Norse Star

My children have all grown up on CoH. My now 11 year old son in 6th grade is the fastest and most accurated word processing student in the entire middle school.

Thanks for the reply. And to the rest of you, No I didn't know you could buy them off ebay. As for the VIP thing, you have all clearly put it into perspective for me. I can stop paying monthly and whenever I want VIP statice again I'll just pay for it at that time. I was clearly confused on the ideal that you had to stay current on your account for a period of time to maintain your VIP statice. Now that I know I can slack on my payments and not loose anything for doing so, its way more relaxing.

Am I the only one a little disappointed with devs repeatedly offering "limited edition" content to the general game community for a fee?

The simple answer was Yes. Yes you are the only one!

Just say when and where. @Norse Star
I'll teach you.

I love the ambushes. All of them. A short time ago it seemed they were all done with them and every mission was routine. Bored me to death. I look at every one as a combat lesson in never letting your guard down. You should be expecting them around every corner by now. I hate it when "I" mess up and blow the ambush, not because the game threw out more then I could handle, but because I'm half asleep at the keyboard or distracted by real life. What ever the reason I learn from it and don't let it happen again. AE farms work the same way. People do the same one or two everytime they know what to expect and they come prepared.
My stables are full of Squishy's I usually run solo and I say, "BRING ON THE AMBUSHES!"

Is there a post with pictures of past CoH/CoV/ NC Soft sponsored contest winners?

I live way out in the country. I have limited gamming abilities through my "available" internet services and multi purpose computer systems. I do not play on large teams or even attempt certain events or TF's because of these limitations.

I have been TP'd about the Lady Grey TF just for the badge, and am able to muddle my way through the high contrast mission maps well enough to complete them, if I'm solo. I am highly allergic to all masterminds, (As soon as we enter the door I'll be off team.) invasions, warship raids, and Hamidon as well as all multi team events. These are the things of dreams.

I will most likely never slot the incarnate powers and I'm ok with that. CoH offers a little bit of everything for everybody. The entire system limits the abilities of all players in some fashion. Tons of game content is set up specifically for team play. (Hard for a solo to "simultaneously" click 4 of anything.)

Multi team content is just another limitation for me, and where some say they're paying for content they can't use, that's life. We all own tennis shoes. We're not all olympic athletes. I do not think there are many things the average person purchases that they can say they used all the available content that was paid for, and this is, after all, an upgrade. It's not costing us any more now, to be really awesome, then it did when just standing around being a 50 was awesome.

Use the content that's right for you. Others will us what's right for them.

Between the hours I'm on and the hardware I have to work with I solo a lot. It's made me a great little blaster. (Not that anyone will ever know.) I'm set to +2x2, I think that's pretty good for a solo squishy, and when I have to get help it really sucks because once I'm teamed I'm virtually incapable of doing anything but logging out and logging in.

But don't get me wrong I like to team when I can. I do however find it increasingly difficult to find a good team among the monsters AE and Power Leveling have created. Strategy is in way short supply here and while I do enjoy the random killing sprees from time to time, there are an awful lot of players who drop at the first sign of diffuculty. Not really a fan of putting in the time on a TF and having everybody throw in the towel as soon as they get to the AV and break a nail.

I agree that sometimes it's just not going to happen, but most the time it just takes a little organization, patients, and (Dare I say it?) teamwork.

We can't all be "The Best" and we shouldn't. The initial incarnate mission was fun, taking out all the AV's feeling all awesome and powerful, for the first 20 seconds. Then it was just lame. I don't want to be all powerful. There was no fun in that, but that doesn't mean I don't want anybody else to be.

"If we're all awesome them awesome becomes average", and what do you do after that?

Adding Multi-group content opens CoH up to a broader spectrum of potential customers, and even though I will likely never be able to experience the content myself, I still feel it was a necessary move that shows CoH is continually expanding and experimenting in the highly competitive world of MMORPG. That translates to me being able to play CoH for many more years to come.

As with most gamers my original characters are on another members account. Is there a way to have them transfered to my new accounts? This would be most useful for families whos now college age children would like to retain their old characters on their own accounts.