Confessions


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Originally Posted by Flea_Mark_Evil View Post
I once ASed an AFK GM in Warburg. He teleported me to Atlas Park, let me die to drones and TPed me back. It was funny.
Killed a few GM's in Warburg when making nukes runs in th epast, once or twice inside missions.

Years back, we found a GM character that was hanging out in my global channel and never talking, for days on end. Used slash commands to find out that he was on a level 2 character street sweeping in Atlas. Maybe a dozen of us got together and followed him around, doing emotes.


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Originally Posted by Hallway_Kid_RAGE View Post
test
Are you quite sure you're prepared to confess something like that?
It's not too late to change your mind.

Oh, wait, i guess it is.


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i make stuff...

 

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Well, since we are being forthcoming about these kinds of things… here we go. I will try to make these chronological for you.

Transferring HO’s to villain side via the base bug that let you drag and drop items into storage

I was one of the first people to find out the exploit of getting under maps. As such, I coordinated the first team to ever 4 man the old Hamidon raid. Still pretty sure it hasn’t been copied.

To go along with the above, I pulled a wall of GMs from under the map to stop Stryke Force from stealing Hamidon that day, first time that was ever done. Yellow Dawn occurred, it was magical.

I found out the spot to get under the map of the Abyss before the zone even went live.

Utilizing said exploit, I ran the first team to ever complete MoSTF with a kheldian on team.

Accordingly, MoLRSF soon followed.

Siren’s/RV underground would let me teleport into the hero hospital. Doing it before it was cool.

There was once an IO dupe that would copy your entire tray of IOs if you went drag and dropped your items onto another player then went into a custom mission with too many mob spawns, crashing the mission map. Load back in with those IOs again even though you had just traded them. Lots of my friends got banned for doing it. The journey to wealth had begun.

The moment PvPIOs released, I had a team of 8 farming kills in Bloody Bay, what became the standard for IO farming.

PvPIO farm nerf happens, I keep chugging along. I set up a bot and two accounts to both list and fight arena matches. To this day, I am certain my mastermind has more player kills than any other character in the game, not to mention the most PvP drops.

The day the global e-mail system came out, I instantly became the wealthiest person in the game. You see, you could both claim and return e-mails at the same time. Myself and three friends kept at it for over seven hours. I filled two bases with purples and PvPIOs. I ended up with close to 1000 (yes, thousand) Gladiator’s Javelin procs when they were going for 2 billion each. I was a trillionaire and every PvP team I was on since benefited from that fact.

Now in no particular order:
--I did the first teleport chain at the first ski event. I copied this each year after that I participated, always being first. Always.
--I invented or improved on most AE farming missions that existed for quite some time. I even had some secret ones that were as good as the MM farm. My fastest 1-50 was 30 minutes.
--I took over and emptied several global channels in my stay here, including the Pingu channel and Cross-Server PvP.
--I TP foed people outside of warwalls in RV.
--I started the Grandville chain confuse wars. PvP against people that couldn't fight back.
There are definitely more, I am just forgetting them.

And for the big one!
I have never been banned or suspended.


 

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Originally Posted by perilX View Post
And for the big one!
I have never been banned or suspended.
How funny would it be to find out later today that the game is saved, and half the people on this thread get banned?

edit: well, maybe "ironic" would have been a better term...


Topher Wade lvl 50 Claws/Regen
The Crimson Heroes Society SG
Chaos Faction VG

Official Naturalized Citizen of Justice since 2007

 

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Originally Posted by Bohmfalk View Post
How funny would it be to find out later today that the game is saved, and half the people on this thread get banned?
i24 was dubbed "Fix Everything" for a reason You're all fools for falling for Paragon's little scheme to root out everyone! DON'T TRUST THEM!


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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

 

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Originally Posted by perilX View Post
Well, since we are being forthcoming about these kinds of things… here we go. I will try to make these chronological for you.

Transferring HO’s to villain side via the base bug that let you drag and drop items into storage

I was one of the first people to find out the exploit of getting under maps. As such, I coordinated the first team to ever 4 man the old Hamidon raid. Still pretty sure it hasn’t been copied.

To go along with the above, I pulled a wall of GMs from under the map to stop Stryke Force from stealing Hamidon that day, first time that was ever done. Yellow Dawn occurred, it was magical.

I found out the spot to get under the map of the Abyss before the zone even went live.

Utilizing said exploit, I ran the first team to ever complete MoSTF with a kheldian on team.

Accordingly, MoLRSF soon followed.

Siren’s/RV underground would let me teleport into the hero hospital. Doing it before it was cool.

There was once an IO dupe that would copy your entire tray of IOs if you went drag and dropped your items onto another player then went into a custom mission with too many mob spawns, crashing the mission map. Load back in with those IOs again even though you had just traded them. Lots of my friends got banned for doing it. The journey to wealth had begun.

The moment PvPIOs released, I had a team of 8 farming kills in Bloody Bay, what became the standard for IO farming.

PvPIO farm nerf happens, I keep chugging along. I set up a bot and two accounts to both list and fight arena matches. To this day, I am certain my mastermind has more player kills than any other character in the game, not to mention the most PvP drops.

The day the global e-mail system came out, I instantly became the wealthiest person in the game. You see, you could both claim and return e-mails at the same time. Myself and three friends kept at it for over seven hours. I filled two bases with purples and PvPIOs. I ended up with close to 1000 (yes, thousand) Gladiator’s Javelin procs when they were going for 2 billion each. I was a trillionaire and every PvP team I was on since benefited from that fact.

Now in no particular order:
--I did the first teleport chain at the first ski event. I copied this each year after that I participated, always being first. Always.
--I invented or improved on most AE farming missions that existed for quite some time. I even had some secret ones that were as good as the MM farm. My fastest 1-50 was 30 minutes.
--I took over and emptied several global channels in my stay here, including the Pingu channel and Cross-Server PvP.
--I TP foed people outside of warwalls in RV.
--I started the Grandville chain confuse wars. PvP against people that couldn't fight back.
There are definitely more, I am just forgetting them.

And for the big one!
I have never been banned or suspended.
This post restores my faith that winning at PVP was always about cheating and never about skill. Thanks, I feel better having proof of this.


 

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Originally Posted by Hallway_Kid_RAGE View Post
test
I haven't been on the test server since CoV beta.

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Originally Posted by CyberGlitch View Post
This post restores my faith that winning at PVP was always about cheating and never about skill. Thanks, I feel better having proof of this.
Hell, I could have told you that Peril was a little ******. Nice to know he also cheated that much.


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Originally Posted by CyberGlitch View Post
This post restores my faith that winning at PVP was always about cheating and never about skill. Thanks, I feel better having proof of this.
Other than stocking tons of stuff for builds (which other people still obtained plenty of), I'm not sure what in his post says much about whether he had any skill at PvP. Almost everything listed has to do with exploiting bugs in PvE.

I've almost exclusively been a PvE player. I pretty much have no dog in the fight to defend PvP players. But I have known a lot of people whose passion was for PvP and who had no qualms about exploiting the living crap out of the PvE game to cut to the chase in PvP. While I don't outright support that, I don't really blame them, either. If what you want is to PvP, and you find PvE boring, why would you want to slog through PvE stuff to get the goods for PvE play? Other games handled this much better than CoH (Guild Wars comes to mind), so I hardly think its a novel desire.


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American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
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Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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Ok, my ultimate Confession?

<.<

>.>

<.<

...I took Flurry and Whirlwind on my first toon.


 

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One time during free server transfers I sent a fully twinked io'd stalker to Freedom. Somehow I eneded up with one on Freedom and the original on my home server. I promptly sold off the IO's from the justice one for quite a few billion. I think I may actually have both still lol

Also I own a ton of great names, but Ivanna Sugardadski was by far the best one I ever came up with, and she was a perfect copy of Wonder Woman with her sword/shield, better looking than the DCUO one even.


 

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Originally Posted by Deebs View Post
Im working on a art piece to post before they close the forums of Zwillinger on a bearskin rug holding a rose clenched in his teeth and clad in nothing more than a hat .
I can not wait for this piece of art to be posted.... Other than that I am perfectly normal! I do use Normal loosely though


 

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Confession: I made an insanely exploitable farm in the Mission Architect that outperformed any others I was aware of with zero risk, and survived every MA farming nerf. I haven't played in over a year now, but as far as I know it still works. It was kept private, just between me and some of my friends and SG mates, but every once in a while I'd invite somebody random for a few runs, hoping the secret would get out, and cause a big ruckus. It never did.

If anyone wants to check and see if it's still functional, it was called "The Forbidden Plant Cave". (EDIT: Just logged on, and yeah, it still works. ~5 million inf per run when you solo it on maximum difficulty spawned for 8. A run takes about 2-3 minutes with my build.) It's disguised as a really bad mission (cheesy dialogue, stupid plot, etc), and I think there's a random high-level supervillain right at the front to dissuade people from going in further (EDIT: in some versions there was, Tyrant, but he's not in it anymore. There are still references to him in some of the text). To farm it:

Arc#: 444905
1. Get a hero that can fly or hover, one with good AoE attacks. The best at this are plant dominators, because they can confuse the mobs to help kill each other for MUCH more efficient gains. With mass confusion, you can crank the difficulty up to the top and rely almost entirely on the mobs to deal the damage. Auto-Hit damage sources are also important if doing this.
2. Stealth to the back of the cave. Some versions had friendly "buffbots" along the way, which would hover next to you and buff you, but not attack. I don't remember if those were in the final version. (EDIT: They are, but they only do speed boost and the kinetics thing where they steal damage. Old versions would have multiple types of buffs, not sure why that changed)
3. Activate the glowing pedestals: I think there are four. (EDIT: there are) Upon activating the last one, a HUGE wave of enemies appear, and even more will rush into the room. Slower computers WILL crash.
4. Kill them all. Some of their deaths will trigger even more waves of enemies to show up. I think those mobs glow red or something. (EDIT: Yes, they have a red glow to them. More enemies spawn when these glowing mobs reach 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 hp, and when they die)

The enemies can't attack you while you fly: their ranged attack (which they have to have to yield full exp) is one of the immobilizes from the plant control set: it can't target you while you're in the air. Their melee attacks reduce DEF, which is very useful if you're using the confusion method. (EDIT: Opening up the mission showed that the bosses are only yielding 91% of their exp. This may have always been the case, but if so, I don't remember. At any rate a loss of <9% doesn't worry me much.)


 

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Originally Posted by CyberGlitch View Post
I made a toon called Jakarta and led a team of players in one-starring all the arcs of vocal AE forum posters for a week just because I was sick of all the anti-farmer self-righteous trash talk. With 15 of us having double accounts it was pretty easy to punish them in the one way I could....attack their egos and beloved rankings.
So... you proved to yourself that you're just like them?


 

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Back before the game went F2P, I was paying for my friend's subscription because he could not afford it himself. I continued to do so even after he lost interest in the game. I did that only so I could use all of his characters as mules for chump bids on Alchemical Silver. Then I realized that was a bit excessive and I cancelled his sub on my card. But I didn't cancel any of the bids before I did that.

When his account became Premium, I logged back into it and stripped the influence from all the characters I could log into and mailed them to my own account. I was gonna give it back later, I swear! I also used them as mules for chump bids on level 50 recharge IOs.


 

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Lightening the tone a bit, perhaps:

In my first month or two of playing the game, I didn't realize that you could combine enhancements from the tray; I thought both had to already be slotted in the power. This led to some ... interesting slotting, as you might imagine. I don't recall how I eventually learned otherwise.


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Originally Posted by Megajoule View Post
Lightening the tone a bit, perhaps:

In my first month or two of playing the game, I didn't realize that you could combine enhancements from the tray; I thought both had to already be slotted in the power. This led to some ... interesting slotting, as you might imagine. I don't recall how I eventually learned otherwise.
Pfft, that's nothing. For the first month of playing I didn't know you could combine enhancements at all!

Or remove them in any way!


 

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I'm supposed to be studying for a Physics test right now. I'm not studying for a Physics test right now.

>.>


Topher Wade lvl 50 Claws/Regen
The Crimson Heroes Society SG
Chaos Faction VG

Official Naturalized Citizen of Justice since 2007

 

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Originally Posted by Mad Grim View Post
Pfft, that's nothing. For the first month of playing I didn't know you could combine enhancements at all!

Or remove them in any way!

Psh.. I can top that. The first time I played and I had to take the Tram, I didn't know that you had to click it. ..So I basically spent 15 minutes standing in front of it, trying to time it right that I could run into the open doors and getting pissed off that I couldn't figure it out.


 

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Originally Posted by Mr_Hellcat View Post
Psh.. I can top that. The first time I played and I had to take the Tram, I didn't know that you had to click it. ..So I basically spent 15 minutes standing in front of it, trying to time it right that I could run into the open doors and getting pissed off that I couldn't figure it out.
Now THAT's hilarious!


Topher Wade lvl 50 Claws/Regen
The Crimson Heroes Society SG
Chaos Faction VG

Official Naturalized Citizen of Justice since 2007

 

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I have all you guys topped. City of Heroes was my first MMO. The person who got me into the game basically held my hand for my first play session as I worked with the costume creator and started to learn about enhancements and all that. After maybe an hour or so I needed to go to the bathroom or was gonna grab a sandwich or who the hell knows, so I asked him "So hey, how do I pause?" "You don't", he said.


"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...

 

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Over the years, I've probably spent a couple hundred hours working on the backgrounds, costumes, and general designs of my mere 3 dozen toons.

My first toon used to Tank before ED, now she bleeds End because I'm still using pre-i13 build concepts.



When I started to get bored in the same pre-i13 times, I got lazy and built interestingly named toons like Perma.



And right before I 'Retired' from game in/around i13 I created CC for the hell of it. Too bad she's VIP locked or I'd entertain some crowds again.



I helped steamroll the pre-i13 Base padding and managed a total of 7 accounts worth of base padders on ALL accounts except Pinn (because that's my home server). So while I only have about 3 dozen played toons, I have something like 700 AriesTemp## toons spread across the servers. :-p

Every toon I've created for play has Some aspect of the real ME, but like IRL, nobody has figured me out entirely.

I have a fairly even mix of male, female, and gender neutral toons. This makes the previous statement that much more *headdesk* when you think about it. :-p

And I'll end with, I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (after 4 years of testing) while the game was in beta. Essentially this means that I really Shouldn't be spending nearly as much time typing or playing games that require cramped conditions because my muscles don't loosen as they should amongst other things. There's very few things in life that I'll tollerate pain over that don't related to the necessity of paying bills. CoX is on the short list somewhere below *insert romance novel reference*.


 

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Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
I've almost exclusively been a PvE player. I pretty much have no dog in the fight to defend PvP players. But I have known a lot of people whose passion was for PvP and who had no qualms about exploiting the living crap out of the PvE game to cut to the chase in PvP. While I don't outright support that, I don't really blame them, either.
I do.

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Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
If what you want is to PvP, and you find PvE boring, why would you want to slog through PvE stuff to get the goods for PvE play?
It's entirely possible to PvP just fine on SOs. This guy wasn't cranking out illicit wealth to PvP, he was doing so to have better PvP gear than other people could legitimately get -- the very definition of cheating.


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I took the cookie from the cookie jar.