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Well, for one, only 50 characters can be in the zone at a time. A summary of the raid strategy is in the thread Virtues i9 Hamidon Raiding Guide (Hero-side)

The current incarnation is "VU2009".

Silly me... I was thinking it was a normal raid, but every man/woman/robot/alien/demon/catgirl/etc. for him/her/itself at the bloom.

Sounds like fun. The last few redside Hami raids I've been in have had only one ATTer (me), so the evac-free part won't be anything new.

However, I'll probably still bring my blaster MOUT, since there will hopefully be ample opportunity for healing credit from rezzing and he's still working towards the 2nd badge.

I'm assuming October 3 (the 2nd is Friday), and that referring to the 5th is from looking at the September calendar instead of October's.

So a smiley is the internet equivalent of "bless his/her heart"?

i.e., "MOUT's a real jerk who for the sake of future humanity's intelligence shouldn't be allowed to breed, bless his heart."

Poor typists/ spellers of the world untie!

Oh, and I haven't actually created a Spelling Nazi character in game yet. I wonder if the name "Fifth Calumnist" is available? I could expand the character's villainy beyond the mere criticism of spelling.

I'm roleplaying a Spelling Nazi.

Stop telling me how to roleplay!

HVAS pets.

Understood. I just meant that server rules for "official" RP probably don't make sense so much in CoX.

I'm reminded of a multi-genre pen-and-paper RPG called Torg, which published one supplement called the "Character Collection". It was pretty much just a publication of characters which players had sent in as part of a contest. One character in particular was a former college gamer who had gained some abilities, but due to, umm, mental issues, he thought he was still palying a game. He carried around dice and rulebooks, and would frequently refer to the people and things he was fighting as "NPCs" and such. Heck, another RPG (Dream Park) was based on you RPing a gamer who went to a high-tech amusement park to LARP.

Taking this in current context in CoX, imagine a computer gamer who somehow gained superpowers but isn't quite "there" mentally, and believes he's playing a game. It could be perfectly reasonable for this character to roleplay by talking about farms, nerfs, killing bosses, etc., even using leetspeak.

Examples like this is why I don't believe that an "official" RP server would work well in a game like CoX.

Nope.

I doubt there are enough dedicated RPers to warrant a special server. And what would the rules be?

And banning from the server if the name isn't "good enough" sounds to me like it would result in (1) a lot more petitions for CS to handle, requiring more support staff and/or slowing down response time for other issues, and (2) griefers deliberately making characters whose names aren't "good enough" for the sole purpose of annoying RPers into getting the character deleted.

Within the context of CoX, neither of those situations necessarily indicates a break in roleplaying a character.

You were on a hero and "arrested" it?

Depends on what you buy it with.

Buy it with real cash, yeah, that's wrong... since when you log in, you agree not to do that. Sure, people buy inf with real cash, and if that's all their word means to them... their loss.

Buy it with inf? Play the market, use nonexploitive farms? Pay other characters inf to grind prestige for you? Go for it.

I used to be part of a VG that had a theme of mercenaries-for-hire... other VGs would contract with us to earn them prestige, we'd have a number of mercs join their VGs for however long it took, and get "paid" from the infamy they gave our officer for the service... was a lot of fun.

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$15... for 5 Purples AND 20 other set IOs AND 50 million inf?

That's what it would take to be "worth it"?

No.

Heh, old class As it is then.

Unless, of course, Sarge shows up in his BDUs, then I might change uniform to match.

Spend em on random recipe rolls and put em up on the market for 1 inf each.

106 merits for a Hami raid?

Would certainly make retrieving corpses after a Hamidon bloom more exciting.

Lowering your rep, not because you asked, but because my own attempt at starting a similar forum game was pretty much ignored.

http://www.pvponline.com/

Meh, I had a government job for three years. I not only had to work a lot of weekends and holidays, I didn't even get overtime pay.

And remember... old geometry teachers never die, they just go off on a tangent.

::cough::

Anyway, back to the OP... when the "backstory" was erased, do you mean the character bio? If so, what was in that? If the only thing the GMs were possibly concerned about was the name, I doubt they'd clear the bio as well.

Schools are closed as well, so the buildings allowing entrance to Cimerora will be locked.