everyone should have only one character
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AlienOne,
Posted on: 2009-05-18 17:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
thank you Dug, i now having the most winningest business plan evar!!!!11!!!!
i'm going to sell joke detector batteries, it appears that everyone has let theirs run out and they have no replacements!!!11!!!!
i am sooo going to clean up on this.
and to all you who are freaking out, he did mention specifically that he was joking, on page 2 or 3, so anyone freaken out after that.......... you should go sit in a corner and think about what you did. then come buy my batteries.
Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.
screw your joke, i want "FREEM"
I want ""!
One Unicode char 2 letters ^_^.
Wait! Wait! I'm starting to like this idea now. Particularly with the added "no hospital/ no rez" option.
...Empaths might finally start getting some respect.
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I, too, agree that having the ability to make several characters can, at times, be rather discouraging because it can induce a mindset of "well maybe I should've made this instead...", but at the same time it allows you to branch out your creativity.
Taking away character slots ins't the answer to your problem, my friend. Maybe one day this game will have so much content only one character will suffice at a time, but that is not this day.
But you did bring back nostalgia of my old SWG days. Yup, only played one character for about 3 years, and even then I had barely scratched the surface! But I digress.
I do hope people aren't too hard on you for posing this suggestion.
One toon per side wow that is the most retarded thing i have ever heared! Why on earth would you want to do that? What would be the point of the game then? What is the matter with you?
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I salute the genius of the OP and hop firmly upon the bandwagon.
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Sure today is the first day of the rest of your life. But so was yesterday. And look how that turned out.
Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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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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This idea makes me happier than ee cummings at a punctuation festival!
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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...But fails miserable at making a point. Having multiple characters in no way even vaguely relates to that which you're trying ot make fun of. Anyone who has watched Monty Python, a Peter Sellers movie, Back to the Future II, or any number of other television shows or movies is very well familiar with an actor (a role-player in the literal sense) portraying more than one character in a story. The ability for avatars to have a wide variation of physical appearances and the ability to portray each one differently makes games such as City of Heroes particularly suitable for role-playing.
In fact, the ability to portray different characters and sell it is the mark of a brilliant role-player, a skill to be admired. It's the people who play every single character exactly the same that tend to be less desirable to play with.
That's why the suggestion that everyone have just one character really comes off just as asinine to the role-players in the game as it does the non-role-players. As pointed out, if this "satire" is attacking anything, it's people who are anti-alt, not anti-power-leveling. In fact, since most power-levelers use one or two characters to rake in the stuff they want, if anything, one could read this "satire" as anti-power-leveling itself.
But really, to me, it just comes off as silly.
Oh, and P.S., I don't think that anyone has ever claimed that there's "one proper way of playing." This is an absurd claim that every anti-power-leveler knows is BS, a strawman used to try to sway the ignorant. Anyone who says that pretty much loses all credibility in my book, because it says to me that they have no interest in having a reasonable discussion about the topic.
If you're going to attack a claim, attack the correct claim, which is that although there is no single "proper" way of playing, there are wrong ways of playing, ways that are detrimental to the fun of others and the long-term success of the game.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
I am a altaholic, everys slot of mine is filled to the brim. I play nearly every single one of those toons often and plan to geteachone to 50. If I were allowed one toon per side, I would simply...quit. Won't even think about it twice.
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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I'm surprised to see there isn't an official power levelling thread yet, or if there is one I can't find it.
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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I'm surprised to see there isn't an official power levelling thread yet, or if there is one I can't find it.
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That's because all the participants decided to skip the discussion about powerlevelling and jump right to talking about cake, and it was deleted about eight minutes after it was started.
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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...But fails miserable at making a point. Having multiple characters in no way even vaguely relates to that which you're trying ot make fun of. Anyone who has watched Monty Python, a Peter Sellers movie, Back to the Future II, or any number of other television shows or movies is very well familiar with an actor (a role-player in the literal sense) portraying more than one character in a story. The ability for avatars to have a wide variation of physical appearances and the ability to portray each one differently makes games such as City of Heroes particularly suitable for role-playing.
In fact, the ability to portray different characters and sell it is the mark of a brilliant role-player, a skill to be admired. It's the people who play every single character exactly the same that tend to be less desirable to play with.
That's why the suggestion that everyone have just one character really comes off just as asinine to the role-players in the game as it does the non-role-players. As pointed out, if this "satire" is attacking anything, it's people who are anti-alt, not anti-power-leveling. In fact, since most power-levelers use one or two characters to rake in the stuff they want, if anything, one could read this "satire" as anti-power-leveling itself.
But really, to me, it just comes off as silly.
Oh, and P.S., I don't think that anyone has ever claimed that there's "one proper way of playing." This is an absurd claim that every anti-power-leveler knows is BS, a strawman used to try to sway the ignorant. Anyone who says that pretty much loses all credibility in my book, because it says to me that they have no interest in having a reasonable discussion about the topic.
If you're going to attack a claim, attack the correct claim, which is that although there is no single "proper" way of playing, there are wrong ways of playing, ways that are detrimental to the fun of others and the long-term success of the game.
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I am glad you read it to mean what you want it to mean.
I suspect that demonstrates great open mindedness on your part.
lol Dug you crack me up.
As if (even in an imaginary world) i would ever give up my characters.....
Why can't people simply disagree with an idea w/o bashing the OP? Just say, I disagree and this is why instead of "you fail miserably..." This is ridiculous..."
I honestly gotta say; As a confirmed alt-0-holic, who has wiped characters from several servers just to fill them up again and again. Added to that, the fact that I have the name "Name Squatter" reserved with pride...
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and Ill look down, and whisper no, but if you refer to my handy naming guide, you may find what you need." :P
Love your posts Dug... Dugfromearth. 
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Why can't people simply disagree with an idea w/o bashing the OP? Just say, I disagree and this is why instead of "you fail miserably..." This is ridiculous..."
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Because the OP didn't post a message saying, "I disagree with anti-power-levelers, and here's why." He deliberately posted an inflammatory message that totally misses the mark of the argument. It was a troll post, plain and simple, done for the express purpose of prolonging the bickering.
The way some in here are treating it like real satire just shows that they don't know what satire is. And reading the OP's follow-up comments, it's pretty clear to me that he doesn't even understand the other side's views, which is why his post doesn't really make sense in any context, satirical or not.
I feel like he posted a message saying something as stupid as, "Anti-power-levelers like to drink turpentine!" And now a bunch of people are standing around congratulating him on how insightful and funny that is. It's stupid, its only purpose is to elicit more ill will, it bears no relevance to the actual issue at hand, and is completely non-productive. I mean seriously, what exactly do you expect? "No, we don't drink turpentine"? It's a facetious claim, which makes it really kind of insulting to dignify with a response.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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Darn. It was pretty good as a practical joke post. As a satire of anti-powerleveling, it doesn't work at all.
I mean, it works as a satire of anti-powerleveling about as much as it works as a satire of Champions Online. There's just nothing there.
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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You totally derail achieving prophet status if you tell people the point. 
There goes 20 pages of speculation and idol worship, sniffle...
You should change your handle. To JSWIFT.
You had me going for several seconds.
Well done. VERY well done.
Yeah man, this game needs to real improvements if it's gonna survive. I mean what's with these travel powers anyway? I wanna ride a horse.
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Great satire, but... what exactly are you satirizing? I must have missed the uproar about multiple characters per account that inspired this...
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actually this is a satire of anti-powerleveling. How some players selfishness is hurting the game, how you can't have fun powerleveling, how there is one proper way of playing.
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...But fails miserable at making a point.
But really, to me, it just comes off as silly.
Oh, and P.S., I don't think that anyone has ever claimed that there's "one proper way of playing." This is an absurd claim that every anti-power-leveler knows is BS, a strawman used to try to sway the ignorant.
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EPIC PHAIL.
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The OP is a genius. The only thing I could suggest that would improve his "one character per side" suggestion would be perma-death--eliminate all hospitals, awaken inspirations and rez powers. That would really get players fully engaged in the health of their characters.
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Even better... if you die in the game, you DIE IN REAL LIFE!
Talk about an intense gaming experience!