QuarriosSoul

I just found this article in Google search.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit.../news/?a=67173

I'm not sure how accurate it is, though, because it mentions (with NCsoft as the "source" for information), that Paragon is still in business working on another project... a followup superhero MMO. Err, I thought they all got pink-slipped!

I sort of want to go with Nalrok's "slap in the face" logic but I'm deciding to leave it as shrug-worthy and move on. Focus more on positive efforts, y'know?

I had a silly little smile on my face at work reading this. I'm a little jealous.

Massively is going to be covering the event on Twitch.

For Sam.

1. You can't change your forum name or your global, especially not as a PWE account holder: some COers actually lost their original forum handles when they were integrated with the PWE site. I actually had to ask this recently when I found out I couldn't use capital letters.

2. There's an in-game currency called Questionite that you can actually convert to Zen, which you can use to buy stuff from the C-Store, if you want. It's dropped from alert missions, I think. You can also convert Zen to Questionite.

3. Best I can say is maybe look at a freeform character (either by subbing or a FF character slot that basically costs $50), or the Specialist archetype.

This was put up yesterday, found it now. I should go to bed.

http://www.gamerzines.com/mmo/heroes...n-nearing.html

I'm going to take a turn for a bit of retrospect.

My first experience with City of Heroes came back in 2008-2009 when a friend of mine, Iperithon, showed me the game on his computer at home. Character, the world of the City, his SG base. He even let me try making a character on his account: I opted for some blue insect thing with ice powers. Think it was a blaster. Can't really remember, but it was cool at the time.

I bought my copy of the Architect Edition on December 26, 2009. Boxing Day. I specifically remember that I only paid roughly $5 for it at EB Games. Target acquired and acquisitioned. I would not actually break down and install the game until about a week later, January 6, 2010.

City of Heroes was my first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

I started on Triumph, pants and all, with my first hero Arctracer (Elec/SR SCR) and shortly after created a first villain, Metadelicon (Plant/Earth DOM). I made a couple of other characters, including an Ice tank version of blue insect man from my playtesting at Iperithon's house, which became Antarchon. I tried making my first SG, the Triumph Trisortion, with my first real global friend (he's called @PyroFyr now) and it admittedly didn't go all that great.

By March, I started to dabble into other servers. At one time I had characters going in three of them: Triumph, Freedom (it was a good idea initially, but eventually it became my graveyard server and I eventually stopped playing there altogether), and Virtue.

There was a thing about Virtue.

Originally, I didn't roleplay even though I had forum RP experience back from a thing I did on a Kingdom Hearts fan boards. I had a Fire blaster named Distray Zone join the Paragonian Knights, later followed by some Fire scrapper that I made only because of an in-joke at my (now former) place of work. Neither of those characters actually exist now (but for what it's worth, I actually have a PK collectors coin that I keep special). My friend from triumph moved over to Virtue as well and started a gargoyle themed SG that started OK but died too quickly.

And then I made Cumulatrole. Read: a mutant kid that could turn his body into a cloud-like vapor. That was what I consider to be my first true concept character. The RP came shortly after, when I went to the roof of the old City Hall and met Gravity Blast, who was leader of the New Age Mutants at the time. We chatted in character, things happened...

I'm not going to go into details about how every single character of mine came about: the grand majority of my City characters were quickthink concepts that never appeared anywhere else before. But that was the start, and it would not end.

I've been in various RPSGs in my time on Virtue. Enough that among friends, they'd joke that I was simply everywhere and knew too many people. I've toned that down since, but I've been in the PK, the NAM, the Empire of Atlantis, the Palladium Sentry, the Northern Watch, the Protagonists (and the Protectorates, too), Hyperion Force, the Golden Age Heroes (Gods and Young Gods), the All Star Teen Sentinels... am I missing any (other than possible vanity groups)?

I've gone through phases of various RPing characters: there are only a couple of them now that have "survived" to this day. But honestly, I say that the grand majority of characters I have now, that I've built* and developed and made to interact, with me as their voice... I am my character just as much as I am just a human on the real side of the screen.

That's one thing that I try to explain every time someone asks me why I sometimes play this game too much. This isn't like a single player game like some of the other games I consider myself as a fan of. This is an MMO. I am interacting with people, only through another medium. I understand that I still need to get outside (it is not a lie, I have been there!), but sometimes I let my character take over because in order to truly understand what I'm doing, I have to become. And I'm hoping that some of it rubs off on me as a person.


With that said, I want to thank everyone here wholeheartedly for being part of an amazing experience here: the developers (past and paster) for making and maintaining this game, the moderators for being here and as awesome as you all are, the half of the community I don't know for... I dunno because I don't know you but you're all great, the friends and supergroup allies I've been able to get to know and bond with through the good times and the bad ones, in character and out of.

A toast to our heroism. May it ever live on.

Nicholas Roberts
@Epelesker

I think the only major thing I might have done was tried to make myself as humble as possible.

I cried a total of twice yesterday. I probably will more when it comes closer to the day the black hole arrives but for now... there is no rest for the weary.

And mine, as well. I think I write a pretty good business e-mail.

I have a horrible habit of listening to Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts music while playing CoH, so there's a few songs I could adopt from there to show my sentiments.

(It's been mostly KH recently, so all of these songs are by Yoko Shimomura.)

Tears of the Light
Musique pour la tristesse de Xion
Destiny's Union

Aye. Let me think of something and I'll send it off.

Yes. I'd throw continuity out the window to make States alive again.

especially for our last hurrah.

I'd send something but I dunno who I would send it to, there's so many names. (Yeah, I'm not as knowledgeable about the industry as I'd like to believe.)

WW didn't take it to the next level this time. XD

Saved in my YT faves.

Thank you for giving us that ride in the first place. You, and all of you at Paragon.

I wish you all the best of luck, and that our paths might cross again. (I'm following you on Twitter, WW. And several other reddies. ;P)

I... don't know what to say. At all.

I do like anime, although I admit to waning interest in the grand majority of mainstream series popularized stateside (or I just don't watch it as much in general).

With that said, I'm really indifferent on this issue of adding anime-influenced tropes/costume pieces/what-have-you to CoH. While more options are great, indeed, I think the game also gives people enough tools to craft certain concepts: no one's stopping you from taking a Japanese themed name and crafting a backstory for your personal player info that references those tropes (as long as you don't legit rip-off the properties).


There are other things, but they're just personal annoyances I'd rather not elaborate on.

This is a very nice thing, good on you for being thankful!

I looked online earlier today to see how much it was going for, since it would be nice to have (I personally wanted the travel power but the other goodies would be nice for novelty sake). I'm probably going to have to stay reserved to have missed out on it until [controversial subject] ever happens.

It's David Nakayama's birthday today! (Or at least deviantArt told me as much.)

Have a happy heroic birthday!

Name: The Protectorates

Currently Recruiting: Yes, we are looking for heroes to join our team!

RP Level: Medium-high level RP, will OOC global channel provided.

PvP Level: None.

Theme/Concept: Classic comic book style ensemble supergroup, leaning towards the late-Silver Age and particularly Bronze Age.

Activity: So far, a handful of unique members that are mostly on the East Coast. Generally operating in the evenings, working on establishing official team nights twice a week.

Requirements for Membership: We have an application form on our Guildportal site, listed below.

Leadership: Vocalizer, Spectralwing

In-Game Contact(s): @Epelesker, @Spectralwing

Out-of-Game Contact(s): (Guildportal username) Epelesker

URL: http://protectorates.guildportal.com

Coalition(s): Currently, none.

Other Details: Base is currently functional but still under construction. SG mode is a definite plus in order to help with fleshing it out.