TrueGentleman

Shine on, you crazy diamond in the rough.

Mercifully, MoP changes the mechanics of loot drops for the Raid Finder, in addition to an innovation they're calling the
"Bonus Role": WoW also has "Area of Effect Looting", which makes farming much less of a chore.

WoW's deep questing system does indeed have a lot to offer soloing and small groups. The Cataclysm expansion introduced a lot of zone-wide linear quest chains, but MoP's scenarios hold a lot of promise for content that's somewhere between solo questing and raiding.

As for professions - and making money off them - the WoW economy is considerably more robust than CoH's. Although it's based on short-term auctions rather than consignment, ebil marketers can still have their fun manipulating it.

The pet battle system actually looks pleasantly diverting for a mini-game. As usual for Blizzard, its simple system yields further challenges as players delve deeper into its mechanics. Thankfully, trial accounts will not be able to access it, and even newbies will find its 100 gold entrance fee a little steep, so there's little chance it will overwhelm the regular game.

Not that I'm aware of, although that's a bright idea. I'm on the PVPRP server Twisting Nether (US), which is a nice little community that CoHers would probably find congenial.

It's an excellent overview of the various ways the CoH community is coming together to rescue the game. (Its only shortcoming is the reluctance of either NCSoft or Paragon Studios to reveal anything about how their internal negotiations are going.)

In any case, there are one-click buttons to Tweet and Reddit this, so getting out the word is that much easier.

Same to you, but more of it.

It's funny cos it's true!

(Oh, how I'm going to miss Scrapperlock.)

Sure, if one takes the longterm view, e.g. the heat-death of the universe.

Otherwise, Meridian 59 (1996), Ultima Online (1997), and EverQuest* (1999) are just the most notable among long-running MMORPGs. It's a shame that NCSoft decided City of Heroes couldn't stay in their company.

* Which has a Mac client, albeit only for a frozen-in-time version of the game.

Eh, "Any Mac refugees?" is a misleading subject line if all this thread intends to do is promote another NC Soft title that isn't a native app (such as those for WoW and Eve). Mac users willing to run Windows on Boot Camp have plenty of options otherwise.

Restoring VIP status would be a nice gesture. Many thanks for your character extractor in the meantime.

Lesser community managers in your circumstances might simply wash their hands of their old forums, but we appreciate how the overall pleasant and civil tone here is both your legacy and ours.

So, I'll just limit myself to using sarcasm instead of a tactical nuclear missile...

Goodbye, Steelclaw. Even if this ends on a melancholy note, your comic relief was always something we looked forward to.

Thank you for sharing your daughters' experiences with the community. It was simply one of the sweetest ongoing gaming accounts I've read and a testament to how nice the CoH in-game community could be. Good luck with their next games, as well as real life—no doubt they'll put their Paragon City experiences to good use wherever they go.

We'll all be looking forward to it. Thank you in the meantime for all your CoH machinima—your trailers, and the community participation that went with them, generated more anticipation and excitement for the game than even PS's official ones.

Thank you for everything you and the other Titans have done for this game. Hands down, your network is the best fan/community-run resource for an MMO I've had the pleasure of interacting with. Good luck with all your future endeavors.

No, no, thank you—thank you and everyone at Paragon Studios.

Those have good odds, certainly better than Paragon Studios releasing new power sets back to back. I'd lay even better ones for an even later date, though. Beast Mastery needs a few weeks to take advantage of its position as the new shiny before it's replaced.

I was thinking rather that just as the devs took solely negative measures to fix AE (not simply shutting down exploits, but also nerfing XP and rewards) without also implementing positive ones (e.g improving the AE mission interface, making it easier to find particular types of missions or styles of play, working Architect Entertainment better into in-game lore), killing off prominent NPCs without enriching their characters or backstories is a baby-bathwater jettisoning maneuver.

There's also the industry trend away from open-environment questing to instanced content as MMORPGs move away from the sandbox model and toward the theme park one.

The X-Men and its innumerable spin-offs are probably the best fit for a superheroic MMO environment. (The Fantastic Four are as much a disfunctional family as a team, and the JLA are like the Kiwanis with superpowers.)