Power_Play

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I have a disabled wife and three small children to take care of. I seldom have an hour of uninterrupted game time to play even the shortest of TFs. If I solo, I can park my character someplace safe on the mission map and take care of what I have to do, then come back and resume the mission. I can't do that as part of a group.

Having to work for several days to get one shard while seeing others who are able to group get several in an hour is really disheartening.

Please fix this!



Thanks!

You mean...the one...the only superhero screwdriver???

SUPREMOGUY???

One of the lovely things about CoH/V/R is that it will run on almost any computer. You may not have the highest graphics settings, but you can get on and play quite nicely on an old machine. Seeing as I could go to my local flea market or onto Craigslist and, for around $75, get a computer which will run the game, being gone for two years was your CHOICE.

Likewise, I played the game for over a year on dialup, due to my circumstances. I couldn't do Hami raids or join eight man teams with FX going off everywhere, but I could (and DID) play the game.

So far, I see two "camps" on this thread. There are those who think unusual names and alternative spellings/languages are great and have no problem with making up new names. Then, there are those who would really like to be able to get some of the inactive, old-fashioned, comic book style hero names for their characters. I am in the latter group. I had one concept I built for an ice-based character. I tried 24 unique, traditional-style superhero names for him then gave up in disgust when every one of them was taken.

I do believe we need a name purge. If you've been gone for two years or more, you're likely playing characters with those same names on WoW or some other game by now. If you come back, you can play your characters, but YOU should be the ones searching for good names for your characters. The loyal paying customers of THIS game should always get first choice.

Watch the new reality shows where people get their storage units auctioned off when they don't pay the rent. The storage units are cleared out and re-rented for revenue. That's exactly what should happen here IM(not so)HO.

Well, I got to Gemini Park at around 11pm Eastern, and stayed around for over an hour. There was no one there at all. So much for celebrating Guy Fawkes' Day.

It said:

8:00 - Gathering

NOT

8:00 to 8:20 - Gathering

Therefore, the instructions say to be there AT 8pm, not between 8 and 8:20. I hate to be a grammar cop on you, but the post specifically states contestants had to be there on time.

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You don't understand (???) there's a problem when the rules tell people they can use custom weapons, emotes and such in creating their character concepts then THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE USED during judging? Say what? When I asked, DURING THE PRELIMS, when we would be allowed to use our emotes, I was told "not until the next round" which means those things which were supposed to be judged as part of the character concepts were totally ignored for most contestants. I can NOT see how you can justify ignoring emotes and such, which are such a big part of some of the characters' concepts, mine included.

So you're saying it's fine for contestants to change their characters between rounds of a contest (i.e. add a bio)? That makes NO sense. You chose incomplete characters over complete characters. No, you didn't have to judge the bios but you should have at least required each character to HAVE one to get into the semis, because you know they will be required in the round after that.

WHOA! That is pure BS! I'm part of the Golden Age Heroes SGs who run the Golden Age Festival, every year on Virtue. We have several costume/bio contests in the festival every year and they only take a little while longer to judge than a normal costume contest. I've been there. I've BEEN one of the judges who read bios. You have a couple judges assigned to bios and a couple to costumes...VOILA! We've had well over 40 people in our contests on a regular basis and they've regularly gone off without a hitch. For you to have only ONE contest and claim it's too much work to judge both costumes and bios is just simply a lie.

Maybe because this was a CONCEPT contest, not just a costume contest, and the bios are part of the concepts of the characters. You turned the first round of the contest into purely costume judging, which was AGAINST the stated rules. For people to have to add bios after they win the prelims and semifinals means they had incomplete character concepts and should NEVER have been judged as being better than those who had complete concepts including bios. That's just common sense.

Nowhere did it say players could arrive up until the time judging started at 8:20. It DID, however, say that contestants were to show up (gather) at 8:00.

8:00 - Gathering
8:20 - Judging Begins

Having run contests before, I can tell you that it's much preferable to have everyone there several minutes before judging starts, to make sure everyone is given correct instructions as to where to stand and what is and isn't allowed (powers/pets/etc) while in line. That is no doubt why the posted schedule was put into place, NOT to allow people to run up and hop in line at 8:19 and say they were there on time.

Yeah it was. I just checked and the first posting in the thread on the Protector board is identical to the one on ours. Of course, I'm seeing numerous complaints on their board too. Looks like there are a lot of folks unhappy with the event on their server too.