synthozoic

First, I gotta say that accordions and yodeling rock! They rock most heavily! (But then again, I like bagpipes too so maybe I'm biased.)

Second, I'm familiar with Steve Martin's Cows in Trouble and the Man Eating Cow from the The Tick but I'm thinking this cow that hangs out near the chalet is probably harmless.

I have no 50s yet. Despite starting on City of Villains account way, way back in December of 2005, I don't have any 50s yet. The reasons for this are many.

I inherited the account, so to speak, from a friend who orginally bought it. He showed his account to me and let me build and play a few characters on it. This I would do over the next two years with months wide gaps between my playing sessions. This meant things advanced very slowly for my characters.

My friend was much more interested in FPS games and soon lost interest in the whole idea of MMORPGS. I, on the other hand did not. So I put the account on my credit card and took it over in early 2007.

Things became much more steady after that but I'm a causal gamer with a busy life who just doesn't have the schedule for the solid stretches of time to build a 50 efficiently. I keep playing but I figure the 50 levels will come slowly.

I have alt-itis, but I refuse to take the full blame for that. The City of Heroes character creation editor is truly the devil incarnate and inspires crazy character idea after crazy character idea in my head. As such, my effort is now divided amoung some 20 or so characters.

When I get my first 50, I let you all know.

So I just looked at that, pretty impressive! So I wonder why the Devs and Paragon Studios don't just buy the code from Titan Network and incorporate that into their system?

Nearly all of them, even my silly ones. Some of them are rather sparse but most of them push the 1024 character limit.

I usually write them at creation. If I don't, it's likely that character will never make it past 1st or 2nd level. I tend to be very picky before registering a character. I usually have a clear idea what I want it to look like and what its story is before, putting it in the tutorial zone. It never happens that I put a half-baked character on the server which I then improve by coming up with a better bio or a trip to the tailor.

This means I spend a lot of time in the editor getting the look I want, the powers I feel are appropriate and then writing up the bio to tie it all together.

However, I will sometimes modify a biography by events that happen in RP thread here in the forums. I haven't really done any RP in game yet though. As a keyboarder, it's hard to fight bad guys and chat at the same time.

Sure, but unfortunately, I have but two characters that at 35th level and I'm not ready to give them up. I try to flesh out most of my characters here--with one or two key mostly silly exceptions--and I grow rather attached to them. I supposed when I reach 50 with a few of them, I'd think it would be a very fitting end for them to be permanently written into minor aspects of game history and background.

Or tubas! Or standing basses! I'd love to have a hepcat daddy-o stone/stone hero decked out in a zoot suit and bashing solid riffs on a stand-up bass!

Or the maternal fornicatin' kazoo! Now that would be truly canned awesome!

Well, I'm not entirely sure what the in-game background says on the subject of the legality of clones. But my opinion is that a cloned person with a mind is no different from any other person and should be given full legal status as a human being.

However a cloned body with no brain, grown to be anencephalic in other words, is just a corpse on life support and has no more legal rights than a side of beef.

I suppose that might sound harsh to some sensibilities but really, it's the mind and brain that matter, the rest is meat and surface detail. Human is as human does. No brain, no rights.

Well, despite frequently posting here in the RP section of the boards, I've never really done RP in the actual game itself basically because I find text chat between lots of participants very confusing (Maybe this is a little lingering autism from my childhood, I don't know.), I don't know if I can answer that for you.

It does seem fake if you and your friends' toons are standing in Atlas, in game, during this long discussion planning a task force or something and several days pass. So I guess everyone just ignores it.


This seems more like something I can answer. Having visited at least one of those places, Ouroboros, I can say that that universe seems disconnected from time passing in other universes. From Ouroboros, in game you can, essentially, re-insert yourself into past missions and do them over again and do them differently.

But within each universe, even Ouroboros, time passes normally. The sun zips around the sky just as fast as it does in Paragon or the Rogue Isles.

I suppose of the devs wanted to really drive us insane, they could have a universe where everything happens backwards. People springing up out water splashes in swimming pools to land on diving boards and then climbing backwards down ladders to the return to the showers. Clouds of dust spontaneously springing back into unexploded bombs and that sort of thing.

Or perhaps a universe were the acausalness of quantum theory is visible on the macroscopic scale. Events happening with no cause or causes that have no events. The sun would jerk around in unpredictable and chaotic path in the sky with lots of gaps in its path where it ceased to exist suddenly and for no reason. Sometimes there'd be more than one Sun in the sky and all of them would be following insane and screwy paths. Bombs would suddenly unexplode or explode or duplicate or simply cease to exist altogether.

A universe where large objects followed quantum rules would be sort of like very, very, very bad lag and rubber banding only worse.

I like that! It ties Clyde more tightly into the background and gives him an enemy to vex. I'm gonna add that to my bio tomorrow night.

Hm, this is tough because I don't really have a good theme to work with here. The name is silly and doesn't really suggest a theme to go with. Do you have a screen shot?

Never really been a problem for me, generally I have a pretty clear idea before I start what my character's background and history is and try to stick pretty close to it. At least in posting to RP threads here.

On the other hand, in table-top game sessions, I have had a few completely over the top characters and I have found that I had to tone them down a few pegs because, even though they were very funny and everybody laughed, they tended to dominate the game session and that's bady for other players that need a chance to shine.

I try to stay away from it myself.

((I agree with Todd. I think it needs to be narrowed and focused a bit. People are interested at seeing it but, when they read you have so far, they are at a loss as to who to introducing into the thread.

If you were thinking of something like the superhuman version of Cheers or something, you probably could make that a little more clear.

Additionally, some posters here might not find the generating idea that compelling. Some folks might like open social interaction with minor and quickly resolved subplots--like Cheers. Others, like me, want something larger going on--a plot that is independent of their character. This why I joined the 2-6 thread but not the Whitmoore or University thread. The latter two just seem too general to me. The Chateau Rogue thread started off being pretty general too but given the paucity of villian threads, I wanted to join it anyway.))

What goes around comes around my friend. What goes around comes around.

I have a feeling that some of us are just born that way regardless of age, uptight and curmudgeonly.

Others of us get that way very quickly in childhood. Word has it I was an unreasonably happy kid (bordering on autism really.) that rarely cried until I went to school and was immediately disillusioned with my fellows. Maybe it was that point I should have been put out on the front porch in a rocking chair to yell at the neighbors dogs.

It would be kind of cool for the fans just to plunge straight in with an obscure hero and not explain anything except as it comes up but I really doubt that will pass a commitee of Hollywood producers. They'd, for good reasons, demand a little more in the way of origin stories and explanations in order to reach a wider audience.

The general public might find a city chock full of superheroes a little confusing, sort of like a tourist on his first day visiting Moore, Ha and Cannon's Neopolis. Because of that I think they'd have to focus on Statesman and Lord Recluse or something of equal magnitude.

Sure, I agree and have retracted my earlier position.