Dr_MechanoEU

My bios range from the lengthy to the short.

For example my Goo character (Gelatinous Ruse) has this as it's bio.

Ok now this isn't a rant about characters who claim to be godlike and solve the worlds ills in one swoop of their mighty hand but more characters who happen to be Gods.

How does one play this without coming across as well...Godmoding.

I only have one character who could be considered Godlike and...well they're a throwaway character.

CatManFu has no backstory beyond that which was given to it by other people. Mainly that it randomly turns up in the most horrible, clashing, garish outfit known to mankind (note this isn't just hitting the random button, I go out of my way to make the outfit horrible) and makes comments about 'being fashionable' and gives horrible, horrible fashion advice to other people.

Some believe it to be the personification of bad fashion, others consider it to be an Eldritch abomination playing at trying to be a superhero but completely not grasping the concept at all. Sometimes its choice of outfit is so bad, that the normal human brain actually blinkers it from existence, Robots of course just prefer to shut off their optics...which is sensible.

Just like to say hello and welcome to Union as well.

My two main characters are Dr Mechano (a well known crackpot mad scientist who makes his living selling bioengineered super being slaves to rich people and villainous organisations as long as they pay up...oh and making walking toasters...for toast on the go) and Amy Zon (Prototype of above mad scientist hero who is an eight foot tall super strong, invulnerable heroic catgirl based around Mountain Lion DNA as opposed to Domesticated Feline DNA as most science created Catgirls are).

Sadly due to the same reasons as Techbot (erratic working hours), I'm not online as much as I use to be.

If you ever need someone to help out villainside just give a shoutout in Union Roleplayers and with a lot of energon (and a little luck) I'll be around to help out.

Also even with IOs the RMTers eventually gave up when they realised that, prior to the F2P model, there simply wasn't the demand for the time and cost invested because, unlike other MMOs, if you're lucky you can make a huge amount of influence from 1 single purple IO drop, usually enough to outfit a character in a substantial amount of non-purple IOs. Also, unlike other MMOs, where suppliers closely fight over 'their niche' on a server and will refuse to tell anyone else how they've made so much money in the Auction House, here people like Catwhoorg were giving out guides on how to become rich.

They got laughed off of servers because people were like "ooh 100 million...whatever, I just made that selling 1 IO".

It was quite funny on the EU servers seeing the prices slowly get more and more desperate in the emails/tells because nobody was buying, it started out as 100 million for $50, then it double to 200 million, then 300 million, then they halved the cost, then again until eventually they were basically trying to give inf away for next to nothing and still nobody was interested.

The EU servers were completely abandoned by RMTers about a year before they eventually gave up US side, less players and obviously you had to have an account then to spam Emails and such, so it was costing them a paid for account every time they got banned.

Heck with the alignment system about 2 hours play (if you just blitz the missions for the complete) over 4 days nets you a very expensive non-purple set IO like Luck of the Gambler:+Recharge.

However, F2P people don't get access to that unless they buy it, hell they don't get access to the Auction House unless they pay for it.

As mentioned though F2P sadly brings in this kind of scum because it costs them nothing and the F2P peeps don't have access to the easy money generators that are the Alignment system or even the IO system itself.

The problem is the 'new' faces (the Victorian ones) land the wrong side of the Uncanny Valley as do the faces in both of our other MMOs, where they try to be stylised but also try to be realistic.

the WoW style works because it is a cartoony style so completely skips over the Uncanny Valley problem and CoH does this as well. I much prefer the look of characters in CoH than I do with our superheroic competition.

Also keep in mind that WoW has had a huge texture and engine overhaul with their latest expansion (the engine overhaul came with the previous one actually). Also mages can't do kicks, hence why they get robes and we don't.

First of all, welcome to the game and welcome to the forums.

You'd be most welcome on Union to roleplay as well since it's the Unofficial EU roleplay server, sadly I don't think the times would match up due to the EU/US timezones.

Starting out at low level, the attacks are fairly slow, as you mentioned the lack of an auto-attack aka 'white damage' prelevant in other MMOs makes it feel slower at low level. Combat gets faster and faster as you gain more attacks until you've established your attack chain where your constantly hitting buttons, which you are in most other MMOs.

However in addition to that, CoH has something that most MMOs don't have, the ability to enhance the recharge of those powers to an almost absurd degree. Buzzsaw builds or Perma-Phantom Army require something along the lines of 160-200% recharge enhancement (though Invention sets) but a fully kitted out Buzzsaw Dark Melee brute or Scrapper is something to behold.

At lower levels, the attack chains are very sluggish, especially if you go the route most build makers suggest in skipping your tier 1 attacks (fast but light hitting, useless at low levels, not so at high levels) for the tier 2 attacks (moderate recharge with moderate damage) which are useful at high levels.

Some, of course, never get out of being sluggish, trading slow hitting for larger damage (Broadsword, Warmace, Battle axe mainly).

You are correct that there is no 'facing', if you are in range and fire off an attack, the character will automatically spin in place and aim at mob to fire off the attack.

As JB mentioned, you're using Training Enhancements, to be fair, most veteran players never even bother with slotting them, once you hit level 12 and Dual Origin Enhancements open up, then you'll see a noticable difference and at level 22 with Single Origin enhancements you'll notice a huge difference, especially if you slot your attacks with 1 accuracy and 3 damage Single Origin enhancements. That boosts the power with an additional 95% damage, almost doubling what it would do normally (obvious statement is obvious I know).

Example: Unslotted Frostbreath at level 50 is 87 damage, with three damage SOs at an even level it becomes 170 damage.

Agreed.

Was a good, fair review, the community recieved praise which was nice.

Wow didn't realise that CoH was really harsh on free 2 play people and as posted on his video I still find the chat restrictions off putting.

Just started watching MILP and one thing got me.

There's a scene where one of sideline ponies goes:
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
and the other replies
"I think so but why do they call it a flea market if it doesn't sell fleas?"

That gave me pause, a Pinky and the Brain reference, really? That wasn't expected, even after seeing the Benny Hill chase scene.

Well apparently they're big moving castles with massive hammers:

As I said, we placed the Modern Conan movie firmly in the 'it's worth a rental' section, it is enjoyable but dumb, not truly a bad film but not truly a good film either, just enjoyable.

However the 1981 version was just better all round, better acting, better casting, better music, better non-CGI setpieces which gives the film a weight in reality.

Then why on earth does it censor the word.

Hmm this may have been from back when I first started playing the game since I've have the autocensor turned off ever since.

Judging by the fact that both Glacia and Infernia are contacts 5 and 7 for the Who Will Die story arc I think we can safely guess who is going to replace Statesman. After all, which OTHER Super Strength/Invulnerability Incarnate is there.

Though I'm hoping he claims back his sword he told a certain lady to 'hold onto' and thus becoming a Broadsword/Invunlerability Incarnate.