Man law of City of Heroes.
By
afocks,
Posted on: 2011-09-18 17:42 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Characters live within the mind of their creators. All that exists inside of the sever is a bunch of bits, a bag of hit points, a costume description, and a table of powers and enhancements.
If the characters are such that you would like to keep access to those power sets without leveling them up again then rename them and give them new costumes so that anyone acquainted with her would not recognize them.
Otherwise, delete them.
And since nobody else has gone there yet:
Did you take any powers from your primary and secondary powersets besides those forced upon you? Did you use the ones the game forced you to take? Did you pick an AT with high hp and/or damage modifier? Did you team with others who were not Men? If you answered 'Yes' to any of these then I'm afraid you can't call yourself a Man, regardless of what you do with your ex's characters.
You could move all the undesired characters to a server that you don't frequent. Take advantage of those low, low prices on server transfers.
Hey marketing, what do I win?
Was the account *started* together? If not, it's up to whoever started the account, I'd say.
If you both had it from the start, I'd go with whoever actually paid for it, or paid for it the most.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
You do know that sharing accounts is against the EULA, right?
*edit*
Also: "Man law?" The hell?
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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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It's an urban myth like Man Flu (which is just regular flu but an unsympathetic woman going 'suck it up you big baby |
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Also: "Man law?" The hell?
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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You do know that sharing accounts is against the EULA, right?
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Man Law
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My advice, all of which assumes that you own the account, that it's in your name, paid for by a credit card with your name on it, from a bank account that the divorce decree (or other legal action) has clarified is yours and yours alone:|
Originally Posted by LegionAlpha
Men of the CoH community, if you and your lady vested years of play time into the game and you break up leaving the characters they both make, do you delete all or does one just claim their characters and rename them?
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1) Do nothing immediately. Right after a breakup, your emotions are running high, your brainpower running low. Give the anger some time to ebb.
2) Sort the characters: if you have more than 12 slots on the server, move hers to the end of the list. If you have left-over server move tokens, move her characters to another server. She may come back. Probably not, but she may.
3) Once you actually need the character slots, and no sooner than a couple of weeks from now, delete her characters, lowest level to highest.
If my assumption is wrong, and it's a joint account whose ownership hasn't been settled? Delete nothing; don't even log into any characters but yours; strongly consider opening a new account on a card that is unambiguously yours in case some court rules that the credit card, and thus the account, is actually hers, not yours.
Don't let GG give you any guff about "inflexible male honor;" you're the one who has to sleep at night after making your choices. My advice, as a fellow man, is that the honorable thing to do with what was jointly-held property is to be a good steward of it until it is once and for all, unambiguously and permanently, no longer jointly held property. After that it's yours to do with as you please. Until then, it's just not.
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More American TV, you mean. I don't get that on local TV here, as it looks like a commercial. That's not to say we don't get US commercials, but they're usually dubbed over, swapped for completely different products and re-written, but I haven't seen this one.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I've been married for 17ish years, we don't anticipate breaking up, and we STILL don't try to share game accounts.
Thanks for the help guys, I have made my decision as what to do. Thanks everyone for your opinion.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
More American TV, you mean. I don't get that on local TV here, as it looks like a commercial. That's not to say we don't get US commercials, but they're usually dubbed over, swapped for completely different products and re-written, but I haven't seen this one.
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The title of this is idiotic.
In the situation the OP describes, the gender of the account holder(s) has nothing to do with the right thing to do in the situation.
The right thing is, of course, communication. "Okay, I get the account, you get the coffee maker." Making sure that everything's clear about the breakup will help to make the transition easier.
If the account is now yours, do what you want with it. Just remember to change the password. If ownership of the account is still debated, don't delete your former SO's characters, because that's really a jerk move.
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Sam, where are you from? I've been trying to make my own inference but A) your English is impeccable and B) I know you don't speak it natively so, being American, I'm stumped.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
More American TV, you mean. I don't get that on local TV here, as it looks like a commercial. That's not to say we don't get US commercials, but they're usually dubbed over, swapped for completely different products and re-written, but I haven't seen this one.
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"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Man law still sounds like something involving caves, clubs and grunting
@Golden Girl
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Man law still sounds like something involving caves, clubs and grunting
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clubs=remote controls/game controllers/laptops
grunting=... grunting
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
caves=homes
clubs=remote controls/game controllers/laptops grunting=... grunting |
@Golden Girl
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Some things never change
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See? Two can play that game.
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But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Sam, where are you from? I've been trying to make my own inference but A) your English is impeccable and B) I know you don't speak it natively so, being American, I'm stumped.
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I don't generally make a secret of my nationality, but I try not to rub it in people's faces lest I start to sound pretentious. Well, MORE pretentious. I was fortunate enough to study English for the entire 12 years of my primary and middle education, but as I tell everyone who asks - studying English doesn't teach you English. Using English does. Believe it or not, it is these very forums that gave me both the practice and the examples of good language that eventually taught me how to speak and write properly
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Learning proper English from game forums is like learning how to share from hungry dogs. I'm amazed that you're so coherent.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Eastern Europe, former Soviet block until 1989
I don't generally make a secret of my nationality, but I try not to rub it in people's faces lest I start to sound pretentious. Well, MORE pretentious. I was fortunate enough to study English for the entire 12 years of my primary and middle education, but as I tell everyone who asks - studying English doesn't teach you English. Using English does. Believe it or not, it is these very forums that gave me both the practice and the examples of good language that eventually taught me how to speak and write properly |
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Learning proper English from the City of Heroes forums is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than learning proper English from "most other game forums".
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Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
Learning proper English from game forums is like learning how to share from hungry dogs. I'm amazed that you're so coherent.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Periods go inside the quotation marks, Agge. Tsk tsk!
(See, you can learn lots of English 'round these parts. )
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But feminine intuition isn't either of those things
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Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
you should watch more tv
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Intuition isn't superstition |
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Yes... that is EXACTLY what it is.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Do whatever you want with it, basically. It's a computer game account, and a computer game account that apparently at least one party no longer cares about. It's not a particular significant choice, whatever you decide - it's not like you're deciding custody of the children or anything. It tells us pretty much nothing about the type of person you are, and it doesn't sound like it'll really impact anyone's life except perhaps your own. So just do whatever you feel most comfortable doing.