... of course, that was back when we had NINE planets.

We used to get FULL debt when we died at level 5! Outside OR inside! And Blasters weren't the only ones grateful to hear the phrase "debt cap".

Oh and don't even get me STARTED on yer fancy rent-controlled bases now! By in MY day, your base rent kept going up if your prestige was growing at ALL!

... zzzzZZZ *ork* Huh?

And we LIKED it that way!

There's First World problems, and then there's Paragon City problems.

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Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy Ahhh the "Good Ole" Days back when... Stamina wasn't inherant and between having to wait till 14 and take an added power before getting a travel power you also had to take 2 powers from fitness to obtain STAMINA at 20. Which generally mean between levels 12 and 20 you took absolutely no powers from your primary or secondary! The Positron Task Force was only slightly shorter than Doc Q, ran you all over multiple zones (without travel powers) and usually required 2 days to complete. There was no such thing as Invention Origin or Wentworths and Single Origins were the sought after enhancement in game (at least until later 40s when you could head to the hive and battle to obtain Hami-Os. A time when telling someone your character posssessed 1 million in INF was highly impressive and players in their 30s were still buying Double Origin and Training origin enhancers just to have SOMETHING in the slots! Ahhhh .. back before vet rewards when the only way to respec your character if you messed up was to wait till level 24 and go run a respec trial. There were no radio or newspaper missions and the ONLY way to level, outside of street hunting, was to run missions from contacts.. contacts that almost always sent you off to another zone to zomplete their tasks .. then you ran back so they could send you off to another zone on the next one! [special note .. see part about no travel powers before 14 above. Run here means ... RUN and usually through areas with street villains conning purple] Ahhh a real good one .. Back when people begged to join SGs because they had teleporters that could get you to other zones faster! and here's one that isnt even very old.. Back when you had to wait until 25 level to obtain an Ouroborus Portal and use it as another means to transport quicker. lol Okay now for something more on the topic of the thread. I have seen but have yet to try this new feature... does seem like it would make it simpler to gain access to a new contact and begin running their missions.

Of course, I can be incredibly stubborn sometimes and love my astronomy. So when only 13% of the world's astronomers decide that a planet I grew up with and came to love for its remoteness and isolation is no longer a planet, I pretty much ignore them. Because I'm like that.

So this thread title makes no sense to me.




And thanks everyone, threads like me remind me of just how long I've spent in the city. Sheesh!

I remember when you couldn't change your costume at all! You kids and your trainers-with-tailors, I tell you what.

--NT

Phase Shift was a toggle that let you still interact with things. (It's the only way I got the Heart of Hami badges.. once.)

There were cone enhancements.

A blaster's nuke only drained end, didn't stop you from recovering it for a stupid amount of time.

DUMPSTER DIVING!

There wasn't a cap on the number of enemies you could take out with your nuke.

No travel suppression.. for those drive-by punch and runs

The only way to get to Founders Falls was to go though Talos.. and you would inevitably be sniped the moment you got in there.

There was no Council.

The best place to level was street sweeping on a team in Perez.

4!!! instances of Atlas Park... but still only one instance of Galaxy.

The Positron TF that let you start it at level 10, but you had a mission in Boomtown, which was a hazard zone for level 12 and higher!

I STILL have the CoH Binder and Guide that was supposed to have new issues available to replace outdated material. (And the CoV one as well)

Citadel was Bastion.

Always built my characters to concept, so:

I had a dark defender back when the healing animation took over 5 seconds, and the heal effect came after the animation. You literally couldn't do situational healing, as the team member would die before you'd finish your animation.

Also took a spines/dark back when Dark Armor was unstackable.

I remember when Stone Tanks were unheard of,and considered the worst of all the tanks, as their armor did not stack either, and they looked like a pile of poo.

I remember myself and lots of newbies basically trapped at the Steel Canyon Hospital unable to get to the tram without being ganked by zone spawns.

I do miss the Taxibots...

Back when the missions in the Hollows were at the ***-end of hell and the doors were surrounded by purples...

Never minded that about the Hollows m'self.

Then again, I was/am *extremely* good at running across it as a level 5, diagonally, through the actual hollows, up over the transmission tower, and into the forest at the SE corner... of course, dying there meant going to AP, which sucked a lot back then.

/Won the Death Race 2 because of that skill... and hella planning.
//Oh, and Zwillinger is awesome with that pic.
///I'm totally gonna do that run again before bed, as a *1*, just to say I did it.

Pluto IS a planet. And I'll KILL anyone who continues to try to say otherwise in my prescence for more than 30 seconds.

Eco.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

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I thought this was about finding Forbidden Yuggoth (and subsequent Cthulhoid zone)...

Don't see the harm in it; the longer a person plays the longer they pay. If they do more missions they will keep at it. Win win.

Remember back when we had no IOs but we couldn't buy all the SO we wanted either? Because of the Power Ten rule (or what it was called). Fly, tohit debuff, to hit and endurance drain and endurance recovery (now endurance modification) weren't available at lvl 22 as 25 SOs. You had to wait until later to get them.

Anyone remember that?

I remember the days when being exemp'd down you got NO xp