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Quote:The reason I used the phrase "you only have yourself to blame" is because I have been trying to get you to see that from the start of this thread you were expecting negativity from the people responding, and so you saw everywhere.Originally Posted by Lighting_Thron
blaming myself is a little bit extreme, nothing has happend, i didnt kill nobody, adding ''you only have yourself to blame''was unesscary to this situation, but i agree with the rest of the things you said, my bad and its over.
Posters also picked up on how you felt and they were defensive in response.
Now it is true that there will always be some negative responses, but a lot of the tension could have been avoided if your guard hadn't been up from the start. -
Quote:I never commented on your grammer or blocks of words. You started this thread with the attitude that anyone disagreeing with you was flaming and trolling you. You then proceeded to ignore what you were told if it didn't fit into your preconception of how people should be responding. You only have yourself to blame.Originally Posted by Lighting_Thron
its hard to write nicely with a bad grammer and block of words.
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Quote:Fix'dOriginally Posted by DumpleBerry
You'll open more flies with honey than vinegar.
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Quote:You started off antagonistic by announcing you knew your post would get flamed. That tells everyone you are going to ignore any disagreement.Originally Posted by Lighting_Thron
i didnt display a bad attitude, i was very nice.
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Quote:That's only when they encounter people that display your attitude.Originally Posted by Lighting_Thron
i thught about asking but from the time i played the game and reading the forum, i belive that the community is realy awful, not like WoW afcorse because they are just brainwashed from wow, more like people who are always on a defensive mode.
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Still waiting for the OP to explain by what measurement of time June 29th, 2009 is over a year ago.
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Quote:The twit was drunk and decided to start something with one of my shipmates. Naturally we had our friends back.Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants
Or ruined an awesome party. Why would you pick a fight while carrying...guy was mentally undeveloped.
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Quote:No offense was taken, just trying to show that bringing the EU and NA servers together could make everyone happy.Originally Posted by gec72
Not really intending to offend anyone here; I'd be fine with the combination of the EU and NA servers or making any new servers available to both player bases. Just thought those names might be fitting.
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Quote:I paid my fines and served the 60 days the law required, but that particular twit went to jail for a lot longer than me cuz the cops found drugs on him in an amount large enough to be charged with intent to sell. So by getting into a fight I helped take a drug dealer off the streets. Yay me.Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants
Just so you know physical assault is not a legal form of self defense from verbal and visual assault. You would not be doing the "right" thing in the eye of the law.
But if you want to have assault charges and all the lovely that entails then enjoy.
Edit: That happened while I was in the service. My CO punished me and the local authorities punished the civvie. -
Quote:And just who would get those new servers? EU or NA?Originally Posted by gec72
Or, just introduce two new servers with Going Rogue: Loyalty and Resistance.
EU already has a much smaller population and new servers there would further spread out their small population making it even harder to find teams.
Giving the servers to just NA would be a slap in the face to the EU players by showing them that the devs focus is on the NA playerbase.
The better idea would be to combine the EU and NA servers so everyone has access to all the servers, thus brining the community closer together. -
Quote:Another example of how brave Captain Courageous is when he can hide behind the anonymity of the rep system.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
And to whichever idiot neg repped me while taking my comment about my son seriously when I threw in a smiley face on the end of it to show I was joking: Grow a brain.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Of course you'll call the bluff safely in anonymity.
But to answer your question, yes, I find violence an appropriate response to another man acting like a bad human. Men respond properly to violence. That and spreading our seed is our evolutionary purpose. I let the authorities or my wife handle a woman being an idiot, because I find violence against women appalling, and I'll allow parents to handle their children as I feel the same about violence toward children as I do women. (I can't WAIT until my son is a man. )
But some moron starts spewing filth in my face? Oh yea, he'll be eating asphalt. If he turns out to be bigger, stronger and faster than me and kicks the crap out of me? Doesn't matter. I did what was right.
I pretty much agree with Bill on this, tho people calling me names doesn't bother me. The fights I've gotten into were when some twit started mouthing off and bullying my friends and family. -
Quote:PvPOriginally Posted by Another_Fan
ROFL You are probably correct, but to make your case you need something that was a worse use of resources
We all can testify to how crowded those zones are. On any given server you'll find 2-3 instances of Siren's Call, Warburg, Bloody Bay, or Recluse' Victory.
And god forbid you want to use an Arena terminal. Just going near one causes intense lag from all the people scrambling to fight Gladiator matches.
Let's also not forget how well balanced and smoothly the CoP runs. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Westley
Who said I was defending the jerks? For someone to be offended, it has to come from BOTH sides, the sender has to send and the receiver has to receive.
If the sender acts properly and the receiver acts properly, then there's no problem.
If the sender acts IMPROPERLY and the receiver ignores them, then there's no problem either.
That's all that I'm saying. Jerks are still jerks no matter what. You just have the power to not pay attention to them. So why give them attention?
Why make someone else step in and do it for you, when you can just ignore them yourself?
Westley if I misunderstood what you were trying to say then you have my apologies, but I threw your own words back at you because I felt the tone of your post was blaming the victims.
You and I both know that some people are simply too sensitive about criticism, but I also remember what happened to Shiverwraith. He chose to overreact and abuse the petition system. End result was he got himself banned.
I have no doubt that the mods would impose the same justice on any twit doing the same thing with rep petitions. So when I saw Niv say that they are noting misuse then I accept that as actual forum violations.
I'm no forum angel, when I get told by a mod I crossed the line, even when I don't think I did, I try to see it from their perspective.
Personally I got a lot of amusement from reading the reps I got, and I'm going to miss seeing what buttons I pushed. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Westley
Or, like a big boy and an adult... you could simply NOT LOOK at things that you know you'll probably be offended by. You know, exercise a little bit of self control? Or is that too much for you?
Why ask some moderator to change the way the boards work for YOU, when you are fully capable of moderating your OWN behavior?
Sorry if I sound a bit snippy, but I'm getting tired of people perpetually suggesting that they have some sort of "right" to "not be offended", ever. In this life you WILL be offended once in a while. That's reality.
If I am looking in the direction of an ugly naked dude that stays in the same place all the time and never moves... and seeing that naked ugly dude BOTHERS me, then guess what? I don't LOOK at the ugly naked dude or in his direction anymore. I don't feel COMPELLED to have him moved somewhere else or to have him forced to put on some clothes. I just DON'T LOOK.
How is that so hard? Someone please explain it to me because I just don't get it.
Or, like a big boy and an adult... People could follow the simple forum rules and guidelines established by NCSoft. You know, exercise a little bit of self control? Or is that too much for you?
Sorry if I sound a bit snippy, but I'm getting tired of people perpetually defending the jerks that can't follow the forum rules. If people followed the rules the mods wouldn't feel compelled to change anything.
Obey the rules, how is that so hard? Someone please explain it to me because I just don't get it. -
Quote:Originally Posted by SlimPickens
Just like everything else in the world, we have to go down to the lowest common denominator...
Have you ever read saftey labels?
Darwin shifts in his grave every time a safety label saying do not put finger in electrical socket is printed, but theres obviously a person or two out there that would indeed stick their finger in the socket without the warning...
Therefore, since a couple people could not handle a few negative rep comments, the whole system must be stripped down to the lowest common denominator so that these poor souls do not get all butthurt and emo /wrists.
Welcome to Earth. Enjoy your stay (until of course, your enjoyment must also be brought down to the lowest common denominator, at which point it will no longer be enjoyable)
Translation:
There were several people that refused to follow the forum rules and guidelines posted by NCSoft. Their constant abuse of the rep system finally forced the mods to disable a feature you and I and everyone else was enjoying.
A few bad apples spoiled it for everyone. -
Quote:Originally Posted by American_Angel
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JUST TO BACK UP MY WORDS:
According to the earnings report, City of Heroes accounted for 8% of NC Soft's earnings in the 3rd quarter of LAST YEAR.
This year, CoH accounted for only 4% of their earnings in the 3rd quarter.
Subscriptions were halved.
There's your truth. Deal with it.
Crackpot speculations like yours are always amusing.
Just because NCSofts other games have shown an increase in popularity doesn't mean CoH has lost subscriptions. Subs can easily be up for this game and still seem dwarfed by the popularity of other games like Aion, Guild Wars, etc. -
Quote:The solution for the EU players is not to merge the servers but give you guys complete access to the NA servers. That would increase you from 4 servers to 15, and all the people that go with it.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
A large number of "merge the server" threads are us EU players unfortunately I'ld be happy to set up a trial account for you to witness our busiest server at peak time or set up different search results on numerous days at certain times.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
NO NO NO! Under NO circumstances would I ever want to be known as global name@player name. I've seen this in action, and it's fugly. This is one of the quickest ways to make me disregard names in general and overall stop reading chat. Absolutely, positively NO global-appended names. I don't care about name uniqueness, I just don't want the horrible ugliness that is this approach. It looks THAT BAD.
As for name purges, I'm not against running another one, but it won't give you any new names. They ran a purge of characters under 36 on accounts 90 days inactive, and the purge freed up almost nothing. I always say the same thing when people ask for this - the names you want ARE NOT taken by throwaway characters on the accounts of people who left years ago. They're taken up by the kind of characters who won't be de-named anyway. The first purge proved that to evidence, and so the subsequent purges have been level 6-and below. That's where all the freed names were, anyway.
And I've never felt names were sparse. OBVIOUS names are, like Something Man (both literally and as an example), but the solution to that is to have a name that is no some combination of your power source, colour, archetype or gender (honourable mention goes to Miss Blaster). It's never really guaranteed, but it's far from impossible.
For instance, a couple of days ago I got a name that a friend of mine described as generic. I snatched "Pandala" on Victory, which was taken on Pinnacle, and doing research on it, I see it's not very creative at all. Lots of people have used it in their fiction, and there's even an area that looks like a large plane in Zambia called that. It was also taken on other servers, so it obviously isn't so unique. But you know what? Any name I can get through character creation is unique just by default. It doesn't matter if it's unique because no-one thought of it, or because EVERYONE thought of it but everyone thought it would be taken so no-one bothered to try. As long as it goes through, it's unique enough.
In conclusion, I don't mind the occasional name purge as long as it follows the same parameters in the past, and I don't mind non-unique ways, as long as they're implemented in a way that's not ugly and yet makes it clear who the character belongs to (ain't that a catch 22). At the same time, however, I don't see making new names as problematic. It may require some lateral thinking, but good names are far from running out. They gave you a name check at character selection and they gave you the ability to start with the name and work backwards, exactly so you wouldn't end up with a costume and no name to put to it. So if you worry about your name, then start with it.
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Quote:No, I see vet rewards as a thank you perk given to me by NCSoft for keeping my account active for 63 months. I put in my time and earned my rewards.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Here's the flaw in your logic. You view Veteran's Rewards as something you paid $900 for.
I see you as someone that wants to be given perks when you haven't met the required time period to earn them. You have to wait the same length of time to get them just like everyone else before you has done. -
Quote:Giving players rewards in a fair and unbiased manner based on two simple requirements
Veterans want their special parts and screw the rest of us?
a. Paying $15. each month to keep an account active.
b. The lenght of time the account is active has to actually have passed.
is screwing people.
Yeah right.
Free - Costing nothing; gratuitousQuote:Veterans get something for free other people pay for.
Let's see. A person that has been playing for 5 years will have spent $900. USD playing the game.
That same person will have committed 5 years keeping his account active. That's 60 months, 1,825 days, 43,800 hours . . .
I don't think the word free means what you think it means.
Funny you should say that since your whole argument is one a spoiled 5 year old would make.Quote:Seriously. Explain to me like I'm a five year old
5 year old - "Mommy I want to drive the car!"
Mommy - "I'm sorry honey but you can't."
5 year old - "But Timmy can drive the car!"
Mommy - "Honey that's because Timmy is 16 years old and he has a drivers liscence. You can drive when your 16 and you get your own driver's liscence."
5 year old - "THAT'S NOT FAIR! I WANNA DRIVE NOW! WAAAAH! WAAAAH! WAAAAH!" -
Quote:Not trying to bust your chops but if a person needs something "fun" to do to distract him/her while playing the game, then maybe that person should look for another game to play.Originally Posted by Jerikko
oh please don't misunderstand me, I know it would take time away from other much needed stuff from the game, yet it would be a fun distraction in game.
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Quote:I second this motion.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
How about "no." For what should be an obvious reason.
The "no's" have it. The motion is carried. The devs won't sell a vet reward costume pack. -
The City of Heroes CCG has been discontinued in February 2007 as it "did not reach critical mass" according to AEG CEO John Zinser.
In other words, people weren't buying the cards.
As to the idea of playing cards online, I'd rather see the devs work on new missions, zones, AT's than waste time on this idea. -
Quote:That's just your opinion. I happen to like my boxing outfit a lot. I have several boxing/proffesional wrestler themed characters.Originally Posted by Jerikko
Some of these rewards are lame, like ooo I have a boxing outfit, sure glad I waited 33 months for that, this just completed my character.