Ukaserex

Why don't we try this weekend, during prime time? Late enough to get the west coasters in on things, but early enough where the East Coasters aren't forced to drink java to stay up for it?

Maybe 10pm Eastern? There's still a couple months before they shut the doors. May as well get my money's worth.

I thought I was going to play Secret World, but it's kind of meh compared to CoH - but I didn't really give it more than a few moments to impress me. I kept trying to target things with the Tab key, and pressing s to toggle on my Prestige Power Slide. But, all the character would do was a hokey-slow jog. No super speed, either. But, like I said, I didn't really give it that much time to impress me.

Sorry, I'm in class on Mondays now.

I will be sure to smoke that Eduardo that's been in my bottom desk drawer if I catch wind of Grayson's arrival!
Congratulations!

The main thing I will not miss is the public channel dramas - fueled in part by people who somehow became mods.

Player X has been silenced by Player E. Player X has been unsilenced by Player E. Player X has been kicked from the channel by Player E.

It's all too silly.

I will also not miss people so desperately trying to recruit for activities that they continually spam their messages with "You know you wanna."

I will not miss blind invites from players I don't know.
I will not miss the zombie events.
(I will miss the Nemesis zone events.)

Sleep on a corduroy pillow.

Because of the inability to resub, that's where a lot of the folks went - other servers, because they can't get on Exalted.

That is one of the reasons why Exalted was not a very good idea in the first place.

Nothing quite like an MoUGt in a single run.

To think I only started leading those because I needed some badges on my main.

The UGT came out a little over a year ago, and I ran that trial twice a week almost every week, starting right before they made it give the guaranteed rare/very rare.

There were 5 runs where Desdemona wigged out in one way shape or form and we didn't complete the trial.
There were two runs where we outright failed because I was too nice and let low 50s come without adequate buffs/debuffs. Lesson learned!

I think we were successful well over 90% of the time.

Some of that was my macros, explaining things ad nauseum. But for the most part, that was

@Icon, @Guardian Pixie, @Brightfires, @FlyingCodeMonkey, @Cera Frost, @Ion-Storm, @Evil Redux, @Princess Fire, @Cinder Frost, @Raven Lord, @Nex'Silan, @Karmaa, @High Voltz, @Heavenly Perverse and a few others. The top row were there almost everytime. (There's a couple more of you that I do remember, but I know you like to keep a low profile, so I'll respect that.)
Thanks to all of you.

I got MoUGT on 20 or so characters, and it was a blast.

All very interesting stuff.

A special thanks to Father XMas, without whose wonderful guides, I might not have been able to upgrade as easily and affordably as I did.

Well, to me, it doesn't matter what this fellow says about this GW2 game, the interface is just horrible.

Having only played CoH, I see these other UIs, and I simply loathe them.

And forced teaming? yuck.

On this upcoming Friday, September 14th, in Dark Astoria after the MSR, or at 10pm Eastern if the MSR doesn't take place, I'll host my last MoUGT.

I see the OP wants to do whatever and anything he can to encourage folks to do what they can to save the game.

And then I see two other people worrying about forum rules.

Hmm.....I say forget about forum rules. Cross post, repost, post away. Whatever helps someone feel like they're doing what they can.

Let me preface this post by saying that aside from incarnate trials, there's not a lot in CoH that's still fun for me. I had resubbed for water blast, a three month deal, and it ends sometime in late October.

However, I'd been playing this game for a long time. As of late, out of habit more than anything else. As I was reading through, I read how some are more than willing to fork over extra cash to keep playing the game.

Now, I haven't done the math. Others are far better at that than I am.
But, have we considered stock? As in, purchasing shares of NCSoft?

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=0...rce=undefined;

I did a google for figuring out how to go about doing this, as I'm not at all familiar with the Korean Stock Exchange. I found a couple of interesting links.

Now, I could be way off, way wrong. But, from the books I've read, majority stockholders make the decisions by essentially telling the Chairman what to do, or he/she gets voted out.
As I look at the graph and other data, it looks like a lot of shares are outstanding, 19.82 million. And, scary thing is, each share appears to sell for about 254 bucks.

Well. This is likely cost prohibitive for many of us, but if each of us bought 1 share through some broker, pooling our resources, we might be able to make some noise as investors in the company.

Obviously, buying shares in bulk for any one person -- well, odds are, folks with that kind of money probably aren't playing CoH in the first place - but, hey, we never know.

Some of you who are more capable of thinking outside the box may be able to garner a better slant to this.

I do think that a letter to the chairman and a few other key people should be written with these values in mind. http://global.ncsoft.com/global/abou...siongoals.aspx

Obviously, there's a great deal of information the playerbase is in the dark about. From what I recall of my studies (way back a long time ago), it's very easy for a decision to get made and then ...the powers that be realize a decision may be what's best for the shareholders, but it conflicts with the company's mission statement. A phrasing has to be made that will allow the chairman to realize that to close the doors to Paragon Studios conflicts with their mission statement.
Let's also not discount the spirit of NCSoft. Being brave about doing what is right.
With the lack of information we have, it doesn't seem like they are doing what is right - but we don't have all the facts.

Odds are, it has something to do with the announced expected purchase of 14.7% of company stock being bought by Nexus on June 8.
I don't know who has the largest % ownership of NCSoft stock. It may be Nexus, or it may be any number of other people or companies. If someone is in the stock trade business, they may be in a better position to get this information. Or, perhaps someone who has a broker can just ask their broker to see if they can find out.

If we can get the votes to save the game, and have the issue brought up at the next stock holders meeting, we could save the game. Just a shame this company isn't in America - I could definitely see myself cold-calling some shareholders and asking them for a favor.

Again, I could be all wrong - I'm not at all sure how South Korea does business in their stock market. Perhaps all it would take is a call from one of our congressman to their chairman. After all, if we pull out of South Korea, bad things would happen. (all over a game - not bloody likely, and it's quite silly to even contemplate)

In any event, perhaps one of you can find some sliver of this idea and make it better.

Actually, that would be great. I love starting a toon from scratch with no inf, no nothing and earning a billion by level 50.

The game is not about the destination, but the journey.

25 level 50's. All level 50s have the four main accolades - PJ, Atlas, FPR and TFC and are tier 4 in all incarnate slots. (except one blaster and one controller - just ran out of time.)
6 blasters
5 controllers
4 tank
4 brute
3 scrappers
1 Defender
1 Dominator
1 Warshade

I was working on a Human Form PB, an MM and a corruptor.
Overall, the blasters have been the most fun for me.
Controllers can be fun solo, but I absolutely hate teaming with them, but they're quite useful.
Brutes are a hoot.

I was trying out different dominators, because I can't believe they are all as lousy as mine was.

The Warshade ...well....mostly situational for me. Great at MSRs, but not really my first choice for an iTrial.

I have .....20 or so toons between level 35 and 44
Maybe 50 between level 1 and 35.