Mister Rik

An attempt that will be utterly wasted on those of use who play on Macintosh computers. CoH is/was the only Mac-compatible game in NCSoft's stable. I'm not going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on a gaming PC just to "take advantage" of such an offer. I do have a $400 Windows 7 laptop, and I tried Aion (and games from other companies) on it. I discovered three things:

1) I didn't like Aion at all

2) That laptop is really too underpowered for gaming

3) Trying to game on a laptop when you're accustomed to gaming on a desktop is extremely aggravating

I mentioned this on another message board. As a longtime Mac user, I think I can speak for the Mac gaming community when I say that I just automatically assume every non-Blizzard PC game that comes out is "Windows-only". I had heard of CoH (even had the first few issues of the comic), but I didn't investigate the game because, at the time, I didn't have a computer powerful enough to run this kind of game. I didn't get one until 2008, and by that time I had completely forgotten about CoH. I signed up for WoW instead (because I knew it was Mac-compatible), and played that steadily for 3+ years. It wasn't until a year ago, when I got burned out on WoW and was moaning on another forum that there was nothing else for Mac users, that somebody said "City of Heroes has a Mac version". Whoa, really? I had no idea because the company didn't advertise nearly enough.

With the right marketing, CoH could have had a good, loyal, Mac playbase.

Actually, my suggestion was going to be "Don't start your argument by getting people upset over one issue ("I hate anime!"), then switching to your real topic and pretending that's what everybody's mad at you about." There's got to be some logical fallacy that covers that type of argument.

Cool! I was worried about that - September is when my job starts getting extremely busy, and I didn't know if I would have time to log in all my characters and get all those lovely screenshots I'd like to have before 9/14 rolls around.

It's called "Asrafel". Unfortunately, can't recall where I found it.

Her backstory is that she was kind a surly young lady to begin with, before she got her powers. She had intended to call herself "Plutonium" (despite her powers having nothing to do with radiation - she's a dark/dark scrapper), but the announcement of Pluto's "demotion" came right about the time she was finishing Mother Sun's program. So her surliness turned to sarcasm, and she picked the name "Notta Planet" instead

I had to get creative with several of those names. I wanted them all to be along the lines of "<Planetname> Girl" or "Miss <Planetname>", but in several cases those were already taken. So I made "Earth Girl" German, and she became "Erdmadchen" ("Earth Maiden"); likewise with Jupiter (French, "Jupiter Girl") and Uranus (Mexican, "Princess Uranus"). Neptune's Niece is Canadian, but claims to be an actual descendant of the Roman god of the sea. Ms. Mars is an actual Martian, and doesn't have any powers - Mother Sun's procedure wouldn't work on her Martian physiology. But she was already a trained warrior (natural sword/shield brute). Girl Mercury is English. The rest are Americans (Venus Lass is a former Miss California).

I actually wasn't thinking clearly when I made my first post — I completely spaced off the fact that I do have the game installed on a cheap Windows laptop sitting next to my Mac. I just don't play the game on it. Being accustomed to playing on a Mac with a 20", 1680x1050 screen makes it difficult to try playing on a laptop with a much smaller screen. But it will serve for using your tool. Nevertheless, I suppose my question is still valid for my fellow Mac users, like blackjak there, who don't have a PC handy. Of course, that also brings up the question: will the site even let people download and install the client any more?

blackjak, unless you specifically want to play superheroes, there's always WoW, I guess, and I've been told that the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online MMO will have a Mac version. While I'm a huge superhero fan (been a comic collector for 25 years), I've come to the conclusion that CoH's genre isn't what's been important to me — it's the gameplay and the community.

Will this tool work for us Mac players?

As a Mac user, they don't have any other games in their stable that I can play, so any boycotting on my part would be kind of an empty gesture.

So for the time being I'm going to be stuck with just WoW again. Though I've been told that the upcoming Elder Scrolls MMO will have a Mac version.

I really really wish Paragon/NCSoft had done a better job of promoting CoH in the beginning. I've been online since 1996, and don't recall seeing much CoH advertisement, so I had absolutely no idea that it ran on Macs until a year ago. By comparison, I knew from 2004 that WoW would be Mac-compatible (granted, I was already a fan of the WC and Diablo franchises, so didn't need ads to tell me WoW would have a Mac version), so as soon as I finally got a Mac that could run WoW (in 2008) I signed up. If I'd had any inkling that I could have also played CoH at that time, I'd have been on board in 2008 instead of 2011.

What makes that even funnier for me: I used to be a breakfast cook in a diner that opened at 5:00AM. This was during a period when I didn't have a driver's license, so I either walked or bicycled to work every morning. Several of our regular early-morning customers were city "street department" employees — the guys who maintained traffic lights and such, did the street cleaning and snow plowing, etc. I used to "complain" to them all the time about turning off the frakkin' wind machines once in a while so that my walking and biking to work wouldn't be such a chore

My favorite Dillo:

"Don't allow excess friction on your pediment!" (don't drag your butt)

Hah! I am slain!

Kinda reminds me of the toll booth scene in Blazing Saddles - "Somebody's gotta go back and get a ****-load of dimes!"

Oh man, I just did that radio mission yesterday. I completely missed the first parts and only caught Dr. Scott's last line, so totally missed the joke

I can't find the screenshot now, but I saw a funny one in one of Meg Mason's missions in the Hollows. Couple Trolls talking while they were guarding some crates, went something like this:

Troll #1: "Trolls the best! We got crates! Trolls got best crates!"

Troll #2: "Seriously, Charlie, why do you keep talking like that? You've been off the Superadine for months. It's getting really annoying!"

Yeah, +ACC is the first enhancement I plug into all of my attack powers, on every character.

Yeah, but in this case he apparently was able to completely ignore my Repel and stun me, and once I was stunned I was helpless, especially since all of his goons were still up (because I couldn't put them down) and helping him beat on me. Once I was stunned, I was defeated in about 2 seconds. I never had a chance to keep out of melee range because Subdual didn't subdue him and Repel didn't repel him.

In any case, I decided to just delete the character and reroll her as a Mind Control/Psionic Assault dominator. Those PSs fit the character concept better anyway (her name is Mental Miyuki).