everyone should have only one character
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AlienOne,
Posted on: 2009-05-18 17:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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You've got your bunker prepped, right? I'd start running for it, mang.
And here at the Olympic Irony finals, the judges are about rea...yes, yes, there they are...9.6, 9.8, 9.5...and a 4.3 from the Rumanian judge...
My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She IS an AoE.
Okay, I stand corrected...this might the silliest thing I've ever read yet....on these forums.
*kicks dugfromthearth in the shins*
Well, I see where he's coming from... But even then, I'm not backing him up.
I apologize Dugfromthearth.
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Okay, I stand corrected...this might the silliest thing I've ever read yet....on these forums.
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Takes the cake for me.
Points for creativity, though, I can honestly say I haven't seen this suggestion before. It's that ridiculous.
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*kicks dugfromthearth in the shins*
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*kicks dugfromthearth in the shins*
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to pour salt into your wounds
- Geocities is closing
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Yes, it is, which does suck, however there are plenty of free ways to display characters... photobucket + blog/journal program = character listing.
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You forgot to mention that your one character can have five different costumes. That's like five different characters right there!
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That's not with you, By the way... >.>
*laughs more!*
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to pour salt into your wounds
- Geocities is closing
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Yes, it is, which does suck, however there are plenty of free ways to display characters... photobucket + blog/journal program = character listing.
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Eek. I did not know this. There goes my character listing.
I stand in awe.
Great post.
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Sucks to be you, dungfromthearth.
Seriously?
But for real, I don't have alts, I have a team of Super Powered Individuals that I assist them with either fighting crime or committing crime on a semi-regular basis. Kinda like a 911 dispatcher.
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You forgot to mention that your one character can have five different costumes. That's like five different characters right there!
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and alt power setup thingy - I forgot to mention that.
so that's like 10 characters if you do 5 costume slots x2 power choices
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everyone should have only one character
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I thought you were suggesting that everyone should literally share one single character. That would actually make more sense. City of Hero would no longer have name collisions, because there would only be one name. City of Hero would no longer have outlier performance, because by definition everyone would have exactly median performance. And powerset balance becomes largely moot. PL would also become a moot point quickly enough.
The level of discourse on the forums would also significantly improve. No more PvP arguments. No more build arguments. No more "role" arguments. No more powerset proliferation demands. No more "devs hate villains" conspiracy theories (they'd be replaced by "devs hate the only character that exists" theories).
It would start to give the game a bit of a LaMOE feel, and I think the day job badges would become largely out of the question, but that's a small price to pay.
Letting everyone have at least one, much less two characters of their own opens the door to a lot of problems. Its really a half-measure at best.
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everyone should have only one character
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I thought you were suggesting that everyone should literally share one single character. That would actually make more sense. City of Hero would no longer have name collisions, because there would only be one name. City of Hero would no longer have outlier performance, because by definition everyone would have exactly median performance. And powerset balance becomes largely moot. PL would also become a moot point quickly enough.
The level of discourse on the forums would also significantly improve. No more PvP arguments. No more build arguments. No more "role" arguments. No more powerset proliferation demands. No more "devs hate villains" conspiracy theories (they'd be replaced by "devs hate the only character that exists" theories).
It would start to give the game a bit of a LaMOE feel, and I think the day job badges would become largely out of the question, but that's a small price to pay.
Letting everyone have at least one, much less two characters of their own opens the door to a lot of problems. Its really a half-measure at best.
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I'm assuming this is sarcasm. >.>
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Letting everyone have at least one, much less two characters of their own opens the door to a lot of problems. Its really a half-measure at best.
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Indeed, the best the game could do to self sustain itself is to remove the player's ability to control said character, and then they become spectators. This way, they would no longer have the "devs hate this single character" complaint as it is no longer theirs to command.
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Hilarious work. It's been a long time since I've read satire this good. Seriously, mate, this is the stuff of Jack Chick.
Well done.
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Geocities is closing
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Wait, Geocities is still around?
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everyone should have only one character
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I thought you were suggesting that everyone should literally share one single character. That would actually make more sense. City of Hero would no longer have name collisions, because there would only be one name. City of Hero would no longer have outlier performance, because by definition everyone would have exactly median performance. And powerset balance becomes largely moot. PL would also become a moot point quickly enough.
The level of discourse on the forums would also significantly improve. No more PvP arguments. No more build arguments. No more "role" arguments. No more powerset proliferation demands. No more "devs hate villains" conspiracy theories (they'd be replaced by "devs hate the only character that exists" theories).
It would start to give the game a bit of a LaMOE feel, and I think the day job badges would become largely out of the question, but that's a small price to pay.
Letting everyone have at least one, much less two characters of their own opens the door to a lot of problems. Its really a half-measure at best.
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*clap*
you topped me by far. Very nice post.
With Ouroboros, AE, sidekicking, and exempting - you can do everything on one character. Okay, one character per side (red/blue).
Having more than one character takes up server resources and ties up valuable hero names that others cannot take. This is an RPG - and your character is very important. When a new player finds out they can't get the name they want - they quit. You have cost CoX one new player for every alt you have. That's a lot of money for development your selfishness has cost all of us.
And you can only play one character at a time (if you have multiple accounts - one per account). So having more than one is just a waste.
And when you play alts you aren't connected to your main. It is an RPG - you can only have fun from the satisfaction that comes from truly knowing and inhabiting your character. You can't possibly have fun having alts - so why have them (I know, I tried it out and hated it)?
Alts fill up supergroups. The devs have had to waste time making SGs larger so that selfish people could have alts.
And alts make it hard for everyone else to have fun. I see somebody on and make a friend. Later they aren't on. Maybe they are - but on an alt. I don't know. It just looks like my new friend is missing. Alts kills friendships and community - and everyone knows that community is what keeps MMO's alive.
I call upon the devs to solve this problem that is driving away new players, giving existing players ennui and making them quit. Reduce all accounts to 1 character redside and 1 character blueside. Stop selfishness from ruining my game.