As one of the new(ish) GG'ers, I've already noticed a similar tailoff in the presence of the 'older' crowd. But there are usually a few hanging about... For me, balancing the time I spend at GG with my desire to experience higher content is proving tricky.
However, when GG is packed, the chat in local is terrifyingly quick - making better use of the grassed areas would certainly help in that respect.
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And the Carpark behind the statue. Or the steps. Or the Hero Corp Building roof.
I can still keep up with the text most nights, as well as with GGOOC, so long as I pay attention. Unlike the other night where I wasn't paying attention, and missed a woman going into labor 
max... what have i told you about keeping that sniper scope correctly lined up? It's not like it was a difficult target *shakes head and tuts*
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max... what have i told you about keeping that sniper scope correctly lined up? It's not like it was a difficult target *shakes head and tuts*
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She was a friend's wife. Max doesn't shoot his friends.
Well, maybe he does, but not pregnant friends.
I know this is a bit late, but:
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Okay, I admit my ignorance, but if I didn't know that there was a valid in-game reason for meeting then how are my characters supposed to know?
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They could ask. Being one of the few still around from the time, War Crow was asked recently if that was really "the Prize who started the gatherings at Galaxy Girl."
Or, put it another way, why do you need a reason? The fact is that heroes gather under the Galaxy Girl statue. I and one of my toons happen to know why, but not everyone does. They go there because heroes meet there, and heroes meet there now because heroes "have always gone to GG to meet." That's what happens in real life, traditions happen for a reason, but after a while they happen because they are traditions.
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I had assumed that a group of RP players had chatted and decided that it was as good a place as any to meet for some "proper" roleplaying (after all the Atlas statue is a "very silly place").
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Well, yeah, of course that's what happened. The_Prize (player) suggested it, we all agreed and made a date to turn up. But you wanted an IC justrification for why heroes meet at GG not the OOC reason GG was selected.
For the record, it's the best place we've found. Atlas is full of tools. PDP was full of tools and had lousy access. Various other places have been suggested, but they all fall down based mostly on easy access by level 1 RP toons. Pocket-D is about viable since you can get there relatively easily from King's Row station, but that was only introduced recently, and I think you'll find that running serious RP sessions there will prove as bad or worse than PDP was.
I'll go read the rest of the thread now. 
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will put my past experiences to one side and try again with GG
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I do remember seeing Electron Kid around, but not much about him. I think I was having one of my off phases at the time.
If at all possible, try to pick a night when Alcatraz and Anastasia Kade are at GG, then try hitting on Anna. That way Wordy can have a chance to punch the Kid's lights out, since he plays Alcatraz. 
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i still relativly new to this whole sceane, and seems to arrive at a lucky point. But it was a creadit to the people like wordy and ravenswing that i found it likeable (birdy even gave me pointers on my first night of Rp there)
but it is in a state of flus, and a few pople have got the missioning bug of late butit has been a very rewarding experance, and i would miss the people i first met ther terribly if they moved on, specally wordy, as he was Dm for my first irc session which i enjoyed emnsly, so hopefulyl as they shall return...
but don't talk to me this week, i am likely to drool on you for no good reson.
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To be fair, the older end at the moment are in the 40-50 space where the end is in sight, so we're pushing o at it. When we all get there, things should settle down a bit again.
We've had the discussion before, lulls happen.
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Agreed with Gid.
There are trends, Paul, and it happens when it happens. Sometimes you're part of it, sometimes you're not. Didn't the Vigil exlcude themselves at some point, and then came back once the plot was finished?
Didn't the Rooftop Generation not specifically gather somewhere else, away from the grown-ups? Some of us didn't want to play teen characters, so we kept to GG, continuing to chat to people, that took months as well.
GG has never been constant all the time, and it never will, because, as you say, people can have different tastes, and those individual tastes change as well, depending on one's mood.
We will come back, but as Gid said, the pull to 50 is calling, and if possible, we are trying to speed it up as much as we can. I for one, will not get bored with the game, I will come back to GG, that I know. None of my characters, certainly my mains, are not the kind of characters to hang around PD a lot, so GG is and will remain, my main roleplay means, just not right now. Not constant anyway.
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I did? That explains a lot.
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I don't want to know.
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All that's happening (as several others have said) is that GG is changing. Also as has been said, this has happened frequently before.
The point about everyone your character knows disappearing, I know all about... After the end of the 'RG Phase', Spear was left pretty much by himself. He just had to cope with the changing people.
There was something mentioned about when the people you know stop going somewhere, so do you... My reflection on this (which is based on RL experience) is that if they've gone away completely, you gotta just bite the bullet and make new friends because you're still there.
Perhaps it's my ambivalence towards taking part in plots that means I don't feel these changes quite so bad... Althought the 'Railroad Plot' phase was very hard for me due to being in something you had no choice over being in...
GG is always changing, you have to go with the flow... Or take a break for a few weeks and when you return it'll be a different creature once again.
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GG is changing...?
Does that mean the Lesbien Catgirl corner is no more?
World of Jackcraft.
I don't know what to post right now. I've been sat at my PC for half an hour trying to figure out how to phrase this, and I can't. The fact that I'm ever so slightly hung over means I probably shouldn't, anyway.
I'll gather my thoughts for a while and post later.
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GG is changing...?
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GG is always changing.
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Does that mean the Lesbien Catgirl corner is no more?
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Not sure. We still have lesbian catgirls.
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Rawlrighty folks... Confession time!
*stretch*
I am, and allways will be, an action RP fan.
I want to play the hero who lays out an entire room of villans, flips the bird to a security camera then passes out.
I want to play the villan that beats down the superhero, kidnaps his girlfriend, laughs and teleports away.
I want to be the knight who defeats the dragon, the werewolf who lays the smack down on the wyrm's minions, the wraith who'll cross the shroud -just- to punish someone who'se done something really evil.
Non action orientated RP is kinda a hit and miss for me, sometimes i enjoy it, sometimes i dont. This is generally due to the fact i have a lot of problems with putting 2 and 2 together in most situations. Thats why i enjoy RP missions alot more... to be honest, given a chance thats what i'd be doing most of the time.
Thats just a personal preference though, i dont expect people to think the same way as i do, especially with the little gem i'm about to show you guys.
Alot of people know i have somewhat of an attitude problem when it comes to new roleplayers. Why? its easy, Roleplay is somewhat of a religious experience for me, I find it Cathartic. So i do get selfish when it comes to RP, and if theres even an inkling someone might spoil it i get nasty and abrasive - I'm sure you've all seen me doing it. A couple of you are kind enough to tell me when i've gone too far.
Just to further clarify... i don't hate the new people at the statue, its just that i'm more likely to get irritated by them. Don't worry, im sure it'll pass :P
GG is changing. Old players want to try new characters, new characters need levelling up and for all those people with jobs that means cutting into GG time, because thats the only time they have, really. I for one am not an amazingly huge fan of Pocket D. i have 2 characters that go there... and they're both villans. My heros wouldn't want to accosiate with a villan in an environment thats supposed to be 'fun and relaxing'. The only reason i go to pocket D most of the time is because i want to RP with my villans and no-ones up for a mission.
I think i just lost track of what i was getting at *scratches head*
Dark will allways end up back at GG. Its fun to play 'connect the characters' (IE: make connections between them) and GG is a great place just to make a new character and try something different.
*shrugs*
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Does that mean the Lesbien Catgirl corner is no more?
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Not sure. We still have lesbian catgirls.
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Nowadays, they just get everywhere...
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Okay, I've had coffee, taken some painkillers, and I'm starting to think more clearly.
I want to apologise for the tone of my initial post. I can see how it can come across as a rant at people. I'm honestly not trying to sound bitter, give out, or guilt-trip people. That's clearly how I came across to several people, and for that I am sorry.
Im not sure i should do this, Im not sure i know how. As most of you know lines of text and me don't go well, Its taken me the best part of two hours to get this far. Now im going to try and say sumin, everytime i do this its taken wrong and i annoy sombody so ill say sorry now and ask to be forgiven, Next to PMing my reply to sombody like Crowster to check this is the best i can do.
Two hours is a damn long time.. you think a lot of rubbish in two hours.. i have been annoyed, alarmed and laughing. Now im sat here with an empty screen infront of me. im ment to fill this with somthing that might make a diffrence.
The GG is changing. Thats for sure, What nobody has pointed out about the last 10 levels is the content gets so so much better, its a not a grind anymore it is now a full blown action film and you have lead role. I wish you all luck and im not that far behind ya for my second.
So the old guys are busy and the new guys are out in full. Ill admit to thinking twice about getting involved a few nights ago when i realised i didn't know anybody there. I then had one of the best nights id had for a wile. Ive never realy known were i stand at the GG. I came in with a bang, and a few clowns. i turned heads and got noticed. A pity that myself and others didnt see it was going to far until it had left. For that i am still sorry, just happy it ended with hugs and smiles. Ive never been the guy on the outside.. ive never had to turn up and wait to be noticed. I have seen others do it and i can imagine how hard it is to get noticed or simply say hello.
I have talked OOC with a lot of players who have turned up and felt like they have been ignored.Infact i would like to say with out sounding to big headed that i am or was once known as one of the guys to talk to about GG if you need anything. As to many you are Wordy. The "new" GG seems a lot more friendly to new players, the atmosphere is a lot nicer than i have seen it before. I hate to point it out but this dose look like a "i don't like these new guys being here thread". I know thats not the case. but it is how it looks IMO and that worries me. i would suggest now that points have been made and as there are no answers to this that this is rapped up soon? There is nowere for this thred to go from here except badly..
I would like to think that in two weeks this will be long forgotten and the RL meet up will get everybody plotting and thinking. I look forwed to seeing you ALL at the GG in the next few weeks. Yes even you!
OK its done. It makes no sense, the words are spelt wrong and all the dots and things are in the wrong places plus i don't think it adds anything or even has a place here to be honest But i have spent far to long hitting these keys to not post it. All of it is based on my own opinoin and if you dont agree please say so. If you want to chuck abuse at me do it in a pm please, just use small words tho or i wont get it and it loses the point
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I look forwed to seeing you ALL at the GG in the next few weeks. Yes even you!
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Even me? Wow.
hey, im the only one here who'se not allowed to like the new guys!
*shakes fist*
All right, I admit I probably shouldn't have made a public post about this. Perhaps I should have just kept quiet altogether, because all that seems to have happened is people have taken this completely the wrong way. I'm going to ask for the thread to be locked, because I don't think anything constructive can be added. I'm more than happy to discuss the matter privately, and would very much like to, but right now, this thread does nothing for the image of the CoH community.
So please, please, anyone who has any concerns about the things I've said, any opinions, advice, or just wants to tell me to shut up, please PM me or grab me over MSN or in-game. I'll discuss it privately, or even over the GGOOC channel, just not on the forums.
I thought it was rather good, RM.
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stop being so defenceive, you have aired the doubts and concerns that a few people have had, and i hope cleared the air with a few of the newer player, you might have felt the tension and not known what it was a bout, you did a good thing, stop bashing it, yes people may have missunderstood, but for the most part people have jsut said what they thought, and it has been intresting to see what people thought.
this was a good thing Wordy, well done.
I agree with the lack of RP content, I would like to walk normally for once. Even SWG (Which is a MMO swearword now) has walk.