Vox_Doom

What DOES love got to do with it?

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Using the Creative section to post links to personal attacks on people you don't like is not really what the Creative section is for.

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Which is why, in the video, I edited out certain names. However, although I owe it to anyone watching to be entertaining, I owe it to myself to not smile, nod, and lie through my teeth by pretending everyone loves each other and that this is a jolly, happy place. Believe me, if I wanted to cause drama and flames, the video wouldn't have been under five minutes long, it would have been over 10.

You think that I was too harsh in my comments? They're the nicest bits of what I recorded. I took a lot of it out because, as I just stated in a PM to someone who saw the video, read my comments, and saw it for what it was (a bit of entertaining video), whilst I bleeped and edited out certain names that was purely because I don't want to get banned, and, besides, it isn't my place to enforce my own beliefs about people onto others. I have no intention of rocking the boat.

However, if I can make just one person stop and think about the community, their own places in it, and think about what they may say and how it affects others, then I consider it a bonus for someone like me, who merely seeks to entertain. If you don't like that, there's no reason for you to continue watching.

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It doesn't matter if it's trying to entertain or not - if you made a post using the text you said on the video, there's no way it wouldn't be removed - posting a link to a video of you attacking other forum posters is the same as making a post attacking other forum posters.
If you made a video where you had to blank out the names of the people you were talking about in it to avoid being banned, then that should surely tell you that it was an unsuitable thing to post in the first place.
Not only that, but you also come across very badly in it, whcih I'm sure wasn't your intent - and it does tend to confrim the view people had of that whole silly "forumite" thing - which was a while ago now, and it'd be much better to leave it alone, and not try bringing it up again.

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I thought it was [censored] hilarious.

Did a few missions in one of Morgana's storyarcs on my PB, did a couple of his missions too, furthered the story a little, very interesting so far.

That's it, I've stopped looking at levels as a goal or prize now, I'd rather experience a new story than ding.

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IMO if you make a character, you should be able to from level 1.
you can talk about achievements, but having a cape at 2/5 of the game doesn't make sense, nether does it make sense that you need to be 3/5 of the game to have an aura.
if i want to make a character with electricity around him, i should not run trough the game, grinding my butt of just for that one thing.
it's a bit the same like the epics, i have to play trough the entire game, only to create a character and start all over again.
i don't see that is fun, nether as achievement, more an annoyance and a ridicules rule.

the fee is 12 euro per month, so that's 144 euro per year.
i can say that, after a year of playing, i strongly deserve to have what i'm paying for, and that includes everything from capes to epic AT's.
you can maybe say i look to much to that, but i rather say this then be the fool and keep it shut.

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Theres a huge difference there. Epic Archtypes are supposed to be just that. Epic. Capes dont have an impact on the game, per se, there a costume option, which should BE an option.

Epics, on the other hand, are fine as they are. Your jsut going to have to slog it out, like everyone else has. It took me fifteen god damned months to get my first Hero to 50, something similar for Villains. And you know what? That felt GOOD. THAT was an achievement worth having. Because you unlocked a whole new section of the game that was a lot of fun to play, and it was something that you had earned and no one else could just buy.

Thats my arguement. To have a character concept and then be unable to utilise it is made of fail. Some people can get away with combat auras, shoulder capes of Valkyrie capes. Others cannot. That, IMO, is unfair.

As for game lore, some of it gets in such a knot that I almost trust player lore more Have you ever tried reading the Bios of the Phalanx on the official main site? If they gave the lore a good comb through and straightened it up a bit, maybe. But not right now, ta very much...

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playing trough the entire game for years to come only to start all over is not my cup of tea.
if i pay something, i expect something worthwhile in return.
and up until now, i have nothing good in return.
you might like to grind 15 months to get an epic, but i don't.
and as long as i'm paying my end, i expect that NCsoft gives there end.
i don't like this game for how it is, i only want to play the widow, nothing els.
if i knew this would happen, i would never bought this game.

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Dude, you don't go through the same stuff over again, the epics have their own storylines to follow, it's new content.

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To be honest, the view should be moot from the get go.
It called an MMO[bold]RPG[/bold] for a reason, isn't it?

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The reason being wishful thinking by the roleplayers, it seems - according to NCSoft it's just a "massively multiplayer online game".

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http://www.cityofheroes.com/about_th..._synopsis.html

"The Super Powered Massively Multiplayer RPG"

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With no new issue to gawp at, and the character tool offline (until a couple of days ago), there hasn't been many people playing on Test.

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In a thread on the US forums about the patch they mentioned that this top had been found on their test server.

So, did nobody find this on the test and let the devs know so it wouldn't be leaked into the main game and nobody would run the risk of not seeing the warning not to use it and waste the inf when it gets changed when the booster is released?

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Apparently CO has capes at level 1.

+ 1 to CO for me then.

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So it's total has now moved up to -4,567?

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No, but every time I see you post something like this, CoH loses points just through association.

Apparently CO has capes at level 1.

+ 1 to CO for me then.

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It might well be the rumoured heal suppression and diminishing returns arena rollback option. *prays*

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Rumoured? Been on the Training Room since the 13th

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It's a crazy world when I get abused by a redname for reading the forums less than he does :<

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That's abuse?

This is so going to be a bug and part of the magic pack or something.

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One other point about it "stifling creativity", is if anything it promotes a different kind of creativity in thinking of a reason why your character has to wait 'til 20 and 30 for capes and auras.


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Y'know... That there sentence is quite possibly the most stupid collection of words ever assembled into a sentence EVER.

A limit is a LIMIT. ANY limit, by the very definition, limits something. In this case, it's limiting what someone wants to do with a character concept. Sure they can adjust, and have too, but that's NOT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, so their creativity is being limited, restricted, stifled.

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that's pretty rude and I'm kinda surprised at you for that FFM

I can see perfectly well what SR was saying - the Devs & game, partly through necessity, place constraints on us. Therefore we should use our collective imaginations to explain, to ourselves, if not others, why those limits are placed upon us.

Everything has limits. Even this game. How we deal with them reflects on us I feel

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Spot on. Surely a mind that can come up with a roaming sun beast, 1940s Cold War veteran or a half rock half fire half radioactive furnace thing from Mars can come up with a reason why he / she / it doesn't have a cape till a bit further on in his / her / it's career?

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Well, I could come up with a reason for this, and have done, but I don't like it and that's the whole point. It's something that some of us don't like. It's not that we can't work around it, we'd just prefer it if we didn't have to.

I mean, it's not like it's going to imbalance anything, it's purely cosmetic.

I would personally rather have interesting, fun and exceptionally well written story arcs as rewards for getting to certain levels, not capes and auras.

I'd rather take out the cape and aura missions and replace them with a slew of interesting stories.

That's what I play this game for, the stories, the plot, the encounters.

I want to play through it as the character I imagined, not have to wait until an artificial level so that I can be the complete concept I imagined when creating the character.

But again, that's just me.

I'll probably be creating more missions and arcs in this than I will be playing through them.

I just know that if I play through one and the creator has terrible spelling errors in it then I'll shout, quit and rate it the lowest possible score

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See, this is why conceptual arguments never work because, conceptually, there are always counter arguments. And if you counter that argument then you are just proving my point

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Fair point. Conceptual diversity can be explained which ever side of the argument you put yourself, in precisely the same way that you can provide a set of statistics to prove a point you want. In some ways that is part of my point. There's equally no reason why a persons character concept can't be moulded to fit in with the game mechanics either. Far easier to make Mohammed come to the mountain as it were.

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I was happy to do that at first, now it just makes me not want to play any character I come up with who should have an aura or a cape.

I hate feeling like an unfinished character playing through this game, this even extends to powers. I'd be happy to have most of the powers I have with a level 50 at level 1, only much weaker, so that I can play through the entire game as the character I imagined when I made them, instead of being forced into being a 'trainee'.

But that's just me.

I don't play much now really, when I do it's usually my Peacebringer as I haven't had to fiddle with his concept. I'm hoping that we have an issue that makes me want to play more before my free time runs out because as things stand right now, if it wasn't free for me then I wouldn't be playing.

Mostly it's down to not having enough money to spend on something that I don't play that often, if I had bags of spare cash then I'd happily keep the sub.

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Give us auras and capes out of the box, give us a level 10 and 50 costume mission instead. Having to level up to 30 to give my big robot hero glowing eyes? Or sparking electric round my mutant blaster?

Doesn't make much sense.

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This.

It's one of the most annoying things about this game for me, it completely interferes with concept and is only there to keep you playing.

I doubt many people who are thinking about quitting aren't going to keep their sub open just so they can get glowing eyes.

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I miss not being jaded.
I miss the time when I could play the game and not get frustrated at 'something or other'.

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You must learn to let go

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I'm pretty close to 'letting go' as it is.

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Then do so - clear your mind - let the Game flow through you

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I don't think you caught my meaning, but it doesn't matter.

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I miss not being jaded.
I miss the time when I could play the game and not get frustrated at 'something or other'.

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You must learn to let go

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I'm pretty close to 'letting go' as it is.

I miss not being jaded.
I miss the time when I could play the game and not get frustrated at 'something or other'.

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the things I 'really' want will never happen, but that's okay because Champions and DCUO look like they're going to have them.

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So you really want awful graphics and clunky animations in CoH?

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I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, HOW CLEVER.

Better models, animated features and more costume options.

These are things I can see happening, the things I 'really' want will never happen, but that's okay because Champions and DCUO look like they're going to have them.

I wish there was an easier way for us to showcase our costumes, I'd like to know what you all would think of some of the ones I've done, though none are on par with that Mos Vox one.

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Mos Vox (third from left).

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Holy god damn [censored] that's AMAZING!

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Have you been....stalking my girlfriend?

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Where would I find the time to stalk Golden Girl AND Stasis? No, I like staring at the games on the shelf in the desperate hope that one will be enticing enough to buy, and thus give me some respite from my girly need to buy things. She just seems to hang around the place stopping me, along with all the other people in those matching t-shirts, from just taking whatever I want.

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I love my pink space invader shirt...

This is a sticky thread on this very forum:

http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...ge=0#Post938213

And this was posted back in October:

http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...e=0#Post1227083