MiceInBlack

I'm not sure if it has been suggested but I think that on the last day that the fires of Hell should spit forth demons and that dimensional rifts should form unspilling all manner of beastly entities. This is the end times. Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Cut loose the chains and unleash every Giant Monster and boss upon the streets of Paragon in Atlas at the same time. Earn the I survived the End Times Badge so we can get a final screen shot of our character with the title.

Its not fair that Mako is the only shark villain who gets to have Nom Nom fun. Wheres our great white head and hammerhead costume beast head option? How about a shark fin for the backpack slot? I can at least scare the neighbors in the pool with that. Even an animated shark tail would be cool. Sigh, really want a shark costume to go with this new water powerset.

I have been waiting for a water powerset for a long time which is why I can't fathom (pun intended) that there are no wave attacks. Many water based heroes are based on the ocean. I don't expect you to be able to whip out a surfboard and crack someone in the skull with it but this powerset should at least have one power dedicated to a Tidal Wave attack that is AOE with a high chance of knockdown. No waves? Seriously? But we have steam O.o Sigh. I'm good with water jet attacks and whirlpool but the rest of this set seems to be watered down and needs to be sent back to the kiddie pool.

On another note we need a water travel power where you ride around on a giant wave.

Heh. You mean where everyone ended up under the floor of the D outside?

I like your Flying Mantis Costume. It looks cool.

Oh, btw I did finally get my code so thanks. I'll post the screenshot of my winner but it will have to wait till my ship pulls back in to port. So... it might be awhile since I can't access COH while at sea.

I haven't seen anything either and have checked my email daily. Kinda strange since usually it only takes them a few minutes to give you a costume code. Maybe the hold up is arranging the hour of play or something.

Dunno. Although I think they are trying to do some servers they haven't held contests on before.

Its too bad the costume code for the May winners isn't related to the content released in Issue 23. That would have been awesome.

In the same boat. Nuthin yet. Although the new stuff put out has kept me busy as well. I'm curios who won in the other judging event.

I haven't received a code or anything yet but I'm sure that will come down the pipeline later this week when they are sure there are no ahem -bugs- with the latest update. I'm regretting not taking any screenshots but hopefully the Devs will put those up soon too.

Looking at the Helm of Tartarus Helmet artwork and then the actuall helmet depicted in the screen shot I can't help but think how my hamburger never looks like the hamburger posted on the menu in the fast food joint.

Will we see more animal transformation travel powers? With all the werewolves I'm really surprised there is not wolf travel power instead of a coyote. Panther might look cool too.

I think the current City of Heroes still has a strong following but I am hoping that they are developing a COH2. At least in secret. I don't think you would need a replacement. They just need to do a different city with different iconic heroes. Perhaps base it on the West Coast.

Hmm.... Well... The truth is that regardless of the server you are simply going to have people that are not roleplayers. The ones that do roleplay usually fit into three categories of 1. hard core roleplayer, 2.casuall roleplayer, and 3. I'm in my own little world or super group's world of roleplay.

1. Because not everyone is a roleplayer your gonna have the He-Man arguments with the I can take you out statements, god modding and all that. Then you have your outright goofs and those spamming powers and covering you in ice just for kicks. Not much you can do about it except ignore it although with new players you can remind them that DJ Zero controls the place and there is no fighting. I've roleplayed stepping between people before it got to fighting stage. They will either quit or ignore you and keep goofing off. If it makes you feel better you can throw out a pose of DJ Zero hypnotizing the two so they only think they are fighting. I suppose that is god modding too but it depends how much fighting in the D ticks you off.

2. I mostly go by level as I assume anyone of a higher level has been around and worked with effort to get that high. If his/her level is greater than mine then they exceed me in power regardless of their archetype. However, as annoying as Level 1 god modders can be. Level 50+ can equally be annoying with the I'm god now that I'm level 50 attitude. It makes me wish a Level 60 player NPC would just walk in and slap them up side the head. Realistically there is -always- someone out there more powerful than you. It is unlikely that you at your mega level can say "Oh, my powers of detection determine that you are level 48 and inferior to me." Uh.... There is no such thing as a -level- in roleplay much less detecting levels. I sometimes wish that you could hide your level from other players. That would make roleplaying more interesting as now you would have to challenge the player. Hmm.... Little bit more risky now isn't it. But since we can't hide our levels we should act responsibly regardless of level. Low levelers should play at low level unless they are playing as a NPC for a roleplay plot that everyone has agreed upon. So... the bad guy might be high level in mission architect but for simplicity someone plays him as a lev 1 NPC for roleplay in the D or elsewhere.

Being level 50 justifies some power but I also know players can team and power level to 50 in a short amount of time. Another person might solo and mission his way up to 50 through a lot of hard work and a heck of lotta missions. Likely, that person would have more contacts and be more powerful in the roleplay universe due to connections over a power leveler despite all the power leveler's enhancement goodies. Badges should count as much as your IO enhancements. Heck, if your both lev 50 roleplayers then do some ooc compromising in tels and be mature about it. If the person always wants to be a god or goddess then they probably are not worth roleplaying with. A good hero or villain gets their butt kicked now and then so they can learn from the experience.

3. If they claim to have minor powers I'm okay with it. Telekinetics roleplaying levitating drinks over to them selves. Plant people snaking out a vine to grasp something. Teleporting small objects if they are a master teleporter. As long as it isn't too far fetched or disruptive I'm good for it. Are they using these new powers to enhance roleplay or godmod?

4. Some of the powers give explanations for seeing stealth but then again I don't feel your gonna see that level 50 ninja all the time. Is he roleplaying coming up behind you or simply walking right in front of you? Bit of common sense in these situations. If your a master of stealth then roleplay it. If they do a good job roleplaying stealth then don't pull the I am all seeing crud.


Meh, my wall of text reply. Hope you at least agreed with some of it.

One of things I noticed tonight is that I got kicked due to a mapserver discon. I could not log in as my toon despite having restarted the client several times. It would let me log on as a different toon but not the one that was involved in the BAF. It would always say "Character -toon's name- is still logging out. Please wait a second, then try again." Ten minutes had passed and still was locked out of main toon. Restart of client does not seem to fix. I finally got on but it took many tries.

I'm in Atlas but don't see many peeps yet. Bout ten min to go unless they cancelled and are only posting cancellation on Twitter and Facebook. Meh. Why does everyone use facebook when we have a forum?

I was about 15min late if they hadn't of cancelled and I didn't see anyone anywhere except for Pocket D which had bout 3-4 players in it.

Was the posting of the cancellation only on Facebook? I'm surprised a notice wasn't posted here or did I miss it in the forum some where?

Thanks for the responses. I think it was the timing of the thing that got me. I had logged on successfully the day before and then just happened to perfectly patch and try to connect at the time of the outage today. I see the posted outage now along with the links given. I think the fact that servers showed up on the main page yet was all grayed out on the client is what confused me.

The latest patch downloaded and disabled all server selections for the client. The web page shows that all servers are up yet each server is grayed out and representative by three gray dots. I did not have this problem as of 25Aug2010 and it only started after the automatic patch for today.