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This is the same for me. I log on, wander around for a bit like a train-wreck survivor, and think to myself "I can't believe it's all over..."

I keep telling myself that I'll play and join TFs and what not (I normally solo), or take screen shots of all my characters, but then I just watch a movie instead. I haven't looked into any other games though. A friend of mine wants to get me into that Star Wars thing, but I've resolved not to start another game at least until they finally turn the lights out in Paragon. I don't know whether it's out of respect for the time I've spent here, or if it's the hope that we'll be saved from oblivion at the zero-hour. Either way, I think I've got a lot of movies to watch.

Oh and I think everyone's efforts to save CoH is incredible! Especially TonyV (is he an actual super hero in real life?). I've written my letters (and convinced a former player friend to do likewise) and signed that crazy petition. I dunno what'll become of it, but I can't help but think that SOMEONE will buy this game from NCsoft. I still can't believe they killed it without even TRYING to make money from what I'd assume would be an easy sale!

I guess after they made the broom and the pool cue, they just didn't have enough time for silly things like wizard staffs or spears.

Thanks, that helps a lot! I don't do itrials either so was hoping to get incarnate merits from DA (though I didn't realize the rewards were on a week-long timer like the SSAs). Good to know!

I'm all for time passing in comics (and CoH) - I'm just not used to people "aging" in real time. I mean, Peter Parker should have died of Parkinson's disease years ago (even sooner since he has the proportional age of a spider, hehe). Not realistic, but that's what seems to happen in comic books, and I’m cool with that.

But you're right - aging certain characters to a certain point in order to get the story told is par for the course. I just wish they could have kept Penny as a kid, since I liked that character and there are so few young NPCs in the game.

I guess I never thought about that. I just got the impression that she was junior-highish from her appearance and dialogue in Faultline and the impression stuck. I'll probably continue to think of her that way too, and be annoyed every time I see her "growed up" version (though it's hard to play the game with my fingers stuck in my ears and my eyes screwed shut chanting "lalalalalalalalalala...")

I did like how Faultline and Fusionette show up later and seem to have progressed as super heroes. Penny's progression, however, seemed a bit drastic.

But yeah, I hope they don't get rid of her young version either because the Faultline arcs, (and Penny Yins in particular) are some of my favorites too!

I met her in Faultline in March. Now, three months later, she's all grown up and dressing like a B-movie slattern? Whether she was introduced six years ago or not, she shouldn't be the only character in game (or in comics) who ages in real-time. Just my opinion of course.

I agree, because Penelope Yin pisses me off. She's like 13 in Faultline when you meet her (or appears to be anyway), and then suddenly she's in her twenties and joining the Freedom Phalanx! This load screen just keeps reminding me how silly that is.

That would have been sweet.

I agree that the writing in Praetoria is great. It's just too bad that it's in Praetoria.

See, the reason I don’t play there is because I really can't bring myself to give a rat’s *** about an alternate dimension. Paragon has been my home for years and that's the town I care about. In Paragon, I'm a superhero - in Praetoria, I'm either a rebel or a storm trooper. But no matter which side I choose in Praetoria, it doesn’t have anything to do with what matters to me – Paragon, and the “real” world (as opposed to an alternate dimension). Even if you make a character who's immersed in Praetoria's lore, you eventually have to leave it all behind and come to primal earth anyway.

I'd much rather they had made Praetoria just another zone, accessible from Primal earth, so that high level characters could go fight the invaders on their home turf. As pretty and filled with great stories as they are, four zones is just too much of a waste of effort to be locked away from the "real" game.

I personally think that adding another starting area, completely separate from Paragon, was a lousy idea. People already complain that red side is a ghost town - we didn't need yet another world to further disperse player population. It may have even done more harm than good. If a new player buys Going Rogue and starts running around in Praetoria, finding themselves completely alone, they could get the idea that CoH is a dead game and tell all their friends as much. They might even end up robbing a gas station or start smoking the reefer.

Right. I guess I was just thinking that since a set bonus from a PVP or purple IO will stick around even if the power it's in is greyed out, procs from those sets would still work too. I guess not though. Thanks again.

Yeah I know, but if the Panacea proc acts the exact same way, I'd rather have a 10% boost to endurance instead of a 7.5%. Had the PVP IO acted as I'd originally thought (working even while exemped), then I'd probably keep it. Oh well, at least I don't have to blow a respec to shift the slot someplace else.

I think I'm just going to ditch the thing and replace it with a Performance Shifter proc. I'd originally thought that the heal keyed off your total modified hit points, and of course it doesn't, so it was already sort of a let down. Anyhow thanks!

That seems crummy to me, but thanks.

If you enjoy leveling quickly, that's great, but I personally don't. I'd rather gain power slowly and enjoy each level at a casual pace. Sure I could get multiple characters to 50 in the same time it normally takes me, but then I'd just be stuck with another 50 with no new abilities to look forward to (I'm not much into incarnates).

For whatever reason, I like playing just one or two characters at a time (seems I'm immune to altitis), and if I like those characters, I don't want the ride to end. The only 50 I still play is my main - the others I haven't touched in years, even though I loved leveling those characters. Maybe it's because they seem "finished" to me - I dunno. Anyway, it's not so much the "content" that I'm after - it's experiencing that content with specific characters that I enjoy playing. Although I guess there is Ouroboros, but then why rush to 50 just to go back and do what I could have done while leveling up?

Also, I didn't mean to insinuate anything about people who don't play like I do not loving the game. I'm quite aware that my play style is not the norm, and that's cool. I only meant that I turn XP off during double XP weekends to keep from leveling too fast (and thereby "finishing" the character too soon). And yeah, I still read every arc, though I wouldn't still be playing this game if I didn't enjoy punching hordes of dudes to get the job done.

I feel the same way, even going so far as to turn off earning XP during double XP weekends. I love playing the game - no need for me to rush.

Aha! Thanks!