Liz Bathory
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That RED is my favorite color. Does it have any blood in it? lol
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haha... meeting Golden Girl means you where on the wrong server :P LOL
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I will be in Malta from 3-10 oct... so very few time left. Then again.. not a total loss...
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And we had some bloody fun.. running at one time a full 8 members mision / arc team on UNION villains... whahahahaha...
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Quote:I was in a 8 man team on villains in Mercy (very low level) the whole evening yesterday. On UNION. As of old.Originally Posted by Heartsong
I've seen players doing regular content in the last few weeks already, so I'm hoping the boss farms will get deleted and the fun, creative AE missions will start getting some action. -
Quote:You mean ... mr. Bocor arc... Snake hunt arcs... patron arcs... timetravelling to the future... etc etc etc... more then I can mention here. incl All the TF's and SF's...Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
you mean standard content like newspaper mission after newspaper mission, like they were doing before AE? or pling in PI before AE?
lol standard content.
I'm waiting for GR for the return to standard content.
There is standard content. Only you are bored with it. Don't bring new players on wrong idea's. This game has more content then any other still. -
In such an environment i would probaly not choose Elizabeth. it would feel weird as I am a rl male.
From my male characters I have several I like. I think my Ice/energy blaster would fit me most. Siberian Sentry... -
I have always been into history, legends and lore. It's some sort of hobby for me. When I bought City of Villains (a week before I got City of Heroes as well) I tried to make up a real cool villain. Real evil. Vampires would be a nice idea. So I thought Vladislav Dracul... Vlad Tepesh... but that would be just too obvious. And I would like to see how the game makes sexy women too. It would be my first try at making one.
So I thought about Elizabeth Báthory. I knew her from documentaries and reading. To me the pinnacle of evil women. And perfect to give vampire and witchcraft as powers.
Wikipedia gives this on her...
was a Hungarian countess from the renowned Báthory family. The family is famous for defending Hungary against the Ottoman Turks. She is possibly the most prolific serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess" and as the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice", after the castle near Trencsén, in the Kingdom of Hungary (present Trenčín, Slovakia), where she spent most of her adult life.
She became a Necromancy/Dark Miasma. As those powers fitted well. Then I noticed the name was taken in almost all versions. Bathory Erzsebet was free though. It is precicly how she spells her name under the only letter ever found of her. In-game I got responces from people who lived in her country asking if I was from there. I am not.. I am from the Netherlands.
My global became @Elizabeth Bathory though. As global it was still free. And I set up a gothic horror themed SG for her on UNION called 'The Court of the Blood Countess'.
When I tried to use that name signing up on the forums Elizabeth Bathory was too long. In-game people started to relate to me as 'Liz'. So I shortened the name to Liz Bathory. Which became Liz_Bathory as the old forums didn't accepted spaces in the name. -
Quote:Can't add anything to this. I totally agree...Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Out of the question. Absolutely out of the question. I REFUSE to play a game where the strongest characters belong to the players with the most disposable income. A game of "my wallet is bigger than your wallet" is not something I will pay money to play. I enjoy games because they're fair and relatively balanced. Sure, there are powergamers who will always be many times better than me, but I can accept that they simply are that good and that hardcore and deserve to be. I CANNOT accept the notion that people are better than me because they have more money in real life. It is plain and simple out of the question.
And then, there's the other side of the coin - once this becomes the benchmark, as it does in all games that use this model, it becomes a game of poverty. Because I don't want to shell out for perks, I'm always taking the hardest road everywhere, always taking longer to do everything and always suffering much harder difficulties, all because I wouldn't line the pockets of the developers some more. No, thank you. I pay my tax and I'm an equal citizen. I'm not a lower-class citizen because some Banker Cat is paying more.
I don't CARE what this does to the game, how it affects it or what profit it brings, because I won't be playing it to find out. -
Quote:Reminds me I have to restock on cookies again. The dark side is tempting...Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Come to Union...we have tons of it ^^
Oh, and cookies. The dark side always get cookies
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My main is Bathory Erzsebet... (global @Elizabeth Bathory)... I have created and lead (tiranically and as dictator) the now ranking 11 on UNION villain Super group 'The Court of the Blood Countess'. At the top we have seen rank 7.
Over the years there have been many members coming in and out and I can honestly say a good part of the Union server knows me or my SG. Still if you ever need help joining the dark side or too get around... You can contact me. And I will try and help out... maybe even let you keep the blood I would otherwise claim from you in exchange.
Elizabeth is a fully purple frankenslotted lvl 50 Necro/dark MM. Aside her I have a lvl 44 corr, lvl 31 stalker, lvl 28 dom, lvl 38 dom, lvl 25 bots mm, lvl 43 brute, lvl 25 brute. Most of them are roleplay toons.
The base coming with it I made myself. No other builder have touched it. It is the largest plot and holds everything you need in a base/concealed living space for vampires, ghosts, demons, zombies, werewolves, mad scientists and the likes. Including copper and lightning in the labs, blood bath, swimming pool, stolen Arachnos flyers a hangar, graveyards, gardens, and a hotel with a lot of rooms for my members to live. -
So many EU players on NA servers... if all of them would be transfered to proper EU servers we would have full servers again.
They might even become overloaded... -
Glad I got ridd of the EU behind my name.. but it would be really really cool if we all fill out the location in our profile. So we can at least see who are from the EU.
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Quote:Right you are... Scheveningen next to The Hague.Originally Posted by Carnifax
I think I've been on holidays here, ages and ages ago. That's the little seaside place beside The Hague? I seem to remember giant windmills up one end of the beach (although that doesn't really help narrow down things in Holland, does it )
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Yes.. there is an Elizabeth Bathory@Liz_Bathory on Champions. And she runs 'The Court of the Blood Countess' there too.
But too me it is like another game. It really doesnt have many content at all. But the content in it is new for players at the moment!
People are blinded though. The content of COX kept you busy gaming for 5 years! I predict the content of Champions will have you bored in 3-5 months!
I16 changes a lot of this game... katapulting COX to become a new 2009 game. All it needs is the new mission tech and gfx update that Going Rogue will bring. You say they are a bit late? I guess youre right. But they have been working hard to be on time since NCSOFT took over. And there isnt more then 24 hours in a day. Give the devs some slack and a chance to show what they have been doing first. Before you give up on this game.
COX is not dead yet! -
This is so in need of fixing.. any way possible. For me it is one of the reasons why I am for transporting the EU servers to the US. Just give us a legal agreement for NC SOFT to transfer our data.
Better connection
One server list including both us and eu servers. -
Quote:This ... I outlevel content 1-20 so fast mainly because of this. It is xp/time ratio that does it. When I form a team I ask friends.. or at least people I know in. We run from mission to mission while I still build up/invite more members. Now alsi people that I dont know.Originally Posted by Rodion
I've noticed that a lot of people think that you have to be on a big team to enjoy the game and reap good rewards. You don't. It's perfectly fine to have just two or three players. You can do 99.5% of the content that way -- including the AV missions (if you choose the challenge level properly AVs are scaled to EBs).
"But I'll get less XP that way!" you cry. Well, maybe not. I've seen all too many team leaders spend 20 minutes trying to fill that last spot on the team -- through a variety of mapserver disconnects, bio breaks, boredom, SG emergencies, etc. You're getting zero xp/minute while you stand around waiting for a full team. Since pickup teams have huge attrition rates, you typically wind up wasting a lot of time filling the team again after each mission. (A competent pickup team leader will not waste your time -- he'll keep things moving no matter what -- but that's an exhausting job and leaders of such caliber are hard to come by. I know I don't have the patience for it.)
Also, if you're playing with competent people that you know, you generally steamroll missions with no team wipes and other ugly surprises. Which means you can run at a higher challenge level and earn more XP. You can easily do twice as many missions an hour with a competent team of three or four regulars than you can with a pickup team you're trying to keep at eight.
I do this on repp 3 or 5 depending on the team.
Xp flow is constant.. no waiting... no boredom. If you start a new toon like this you will be lvl 14 in 2 hours without ever using AE. Just playing the game as it should be played. -
my mistake.. wrong Shadow... meant the one without the 'e' :S As you said.. its all in that one letter.
anyway.. I could check around next time I am in A'dam
It's high time I go get there anyway.
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First of all... This is a load of *****.
People who are disturbed to begin with will find their influence to do stuff from movies, books, advertizing and games. They will do what they want (or think is a good idea) anyway.
If this would be the reason as these politici say then at least 75% of all gamers would be coursed to this. I never felt the need to grab someone and drink his blood... yet. And I rp a vampire for three years now. There must be something wrong with me then. Oh yes... I have common sense and know whats real and whats not. I am no psycho.
Ok... aside of that all...
It cant be stopped anyway!
Remove all servers from Germany... The compagnies there rebuild the servers in another country with ease. Sue the German government and get the transfer paid too. Germany loses all the money it gave. And the result will be zero. They know this as well... so expect it to fail miserably.
If this would force NC SOFT to leave germany... the EU server would most likely be imaged to servers in the US. Result... one server list. And a better connection too. It will be the last straw to force them too. Go ahead I say. -
No fire / kin here... And if you see me in MA it would be on a challenging arc with a story line and AV's.
Currently roleplaying, basebuilding and normal missions.... -
hmm... I would also say Amsterdam. Schiphol airport connects most flights from all over Europe. It is more in the middle... English speaking dutch are very common...
The train from the airport to the city is actually real easy.
If we go for a more central lying place... hmm... Brussels I guess.
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Quote:First off.. The MA is easy.. but it was made to make it easy for the Dev's in the first place. Before I14 they had to make missions and arcs using Excell!?Originally Posted by Shadow_Wail
I don't want fluff and padding, I want new stories that are ingame. I also find i16 to be a big meh...I'll play a few toons with added customization but that will only last a few weeks
I dont see how it is sooo easy for us to make content on MA but the devs cant do that ingame?
All of you that are asking for new content OVER game upgrades... Without the game upgrades City of Heroes would have been dead by the end of the year! You can't deny that upgrading it in time for new competition is essential to the survival of the game.
If the servers go down there is NO content to play. So you dont have to bother about any new content either.
My guess is that all writers are working on the Going Rogue expansion. It is already said that it has content and several zones. For all we know it has, now with the new easier way of making missions and arcs, just as many content as City of Heroes and City of Villains combined. At least give them the time to show it. -
Quote:This... This is the truth! Why speed up levelling again?Originally Posted by Acroyear2
Everything about Positron's post sounds awesome... except for the last paragraph about boosting the XP gains by 20% for Levels 1-20. Seriously, it's easy enough to do the first 20 Levels through normal game play, do you really need to add this boost? Heck, with Patrol XP and all the past changes to the Leveling scale for the higher Levels, it just means we'll be Leveling our heroes/villains so fast we'll hit Security/Threat Level 50 in a matter of days. Then what? Make a few Alts, super speed Level them to 50 too? Then what? Leave the game because you've leved a dozen characters to Level 50 in just three months time and there is nothing left to do?
You would think that the Devs would not want to make Leveling too easy so that the players continue to play the game month after month. This game is a business after all, and it's main source of income is the monthly subscriptions of the players. How is making it so easy to Level through the game a breakneck speeds a good business decision?
Other than that, I all for the new changes coming with Issue 16!
So that people can again tell me how impossible slow I was levelling my main in 12-15 months back when debt was meaningfull and patrol xp was not there.. and the level curve was old-fashioned. It is almost an insult how easy levelling is. Even on the normal way.
Without power levelling and doing TF's and normal missions I made 3 lvl 50's in 4 months. And I am an altoholic. Versus my main that took 12-15 months. I can have a max of 36 lvl 50's on a server. So you can actually calculate how long before I need to delete a toon if I want to build a new one up.
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Quote:I hope a lvl 50 keeps earning inf the same way or even better under this system... They need inf... and cant get any xp in any way ...Originally Posted by Myrmydon
If they are killing off powerleveling, that means this game is financially secure for the forseeable future and we can all stay awhile longer.
I have to say that I am shocked to see that Exemplaring will earn XP as well, however, I'll try not to faint over all of this good news. Thanks for the info, Posi. -
Quote:ouch... Global would be much better... As mail is send to and from globals most of the time. Also... the list will be in need of tweaking. I still cant see how long they where offline...Originally Posted by Positron
Current implementation on Training Room is "character" friends list.
As such I cant remove the inactive accounts. With the current list cap... how do I clean it up?