Feign

So... Um... I... Yeah, I used to do ERP... kind of a lot...

Hell, I was making bases for ERP SGs for a while. Building dungeons that would make a Drow blush... Good times... Good times.

I realize this is a bit far into the discussion to suggest this, but to minimize the trouble involved with using this utility, I suggest putting them in a fresh SG base with no objects placed in it. Should knock that environment polygon count down to an absolute minimum.

Hope it helps.

So, I take it that this means the drive to create software for private City servers is back in full swing? Just because NC has exhausted all options doesn't mean the player community has as well.

If I had to sum up the points that made CoH unique in four bullets it would be as follows:

• Fast - both travel and combat, Enemies fall fast individually but overwhelm in numbers or in damage, as well, there are almost no pure time sinks in the game at all.
• Cooperative - While PvP exists technically, the majority of developer focus was on cooperative PvE, which went a long way toward building the friendly community.
• Sandbox - from character creation to story arc building, there are as few limits as possible on player creativity.
• Story Driven - While street farming from start to finish is possible technically, the majority of developer focus was on story-driven content.

I feel that these four are the true cornerstones of what made the City of franchise great. Sadly, I've never found another MMO that fits them all anywhere near as close as CoH has.

Man, my favorite? I'd say probably Shekinah Oldsoul. A character honestly imported from Gaia Online (yeah) originally started as a Mind/Rad controller, but then quickly re-rolled as an Illusion/Sonic Controller... I would swear by Ill/Son, recommend it to anyone who asks. The character concept was just wacky enough to keep people guessing, but limited enough in the game to stop her from being the big Mary Sue that most Gaia characters eventually become.

I loved the idea of a character that used raw and unpredictable reality warping, and Ill/son really captured that. The ride from one to 50 was smooth and enjoyable, as was her long 50 career soloing in the Shadow Shard until the Incarnate system gave her newer and bigger challenges. I never did hit reliable perma-PA on her (if Force Feedback procs I hit it, otherwise, no), but I got close enough that nothing else has begun to compare combat-wise. Though when I hit perma-hasten on my Bane Spider, it felt pretty close... God I wish we could have gotten Minimal FX Hasten on live...

I'm playing it up as the Big Honkin Shivan is going to blow up all of Paragon and the Rogue Isles. Most of my characters are taking the opportunity to exit the scene without such mortal repercussions:

The Feigns, all being iterations of a single time traveller are escaping into the past, except of course for Fifth Feign who will be facing the whole thing head on in my own imagination.

Shekinah, will be pulling her mother (Baduro) and sister (Rhiannah) into the Willworld, only to see them swept into the Willworld War.

Nephanim finally gets what's coming to him, he is betrayed by the Battalion and utterly destroyed in painful and prolonged ways.

Ecstasy of Gold finally completes the turning over to true heroism by sacrificing him/herself to the Malleus Mundi to save as many innocent people of the Rogue Isles as possible by teleporting them into an alternate Earth...

Praetorian Grey strikes a truce with the Rikti, grabs all the civilians she can, and rushes them through to the Rikti Homeworld as refugees.

Walk This Way goes back to Kazakhstan (she's gonna be LARPing Stalker, but at least she survives), the brother-sister duo of Bullet the Blue Sky go back to LA (and set up a defense bulwark there) The Great Below and Black Hole Sun both throw in with Mot out of desperation (Bad Idea) Gold Guns Girls, Thorn In My Pride and Scrapped Miracle are all stuck in an anarchic and swiftly crumbling Praetoria.

I think that covers all my Virtue characters that are worth noting.

I had a "danger room" already made in one of my villain group bases and wandered in out of morbid curiosity... Yeah, I lasted all of half a second.

It's like I could hear the lead turret shouting "Are you not entertained!?"

As someone down in Atlanta who's only hearing hype about the whole thing and seeing a vague wall of grey cloud whenever I look to the north, I'm beginning to be a little concerned that the last post I see here was at just after 8am...

Anyone with a connection up there able to let the world know it's all gonna be okay?

Last night I realized I had been updating Test for the Beta. I ARGH'd like Charlie Brown and checked my main hard drive...
2gb left...
Figured I could uninstall Test and put Beta in its place.
This morning? Out of space.
Moved all my music to an external drive and trying again, hopefully this time I've done enough.

Why must this game be so big?

In case you were wondering how the heck this thing works, here's a diagram courtesy of the future of 1934

If you tilt your head and imagine this not looking stupid while also looking at the D-Dalus image here, you should see the similarity.

What we know from the interviews so far is that there are two powers, likely the first and second, so you have no choice about them... They are only minor single target buff/debuff, but have a secondary effect of greatly increasing the effect of all your other buffs on the target buffed by the ST power.

As a mechanic, I like it, but it doesn't leave much room for other really unique powers.