Nyx

Even fully IO'ed I chose to stick with Cardiac...

Why?

I never want to think about my blue bar again!

Ever!

And now...I don't

Plus it's just the more bang for your buck Alpha.

Sort of a confusing statement. I mean the Rikti events, Kheldian wars, and the villain groups out there including Hamidon is sort of the setting. If you removed the Cannon and ignored the plot, you essentially would ignore the setting.

I have to go with what I know. I mean if I was doing a table top PnP DnD affair and was using a setting that already existed, but based it on a little town where no one ever heard of the heroes of a specific setting then yes, ignoring would be an option until you left said little town and discovered the setting for what it was.

CoX is really no different then that. I mean there are events that have taken place, the only difference is that if we ignored the plot, then to answer your second question, it would mean that the players would be cannon, but missions would generally have to be vague take at more face value.

If I ignored the plot of the story (Which many do because they simply hunt XP and read very little of the lore) then it's possible to make you toon a God, Ultimate Mutant, or pretty much anything you can dream of really.

So, my thoughts what I would do regarding things that go against my characters grain.

Rikti war. Aliens sweeping in and taking over. Heroes regardless of plot have the option to either fight back or let them win. But to that point if my toon cares little about the Rikti in the current setting then it would still mean the plot or that plot was not relevent to how I see that toon being played out. Which means I could ignore much of the arcs.

The problem is that the game is a contructed setting no different than any board game ever made, and thus escaping the plot entirely means the game would have to be based on the actions of the character in place, and because this is not open ended like single player game (Oblivion comes to mind) the options are a little more defined by how the game mechanics made it.

Nor should you make any appologies for that! You shouldn't have to do things you don't want, or do things with others when you want your alone time.

But if you open youself and your psyche to a public forum of an MMO which implies a certain level of social interaction...Especially on a forum then you need to understand that people will read it and respond and ask you for your explanation or delve into your statement.

If alone time is what people desire, then it seems odd to post the reason for alone time on a public forum with the expectation that people will leave the post alone? I don't think Im crazy for saying that.

No I deleted it because what I wrote just sounded like a snarky version of myself...and in my defense I was a little hopped up on allergy meds and it just came accross between "High Horse" who was "High"

What I was getting at before my deletion was that, yes you pay your subscription like all of us. You like the game, and don't want to bend because of reason you mentioned including the fact that you pay for it.

But this also sounds like an Elderly old man who remembers when banks closed at 4, TV had no color, and you had to walk home 17 miles through 17 feet of snow, from school, up hill both ways, and darnit...you liked it better that way!

Well, we all pay for it, for now anyways.

But it seems to me that what you enjoy is your character! You enjoy that process, and then the rest leaves you sort of cold. It's sounds like you put effort, like I do when it comes to your creation of your character, and that when others don't care, notice, or considder your creation pixels that ruins part of your experience.

Over the last course of posts I have also noticed things that you don't like. Trials, Trials that trivialize the content, Long TF's, Thickness of Vanguard Weapons, Certain Special Effect costume peices, PuGing, CoH/CoV Trailers...and the Arc in which you are newly incarnated and defeat all the Echo's of Cannon...and you also don't RP much as well from what I gather, Crafting system, IO's, People calling the Consignment House an Auction House..etc.

Just always seems like you love the game for exactly what many people blow through, which is character development and creation. Thats great because I know you love one thing. But see...I don't know what else you like. You seem to like only your own creations, as you make them, invision them, and want them to play out.

The unfortunate thing is that in magic game land there are always going to be people who are going to pee on your perade, and not give a crap, that you spent hours making a costume, or took days coming up with a concept. Or worse, they will look at you oddly because you did not min/max or take flavor of the month build.

In my original post I sort of implied you were a gamer snob. Snob can be harsh, but sometimes Sam when you write things, you sort of sound exactly like a little kid in a sandbox who does ot get his way, takes his toys home, and pouts and then complains later when he is by himself and bored.

What do you like Sam? Other than your own creations? Most of your recent posts imply nothing...except back in the olden days when you first got your tights, put em on, and a walked 17 miles through the snow to get to Atlas? (Which you also don't like because it's like logging into a social nightmare or something you mentioned in the "What will you miss about Galaxy City thread).

What do you like?

No that did help a lot.

It's my main...Im attatched...and I want her to be wicked (In my head she is)

I was just also wodnering if it would help the team...which it appears to be doing.

So thanks again for the info.

It's appreciated much.