Indygo

Howdy,

I haven't played City of Heroes in about 2 years. So I resub'd with GR, and rolled a new Hero in Atlas. My problem is that there are no Sewer teams! That was always what I looked forward to when making a new Hero... Whether you'd end up on a team full of Tankers and Scrappers (which would always end up in complete failure), or end up in a team full of Controllers and other squishes (which always went excellent).

So, I made my new Hero last night and there were no Sewer Teams but there was 687954321 people spamming "Lvl 13 Brute LFT AE"... what is AE?

Where do the new Heroes go to get up to level 7-9?

Thanks!

I used search_function and it didn't yield the correct results.

I see it must be around, or it's legacy, because I see Spartan is still active and has it in his signature.

Would someone post the IP and Password? Thank you

In particular, I'm looking for PratzStrike.

Thanks,
Twigs

Thanks! I just created a Empathy/Psychic Blast and was curious to truly how to play my Empath Defender to the fullest. Thanks for the summary of Empathy's buffs.

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I completely agree. Keeping us in the dark is annoying. I'm also losing interest with the game. I started played in Jan 2008 so learning the game kept my interest for a while and then i12 hit so it was ok. Now that I have a good chunk of the game down I am wanting the next issue

I see the mish creator is a hot topic but I think they should have dealt with other areas first. Going server-less is a big one. Also give each faction the ability to venture to the other side would be more important. As it stands the game divides the players way too much - spread over its numerous servers and then split between heroes or villains. Anyway, I hope this is being looked at

Any more info available for the future of this game in that address??

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If you've really blown through every bit of content this game has to offer, on both sides, in 7 months...I think I can safely say you can forget about us ever being able to keep your appetite for new content sated.

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*Dies*

This thread gave me my mornin' serving of the kee's.

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I am under the impression that the ammount of people who will or would return after 18 months of having their account inactive is very slim to none. I don't think that keeping a name indefinately is a good idea, for non-paying, former customers to be able to do.
They could even send out an e-mail 1-2 months in advance so that the people would have a chance to renew, to avoid their names from being purged.

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No. Speaking as somebody who DID in fact unsub and walk away for 18 months (and then came back, obviously) I can guarantee that had I come back to find out some prepubescent little ADD twit too lazy to pick up a [censored] thesaurus ended up swiping any or all of my character names I would not have resubbed for the 18 new months I've been back (most of it in the larger time blocks) and NCsoft would have been out my sub fees (and the extras packs I bought) for that time. I said this last time name purges were suggested, and I think I'll say it every time they come up: LEARN TO BE CREATIVE. Alternative names FOR THE WIN.

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that's funny, he blasts "some ADD twit" for coming up with the exact names he came up with, and blames them for typing in a name and it not being taken. i think you ire is poorly thought out and misplaced, but what do i know right?

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Owned.

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I can imagine how the "OMGICAN'TLOGINWHYDOTHEDEVSHATEUS?!?!1111!" threads will go this time.

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KIKI'S DOWNNEEEEE!!!!!!!!



AD;FLKJHASD;FKLJHASDF DEAD

GREAT ADDITION! Seriously!


I have and will continue to use my Debit Card but it's a great way to reach folks who don't have or don't "believe" in debit/credit card!

So cute. Such a fun thread- it made me giggle!




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*THROWS HANDS IN THE AIR AND ROLLS HIS BOOTY*


Werk sis! Issue12 is really SERVIN' THA GERLZ!!!

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Click here to listen to the sound of the video while staring at a mmorpg logo.

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fix'd

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KiKi's

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Please dont use the money you so desperately need for actual ingame content and ingame stuff for this voice stuff.

I realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly hope this isnt what you are using our money for.

I have absolutely no desire to actually hear people cuss out every foe we come to, or go into graphic detail about their date last night.

ugh this sucks

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QFT of the day

DEATH TO VENT!!!


EDIT: lulz, I'm waiting for the gerlz to go CrAzY.

Two thumbs up!

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I hope Champions Online get this name policy right.. so that way, those "customers" that arent' paying for the accounts know upfront... NO IF'S/AND'S/OR BUT'S... The names on your account will be freed after X amount of time!

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All snarkiness aside, thats exactly what you are doing. Many of these toon are their creators babies, they have leveled them up and played them over many years. You come along and want to gut them.
You will not see many of the older players online. Many stay in hide on purpose. Many have so many tells and emails from friends that they delete anything from an idiot that wants their name. I would really like to see your list of awesome names. And wonder how many you cant get because they are copyrighted. or banned due to other issues.

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Again. No one is talking about characters on active accounts...except you for some reason.

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Bolded for emphasis. If you have an active account, this is not and can not be an issue. We're only addressing the people's accounts which *are not being paid for* and *are not currently active*. not ones which are on hide, that would imply they *are paid*.

Paid = exempt from any and all wipes.
Paid = if you're on and someone asks nicely, you have the opportunity to make someone else very happy by 'giving' them a name.
Unpaid = you take your chances.
Unpaid for a long long time = you don't get to whine, where have you been.

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I don't know how many times you and Furio have to point out that we aren't talking about ACTIVE accounts. I get it... maybe he's just to caught up in thinking he's right that he can't see. Who knows? I think I am done with this thread though... I'm just gonna hope that Devs are listening...

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[...] the excuse of being [...] "called for military" is crap... Just pay up, dude. $144 is NOTHING compared what you spend on fast food, movies, etc.

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/EPIC FAIL

I don't expect that the soldiers in Iraq - who're being SHOT AT, not to mention having to worry about bombs, grenades, and sundry other engines of dismemberment and death - get to stroll over to a McDonald's very often, hey?

And as for your dismissing being broke ... guess what, chowderhead: some of us live on VERY tight budgets. Maybe someday when you're not getting free room and board from your parents, you'll understand that SOMEtimes, it's not "hmm, order pizza tonight ... or pay CoH this month".

Sometimes it's "EAT this week, or pay CoH this month?"

Not a happy choice. And noone should ever dismiss "I'm broke", until they've FACED that very sort of choice.

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DEADDD @ you thinking you gassed me.


See how you misconstrued and twisted my words? Without doing that you would have no arguement. I would NEVER said people being in the military are crap. But I shouldn't be surprised you'd try to slither in like that because the audacity you've shown just assuming that I live with my parents because I am 19 years old. I'm sorry but I've dodged college for now BUT I got my own Benz, I got my own ends and immediate friends. I get money... do you get yours? If not, then maybe you should get off the internet and go get that money.

And if you have to choose between eating for a week or playing CoX for a month, then you got BIGGER problems to worry about than losing your name on some internet game. See how that just flowed? I just gassed YOU with one reply and that's all you get from me, sis. That's how nice I am.

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These characters are their babies and yet they have had their accounts closed for months?

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LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO! Exactly! Makes so much sense right? Oh-- wait! They can't afford to play the game! Their budget is tight! NO! They've been deployed to the military! That's why they haven't play since May of 2004!! I bet you they think of this game EVERYDAY!

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Major points for those of us behind blockers please anyone?

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EvilGeko, does your work use Astaro Internet Security/Surf Protection?

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I am glad you made this topic because I wanted to know what you guys are going to do about all the pr0n e-mail spam we are getting now in game. I see the whole pr0n spam as being 10x worse than the RMT stuff because that could mean alot of people canceling their accounts the first time one of their kids gets one of these emails and goes to the site. If you guys are doing something about this in issue 12 you might as well discuss it now instead of waiting for it to go live that way we have something to look forward to.

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DEADDD. You get those type of e-mails? Yikes! That's ridiculous. How lame???

Okay.

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I would still love to hear a valid explanation for why someone who has been inactive for the entire duration of the game's life to this point deserves to maintain the names - not even the characters themselves, just the names - of any character.

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As would I. But you know what their response is, "IF I EVAR CAME BACK 2 THE GAME AND ***MY*** NAMES WERE TAKEN. I'D GET SO MAD I'D LEAVE AGAIN!!1!1!!!1111"

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It's not all "add twits" trying to use the very same name that "you" came up with.

I know a lot of people who've had to add a . or 1 to their name, because the person who play(ed) the character with it is long gone.

My suggestion in the other thread about this was:

Create a 'petition for name' which allows a player to actively say "Hey I want this name, please find out if the name is being used by an active player." A GM would be assigned to looking up through the database whether the account a name is on is in use, how long it's been out of use, and decide whether to award a name to an active, PAID UP player.

I'm sorry but if you were gone for 18 months - tough. I've been here 4 years. There are plenty of people who are new who want a name and it's gone because someone pl'd their character to level 50 and will *always* be outside the purge range - even if they played for 5 months and have *never come back*.

Honestly: people who continue to pay for their accounts, even if they're not playing the game, SHOULD have priority over those who repeatedly use the "come back for 10 days! please pay for another month!" folks. And I know there are plenty of THOSE accounts out there too.

If you're not paying for your account, you're also not PLAYING the characters.

** Does the character have plenty of badges? Or were they created and *abandoned* after badges were even inserted into the game? (a badge-collecting character on hiatus would obviously have a higher chance of retaining a name than one which never got a single badge put on it)

** Does the account have a record of on-again-off-again? (accounts which have been put on only at times of freebie access should be on a lower priority than those which had been paid up and abruptly ended payment.)

** How many OTHER characters are on the account? (Altitis hits a lot of us - and though it pains me to say it, someone with plenty of alternative characters should be LOWER on the priority scale than one which has only 2 or 3 high-level characters on it. The ones with a high level and nothing else, have and will PLAY that character, where as people like myself are likely to have a bazillion names scattered everywhere - if I stopped paying for my account, and someone wanted to use "Blaque Ice" - LET THEM. I have 20 others that aren't as likely to be wanted.)

** Give both accounts name change tokens. If a name change is needed because someone else 'took' the name: get creative yourself. If you've been gone, you lose.

All this within reason: minimum 90 days unpaid, unplayed, inactive accounts only. Not "active" in any way.

I'd like to see NC institute a feedback form which allows us to click a box: I'm coming back, but financial hardship means I can't pay. I'm coming back, I'm on military duty for x months. I'm not bothering to come back, because x and y. etc. If any of thsoe tags came up, obviously, reserve the ones who state why they had to leave versus ones who either didn't give feedback (they don't care) or gave negative feedback (they won't be back).

"Getting creative" IS a high priority for me. But even then: aforementioned Blaque Ice is a 'creative spelling' for a character that would otherwise have been named several times over Black Ice, Black Icee, Black Yce, Blaaak Ice, etc. It happens that it's in character, as Blaque is his last name... But I did try naming him Black Ice. And Black Axe, and Blaque Axe in fact. All taken.

Do I play the character? No. If someone managed to contact my account about it, I'd say SURE - have it, and delete him, because he's like level 8. It's no huge deal for heavy alters like myself, but if he was my ONLY character? Yeah I'd pitch a fit.

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Dude, this is the BEST idea I've heard thus far. You really can't deny it and anyone who denies it are just mad they couldn't come up with it. ARE THE DEVs LISTENING? ;-)

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I am under the impression that the ammount of people who will or would return after 18 months of having their account inactive is very slim to none. I don't think that keeping a name indefinately is a good idea, for non-paying, former customers to be able to do.
They could even send out an e-mail 1-2 months in advance so that the people would have a chance to renew, to avoid their names from being purged.

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No. Speaking as somebody who DID in fact unsub and walk away for 18 months (and then came back, obviously) I can guarantee that had I come back to find out some prepubescent little ADD twit too lazy to pick up a [censored] thesaurus ended up swiping any or all of my character names I would not have resubbed for the 18 new months I've been back (most of it in the larger time blocks) and NCsoft would have been out my sub fees (and the extras packs I bought) for that time. I said this last time name purges were suggested, and I think I'll say it every time they come up: LEARN TO BE CREATIVE. Alternative names FOR THE WIN.

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Ummm... maybe YOU should have been more creative with the name you picked so YOU wouldn't have to worry. Not only should YOU be more creative, maybe YOU should have never left... And the excuse of being "broke" or "called for military" is crap... Just pay up, dude. $144 is NOTHING compared what you spend on fast food, movies, etc.

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