Manny

Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin

Thanks Manny I was thinking to put up (yet another) wall of text post (I really need to work on economy
of speech ) about who is a good candidate for going custom. Kind of a pro's and con's list of buying
off the shelf from a big box store vs. having one custom made. Perhaps this would be the time, any thoughts on this?

Originally Posted by TonyV

Funny how old-timers tend to get jaded so quickly. Yes, we've done a lot of this same stuff for the last five years. But what about those people who haven't been here five years?

I mean, consider how cool the event was in October 2004. Hardly anyone had seen a freakishly giant creature like Eochai at that time, Croatoa wasn't even in existence. We were all pretty stoked back then, and that was just one giant monster roaming around. We didn't even have that hero event channel to let us know where he was.

Now consider if you had just joined the game within the past year. This event is huge. I mean, my god, giant monsters, creatures you've never seen before, getting stuff from knocking on doors that don't do anything the rest of the time (especially the costume salvage for free that usually costs big $$$ at the auction house), changing your avatar into any of a buttload of enemies, umpteen badges, defeating banners strewn around zones, fighting off hordes of zombies (say what you will about it happening all the time; unlike during the Halloween event, usually people are so jaded of it that there aren't enough heroes grouped up to spawn the Elite Boss Nightmares), no sun in the city anywhere... I mean, it's definitely a lot different than the normal game.

Please remember as you think about how you've been doing this for years that not everyone has, and they deserve that same coolness factor that we've been spoiled with for a long time now.

And the banner stuff is pretty cool. I'm so glad it's not just another standard "Defeat x and collect badge" kind of thing.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Well let me know if you need a storage character or something, or to collect some of my earnings. In any case, this has been just fascinating to watch. Laeva, I really enjoyed this experiment.

Originally Posted by Diggis

This. I don't care what power set people are as long as they are fun to play with.

Originally Posted by ChaosRed

It was a good gaming weekend for me, with some great family news along the way.

It was the least amount of RP I had done in years. Even when I was in a PUG that was open to roleplaying - I pretty much stayed quiet. I just wanted to give RP a rest for the weekend and focus on growing some characters.

Anyway, it was fun to be a “power leveler” for a weekend. Now I am done with it. One thing I find about leveling fast - is there no story in between. Characters are created and driven to their peaks so fast - you don’t even realize who they are – or how they became to be.

It is time to slow it all down again and “live and breathe” with them again.

Time, once again, to embrace the carebear within.