Silver Gale

I think this is unlikely to happen, both for technical reasons and because people would invariably use it for Stupid.

(Not for Evil, just for Stupid.)

Names like this...

xX-o\/\/0lV3reenz0ro-Xx

are painful enough to look at already without letting them become

xX-o\/\/0 lv3 reenz0ro-Xx

When City of Villains was announced, I immediately knew I wanted at least one Evil Counterpart, because, well, *comic books*. My main is a Defender, and the Corruptor class has always been described as the Defender's "dark counterpart", so score!

...just one problem. My main was Storm/Elec. At CoV's launch, villains didn't have either of those in any form.

So I looked through the available powersets, and I saw Cold Domination - "the ******* child of Storm and FF", as someone in my SG described it. And why not Dark Blast for a "dark side"?

So now I had to write the character around the powers. How exactly does "evil counterpart of Storm/Elec" translate into "Dark/Cold"?

I hit on the idea of the evil character being a *literal* Dark Side - an accidentally-created magical construct made of feelings the heroic character wanted to get rid of - anger and hate, but also fear and helplessness. The villain's powers are thus not actual blasts of darkness or cold, but a representation of them manipulating those feelings.

This worked extremely well. For every power the Corruptor picked up, I could find a perfect explanation that fit into the concept. I even got Recall Ally, which IC worked by plunging the other character into a "nightmare realm" for a brief moment.

Well, RP happened and stories developed, and eventually the villain was redeemed and rerolled on blueside as a Dark/Fire Scrapper (and this time the powers ended up fitting the story so perfectly I didn't need to do a single bit of recoloring when I16 came out). The Corruptor was something like level 39 at this point and I didn't have the heart to delete her, so I used a rename and costume change to make her some sort of demon instead. But every time I play the demon, it just feels like a fill-in for the character this was supposed to be all along.

OP, in the name of the community, I apologise for the fact you're racist and a drama queen.

Group hug?

Bored of playing alts through the same old content you've already played a hundred times? Always the same maps and the same enemy placements and the same attack chain?

Bored of redoing the same old TFs on your level 50 over and over and over?

Most of your SG/Coalition/Global is never in game? Game seems so empty?

Can't wait to get your hands on Going Rogue? Refreshing the forums every five minutes in the hopes of getting another new tidbit on the expansion? Disappointed every time?

Do what I'm doing. Take a break from the game.

Seriously. Don't try to think of ways of completely changing the game so it's new for you again. Don't post on the forums lamenting that if only the Devs would implement that one (dozen) feature(s) you want, everything would magically fix itself.

Go find an MMO you haven't played and try it out. There has to be one. Or one you played over a year ago and hated then. You don't have to pay anything, free trials are common, but once you find a game you like, I suggest paying for one or two months and just making that your default game for a while.

Or immerse yourself in a single player game. Dragon Age: Origins, or Torchlight, or even something from Popcap.

Play something new. Something that is not CoH. Make yourself miss it again. Learn a new appreciation for the costume creator and travel powers. When you come back, there will be new things, and there will be old things that seem new again.

Give yourself a break. And CoH, as well.

I have logged into CoH very rarely for the past few months, instead spending all my time in LotRO.

Clearly, this means CoH's only chance of recapturing the waning interest of its playerbase is to move the setting to Middle Earth.

Either that, or I'm burned out and need a break from CoH. But to draw that conclusion, I would need to assume that 1) sometimes, the cause of fatigue with a game lies with me and not in the game itself, and 2) not all CoH players have exactly the same taste in games as I do. And both of those are *clearly* absurd.

Some people don't want to RP character intimate interactions, for whatever reason. It may be something that happens in real life, but they have no wish to dwell on it in their pretendy funtime games. They feel they can still have meaningful and fun RP without involving intimacy in any way. More power to them.

Some people don't want to RP character death, for whatever reason. It may be something that happens in real life but they have no wish to dwell on it in their pretendy funtime games. They feel they can still have meaningful and fun RP without involving death in any way. More power to them.

Some people don't want to RP going to the bathroom, for whatever reason. It may be something that happens in real life but they have no wish to dwell on it in their pretendy funtime games. They feel they can still have meaningful and fun RP without involving taking a dump in any way. More power to them as well.

The trouble starts when people decide that only things they personally are comfortable with should be mentioned in all RP ever.