Memories & Regrets

What are those things you'll come away from this game never forgetting? And/or what things will you never get to accomplish that you always wanted to?


The weekend after the announcement was made, I got to fulfill one of my crazy ideas. While on the Synapse TF, I was able to finish off Babbage with a Jump Kick for 363 points of damage. There was a rad debuffer on the team, I used Call to Justice + Build Up + Against All Odds + a few red pills and nailed him due to a streakbreaker forcing the hit.


That which I regret not having the opportunity to do is to have an opportunity for my mind control dominator to scramble Statesman's brain with holds while pinning him against the wall with telekinesis. Ah well, the thought lives on in my head as a fond dream...

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My biggest regret? Letting my sub lapse so I'm stuck as a Premium and can't finish incarnate stuff, or finish seeing the DA stuff.

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--Virtue--
My 50s:
Tigra Swipe (BS/SR/Dark Scrapper)
Galena Storm (Emp/Ele/Ele Defender)
Master Tolarin (Psi/Fire/Force Blaster)

I first bought the game when I was at college, not realizing I'd need an internet connection to play, so the disc sat around for about a semester before a friend asked me about it and we tried it out. We roped a few other guys into playing for a while, but only two of us really got into it, but even out interest waned after a while. When CoV came around my friend pulled me back into it and I've been here ever since.

If money and time hadn't been so tight in those days, I wish I could have been around a bit more. The gaps in time that I've played have left me with a few global friends that I simply can't recall.

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My greatest accomplishment was not only breaking a year and a half long streak of writers block, but developing a whole new source of creative expression via my videos.

My regret? All the videos that I will now never be able to make.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I couldn't begin to count all the great times this game, and its community, has given me. I played a little on every server, but Champion was my home, and my SG my online family.

I'm thankful that we're all staying together whether its here or another game. Most of us are old farts and have spent almost eight years together. Through weddings, passing on of SG mates, and all the good friends that ran with us from time to time, as well as the acquaintances that were a big impact to our server at large and our experiences in Paragon. I can only hope that the members of our little SG had as positive an impact on everyone we met, as much as most of the other players we had the joy of running with.

I think if I have any regrets, they are few, and more because they were missed opportunities for me to 'give back'. With limited online time, I wanted to be more a part of the greater Champion community. I lurked quite often and got to know just about everyone on all the Champion global channels by name, and helped and teamed when I could with everyone, However most of what time I had when I logged in was devoted to my SG. Whether it was building our bases (hero and villain- both of which I'm rather proud of) or dedicated SG nights... I don't regret that at all though. Not one second of it! It just would have been nice to have had more time for everyone, I guess. I grew very fond of a number of folks who might not even know my name LOL. I don't consider that a regret though, more of a missed opportunity.

If it could be said I have any regrets, personally, it would be two.

ONE, I will never get to finish my A.E. project to re-write all the old story arcs from way back and tie them together into a cohesive story all the way to 50. Tsoo Shenanigans, The Vahzilok Pollutant Plot (and plague), The Hand of Iron, the list goes on. I wanted to make the stories more interesting, and include members of the Freedom Phalanx and Shooting Stars as guest appearances. I felt both the lore (and the characters in the game) needed to be highlighted more for its brilliance and forethought. I mean, The Path of the Dark- probably one of the first story arcs in the game, and it tied directly into Cimerora and the Midnighter's arc!! I remember when Oroborous came out and I started playing through an arc here, and arc there, in my spare time... and then realized how tight the history and lore was in this game. Even if it wasn't, they paid attention to what came before and fit it together!

I wanted to include other characters to assist the player as well, because after seeing people's reactions to the Who Will Die arc, I thought "They really need to get to know these characters outside of that situation". The players needed a reason to care, and nothing provided that really, which was a disservice to them (both the players and the signature characters).

If anyone is interested I did have a few on A.E. (Lycantropus is my global too- if you want to look them up.) and had purchased a number of slots more in readiness for my next installments. (okay I regret that too, now)

And TWO, my other regret is that I always wanted to be involved in the Paragon Wiki, and help filling in the gaps for posterity. Doing all the lore research I did (and I was a sucker for it before I started the above project. I read the wiki quite often, and have both books and the whole comic run!) I noticed there were a number of incomplete articles. Little touches here or there, and it's more noticeable as newer content came out, and wasn't documented as well. I don't fault anyone for it. I'd be a hippocrite if I did. I was too busy with what little online time I have playing too... which is why it's a big regret for me. If things go poorly, that may be the only source of lore for the game.

I will promise, however, that for me it will not go to waste. I plan on taking a system- Marvel, DC, Mutants and Masterminds, Abberant... something, and coming up with stories for City of Heroes for my tabletop group. Even if I can't play it on the computer, I will still be able to share it with my friends here at home, and the Paragon Wiki will be an excellent source for that.

Heck, maybe I'll even design my own 'home brew' tabletop system for it if I ever get the time. If I do, I promise I'll share it with the community.

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"I play characters. I have to have a very strong visual appearance, backstory, name, etc. to get involved with a character, otherwise I simply won't play it very long. I'm not an RPer by any stretch of the imagination, but character concept is very important for me."- Back Alley Brawler
I couldn't agree more.

One of my regrets is never making a character that went anywhere (meaning past the first level or two) with the big, bushy beard.

I often start new characters just because "I hardly ever see anyone using those Rhino horns" or something, the beard falls into that category (not to say it's NEVER used). A few years back I had started an MM, but for whatever reason I ended up deleting him before he reached 12th I think.

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I'll never forget the first time I played through Praetoria all the way and was blown away.
Or the time I got a Praetorian to 50 without leaving Praetoria to Primal Earth.
Or the time that I managed to get tier 4 on everything Incarnate wise...at least until hybrid came out anyway!
Or the very first time I hit 50.
Or the time I made a matrix-style room in my SG base.
Or the first time I did one of the old school hami raids.

I'll regret not doing any of the shard TF's, even though I know they're long. I'll regret not playing through redside more. I'll regret not being able to come along on a newer hami raid. I'll regret not being one of the ones to get "Really Hard Way."

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Achivement: Freedom server was completely sucking at the Hamidon raids after the redesign; there were some attempts but they just failed horribly. I figured it was a morale problem: people just weren't showing up, knowing that the raids keep failing. So I decided we needed a few successful raids to get the ball rolling again. I transferred my main to Justice and asked help from the regular raiders there; a bunch of players, including Enrious, Mermoine, and a lot of others that I don't remember (sorry guys, I have a lousy memory for names!) transferred back to Freedom to help.

They taught me and a bunch of people in the ULTRA channel what to do. The first attempt took a while and we teamwiped, but we completed it, and that was the big victory that we needed to get the ball rolling.

December 26th, 2009:
18:24 EST: We start killing monsters.
18:35 EST: Hamidon spawns.
19:00 EST: First attack wave. Everybody in the goo.
19:11 EST: Team wipe! The order to regroup is given.
19:18 EST: First attack wave goes in again.
19:28 EST: Hamidon at 75%. First bloom.
19:39 EST: Second attack wave.
19:52 EST: Hamidon at 50%. Second bloom.
20:03 EST: Third attack wave.
20:10 EST: Hamidon at 25%. Third and final bloom.
20:18 EST: Final attack wave.
20:25 EST: ULTRA has defeated Hamidon!

Yes, it took two hours, but it was a victory. Eventually we got it down to about 30 minutes, which was the average time before Incarnates.

We did it again, with no wipes, on January 10th. And again the next day, and then again the next week. The Justice folks left back for their home server, but we had successful Hamidon raids in Freedom ever since.

I don't like being the visible head of anything, so in March, when it was clear that people had the hang of it, I stopped leading Hamidon, and in fact took a break from the game for a couple of months; I was burned out from Hamidon, and every time I logged in, people asked me to raid. So I disappeared, and hoped someone else would take over the raids.

I'm happy to say that they did. Tanknation from ULTRA and Starborn from the Star Alliance have been leading raids and doing pretty well since.

I've done a bunch of other things in the game that are achievements for me or my character, but getting support from Justice to get the Freedom Hamidon raids going is one thing I did that helped the entire server, so that's what I'm more proud of, even though the Justice folks deserve far more credit than me, for transferring away from their home server to help us.

Biggest regret: I joined the game in May 2005, just in time to get the Celebrant badge. But at the time I didn't even know what a badge was, so I didn't think about it as I deleted my early characters.

My main, who became my badgewhore, was created a week or so after Celebrant stopped awarding. Eventually I got every single other badge in the game, including Bug Hunter on two different characters. But I'll never have Celebrant, because of my hasty delete finger, and so my character sits 2 badges behind the top badgers of the server; Celebrant, and the associated gladiator.

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Thanks to @EnsonsDeath for the GVE code that made me VIP again!

Holy crap, how do you boil down time spent on CoH since Aug 2005 into a forum post, even if that entire time wasn't consecutive because even during time away you were still in contact/doing things with people met in CoH but elsewhere on the intrawebs?

Biggest regrets? Not being able to afford CoH for two accounts as well as life after getting married and that my computer sucks too much to handle the high end stuff so even if I was a subscriber again or even if they made the game VIP, I wouldn't be able to experience it.

Best moments? In game or CoH related?

• Getting married to my wife that I met ingame.
• Her saying yes when I proposed.
• Meeting my wife.
• Sitting by her ingame by the double waterfall island in Oro talking for hours during the initial talking phase.
• Watching a friend I made on CoH who despite not being ingame for awhile, get married to someone she met on CoH and just recently have a child together with her hubby met in CoH. You GO, Jenifer!
• Being SO EXCITED to ding my first 50 that instead of sitting at 49 and waiting for people to get on the next day, I stayed up and played through some random Praetorian Portal missions and dinged 50 on a random mob.
• Killing Romulus for the last time on an ITF with Soul Transfer on my dark/dark scrapper.
• Flying. Sweet Jesus, flying. If there's one thing I will miss more than anything in this game it's the Flight power.

And one of my single best memories from CoH? This one gets it's own paragraph instead of a bullet: Moving on from CoH. Hate on me for that if you want to, blame that for the downfall of the game, etc, whatever. I don't care. The point is that when I started playing City of Heroes, I NEEDED it because I was an introvert/shy/insecure/whatever. I am the person that I am because of the friends that I've made on City of Heroes, the experiences and life lessons, etc. Now I don't need CoH and my wife and I spend time doing stuff like.. living and enjoying life together in RL. I didn't have a RL before CoH.

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Oh and I also regret not being able to even get one legit kill on someone epic on Liberty in PVP like someone from the Freaks or Whirligig.

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My biggest regrets in this game are not spending more time in PVP and taking almost 7.5 years to get my main character Peacemaker to level 50. I wish i would have completed my architect mission and learned to demorecord to create a comic using my characters.

But the biggest regret is not commissioning David Nakayama for a drawing of the Peacemaker. I have a drawing done by Brandon McKinney who worked on ther blue king run of City of Heroes comics and always intended to get one from David as well.

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I regret letting my altitis get the best of me. I've played for something like 7/8ths of the game's life since launch, so it was natural that I would eventually make new characters. But SO MANY? Unnecessary, especially when we were limited to 12 (or was it 10?) server slots?

RIP (deleted):
1. John Leviathan (50, Spine/Invuln Scrapper; victim of server space limitations)
2. Molecule Misfit (my first 50, Energy/Ice Blaster remade as Energy/Energy)
3. Magician (my first character, second 50, an Ice/Fire Blaster I remade as a Fire/Storm Controller)
4. Aeon Avenger (50 Peacebringer; victim of server space limitations)

I envied people who really did everything in the game with their one character. Having like 20 50's meant that my attention was always divided amongst them.

As is, I have 4 pages of characters on my home server, plus nearly one full page of characters on every other (US) server. Some were never played beyond the tutorial - Many times I'd come up with a character concept in my head and run home and create the character, whether I intended to ever play it or not. I think I'll miss that the most - I thought of one the other day, but I was like, "What's the point?" - Avalanche Cascade (a phrase in a Josh Ritter song) died before he was born.

Still, despite my altitis regret... There are still regrets of characters I never got to play. I regret not having a Regen character when it was godly. I regret not playing a /devices blaster past 10. I regret not playing Tankers early enough to really get a good experience with herding (even if I did have the experience with my Invuln scrapper, I still died some ). I regret not playing a Dominator past 23. I regret having never played a Mind Controller past 10.

I don't know if regret is the word, but I'm incredibly sad over not being able to play with many of the players that were tantamount in early years in the game.

1. ProcessdMeatMan - RL friend who still pops in once in a blue moon, but far too rare.
2. Crowd Pleaser - RL friend who gave up on the game in favor of Star Wars.
3. KnightShayd - A Facebook friend who left the game a while back.
4. Status Crow - Made Villain-side way more interesting than it ever would have been without him.
5. Bolt Crank & Operator 47 - The real life couple who founded the only SG I ever became more than cursorily affiliated with. I also regret being kind of a jerk to Op over something dumb - I was a lot younger then.

Speaking of that SG, I regret not being closer with them over the past two years or so. I got put off a time or two by something stupid, so I kind of unintentionally closed myself off, and I just wasn't as friendly as I could have been.

6. Tjin, Malice, Strongstar, House Call, Soph and Shu (still Facebook and/or Fantasy Football friends, at least), Kitty Grade, Impenetrable, Sanctuary Lost and m0ley (my two emo music buddies!), Sledge Riprock, Carrie - All players who I got to really know over the years. I regret not having an outside-of-the-game method of communicating with them (where applicable), but I mostly miss being able to play the game with them.

I'll regret not being able to Incarnate-out my most recent 50 (who I regret hitting 50 on yesterday while solo - I just got too caught up killing mobs in an outdoor mission and it snuck up on me!). There's probably still time, but the teams aren't there on Infinity. A lot of people seem to have jumped ship, and it was kind of a slow place during the week before that.

I'll regret not being able to unlock some of my 50s - They got locked during one of my brief stints of going premium, and for some reason I wasn't provided enough unlock tokens for all of my characters - I don't really know how that is determined.

As is, I can't get on my favorite villain to take screen caps, nor finish IO'ing him out (it had been a LOOOOONG time since I had played him). Hell, I'd buy an unlock token if I could...

I regret not ever posting enough to join the elusive Forum Cartel!






And I have to include it, because my wife would call me out if I didn't - I regret spending SO MUCH TIME in-game early on. College took about two years longer than it should have because I would spend entire nights in-game, and be too tired to go to class in the morning. That led to bad grades, which led to dropped classes and wasted money. I also had way too many fast food meals (which led to some weight gain that I'm still working to remedy) in front of the computer through the first five years of the game or so. I should have prioritized things better when I was younger.

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Thanks for eight fun years, Paragon.

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Oh, man I wish you'd been able to do that one, Samuraiko. That is great

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--Virtue--
My 50s:
Tigra Swipe (BS/SR/Dark Scrapper)
Galena Storm (Emp/Ele/Ele Defender)
Master Tolarin (Psi/Fire/Force Blaster)

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The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction

I only regret not using the Beta name-reserve to take "Mary Sue". The possibilities would have been endless...

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