IAmTheRad

Morning all. Been a while since I woke up at 8am. A long, long while. Why am I up so early as compared to my usual time? I have no clue... maybe back in May. I'm just waiting for a package in the mail that was shipped from Ontario to me here. I've gotten a package from the same retailer in about 5 days after I ordered it around 2 years ago at the same time.

If I randomly strung together words in a particular sequence I would eventually write the best book in the world. Eventually.

Everytime you go into Pocket D, drink until you die of alcohol poisoning.

[Please enjoy responsibly]

It's morning again. Coffee and Captain Crunch. Two elements of a good breakfast. Of course it's noon in 15mins, but who's keeping track?

*lights a fire, and causes little buffalo figures that cannot catch on fire to run on it*
We'll see how big that little planet is!

It's still morning here, but soon it'll be afternoon. So, good morning people.

I've been glued to a free MMO that you may have heard of. Free Realms. It's fun. But City of Heroes will always be there for me too.

Well you sure post these early! Trying to get a jump on other people? It just hit 1am here and I don't go to bed until a little later.

Past few days I've been addicted to Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and 3. Not sure which one is better.

If you start RPing on teams sometimes the other people will also RP along with you. It's the unofficial RP server, after all. A variety of people will Roleplay. Sometimes I just play in teams OOCly, but that's fine.

I didn't get an invite either. It just says cannot connect to DBServer for me. That'd be enough to stop someone from connecting, I guess.

They put in the way to stop you from connecting if you're not part of the closed beta test. Oh well. Just need to wait until open to try it out.

http://twitter.com/CoHBABs

Training room is down to get fix for only closed beta testers being able to log in to character creator working.

Well, maybe the testers actually have to test the stuff inside the game, to see that all the particle effects are working properly? The creator is just that, a creator. You can see what they may look like, but not what they look like in-game. I think the in-game stuff matters a little more to the devs.

Or they may be locking non-beta testers out of the closed beta completely. We'll see soon.

Also, my source?
http://twitter.com/Positron_CoH

I think Posi's twitter is proof enough. Also look at the 'missing' patch note...

Well, it's official. Closed beta has begun on I16. Now, the character creator is open, so you can still mess around with POWER CUSTOMIZATION!

Not exactly a secret when anybody who has an active subscription can access the character creation tool. I am SO going to see some of my 'dream' powers and see if they're possible.

Have fun!

Total tally:
Urban Gladiator - 25-28
Moon Temptress - 14-27
Electrical Edward - 35-38

Hello, hello! I could have posted earlier, but I've been relaxing a bit after that double xp weekend, as well as getting my Steam account back. So relaxing and no stress. So, my weekend had the ups and the major down (of stolen Steam account) but it's all fixed now.

See you all in game sometime!

Oh, I plan on sticking around too. Once September rolls around I'm probably going to purchase yet another (14 months) of subscription time. Once Going Rogue preorders are out, you bet I'm going to preorder that as well.

Will this game get boring? I've taken time off every so often, but since I do not need to connect every day, and can join whenever and I'll still get something new to do.

Aren't I a member of the Rookery or am I just the random bypasser?

If you're so evil, eat this kitten.

Thinking of this trope, aren't you?

it's back!

Seems everything went boom

Champions Online? Well, we have nothing to worry about. Sure, City of Heroes does have a few things they need to catch up on in order to stay competitive in the current 1, soon 2, after 3 pronged Super Hero MMO race, but it's nothing drastic.

One thing: City of Heroes is Mac and PC only. Champions Online is PC and Xbox 360. DCU is PC and PS3. Name me an MMO that has been made for a computer and a console platform at the same time that has been successful. Final Fantasy XI is not a suitable example because it was originally made for the PS2 in mind and was ported to the PC afterwards. Also it's not that successful here.

Thing 2: Player created content. City of Heroes has the Mission Architect. Players can make stories about whatever they want. I'm preaching to the choir here about the Mission Architect, because you all know what it can do. Ignore the downside of farming and AE babies for the sake of this argument. The closest thing I've seen for Champions Online is this 'Nemesis' system. You make a nemesis you fight against, I guess. Not sure what's involved in it.

Thing 3: Customization of characters. What's this, a blow to City of Heroes? Yes, folks. I'm sorry. Champions Online has a more robust character creator from what I've heard. More options for costumes, back pieces like a quiver, jetpack, or swords are some. Also, you can choose whatever powers that are in the game as powers your character can have, in any combination? Didn't City of Heroes plan to have that pre-alpha, and it didn't go through because of balance issues? If Champions does it right and keeps balance, I'd be impressed. However this isn't big enough to make a switch.

Thing 4: Jack Emmert. We had him and from what I heard it was 'his vision' that the game was going on. Everyone focuses on the bad of ED, but I don't think that it's so bad. No more 1acc 5 dmg powers, or 6 slotted stamina, or perma hasten without set bonuses. Imagine today if ED didn't exist with IOs. Did you just solo Hamidon? Seriously. One man Hami raids. Bye-bye difficulty, hope to see you on the other side!
Well, back to the discussion. He's gone. It's more what players seem to want over what the devs seem to want. He oversees Champions. It'll be his vision for that.

Some people may leave here to play Champions. Just like the Mission Architect, they'd just use it because it's the new shinies. After the novelty wears off they'll return to the actual City of Heroes game. With I16: Going Rouge, and then City of Heroes: Going Rogue coming out, the devs here sure show that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

I think I first played my Scrapper, but I can't remember. The only character I remember is:

Moon Temptress - 12->27. So far. Plant/thorn got carrion creepers!

Look at my neato avatar I can use on these new forums!