Lord_Nightblade

Not Smarch 13th?

Man, I love SC4. Wish I could get it to work on my current rig without crashing.

Has anyone else been following the development of SimCity (5)? It's going to have a multiplayer mode to it, maybe we could form a CoH region or something.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I do have secrets. This is hard, but here goes...








I shot JR. And my ancient Chinese secret is Calgon.

I know. I can't even look at myself in the mirror anymore

Don't forget Dr. Aeon's Dance Gun and Bobo No. 5

I would've worked on origin specific story arcs at all levels. Either as individual arcs for each origin, or arcs that branched and changed based on origin (kinda like the Origin of Power arc, but more so). It always bothered me that origins had no meaning outside of what DOs/SOs our characters could equip (which became almost completely meaningless once IOs went live), and I've long thought that unique story arcs would be a good way to fix that.

In no particular order:

The customization, being able to create a character that feels uniquely yours.

The global friend/chat system, because it made it so easy to maintain connections with people

The Sidekick/Exemplar system, because it made teaming with friends so incredibly easy.

Ourobouros/flashbacks, because I loved being able to revisit some of my favorite content or go back and do things I missed

The community. Even if I never made a lot of friends in game or on the forums, I loved being a part of the City community. You all are irreplaceable, and I don't know what I'm going to do when the forums shut down.


And as a note to the devs:
If you guys find yourselves working for other MMOs in the future, please please please do whatever you can to get them to incorporate sidekicking, globals, and flashbacks into their games. I just find it so exacerbating that these great features of CoH are virtually ignored by damn near every other MMO out there.

That's a nice send off, Sorah. I'll have to keep a look out for the finished piece.

Somebody call Jim Butcher. He plays CoH, right? Maybe he can write a really persuasive letter and have them not kill the game. Or he can put the word out to his fans and have them start playing.

Oh, and whoever puts all of the CoH references in Big Bang Theory. Have them do an episode where Sheldon freaks out about the game shutting down.

I play a few other MMOs, but most often go to Star Trek Online. I have fun with it, despite its problems, and I'm a big ol' Trekkie.

If anyone is interested in trying it out when CoH goes dark (or before), feel free to send me a message @Lord_Nightblade and I'll give you the $0.50 tour (parents are visiting through next week, though so I won't be online much). Or you can give a shout in the global channel, CoX (which works across games, so CO players can join as well).

I remember ShoNuff and Lord_of_Time posting tons and tons of interesting articles about gaming, stuff in development, general pop culture and cool sciencey stuff.

I remember the thread about nightmarish work experiences, and L_o_T's stories from Hell. I really miss that one, he had some good ones.

Has anyone been following the development of the next SimCity game? The SimCity franchise is special to me, because it's what got me into gaming. SimCity Societies was a huge disappointment, so when I heard about this one I was excited, at first. Now, I'm not so sure about it.

I have a few concerns, but the main one is that there's not going to be a god-mode terrain editor. One of the things I loved about SC2k, 3k, and 4 was that I could shape the land I wanted to build my city on. The land was just as much a part of the city's character as the roads and houses. Plus, I could use it to make things as easy or as hard as I wanted (ever try managing a medium to large urban community on three small islands? it ain't easy). So there being no terraforming function is extremely disappointing. I think I understand why it wasn't added. The devs of SimCity are touting the online multiplayer aspect of it a lot, and I can see where having the ability to shape the land would potentially screw things up along shared borders. But they're still doing a single-player mode, so I don't see why they couldn't include a terrain editor in that.

I'll probably be waiting for the reviews to come out before I buy it. I really do want it to be good, or at the very least better than Cities XL (which has it's good bits, but isn't as good as SC4). I hope it's at least successful enough to keep the franchise alive.

I know I've always been at the outer edge of the community here and despite how long I've played you all don't really know me, but anyone else feel like having a get together in four months when the servers go dark? We could cry on each others' shoulders.

I'm active on and off in STO, do CO one in a blue moon (maybe more now, who knows) and sub to TOR. I've been wanting to give Secret World a shot, so once the game closes and I have some spare subscription money I may check it out.

For me this is less about what games I'm going to be playing than what I'm going to do for an internet community. These were the first forums I ever posted on, and the community here is just... irreplaceable. Even when it seemed like I was more on the periphery of what was going on, I never felt at home anywhere else. I'll probably give the Roosterteeth forums a closer look and maybe become more active there, but it just won't be the same.

*sigh*

At any rate, I'm still fairly active in STO and we do have a small, but active(ish) fleet for CoH players (or anyone really). It's F2P, so if anyone is interested in playing and you want what meager advice I can give or you want to see what the fleet starbase looks like and possibly join up, feel free to send me a message in game @Lord_Nightblade or (and this is probably the easiest method) give a shout out in the CoX global channel.