Demetrios Vasilikos

And that scales down all the way to cats to. I could tell you a story about 3 sister cats who each had 5 kittens. the younger sisters didnt really care for playing mommy and weaned thiers pretty fast then moved on to find new territory.

Meanwhile the oldest sister, a pure black pantheress, started nursing the other 10 lonely young kits on top of her own 5. and managed to get them to adulthood only losing 1 kitten from each litter to various accidents like dogs or attacks from other cats.

of those 12 that reached adulthood only 4 are females. All the kittens are long grown now and still wander the nieghborhood frequently coming by to visit thier momma cat who rules from her yard like queen of the entire town.

I and I know no few others in game have long chatted about Boomtown needing a major revamp on par with faultline and maybe combining it with a revamped synapse TF and developing the clockwork kings whole concept alot more.

Maybe and get blue steel to atone then die for his sin that created the clockwork king.

Not to call you a liar, but I dont think your trying to optimize your limited play time if your struggling to even get +1

You can get your tier one alpha running 3 short TFs, that is if 12 shards really seem that rare. I usually use threads for tier 2 alpha since a single WST notice can be converted into 40 easy threads. You can get shard drops from any lvl mob when exemped so run some for fun mid lvl tfs to help lowbie friends, such are packed with kill alls that can be plowed through. you play an hour a day, knocking out optimal content like TFs, Story Arcs, Tips and the like and you will rake in shards while doing other fun things.

Sound impossible? Its not. I have a character who hasnt run a single incarnate trial, has his tier 3 alpha, only left with Destiny to unlock, and tier 2s in the unlocked slots. His entire concept just doesnt fit incarnate as it is implimented so I outside of technically Assissting a fellow hero with his initial unlock arc, he hasnt done anything but convert shards as he finds them to threads, and earn notices every week if the WST is one he is fun for, and hey someday if he does have to be batman aiding the JLA against ol crater face so be it, least he wont be walking in without a plan.

I dont really disagree. However the idea of a 30$ SG name change token still seems more like to breed discontent with players towards the marketing dept then anything else.

Do keep in mind though when they do change an SG name due to violation they do only give a window of 3 days to submit your 3 alternate choices.

that is your view. Mine is much different as I know a number of SG on Virtue alone I put any members I see on ignore rather then risk letting them even on other characters ever into my teams. SGs can and do impact how others react to you even in a game with global handles which isnt new. COXs baby brother has global handles and lets you rename an SG at will clearly because they made sure that was part of the base code. I dont see it as a failing in COX to force you to start a new sg if you want a new group affiliation.

When I founded Crey Global Enterprises so many years ago I knew it was a name I would proudly associate most of my lore based characters with. From Count Alphonse Crey to Invisible Falcon many of my characters since that day came into being first and foremost because of my SG which is more connected with my virtual identity in this game then any singular character.

Its not that I dont get the desire to keep all that prestige and lose what are often silly names. However that is also kind of the long time running joke when it comes to those who sale SGs with huge amounts of prestige pre loaded. Most intentionally make them very silly/generic names as a way to almost punish thier future buyers. Infact it typically seems like if you actually are selling a good or even half way decently named SG with a 6 or more figure prestige bank you can make ALOT more then the typically

" Silly Power Bunny Squad" that is up for sale.

If you dont use lore you dont love the game frankly you hate it and are trying to force it and everyone else playing it to break immersion. Its like meeting someone trying to RP an athiest. It just doesnt work in a world with statesman. not one bit. Such beings would probably if anything increase the strength of all faith based foundations and most would almost certainly seek to aquire such beings to join thier ranks and preach thier causes.

Godmoding REQUIRES a character implying he has control of other players or can easily defeat them just because. Since I never have even hinted at such a type of RP being my thing I find it odd to keep hearing that term thrown at me as I well know what it means and can assure you it requires certain things I never do.

The only reason I even use RP in the OP is so that it can be IGNORED by those who dislike RP to such an extent they may want to be able to just highlight the topic see RP stand out and not even read it. Since every RPer knows no other RPers RP matters to them unless they personally interact I am still baffled by the number of attacks. My arrogence certainly isnt a good reason since long before I started to post every one posting here has committed far more obnoxious posts in thier history.

And again Ill say it, ofcourse your characters are insignificant to strangers when they are completely made up bits of personal fiction. That is one of the BIG reasons for LORE RP, so a total stranger will recognize the name and go oh cool he is into so and so bit of lore, i am to ill go walk up and caht about some part of it I love to discuss.

That doesnt mean your character wont become recognized by my own character in time, but it means there is alot more time spent on just figuring out if there is even a reason for the characters to bother interacting.

For example I am not going to want to run with someone who tries to ignore the whole zeus and the greek gods really existed aspect to insist thier character is the great wizard who created the shadow shard and trapped the rularuu and banished the pantheon instead of Tielekku. Which I encounter at least one wizard type cahracter a day in D with almost that exact bio.

So who is worse a made up Im the guy who trapped the rul and bound the BP, or a guy choosing to portray a reckless immortal wizard who spends most of his time captured or hiding out in dusty libraries researching things who happens to be part of the game worlds lore in minor but fun ways?

Still love that one I admit. Im still in the right though.

You seem to confuse Lore RP with my RP. All I ever offered in the Op was a short story using characters who actually exist within the game world, the fact I portray one on my server is 2ndary. That people choose to focus on it is thier choice. The fact they spew ignorance, which is what it is when they say I am pushing my own story on everyone rather then just sharing it as another possible way to view it.

Ive since even seen another suggestion using virtually the same story I give, just with the bigger main stream names like Numina and Infernal being the ones involved. Thats fine to I never said it isnt an equally valid view anywhere. What I did say was lore RP was my rp choice, and encourage others to embrace it as it creates a much smoother running RP world.

Let me put it this way Id rather have each player on the server embracing the role of various lore based names and concepts, then the endless string of super man or kryptonian knock offs who people frequently try to RP quite seriously. id rather have someone being Montague rather then someone make another " I am the best wizard ever from the best wizard family ever" running around.

When you try and make a character fit a predefined bit of lore it helps keep some order. sure one person might get to be Hero One, while another is percy. Since I see people often choose to RP very young and inexperianced characters like him id love to see a skilled RPer who has affection for him take up the role, and see what kind of insights he has into developing him as time goes on.

But if you really want to keep telling yourself that this all started with me trying to tell others HOW THEY HAVE TO PLAY OR THAT WHAT I SAID WAS THE END ALL BE ALL, then you are very much mistaken.

And nothing will come of it bud, hate to tell you. Now for a simple way for you to test it yourself instead of coming here and posting your ignorance. Find a name in lore like Oh i dont know Cadao Kestrel, he is one I always thought worthy of being turned into a character.

Make that character yourself, then send a petition asking if there is anything wrong with your name, since its about yourself they are free to respond and right quick typicaly within 3 days by my experiance. Heck if your really wondering even do a work around to see if that flies like swapping the L with an upper case i. then you can know firsthand rather then harrass me mkay bud.

You seem to not even grasp the discussion. this isnt about me trying to enforce my RP on anyone at all. Never was, never will be.

Its just about people taking offense to one paticular idea put forth, then making personal attacks. Thats it. People spewing ignorance and hate and admitting to it and thinking it appropriate.

As far as I am concerned Ive won the war by converting a single player who actually bothered to come meet my character in game and once working through the initial animosity he now has made his own character Statesman Beyond which I applaud.

You ask ina perfectly civil tone and I am happy to answer. Simply put I see it as god moding to make a character and call them immortal just because you want to be an immortal. One part to the story of Berks creation is that one day I encountered 3 very poorly concieved,written, and portrayed highlander esque immortals. totally different players, in different groups I ran or just happened to see around places like the talos WW.

As a big highlander fan I was initially curious to chat with fellow fans and discuss how they had adapted it to the coxverse, since obviously even in our game world having 10s of thousands of immortals running around head hunting would be abit nuts. Each of them more or less had gone with the I am the one and only immortal left attitude, effectly a connor at the end of 1 type view of thier power and ability. In other words a total god mode character concept. Only one was even 50 at the time. all had very ineffective and sloppy builds. One was a BS/Regen, i run a very well made one of those and even offered advice on how to make thier build both more effective and more in line with the ideas portrayed in the film since that seemed thier main focus. However it was clear in my dealings with each they where the kind who made an immortal to pretend to be the ONLY IMMORTAL.

It was this that got me thinking, well what immortals are there in cox. Not really alot I can tell you that. One however that popped up immediatly when I ran a search for Immortals in Paragon City on google was a link right to Pwiki and a nemesis story arc where we find the humble bentley berkeley has been captured and in need of abit of aid from some young heroes.

I decided then and there, and perhaps with no small amount of ego, that I could embrace a proper lore driven immortal and portray it without the oh I am the immortal one who is all knowing and powerful tude that it seemed my fellow fans of immortal based fiction seemed to lack restraint when being.

In otherwords the only way I would dare ever to call a character I played an immortal( an instant step on the path of godmode) unless he is one I take directly from lore, and one I felt is both obcure yet interesting enough to deserve at least one fan doing all he can to raise his standing in the view of the game world.

Of that I very least am suceeding in as more read these threads and hear the name of Bentley Berkeley. Its never been about me, its about him.

Pardon I should have said meaningless to random folk who dont know you yet. Its the one part of this threads OP that is right on, if someone doesnt know you, and your bio doesnt catch them quick they likely wont keep reading, sometimes, infact oft times for me it is the name and or costume of a character that first draws my interest and I suspect that is not untrue of many others.

As for the choice to embrace a character drawn from lore. For Bentley Berkeley in example. calling him a signature character actually makes me feel like I am doing my role well, because two or 3 years back when he was still a fresh character, do you know the typical response when i mentioned he was drawn from game lore?

"There is an immortal wizard in cox lore?" Who is Bentley Berkeley? Where is he at in game?

Those are the main 3, still encounter them fairly often, which makes someone calling him a signature character, a term specifically applying only to dev and admin run characters who very much are off limits as I have explained in a number of my recent posts in threads.

Even the name Marcus Cole was one I never have actually used in play just amde a toon and shelved him a long time back, it was mostly a lark at the time to see if the name was even an option. Back then it never seemed like there could be a day when Jack the Tyrant-State and his reign over us would come to an end.

When Statesman is finally removed, it wont be any desire to portray his character that prompts me to make an active character using the name, no it will be the goal of creating a new marcus from another earth hell bent on saving this one his alter self has so thoroughly failed to look after. It will be to revel in the immerssion as I build a toon who is soley focussed on defeating a single specific AV ( not like soloing tyrant was ever hard even in the old days) The name, the face might have been seen and known before, but this game deserves a better class of character and if I have to I will make them myself and set an example for all.

Thankfully I dont. Just last night I ran into Hero 2 at the club, nice young lady. she was chilling by ms. lib and we chatted a few minutes about that golden age of the dawn patrol when Sir Alistair Sutton formed the group in 1923. We discussed what ever happened to that old soldier.( I myself like to imagine like captain america he got frozen somewhere during WWII)

But most interestly of all was an encounter with someone who apparently after reading this thread felt deputized by mob rule to come cyber stalk and harrass me while I was RPing with **** in the D. At first I was just gonna ignore him, especially after the needless public insults calling me all sorts of lovely remarks like a pedophile i assume because at the moment I was RPing with a group that included a 13 year old robot making nerd girl.

That by the way is the kind of behavior that people embrace when mob mentality takes hold of an otherwise rational mind.

You see eventually we finished with the egocentric posturing and started to actually talk. He came to understand that I really wasnt some god moder despite all the slander here to the contrary.

All it took was my examining his own character and how it can just as easily in the eyes of another be seen as a god mode, or a cheap knock off of a tv/movie/comic character. That just having his own name which again imo wasnt anything unqiue nor even very catching to the eye didnt make it his character in itself.

Specifically it took em 2 seconds reading his bio to make the comparison that he could be seen as a cheap harry dresden knock off, not entirely fair, but funny enough he actually replied with that indeed dresden had been the primary inspiration.

I then went on to explain how it was especially obvious knock offs, which to me often are more obvious then apparently to others, are among the most annoying and least inspiring kinds of so called original characters to RP with. I myself on **** also embrace abit of dresden when I go all occult detective mood so I do understand the desire to want to portray such entertaining characters.

And that is pretty much my point, I at least choose a character role and step into it to the best of my ability based on my love of this game and a desire to enriche the world by doing my own small part to expand it.

You call **** a signature character but he is ONLY seen in 2 virtually forgotton story arcs that are so well done and written they wont ever need any time wasted on a revamp and thus never see a new spot light shown down upon them. He is only lightly mentioned in Midnighter lore as one of the founders but he is not The Founder, and far from the biggest name in thier groups lore.

That is exactly what drew me to Bentley Berkeley to begin with, he is so unknown, so obscure that many people I meet in game rarely have a clue he is other then my own character until I explain where his character is drawn from. I rather love it when i get any tell even a confused arent you that npc in that one quest? I go hm have we met? sorry Im a time traveler and sometimes it gets abit wibbly wobbly. Yeah I toss in some doc who for ol **** to its great fun. i then explain to them all the same rules I have shared here time and again about what kinds of names from lore are OK and the need to be very clear with other players your just one of them and not something more.

Spoken like the ignorant fool you clearly are. Ive had him since YEAR ONE. He has ecountered no few admin and GMs in that time at events including taking him to every official costume contest( never won but never claimed I was a costume design artist did I?) Feel free to log onto virtue and file a report about it. I am sure a few have tried in thier day.

I am also sure I mentioned how EVERYONE of my lore based characters I self reported the day I made them, and exchanged emails with admin over several days to make sure I was in full accord with the rules, and frequently recieved personal compliments from them over my use of lore.

the rest is more general as I am tired of multi posting. Ill try and catch all of you that I can.

Never anywhere have I ever EVER said what I wrote in the OP was to be seen as HOW IT HAD TO PLAY OUT! it like many other threads and posts atm was simply an offering on how using in game lore, including the new controversial ressurection ritual, a way to bring back marcus cole, THe Man, not the meta god.

I have said many times I know I am not the Only Bentley Berkeley others on other servers must of had some similar desire to take on the role. I would hate them no more then I hope adam west would hate on micheal keaton.

I never EVER use spell check, nor edit my posts, I have no insecurities and no need to play grammar cop to others posts nor my own. i figure I am as coherent as a person with english as a second language which is good enough to me. I frankly assume those who choose that route to attack someone has little real quality in thier nature to be honest.

On the subject of a controversial name like say Alphonse Crey or even my infamously mentioned Marcus Cole who I am not using yet, its just a name I have shelved for a long time, never even imagined the day would come that all the pieces would fall into place to make him potentially safe to use. But when they took him off the list of Dev characters he actually became fair game, still I wait out of respect for those who do love him to wait until all NPCs of states are removed from the game world.

However its funny you assume I MUST BE intent on using it to only portray OUR Primal Earth Marcus Cole. You know I myself have long thought marcus cole might be special aside from the whole well of furies. that maybe he is important on a multi versal scale, I long ago theorized he was something like The One and could tap into the shared power of his alternate selfs. The TF i rather loathe with Riechsman actually made me think I might be somewhat close to home with the way he is drawing upon his alterante self incarnates.

Did it ever even occur to anyone in thier haste to attack me so needlessly that perhaps I wanted to use the name to portray a completely different marcus cole? Maybe one from a completely unimagined earth, and with a new twist on his role in the cosmic scheme of things. Maybe a man who is nothing more then human until he taps into his alternate selfs. a perfect foil to a monster like tyrant, without being the meta gawd that was statesman. I cant imagine I am at all new or special in typically picking in game AVs and villain troups as personal foes for various characters. Is it so wrong to make a rival to Tyrant? I personally hated every variant of jacks ego and would happily play his Id bent on assassinating his ego and super ego.

Nor can I imagine many here really put all the blame for my vehemence on me considering the level of actual harrassment that has been going on here. and yes wheather some of you like to admit it or not you all chose to be uncivil first. My comment wowtard was said in an indirect fashion, if one chose to take it directed at them, that was thier choice.

Id love to hear what doesnt for waht reason.

It doesnt work because no matter what you want, in the eyes of the game your a living breathing human being with a 5% chance your blood line carries ancient MU traces? That even if its not inherently magical its well documented its one of the things infernals value in the making of pacts?

That they clearly outline the steps, and which one to improvise on? That there is really only one logical choice in that step? That now that your on this thread you no longer can ever get the debuff again?