Electric-Knight

Love is real
Real is love
Love is feeling
Feeling love
Love is wanting
To be loved

Love is touch
Touch is love
Love is reaching
Reaching love
Love is asking
To be loved

Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
We can be

Love is free
Free is love
Love is living
Living love
Love is needing
To be loved

- John Lennon

AHAR!!!!

I always wanted to try and make a pirate ship in the base editor... I wonder if anyone has (I'd bet on it)...

If I am around, I'll join in on the TLAPD fun!

Yes to the above, haha.
And, yeah, it was great to hear people (outsiders, for the most part too) talking about the truth of City of Heroes' great accomplishments.
It's not a perfect piece, but it was great to hear people detailing some of the things that truly make City Of Heroes amazingly special and beloved.

Arcanaville, I've not really taken much notice of you before, other than you seeming to be a nice, quiet, forum-goer (and maybe occasionally saying something well)... But you're really scoring points with this thread!

LOL!
Apparently, I talk a lot!!

I don't want to talk about... him.


For years and years (and years and years and a few extra months and days added in), I've dreamed of a Cannonball-Run-like game, so it is just extra funny that this was your first offering in that list.

Ever since I was a little kid, playing video games, I used to dream of games that didn't have these obvious and confining boundaries. Don't trifle me with your silly, mindless objectives and your narrow paths... if I want my car to go on the grass in Pole Position... I should be able to make it so! Maybe I want to experience driving through the stands and run over that guy who yelled that my car looked stupid.

And Cannonball Run was always a great model for what I dreamed for in a game...

• Customization - Your own selection and customization of cars, outfits/disguises...
• Openness/Exploration - You're traveling cross country... and you won't want to follow one straight path... and it's not always in the same country anyway... That's a lot of openness! Roads? Who needs roads? I have a Japanese supercomputer car with jet engines!!!!!
• High Speed - This needs no explanation.
• Variety - Beyond the variety of character and vehicle customization, we have complete environment and game variety...
  • Working on your car and disguises and teams before the race (this portion includes a lot of variety of its own - crafting, socializing, fighting, stealing, racing, making your one phone call)
  • Driving high speeds, avoiding police, racing and competing against your rivals
  • Bar fights, street fights, fight fights
  • Side-betting
  • Multi-player shared vehicles!! Take turns driving or interacting with your team inside your vehicle (and with police, competitors and rivals outside of your vehicle)
  • CB communications throughout (never know when you might need a friendly truck driver)

Plus the optional Doctor experience...
Don't tell me about the Doctor Tutorial... I don't ever want to know.

I like this!!
Hopefully I'll be there in time!

*kicks the Arcanaville to get it working it again*


Hahaha, oh man... I wasn't expecting that! Thank you!

Seriously... I would absolutely play a Cannonball Run MMORPG!!!
Yes, please (not just to have Matt as Captain Chaos).

Out of the game... I am running around like mad. For years and years now, I've been wearing too many hats... Sometimes I knock them all off and then forget which one I was going to put back on.

Back to CoH... I think this aspect of the game and it being shut down, it reminds me of my worst offenses to my own life... All that stuff you still didn't do or didn't finish... and now it's gone, mate. Good job, you blew it.

I can feel Yoda glaring through me as he says, "This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph."

Beyond all of my real life struggles with trying to create and keep things going and get things to better places... Then there are so many things I want to do with City Of Heroes and for the City Of Heroes community.
My unfinished CoH movies... The new movie ideas I wish to make, since the announcement... Helping the game and Paragon Studios to survive... Continuing to try to supply humor and good nature around here (that's the only thing I really ever felt I could contribute around here!)... PLAYING... All the TFs, trials and achievements I didn't get around to yet...

This thread is pretty pointless and I don't usually start threads, but hey... I'm looking at all of my hats, knocked to the floor, and trying to figure out which one I need to wear for the next few hours... but my mind is really focusing on the day when all of these hats helped me to get all those things done... but I am constantly reminded... that day may never come.

Nice work, hero!!!

The opening thesis and focus on the true greatness of this game and the developers is great.
Haven't finished listening yet, but I like and appreciate, this one.

That looks to be Thai! (A beautiful written language too, if I may say)

Hmm, my brother actually moved to Thailand about three years ago and speaks fluently... I'll send this his way.

I got some levels on some alts in the AE by fighting hordes and hordes of Rikti (Got invited to one of those Mitos missions once...
but never did that again, that was lame... hordes of Rikti for tons of xp though? Yeah, I did that and enjoyed it... a lot).

Yeah, I seriously love it!!

A parade of our heroes, marching the streets of Paragon City.

(I'm not against the Statesman thing, but yeah, it may be better without it. I'm game either way though)

I think that a parade is a fantastic idea!
With or without the Statesman tribute costume, honestly.
Regardless, I love the idea of having it move. It could get clumsy, it could get a little weird with switching zones and all the many instances, if we have a turnout like before... but... the idea is absolutely worth exploring.

So, what problems might exist and what can we do about them and how can we work with it all to make it awesome?

Potential negatives:

• lagging movement; difficult to keep in sync for a parade march (might not be a big deal. I do suggest /walk-ing)
• Zoning - would that many people moving into new zones cause server problems? This, I don't know... maybe we stagger zoning... so, if we keep orderly formations, we zone in small groups to try and avoid overloading the server with so many reloads at once.
• Multiple Instances - Let's say we have 33 Atlas Parks again (woohoo). Would it be a chaotic mess for people if they don't all stay together through the different zones/instances? I have a few thoughts about this... Sticking to your Instance Number for each and every zone could be good, but that would require some serious coordination in order to open up enough zones for the higher numbered zones... the only way to pull that off would be to let AP1 go first, into SC1, then AP2 into SC2 and so on... until the hypothetical SC33 opens up due to all the others being filled, and AP33 then can go into SC33. And, again, going in waves from within each zone.

Anyway, all of the above may very well be drastically over-thinking it.
I think it could be great just as a big messy moving rally, but I figured I'd just type my immediate thoughts.




I like this idea.

I really like both of the two submissions by Airhead and gec72. Seriously, you captured the AP33 aspect very well. Funny how you both used the Atlas statue, great idea!

Zekiran... your friend's design is awesome. So good, it makes me wonder... might that be an excellent patch/emblem for the SaveCoH instead of AP33?

Perhaps replacing the "Atlas Park 33" with the Save CoH or something more universal/obvious to the cause might be a great things for us. Obviously, that's something for the group to decide and all, but it really struck me as being a good candidate for that.

Not sure what it should say...