Gaming_Glen

Really? Or maybe more people prefer to play a hero instead of an Arachnos toady.. er, villain.

I don't pick which side to play based on rewards, but on character concepts and fun. But maybe I'm in the minority.

Being "naughty" is sometimes fun, but I don't care for evil; and northern Mercy is awful. I like the Fort Darwin area, though. Too bad I can't start there (although it doesn't take long to get to level 5, but snakes.. again?).


Back on topic... pulling and lots of inspirations are how my two blasters got by this mission, and setting difficulty to -1.

Don't you know? We're in an alien "snowglobe" (that never had any "snow") for their amusement after they teleported Paragon City and environs to their planet. It's why we can't fly any higher than we can.

And those alternate worlds? They're really just other snowglobes attached via "portal" tubing.

They attached the Praetoria snowglobe recently to liven things up with a "war".

Wrong. Get your head out of those D&D books and actually look around.

Glorantha, Runequest's game world, has a lot of game lore. I got a shelf of books about Glorantha larger than any of D&D's game world books that has ever been published. Granted, some of it is in a few magazine series, other information is in note form from the game world's creator (Greg Stafford), but it is there.

I'm not even a fan of Glorantha, but I do appreciate it's depth and breadth of information.

This, and...

I love my female characters. A few more polygons to refine the curves a bit more and I won't need to subscribe to all those po... uh, never mind. But, I have always preferred reading about the heroines more than the heroes. Now I can have tailored-made heroines do my bidding, er, be super with their own stories of my creation (within the confines of the game at least).

I do play fantasy MMOs on occasion (more off than on, though). I've been a long time table-top gamer, and computer multiplayer gamer for a long time (its been there longer than you might think).

But I find that this so-called CoX community is quite cliquish. I switched servers to Virtue to find more RP in playing the game, and except for bio's being more likely written, the RP community is very cliquish and either all-RP-all-the-time or none at all. I've gone back to my original server (Champion) more often and not bother with teaming at all. I've played for hours, even on Freedom, without a team invite or even a tell. And if a PUG barely says anything I leave after a mission. I've tried to banter and blather , too often to no avail.

I want chatter and banter, people!


Oh, and global channels... drama llamas, trolls, the overly-sensitive "can't say ANYTHING bad no matter how truthful" carebears, and overzealous channel mods has had me quit those, too.

At least my characters talk back to me.

No, it isn't. I don't have it and I don't want it.

Unless the team actually talked with more than "hi" and an occasional mission warning (i.e., "inc") or order (i.e., "herding here" *), etc, then I feel like I don't owe them a good-bye. Silence on teams seems to be the norm these days. I've tried to banter, make jokes - lame or otherwise, at least I'm trying and hope someone starts to chatter as well. Silent teams are just no fun at all.



* btw, I hate the herding tactic when used constantly, which is one reason I'll quit a team, after the mission is over. And controllers, WAIT until the mobs are around the "herding" character before you lock them down.

My table-top dice luck cloned itself into the computer game world. I still have bad luck rolling dice.

And, 95% to hit means 20% chance to miss in CoX.

Or, I felt like a ninth wheel and lost interest. Either my screen update/button-pushing lag or game lag sees enemies die by others before my attack hits them. My blaster nukes aren't needed when there's a shield-charging scrapper on the team. And, it's really boring watching everyone steamroll the enemies. I hate leeching and if feel like I'm not contributing then I'll hang out for end of mission and then quit the team. It's why I solo mostly nowadays except for TFs.

I agree with all 3. Although with the second point, some citizens are congregated in their walking paths in some zones (i.e., Independence Port) and other areas hardly see any. More vehicles and pedestrians may increase lag, though.

I'm all for more patterns. One that really comes to mind that could use several options is the magic pattern. I don't like the current one. Where's the stars and moon pattern?

Just try to /friend them.

I've seen these. They really don't roleplay all that much on teams. I have never put that in my characters' description; if you can't see that I'm roleplaying then either I'm doing a bad job of it or you really don't understand what roleplaying is about. Roleplaying isn't just standing around chatting in local.