If there was one thing that everyone should know about CoH...
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Posted on: 2011-08-02 14:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Antoinette
It's Barbie Online!
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.. I used to collect Barbies until about 2004. City is my very first (and only) "video" game. Not just first MMO... first walking talking squawking gawking game. Coincidence, I think not. Barbie is also probably why I'm crazy about the base editor. My parents couldn't afford the mansion. We borrowed a couple of milk crates (which made for a great highrise) and my dad brought home sample books of wallpaper and carpet remnants from a local furniture store. Barbie never had matching walls but her place was one of a kind.
Maybe that's why my OCD can deal with the abrupt change in base doorways.
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| Add my voice to the ones saying "variety". |
- become a big game hunter and badge your little heart out for six months
- base edit elaborate underground complexes with Talsorian water features for six months
- write expanded backstories and roleplay for six months.. and you can do it in leet and some people will still understand you!
- learn to PvP and run amok in leagues or RV for six months
- run every single story arc in Ouros for six months (then switch sides!)
just make sure and start backwards from the level 50 content to the tutorial so you can pretend you've really turned back time and can't hear that one obnoxious guy yelling in a Master run on Skype because you're .. shrinking.. oh noess...
- host a string of events... some of which LAST for six months
- recostume every single alt every six months
- level using other people's AE arcs for six months using six different powersets you previously thought were "teh lulz"
- assemble your friends every six months to figure out the lastest Mo run
- find something to post at least once in here every six months
- run a supergroup and enjoy the challenges it alone provides for six years
- etc.
Really a solid deal - six (sixteen?) games for the subscription cost of one.
This game is like a fully interactive comicbook. There are thousands of stories just waiting to be played out. Ones where you are the hero, or indeed the villain. Your actions determine the fate of the city. It's an epic journey which can see you rise from a fresh hero discovering their potential, to a mighty force of justice with a touch of godhood itself.
It's not about the exp... it's about the experience.
Man, that didn't sound like a sales pitch at all.
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For me, what everybody should know about CoH is "It's that MMO where you can look however you want, and it doesn't affect how good your gear is."
What shall claim a Sky Kings' Ransom?
PPD & Resistance Epic Archetypes
That you can make a Cyborg-Ninja-Pirate Catgirl with wings.
Always remember, we were Heroes.
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Let me fix that for you: Space-Pirate-Amazon-Ninja-Cyborg-Catgirl *, with wings.|
Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
That you can make a Cyborg-Ninja-Pirate Catgirl with wings.
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* There's a fun little card game called SPANC; it may be out of print.
I always tell people who ask me about it that the real goal of the game is to come up with a cool name and costume. After you've achieved that, it doesn't really matter whether you win or lose.
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you my not have seen it, but some goofy but long standing forumites actually made a sg with characters referencing that. i didnt join because it wasn't on my home server, but that non-affilliated char still is around, so yeah spanc has been respected by the fans.
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Originally Posted by Gaming_Glen
Let me fix that for you: Space-Pirate-Amazon-Ninja-Cyborg-Catgirl *, with wings.
* There's a fun little card game called SPANC; it may be out of print. |
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This. What he said.
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Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
If I was to give a single piece of advice to a newbie, it would be this:
The journey is more important than the destination. If you put all of your focus on "leveling up" then you will miss 90% of what makes this game special. There are only so many opportunities to have a "sovereign experience", meaning a first time to experience something in the game. Treasure them. Take your time. Talk to your contacts. Read the mission text. Don't jump into 8-man groups clearing the sewers and power-leveling to level 50. There's nothing there waiting for you. Well, nowadays, there are incarnates, but even that won't actually mean anything except a whole lot of grinding if you have ignored the entire game in order to get there. Do your missions. Follow the story arcs. Do your task forces at your level range when you are the right level to do them. The story of Paragon City is YOUR story - the story of your progress from new hero to Hero of the City. Make the most of it and learn the stories of the city. Later, you can make alts and do farming, or bank missions, or whatever. On your first character or two, savor the experience of earning your first cape; completing your first task force; defeating your first arch-villain. You only get one chance to have a first experience. Make the most of it. |
My characters at Virtueverse
Faces of the City
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There is no "mandatory team build" as well. The "trinity" is just not important here.
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
There is no "best build."
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Writer of In-Game fiction: Just Completed: My Summer Vacation. My older things are now being archived at Fanfiction.net http://www.fanfiction.net/~jwbullfrog until I come up with a better solution.
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But we're flexible. If you really must build your team on the 'trinity', that will work too. |
Originally Posted by jwbullfrog
There is no "mandatory team build" as well. The "trinity" is just not important here.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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Yeah, of all the superhero games, it's the one that got superhero-y right.|
Originally Posted by Biidi
The one thing everyone should know about CoH is this: it's the GOOD superhero MMO.
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Originally Posted by jwbullfrog
There is no "mandatory team build" as well. The "trinity" is just not important here.
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--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
It's Barbie Online!
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