Confessions

Some people learned and madtered the art of min/maxing their builds...

I mastered the art of min/maxing my participation.

Zwillinger can attest to this. I once ran a BAF at the office without looking at the screen, tapping my action keys on memory, and having a conversation with him.

I am the AFK Ninja.

Back when you could get an HO drop on Hamidon raids if you simply damaged him at some point during the raid, even if you then went idle for half an hour? I did that pretty much every time I could. I liked the rewards, but old-school Hami raids were just so. boring.

I ended up (at CoV EU launch) with all of the Pre-order sprints (that were US only) on an EU account.

Oh I was *also* very good at winning EU codes for superpacks/costume change powers etc etc.

I think i have had one of everything (and also helped out friends by telling them the codes) soon after they have gone up.

Think i have only had to miss out once or twice, and even then i got them on the 2nd time around >.>

That was a hilarious bug!

Better than the hostage bug.

(One time I came across a group of 5th column menacing a computer desk. When I got near, the desk said "Computer Accessed!" then ran off.)

Spending hours and hours jumping on the 4 squares in pocket D does make you a better PvPer.

I did indeed get the Bug Hunter badge, but I never expected it.

I started harassing NCSoft support, the community managers, and the devs from the day I read at this one rumor site that they were developing CoH for Mac, because I was determined to get into the testing group so it wouldn't suck. Because so many other Mac game clients *really* suck. I think Ghost Falcon was the one who got me in.

From that point on, I wrote these weekly bug reports, sometimes with screenshots, detailing every bug I found from extreme on down. The high texture zones lag bug was one of my particular favorites to explore. I even built an entire SG base made to be as laggy as possible just so the devs could borrow it and test the issue (that means a base with lots of decoration, walls, and open space).

But like I said, I did all that just so the Mac client wouldn't suck. Imagine my surprise when I got an email which said the devs nominated me for a Bug Hunter badge.

So Castle was right all along; if you want a Bug Hunter badge, don't ask for it.

Also, one night during a beta me and pohsyb got into a lengthy discussion about personal player name colors and RGB color sets that I think scared just about everyone in the Beta Testers channel, including some of the other devs.

I have abused the aggro cap. If you gather enough foes, other foes will ignore you, sometimes even if you damage them. While this limits how many foes you can pull anywhere at one time, nothing prevents you from pulling you quota of foes onto other critters. Assuming you (a) can survive the aggro cap's worth of foes to start with and (b) you have the AoE potential to make it useful, you can defeat more foes at a time than will actually fight back.

If you annoy enough foes along the way, you can also establish a nice stream of foes into your chosen kill zone as you defeat ones who were aggro'd and ones previously over the cap are allowed to respond.

I have no illusions about being the only person to think of this. I may be one of the few to leverage it on a Defender or Corruptor, however.

Edit: I was reminded of this because of the posts about the AE, where it used to be possible to get stupid quantities of foes in small areas. It wasn't the only place i did it, though. Issue 16's difficulty settings cured me of most of my need to fight stuff in the AE.

I was never very good at playing CoH

Now will someone please tell me who was responsible for this?

I've used client-side patches like that.
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WHAT? No! For replacing ART textures in missions and bases!

Funny wandering into a ruined office and see the Mona Lisa on the wall.

>.>
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Okay, the nude patch was amusing. But I only ever used it client-side! ^.^;;

I'll just stop talking and enjoy my shoe leather over in the corner over there...


But seriously, I will miss all those little client-side mods you could do. It's getting harder and harder to do that with more recent games. And THANK GOD for being able to edit out certain SOUNDS.

Without client-side edits Demon Summoners in Wentworths would drive me MAD!!!!

And I replaced the Music in Pocket D with the music from the Afterlife club on Omega from Mass Effect 2. ^_^

I've been known to rage-delete characters when a mission went particularly badly...as if it were somehow their fault I can't play worth a crap. Almost did it again this afternoon, when my Earth/Earth Dom got pwnd by a bunch of Praetorian Clockwork.

I posted a new Lucy Dreamtime mission to the AE. The confession? Aside from really liking her as a character, I really only did it so that I could create all of my characters for people to fight in one massive mission. Also, it is near impossible to finish in some scenarios. When we only had three slots, all of my arcs were based on my characters. With the advent of the AE, I could now create more characters than I could ever play. I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but still.

I was creating an arc for AE about TV Tropes. It would have ruined your life.

I tell people that I'll do art commisions for them for free, because I know I'd come up with something awesome, but what I really mean to say is, "I'm not sure if I should, because it might take me several years to get it done." I should really say this to the people I work with, too, especially when they see something I've done, and offer me an impromptu art assignment.

I actually enjoy playing Champions, and don't understand why some people hate it so much. O.o;

If your character's name was N1PPL3S (or other inane against-the-TOS rubbish), I'm the one (or one of the people) who reported you.

During the original Beta, I encouraged people to create copyrighted characters, so I could see how long it would take before their name and costume would be generic'ed.

Often, when I say, "I have to go," what it really means is, "...play a different character."

I never paid for the game. That is, I signed up for the free 2 week trial in Feb 2007, and liked CoH enough to subscribe.... without ever buying the actual game. At the time I assumed everyone did this, but then was told it was impossible (hmmm?).

I think because of this I often had weird things happen with my account. One interesting thing was I could bug out the redside respec trials. I was able to pull the last mission at a low level, and run it repeatedly as a regular mission at level 50, getting full reward merits each time. In this way I was able to farm reward merits. With friends tp'ing and helping kill vines - something along the lines of 200-400 reward merits an hour.

Stupid me, I eventually reported it thinking I would get bug hunter. Within a week it was fixed..... and no bug hunter for me.

Future exploits would NOT get reported - but used to the fullest extent of their exploitness. As seen in my fully stocked bases of purple and pvp IO's.

I thought I was rewarded from my report with costumes and stuff in lieu of bug hunter.... but that may have been just another bug.... anyway turns out I got the wedding pack, and all of the other costume packs of the time free on my account.