Schismatrix

i agree. i have some of the CoH heroclix, but would seriously be interested in being able to order a shirt with a picture of one of my favorite characters and their name. Having "City of Heroes" (or Villains) over or under that as well would be a great way to advertise the game.

Hell, if i liked the colors and design i would buy just generic City of Heroes and City of Villains shirts and hoodies.

That is not player versus player.
That is Dev-controlled critter versus player.
The Devs can take control of some critters, but they are not player characters, and do not have the same capabilities and limitations.

So, that was grown up? You're right, most of us can't see your expression, so we have to go by the words you write.

Welcome to the internet where others can only go by what they see when viewing what you write/post, and not your expression or tone of voice when you wrote it. Someone could be sitting there with a beatific expression gently petting the kitten they rescued from a burning building, but if they post "UR A BUNCH O TERDBURGLNG COEKHEDS1!" we'll just have to pretend we can't see the Nobel Peace Prizes hanging on the wall behind them and react to what's posted.

Yes, it would. The reasons are numerous and explained repeatedly in other sections of the forums.

Someone posts MERGE DUH SERVERS NAO!!11!!!1!!1! every other week or so because no one on their chosen server will team with them.

Try searching for "server merge".
Most threads will feature this: Anyway, i hope you enjoy the game and find the teams you want. Which can be difficult on a trial account, but i blame the RMT'ers for most of that. Well, actually, all of that. Damn RMT'ers.

You cannot use any channels but local, team and help on a trial account. This excludes global channels, sending tells and talking in broadcast and request. (Though you can see the broadcast and request channels.)

The OP seems a little, well, demanding* to me so far, and going all capslock when people aren't telling you what you want to hear does seem a bit childish.

The fact is that while Champion is quite active, very little of that activity occurs in the low level zones except on weekends.

If you want to play on a server where there will usually be a fair number of players in Atlas Park and the other low level zones at most hours, then i'd suggest Freedom or Virtue. Freedom is the somewhat better choice if you're looking for a server where capslock demands are expected when someone doesn't immediately get what they want. Since you're on a trial account you're limited to level 14 and barred from global channels, so Freedom and Virtue really are your best choice right now.



Once Ace, feel free to come back and play on Champion if you get a full account. There's a lot that happens here, but it's mostly coordinated through global channels.





*You are a unique and precious snowflake, perhaps not the prettiest, but still unique, just like all the other snowflakes. And my glass of water will still taste the same after you've melted.

The Spleen was magic origin: his powers were the result of a curse placed on him when he commented on the fart of an old Gypsy woman.
"Because I was the one who had smelt it, i would forever be the one who dealt it." (Somewhat paraphrased.)

Ouroboros has always been segregated by faction. Unless there was a time before it went on the test server where it was cross-faction, but then only the Devs would've had access to it. However, initially any character of any level could take an O-Portal to the zone. i think i still have a level one character on test with the Ouroboros exploration badge.

Well then you have a higher score than me even if the game is ultimately impossible to win. Dea--wait, we're not doing that anymore.

So yeah, have some +rep. Too bad you can't read my limerick. i mean comment.

Also, did i miss it, or has Ultimo not posted here thanking the mods for giving him what he was so (incessantly, monotonously, tediously) vocal about wanting?

Search for 'tWHYlight' on Youtube if you haven't already.

And you're beating me at this game. *pouts* Actually, i had no idea that comments had been disabled, which shows how much they usually affect me. The negative comments were almost always incoherent gibberish or nonsensically irrelevant to the post that they came from, which was amusing, and positive comments were nice to get, but the private message system worked just as well for that before we had a rep system. Can't say that i am positive or negative about the removal, it's more like the result of an indifference engine.
Eliminating the reputation system completely would not bother me either.

Still, at least Ultimo's happy now. Right?

2 level 50 IO's in Fly should be plenty to cap flight speed. My level 50 Defender with 1 flight speed slot in Fly, 1 in Swift and a couple minor set bonuses is over the cap for for flight speed. If i dropped Swift from the build i would still be just slightly below the speed cap.

Ah, another 'challenge sig'. i suppose i shall accept your challenge....

Ogee arches have an interesting shape. Now while no characters in this game can create arches, i think that Controllers with Earth Control would be the archetype most likely to create arches in general, though they would be more likely (in my opinion) to create Depressed arch types, especially in PvP, since i have the feeling that those who play the Dominator archetype also using Earth Control would use their powers to constantly destroy Controller arches, no matter what arch type the Controller created, assuming we could make any arch types at all in game.

Base building doesn't require the use of any particular archetype, and you can use the ability to stack and merge objects in bases to create various arch types, so if we're talking base building, then any archetype can create multiple arch types. Which is as it should be.

As for your posts in this thread that your signature is found in.... Well, i'm going to have to side with Inigo Montoya.

Has this happened while a TF was in progress? At least in TF mode it's supposed to always make a yes/no prompt appear before letting you quit.

Also, the quit team outside of your level range after joining or zoning feature also requires clicking a yes/no pop-up box before quitting, so i doubt that would be the culprit.

The servers are organized from lightest load at the top to heaviest load at the bottom, except that the last server you logged into is always on the top. Load is not an exact indicator of population, but it seems a pretty good one.

If you're looking for RP as well then you should know that Virtue is the unofficial RP server.

Conveniently it's also usually at the bottom or just above, so it's one of the most populated as well.

Most of them will actually name him Doctor Lighting and have no idea what i'm talking about when i ask why he's an electrical blaster instead of an illusion controller. Which actually is how the conversation went one time when i met Lighting Lord. Oh well.

This is my thought as well. The server/database acts like a GM for thousands of characters and players, and can hardly be expected to know which characters will never encounter each other. Keep in mind that the naming restrictions ignore what names are used in other games and servers since it's effectively not the GM for those games and servers.

i've seen some good names taken by spammers. To be fair most of their names are gibberish or abominations of spelling or aesthetics, but this is different from the general playerbase how?

i made a Spines/Elec named Piezosaurus with the plate-like spines myself, but i deleted him when i realized i'd never play him much. AFAIK the name is currently available on all servers. There's another alt i made recently that has a name that i can't believe wasn't taken, especially since i made her on Virtue, but i'm not going to post it here since i want it on my two main servers as well and i haven't made her on those yet.

A name i've grabbed on several servers is Voynich Automaton. The concept being that it was created as a sort of golem/android by deciphering the secrets of the Voynich Manuscript. (Which is an example of a real-world esoteric and mysterious book.)

Anyway, come up with a way to tie names to globals that isn't hideously ugly and i'll consider supporting the suggestion, but every one i've seen so far is a loser in my opinion.

Which argument? Obviously not the natural vs. science argument about Superman then.
What's the current argument regarding Superman that i must've missed while reading the thread?

i'm pretty sure the higher energy output of yellow suns effectively supercharging Kryptonian physiology adapted to using the lower energy from a red sun has been canon in the past if it isn't now. Of course most of the time the reasons and details are just handwaved and sidestepped unless a given writer feels like making it a plot point.

So basically ABS is demanding to know why the set designer isn't dropping everything to rewire the lighting rigs. The fact that few set designers are qualified to do electrician's work is beside the point; he wants the set designer elbow-deep in the wiring harness regardless of whether he has the slightest idea of what to do once he's there.

We go through more set designers that way.

It's B_I all over again.

i'm guessing you mean in proportion to the number of players since Virtue's global channels are still more active. (Stroke Victim Smiley agrees with me.)

The Incineratables?

Obviously NCsoft and the Devs know, which still tells us very little. i am quite confident that none of the doomcriers fall into the prior groups, so they have no better way of knowing than any other player.

Going by global channels i'd say Champion is still quite active most weekday evenings and weekends, and it rarely falls into the top 5 in terms of load.

i think it refers to singing and playing the banjo while riding an inner tube down a river.