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CO has got to go a long way to catch up with CoX. I have been pretty much playing it all along.

The ONE thing it has over CoX is the ability to mix your powers. You can have a tank like character with mental powers. I think that is very cool.

The look is just...different. I think the spandexy look is about the same as CoX but CoX has WAY more options.

I don't buy in to all the whining over there...and I have made that point ABUNDANTLY clear on those forum boards

People are just pissed because the change was made and there is nothing they can do about it.

The SECOND best thing....maybe it's the FIRST BESTEST thing is that I can have any damn name that I want. People can't camp kewl names. I really enjoyed making Kilroy. Not KilroyX or Killroy or Killroy with a silent Q...but just plain ol' Kilroy.

As far as the content goes?? it's MMORPG content. it's just as boring as CoX's as boring as EQs as boring as SWG...same old stuff. Go kill X amount of this and bring it back.

imma no troll

y u say that?

I shall be there in some form to help with the RP and to look for an RP home.

I destroy the person beneath me by forcing them to work for the company that I work for

Not really impressed with CO much at all. One thing it did teach me is that I will NEVER, EVER sign up for a beta again. LOL

All I could think about is 'why am i going to log in to this game that is not finished when I can log in to one that is finished' lol

It will be interesting to see what kind of dynamic this naming convention creates. I am often fascinated by these kinds of things. What did Pocket D do to RP in Galaxy City? How did the AE mission change the game? Since the game is it's own little closed society it is really neat to think of the ripple effects and changes that occur.

What do you do and say when you run in to somebody with your name? I think I would play it up and go right along with it and try and out do my 'namesake' but in a fun way.
If the other Space Trooper was higher level I would be chirping about how I am going to catch them and pass them in my famousnesses.

I HATE, hate, hate, hate trying to find a name in CoX. Of course I always think that somebody is just squatting on it and not using it at all. They are probably really using the toon but I have just never seen them.

I completely agree with a purge. If a toon is not logged on for X amount of time then the name gets removed, period.

So I think I like the policy over in CoX.

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"I attempt to put a spider on your shoulder." It's a very minor change, but makes a large difference in the reaction options. See, while you could pose "I dodged" or "I'm a ghost" after "I put a..", it's still more courteous in my mind to just say "attempt", especially when RPing with someone for the first time.

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This is the key to text RPing.

And it should be so obvious because the fun really should be in what the person does when the spider hits their shoulder.

What is the fun in designing what that person does?

"I attempt to put a spider on Aragololols' shoulder"

Aragololos sees the spider, turns white as a sheet and drops his drink.

OR

Aragololos ninja back flips out of the way landing perfectly never spilling a drop of his drink.

I mean set the stage, give the person you are RPing with the chance to shine. Believe me, you can't do it better than everybody else so let everyone else use their imagination and talent.

The rule of thumb is to NEVER post what somebody else's character does unless there is a special circumstance.

I saw an exchange in Pocket D the other night where people were talking about reconstructing somebody's memory.

Blah, blah blah about how you couldn't do this or that to the person speaking's mind..

A female toon said how do you know I haven't already done it.

My godmod alert went off.

So the one guy asked "Ok, if you have done it already where was I born"

There were long moments of silence as the two obviously hashed some stuff out in tells.

Suddenly there was a dice rolling and the female toon won.

After a few moments of silence she gave a city and an address.

I was impressed. They handled it perfectly. They were not in the same SG, I don't think. Now maybe they know each other or whatever.

But the biggest part of that RP was that the guy was willing to LOSE. Though he was a character with mental powers he actually RPed that his mind had been invaded by another persons mind.

There are so many people that can never be caught off guard, never be stumped, never be beaten. It was refreshing to see somebody willing to lose.

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1. Stalled characters – we all have them awesome character Ideas that don’t work unless they are over a certain level. Example: I had a concept for a character 4 years ago Malkavian Who an androgynous Vampire who was neither male nor female. I couldn’t pull it off because I needed two characters created in the same outfit as both male and female, now with the new booster and getting quickly to level 20 I can play it.

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Ah, yeah. Good point. I am eager to try out my new science pack and I don't have any science based characters that ingesting a formula would make me change constumes. So I could get to 20 quick with the help of farm missions. Hmm, good point.

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2. Looking inside the strange and awkward ideas that your fellow players have, come on nothing better than Lizards Vs Catgirls, or even my B-Movie tributes with Ed Wood as a quest giver.

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Well if more of this went on I wouldn't be whining about it to begin with. I am all for this I just have not seen it yet. I will be looking more closely.

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I'm a little confused. You say soloing is boring but you don't mind "parking" somewhere and waiting for an invite to come to you?

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I guess I did kinda mis-speak here a bit...I didn't give all the details. I will park and look for a team and broadcast to find members to start one, I have done both with shockingly diminished returns compared to what I have seen before.

So maybe my title was overstated a bit. Maybe a bit of shock value there. It isn't KOing it, just requiring a bit more work to team up, a bit more waiting.

Here is another angle to consider....

Maybe they were RPing that they were lying? Maybe that was the point....that the claim was so outlandish that it was not to be believed.

Sometimes we are so poised to believe that the other person is screwing up or doing something that they are not supposed to that we do not consider all the possibilities.

One of my toons Doc Sahara is prone to doing stuff like that. He is patterned after those "most interesting man in the world" beer commercials. He will walk up and say "Well, Maiden Glory, I haven't seen you since that nasty business down in Argentina"

Some people will say "Uh, I don't know you, what are you talking about?"

But some people will get the joke and play along.

Now somebody might say that I am trying a version of godmodding there and get mad.

Some people just take it and run with it.

So you never know what the other person is trying to do with their RP unless you....wait for it....RP with them.

Maybe this is way off as far as your situaiton is concered, but it is something to watch out for.

mmm, no I think I was pretty clear that teams are NOT easy to find now.

I went away before the AE craze hit.

Came back after AE started.

The difference is like night and day...finding team wise. Maybe you guys have been here all along so you can't see the contrast like I can.

Maybe your answer is true AND it proved my point.

You say a little effort goes a long way.

It did not take effort to find a team before, that's what sold CoX for me. Heck you couldn't run across the zone without having to turn down blind invites.....although truth be told I didn't get in near as bad a twist over blind invites as other people I know...but that is another flame war.

I guess maybe it did kill it...but just for me.

However it is true that it is still new and shiny so that is where folks are going to be.

Maybe after everybody gets that 50 and has not seen any content there will be more content driven AE missions.

I am sure they are there but nobody advertises that in broadcast. It's all bout the Boss farm teams.

I guess I could sift through the missions, find some that have a story line, check them out solo a bit to see what they are like and then go out and build a team.

Yeah, that is not a "little effort"

CoX is a pretty cool game. I mean from EQ1 to Champions Online it's about getting mission/quest and going and killing/gathering. So every game is pretty much the same, it is all about what genre you like to play in.

Howevah....

I keep coming back to CoX because you can ALWAYS get a team. You see I do not like to solo. To me it is boring. Whether I am soloing with my LM on LOTRO or my first female character ever....my night elf hunter on WoW.....I find soloing boring.

So after some months away I come bounding back to CoX, got me some beer chilling in the fridge, got me some snacks ready, the AC turned down and the music turned up.

I am ready to embark on one of those adventures where you get with a team, start doing missions, people come and people go and you watch your name go higher and higher up the list of team members until, two or three levels and several hours later, you have to log off.

So I set my looking for team status, I park myself in the appropriate zone for my level and I poise myself to sift through the blind invites or tells of invites that are about to come my way.

/crickets

Oh, well, maybe it's because I am on my shield scrapper. You can't swing a dead cat gurl without hitting a scrapper.

So no problem, I will log my emp/mental controller, i have fort and all the auras and a beffy heal not to mention good hitting, long lasting mental control. yeah, that will do it, a team is a team after all.

/crickets.

Oh, well let's try the channels, the new looking for team channel. Hmmm, no answer.

Matter of fact there are hardly even any broadcasts about looking for teams or looking for members for teams.

What the heck?

Oh, this new AE thing is going on? Let's go check it out.

Wow, the last time I saw Atlas Park this busy was when....well I have never seen Atlas Park this busy.

So, let's try one of these AE missions, what the heck a team is a team.

I get in to a mission that has clumps of NPCs sitting around, no goal, no content, no rhyme, no reason. One time I was told to just stand by the door. WTF???

I can't seem to find people out in the zones doing missions anymore. The teams that I have been on are doing these AE missions just grinding XP. And almost every time I have been on one of these AE teams we win a couple of battles and then get wiped out.

The content is just gone?

The zone driven mission teams are just gone?

What have you people been doing while I have been gone??

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Oh, I forgot to apologize for bringing this up again because this is the kind of topic that may have been hashed and re-hashed several times before.

Humor me.

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I'm a little late as I just saw this thread, but if there is room, let me know.

Hi Stutter and Doc!

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Hey thanks for responding! Right now we are at eight members, and we don't want to get any larger than that.

Although we have yet to "officially" hear from the person in the eight slot we are holding it for him until he is able to post again.

Might I suggest contacting Unknown_Badge? Last I checked he was attempting to do something very similiar every other Friday night.

Also, I will post here if spots ever open up in the lineup.

Thanks again!

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Where was this original post by UB? You said the "recruitment" thread? I didn't see anything like that.

That's going to leave a mark.