As we head into the final week of COH I figured it was time to do this. Like all of you the fact that the game is ending is upsetting to me. This game was a major source of stress relief for me when my job got too intense but more than that it allowed me to make new friends that stretched from one end of the United Sates to the other and even allowed me to meet and play with folks from numerous other countries. I don't enjoy much on television these days so once dinner was over, and the chores done, it was my nightly entertainment until I went to bed. I am still not sure where I will go when its gone but I have yet to find any game that is as much fun or offers nearly as many diverse ways to play.
Things I will miss when it's gone?
First and foremost.. my friends. Some are already gone while others are still out there playing. One good friend that I used to team with on Incarnate trials had some financial problems a while ago and stopped his VIP status.. I've spoken with him a time or two since but he's limited as a Premium member and there's no way to get back the VIP now. I think he plans to visit once more before the end.. Hope I am on lne when he does.
The community here in general... anyone that ever said "I can't find a team" just wasn't trying very hard (at least they weren't if they lived on Virtue). I had one free spot left on my main account after i transferred a few of my 50s back from exalted and decided to make one LAST new character [an Archery/Trick Arrow Corruptor]. In 11 days I managed to go from character creator to 50 +2 in 48 hours of actual patrol time. I did DFB trials to level 14 and then just joined any team I saw advertising spots available.. TFs, Trials Tip missions, Radios or Story Arcs. You may notice that there is not a single mention of the AE building, PLing or farming in there .. And that character is 50+3 now with all 6 incarnate powers opened and slotted to at least t3.
The sense of accomplishment.. yeah it's "JUST A GAME" but when you find that "GOOD" team and everything goes perfect it is magic! I had that with my friend REP, mentioned above, when we did I Trials. We had assembled a core group of quality players that met up almost every night and did EVERY trial. We'd fill in any empty slots with whoever was available and then go in and just crush everything in our path. The evening usually went BAF>KEYES>TPN>UG>MOM>LAM We'd save the trials that allowed fewer members for last since some players had to log sooner than others and if it got too late too fast we could always just skip LAMBDA. When we formed a league it was never a question of WILL we complete this and get a reward it was how quick can we finish so we can start up the next one. I have a number of Incarnates that have t4s in every single power from all the successful Underground trials I was a part of during that time.
Just playing the game in general.. I had several older brothers so I was quickly introduced to the world of comic and superheroes. This carried over into my adult life when I took my kids to see the Batman films and even now that they are grown I still enjoyed watching Ironman, Thor, Captain America and the latest.. the Avengers. There are a few other "SUPER HERO" games out there but none nearly as good as City of Heroes. If that doesn't answer the question for you then .. NO I will not be playing CO or DCUO.
Things I won't miss? (a little comdey to lighten the mood)
Watching the BAF opening cut scene for the one millionth time since the trial went live. Long ago I suggested making the exemption for that global ~But~ ~they~ ~didn't~ ~listen~ ~to~ ~me~!
Going to my contact in Steel Canyon to try and coax the Spelunker badge mission out of him or her and being informed "You need to go to KR and chat with the Field Rep". Awww come on I have been here over 6 years now .. Honest i really do know how to change the difficulty on my missions I don't need ANOTHER lecture. Can't ya please just give me a mission?
Doc Q and his insanely torturous task force. In 7 years I joined and competed that marathon exactly TWO times. The second was on my badger, Operative Tessa, who I can proudly say has completed every single Task Force, Strike Force and Trial in game. When it ended I promised myself..NEVER EVER AGAIN!
Clicking my Secondary Mutation power as the team prepares to start a mission and finding myself.. a RIKTI MONKEY for one minute. I am genuinely sorry that the Dev team is out there trying to find work but I'd stil like the name of the guy that programed that so I can go SMACK him.
Okay (did I mention this is going to be long winded?) some of my prouder moments in game...
I think first and foremost has to be my active membership in the Paragon Taxi Service AKA: the Taxibots. In todays game there are some players that have NO idea who we are or what we did but the old vets still send me tells when they discover I was and still am a taxibot. To me nothing made me feel MORE like a hero than spending a couple hours in the Hollows healing, buffing and rezzing poor 5 levels trying desperately to get through those first few street missions from Dave Wincott so they could actually get to the door missions and then teleporting them safely to and from missions throughout the zone. For those of you that weren't around back then.. there was a time when things like Ninja run or BUYING a jet pack didn't exist and until level 14 every player in game had to RUN from one mission to another. (SHOCKING ISN'T IT?) Worse there was no such thing as a radio or newspaper mission and therefore no RAPTOR packs either. Everyone contact you had seemed to send you on mission to just about any zone available except the one they were standing in so most players ran the arc in the Hollows since it was one place where the contact and the mission were in the same place. The touble was back then the street mobs were huge and usually higher than a five level so just getting to a mission was perilous.. Oh and did I mention back then the Hollows had No trainer, No stores and no hospital. So if you died you wound up in Atlas park and had to RUN all the way back and start all over. Taxibots got players to and from those missions safely and we never asked for anything in return. YES there were players here that took time away from seeing how fast they could level up and how much Influence, salvage etc they could earn to HELP other players!
After that I think I'd say my first 50 level.. no big suprise here it was Taxibot Sara2.0 who began her career on Infinity and then moved to Virtue along with friends and has been there ever since.
My Badger Operative Tessa who was my first SOA back before anyone and everyone could get them after level 20. At some point I just got sort of tired of the grind of badging but Tessa managed over 1100 and along the way as I mention above did all the TFs, SFs and Trials and spent time as a Villain, Rogue, Hero and Vigilante. She is a Rogue now and will always be one.
Recently I'd add in my two Nature Affinity characters.. Cybele Rhea amd Callistos Gaia. Both of them accomplished something that no other support character I own ever did in 7 years and earned the EMPATH badge by healing 10 MILLION hit points of damage. To me that's a testimony to NA and its ability since I can say honestly that every single hit point was earned in missions NOT on some healing farm. They are both still doing I Trials so who knows exactly how many HP they have now
Ending the game with a total of Fifty 50 levels, 36 that are incarnates and have most (Alpha, Judegment, Lore, Interface and Destiny) if not all (Hybrid) open and slotted. Oh and to date (hey I still have a week yet) a total of 25 that have a t4 in every one of those powers. My main account has 48 slots that are all 50s and the second account I created a few years ago.. when I ran out of slot on Virtue .. has another 2.
I wish all the Devs well and hope they find good jobs quickly. I would like to specifically wish Zwill all the best .. He was a great customer Rep and made the game even more fun with his antics.. "Hey Zwill was on line and here on Virtue. There are about 30 Winter Lords running around the Rikti War Zone. Lets go kill em!" LOL I would thank all the friends I made here for the good times and the good conversations we had in between beating the crap out of stuff and hope they all have a great Christmas and New Year. Hope you all find other games or whatever to amuse yourselves and with any luck we may wind up seeing each other again.
Now before I start crying I have almost a whole week left so I am going to go back in game and do what I do best... TRY TOO TAKE OVER THE WORLD PINKIE oh no sorry .. Beat up bad guys and have fun
Take care all, Good hunting and have fun where ever you wind up
�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon
As we head into the final week of COH I figured it was time to do this. Like all of you the fact that the game is ending is upsetting to me. This game was a major source of stress relief for me when my job got too intense but more than that it allowed me to make new friends that stretched from one end of the United Sates to the other and even allowed me to meet and play with folks from numerous other countries. I don't enjoy much on television these days so once dinner was over, and the chores done, it was my nightly entertainment until I went to bed. I am still not sure where I will go when its gone but I have yet to find any game that is as much fun or offers nearly as many diverse ways to play.
Things I will miss when it's gone?
First and foremost.. my friends. Some are already gone while others are still out there playing. One good friend that I used to team with on Incarnate trials had some financial problems a while ago and stopped his VIP status.. I've spoken with him a time or two since but he's limited as a Premium member and there's no way to get back the VIP now. I think he plans to visit once more before the end.. Hope I am on lne when he does.
The community here in general... anyone that ever said "I can't find a team" just wasn't trying very hard (at least they weren't if they lived on Virtue). I had one free spot left on my main account after i transferred a few of my 50s back from exalted and decided to make one LAST new character [an Archery/Trick Arrow Corruptor]. In 11 days I managed to go from character creator to 50 +2 in 48 hours of actual patrol time. I did DFB trials to level 14 and then just joined any team I saw advertising spots available.. TFs, Trials Tip missions, Radios or Story Arcs. You may notice that there is not a single mention of the AE building, PLing or farming in there .. And that character is 50+3 now with all 6 incarnate powers opened and slotted to at least t3.
The sense of accomplishment.. yeah it's "JUST A GAME" but when you find that "GOOD" team and everything goes perfect it is magic! I had that with my friend REP, mentioned above, when we did I Trials. We had assembled a core group of quality players that met up almost every night and did EVERY trial. We'd fill in any empty slots with whoever was available and then go in and just crush everything in our path. The evening usually went BAF>KEYES>TPN>UG>MOM>LAM We'd save the trials that allowed fewer members for last since some players had to log sooner than others and if it got too late too fast we could always just skip LAMBDA. When we formed a league it was never a question of WILL we complete this and get a reward it was how quick can we finish so we can start up the next one. I have a number of Incarnates that have t4s in every single power from all the successful Underground trials I was a part of during that time.
Just playing the game in general.. I had several older brothers so I was quickly introduced to the world of comic and superheroes. This carried over into my adult life when I took my kids to see the Batman films and even now that they are grown I still enjoyed watching Ironman, Thor, Captain America and the latest.. the Avengers. There are a few other "SUPER HERO" games out there but none nearly as good as City of Heroes. If that doesn't answer the question for you then .. NO I will not be playing CO or DCUO.
Things I won't miss? (a little comdey to lighten the mood)
Watching the BAF opening cut scene for the one millionth time since the trial went live. Long ago I suggested making the exemption for that global ~But~ ~they~ ~didn't~ ~listen~ ~to~ ~me~!
Going to my contact in Steel Canyon to try and coax the Spelunker badge mission out of him or her and being informed "You need to go to KR and chat with the Field Rep". Awww come on I have been here over 6 years now .. Honest i really do know how to change the difficulty on my missions I don't need ANOTHER lecture. Can't ya please just give me a mission?
Doc Q and his insanely torturous task force. In 7 years I joined and competed that marathon exactly TWO times. The second was on my badger, Operative Tessa, who I can proudly say has completed every single Task Force, Strike Force and Trial in game. When it ended I promised myself..NEVER EVER AGAIN!
Clicking my Secondary Mutation power as the team prepares to start a mission and finding myself.. a RIKTI MONKEY for one minute. I am genuinely sorry that the Dev team is out there trying to find work but I'd stil like the name of the guy that programed that so I can go SMACK him.
Okay (did I mention this is going to be long winded?) some of my prouder moments in game...
I think first and foremost has to be my active membership in the Paragon Taxi Service AKA: the Taxibots. In todays game there are some players that have NO idea who we are or what we did but the old vets still send me tells when they discover I was and still am a taxibot. To me nothing made me feel MORE like a hero than spending a couple hours in the Hollows healing, buffing and rezzing poor 5 levels trying desperately to get through those first few street missions from Dave Wincott so they could actually get to the door missions and then teleporting them safely to and from missions throughout the zone. For those of you that weren't around back then.. there was a time when things like Ninja run or BUYING a jet pack didn't exist and until level 14 every player in game had to RUN from one mission to another. (SHOCKING ISN'T IT?) Worse there was no such thing as a radio or newspaper mission and therefore no RAPTOR packs either. Everyone contact you had seemed to send you on mission to just about any zone available except the one they were standing in so most players ran the arc in the Hollows since it was one place where the contact and the mission were in the same place. The touble was back then the street mobs were huge and usually higher than a five level so just getting to a mission was perilous.. Oh and did I mention back then the Hollows had No trainer, No stores and no hospital. So if you died you wound up in Atlas park and had to RUN all the way back and start all over. Taxibots got players to and from those missions safely and we never asked for anything in return. YES there were players here that took time away from seeing how fast they could level up and how much Influence, salvage etc they could earn to HELP other players!
After that I think I'd say my first 50 level.. no big suprise here it was Taxibot Sara2.0 who began her career on Infinity and then moved to Virtue along with friends and has been there ever since.
My Badger Operative Tessa who was my first SOA back before anyone and everyone could get them after level 20. At some point I just got sort of tired of the grind of badging but Tessa managed over 1100 and along the way as I mention above did all the TFs, SFs and Trials and spent time as a Villain, Rogue, Hero and Vigilante. She is a Rogue now and will always be one.
Recently I'd add in my two Nature Affinity characters.. Cybele Rhea amd Callistos Gaia. Both of them accomplished something that no other support character I own ever did in 7 years and earned the EMPATH badge by healing 10 MILLION hit points of damage. To me that's a testimony to NA and its ability since I can say honestly that every single hit point was earned in missions NOT on some healing farm. They are both still doing I Trials so who knows exactly how many HP they have now
Ending the game with a total of Fifty 50 levels, 36 that are incarnates and have most (Alpha, Judegment, Lore, Interface and Destiny) if not all (Hybrid) open and slotted. Oh and to date (hey I still have a week yet) a total of 25 that have a t4 in every one of those powers. My main account has 48 slots that are all 50s and the second account I created a few years ago.. when I ran out of slot on Virtue .. has another 2.
I wish all the Devs well and hope they find good jobs quickly. I would like to specifically wish Zwill all the best .. He was a great customer Rep and made the game even more fun with his antics.. "Hey Zwill was on line and here on Virtue. There are about 30 Winter Lords running around the Rikti War Zone. Lets go kill em!" LOL I would thank all the friends I made here for the good times and the good conversations we had in between beating the crap out of stuff and hope they all have a great Christmas and New Year. Hope you all find other games or whatever to amuse yourselves and with any luck we may wind up seeing each other again.
Now before I start crying I have almost a whole week left so I am going to go back in game and do what I do best... TRY TOO TAKE OVER THE WORLD PINKIE oh no sorry .. Beat up bad guys and have fun
Take care all, Good hunting and have fun where ever you wind up
�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon