Noxilicious

I remember when I finished my first Arsonist side mission and stood in front of a burning building.

That was about the moment I was sold on side missions. Like others have said, Mayhem Missions just make you feel delightfully villainous, and after robbing the bank, you're left wanting more, like, say, blowing buildings up, robbing more stores, and busting the local jail.

A Mayhem Mission is only complete when the property damage you caused ranks to the hundreds of millions. Otherwise, what's the point?

I don't think I have yet to encounter 'loyalists'. Maybe I did and just blocked out the noise.

It's already been said before, but it's just a game. In fact, it's a game I'm paying for on a monthly bloody basis. This has nothing to do with loyalty and all to do with me keeping paying them as long as they bring forth enjoyable services.

On that note, I cannot care less if people switch to other NCSoft MMOs or if they're even switch to the 'enemy' Champions Online, it's their bloody money and their own business.

And if CoX and Paragon Studio break apart because I stopped renewing my subscription? Well, I'm afraid that would just show Paragon Studio had a flaky business model all along.

Edit: Apparently some think my post sounds trollish. I do not feel sorry for that in the slightest. If someone gets offended because people pay money for games they're not currently playing, I won't talk around a subject just to avoid hurting their feelings because, honestly, they'll find reason to have their feelings hurt one way or another.

Or if it was about the last sentence, I wasn't actually trying to suggest that Paragon Studio doesn't know how to do business, far from it. Rather, I tried to show that 'loyalists' seem to think that CoX is dying as much as the doom-sayers so 'traitors' are hurting the game. I'd love to see CoX go strong for another five years, but I won't have anyone give anyone else lip about taking their subscription money elsewhere.

Long story short, they can stop telling people what they can do with their money and they need to stop believing that, only because not every player loves the game as much as them, Paragon Studio is suddenly threatened to die alone and forgotten.

Even shorter version: Loyalists are stupid and I'm pretty sure CoX will continue even with some people taking their money elsewhere.

If you're after the weapons, just finishing one of Technician Naylor's arcs will give you those.

Otherwise, yeah, what the others have said.

I heard you'll use powers to defeat enemies for XP in GR. But don't quote me on that. I think it's just an unfounded rumour, personally.

This is on the same level as "please make hideous costumes appear generic to me" and, unfortunately, most likely impossible.

When you're doing stuff online with people who do stuff online, I'm afraid dealing with people that have no fashion sense or concept of colour coordination is an occupational hazard.

I remember when Bastion got generic'ed because there was already a hero with that name.

As far as the fog is concerned, very, very /signed.

Ever after trying to navigate the zone with teleportation as my travel power, I avoided the zone. After the nth time teleporting in front of a building 30 yards in front of me and getting completely disoriented, I just didn't feel like EVER going back there.

My main villain has about 150 grand. Please do double that. It would be very nice.

I'm not gonna complain about something we know next to nothing about yet.

I have high hopes for Going Rogue, but also a lot of reservation. The first paid expansion had the scope of a stand-alone game, and while I'm pretty sure it was already confirmed that CoX is necessary to play GR, I hope for something that rivals CoV in size.

And yet, GR's touted feature is side-switching. CoH is your life as a hero, CoV is your life a villain, GR is... not said to be your life as some neutral-ish person. It's about your heroes and villains becoming the respective other.

But then again, the devs already spewed out major changes in free Issues. Say what you want about the AE, but a tool to design your own missions in an MMO IS a fairly revolutionary idea, and despite the time-and-money investment it took to make Power Customisation, we still got that for free, too. So if such the devs already give us major new stuff for free, surely something w need to pay for will be spectacular, right?

Basically what I am saying is that GR is an unknown quantity at this point and it could be the best thing since sliced bread, or it could be an Issue-sized booster pack. Maybe Hero Con will tell us more, but considering it's a 'teaser' only, I won't count on it. In the end, we'll just have to be more patient until we get some hard facts.

Personally, I love toons whose names are painfully self-descriptive. I've run into a Heatroller, PBlapper, and my personally favorite, the reknown hero CONTROLLLER (the triple L is essential. I think Controller was already taken). Creativity right there.

That aside, I do have problems coming up with unique names, but I don't have a problem with having a problem. Sounds weird? Let me explain:

I see it as an excercise in creativity. There's just some things that are obvious. I like being unique, but I don't have a tome that lists all the obvious names, and even if I had, I'd be too lazy to check up on it every time. It might take me ten or twenty tries, but when I come up with a name, I can proudly say that it is MY name that I came up with. I can be confident in the knowledge that I am the only Battle Ballerina in town!

Though I am not strictly opposed to purging names of unused accounts, it does make me feel rather uneasy. Much as I like CoX, it DOES get repititive eventually, and you'll just end up taking a break. I'd hate to come back after half a year and find that half my toons now need new names. It'd just break my heart after coming up with those names in the first place. I guess you just can't have your cake and eat it, too.

More pointless anecdote time! So yesterday I rolled a new toon, a Mind/Fire Dominator. I went with that classic Tempter Devil angle, lulling you into all the wrong choices with clever rhetoric and empty promises and the like. Because I like the idea of that kinda devil wearing white simply because it's a 'good' colour and it fits a manipulator to wear something 'good', I eventually tried the name 'White Lies'. Naturally, being on Virtue, the name was taken.

After about half an hour of brain-storming, I came up with the name Honest Fiend. I quite like that name, even if I may have preferred White Lies. It's unique, though, so I'm proud of that.

So I've been playing my Dom and reached level 5 and did a Mayhem Mission, yadda yadda, etc etc, you know the drill. I picked Mr Bocor as my first proper contact. We are wearing the same exact outfit.

At that point, all Game Show failure sounds from the sixties onwards to the present played in my head.

Considering that previously, you had to solo at +2? Making +3 standard is quite out there.

Not that it matters much, when before you said "I soloed an AV", you now say "I soloed an AV at +4".

AV-soloing is just a self-imposed challenge, and those who want the bragging rights will solo Nosferatu at +4, anyway.

Even if not all get made account-wide, at the very least, the Pumpkin Head and the Rikti weapons need to be made so.

It's really just too much of a gamble. You don't manage to gather a large enough group to spawn EBs, and your entire plan goes down the drain. It's already bad with the Pumpkin Head, but at least you can still just get more Halloween salvage on the market and cause another Zombie Apocalypse for another try.

But to get the Rikti weapons, you first need to do the LGTF to cause a Rikti Invasion, meaning you either have to be at least level 45 to get a CHANCE at getting the weapons, and more than likely do that TF over and over and over until you're sick and tired of it, or you need to pester others into doing the LGTF for you, OR you just trust your luck and wait until one happens, and $deity help you if you're not currently busy with a difficult mission or committed to a TF when the invasion happens.

Or you just wait for a Rikti Invasion Weekend which happens like... twice a year at most, and then it turns out just on that weekend you're busy with work or somewhere without an internet connection or anything, really, which just serves as another eff you.


I am overreacting, yes, but some unlockable weapons are just too difficult to get that either you wait a year until you get another chance, or you try so hard you either just get tired of getting the badge, or get tired of the entire bloody game.

Just give the players some leeway. If the player unlocked the Watchman and Apocalypse Survivor badges, make them account-wide because the next shot at getting them might just be years away.

I stole the Time Capsule once.

Among other things, it had codes for releasing Super Hitler in it. True story.