Roughtrade

Huh?

The X-Men introduced the idea of various super heroes with a common origin point.

Before the X-Men, heroes just had origin stories. After the X-Men you had 'mutant origins' and 'everyone else' origins. The Flash had chemicals spilled on him with a lightning bolt. Green Lantern found a magic/super tech ring. Batman trained himself up and used gadgets. The FF got hit by Cosmic Rays, Peter Parker got bit, Daredevil got blinded and drenched in radioactive goo and trained. And many 'origin' stories got revamped over the years. DC is especially fond of the revamp, look at what they've done to Power Girl over the years.

Origins in comic books have historically been little more than window dressing and plot devices. They've been some really good plot devices, just read the story lines of both Batman and Spider-Man when the 'original burglar' for each was brought back. (For those who were unaware, it wasn't really the Joker who capped Bat's folks)

Trying to pigeon hole super heroes by some sort of enforced 'origin categorization' didn't happen before Marvel introduced the idea that Mutants were 'hated and feared' by everyone else and went on and on with pretend genocide war stories. And even after the X-Men were published, the idea that other super heroes could be grouped into categories didn't really become explored until Byrnes and Clairmont did the 'Vision of Future's Past' story arc.

Probably the best advice in the entire thread.

Try it out. Even if a power isn't 'Teh Fastest' it might be more fun. Or you might just like it better.

Also, totally disagree with some of the others. Teleport is not 'Head and Shoulders' above the rest in speed. Not unless you're traveling the entire length of Independence Port. And unless you've got the endurance slotted up well, you're gonna have to stop and rest and the Super Jumpers and Super Runners will still beat you and the Flier will almost tie you.

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Just to stress a point here. Teleport is the only power which takes more endurance than you can effectively recover while in use without slotting. For example, while Flying, Running or Jumping, I can recover endurance while using. On the Gripping Hand, Teleport will flatline you from a full endurance bar if you have any real distance to travel. So if you're on a Task Force and have to go from the middle of Independence Port to the train station, hop to Atlas and then go into Perez Park; the runners, fliers and jumpers can start with nearly empty endurance bars and be fully rested by the time they get to the mission door. The teleporter could start with a full endurance bar and he will still have to stop and rest along the way and very likely be exhausted by the time he reaches the door.
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Short of the Shadow Shard and IP, you're almost never going to be traveling long distances in a super straight line anyways. Most often you'll be trying to maneuver around buildings in Steel Canyon trying to drop by the trainer, stop at a store to sell and then find a the entrance to a mission door; a door which is almost always going to be on the other side of the building from where you are so you will have to teleport past it and then 'port back. And that's not even considering the mission doors in Skyway and Bricks that are underneath things.

Also, if you are searching an outdoor map for glowies, or just street sweeping, or doing any sort of search then teleporting is next to useless.

To reiterate what I said in my other post, even if I accede to the claims people make about how much faster Teleport is over the other powers, it's rarely more than a five second difference. You're never going to find a reasonable player who will kick you from a team because you have Flight instead of Teleport. Or Super Jumping with Jump Kick instead of Combat Jump.

Try one out. If you don't like it, you've got your second build to try something different. If both turn out to be not what you're looking for, hit up Terra Volta for a respec. If waiting for that is intolerable, make a new character. It doesn't take that long to get to level ten after all.

They promised us the moon once. Maybe they will go back to it. (grin)

Seriously tho; once travel between the two earths is 'common' there's lots of potential to play with. Malta and Arachnos both might be interested in meddling. There's a half dozen Portal Corps missions which could be stepping stones to new content that impacts both earths. And what about the Rikti? What might they do if they found the way to Preatoria? Could there be Trials where instead of fighting against Preatorians you are fighting with them to drive back a massive 'end around' invasion from the Rikti?

Personally I'd like to see the Midnighter's Club become something other than the place you travel through to get to Cimeroa. (sp?) Right now I feel they are just the unwanted step children of Orobus. It always seemed like a disconnect to me when the Time Travel Group wasn't the stepping stone to the Back in Time zone of the game. Getting back on track here, if the Midnighters are 'neutral' towards Rogue Islands and Paragon, why can't the be neutral towards Praetoria? Open up a branch office there and explore the consequences.

Glad it worked out for you. I had the same thought when my account got caught up in a hacking issue back in January. A call to the customer service got it cleared up for me but yah, they asked for the original security code. I mean, it's seven years ago, three moves -including one coast to coast swap- and I don't even remember which box of stuff in storage has my orginal game box. I do have it. Just dont have it handy.

As far as security questions, I answer them incorrectly as well. But I remember which incorrect answers I give. Sometimes it's simple things which might still be figured out I suppose, like putting my sister's married last name in for mother's maiden name. It's still a different last name than mine but someone determined might be able to figure it out.

On the Gripping Hand, if someone is that determined to break into my CoH account then they are gonna do it anyways. Security is what you make of it. Change your password every ninety days to anything important and don't sweat the small things.

And this is where I feel you continue to miss the point. Base Construction does impact a large amount of the Player Base. You can come at how to make Bases more fun/useful from a lot of angles and each angle you work from still impacts the entire Super Group. Even if they never let more than one person actually edit the Base, improvements to the Base effect everyone in the SG.

If those of us who wish Bases to be improved continue to miss the significance of Bases and the impact Bases could have in the game how do you expect anyone else to?

I've heard people say something similar as if it was disparaging. What's wrong with SIMs CoH? SIMs is making a profit, innit?

I could make up numbers too but I won't.

Nothing you have said proves my point invalid. Super Groups are an aspect of the game which effect a majority of the Player Base. Super Groups have Bases. Bases are an aspect of the game which effects a major portion of the player base.

Editing the decorations in a base is currently only available to a minority. But Bases themselves have a farther reaching impact on the game. We should reinforce that instead of perpetuating the fallacy that Bases are only for a tiny fraction of the player base.

My suggestion is for people to stop prefacing their suggestions with 'I know this will only effect a small part of the player base' when in fact Bases have a larger impact.

My point is we need to quit saying 'only a few people benefit' because then we are advertising a false premise. Every time someone who supports bases says "I know it will only benefit a few of us" they are reinforcing the idea that this is a niche community. Super Groups are a big part of the game. A huge chunk of the Player Base participates in Super Groups. Guilds (as other MMOs call them) are integral to any MMO. Bases should be a major part of any Super Group. People over on WoW are begging for some sort of 'Guild Hall' set up to gather at. Bases could be a major selling point of CoX if they were implemented better.

One step we need to make in order to get the improvements we want is to change the perception that somehow it's only for a minor part of the Player Base on CoX. The first step of doing that is for us ourselves to stop considering this as an issue which only effects a small fraction of the Player Base.

So my point. Every time someone starts out their post/premise/idea with "I know only a small part of the community will benefit but..." they are shooting themselves in the foot.

People keep saying this, or something similar.

How many players are in Super Groups?

Perhaps Base Building isn't used by many, but the awkwardness of the current system is as much to blame as anything else. Fix the Base editing system and more people would use it. More to the point, if you fix Bases so as to make them more useful/fun in the game and everyone who is a member of a Super Group gets the benefit. Or in the very least, a Quality of Life improvement.

I really wish you would stop saying things like this. No one is slapping you in the face. No one is taking a pee in your cheerios. Ultimately their are only a certain amount of resources available to be allocated to any given aspect of the game. It's nothing personal if they have different priorities than you do. Please quit trying to make it personal.

Why? There was a time when Base Raiding was supposed to be a game function. Having your base be difficult to negotiate was useful.

Time was stolen from you? Someone forced you to join this SG? Or did you ask to join and then not ask for anyone to show you around? Joining an SG just because someone in Broadcast was advertising is kind'a like joining a PUG. It's not always suitable to your style. Why complain about it? If you don't like them, quit the SG and find one more to your liking.

I really don't see any of this as viable. Far too complicated and do you think anyone would really want to sit unmoving in their SG base and do nothing while everyone else was playing? And if you give the person in the chair any XP at all then it becomes just a leech tool for someone to park an AFK toon in.

But I do have one question. Why would the reinforcements spawned have to be any different from the mission level?

Yah, but you want him getting hung up and left behind until the bloody idiot figures out it's footstomp THEN handclap, not the other way around.

Did anyone actually stay for all of that movie?

Halo Jones is so awesome she has her own song (Though she actually likes Trash City better)

Liberty Force is so awesome she has made American Valor blush. Twice.

Zot is so awesome she has two stories in the City of Heroes comic. (Okay, it was one that got split over two issues) (09 & 10)

Scorpio Rose. Ditto. (17 & 18)

Witchcraft : Awesome Name. Doesn't need anything else to be awesome.

Psychic. Ditto.

Pep Squad isn't quite as awesome as she thinks she is but you won't get her to admit she is anything less than total awesomesauce.

Ion Force was only made up two weeks ago but isn't it awesome that the name was available?



What is this word 'main' that people keep using?

My only question here was, did they mean to leave? I have accidentally hit 'exit' at the end of a mission when I had mean to stay and finish clearing the map. It's sort of a Pavlovian reflex. That 'Mission Complete Bugle' sounds off and I hit exit. And once one person leaves, others may have followed out of the same sort of reflex. Or did the others say they didn't want to stick around any longer?

My friends and I just snipe from the hallway and drag our fights out of the laggy rooms. But yah, big square rooms with lots of shelves in rows. Mostly pop up on the various alignment missions. Really freak'n laggy.