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Character Name: Xegreny
Level 50 – Blaster
Energy Blast & Energy Manipulation



Greatest Achievement: 850 Badges Earned

For many players, City of Heroes is a casual game that provides hours of endless content and in-depth optional systems such as Inventions and the newly unveiled Incarnates. For me, this tagline was certainly true. I created my first character, a blaster, in 2006. My costume was hideous and my biography was poorly written at best. Thankfully, both have improved with time, but those memories have not been forgotten. My fondest memories were the days I spent exploring. My missions were either not interesting, or too difficult to complete alone. Instead I prioritized history and friends over influence and experience points. As you can imagine, I discovered badges quickly. Do you remember when you were young and toiled for hours in your single player game to unlock that one meaningless achievement? I certainly do. To me, badges were the spiritual successor to my childhood habit of getting that 100%, doing everything just for the fun of saying you did. I spent days, weeks even, combing over each zone for badges at my own pace. I discovered every badge, read every plaque, tagged every villain. Naturally, I reveled in each detail the badges revealed. City of Heroes’ lore is so expansive; it’s easy to get lost in it. Badges were not everything, however. I enjoyed just playing in the game’s environment. Have you ever raced a friend to the top of one of the city’s many skyscrapers without using any of your powers? It’s possible, I assure you, just land on the window sill! The most magical aspect, in my opinion, is that this game is not only massive, but truly multiplayer. What City of Heroes’ developers haven’t thought of, a player has. Each person who logs in brings with them another story, another unique costume, and their own ideas. Some of these ideas have even made their way into official content, or so I’m told. I make it a point to read the biography of each player I interact with it, be it teaming or otherwise. Why? It’s interesting! It’s with the advice, guidance, and encouragement of these fellow players that have elevated me to the place I am today. My costume is no longer hideous (or at least, I think it looks nice!), and my biography has expanded into a real story. My build has achieved some sort of cohesion, and my badge count has soared. That number in my personal info box has evolved from just a number, but rather a meter of my growth as a hero, a character, a player. Two days ago, I earned my 850th badge. While the total number of badges that a character can earn is now far over 1200 in number, this is still a huge achievement for me. I look upon that personal info box with pride and see a challenge. Until I hit that maximum number, there’s still more to do. I have more zones to explore, more challenges to complete, more friends to make and more missions to complete. As the city limits of Paragon City, Rhode Island expands, so do the opportunities that each of us have to grow and interact. Here’s to having lots of fun, more issues, and lots of badges along the way!
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In short, yes! There's a long story which I won't tell to the entire public on the forums because they would find it awfully boring. I really need to change my forum name though.. I missed the chance at forum mitigation, I don't even use this character name anymore.

No, it's a desktop. I didn't actually check the machine, but Inspiron sounded right..

And don't tell me that Aion's a grindfest.. I just dropped forty bucks on it because it looked cool.. heh. But yeah, CoX usually causes the chipset to overheat in 10 to 20 minutes while TF2 only crashes it after hours of play.

First of all, wow thank you for all the information! Unfortunately, all those nice cards you mentioned I can't afford. heh. I'm thinking of grabbing that one, since it's not my entire budget. Do you think it's worth it to spend another 20 dollars to get the 5770?