity just when it needed to be at its strongest. Because he began the dimension jumping (yes, he did supply all that Superadine) and then caused the Rikti war, he left the world decimated and lacking in sufficient metahumans to be able to repel the Battalion’s invasion forces. With humanity crippled, he laid elaborate plans to continually clone himself until a time when time travel was invented. He could then utilise that to travel back to now and make sure we were prepared or even stop the invasion from happening altogether. This involved setting up Ouroboros and recruiting his fellow Menders, even if they did come from very questionable sources (I’m looking directly at Mender Tesseract here, watch her, she’s dangerous).


Now what I don’t know is how this now fits in with the Incarnate and Praetorian content. To me, they feel shoehorned in, as if the set up of Ouroboros fed directly into the endgame of fighting the Battalion but then Going Rogue happened and we took a diversion into Goatee Paragon. What I knew back then also used the Invention system to fight the Battalion, an idea that seems to have crashed and burnt so I’d imagine the story has been reworked too.

As for who the Letter Writer is, I think it’s likely to have changed a number of times over the past ten issues depending on how the story was being written at the time and who was writing it. If I had to hedge a guess, I’d go for the Dream Doctor simply because it seems to fit his style. Plus there is a link between time/memory/psychic plane that works for me. Unfortunately, given how canon has been treated recently, I’m expecting it to be something lame like Nemesis (yet again) or even worse, ourselves from the future. I’d love it to be something incredibly left field, such as Emperor Cole or Lord Recluse or even the Hamidon himself but I’m not holding out much hope. Likewise with travelling to the Rikti homeworld, even though it would be exceptionally cool.

Despite the facepalm worthy moments we’ve had with the plot so far (I really, really hate having my character written for me), I’m looking forward to seeing it resolved, even if it does mean trusting Tesseract given that she’s *MMmmmmppph!!!* (Sounds of hand clamped over mouth and struggling)

I've only had one name change in my time here and that was my global. And yes, I was very sad to lose it. Even now I still look at it in chat and glare (poor choice on my part, I know). It's still probably the most depressing thing that's happened to me in game since I started playing here.

I think I'd do almost anything to get another chance to change it even if it means finally moving to something completely different. Which'd be a shame given it's how pretty much everyone knows me across the internet, MSN etc.

Welcome back Obsidius and congratulations on your imminent fatherhood.

It really is the best adventure ever. CoH lets me be a hero on the internet but being a dad lets me be a hero in real life. Best of luck to you.

Well that was nice. I kind of enjoyed being in the majority for a week, it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. Oh well.

These are an improvement but a minor one at best. The minions seem dull compared to their robed predecessors, the thorn motif is waaaaaaay overdone and the Boss classes remind me of Christmas trees. All the Death Mage needs is a gold star on top of his hat.

Still, kudos to the Devs for listening to the complaints, the community mods for collating the feedback and all involved for winning most of the forums back. Well done.

Yeah, that was a tad rude but I can sympathise.

I have an RP character who happens to be an SS/Fire Brute (created in all innocence I assure you, long before they became FotM) and yes, I've taken him to level 50. Every time I get a tell from a random stranger, 99% of the time there's some assumption in their message that a) I'm a farmer, b) I'm going to PL them or c) I have oodles of inf to throw in their general direction.*

I try to reply politely to them but the temptation to reply "NO! I'm not going to PL you!" is ever present. But then those kind of assumptions reflect poorly on me really so I try to restrain myself.




*The answers to the above: a) Nope, I find it dull, b) No and c) Much, much less than you'd expect for a six year veteran.

I'd find the suggested method a bit tacky but still better than the alternative that was toyed with years ago, namely selling advertising space in game. Out of game, I'm used to ignoring the adverts of evil, corrupt corporations. In game, I only want to see them when I'm about to take them down.

Sad news indeed. Bubba Smith and Andre the Giant helped to lodge the 'gentle giant' archetype in my brain as a kid through their performances.

Another hero from my childhood passes on. I must be getting old.