Ah! The good old days.. *sniff*

I'm trying to think of a fond memory of CoH in the past...thinking, thinking. Because it has consistently gotten better over the years. CoX now compared to CoH almost 6 years ago is like the difference between a lightening bug and lightening. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories from the past--first time flying or super jumping, stuff like that. But CoX now is so very awesome compared to what it was.

Oh, that reminds me of back in January 2007. Back then, I had to travel to the UK on an exchange programme and I spent some time on campus. A guy down the hall had what looked like a super hero poster duct-taped to his door, with a relatively well-drawn costume with a lightning bolt motif to it. His name, though, made me take a photo of it and post it here. The name?

Lighting Boy

I do NOT want to go back to the UK, but there are still a few things I remember fondly. You'd think the British would be a little better at spelling their own language...

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

There's something positively refreshing about a "good old days" thread that is 3-4 years old. ^_^

Let's see...

I solo'd Adamaster too, back when GMs had levels. He was well below my level.

I remember my 2nd day in the game, joining friends hunting hydras in the lake in Perez Park. For the longest time people loved to join hydra teams in Perez, despite the fact that they weren't really great experience. It was hard to convince people of the truth.

I remember tankers herding every hellion or skull in the entire park and bringing them to a single place for people to attack. Young players would get run over, people complained, but a lot of people thought it was fun.

I remember finding a devouring earth fungus emanator on a rooftop in King's Row. I was afraid to go near it, but I watched it for a long time to see if it would do anything.

I remember people were always broadcasting in King's Row looking for the Lost and for Circle of Thorns. There were hunt missions for them and the CoT mostly spawned at night and high on rooftops, at a time (and at character levels) where nobody could fly yet.

I remember being taken to Talos Island at level 17 by some friends. I was playing an empath and it was my highest-level character at that point, and I was scared of everything in this "high level" zone. This was before IP when level 40 was the max level.

I remember my first visit to Founder's Falls. I was low level and stayed near the Talos zone entrance (there was no tram to Founders) while my friends did something. I'd been warned that snipers would kill you if you wandered around in that city.

I remember seeing Nemesis for the first time. They were the robots, it was an ambush, and they were in Talos and were much higher level than nearly everyone in the zone. This was on Pinnacle, and I remember the high-level player that killed them for everyone was Link Oot.

I remember herding freaks at the back end of Crey's Folly for several levels with my fire tanker. I gained several levels in the mid to upper 30's that way over maybe a week or so, and thought it was great experience. Which, at the time, it was.

I remember one SG mate taking me to Dark Astoria and showing me how many zombies a fire controller could burn. This was back when you could potentially have as many as 15 imps out at once. I started my own fire/kin, (his was fire/something else, I forget) and he said, "fire control and kinetics should be a pretty powerful combination." Heh, ya think?

Then I leveled my fire/kin on Winter Lords and for a while I got to experience the fun of 12-15 imps at a time myself. ^_^ So I guess I can say I was one of the original PL'd fire/kins.

I remember the big thing was to get the Vahzilok story arc, and then farm the final misison with Doc Vahz. You'd get an SO for killing him, it was usually around level 18-20 so it was earlier than you could buy an SO, and the mission didn't end until you clicked on all the corpses so you could run it over and over and get a bunch of SOs. People really did that, lol. These days I sometimes don't slow anything before level 22, and then go direct to IOs. ^_^

I remember how people fought things up to 7 levels above them for the massive experience. A lot of people left when they implemented the great "purple nerf".

I remember when female characters had nipples...

I first realized this thread had been resurrected by noticing quotes within quotes.

Heh. I remember when people would make quote pyramids!

Yeah I have yet to really consider myself a vet and yet a lot of people I have met in-game lately are surprised when I say I started just before issue 7.


Something I miss from the good ol days is a post by someone about a war between CoH and WoW. it was so epic, should have bookmarked it.

Nothing I have done in game could ever compare to the first time I saw Boomtown in beta. Me and two friends spent hours exploring it with sprint & hover. After seeing the perfectly aligned buildings of Atlas/Galaxy/Steel/Skyway/Etc, nothing could prepare me for the chaos & destruction that was Boomtown.

I know no-one visits you anymore. But you will always remain my favourite zone in this game.