Schismatrix

If it actually happens i will as well.

So last night i logged on with my 34 WS on Virtue and set my LFT flag to any and was discussing what was going on in a couple global channels and within two or three minutes received an invite to a team running assorted level 28 story arc missions. Now this wasn't really an RP team, just a group of players throwing themselves at groups of purple and red mobs. Entertaining despite the occasional teamwipe and everyone had fun. Well, except the Tanker who was apparently upset at not being the essential unique lynchpin snowflake. Seriously, they were doing a fine job managing aggro and helping take down enemies, but they logged off because they weren't "needed". Which prompted some facepalming and discussion afterwards since several us pointed out that no single player on the team was needed; we had a mix of ATs with overlapping roles.

But i digress...

In my experience you have to seek out an RP team in order to find one on Virtue. Most teams are just players running missions where anywhere from none to most teammates tend to chat in character while doing the mission. To find a team that stands around RPing instead of blowing stuff up generally requires a conscious effort. Some of the the more pretentious, cliquish RPers could possibly be annoying to interact with, but generally you have to go looking for them, they won't be seeking you.

Catgirls... aren't nearly as common as xX DarKdeatHlord Xx types with bios that say "Is the strongest their is!" on Virtue. Actually catgirls aren't all that common on any server, but i think that probably GG's pet allergies and/or aversion to felines make it seem more common to her.

Exactly this. If you have enough tokens to have global channels unlocked i'd suggest looking in the forum section for whichever server you plan to play on to see what global channels are used by players for that server.

If you can't immediately find a list there's always asking in the Player Questions section. It usually doesn't take someone long to respond.

Possibly. At level 15 or below you can regain the lost levels within a couple hours of playing if you do several Death From Below runs. i've occasionally deleted and restarted characters in their thirties to use a combination i liked more. The first twenty levels or so tend to fly by very quickly if you find a good team.

Agreed. Usually when someone's account is compromised it's because someone they know found out their login info somehow.

Don't worry, even if you're on the same server the odds are pretty good you won't meet.

i would suggest contacting support at https://support.cityofheroes.com/.

i'm guessing that you're not a subscriber based on the white name color, otherwise i'd suggest sending a petition in game as well since in game petitions are not available to Premium and Free players.

*sigh* i know. It's a bad habit, or at least something i've been more prone to lately as a reaction to ongoing things completely unrelated to CoH.

And yes, the naming is somewhat "dorky" (or at least counter-intuitive for most). Some of the reasons for the current implementation were covered already by some of the red name types the past week if anyone wants to browse the Community Digest.

That being one of the reasons since the Freebie Friday trial run is not automated.


While this week's freebie is something i already have plenty of, much like the previous freebie, i do like the idea of free stuff and won't complain about getting anything for free even if i have no pressing need for it. Seeing as they're easy to replace if i decide i want more i also won't hesitate to use the freebies just for the heck of it.

Only in your time zone.
Freebie Friday is based on GMT, not your local time. See, funny thing is that the game is accessible globally, and there's no way to have it automatically detect what time zone someone is located in whenever they log in, so they went with the default time zone for the whole planet. The world is much, much bigger than the town/county/principality/district you live in after all. Neat, huh?

Nerf Kinetics? <.<

Exactly. On smaller teams Empathy's buffs can turn the rest of the team into a nigh-unstoppable juggernaut. On larger teams the buffs tend to get allocated to those who need them most. Empathy's single target buffs are very powerful, but tend to have long timers compared to their durations, so it's hard to maintain some of them on more than half of a large team. The AoE buffs are on even longer timers.

The biggest issue with Empathy's buffs in my opinion is more to do with how most players time using them. Many Empaths tend to insist the team huddle up whenever the AoE buffs are up regardless of whether there are any enemies in the area. Most times i find the buffs are more useful if they're held back until there's an actual use for them, not used whenever they happen to be recharged.

Clock

Big Ben

But i still want better robotic/tech options for digitigrade feet and legs.

That's been my solution as well.

idk

Eh, just toss him into Mount Doom. At least then it's in the same fictional setting.

Somehow i always imagine THB groin-thrusting at his monitor as he posts in these threads. Inexplicable, i know.

i rather like this suggestion.

nsws

So it's realistic to have the average as the absolute minimum? That sounds odd to me. If the waist slider started at the American average and only went up from there we'd have City of Waddlers and Walruses or maybe City of the Blob. (The latter possibly getting Marvel's boxers in a bunch again.)

Totally agreed, but it was an interesting digression even if it is admittedly mostly off topic, as was the digression into base woes.

On the current topic/focus i don't see the female armored top versions as being especially bad or odd looking. To me they mostly look like what i would expect heavy armor to look like on a female.

As far as art assets go the monstrous/digitigrade legs could really use some love. As in adding some tech/robotic feet that are adapted from any of the sets that came out since the category was added to the game. Basically anything that doesn't look like the current horribly clunky robotic feet. A monstrous version of the Clockwork or Cyborg legs would also be good. i was so hoping the Mecha set would have something for the digitigrades, but it was not to be.

Really there isn't a problem per se. It will pretty much cater to nostalgic fans of the old Toonami. Now it's true that back when those series were first shown Toonami was the first place you would've been able to see most of them if you weren't a hardcore anime fan, so the new Toonami will be more like the Echo of Galaxy City: a place you might visit out of nostalgia or to see how things used to be, but not a place to find anything new.

Which is just fine since now i can now watch many anime series online within about a week of them first airing in Japan anyway.

Ah, well the last time i had cable and watched CN was around January. Haven't watched Durarara at all, but i enjoyed reading the manga a while back and hadn't really kept up with it since then. So the new Toonami just involves some new interstitials. Sounds promising.

While that may be true, it does look like what they're doing is rebranding their normal Saturday lineup and swapping in a few rather old series along with the addition of Durarara, which may have already been in the pipeline for the Saturday block. Add some Tom bumpers and POOF, Toonami is back! Using nostalgia to bring back some fans of an old show while saving money by reusing old series is brilliant from a marketing and profitability standpoint.

People have a terrible habit of recalling other people's past behavior patterns, especially very consistent behaviors, and allowing it to influence their interpretation of a person's intent in the present. Terribly unfair, i know, but there it is.