Confessions

My confession is that I'm not interested in the remaining days of the game. In my defense: imagine that you own a building that's been irreversibly condemned; nothing you do can save it from being torn down. It'd feel pretty futile to work on the building, wouldn't it? Any improvements, additions, etc. would just end up hauled off with the rest of the rubble. That's how I feel about CoH right now. I could work on getting another toon to 50--or closer to it--or try to get a purple-recipe drop to sell, or make a new toon. But, no matter what I do, it all vanishes before dawn of December 1st. Even if I heard that they made all accounts VIP, and made everything in the store available to all for free for the last month, it'd still feel futile. When I tried bringing back Pumpkinette, my usual Halloween-event toon, for this year's event (it's supposed to be Fusionette, who painted herself orange and dyed her hair green to trick-or-treat as a pumpkin), I just got no joy from being in-game. My mind keeps saying, "You know, you have other things to do that won't vaporize in a few weeks." Does anyone else experience this?

Better, perhaps, than the analogy that keeps coming to mind for me: sitting by the bedside of a terminally ill friend or relative. (As I did in RL earlier this year.)
Some people are up for that, in varying amounts. Others aren't.

A couple (just a couple I swear!) of my lost connections was due to me hitting the power switch. >_>;;

And sometimes my RP was based around just being annoying because I saw people would be okay with something from one player and then complain about when another player RPed the same thing/way/what have you.

I don't want to double post, but it's important for me to give my own confession here, so please understand everyone:

My confession is that I was too embarrassed to ever admit that I played City Of Heroes to my friends and family. For years I wanted to be a musician and I got to know a lot of people in the Philadelphia music scene. If any of them ever found out I'm sure they wouldn't have cared, but I was too cool to ever admit it and in turn I treated people in my S.G. like crap. I quit and came back several times to the game all the while with a holier-than-thou air that I'm sure was plenty obnoxious. Those people in the S.G. were there for me when I was very depressed and we all had a great time together. I used to make fun of role players, but I had a blast for about two solid years being one.

I, Aegaeon, want to thank you, every one of you, in The Empire Of Atlantis. You were great people to me and I'm sorry I was such a ****** bag. Thank you Leviathas, Nereidia, Bahamutas, Ophelia, From The Depths, and anyone else I did not name or may not have gotten to know better. I'm sorry I seemed so god damned crazy at times and I do regret never going to the one meet and greet that we had. I would have liked to meet some of you. Thank you for all the good times.

I'm the only one in my circle that played or ever heard of COX. If they ever found out, I'd get kicked out the circle. lol. but really only my husband knows and one rl gaming buddy. that is it.


2-hate fried chicken oh wait, you mean in game confessions. Well that is all.

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Originally Posted by mauk2 Evil_Legacy became one of my favorite posters with two words. "Kick Rocks." I laffed so hard. Never change, E_L!

CoH saved my life.

Okay - this is a follow up all the way back to page three of this thread, where Satanic Hamster mentioned that Hamidon in the LGTF could be wormholed.

Well tonight, I just did it.

Kara Skye, my Grav/Kin controller Wormholed the nucleus of the Hamidon completely out of the goo, up the crater wall, to the top of the cliff, and all the way to the Helicopter! (Nothing but net!) Actually placing the last Wormhole spot IN the Helicopter. Then wormholed him BACK down the waterfall to the crater floor where we finally took him out. A truly epic finale.

Satanic Hamster. I really want to thank you so very much. If you hadn't clued me in on this, I never would've known and I would've missed this epic achievement.

They always say - pics or it didn't happen. Well I have both a demorecord file and many screenshots. Here's a few of them. Plus a transcript of the chatlog from the minute I made the first Wormhole. The reactions of my other teammates were priceless!



[WHiSPER X]Grimrose: This power combination is wicked!
[Team] Professor Eviella: They never really did find a good way for MM's to help much on mitos
[Team] Pop rock': we need to hit the same one
[Team] Merryl of Volt: ok, lets all concentrate on one green goo. my target sine I have (am?) the star :P
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Works for me.
[Team] Professor Eviella: Sounds good. Spam holds
[Team] Merryl of Volt: splat
[Team] Professor Eviella: Split
[Team] Merryl of Volt: oh I missed one. my mistake
[Team] Kara Skye: YESSSSS!!!!!
[Team] Kara Skye: YES IT WORKS!!!!!!!
[Team] Ghost Chamber: nuu
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: O.O
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: OMG!
[Team] Kara Skye: STUPID CONTROLLER TRICKS! TONIGHT ON LETTERMAN!
[Team] Sation: \o/
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: I APPROVE!
[Team] Ghost Chamber: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
[Team] Ghost Chamber: omg
[Team] Professor Eviella: Ok that's funny.
[Team] Merryl of Volt: ROFL
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: ERMAGHERD
[Team] Ghost Chamber: oh my god my stomach hurts
[Team] Kara Skye: Don'T KILL IT!
[Team] Sation: throw em in teh sky
[Team] Ghost Chamber: ahaha
[Team] Ghost Chamber: AAAAAAAAAHH
[Team] Kara Skye: Whatever you do, DON'T KILL IT!
[Team] Merryl of Volt: that was truly neat
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: (How do you get it to move so far? I've yet to figure out that aspect of Wormhole)
[WHiSPER X]no hero: Nite Whisps. Nite Grim. Nite Evie
[Team] Sation: worhole will throw far but you ahve to be close to the targets
[Tell] J Tanker: Lambda?
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Ahhh.
[WHiSPER X]Whisper X: nini, nero!
[Team] Merryl of Volt: small yellow anyone?
[Team] Kara Skye: LOLOL
[WHiSPER X]Grimrose: Goooodnight Nero!
[Team] Kara Skye: GLORIOUS!!!!! HEE!!!!
[Team] Cheetala: how do you do that?
[Team] Merryl of Volt: ty
[Team] Ghost Chamber: I will regret never rolling a Grav....
[Team] Kara Skye: I'm going to get him all the way out of the crater!!!
[Team] Merryl of Volt: that is awesome
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: OMG.
[Team] Ghost Chamber: .......
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Man, if D was 50, we could tag-team this. XD
[Team] Merryl of Volt: totally worth the TF
[Team] Ghost Chamber: Taking a screenshot of this.
[Team] Sation: demorecording mew
[Team] Ghost Chamber: I...just...there's not even sufficient words.
[Team] Sation: heh there's soem rikti we could throw hami at up there
[Team] Kara Skye: Tell Voltar he was WRONG. And ask him how does he like his crow? Sauteed? Baked?
[Team] Pop rock': hami split :P
[Team] Ghost Chamber: Funny how it's just the nucleous and the blob is still down there...
[Team] Kara Skye: Up the wall, out of the crater! NOTHING BUT NET!!!
[Team] Professor Eviella: Oh lord, the Rikti are attacking it!
[Team] Pop rock': lol
[Team] Kara Skye: They can't kill it.
[Team] Professor Eviella: But hami can kill them...
[Team] Sation: bwahaha
[Team] Sation: pop rock that wa sawesome
[Team] Merryl of Volt: As far as neat tricks go... that's very damned awesome



[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Oh my gob, this is hilarious.
[Team] Ghost Chamber: This could be the single greatest thing I've ever seen.
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: How far are you taking it?
[Team] Pop rock': lol it is? i dont know what to do :P ive never seen this
[Team] Merryl of Volt: accept TP stomp
[Team] Pop rock': plz
[Team] Ghost Chamber: All I know is it's making for some epic screenshots
[Team] Kara Skye: HEEE!
[Team] Pop rock': thank u
[Team] Ghost Chamber: Please put it INSIDE the heli.





[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Oh god.
[Team] Merryl of Volt: lol
[Team] Kara Skye: Oooh.. I live to serve!



[Team] Cheetala: can make a new folder just for hami on vacation screenshots in the yahoo groups
[Team] Cheetala: we stealing hami!
[Team] Ghost Chamber: *dies*
[Team] Pop rock': i dont know
[Team] Kara Skye: LOLOLOLOL



[WHiSPER X]Merryl: hami is on vacation... taking Heli to Atlas Park :P
[Team] Kara Skye: I am laughing MADLY right now. MADLY I TELL YOU!!! XD
[Team] Sation: hamicopter
[Team] Pop rock': lol



[Team] Merryl of Volt: stop t... it hurts
[Team] Cheetala: yah...ouchies
[Team] Ghost Chamber: Yep. Definitely takes the cake.
[Team] Ghost Chamber: The most hilarious thing I have witnessed in this game XD
[Team] Professor Eviella: Get to da choppa!
[Team] Kara Skye: **DIES!!!!***







[Team] Cheetala: any other good spots to put it in?
[Team] Sation: mayeb we shoudlw ind it down.... <.< ... >.>
[Team] Merryl of Volt: If I wasn't seeing it with my own eyes, I would never have believed it.. even with the pics to prove it
[Team] Merryl of Volt: throw it off the cliff.. maybe it'll fall to its death
[Team] Pop rock': lol
[Team] Kara Skye: Should I?
[Team] Merryl of Volt: YES! Break the egg
[Team] Sation: its fun to toss it in teh air though the invisible platfoirms are still out there
[Team] Kara Skye: OK!
[Team] Pop rock': to bad there is no lava to put it in
[Team] Cheetala: on the river...then tip of the waterfall....would make good screenshots for captions
[Team] Kara Skye: OOOh...
[Team] Kara Skye: Yes



[Team] Sation: you might be able to get it to hold midair if you can find a platform. its kind of hard to set
[Team] Kara Skye: Find one for me and I can do it.
[Team] Cheetala: you're getting close
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: BRB
[Team] Merryl of Volt: what excellent placement
[Team] Professor Eviella: Don't go chasing waterfalls...
[Team] Cheetala: edge in front of me......and would even work for one waterfall that's midway
[Team] Ghost Chamber: wow
[Team] Kara Skye: Now THAT is a screenshot!









[Team] Sation: hami eye crying?
[Team] Kara Skye: Ok. Where's that platform?
[Team] Ghost Chamber: looks great from up high
[Team] Cheetala: i'm standing on the mid waterfall
[Team] Sation: they're in the goo. I've only ever done it once froma toss
[Team] Cheetala: would be funny taking a group pic wif hami too
[Team] Cheetala: like a weekend at bernie's hami style
[Team] Kara Skye: No invis platform?
[Team] Kara Skye: LOL
[Team] Merryl of Volt: nope.. toss it
[Team] Pop rock': lol
[Team] Merryl of Volt: it lurves you Ragey.. it really does... especially yr liver :P
[Team] Cheetala: ooh...even do funny pics wif hami like at end of Hangover movies
[Team] Kara Skye: Huh!
[Team] Kara Skye: All I'm getting now is "Invalid Target" over and over.
[Team] Kara Skye: I can't seem to move him now.
[Team] Pop rock': hes stuck?
[Team] Merryl of Volt: awww
[Team] Kara Skye: Oh wait
[Team] Kara Skye: Ok now I got it.
[Team] Cheetala: it moved me :P
[Team] Pop rock': lol
[Team] Kara Skye: Bit of an oops there. I'll get it out for a mid-air drop on the next one.
[Team] Sation: say when =)
[Team] Kara Skye: WHEN
[Team] Merryl of Volt: no worries... this is the most awesome thing I've ever seen in the game
[Team] Professor Eviella: It's up there, at least.
[Team] Kara Skye: Huh
[Team] Kara Skye: Didn't go the direction I pointed him at.
[Team] Merryl of Volt: architecture on the way maybe?
[Team] Kara Skye: Could be
[Team] Cheetala: yayz!
[Team] Kara Skye: Here's another good screenshot.
[Team] Merryl of Volt: Sitting on the water.. thinking my own thoughts :P
[Team] Cheetala: this is where i requested for mid waterfall
[Team] Kara Skye: Cool. Glad to get it for ya!





[Team] Cheetala: nooo, hami.....i'm your friend!
[Team] Ghost Chamber: lol
[Team] Ghost Chamber: tping whisper
[Team] Cheetala: was sneaking my way to ledgesit next to hami
[Team] Ghost Chamber: nvm someone has it





[Team] Merryl of Volt: what do you need whisper? I have no wakies left
[Team] Cheetala: ish ok...ty tho
[Team] Merryl of Volt: yw
[Team] Ghost Chamber: Apparently he's grumpy
[Team] Merryl of Volt: Ok everyone got screenies? Lets end this please. I wanna run a ITF before my later dinner
[Team] Sation: mew
[Team] Pop rock': all this moving about has made him extra sensitive
[Team] Sation: throw him out here
[Team] Ghost Chamber: we have the chance to fight him in a ridiculous location!
[Team] Sation: oh sure =)
[Team] Pop rock': here?
[Team] Ghost Chamber: Whispie? @.@
[Team] Cheetala: yush?
[Team] Cheetala: yush?
[Team] Ghost Chamber: oh, thought we lost you :P
[Tell] Throbbing Maidenhead: O.O gl
[Team] Kara Skye: How's this?
[Team] Kara Skye: Is that good?
[Team] Sation: *paws up*
[Team] Merryl of Volt: is good
[Team] Kara Skye: Excellent.
[Team] Merryl of Volt: I got my screenies
[Team] Cheetala: ty!



















[Team] Merryl of Volt: Ok, raeady??
[Team] Ghost Chamber: kay
[Team] Sation: hami mistook em for the tanker
[Team] Professor Eviella: That was AWESOME
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Seems almost a shame to take it out now.
[Team] Ghost Chamber: No one will believe us.
[Team] Yina Draconaiis: Wow.
[Team] Kara Skye: Plennty of Screens and at least 2 demorecords. Trust me. They'll believe it.
[Team] Merryl of Volt: Ok, lets Murdderlise this map
[Team] Kara Skye: Righto!
[Team] Pop rock': humm
[Team] Sation: afk a sec mew
[Team] Professor Eviella: (Note to self: It's after midnight, being tired is NOT surprising!)
[Team] Professor Eviella: (Any chance of a MoDD or MoUG tomorrow, Whisper?)
[Team] Kara Skye: I'd love either of those
[Team] Professor Eviella: (MoDD is probably the easiest trial to MO, so good salvage for a new incarnate...)
[Team] Kara Skye: Y'know - I don't CARE that the challenge failed. I WORMHOLED HAMI INTO THE HELICOPTER!!!! MUA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!
[Team] Professor Eviella: AMEN!
[Team] Sation: I am still chuckling over that
[Team] Merryl of Volt: Amen Kara
[Team] Ghost Chamber: That is, in fact, all that matters.
[Team] Professor Eviella: Thank you for sharing something new and special in this game with us, even now. :-)
[Team] Kara Skye: ."Hami in a Heli." There's your meme for the day.
[Team] Ghost Chamber: durr rtoggles help
[Team] Professor Eviella: I can't say I'm ok with the game ending now that I've seen that. But... it's maybe 1% less bad. :-)
[Team] Kara Skye: XD
[Team] Kara Skye: It is at that.

Epic!

Wow... The river and the waterfall pics are the best. I love the picture of Hami on the waterfall ledge with no one else in the shot. Makes me think of Evita Peron for some reason.

So, Hyperstrike, you were buying the level 50 Range IO recipes too, eh? I vendored the Range IO recipes exclusively for the first 3 years of the Market because I figured they were the most useless of enhancements (in general). That they sold for a pretty high amount relative to the other Common IOs recipes and especially compared to Range SOs which nicely made up for how frequently I got Range SOs as drops. The multi-millions I made from them funded many of my characters.

However, I had to move on when someone started buying up the level 50 Range IO recipes for 80K Inf each for several years. Was that you? I just couldn't understand the reasoning for the 80K buy price because the sell price at the store for a level 50 Range IO is around 92K Inf. I could make more buying the level 45s along with no competition. I even knew when this buyer was on vacation and couldn't play because there would be a brief lull of a few days every so often when the price would drop to around 50K Inf, only to suddenly return to 80K Inf again with no price creep.

While I'm not doing as much vendoring anymore, I do keep and eye on them out of habit.


Anyway, on other topics:

I still have not respeced all my characters to Inherent Fitness. The process of respecing a character can take several days for me and is thus requires me to be in the right mood for all the work. I don't use Mids, just paper and pencil to add up the stats. This can take a day or two depending on if I'm switching to unfamiliar powers. However, most of the time is due to swapping characters to log into my several personal SG Bases to find if I have the IOs I want to use.

I have collected a decent amount of Purple IOs as drops, but I hardly use any Purples other than as individual pieces. I particularly like the +chance to hold on the Immob Purple. The only character where I did make an effort to use significant quantities of Purples was my Regen Brute. I had the hardest time staying alive on it. My play experience with Regen was almost as bad as with my Electric Armor Brute back when it didn't even have a heal.

Of the many nerfs that have been implemented, there were only two that really upset me. The first was when the mission reward Nemesis Staff was changed from Targeted AOE to single target. I had recently picked it up on my Emp Defender and with it I was finally dealing significant damage. For the first time, I really felt confident in my soloing ability. The AOE really made up for the base accuracy on it. Once it went single target, it became unreliable and just not fun anymore. I didn't have Tactics back then.

The second were the Controller nerfs of Issue-5 (?). It wasn't so much the AOE mez nerf, I could deal with that. It was the Pets nerf that pissed me off. I only had a Fire/Rad at the time and when my mass of Imps surged forward, it always brought a grin to my face. Why did it bother me? Again, it was that I was finally powerful after a hard slog, that it was being taken away. This was my first Controller and I estimate that I soloed it 70% of the way to low-40s when this nerf was put in. I don't know how many here ever tried to endure 32 levels of using nothing by Brawl, Air Superiority and Char (which wasn't even slotted for damage).

Speaking of my first Controller, Fire/Rad, I learned how to tank playing it. I learned about Defense, Resistance, aggro management (getting it, clustering, maintaining aggro), positioning, corner pulls, AOE taunting (with my AOE debuffs), and of course, herding. I could herd a good chunk of Perez Park. To this day, I'll still rush in if the Team meleers are too slow.



That said, I think the only time someone had possibly petitioned me about herding Perez Park was when I was fooling around with my Emp Defender (using Energy Torrent).

Next to my Emp Defender, I felt that my low level human form Warshade was the weakest archetype I have ever played. Things got a lot better when I finally made the decision to ditch human form so I could use the slots for Nova and Dwarf.

I really believe the original villain archetypes were composites of all things the forumites had been asking for as improvements to the hero archetypes. When I realized this, it was like seeing how the Genie had twisted your wishes.

The first character I made in COH was an Elec/Elec Blaster. I ditched after a few days because it looked so weak compared to other Blasters, especially Energy. Even though I later found out that their attack stats are basically the same, Electric's effects just doesn't have any oomph. Energy was all BAM! + knockdown/knockback, it looked powerful. Whereas Electric was a light bzzt + an orgasmic shiver. Eh. Even Electric Melee's effects was underwhelming, except Lighting Rod of course. If the Electric attacks (ranged and melee) just had louder impact sound effects, they would have been a much better experience.

Even though the game is coming to a close, I am still hoarding Insps in my SG Bases. Each Base has at least 4 full or almost full Insp storage bins. A couple of less used SG Bases has 5 Insp storage bins. Prior to the Market merge, my home server's main SG Base had 7 Insp bins. Why the obsession? It can be traced back to the early days when you couldn't buy Insps anywhere while on a TF. I was on a particularly difficult Synapse TF and my Insp tray was empty. I had sunk to a low and was trying to beg for Insps at the Train Station while getting to the next mission. No one gave me any You might say that I was traumatized by the episode.

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Oh yeah, back in the day, the Rikti teleporting-in sound effect always creeped me out. I think it was in part due to the Rikti Crash Site being so desolate. It was very lonely there and then this loud, menacing sound suddenly shocks me. I finally got over it when I took my Tank there to farm the Rikti Portals for Prestige.

I never got a single character past level 44. Most of my characters sort of petered out in the mid-high 30's.

Last time I came back, I deleted ALL my characters to try to get a fresh start. Didn't work.

I hated AE, so much so that I quit for over a year after it was released. I still shudder at the thought of it.

I sold crafted IOs to make money for SOs. I liked how IOs worked in general - just could never be arsed to actually use 'em.

I absolutely hated when people would post character builds complete with enancements. Felt like that simply made the "character" a bag of numbers.

I absolutely hated DfB. It's like the devs gave up and said, "Wanna power-level? Sure, here you go - beat up on these beanbags, get leveled SOs, and repeat ad nauseum."

I liked the old Blaster inherent - you know, the one that greatly increased your Acc and Damage when you got really low on health. Not a fan of the wimpy-arsed new inherent.

My Kinetics Defender withheld Speed Boost until somebody noticed - which, barring Earth Tanks, could be a surprisingly long time.

My Tanks regularly stole aggro from Brutes on purpose.

I never played Kheldians or Arachnos, even when they became available at level 20. Just had absolutely zero interest in 'em.

After playing CO and DCUO, I've sort of been waiting for CoH to die. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but boy does it feel old.

And not a confession, but fun fact I just discovered: The word "arsed" isn't censored, but if you remove the "d," it is.

I'm trying to hit 1,000 posts and retire from forums..thanks

When Issue 18 brought us side switching, it was possible for a while to coalition Hero and Villain SGs together.

You needed someone with SG permission to form coalitions to switch sides. Once on the other side, they could form a coalition with an SG from that side.

While this was eventually fixed so you could no longer form new coalitions (I think it took until around I20 or so), oddly there was apparently no simple way for the devs to data mine for cross-faction coalitions such that they could break all such coalitions automatically. It took someone reporting the coalition, or some other way for a CS rep or what have you to notice it, and then it would be dissolved on a case-by case basis.

My Hero and Villain SGs have been in a coalition this whole time. They have basically been personal SGs for a long time now, and I was simply very cautious about who I told about their being in a coalition together. Most people didn't seem to know it was ever possible.

About all its good for is to make travel convenient between sides. Only Rogues and Vigilantes can take full advantage of it. You just hit the local SG portal, go in the other side's base and use their teleporters. It's been convenient for me for some time now getting my Rogues to the regular Hero-side Hamidon raids on Justice.

You can use it to get into Ouroboros Echo zones with Rogues.

If you try to send a full Villain to a Hero zone or vice versa, it won't work, barring degrees of exploit I'm not familiar with. You briefly appear in the target zone, then are teleported to Mercy (for Villains) or Atlas (for Heroes).

The coalition has one other good use, though: it grants a pretty high degree of access to Ouroboros missions from the other side for rogues and vigilantes. If you want to take a Rogue on a Hero arc, for example, you get them on a team together with the Hero in charge and go into the Hero base. The Hero starts the arc, and the villain can run it. There are a few oddities that were introduced in I20 that sometimes get your "grey" character kicked if they try to zone to a co-op area, but otherwise it works out great. (This bug actually affects grey-aligned characters on some normal TFs - a Rogue will get kicked off of a Kahn if they zone to a coop area or into a SG base.)

This coalition bug/oversight is probably the most severe exploit I've ever purposefully taken advantage of, except maybe some of I14's Architect missions. (I missed out on the most insane AE exploits, and mostly only used the ones I did take advantage of to earn inf or help friends PL, since I don't like to PL my own characters.)

So... Um... I... Yeah, I used to do ERP... kind of a lot...

Hell, I was making bases for ERP SGs for a while. Building dungeons that would make a Drow blush... Good times... Good times.

I found a way to get anyone into any Resistance underground base. Stumbled onto it by accident literally.

Teleport supression covers the entire chamber... except if you stand in the water. That little trench you have to skip over is immune to the supression so if you have recall friend; you can port anyone inside; hero, villain, rogue, vigilante or even Loyalist.

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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.