Plug_Nickel

I’ve been having a blast with the alignment missions and especially the morality missions (I wish all the missions in CoH were like these). Anyway, I just did the morality mission for my main character and was totally surprised to find ME throwing clawed punches at myself! This blew me away – definitely one of the coolest surprises I’ve experienced in game.

But what the hell was going on? The mission ended right after I talked to myself, and it never explained why I had a double or anything. Plus, the other morality missions I’d ran up to that point were extended dance mixes with all sorts of bells and whistles; lots going on and very exciting. But this one was over just as it was getting interesting. Other than the “wow” factor of having to battle myself, there wasn’t much to it.

So I guess I have two questions.


1. Who was that handsome devil and why was he trying to kill me?

And…

2. Did I miss something? I ran through the rest of the office, but didn’t see jack (except for more Malta dudes). I thought I read everything but I’ve got a lousy internet connection and maybe a bit of info got eaten by lag.


(Oh, and if you haven’t ran this particular morality mission yet, I guess I should alert you that this post may have included a spoiler. “SPOILER ALERT”, I think they call it. Anyway, you probably should have averted your eyes.)

I'm glad we'll be able to slot Health and Stamina when they become inherent (as opposed to just having our base regeneration and recovery increased). I always wondered why we're not allowed to slot End Mod or Heal set IOs in Rest though. To me, that default slot looks like it wants to hold a Regenerative Tissue unique. Seems like it would fit right in there too. No butter or nuthin.

I love the way the cars in CoH look. My favorite comics are those from the 70's and early 80's and the cars in CoH look to be from that era. I also like the way the T-shirts in CoH are skin tight, just the way they were drawn in comics back then. It's too bad we don't have bell bottoms for male characters as well.

People are sheep. If one build is considered to be the "best" by the majority of players, then I'd better have that build as well so I can be the best too. In doing so, I don't have to put forth any effort of my own, and am cool by association. Just like wearing a popular type of jacket gives you a certain degree of acceptance in the hip crowd. It's not like you MADE the jacket - hell, depending on how old you are, you probably didn't even BUY the thing. But if all the other kids are playing fire/mm blasters and wearing GUESS jean jackets, then by god, you'd better be doing the same thing, or we'll kick you from this TF!

Nothing like conformity for fitting in...


(Sorry for the reference to GUESS jean jackets. I have no idea what kids are wearing these days over their tattoos)

Not even if it was free admission and Stephanie Peebles appeared topless.

Like you said, Samuel, the smaller attacks do seem to burn more endurance over time, so I generally slot those attacks with more endurance reduction, and my heavier attacks with more recharge. I figure with the end I save by spamming my low-level attacks, I can afford to light off my heavies more often.

I wouldn't say they don't "do" anything. I got a ticket the other day in Founders Falls for not scooping up the loaf my Rikti Monkey left on the sidewalk. They do stuff, you just have to clean it up when they're done.

Your character concept is offensive to me. The idea that drugs might grant super powers to someone is inappropriate for a T-rated game. If I saw that toon, I'd petition your ***. Drugs do NOT grant super powers.

Except Superdine.

And Rage.

Oh, and Excelsior

On second thought, never mind. Does anyone know where I can find a bong shaped like Positron's helmet?

I'm on dial up and it sucks balls. Can I say "balls" on the forums? Anyway, the next time I buy a house, I'll be making damn sure it's in an area where high speed internet is available. And no zombies. I hate those.

I'd rather have the option to decline non-team buffs. Or at least the graphics. People spend a lot of time on their costumes and take pride in their heroes’ unique look. I go out of my way to turn off powers with graphics when I'm not on the job, or even disable the graphics altogether if possible (for sets like Invulnerability or Super Reflexes). So when I get hit with some unsolicited buff that sets my hero on fire or turns him into a pink ice cube, I often find myself wishing for Mystic Fortune's offer to "accept/decline".

Today I spent a couple of hours buzzing around the chalet with my new holiday jetpack, pelting folks with snowballs. I even used my second build to include Tactics so I’d be more accurate (dunno if this helped).

I’d try not to target anyone doing any kind of “sitting” or “leaning” emote though, and I did my best not to hit the same person more than once. And of course I’d never molest anyone on a ski run.

Anyone standing around though (exiting missions, blabbing in the lodge, etc) was fair game for me. Oh it’s juvenile alright, and I’ll admit I’m easily amused, but holy monkey, whenever I hear that “WHAP” sound as their head snaps back, I very nearly piss myself with laughter! I’m not trying to ruin anyone’s RP (most of my attacks are hit and run), but hey – it’s winter, there’s snow on the ground, we have the emote… PIFF! That’s gonna leave a mark!

Nobody said anything to me about knocking it off, but if they had, I’d have left them alone. That’s because I’m a sweetheart. (No, I’m not the guy from the OP’s encounter, though I thought I might be when I read the thread title…)

When I first started playing, my rule was that by level 6 I'd have a bio written. The logic being that it would take that long for me to determine whether or not I'd botched the costume in some way (got tired of re-writing bios after realizing my shirt was on inside out).

Nowadays most of my characters have their bios by the early twenties. The ones that don't are in my head, but I'm too lazy to write them. In any case, if a character makes it to SO level and doesn't have a bio yet, I'm probably not playing him very much. I don’t' have any characters over 25 that DON'T have bios.

After i14, it seems the character bio section went all bonkers. I thought they fixed it with the patch that let us break text into paragraphs again, but the deal you described with the phantom characters appearing still exists. I also notice that some paragraph breaks won't delete (they'll stay there forever like some kind of text-based STD). Plus, every time you double space after a sentence, the second space will count as like 5 characters! Hard to get used to single spacing after a sentence. Anyway, some angel of the forums sent me a PM letting me know about "ctrl+a+delete" to clear the field and start over. That's a good trick, but very time consuming when you have to start over a dozen times.