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to pour salt into your wounds - Geocities is closing

Yes, it is, which does suck, however there are plenty of free ways to display characters... photobucket + blog/journal program = character listing.

Eek. I did not know this. There goes my character listing.

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How about that. Good timing for Tony to be unvieling the Ouroboros Portal repository.

-Johnny

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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 totally want to have your babies.

but you can only have one because it's not fair to all the other children

Limiting names stimulates creativity. Blarg.

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Geocities is closing

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Well shoot, there goes every "Mr. T vs. _____" website on the planet.

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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.

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Well written.

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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 ingenious.

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fix'ed

My Characters Deviont Art page Currently-reading Me Skydiving

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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.

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I must have missed the notice saying that the game is ALL ABOUT what YOU want.

Hello Mr. Fun Police. Don't try to dictate how others play with your so called vision on how things should be. Restriction to just one character per account, are you sure you're reading what you're writing?

Also, if you want to make a suggestion to provide incentive for players to stay, please dont make one that will drive them to quit instead. And if you're so insecure as to suspect friends logging off on you, only to play an alt instead, then send a Global friends request. If they refuse the request, then ask yourself: Are they being worthwhile friends to begin with?

And characters don't need powers other than brawl. Powers are metered by Brawl Index -- stop the incessant power levelling, everyone has brawl, use that. This does away with 99% of enhancements too, and the salvage required for Brawl Sets cuts that down by 90%. Win-Win!

My "Brawl-Brawl" Brawler will be called 'Gimped', he'll be on Freedom server. I look forward to this change, and would like to sign up for your newsletter.

Angry of Mayfair.

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And characters don't need powers other than brawl. Powers are metered by Brawl Index -- stop the incessant power levelling, everyone has brawl, use that. This does away with 99% of enhancements too, and the salvage required for Brawl Sets cuts that down by 90%. Win-Win!

My "Brawl-Brawl" Brawler will be called 'Gimped', he'll be on Freedom server. I look forward to this change, and would like to sign up for your newsletter.

Angry of Mayfair.

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I resent your impinging the unique flavor of Randy McMAN.

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Geocities

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That word is so 20th century.

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And characters don't need powers other than brawl. Powers are metered by Brawl Index -- stop the incessant power levelling, everyone has brawl, use that. This does away with 99% of enhancements too, and the salvage required for Brawl Sets cuts that down by 90%. Win-Win!

My "Brawl-Brawl" Brawler will be called 'Gimped', he'll be on Freedom server. I look forward to this change, and would like to sign up for your newsletter.

Angry of Mayfair.

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I think you've just solved the PvP balancing issue. Genius.

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Geocities

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That word is so 20th century.

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Free web page hosting sites should never have been allowed in the first place. They promote unhealthy frivolity and jocularity.

Now if only I could find another one. But I suppose they really are a thing of the past.

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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.

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I must have missed the notice saying that the game is ALL ABOUT what YOU want.

Hello Mr. Fun Police. Don't try to dictate how others play with your so called vision on how things should be. Restriction to just one character per account, are you sure you're reading what you're writing?

Also, if you want to make a suggestion to provide incentive for players to stay, please dont make one that will drive them to quit instead. And if you're so insecure as to suspect friends logging off on you, only to play an alt instead, then send a Global friends request. If they refuse the request, then ask yourself: Are they being worthwhile friends to begin with?

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There's a joke detector with faulty batteries here.

I cant determine if it's yours or mine...


To the OP, and Arcanaville :

LMAO...

You are joking.






You are joking, right? Right?

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Geocities

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That word is so 20th century.

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Free web page hosting sites should never have been allowed in the first place. They promote unhealthy frivolity and jocularity.

Now if only I could find another one. But I suppose they really are a thing of the past.

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?

And by the way - isn't your avatar NDTP?

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There's a joke detector with faulty batteries here.

I cant determine if it's yours or mine...

To the OP, and Arcanaville :

LMAO...

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The darn thing has been going wonky on me for sometime now...

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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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This is a wonderful idea. How much time with that one character would each player get?

I'm putting in my request now for Thursday mornings eastern time between 8:17 and 8:25. Am I being too greedy?

This isn't the suggestion forum.

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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.

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[censored] post of the year right heyah.

I call Loki troll.

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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.

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I don't know how many ppl know of it, but Skydrive is awesome for hosting images and files for downloading. It can't host web pages etc but you can hotlink images and files.

Good idea! And if you ever run into anyone who works for Nintendo, tell them that the next Mario Kart game only needs ONE playable character, and that's Mario! We don't need stupid Luigi, or that princess or Bowser! And don't get me started on Wario! No, Mario is the only character who matters!

/sarcasm/off-topic rant

Seriously, alts are needed. Believe it or not, people like VARIETY where I come from! (That's why Mario isn't the only playable character in Mario Kart!)

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How much time with that one character would each player get?

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It would be unfair if people had to take turns, because some people would never get a chance. Therefore, everyone would simultaneously log in to that character, and the character would do whatever the majority of players did at that instant in time. It would be a sort of Massively Majority Operated Role Playing Game.

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(That's why Mario isn't the only playable character in Mario Kart!)

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Well now don't I feel stupid!?

Could someone help me PL Luigi?