King_Moloch

It's also a lesson on how to use 'legal means to devastate a company that deserves death. Need to sharpen some knives.

Well then, all that remains now is to find a way to target and destroy NCSoft. Pretty simple. Let's get started.

Regen back to functional status, definately.

I am going to miss it all. The incredible people I've met, the sheer radiant joy of being able to casually fly in any direction I wanted to because I wanted to. To be part of something that was more than the sum of its' parts on so many levels.

But mostly the people. What NCSoft is guilty of is enough in this case to make me wish cancer on their children. They have stolen away something vastly more tangible and coherent than 'some video game'. This is the only one of a kind really, in a world stuffed full of the mediocre, predatory, idiotic and uninspired. There was only and can ever only be one City of Heroes, and they stole it from us. I cannot wish enough bile, hatred, pain and rage on those people. There isn't a rational limit for me.

I have known too many people that had this one thing, this one place they could go where they weren't laughed at or called naive for believing in something good, and using their god given imaginations to MAKE something good and share it, where they got to fight the good fight like the icons of their youth and were able to take a part of that back into their real lives every day. A very good friend of mine was confined to a wheelchair after Iraq, and this game was an enormous part of his recovery, his main was Heironymous Black, and that few hours a week he was able to spend with him helped him power through some ugly, ugly ****. And NCSoft has murdered it. The have stolen it. It was the only place of its' kind that offered this kind of sanctuary, and they destroyed it.

It's hard for me to think of all the incredible things that I've been part of with this 'video game' and not be outraged and infuriated about it all over again. This was a monument, a lone island in a sea of sewage and mediocrity. What really gets me? Kheldians. They really get me. I look at my Kheld, my final character and Cosmic Knight and imagine all the amazing things that were going to be done with them in near future (this was a rumor I was told, as kheld mythology was a huge part of the early game, and Battalion was supposed to have something to do with it) that I'm never going to get to make part of his storyline. That gets me. Never getting to log in and see the other Eternals on Training Night or Friday RP. Best supergroup I was ever a part of, and I only got to rediscover them a month before NCSoft announced the sunset. The issue that we've waited years and years for, that would have brought people back to this game, the new powersets that were fun as hell that I'll never get to tell my buddies about, because it will never go live. Ugh. OK, enough from me.

No joke, I would pay 50$ a month if that's what it took. I really, really would. This whole cancellation for me has been like watching a friend I've known for eight years suddenly suffer a terrible stroke. I would do whatever I could to aid in this game's recovery.

Ok. Positron. I can deal with that.

Maybe.

I've been here since you guys started. My original account got banned after an 'incident' during ED where I basically called Jack out, badly. I had it coming.

I wish there was something I could say that would soften the blow of what's been lost. To you, to all of us that have been here since the beginning.

A game like this, one that has gone on for so long, ceases to be a 'game' once it's participants really start discovering each other. Three of the best friends I will ever be blessed enough to know I've met through your work. During every deployment I would find myself thinking 'huh, I wonder how different CoH will be WHEN I get back to it'. Of course it wasn't my only concern, but man, it rated. If you can believe it, I was actually thinking about this game while I was stomping around in 'ghan. A lot of guys were.

I'm not nearly eloquent enough or really intelligent enough to express what I feel now that it's all going away. What you personally and as part of a unit have constructed here was nothing short of miraculous. The tools you had to work with were often subpar, and you created wonders. I have been as much a part of this process as I could through the years, most often as one of your staunchest critics, but always there, and always hopeful. And so very very often you delivered on that promise of 'Always, always finding a way to make it better'. I know it's cliche and tired, and that everyone has said this, but there is so much I've learned from the people on this game that I wouldn't be anything like the person I am if I hadn't met them here. There has got to be a paper in this somewhere, and someone needs to write it, heh.

So if I don't ever get to have another way to say it, and I don't ever get to meet you in person, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for letting me be a part of this. It was something so much more than the sum of its' parts, and the world is honestly, truly a lesser place without it. Thank you for letting be a part of a whole City of Heroes, your work and effort will always mean more to me than you will probably ever know.

I recently realized there were a number of powers added to the power pools while I was gone, and looking over them thought; Uhhhh why? 'Don't have enough slots for the powers we HAVE let alone introducing more useless ones'.

So, out of an impulse to understand what the deal was, I actually took Quantum Acceleration and Quantum Flight on my PB, a modified Gold Standard that Plasma (may the light illum his name) graced these forums with in an effort to let us retarded jackasses that have been talking smack about useless khelds were play and SEE.

Taking these powers, I thought 'cute gimmick'.

Dude. I don't think I've ever had this much fun playing this game just flying around retarded. I triple slotted them, and he's FAST. REAL FAST. It's soooo much fun.

So, since it's like 0630 and I haven't slept yet, wanted to say thanks for adding a really amazing addition to a time honored favorite. I have had sooo much fun with this it was almost worth the price of ReUpping just to do this.

Feel like I just stepped in something, were the Kheld forums always a hatefest of backbiting and spite?

Hi you guys.

I wanted to first thank you, and second beg your forgiveness. For years, I have loathed the kheldians as a complete waste of developer resources and a failed project that was brilliant in concept, and died in execution. Since I've come back, I decided to make it my mission to understand just what the hell was compelling people to play these broken and deficient ATs. I tried fiddling with them extensively in Mids, determined to do it myself. I eventually gave up in my usual disgust, figuring it must be some kind of masochistic impulse that drove them to the Khelds.

That was before I read first, the MFing Warshade, by the brilliant Dechs. And the Gold Standard PB contained in this thread, which I had found an earlier version of and been passionately in nerd love with.

With a few modifications, I have been able to use both builds to create the characters I have waited eight years to be able to play.

The changes to Light Form and the treatment Dechs gave the WS made them two of the now most played and dearly loved toons I have in my stable, standing next to the champions and paragons of light and darkness that have called my account home for all these years.

I cannot thank you guys, the people that stuck it out with the khelds and MADE it work, regardless of the dearth of developer interest, enough for teaching me that I know absolutely nothing about how to build or play a kheld. The experience has been one of the most entertaining and explosive (and in the case of my WS, vaguely disgusting) experiences I have had on this game.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

I am having this same error, I checked and my NCSoft settings are correct as lined out above. What else can I do to rectify this error?

Thanks for the replies folks. I've completed the second arc, I though the rest of it was done already. Is there another arc after the second? I've got nothing else I can do here.

I went to the contact in Atlas Park to start the SSA there and I'm told they're only available to VIP subscribers. I'M A VIP/SUBSCRIBER. WTF.

...geek dance over how awesome this game is, even (or because of) at it's advanced age?
I just read the whole thing about issue 24 finally. I can't stop being utterly stoked with how awesome it is. Seriously. The changes to blasters, the focus moving AWAY from that Praetoria disaster, the amazing changes to the power pools, some love for the Isles, just.. yeah. Very, very happy. Thanks devs, you renew my faith in you just about every time I log in any more.

Well dern. Thanks for your replies guys, guess that's a scrap then.

Title says it. Since my elec/elec/mu scrapper didn't make the cut I was looking at Fire/Rad/Fire (I like themes). Been toying with it in MIDS for a few hours, and can't seem to find a build that satisfies my need to be at the def cap while retaining it's functionality as a dps controller. Anyone have any builds or any advice? I'm willing to accept a drop in DPS in exchange for a gain in def, but my MIDSfu is weak, evidently, either that or I'm trying to force the powerset combination to do something it's just not going to do. I hate having ideas that sound thematically fun and then ending up having to scrap them because they can't survive.

Thanks for the input you guys. Been reading over the forums back to about a year, and yeah, elec/elec is looking like a no go with other, better options out there. I actually HAVE an Elec/Elec/Soul brute I had forgotten about and just rediscovered, so I was thinking about trying something else. But really, given that numerically and functionally /Elec is for brutes and elec/is for scrappers, I don't really have much interest in mixing and matching, and for the record I loathe Shield defense, so everyone's favorite FotM is also a total no go for me. All good, I'll find something else. One of the amazing and truly glorious things about this game is the endless variety of things to try.

Haven't been able to find a viable recent build for elec/elec/mu which just seems odd, as thematically it's kind of a no brainer. I'm assuming this means that, just as with all other thematic powersets, the one Electric Armor is least compatible with is itself? Ugh. Anyone have an old build of this laying around? I've got ANOTHER one of those damned concept toons in my head that won't leave me the hell alone.

I'll understand however, if you're silent, Forum. After screwing around with it in MIDS a little while, I'm not sure how I can see a viable toon coming out of this combination.