Nethergoat

I've gotten this quite often over the years and it remains irrelevant to my argument.

I'm defining 'hotspot' as 'a place in the game where you can find player characters'. What interactions you choose to have at that point are up to you- I usually browse costumes, read bios and compliment the ones I like, which occasionally leads to a chat of greater or lesser length.

Same thing I do in Pocket D (although Pocket D is just another instance in a game full of them) or Atlas with the difference that there are many market outlets in a variety of zones. I'll also note that Pocket D is reliably abandoned on many of the servers I play....unlike the markets.


Again, I like seeing other characters in game without having to go out of my way to find them.

That's right, be sure to treat hyperbole with poker faced humorlessness so you can continue to discount my point that the game needs more, not fewer, public gathering spots to alleviate its advanced case of City of Instances syndrome.

I bet if you stubbed your toe the neighbors would assume you were being fed feet-first into a wood chipper.

I went through that battle a good while back, when they bumped mission XP to get people *off* the streets. =P

I'm also one of the few people you're likely to meet who was against the AFK logout timer because I liked checking out all the people getting PL'ed at the train station in Bricks, so.....

While I'm not exactly a hermit, the other day I ordered a pizza from Dominos instead of any one of a dozen other better tasting, higher quality delivery options in my town because their perfection of online ordering meant I wouldn't have to talk to a human being.

True story!

But the inherent limitations of a game-verse, which seem to intensify many folk's annoyance and irritation with their fellows, makes it easier for me to accept the foibles and mishaps inherent in most social interactions.

I cut my online gaming teeth running Counterstrike servers, and as the saying goes evil hive of scum and villainy etc etc. The only people I've reported in 8 years of play are RMT spammers and people spouting racism in broadcast. Most of the behavior I see people complaining about I find amusing, if not downright endearing.

IRL I value my privacy and am likely to avoid seeing movies on the weekend because I'd rather not deal with a crowd. In game, I love seeing other players, checking out their characters & feeling like I'm hanging out in an actual City of Heroes rather than City of Instances.

my interest in making inf has outlived the purchase of everything I ever 'needed' in the game- thank goodness the 88's give me something to do with it all!

Well, it *is* a much needed INF sink, with the bonus feature (from my perspective and apparently no-one else's on the planet) that it would incentivize use of Wents/BM and improve the social ambiance of those former hotspots.

I wonder how much more support the idea would receive if I re-framed as a pure inf sink, as the most vitriolic responses hail from the God Forbid I Ever See Another Player In The Wild, They Might Have Rabies! crowd.

Rest easy, I'm (nearly) certain you overestimate my powers of persuasion here.... =)

As nicely demonstrated by the majority of the replies to this thread. =P


also, see Arcanaville....

the need for disclaimers like this are, in a nutshell, why I've abandoned mainstream superhero comics.

Well, aside from the occasional self-contained graphic novel...

Well, will wonders never cease!

that was on a few months ago, but disappeared again much to the chagrin of my son.


and did you know there was a Karate Kid cartoon series?
Well there was, and it REALLY REALLY SUCKED!
Thanks, Netflix! =P

I'm having a bit of a problem with it, as he's become one of those characters I just want to keep playing. It's thrown a wrench in my 'play and review the new content with Lizardroid' plan...this is why I have alt-itis. I think of characters, play for a while, think of some other character, find out I like them better and end up retracing my steps.

Oh well, I can always pick up the reviewing when I get SilverRage to 16!

I'll check 'em out.
And custom enemies aren't a total 'no play' for me- but I like to go into those missions with one of my powerful, kitted out characters. It's been my experience that trying a custom enemy MA arc with a 'regular' character is guaranteed frustration and annoyance.


Ok, I claimed all the merits from super packs last night. I burned off 30 or so and (shockingly, to me) ended up with almost a thousand merits?!? I claimed them on the Goat and he had like 20 in the bank, my style of gameplay not being conducive to merit generation.

Seemed like an awful lot to me. Off to the Market forum to see what the most efficient use for them is, from an inf earning perspective....

Apologies to DM, EM & SS, but after one night of play it's obvious Street Justice is the punching melee set we should have had at launch. =P

really fun, very super-feeling, and especially on a brute the first two attacks are fabulous. First character in a LOOOONG time I didn't feel the need to immediately claim my vet attacks on.

Not to sound *too* much like a paid shill for Paragon, but anyone who's felt even semi-curious about Street Justice should pick it up while it's on sale. Super fun.

I have one other /shield character, my tank Crafticus, who uses an energy shield. I was slightly put out when making SilverRage that I couldn't get a plain ol' round metal shield- they all had wood backing, which doesn't fit my silver age concept. I couldn't find a 'basic' shield without a wood backing, and all the other ones, cool as they are, didn't really work with the 'clean lines, simple graphics' aesthetic of the era.

A tiny quibble, as you can't really see the back of the shield when he's in action, but being how I am it is nagging at me a bit.

Paid up the rent on most of my bases and went spelunking through storage- quite a bit of junk in there. Base salvage racks only hold 30 now? Sheesh. I went through and turned most of my base salvage into other junk when they got rid of it, even so I've got a couple hundred chunks of components in these itty bitty little storage units. Components I don't even remember how to use or what they're for- heh.

I burned off a 25 pack buy of super packs over the course of the week and got all the Elemental costume bits plus a bunch of attuned enhancements and piles of other stuff- I guess I ought to figure out what the deal is with Enhancement Booster & Catalysts and whatnot. I already have a use for all my Enhancement Unslotters- I put off respec'ing my fire/ice blaster literally for years because he's chock full of expensive stuff that his new build doesn't call for that I didn't want to just lose...neither did I want to go through multiple respecs to pull them all out. Voila, problem solved!

The learning curve coming back from the 'old game' to the Freedom era is seeming every bit as steep as the learning curve when I picked up CoH back in the day and started feeling my way around my first MMO. Lots and lots and LOTS of new stuff that alters what you know about the game in ways subtle and overt.

heavens no!

Just pointing out that players do what they do and suggesting everything would be fine if only they did the 'right thing' is silly.

Reminds me of the good ol' days when Perfect Pain would go on one of her rants about how we didn't need merged markets, we just needed everyone to play villains.