Ellis

Well, I did say I was elitist

For me, mainly a question of RP styles and clashes. Kind of like putting Keanu Reeves in a film version of a Shakespearean play. (Oh wait, they did that..)

Yah. I use the brackets for OOC (although mine is a bind that looks like ((OOC) so I don't have to continually add a ) to all my OOC chat. I'm not SO heavy that I don't OOC chat at all; no, I tend to be very much a peanut gallery. That's why I don't think of myself as "lite", and I also keep Ye Olde MUSH RP conventions. Like posing an attempt and letting the other player pose a reaction, or waiting to see the RP in a scene that's happening prior to posing my entrance.

I also tend to be elitist, liking a decent amount of punctuation in poses and no use of emoticons in an IC pose. That kinda thing.

RL is kind of overbusy right now, but I hope to see folks in game. I like the idea of KR's AE building. You need some amount of brainpower to get there and the zone is underappreciated.

I also tend to "go with the moment" RP-wise, although I would not call myself RP Lite. To me, the huger, complicated storylines, while fine in tabletop RPGing, can become a nightmare online. Schedules don't match, drama explosions can happen. I don't make any huge over-arcing ideas for my characters; I let their day to day experiences in-game shape them.

That said, the Mission Architect is way cool for this kind of RP. You can make an arc to run with folks, RP through it as you like, and it's all contained.

The downside to our style of RP is: we don't tend to hang at Pocket D. We're RPing our characters inside missions and just outside the door of the missions (or sometimes in the AE waiting room). So, we don't tend to centralize and find each other.

Maybe we should declare one of the Mission Architect buildings as the Unofficial RP one, so all of us have a better chance of meeting up with each other?

I've been lucky and had very good, high quality, story-based static RP teams from CoH Beta up until now. There's only a few of us that have been here since the start, but a few new folks were added here and there. But on the whole, I'd say smaller, static RP teams been successful for me.

It's very hard to coordinate, especially as players go through life changes (going to school, new job, marriage, babies etc).

The NA on the end of my name is annoying, but not that high priority. (I'd rather they fix the password and security issue pronto).

But seeing as how I was the first Ellis, either I'd like it back or the ability to create an Ellis-based handle of my choosing. Thanks for assuring us it will be addressed.

I not only tanked the STF on an invuln/ss, I did it when not level 50. It was not a Master run, though. For better survival, Tough and Weave, as others have said. If you have a sonic bubbler, so much the better.

The only thing ever useless in City of Heroes/Villains is the player, IMO. A good player will be able to do any of the content in the game, regardless of archetype, build or enhancements.

Congrats on your tanking.

EDIT: I believe the repairmen are currently bugged.

Avatars whose URLs had tildes in them ( ~) such as mine did are gone.

Now I am Ellis_NA. I am Not Available. Not Amenable. Never Astronomical. Nowhere Around.

I wonder if I should just alter my forum name, then.. Like to Original Ellis or something.

The new forums are a tad chunky and take some getting used to, and I've decided to not worry about losing the name I've had since the Way Old Boards with Aura. In fact, I'm going to be TS Garp with them and the NA changes based on my mood: I am Nearly Alright.

However put me on the list of folks who think having the ONLY forum login also be your game login is very insecure. Especially when the forums are NOT secure, they are http:.

This is a wonderful way for all of us to wind up with hacked accounts. Don't think it can happen?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/08...tabase-hacked/

Some players of SL who were using the same passwords on other sites wound up with their other stuff hacked.. like banks and eBay accounts.

Ah, I see Ascendant has my trouble. I lost Eh Steve, but maybe should do something new. I have also decided my NA is not "north america" but "Not Airborne."

No, the thread's not about text combat or fighting. The original post was about RP frustrations when someone gets OOCly upset at another player for IC actions. The example given was "I put a spider on your shoulder."

That was why I made the comment about changing poses to say "I attempt to put a spider on your shoulder." It's a very minor change, but makes a large difference in the reaction options. See, while you could pose "I dodged" or "I'm a ghost" after "I put a..", it's still more courteous in my mind to just say "attempt", especially when RPing with someone for the first time.

I don't know what to do about someone who, rather than have their character react to an IC pose, decides to OOCly react and send a /tell to the other player expressing their unhappiness. IMO, if that's how the RP between folks is going, it's just better to avoid RPing with that/those folks.

As far as actual RP fighting, I just take them into the arena. I don't get many takers on this.

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I think Hydrophidian's review was a very good example of negative criticism delivered graciously and with good feeling.

Eco.

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I second or third this. Hydrophinian wrote a very good critique.

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I definitely agree with you about communication, though it seems kind of strange to me that anyone would even need that explained to them.

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The same thing applies to why a can of spray cheese has to have instructions like "Do not spray cheese into eyes."

Common sense (and RP Sense) is far from common.

Go to your friends panel and scroll down the various channels. It should show you who's on that channel. Anyone with a star is a Op (or Moderator).

I love the Smurch post (and might want to cross-post it), and decided to appropriate the Beatles here.

And in the end
The RP you take
is equal to the RP
you make.

Nobody's mentioned that the person the OP RP'd with has godmoded them.

My rule of thumb is I never ever pose the result of an action on another player character. I was taught to pose the attempt and let the other player pose the result.

An example. Instead of "Character X puts a spider on character Y's shoulder", that should have been "Character X reaches out, attempting to place a spider on Character Y's shoulder."

The second thing in the original post leads me to believe there's a problem on someone's end with the IC/OOC wall. Where a player gets OOCly upset at something that happens ICly. I avoid players who do that.

So, no, I don't have the same "RP Frustrations", since I tend to avoid Godmoders and people who can't separate IC from OOC. I wish you luck in finding a better quality of folk to RP with.

Congrats!! She's so cute and little!

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And this is why, in my opinion, MA will ultimately be nothing more than a PLing tool. Some people really need to take a step back and think about what CoH is. It's a game first and foremost so, the focus for each individual player is what is fun for them and them alone.

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I agree with most of what this poster said, except for MA being a PLing tool primarily. That's just how many players are using it. For me, and my friends, the MA remains, first and foremost, a way to make stories for just friends to play.

That's what Blight was. Witch Engine made it when the MA launched, sent a message to all of us in the SG, saying "You guys might like this one!" He made it for us, primarily.

IMO, the ratings system as it is happens to be the worst thing about the MA.

Witch Engine never advertised the arc and never asked the forums for the critiques. He only asked his friends. So just keep that in mind when you're deconstructing his work as if you're some famous literary or film critic, and then posting personal attacks on him.

(All "you" are a generalized you, not directed at the poster I quoted.))

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It couldn't have developed a leak upon arrival?

It could have but no competent HAZMAT worker would make that assumption. They'd assume the worst because they'd have to.



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You're talking about a game in which we defuse bombs by shooting them with powers (including fire and electricity), dispose of dangerous chemicals by shooting them with powers, and save the Hydra from the Rikti by.. shooting them with powers.

The game in which all the buildings fail both OSHA and Accessability standards.

I think Paragon City's HAZMAT team is about as reliable as Azuria's vault.

McDonalds isn't the pinnacle of hamburgers, but a lot of folks eat there.

I'd say don't alter the story to suit a minority. Yes, a minority isn't liking it. Many players do. It happens. No use turning something subjective into a forum flame war.

I think this arc takes a certain amount of mental flexibility to do, but it's definitely one of the more unique arcs. While it's not my ultimate favorite, Witch Engine has set out to try to do something different, and I think has accomplished that.

I agree with the assessment that the "experiment" was hardly done in an objective and scientific manner. For one thing, doing it only on CoH/V, whose PvP is extremely limited, is too small a sample for his conclusions.

IMO, he should have made a "Twixt" on WoW, Guild Wars, Warhammer Online, Age of Conan and other places with much heavier PvP populations. It would have been more interesting to see if all games have the same "unwritten" social rules, and how the players on those games would have reacted.

Just doing it on 2 out of 11 servers of a single game is not a large enough sample. All he was able to prove was that "if you annoy people, they get angry." I'm hoping he got a C on this thesis, because it's short, not well researched and, like someone earlier said, I think he chose his actions to elicit the results he needed to support his paper.

Another thing that works (or worked) great on the Repairmen, without throwing them across the platform, was Caltrops.

Just saw the thread. I've done many STFs, most of them being MoSTFs. Any tanker can tank the STF, period, as long as the player of the tank is good.

For the MoSTF, stone is generally preferred, however, an invuln can certainly do it, if they have Tough and Weave and worked on their build. The tank powersets that tend to have trouble in an MoSTF are willpower, fire and ice, but add a sonic bubbler to them and voila, they're good to go. Large insps can also be used, but takes some timing. The Master Saturday has even had a successful Master of STF with a dark/dark tanker, I believe.

For any other TF in the game, all tanks are fine, and my invuln usually doesn't notice being attacked unless it's psi damage.