Red_Raccoon

You know you've really lost it when you start trying to cure them with the Lost wand.

Three words:

Needs More Pouches (where's the leg option with thigh pouches?)

Also, you need a separate slider for the feet so you can scale them down to tiny or non-existant

And for female models, the waist slider would need to go x2 to the left and the chest slider would need to go x3 to the right.

Yeah, that's what continues to baffle me. 11 days since the news became public and nary a press release or statement to the customers. No emails about how/if prepaid time is going to be refunded. No explanations. Nothing.

I realize that NCSoft probably had a good reason for the decision to pull the plug. Very likely it was financial in nature. If they came out and said, "Sorry, the game wasn't earning enough revenue to make it sustainable, we tried, but the time has come to call it quits," I could accept that. (Not like it, but accept it). What I have a hard time accepting is that they have already released the development staff and are planning to shut the game down within 3 months and have yet to issue a statement to the players.

I have about 80 characters in game, just being able to convert a handful of them would be pretty cool. I'll let my group know that this is in the works.

That's exactly how it was for me. When I first heard of this game, I assumed it was a stand-alone single player game and I thought, "a superhero game where you can design your own superhero? That's for me!" Then I found out it was an MMO and I thought "forget it. Multiplayer online games are not my thing." I didn't get into the game until years later when a friend convinced me to give it a try. And I discovered that the game was awesome despite being an MMO, and if I wanted to pretend it was a single-player game and solo my way through it, there was nothing preventing me from doing just that (although I also discovered that teaming with friends and sometimes even complete strangers could be cool too).

So a stand-alone City of Heroes is exactly the game I wanted to buy back in 2004, and I'd still be willing to buy it today (even if I might actually miss some of the multiplayer aspects of the game)

So I think we can call close the books on this theory. Yeah, it seemed like a logical explanation at first--given the totally unexpected and perplexing decision to pull the plug on CoH, maybe the ONLY explanation that made sense--but it was a red herring.

Sort of saw that coming, a friend told me NCSoft refunded the unused portion of his a prepaid subscription for Aion in the form of credit for other NCSoft games.

Yeah, I was also able to buy a costume set with my unspent points despite reading on these boards that the market was closed. I don't know if it will let you purchase new points, but it does seem like you can still spend your accumulated points.

I also considered that corporate culture in Korea may differ than that of America. Rhetoric that sounds completely overboard to our minds might just be standard corporate-speak over there. Maybe every Korean company is expected to talk like they care more about making the world a better place than making money, even if noone really believes that. Nevertheless, considering what's happened recently, you can't blame people from finding that statement of company philosophy a bit ironic.

Yeah, mission statements are generally public relations B.S.that no one takes too seriously, but the rhetoric on that page is way over the top compared to the usual corporate drivel ("make each and everyone on earth happier," and "do not hesitate doing what is right.") It is pretty funny when they lay it on so thick with the noble sentiments and then turn around and make the same cold, hard business decisions that every other big, "heartless" corporation makes.

Also, I notice that they have the same bookcases in their office that we have in our base items. I think they just took a picture of the bookcases on the far right and used that for artwork in game.

Funny, my gaming group also gave up D&D 3.5 back in early 2009 when we started getting involved with City of Heroes instead. Just a couple of weeks ago we also started up playing D&D again.

How about just playing the game and having fun? You know, just running missions, fighting minions and lieutenants and bosses, trying different characters and powersets and builds, learning how the game works, etc.

AVs and GMs are not really meant to be soloed. While plenty of experienced players have proven that they can be soloed by the right build, I'm not sure why that's your goal right off the bat. Why not play the game for a while and save making an uber AV-killing machine for later when you're ready to step up to the next level?

Of course this advice assumes that I've correctly understood you that you are a new player. If you meant that you are an experienced player who has only newly become a freemium, then disregard everything I said.

Are you currently paying a monthly subscription fee? That's what determines if you are a VIP or not. If you used to be a paying subscriber but are not now, you are premium.

VIP players automatically have access to the auction house and inventions, subscribers may or may not have access depending how how many tokens they've earned and/or whether or not they have purchased the access.

Be honest. You were the customer, right?

I kid, I kid!