Fire_Opal

i've been doing my low level badges and found I have no problem with interfering with other people.

1. I patrol a relatively small area, by the time I get to one end, the other has respawned. The rest of the zone is free.
2. I try to patrol when the zone is relatively empty. If that means patrolling really late at night, so be it.
3. I group with my friends so we can both share the credit for the same mobs, and get done even faster.

I know I'm going badge crazy with my main, but I sincerely doubt I will go and earn all these badges with my 3 alts.

Statesman,

First I would like to apologize for those posters who can't argue with you without being rude. Their complete lack of appreciation for people who have to balance the concerns and wants of several hundred thousand users is disturbing.

I would argue that the reason you don't might not see as many full groups has nothing to do with XP. I notice the larger the group, the more chaos and the harder it is to follow the action on your screen (tons of effects, movement, etc).

I get XP much faster on missions (which I do almost exclusively) when I'm teamed with 1-3 other people then I do when I solo my character. First, because there is less down time. Second, because there are more spawns. Third, because I'm less likely to die and slow myself down even more.

I don't think CoH is perfect. I see things I would like changed. My empathy defender has problems, so does my katana scrapper (but Issue 2 seems to be fixing most of those). Some of the changes I want are merely cosmetic: like a way for a female character to sit in a skirt without flashing her panties.

Some people may think I'm just kissing up, but I do appreciate the devs, the gms, the board moderators, and everyone else working on CoH.

And for fellow posters: remember no one likes being yelled at or treated rudely. No one likes being told that something they poured their heart into sucks. And no one deserves it.

-Lara Amber (hopefully representing the 99.99% of forum posters who care)

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and no, I don't play the lets see how slutty we can make this look game.

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My test for whether a female character is actually being played by a male: Does the char look like she pays for her super hero gear by streetwalking?

Wrote the backstory to one of my characters. Decided to make her attend Bryn Mawr and study liberal arts. Then I find out that superheroes don't need college educations, just a horrible past experience to make them swear to protect the innocent.

So now Lady Willow has huge student loans to repay and apparently no use for her degree. Sigh. Apparently her reason to be a superhero is to earn tips.

Anyone else play married or coupled superheroes?

My fiance and I play together all the time. My character MacKenzie is married to his character Ares (they have common elements to their costumes too).

Fire Opal is paired with Ursus.

You get the picture.