Jophiel

Got it in one

The clipboard is used for shots in the character costume creator. CoH doesn't recognize the Print Screen button there and so won't make a jpg for you but Windows recognizes it and puts an image on the clipboard.

Costume shots in the creator are crisper and larger than what you can get in game and you don't have to fiddle with the angles to try to get your feet in the shot, etc.

Says who? They already have a script for it given that they've done previous name purges.

Well, less people are helped. I can't imagine that "no one" is.

I've had several ideas for names and tried the ole "Get their global and send them a tell" trick. Out of five names, four didn't have a global assigned to them indicating that the accounts have been defunct since before global names were introduced (Issue 12, May 2008). I might just be a unique snowflake in this regard but I have a suspicion that there's a fair number of "good" names that'd be opened up, especially on the heavier populated servers.

Let's run a Positron first so that way afterward everyone will want to log off and go to bed.

"Super Dr. Fallout Man"?

Not only the limited maps but it deters people from street sweeping. I know this has been a back-and-forth balance issue but part of what gave MMORPGs like EQ, WoW & LoTRO interest to me was the variety in the outside world. You'd explore around and, in one place, see stray roaming orcs and deeper in find a whole orc encampment. Both places needed different tactics to be successful.

There IS some of this in CoX. Some instances are kind of "meh" like the streets of Perez Park with indistinct generic buildings defined only by the nine Hellions standing in front rather than three. Others are pretty neat such as the Freakshow "village" in Crey's Folly. But why would anyone waste time in Crey's Folly from a gameplay perspective? The scenery may be interesting but the actual hunting/xp/risk is worse than in an instance. So players blow past anything that might be unique or "repetitive breaking" and head to the door, fight in Warehouse Small 6, exit and go to the next door.

Another unintended consequence of a good thing is the difficulty slider. In other MMORPGs (I'm largely thinking of Everquest here), some dungeons would get a reputation as pretty easy and others a reputation of being PC-grinders unless everyone was on their toes and fully capable. Much of this had to do with mob density, fleeing mobs drawing aggro, etc. CoX removes that and makes it no surprise when you have the usual mob clumps each time, determined almost completely by how you've set your difficulty. It's good from a "I can have fun soloing my lvl 12 controller AND my lvl 50 scrapper" standpoint but it makes for a very static experience.

Looks like the first part of the "You Bow Down" emote but with weapon drawn.

Not the one that makes YOU bow, of course, but the one where you point at someone and then at the ground.

Of course those are all fantasy games.

You could faceroll your keyboard and come away with a serviceable elf name

I'm down with that. I'm also down with the often given alternate purge idea where anyone inactive for 5 years has all names purged; 4 years, purge characters 40 and under; 3 years, 30 and under, etc. Naturally, fire off an e-mail to the accounts on file letting them know it's going to happen.

I know the counter argument that someone might decide to come back to CoH after a five year absence, find their character name gone and immediately quit in disgust but I (personally) don't see this as a very legitimate concern. I think keeping current paying customers happy is more important than worrying about the potential of the occasional multi-year absentee returning and being bitter. Heck, offer a free reactivation weekend in the e-mail so if someone really *is* worried about losing the name "Tangerine Firebird" after four years of inactivity, they can preserve it (and maybe even get hooked in again).

Actually, I take it back. Not the vote, but I'll make a comment. The flailing Devoured boss makes this picture for me. It's still cool anyway but that dude cracks me up