Mr_Hellcat

Because sadly on Liberty, it is not.

And why isn't this thread stickied?!?!

In no particular order..

- My game/computer mapserving trying to put an HO in the Auction House. Never did figure out why.

- The bizarreness that is missing from less than a foot away from a target. Especially with eyebeams. There's nothing like seeing them shoot out the side of your head just to miss.

- Your range vs target range.

- The new AP and all of Praetoria. I enjoy being able to move faster than Walk through a zone.

- Multiple Caltrops. ESPECIALLY after the targets are dead. ..Although Knives of Artemis' is pretty so those aren't so bad.

- Troy Hickman. Naw, just kidding. I just wanted to see if I could get him to show up. "Sanctuary" is still one of my favorite short stories, in comic or otherwise form.

- Not being able to post in the Comics section because I'm not VIP. I never did understand that.

- Being stuck being the guy on the team of friends who plays the role needed for the TF or mission, etc, because everyone else wants to play specific toons and being the only one to budge.

- Having to turn off Hide/Mask Presence to escort a hostage because they can't see you if you move more than 3 feet at a time.

- Facing Sappers on anyone other than my Dark Armor scrap.

- Facing the rogue Vanguard on my Dark Armor scrap.

/em salute

We never did get to keep the best Community Reps. Even those now, are merely borrowed. That being said, when it comes down to it, our Community Reps at the end of the day are a bunch of text arranged on a computer screen. Sure, some of the forum goers have the privilege of meeting them in person, but for a bunch of text arranged on a computer screen.. they've made quite an impact on more than a few lives.

/em salute

P.S. Who does that us leave for Community Reps? Or have things finally GONE TO THE AMERICANS!?

Go check and make sure Bobby Ewing isn't in the shower.

Saw this on my daily webcomic reading today at PvP:

Ok, my ultimate Confession?

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...I took Flurry and Whirlwind on my first toon.

Well, I did finally get a FPARN today. Does that count?

Oh and I also regret not being able to even get one legit kill on someone epic on Liberty in PVP like someone from the Freaks or Whirligig.

Holy crap, how do you boil down time spent on CoH since Aug 2005 into a forum post, even if that entire time wasn't consecutive because even during time away you were still in contact/doing things with people met in CoH but elsewhere on the intrawebs?

Biggest regrets? Not being able to afford CoH for two accounts as well as life after getting married and that my computer sucks too much to handle the high end stuff so even if I was a subscriber again or even if they made the game VIP, I wouldn't be able to experience it.

Best moments? In game or CoH related?

• Getting married to my wife that I met ingame.
• Her saying yes when I proposed.
• Meeting my wife.
• Sitting by her ingame by the double waterfall island in Oro talking for hours during the initial talking phase.
• Watching a friend I made on CoH who despite not being ingame for awhile, get married to someone she met on CoH and just recently have a child together with her hubby met in CoH. You GO, Jenifer!
• Being SO EXCITED to ding my first 50 that instead of sitting at 49 and waiting for people to get on the next day, I stayed up and played through some random Praetorian Portal missions and dinged 50 on a random mob.
• Killing Romulus for the last time on an ITF with Soul Transfer on my dark/dark scrapper.
• Flying. Sweet Jesus, flying. If there's one thing I will miss more than anything in this game it's the Flight power.

And one of my single best memories from CoH? This one gets it's own paragraph instead of a bullet: Moving on from CoH. Hate on me for that if you want to, blame that for the downfall of the game, etc, whatever. I don't care. The point is that when I started playing City of Heroes, I NEEDED it because I was an introvert/shy/insecure/whatever. I am the person that I am because of the friends that I've made on City of Heroes, the experiences and life lessons, etc. Now I don't need CoH and my wife and I spend time doing stuff like.. living and enjoying life together in RL. I didn't have a RL before CoH.

Post a better video of her so people can get an um.. better idea of who she is.

...Part of the reason why I stopped playing as much before the sunset announcement was that between making a build in Mids and the idea of the character that I had in my mind, I never got the characters beyond the Character Creator.

Which leads me to this confession:

No offense to the people at Titan or the people that pushed for "real numbers", I think that that was one of the worst things added to the game because it popularized min/maxing even more.

And my other confession that ties into that.. I'm one of those people that was actually fine with ED, but that might have something to do with me starting soon before it started.

Fparn?

Edit: Whoo, a fparn. Now I feel special...?

So basically, what everyone is saying is that, based off the rough numbers listed in this thread.. costume combinationss x primary/secondary combinations x powerset combinations each character is 1 in 1,511,583,785,054,616,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000?

Barring of course, accurate Arcanaville math.

Edit: And of course it should be multiplied by 3 for the different genders(?) and if we assume 1-100 for the sliders, it'd be 4.698631734685421662262508644835e+143? Oh man I'm confused and I don't even know how to write this out, etc. I'm going to get some coffee!

/tableflip

My biggest problem, aside from CoH ruining me when it comes to community and character customization, is that I have an old computer that can play CoH fine on regular, non-Ultra settings but still gets laggy sometimes zoning on TFs.

I've tried CO and the art style is hard to get past, even without the black lines, and it just seems like it's hard to get into in general if you're there by yourself.

STO was fun at first, but then when you get past the tutorial it's like.. "ok now what?" and you're stuck staring into the abyss of the game by yourself.

Which's what made DCUO so nice is that you can just plug in and go if you don't mind how they handle the appearance of your characters (loot driven), because the game is basically a single player game online because you have to search for the chat windows, etc. But after awhile it gets lonely and it has a tendency to crash my ancient computer to desktop so it's like.. meh, I might as well be playing a Fallout. That's just as multiplayer as DCUO and it crashes less.

See.. THIS THREAD is a perfect example of what makes this all so sad. I've never encountered an MMO where the staff and players were so close and part of a community as a whole like CoH, and that's sad because it's not like the devs and staff are doing anything extraordinary, they're just being good people. No matter how upset people are by this, they at least know in the back of their head that the staff left on the game will keep going for the players until the very end.

And.. *sniff* that's just too beautiful to lose and be thrown to the wolves of the rest of the MMO world.

Also there're still items on the Beta market that aren't 0. Mainly costume bundles. Not to gripe about a gift, etc, especially given the "end times" and all, but I thought everyone was set up to be VIP on beta now?