Valerika

I'm sorry, but just because you don't like long bios doesn't mean you get to "ghettoize" them. That's pretty condescending and unnecessary. Prime real estate? Give me a break--there isn't a shortage of land in this game. And no, a wall of text won't deter me, it would deter YOU. But instead of dealing with it by not looking at it, you think the best way to deal with it is to erradicate it. That's sad. If people want to make longer bios, they should be able to. Your desire to "ghettoize" it is small minded and ridiculous.

Honestly, if you think longer bio space should be prohibited because you aren't willing to even LOOK AT IT, then you have issues.

I'd much rather they expanded the existing bio space and fixed the bio bug than add a LINK feature. I often see people add links on their own, for example "Blah, blah, here's my bio, blah. For more information on this character, visit www.somekindawebsite.blah" I never visit those links, because: 1. I don't want to jump through hoops just to read a bio, 2. I don't want to be rickrolled.

I understand that you don't like long bios, but there's a simple solution for you: don't read them. You can tell how long someone's bio is just at a glance. "Hey look, that bio takes up a whole page! Maybe, since I value brevity, I won't bother reading it!" Instead, you're saying "Short bios are better, so longer bios SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED." That's pretty draconian, and shows a remarkable lack of tolerance for writing styles different from your own.

I prefer a degree of brevity for most of my characters, but sometimes a bio just needs to be a little longer than the current limits of the bio space. I can understand if you argue that the standard code rant applies, but don't let your grammatical and composition preferences limit player options.

Yes it does. You've lost credibility, which is a shame, because your ideas kinda, sorta, somewhat had merit before.

Okay--I'll humor you. First you said:
Then you said:
So, you:

1. Are a liar who doesn't think people know how to read
2. Think that admitting that you are a liar proves a point (other than that you suck at lying and making points)
3. Defeated the purpose of your point by admitting you already bought GR
4. Enjoy jerking people around "haha"

This is why he thought you were trolling. I have to agree with him. You lost your point when you said that, sorry. You had a semi-legitimate point up until then, reposting in several threads aside.

The problem with this story isn't that we don't have globals tied to our names--it's the use of extortion. I would log all conversations related to this exchange and report it as a form of harassment. It's not a call for a naming convention change, though. That's like recalling everyone's cars and making them walk because your car was stolen and that shouldn't happen to anyone ever again.

No, that isn't unfair. You have the option of reserving whatever names you want on multiple servers right now. If you're afraid that someone on some server somewhere will take the name Super Duper Man, you can log on to every server, make a dummy character named 'Super Duper Man', and use him as a placeholder until you switch to that server. But if you start on a lightly populated server, and get upset that you can't take your name with you to a much more heavily populated server? Sorry, that's part of life in the big city. You have to try that much harder to stand out--that's not unfair, especially since the other guy did come up with it first on that server.

Like I said, it doesn't force originality, it encourages it. But you're welcome to add extra numbers or letters...or @Joe_Blow to the end of them if you so please. The problem is, you know that adding @Joe_Blow to the end of them is ugly, and you don't want to be the only one forced to carry this ugly burden. You want to inflict it on EVERYONE. That way, your ridiculous naming convention wouldn't look so bad by comparison.

I really don't feel sorry for you. You didn't reserve the name on Virtue early on as you should if you absolutely, positively had to keep that name if you ever transfered there. This story isn't one of someone who's originality was denied--it's one of someone who turned out to be much more inflexible and unoriginal than he originally thought.

I've transfered to higher population servers and lost my names, but you know what? We get a free rename for that. Suck it up and rename your character--and if you absolutely can't have that character by any other name, then call it Joe_Blow@Joe_Blow. Don't make everyone else follow suit because you're uncomfortable with that.

I couldn't think of anything more useless on my WP/SS. No thanks. I like Gauntlet exactly as it is. I would only change the AT by buffing the defense/resist caps, and that's only after seeing what happens with GR. I'm guessing that brutes will look preferable to tanks in the late game due to similar defense/resist caps, with the added bonus of fury.

Kneejerk response referencing anime cartoon and the phrase "over nine THOUSAND!!!!!"

Pedantic reference to the EULA, complete with quote regarding dismissive term. Then poster actually VIOLATES the same EULA he just quoted by threatening to "ban" individual. All of this despite the fact that the individual has already placed him on the ignore list, and can see none of this text.

This.

Posts obligatory notification that the cake does not, in fact, bear any resemblance to the truth.

Rude, possibly petitionable personal attack with no attempt to address Ad Astra's experiences in other game.

Accusation that player did not really play other game, or wasn't playing correctly. References to carebears and inference that player has weak skin. Reference to massive popluarity of other game.

Poster asserts that the reason he plays this game is because of the similarities it has with other game, but only lists the attributes that actually make it DIFFERENT. Completely fails to see the irony.

Admission that poster actually prefers that game, and thinks it is far superior to this one. Suggests that for this game to succeed, it obviously needs to become more like other game. Poster is not suggesting that CoH should learn from that game, because that would imply that the other game had both positive and negative attributes--he assumes all attributes of the other game are positive. He simply wants to turn this game into a smaller, carbon copy of the other game, warts and all. Or this game will die.

Rude, obscene suggestion about what Ad Astra can do wif hiz sok pupet. Pur grammr continues, but it becomz clear taht poster doesn't konw who Jack Emmert iz. makes reference to all the ppl who arnt posting but must agree wif him.

Angry, semi-literate arguement which isn't even applicable to the referenced quote. References to carebears and also the silent majority. Poster is sure he's right, because he's been playing this game for *insert random amount of time* and has *insert random amount of level 50 characters*

No one is "slamming" you for anything, Remaugen. You know the level cap isn't going to be increased, you know this thread is pointless as a result. You've been given ample reasons why increasing the level cap is both unnecessary and even undesired--instead of addressing them, you just restated your original reasons for wanting them, which sounds a lot like "But you don't understand, I waaaaaant it!". I'm sorry, but that's why you're getting the responses you're getting at this point.

LOL

I know you probably didn't mean for that to be funny, but it really is. You're literally advocating to add grind just for the sake of grind at this point.