Confessions

I made a spines stalker at CoV's release whose entire purpose in life was trying to set up pranks in the PvP zones involving the generous application of -Fly. Also trying to teleport foe people up as high as possible, then hitting them with -Fly. This was way more amusing than it ought to have been.

I made a substantial portion of my initial stake in the market wars by smuggling stuff back and forth between factions, thus demonstrating some kind of free market principles or whatever. Although it soon changed from a valuable lesson in economics to trying to smuggle as much Ambrosia as possible over to sell on the Black Market, or munch on during strike forces, or randomly give out to people, because if you're going to engage in supervillainy you should flaunt it at every possible opportunity.

I may on occasion have PL'd other people.

I was going to spontaneously admit to where I got "Fighting the Zombie" as my location. But I think I'd like to see first if anyone else knows the reference!

I have... 9 solo SG bases on Virtue. And one solo VG base. And I'm in charge of Hero Force Alpha Assault (largely defunct) and Villain Force Rho Ruffians (almost entirely defunct). And I have an inherited solo SG base on Freedom. And a solo SG base on Victory. And one on Justice, and Infinity.

I had 8 different accounts when the announcement came down on 9/1. And... I made another freebie account not long after that, although I may not remember the name/login for it.

Also: I have less than 5,000 posts on the boards, but there have been over 6,000 visits to my profile. I'm not sure what to make of that. Two of the last 10 visits were by Moderator 13 and -Power-. Power was the leader of Hero Force, and has only ever made 3 posts on the boards, and I am now one of only 2 people to ever look at his profile.

I mostly don't pay attention to profiles and stuff though. When we had a rating system I ignored it.

For over a year I cornered the redside market on Essence of the Earth inspirations.

I ran through the original version of the Positron TF only once. I was at work.

Well, I guess it doesn't matter much anymore (don't perma ban me thrice. Please):

I'm Crimsanotic from Guardian. I've been perma banned twice and am currently using my third account.

I founded the PK SQU4DR0N (with eVolutions X) and together with the rest of our SG we used to crash The Hive to dupe HOs. Just to smite people (well, not really) we only did this during Hami raids (actually, we didn't). Unfortunately, or fortunately, all of those duped HOs are either on banned accounts or inactive accounts.

I've also spawned Kronos Titan in The Hive during a Hami Raid. Twice.

Also, when RV first came out, if you went there as a hero and then left you were still flagged for PVP. While my SG and I are not the sole reason this was fixed, we did nuke AP with our Blasters a few times.

P.S. it's been about five years since I've been banned, temp or otherwise.

Forgive me players for I have sinned...

To this day I have six characters with no travel powers.

I have four characters that were build pre-inherant stamina that have never been subject to a respec.

I have, over the course of six years, played only four characters to lv 50. Two of those just since Black Friday.

Of those four, only two have unlocked incarnate powers and neither of those has gone beyond the alpha slot.

I have never even seen an HO.

I tended to hide during Rikti raids, Zombie Apocalypses, and Praetorian invasions.

I have never played a fire Tank.

I have three SG/VG that I am the sole member of.

I have tried to play a petless MM seven times. Never successfully.

I didn't think ED, AE, or Marty were bad ideas (/em tinfoil hat)

I have one and only one Ragnarok in my posession. It resides in the hands of my Emp/ Archery Defender and is slotted into rain of arrows.

I played a villain side healer before Pain Domination

those are the worst of my gaming sins. I shall take myself off for flogging now.

OMG, jw!!!!!!!!!! How can you look at yourself in the mirror???? LOLOL
I confess that I am more familiar with the streets of Paragon than the streets in the city where I live. /em hanghead

I use to lure Monsters from the far end of Peregrine to Portal corp to kill the spammers begging for a power level. I love power leveling but hate spammers.

I always hover my mouse over any and every underlined word(s) in other people's posts on the forums.

Even when I know and understand that the intent was simply to underline and not link to anything... I just have to check!!!




(and curse you all, in advance, for the torture you are undoubtedly going to put me through for confessing this)

I was one of the tanks who used to herd every mob in Perez Park.
I never did train them onto someone though.


I leveled my first toon through most of the 40s using the Eden trial exploit.
(farming the AVs, disband, restart, rinse/repeat ) Funny that the DFB is now being
used in much the same way.

I spwaned Kronos in Atlas park.
I used to come out of RV confused and nuke under atlas.
I used to run aound Atlast with my Force Bubble on following level 1's

I didn't like the Incarnate Trials, and finally quit playing them on live. But I always made a point to test them on Beta, in the hopes that my ineptitude would influence the data mining and result in more nerfs.

now THAT is funny and naughty :P

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Originally Posted by JKCarrier I didn't like the Incarnate Trials, and finally quit playing them on live. But I always made a point to test them on Beta, in the hopes that my ineptitude would influence the data mining and result in more nerfs.

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

I gave up on my review thread because I couldn't handle the constant whining I was getting from people who didn't like what I had to say.

I had about thirty to forty reviews that never got published, because I tried to keep the worst stuff off the block. Every single time I made a review, I sent a lengthy, point by point, editorial correction of the arc to the creator, and that was whether or not the review got done.

Yet, despite my reputation as a complete ***** of a reviewer, the worst never saw the light of day, and most of what got posted was posted with the permission of the people who made them.

I also gave up on the AE when I came to a personal conclusion that the real thin you had to do in AE was Promote your arc, and I don't like doing that. I recoil in horror at the idea of promoting myself, in particular because, what if I bring attention to my work, get people to look at it, then have that thought ignored? What if I'm bad at this? It's agonising. Hopeless never broke, as an arc. I periodically checked back in, but never did I find a glitch in it.

Of the new content, most of it, I haven't done. I didn't enjoy the incarnate content; I didn't feel it had WoW's dungeonry (which I would have liked) nor City's high-impact splashiness (which I would have liked). So I never did a trial beyond TPN.

When I gave feedback on basic typos and basic errors in Dark Astoria, and I was ignored, I gave up entirely. I think I knew I wanted to hate Dark Astoria's revamp, though. I had levelled numerous characters through the zone - including three characters who had used oroborous to lock themselves at 29 after I22, and actually levelled to 50 in DA, doing nothing but hunt zombies for 38 levels. I really hated what I was losing - and I hated that what I had once felt was my own little private section of the game that I cared about was being taken away from me, being made into something else, and given to people who I didn't like.

I was one of the people Castle consulted for the Dominator revamp. At the time, I said it was a good idea, that it would solve numerous problems, and that it would be resisted by people no matter what. I was right - and I remember reporting D0mbegone over thirty times. It wasn't disagreement with the argument that I had a problem with, it was the bad way the argument was being made.

I never gave anyone bad rep during that stage of the system. I remember watching my rep yo-yo from extremely bad (after, say, calling BillzBubba on being wrong) to extremely good (posting in the market forum). Whenever I gave someone rep, I commented on it, and signed that comment - TalenLee. I felt it eminently important to ensure that whatever I did, I was willing to attach my name and my identity to.

A friend of mine - really - had a crush on Arcanaville a few years ago, just because he saw her as a dizzyingly intelligent woman who was good at math, things that appealed to him. This led to a thread that culminated in Arcanaville posting the 'You Are All Weirdoes' youtube link that has been my default response on other forums to similar discussions to this day.

I regularly searched for my name when I wasn't posting. I hated the idea of someone either putting words in my mouth when I wasn't there to defend myself. Naturally, this pretty much never was an issue.

At the time of the transition from Nivienne to TheOcho, I was told in PM that I was the single most reported poster on the forums. Despite having more reports than some dedicated trolls and several forum regulars combined, I had been disciplined twice - as I was told, at the time, I never really did anything that was against the rules. What I did was somehow induce other people to break the rules. And a lot.

I used to go back to very old threads to re-read what I'd said, to see if I owed anyone an apology, in the light of recent events. On some topics, I did - I didn't understand BillZBubba's points regarding IO performance on pylons, for example. On some topics, I didn't feel I did.

I would often search for the names of users I liked and just read their stuff periodically. Arcanaville and Nethergoat being two major names.

I asked Pohsyb to let us name and rename our builds. I was of the understanding that I was the only person who asked for this, and in the next build, there it was. It is the closest I think I've ever come to leaving a fingerprint on this game.

Heroes, Villains ♦ Reviews ♦ Retrospect

My confession seems paltry compared to some of those I see here...

Nevertheless, for more than a year (in my early Marketing days), one of my toons
used to buy 10-stacks of L35 End Mod recipes from the university crafting table
and sell them for 3-4X that price on the market... Yes, I Be Ebil!

To be totally truthful though, I was always astounded, if not completely flabbergasted,
that it actually worked, but I literally made millions of inf that way...


Regards,
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A few admissions about my main villain (and in fact, most-played character,) Doctor Delaware.

-I'm not from Delaware. I've never been to the state...or a state that borders it...or a state that borders a state that borders it. I just made an effort to come up with a very unthreatening supervillain name...and let's face it, Delaware doesn't exactly strike fear into your hearts, does it?

-He's a Robotics MM, and all his bots have names:
DOVR-258, 257, 259 (Battle Drones)
DMND-79, 81 (Protector Bots)
BLHN-42 (Assault Bot)

The letters have meanings that relate to the state. DOVR Class is for Dover, the state capital. DMND is for Diamond--one of Delaware's unofficial nicknames is the Diamond State. BLHN is for the state bird, the Blue Hen.

The numbers also have meanings, of a sort. Each class started at 1...and when one died, I would change the name to the next unused number. I kept a pretty accurate count too, until I finally gave up somewhere in the early 40s, because my bots were dying too fast. (I didn't count deaths during Strike Forces either, for the same reason.) The numbers haven't changed since then.

My lore power is Warworks, which have been given the designation DSTR-1 and 2 (after the Delaware Destroyers, backing band of George Thorogood.)

-Some of the most fun I've had with that character was in the first days of the Rikti Mothership Raids. I kept ending up on raids with a hero called The Bostonian, which led to a great deal of geographically-based heckling in the broadcast channel. Good times.

-Inspired by the colors of the University of Delaware, most of his costumes are dominated by bright blue and bright yellow. His first costume (blue lab coat, yellow pants) used to draw complaints from other players. They would beg me to switch, so I did: blue pants, yellow lab coat. They were not impressed.

-I recently completed a secondary build for him--the GD Bots/Traps, designed by Dechs Kaison. Haven't actually used it, though, as it would require completely changing my MM play style, and it's a bit late to do that. (OK, it was probably a bit late to finish the build--which I did in mid October--but I was committed.)