Epiphany!

Though no one here may care I am going to post this anyway.

When I first started playing this game a very short time ago I did so much research first, read all of the posts in these forums and asked a lot of questions to friends that play. I got so focused on numbers, synergies, opinions, trends, critiques, ideas and everything that didn't involve actually playing the game. I made, played, re-did and deleted so many toons never satisfied. I was in some race to level as fast as I could for no reason.

As of the past couple of days I came to realize that I have found my way of playing, I have made a few characters the way I want, the way that makes me happy and there is nothing wrong with whatever faults they probably have. I am taking my time learning the game my way and asking questions on here when I feel the need.

I guess the whole point of this game is that this game is really amazing and so multifaceted and deep that you really can do whatever you want and be happy and I missed that in the beginning. For anyone who happens to read this I am not a god of the game, I am not the guy with level 50+ toons that can tell you everything. I am the guy who plays because I never stopped wanting be a superhero lol. I am the guy who casually plays this game because it fulfills childhood, who am I kidding, adulthood dreams.

Play this game for you, your way, whatever that is. Or just make an insane toon that rules everything :0) whatever works for ya.

Thanks for reading :0)

I was told there'd be Little Christmas presents. Where are they?!

Wait a second, Christmas passed? I play this game way too much jeeze!!!

Congratulations, you have reached the first level of CoH nirvana

I find that reading, researching, experimenting, discussing, etc enhances my enjoyment of the game up to a certain point, but the part I actually enjoy still is the game itself. At some point, it's time to put down the spreadsheet, stop trying to figure out what's optimal, choose what I just want to play, and play it. Exactly how much playing vs thinking about playing is my ideal balance fluctuates over time, but almost always heavily favors the playing side.

Have fun in the City, and whenever you feel that your fun can be improved by running some numbers or asking some questions, well, you know what to do

So would this be a Radial or a Core Epiphany?

You have snatched the pebble from my hand Grasshopper. Time for you to go.


Congrats on your focus shift from completing the game to playing the game. I still find i do too much click-click-pew-pew and not enough reading. But if I'm having fun, who cares!?

This thread reminds me of a conversation I had with someone when I first started playing. I was on an emp at the time and one member of the time I was with was giving me all kinds of advice on what powers to take to be better at keeping the team alive. One thing they were pretty insistent on was that I drop hover and fly for recall friend and teleport since I'd be able to get to the team even if immobilized and teleport others to me to rez them.

My response to that was, "But I like to actually look at the game while playing. If I took teleport there's parts I'd have trouble reaching to check out or might not notice at all since I'd be teleporting instead of flying."

They told me that was the best reason they'd ever heard for taking a power and to ignore everything they'd said.

Do whatever is fun to you. That's why we're all playing after all.

'Bout time the obvious about Co* is finally talked about...

Indeed, the game is whatever you make of it, and that's the fun part of playing it.

/Some of it, for me is figuring out the worst way to play and still level characters.

Winter event huh? Well they so could have done a groundhogs day thing where Paragon City was attacked by masses of groundhogs and if they won and took over the city it meant longer in game winter lol.