The Falcons played on Thursday night (and beat the Saints by 10, woohoo!), so I didn't even have them to take my mind off of things.ARgh! You are on the wrong side of history, my friend! The Saints are coming! Exclamation points!!!
necrotech: i still habitually open the official forums when i open a web browser and constantly reminded and saddened by the sunset message instead of the usual villain colored forums
At the moment I'm not. I was actually doing BETTER on the 1st day after than I am now. Started the CO tutorial, immediately bumped into Dragiel, was keeping myself busy with holiday stuff, etc... and it's been slowly going down. Maybe it hit me that no matter what happens, the community is going to be game-split now. :(
Last night after posting the Statesman Mickey information, I logged on to SWTOR. About five minutes in it really started to click how much SWTOR is just another WoW clone. It's just not the same and got real depressed afterwords. I'll stick with it, and it should be a lot more fun playing with people rather than soloing a new toon... but its just not the same. *sniff*
Teaming is a bit clunky compared to what we're used to. It takes a bit of looking to even find how to invite to a team. Once you have that, then it works well enough for outdoor missions but it gets a bit balky for instances.
For example: my wife and I were on last night and we both entered an instanced mission that we both had. It basically gave us two seperate missions. I could not see her character, she could not see mine. I could not effect her mission, she could not effect mine. We appeared on each other's maps but that was about it.
In defense of that, we've only been playing for a day or two so we might have missed something. But it sure feels far stiffer than it needs to be.
i still have hope that coh will be revived in some way, either through acquisition of the IP by another company or by whats being done with the phoenix project here
I can't play CO, but not because it's remotely similar. I have a "tank" called Paragon Crusader, in a decent reproduction of States' costume, but tanking sucks in CO if you can't get used to Block. I have made half a dozen characters (and deleted all but "States"), and I'm sick of the tutorial. Maybe if you didn't have to play the whole damned six levels every time...
There is also an option that you can set (I believe it is actually set to disabled though), so that people can enter your class quest instances and help you out. I always have this enabled incase I am teamed up with my GF. And whilst they don't get the reward, they still get XP and drops. This is for "story/Class" instance missions. And to be fair, you generally *dont* need extra help, although as they don't scale, you can go and bring someone else in to help bust it.Correct.
Now, if it was a "normal" instance (ie a non story/class quest), then the whole group should have been able to go into it with no problems (unless of course, you were in different "world map" instances...
That is if i am remembering correctly.
Never played an Invul, so I don't know how to be invulnerable.
I've stayed really busy, so I guess I haven't really felt it yet. I did log into Champions Online since they posted such a nice message to us and played through the tutorial earlier today. It was just so... different. Not bad, just weird. Not being intimately familiar with the interface, not being able to just jump in and do stuff, being the n00b for the first time in almost a decade while everyone else seemed to just "get it", I dunno. It was a really bizarre feeling. I don't know if I'll stick with it. I do plan on trying out Neverwinter when I can get beta access; at least then, everyone will be the n00b and I have a chance to grow up with the community once again.
I've also been working on various web site stuff, and another little non-CoH project that I can't really talk about, and watched a bit of football today. (What's up, 49ers? The Rams are your kryptonite or something?) The Falcons played on Thursday night (and beat the Saints by 10, woohoo!), so I didn't even have them to take my mind off of things. I also hung out with Belle, did a bunch of Skype chatting, and miscellaneous stuff.
But yeah, I'm a bit down because I'm not seeing or talking to the usual crew of people I hang with, but I'm still convinced that we'll be able to bring the game back somehow, so I'm more pissed off at NCsoft and determined than down or depressed.
I Titan Network has turned into my security blanket, as evidenced by the uptick in postings.
Plus I have weird QoL issues that nobody else in the world seems to have. (For example, when I activate Flight, my character drifts downward instead of flying straight ahead, until I adjust the camera. Then when I land and take off I have to adjust the camera again to avoid drifting downwards. The default camera position for Flight is "character slams face into ground", and I don't know why. When I tell this to people over there, they just say "That's not supposed to happen" and don't actually tell me how to FIX it)
Plus I have weird QoL issues that nobody else in the world seems to have. (For example, when I activate Flight, my character drifts downward instead of flying straight ahead, until I adjust the camera. Then when I land and take off I have to adjust the camera again to avoid drifting downwards. The default camera position for Flight is "character slams face into ground", and I don't know why. When I tell this to people over there, they just say "That's not supposed to happen" and don't actually tell me how to FIX it)
Inviting to a team is easy, I just type /invite suchandsuch.I have found that if you are running 2 troopers (for example) you'd have to do their class missions separately. All the side missions, or the general kill x number of mobs missions can be done together. Plus, the game isn't all that great for re-playability. Since the story line is very linear. That was one of the things I liked about CoH. I could make 10 different characters, and not be doing the same set of missions by level 2 (or level 1 if I didn't go through the tutorial) every time.
Also, you may have been in different world maps for your mishes not to affect each other, if you click on their portrait in team then it should let you jump to their world map, going into map can do the same thing I think. Teaming in TOR isn't actually that bad, I think, though I try to have friends that I play with regularly.
EDIT: I didn't ever care for WoW, to me it was just a game I hated that took a lot of friends I enjoyed playing with away. CO .. I tried getting into that but I don't care for the gameplay and it's so.. subpar compared to COH, DCUO isn't enjoyable to me at all, I'll never play Marvel as it's just a diablo-esque style of game, and I hated combat in TSW. I actually am really enjoying TOR again, the best selling point for it is the story, the missions for your character.
I'm not really sure how often I'll actually play TSW, since zombies and the occult isn't one of my interests.I pretty much agree.
I hope you'll all forgive me, this thread is interesting from a psychological and a spiritual point of view.
The things you're all writing about here are not the tantrum of a child for a lost toy, or the pain of an addict in withdrawal. It seems to me the symbolic loss of characters we've all invested in reminds us all uncomfortably of our own mortality. One poster here called midnight the hour "reserved for executions." We know we all must die... someday. But this experience of "virtual death" has forced us to confront our mortality in a frightfully visceral way.
Moreover, we together experienced "the end of the world." A poster here mentioned "On the Beach," and I think we have together endured something that, at least emotionally, makes us feel very much like what the characters in that story must have experienced. I myself had no desire to remain for the final shutdown; is this so different from those in the book who, pointlessly, committed suicide rather than naturally perish?
What a dreadful trauma we have endured together! The catastrophe is virtual, but the grief is real.
But if I may... suppose we succeed in prying "the world" from the clutches of "the devil?" Suppose one day, the torches re-ignite in the now pitch-black Atlas Park. Will we not, together, have emotionally experienced the "resurrection" of our virtual selves and restoration of the world in something very like the visions and prophesies of the world's faiths? I expect more than one "hallelujah!" would be heard over the broadcast channels.
The eu-catastrophe would be virtual, but the joy would be real. That... oh, that would be something to experience, now wouldn't it?
"It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth...."
I've played one. In fact, she was my last level 50.Yep... no Psi defenses or resists... =/
Believe me, it doesn't help :(
How are you handling the loss?
It's curious how many things yank me back to Paragon City. Just this morning, I opened a Gawker article on banning public subsidies for private companies, and it had this picture as the leader:
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=img.gawkerassets.com%2Fimg%2F18782020qe6zxjpg%2Fxlarge.jpg)
link if the image doesn't display (http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18782020qe6zxjpg/xlarge.jpg)
My first thought was "The old Portal Corps buildings in the northwest corner of the Hive".
It's curious how many things yank me back to Paragon City. Just this morning, I opened a Gawker article on banning public subsidies for private companies, and it had this picture as the leader:
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=img.gawkerassets.com%2Fimg%2F18782020qe6zxjpg%2Fxlarge.jpg)
link if the image doesn't display (http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18782020qe6zxjpg/xlarge.jpg)
My first thought was "The old Portal Corps buildings in the northwest corner of the Hive".
Warshades don't come with Psi resists either. I managed to gain 12% through set bonuses.
[Invul has] no Psi defenses or resists..."
Funny... a month ago I helped our beloved Ascendant respec, and gave him an anti-psi invul build that worked very well. :)
that image reminds me of the sun setting in sharkhead isle behind the hellforge (which if looked at from the right angle would look similar to the cryptic logo)
I hope you'll all forgive me, this thread is interesting from a psychological and a spiritual point of view.
The things you're all writing about here are not the tantrum of a child for a lost toy, or the pain of an addict in withdrawal. It seems to me the symbolic loss of characters we've all invested in reminds us all uncomfortably of our own mortality. One poster here called midnight the hour "reserved for executions." We know we all must die... someday. But this experience of "virtual death" has forced us to confront our mortality in a frightfully visceral way.
Moreover, we together experienced "the end of the world." A poster here mentioned "On the Beach," and I think we have together endured something that, at least emotionally, makes us feel very much like what the characters in that story must have experienced. I myself had no desire to remain for the final shutdown; is this so different from those in the book who, pointlessly, committed suicide rather than naturally perish?
What a dreadful trauma we have endured together! The catastrophe is virtual, but the grief is real.
But if I may... suppose we succeed in prying "the world" from the clutches of "the devil?" Suppose one day, the torches re-ignite in the now pitch-black Atlas Park. Will we not, together, have emotionally experienced the "resurrection" of our virtual selves and restoration of the world in something very like the visions and prophesies of the world's faiths? I expect more than one "hallelujah!" would be heard over the broadcast channels.
The eu-catastrophe would be virtual, but the joy would be real. That... oh, that would be something to experience, now wouldn't it?
"It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth...."
I hope you'll all forgive me, this thread is interesting from a psychological and a spiritual point of view.
The things you're all writing about here are not the tantrum of a child for a lost toy, or the pain of an addict in withdrawal. It seems to me the symbolic loss of characters we've all invested in reminds us all uncomfortably of our own mortality. One poster here called midnight the hour "reserved for executions." We know we all must die... someday. But this experience of "virtual death" has forced us to confront our mortality in a frightfully visceral way.
Moreover, we together experienced "the end of the world." A poster here mentioned "On the Beach," and I think we have together endured something that, at least emotionally, makes us feel very much like what the characters in that story must have experienced. I myself had no desire to remain for the final shutdown; is this so different from those in the book who, pointlessly, committed suicide rather than naturally perish?
What a dreadful trauma we have endured together! The catastrophe is virtual, but the grief is real.
But if I may... suppose we succeed in prying "the world" from the clutches of "the devil?" Suppose one day, the torches re-ignite in the now pitch-black Atlas Park. Will we not, together, have emotionally experienced the "resurrection" of our virtual selves and restoration of the world in something very like the visions and prophesies of the world's faiths? I expect more than one "hallelujah!" would be heard over the broadcast channels.
The eu-catastrophe would be virtual, but the joy would be real. That... oh, that would be something to experience, now wouldn't it?
"It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth...."
We'll start up a playlist for CapeRadio. ;D
..my City is unique. Other games just aren't going to quite do it for me
(https://i.imgur.com/NXdH7.jpg)
I like that image, but... Lineage 2? That's old too. They should've made that dog be completely unrealistically shaped and had it say Blade and Soul beneath it.
(https://i.imgur.com/NXdH7.jpg)Man, that's just so spot on. It's not that our game died, it's that NCSoft took it away from us. That stings as much as anything else about this: had the game been unprofitable, and no one had wanted to buy it, I'd be less chafed about the shutdown, and I wouldn't feel so wronged. But that's not what happened; Poppa NCSoft just decided City of Heroes was too dirty and smelly to keep around the house anymore, so he just dragged it out back and shot it.
The last two days of my life have been really, really crappy (all business-related stuff, no one's sick or anything like that). I did not realize how much I relied on City of Heroes for stress relief until I couldn't log on for a quick radio mission or two just to clear my mind. There have been at least half-a-dozen times in the last two days when I've thought, "In a minute I'll take a break and do a tip mission....oh, no, wait, I can't do that anymore." It is just such a bummer.That was another thing I loved about City of Heroes. It's broken up in such a way that if you just wanna pop in for thirty minutes and get back to whatever else you've got going on, you can do that and you don't feel like you're stopping in the middle of something. Most MMOs don't do that because they are, in the words of Brian Clevinger, "Designed to make you spend as much time as physically possible on them without feeling like you're never getting anywhere. They have equations on white boards for this shit. They find the values of these numbers to a decimal point further than NASA bothers with."
We made slashdot mainpage.
We made MMORPG.com mainpage
"The efforts of the City of Heroes players have been spreading throughout the Internet. Celebrities such as actor Sean Astin, actress Tara Platt, authors Neil Gaiman, Mercedes Lackey, John C. Wright, Laurell K. Hamilton, and web comic artist and illustrator John Kovalic"
We aren't there yet. But we are almost to the point of pervasive. Keep plugging.
Also, this:
http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains
Tell your stories. Tell them everywhere. So what if you attract unicorns? No one will remember their idiocy and they WILL remember your stories because brains remember stories better than anything else.
fixed!
(https://i.imgur.com/K6gCQ.jpg)
If ever I get to play CoH again, the first thing I'll want to do is ITF, that masterpiece of co-operation between rival opposites to fend off an even greater threat, a theme repeated from the Rikti War Zone, and later Dark Astoria. This theme is a signature piece for City of HeroesI likened the ITF to an old, comfortable couch, once. It's not that it's the best couch money can buy; it's that it's a damn good couch that you've been using for years. It feels right, perhaps because you've worn a you-shaped groove in its cushions.
I likened the ITF to an old, comfortable couch, once. It's not that it's the best couch money can buy; it's that it's a damn good couch that you've been using for years. It feels right, perhaps because you've worn a you-shaped groove in its cushions.
Yeah. I'll be rounding up ITFs and BAFs in Pinnbadges the day the servers come back online if I can.
I. Miss. Flying. I miss regular flight, and I miss my rocket/hover board. I loved that hoverboard thing so much.
New poster here...
Welcome, Celtic. Very much what we're all going through. Pull up a chair and join in the fight.
Howdy! Welcome to the forums.
*looks at your avatar*
Oooh! Looks like our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is here! Awesome :D
I went through death and destruction in a TF for that hat. No way was that ever coming off my main's head! (And having 'Amy' around wasn't half bad either)
I promised a tutortial for my group-demo, and here it is!
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7244.0.html
And as much as it hurts to know that it's not likely I'll ever fly around in Paragon City again, the thing that really kind of hurts is how so many of my friends are either moving onto games I don't care for or giving up gaming entirely.I know what you mean. I miss the Pinnbadges channel about as much as I miss playing my Doms.
I miss them more than the game, to be honest.
... Wear a "leash," and allow others to pull it ...
I'm entering my second week of CoH-lessness. I'm feeling better, and Champions is not as bad as I'd feared now that I've had a chance to get used to it, but I still miss CoH and my characters terribly. CO doesn't feel like a home, it just feels like a waypoint, a place to dabble for a while (with the hope that CoH comes back). I'm certainly not going to pay for a lifetime subscription there.
To be fair... I'm not doing very well.
Growing up in the military and being a part of three different base closings, I didn't expect the closure of City of Heroes to be so hard. When the servers went down, it hit me like a ton of bricks. My optimism for the world gone. It's like someone reached into my soul, flicked a switch and I no longer care. I've now lost being a part of two different worlds that I so desperately love. I will be an Exile from now till eternity. And I no longer care.
The Statesman Mickey is still not done since my wife is working on other projects to get ready for yule. I haven't written my letter to Disney (as if it really would make a difference). And perhaps more importantly I haven't written my essay for college admissions. The plan was to go into the ministry as a Unitarian Universalist Reverend, but I honestly don't know if that is still the plan. My self imposed deadline has come and passed, and I no longer care.
I don't care about my church. I don't care about my work. I don't about my wife and child. I really don't even care about myself.
Don't worry.
I tend to have a flair for the dramatic and am not going any where. Just don't expect to "see" me for a long long time.
To be fair... I'm not doing very well.
Growing up in the military and being a part of three different base closings, I didn't expect the closure of City of Heroes to be so hard. When the servers went down, it hit me like a ton of bricks. My optimism for the world gone. It's like someone reached into my soul, flicked a switch and I no longer care. I've now lost being a part of two different worlds that I so desperately love. I will be an Exile from now till eternity. And I no longer care.
The Statesman Mickey is still not done since my wife is working on other projects to get ready for yule. I haven't written my letter to Disney (as if it really would make a difference). And perhaps more importantly I haven't written my essay for college admissions. The plan was to go into the ministry as a Unitarian Universalist Reverend, but I honestly don't know if that is still the plan. My self imposed deadline has come and passed, and I no longer care.
I don't care about my church. I don't care about my work. I don't about my wife and child. I really don't even care about myself.
Don't worry.
I tend to have a flair for the dramatic and am not going any where. Just don't expect to "see" me for a long long time.
I've been reading a few of these posts. They're really very moving. People are being honest about their feelings about losing what is clearly so much more than just a piece of entertainment, and just as importantly, other people are responding with kindness and counsel. That's one of the biggest supports this forum has come to offer -- a place where nobody is going to question why this game has come to mean so much to you, or why this loss hurts so much.
Colette mentioned anhedonia, which is the loss of pleasure in things that used to be meaningful to you. I'm very glad that she did, because many people don't realize that anhedonia is a common response to loss. This is not permanent. (From what I've read so far, everything she has said has been spot on.)
Recovering from any loss can take a long time. There's no one strategy for going through the process. Some people are forswearing any other games; others are finding ways to enjoy other games that are out there. There are many coping mechanisms, and what works for some people does not work for others.
Graphite, and anyone who is in a lot of pain: be gentle with yourself. Give yourself time to experience a whole mess of emotions and mental responses. Realize that the feelings will come and go, in waves. Don't worry about whether you've gone through any "stages of grief." (In fact, you can actually ignore that concept. If it helps you, use it; but don't feel you need to follow it.) Just realize that you have a lot of feelings to explore, and you will in fact survive. Give yourself permission to grieve, and then give yourself time to heal.
The amazing quality of the CoH community has clearly, and unsurprisingly, outlived the game!
Graphite,
As I mentioned before, an-hedonia and apathy are common symptoms of grieving. Do not worry that this is a crisis of faith or a permanent state. However ill-timed it is, you're human and far from alone in your reaction.
If it's of any comfort, as you get older you get a lot of grieving done for pets, loved ones, catastrophes and disappointments, traumatic experiences and so forth. It's rotten and awful but you do gain experience and learn to cope more efficiently. 'Least that's what I've found. Anyway, the grief is real.
Necro, wrath is my coping mechanism too, and it can be a dangerous one. Wear a "leash," and allow others to pull it. Hope that metaphor made sense.
In our busy lives, people come and go. Sometimes, when they are gone, we wish we'd told them how much they meant to us, but it's too late. I am so lucky that both sides of my family are loving, nutty, affectionate and supportive. "I love you" is said often, and the men of my clan hug without shame or resevation.
So, it's time to tell you, my CoH 'family' how I feel.
You never knew
when my wonderful father passed years ago, I went to The City to escape my sorrow for a brief while. The strangers and friends I teamed with made me laugh and gave so much to my heart, without realizing it.
You never knew
when I suffered from a case of the "poor me's" from time to time, heading to Paragon got me back on track. Helping a newbie with information/influence felt good. Sometimes, folks would open up and tell me things.
You never knew
all the times I actually cried while I played, either from sadness or happiness. It was good to be with other players in those moments.
You never knew
what you have meant to me, whether we only teamed once, or became friends.
So, I am telling you now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart just for being a very important part of my life. Being able to come here is helping with not being able to log in to CoX.
I love you guys.
Been dealing with my brother... and his drug problems. He's almost completely jacked up the door on the house from slamming it. But who cares about that? My personal life right? >.>Wow that's... that's a new one.
You never knew
when my wonderful father passed years ago, I went to The City to escape my sorrow for a brief while. The strangers and friends I teamed with made me laugh and gave so much to my heart, without realizing it.
Gotta learn CoHdemo myself.
Hee hee! Good to see, Celtic. I'm kind'a... reassured, you bein' a female and all, that your characters dress provocatively. Feel a little less guilty about one or two of mine.
Watched a couple of videos from Blade and Soul. Loathe the character models and slutty clothes, but oh man, I'm jealous of that graphics engine! CoH 2 could have been amazing.
Like my grandma always said... "If ya got it, flaunt it.". Showy but not pornographic showy, if you know what I mean. Hence why normal bust size and not torpedo size lol ;)
"Showy but not pornographic showy, if you know what I mean."I've always said it's easy to spot the 14 year-old boys playing female characters in an MMO - they're the ones running around with max-slider breasts wearing bikinis. :)
I was rather proud when someone said to "Colette," "at last! A female character with realistic proportions!" 8) Mind, one of my other characters went around in a thong, so I'm not completely off the hook.
Maybe, just maybe, even if we can't save our game, we can save someone elses. A game, a community we don't know. A community that doesn't know us. They'll never know we indirectly saved them. They'll never know that they came so close to the brink before the powers that be backed off, remembering what people who play their games are capable of doing to their reputation, when they're wronged.
We put ourselves in "the attitude of heroes"--and we all became a little more heroic.
"We put ourselves in "the attitude of heroes"--and we all became a little more heroic."
I really just sit down and let myself actually realize CoX is really gone.
No more jumping on random teams and doing random radio missions for hours on end and getting to know the members of your team, even if your going to forget them 10 mins later. One thing for me that every other MMO is missing is the ability to not have to follow some generic story and just jump into some random mission and have fun with complete strangers, and by the time the team breaks up you feel like you really get to know them. I have as of yet not found that experience anywhere else.
The worst part of it is, when something was wrong I could lose myself in CoX like many people have already said. But right now, I need to lose myself to forget about CoX but I can't go to CoX to forget about CoX now can I? All that leaves is letting myself get lost in hating the ones who took it away, just let the anger fester... I cannot and will not ever forget about it. Because every time I feel the need to just forget about everything I'm going to think about CoX and then think about how much I hate... them...
Anyway felt like I needed to let that all out, it helped a little knowing that all those strangers can still hear me even if they can't see my chars.
Take care everyone.
The worst part of it is, when something was wrong I could lose myself in CoX like many people have already said. But right now, I need to lose myself to forget about CoX but I can't go to CoX to forget about CoX now can I? All that leaves is letting myself get lost in hating the ones who took it away, just let the anger fester... I cannot and will not ever forget about it. Because every time I feel the need to just forget about everything I'm going to think about CoX and then think about how much I hate... them...
swtor is built with the rules of a traditional mmo. Elites are going to be too dangerous for solo work at low levels. You get to the point where you can do it on some high level stuff but most of the group content really requires a group.
We had a big list, but the only two I concretely remember being worked out were things like Giant Growth for outdoor GM fighting stuff, and the other one was Multiplication, where the final rank would be making like, four NPC copies of your character at full power."
Omega was going to be no holds barred, crazy stuff. Things people begged for since release that we never did because we couldn't figure out how to make them "Heroic" without being "Broken". We had a big list, but the only two I concretely remember being worked out were things like Giant Growth for outdoor GM fighting stuff, and the other one was Multiplication, where the final rank would be making like, four NPC copies of your character at full power.I would've killed for Giant Growth as an Omega-slot. Just for the sheer novelty of being able to look Jack-in-Irons in the eyes and then punch his lights out. Or maybe trade fisticuffs with Babbage or Jurassik.
I'm still doing badly. I have difficulty watching any CoH videos without crying, and last night I had a dream where I saw on Twitter that Posi announced that CoH would return on 1/13/13. When I woke up, I actually thought it was something that was true, so I turned on my computer. By the time my computer booted I remembered it was just a dream.
I'm still doing badly. I have difficulty watching any CoH videos without crying, ...
Not coping well. Haunting these forums. Posting screenshots on pinterest...wondering if I have more shots SOMEWHERE before desktop and laptop died in 2010.
I haven't posted in a while.
My depression is going full bore now. Finances have gotten tight, my desktop is dying, and my duties at work have doubled.
I can't keep up with anything, and my stress levels are through the roof. The holidays were a trial to get through, and I have no outlet.
I got a cheap, off market tablet for Christmas and I've been retreating into books. Just reread Shibumi by Trevanian again and looking at rereading Sherlock Holmes next.
I miss being able to lose myself in base building. It was my stress relief, where I could immerse myself in stacking and creating floor patterns with desks.
I would gladly trade losing my base, starting my characters from scratch, and rebuilding if I could just have CoH back.
I tried CO, but it's not the same. And my system keeps crashing anyway.
I'm not handling the loss well.
I haven't posted in a while.
My depression is going full bore now. Finances have gotten tight, my desktop is dying, and my duties at work have doubled.
I can't keep up with anything, and my stress levels are through the roof. The holidays were a trial to get through, and I have no outlet.
I got a cheap, off market tablet for Christmas and I've been retreating into books. Just reread Shibumi by Trevanian again and looking at rereading Sherlock Holmes next.
I miss being able to lose myself in base building. It was my stress relief, where I could immerse myself in stacking and creating floor patterns with desks.
I would gladly trade losing my base, starting my characters from scratch, and rebuilding if I could just have CoH back.
I tried CO, but it's not the same. And my system keeps crashing anyway.
I'm not handling the loss well.
Seeing all the videos can still make me cry because I miss it so badly. Lately, I have started feeling really angry. I think it may be from a false sense of entitlement that this was MY game, MY characters and how dare someone take it from me. Of course, this doesn't make sense.....but sometimes the brain and heart don't always match up. I doubt I will ever invest such strong feelings into any game again. I still want my City back. I want to create, immerse myself, team with friends, solo, and reconnect with the little characters that were fragments of myself.
Still badly. Still for the same reason. Two buses full of my best friends (my characters and my RL friends) were wantonly driven over a cliff by NCSoft. The one thing I could rely on to release stress is gone (trying to play in other games is more stressful rather than releasing stress.)
Going through a lot of Kleenex.
It feels like my CoH friends and all my characters are somewhere halfway around the world from me...not gone, but unreachable. I want them back. Sort of the same feeling as when the Griswalds reached Wally World and found it locked down....only worse.I feel the same way -- it reminds me of Brick: http://www.hulu.com/embed-html.html?eid=1d9f7zmadgpaufbsgcjksw&et=875&st=833 (http://www.hulu.com/embed-html.html?eid=1d9f7zmadgpaufbsgcjksw&et=875&st=833)
I work up this morning [Sunday] at about 4:30 am. I lay there in the dark, thinking about CoX. I thought of my main, who i will probably never see again and how he was almost like a real friend to me, someone I cared about - who didnt actually exist. He was powerful, and I will never be powerful in any meaningful sense. To love him is to really love myself, for I created him. And I dont love myself much at all, so even that little bit was important.What you wrote here, Illusionss, really resonates with me. Ditto for all the posts that follow yours. (Hi & hugs to Healix and all of you!) No, I don't believe this is any way a "psychological failing" but rather an entirely natural and normal response to grief, especially deep grieving. I bet none of us anticipated just how strongly we would feel were the unthinkable to happen (which did) - and that shock alone since all indicators were positive with new powersets etc available, the new Issue in open Beta, OMG why would NCSoft pull the plug like this?!?! That only compounded our grief and sense of loss. Is it a sense of "entitlement" when a product one has emotionally bonded with gets yanked? Possibly. I know V.V's view from that Korean Times article. I still think of when Coca-Cola Company yanked "old" Coke and tried selling New Coke - and man, glad they brought Classic Coke back in a hurry since no other cola soda tastes right to my taste buds. I feel additional irritation when MMOs like EQ etc get to go on - happy for those players still getting to enjoy their MMORPG world and wondering why I cannot likewise enjoy mine.
Obviously I had been dreaming about the game, altho I didnt remember the dream. I lay there and thought about getting off the tram in Talos and flying toward the PI ferry; about passing over the Magic store, the zone music that always played, about the steep ravine down to the docks, and the Tsoo and Freaks who haunted it. Flying over the ocean, and seeing the war walls in the distance.
And I will never do those things again, most likely.
I know it is wrong of me, and perhaps indicative of a psychological failing in me, but I lay there and felt actual hate toward whoever made the decision to throw not just me, but all of us out of our safe little Eden, such an important part of my life and all of our lives. So many of us have lost so much, while theyre lounging in an office somewhere manipulating their stocks or whatever crap thing it is they are doing today. And how when it suits thier purpose, they will do the same thing all over again to another set of loyal players.
I am angry. I want revenge. I dont think they have one freaking clue what they did to us. And I want them to feel the same pain. The same loss.
JR, you are in my mind again, writing my thoughts down.
CoX was really many games in one. Did you want to be a cyborg? OK. A dimension-warping sorcerer? Gotcha. A genetically enhanced supersoldier? No problem. A seductive demoness, complete with twitching pointed tail? Great. A fairy? Yup. A robot? No problem. And on it went! NO OTHER GAME allows this, and it sucks!!That's pretty much what makes it irreplaceable for me...
You going to give "Colonial Marines" a shot, John? It frankly looks ahhhh-maaaazing, and you can get a PC platform version - which is what I am going to do. I was actually planning on giving it a spin even before CoX closure was announced; I was not LEAVING CoX over it, but I definitely wanted to add it to my gameplay roster. My rationale was that if something happened to one of the games, I would still have the other to play. :( Lo, how right I was.Hi, Illusionss! Thanks for the recommendation and micro-review of the game. I'm likely not going to play it; first and primarily is because I'm suffering Gaming Anhedonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhedonia which I attribute solely to NCSoft and our End-of-Days experience during Sunsetting. All the love and caring shown during the 3 months and especially on that final night (at least it was night where I live on 11/30 / early 12/1) was intensely heart-warming as our CoH experience came to a close. The heartbreak I suffered (we all suffered) when the monitor image froze and blinked out was equally as intense. One can read the Grieving Thread I started on Titan even as my tears were flowing. http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,6503.msg80701.html#msg80701 Others add significant insight there, especially a Bereavement Counselor who also played CoH. In short, I've lost my taste for gaming, at least temporarily, and part of me feels adamantly about never subjecting myself to such emotional and psychological pain ever again, at least not willingly. Perhaps I may have developed a mild phobia about any MMO I might try getting ended in such an abrupt manner regardless of the rationality of such prospect. I know when our old family dog died, it was a long time (2 years) before our family decided to get another (in fact we got two marvelous puppies, litter mates, the same breed as my boyhood "friend" and canine companion, a golden retriever.)
Was watching a gameplay demo on YouTube the other day, one of the developers was trying to do a walkthrough of one of the areas and every time he started talking, ergo got distracted a xenomorph jumped on him from somewhere and killed him, it was hilarious. Looks very intense. Its an M for Mature game.
Unlike the movies, where people wearing xeno suits are bound by the laws of gravity just like all of us, in the game xenos also haunt the walls and ceiling. And everythings really dark, so you have trouble SEEING them, which I find very realistic. I really want to like this, because GW2 is just not satisfying to me. It is a hum-drum grindfest.
I will still be there with bells on should we get an emulator or a new superhero-themed game, do not get me wrong. I just miss gaming and want to stay busy until that day dawns when we can fly again.
My second reason for passing on "Colonial Marines" is that I have a rather vivid imagination and strong emotional response to visual images. While the game sounds super and probably well done (aka you enjoy it ) I know that I would not care for xenoforms leaping out at me and defeating my avatar.
Just as some people can have a beer and a sandwich and have no problem not becoming an alcoholic - some people have a beer and go on a 2 month bender.
Controlling guns, games or TV/movies is far less practical than spending more time with people and getting them help if they need it. Some people are more vulnerable to these things and so removing the thing causing the problem is far easier than removing the ways they could act out.
Here in the Detroit area we had a guy just spraying people with a plastic pop bottle with gas and setting it on fire. No amount of regulations can stop that behavior. Increasing the care for those with mental problems and identifying them is the best thing. You understand your own personal circumstances and I am glad you can filter for yourself those types of things that could cause an issue.
As a mental health professional myself, I can unequivocably state that the deinstitutionalizing of the severely mentally ill is the greatest failed experiment of the last 50 years. This in essence told paranoid, delusional people "Hey you can manage your own care! See ya!" and shoved them out the door.
Guess what? They CANT manage their own care, because they're delusional! If parents or spouses try to step in this can get them seriously injured or even killed. Of course this will all take billions to fix, and we won't get really serious about it until a few more horrific shootings. And then the "fix" will not involve an intervention with the mentally ill, no we will lock up the guns instead - as if people were not offing each other long before the advent of the firearm. Witness the guy with the can of gas and a lighter! We took the guns, problem solved, right? *sigh*
Just as some people can have a beer and a sandwich and have no problem not becoming an alcoholic - some people have a beer and go on a 2 month bender.This. I agree with everything you've said here. Especially for the Care part after identifying; for me that resonates as Compassion as well as intelligent behavior, far different from "nanny state" fears - but I digress into Politics.
Controlling guns, games or TV/movies is far less practical than spending more time with people and getting them help if they need it. Some people are more vulnerable to these things and so removing the thing causing the problem is far easier than removing the ways they could act out.
Here in the Detroit area we had a guy just spraying people with a plastic pop bottle with gas and setting it on fire. No amount of regulations can stop that behavior. Increasing the care for those with mental problems and identifying them is the best thing. You understand your own personal circumstances and I am glad you can filter for yourself those types of things that could cause an issue.
...And when the wife and his 2 yr. old daughter escaped, his brother [accomplice in the crime] tried to stuff the little girl back into the burning house! The mind boggles. Definitely, banning guns will solve such problems :P And dont even get me started about that moron that threw a young woman onto the subway tracks, so he could steal her cellphone.
We as a society are just going to have to get some folks off the street, permanently, for their own good and the good of society. Hate it, but its got to happen. And we're going to have to ease up on some privacy regulations - because if someone came out of the state mental hospital after a six-month stay, they dont need to be purchasing weapons two days later. Right now we have no way to know where they were yesterday.
Two bad choices, you have to pick the one that benefits the most people.
So no hope for treatment? Since you say you can't rely on them to stay on their meds and locking them up for the rest of their lives is the only option? Hey congrats our panel of experts have diagnosed you with a mental illness so you will be in protective (to the public) custody for ever. Sounds like the UK's method of handling those with mental illness.
These people need management, not least because the next house they try to burn down may be your own. I have no desire to get thrown off a subway platform in the name of someone else's "freedom"!
"I still cannot access the Titan Network forums; says I can't log in, and all efforts to fix this tell me I'm already logged in. As such, feel free to post evil things about me, and throw in some quotes for good measure as required."
I'm still pretty peeved. Really missing the ability for Mastermind minions to effectively have conversations thanks to /petsay commandI remember watching one Mastermind's robots singing (and dancing) the YMCA...
I'm not actually handling the loss of my Mastermind. There's just nothing I can do for it. The closest I can come are some necromancers in other games, or the engineer or summoner in Hellgate London. Which is depressing. I miss my armies.I haven't even tried to replace that... since no other MMO's pet classes can measure up to CoH's Masterminds... =/
Got to face the facts.Agreed. It's taken 4 MMOs and a few stand alone games to take the place of CoH. And that's just to pass the time.
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I've moved on to Champions Online and Star Trek Online, and while both are great games, they're games to pass the time, not the immersive world COH was.
Tell this person to e-mail me at tonyv@cohtitan.com, even if he has before and I somehow missed his message. Tell him to be sure to mention whether or not he has a Titan Key, and if so, what it is. Also, if he registered using a different e-mail address, let me know. We'll get it worked out.
It's a little tough for me to even go into the Icon app to play with the creation process. Knowing that it's as far as I can go makes me even sadder...I want to log into the City so bad...
Got to face the facts.
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I've moved on to Champions Online and Star Trek Online, and while both are great games, they're games to pass the time, not the immersive world COH was.
That poster is pure awesome-sauce!!!! Kudos and Bravo/Brava to whomever made it!! ;D
pic info says..'RayWilson1', found it on a broken link to a City of Heroes forum post.Thank you, LadyShin! This old fogey doesn't know how to access pic info yet! Man, am I getting an appreciation for what my grandparents lived thru as the world and its technology changed around them.
Got to face the facts.
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I've moved on to Champions Online and Star Trek Online, and while both are great games, they're games to pass the time, not the immersive world COH was.
I'm still in the throes of influenza, and today has mostly consisted of crying weakly.
I haven't even tried to replace that... since no other MMO's pet classes can measure up to CoH's Masterminds... =/
Instead I've been having fun with the story elements of other MMO's, and shooting up some aliens in Xcom.
I have to say this past week has been the hardest since the first one.Dear Perfidus, I am so very, very sorry for your loss. I'll follow this up with a PM (personal message). ((((****warm virtual hugs****)))) if such is welcome, and otherwise extending my deepest most sincere condolences to your family. It's at times like these I am reminded of John Donne's poem "No Man Is An Island" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-man-is-an-island/
Thursday night, the 24th, I lost my grandfather. He'd fallen ill the prior week. We were very, very close, and he was my only father figure. I haven't had a lot of free time since his passing, for obvious reasons, but it's times like these I really could've used the escapism that CoH provided me.
Is it sad for the reality that City of being gone to just hit you months after the end? It hit me when I watched a video of the end, where meteors were hitting the city and villains and heroes just walked away and gathered in Atlas Park. When I saw heroes flying it hit like a brick that I miss flying. I miss saving the world. I miss being a hero. I am not an emotional type guy, but that moved me to tears that I will never fly again.
I refuse to be someones lackey or butler to known heroes and do missions they do not want and refuse to live in a universe that even a company refuses to put money into. I want my city. I want criminals to fear me once again, I want villains with questionable morals ask themselves is it worth helping heroes or make things worse. I need the skies, I need to escape and do something worthwhile and feel like I am accomplishing something, no MMO currently is giving me that feel. I am a fish out of water in other games and feel like I do not belong there. I never realized the girl whom I was bored with, was the best thing that could have happened to me. And I want her back.
My world is pretty gray now. I didn't realize it, but CoH was the only really fun thing I had in my life. It's just work now. On the job or at home. Just work.Dear TheDevilYouKnow, A very hardworking friend once reminded me "work to live, not live to work/" If I don't speak sedition or heresy, may i with respect for your process suggest letting more joy in? For me that's books, music and movies, silly card games with friends or just hanging out. Or adding a photography or art class (ungraded, just for fun), go or learn dancing, just something fun that you've never done before but have thought would be nifty, e.g. archery, tai chi, etc. etc. etc.
I miss CoH even more today then when it closed.
I can never forgive NCSoft for this. I don't hate them anymore. But I don't trust them and I can not forgive them. They could create the best game in the world but as long as COH molds in the darkness, it will remained unplayed.
Dear TheDevilYouKnow, A very hardworking friend once reminded me "work to live, not live to work/" If I don't speak sedition or heresy, may i with respect for your process suggest letting more joy in? For me that's books, music and movies, silly card games with friends or just hanging out. Or adding a photography or art class (ungraded, just for fun), go or learn dancing, just something fun that you've never done before but have thought would be nifty, e.g. archery, tai chi, etc. etc. etc.Since the shutdown, I've watched the entire series of Numbers, NCIS (Season 10 is pre-ordered), and half of The Big Bang Theory. Not to mention, occasionally play TSW, CO, STO, and MWO.
Hey all, I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again because, as corny as it sounds, I do care about you folks and it's really important.Dear TonyV, First, Thank you, man! You are so totally awesome with what all you've done here on Titan Network and how you/Titan basically "saved" the CoH Community from being totally homeless; i.e. we can be here even tho we lost (i believe only temporarily) our venue (the mmo.)
If you're having a lot of trouble coming to grips with the game shutting down, please seek professional help. Don't feel silly, and don't let anyone convince you that "it's just a game" is a valid reason not to feel a sense of loss or a reason to grieve. There are too many people out there who don't understand just how immersing an experience playing these games can be, and the kind of social ties that are suddenly yanked away when an event like this happens.
There are a lot of resources on the web to help out in seeking help. Here's an article on WebMD (http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/how-to-find-therapist), for example, that might help. Google is your friend.
Mental health is no less important than physical health. I've mentioned this before too, and it's no less true now. If you break your arm, it's stupid to just hope it heals right on its own. Hopefully you'd recognize anyone whose advice is to just suck it up and get over it as either not having your best interest at heart or grossly misunderstanding the necessity of medical attention. Your brain is MUCH more important than your arm in living a healthy, happy life. PLEASE take care of it just like you would any other organ or body part that is having some trouble!
How am i handling the loss? Two words, Not Good. Ever played Dynasty Warriors? I had a Goateeg. It now looks like Guan Yu's beard. I got drunk the other night wrapped a bed sheet around my neck and went to the bar wishing it was pocket D. I stood at a train station wondering why I couldn't find the train to Atlas. Every time i hear the word Positive it sounds like Positron and I cry. I go up to random people and ask if they want to form a league. Don't even get me started on what happens when I see an image or hear a sound bite from the game. I think the term is regression. I making strides, but it's not looking good.Dear Mr.Joshua,
Is it sad for the reality that City of being gone to just hit you months after the end? It hit me when I watched a video of the end, where meteors were hitting the city and villains and heroes just walked away and gathered in Atlas Park. When I saw heroes flying it hit like a brick that I miss flying. I miss saving the world. I miss being a hero. I am not an emotional type guy, but that moved me to tears that I will never fly again.
Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
%$#& I'm turning into doctor evil...
I foundmyself discussing things of a rather world domination order it was involving some technology... I even started considering hiring evil henchmen..
this is a time I would usually hop on my Mastermind and do something bad like rob a paragon city bank to distract myself from my urge to change the world from it's dark path.
I have no outlet in fiction.. I'm trying to hold onto some manner of ethics and keep myself snapped out of the insane evil genius frame of mind.. but it's just sooo hard....
if I talk abot this with any doctors or anything they'll lock me up for sure.. or put me on medication.. I need CoH and CoV back.. I think I see now why I had no world domination thoughts when CoH was working, I always played as a hero so I felt the cause of justice.
when CoH closed I have no more fiction to push me towards heroic actions, I went through the vigilante mindset of trying to find a way to save the world from the dark path it's following... and then recently... I am shocked to admitt I found myself thinking of building a D-day weapon and threatenning to use it unless certain government organizations paid me millions of dollars..
I have since snapped ot of it and of coarse repented of said thoughts but.. how much longer till I find myself actually building this thing?
You might give the Heralds of Valdemar series, written by a wonderful Author named Mercedes Lackey, a shot. I find it to be a very good series, as well as its sequel and prequel series'. Also, the Belgariad and Mallorean series' by David Eddings is good too. That is, if you can manage to tolerate reading books. But then, I've enjoyed reading books since I was in school. So much in fact that I, ironically, failed English in my senior year.
Did you know that, back in the day, homework counted for 60% of your grade and they wouldn't pass you if you didn't do you homework but still made As on the tests?
How am i handling the loss? Two words, Not Good. Ever played Dynasty Warriors? I had a Goateeg. It now looks like Guan Yu's beard. I got drunk the other night wrapped a bed sheet around my neck and went to the bar wishing it was pocket D. I stood at a train station wondering why I couldn't find the train to Atlas. Every time i hear the word Positive it sounds like Positron and I cry. I go up to random people and ask if they want to form a league. Don't even get me started on what happens when I see an image or hear a sound bite from the game. I think the term is regression. I making strides, but it's not looking good.Dear Joshua,
The very best way to handle loss? Channel your sadness, anger and hurt into creativity.
Take those characters you made and draw, paint and write about them. Use them and expand them and make them grow, if the game returns soon - you can continue with new stories to tell.
http://secretworldchronicle.com/ (http://secretworldchronicle.com/)Frankentrain's creator is impatiently awaiting the next installment of Secret World Chronicles.
Free FREE FREE podcast series based on characters created in CoH. Also, if you prefer to buy the books, volumes 1 and 2 are out from Baen Books (a division of Simon and Schuster)
Secret World Chronicles: Book One: INVASION!
Secret World Chronicles: Book Two: World Divided
http://secretworldchronicle.com/ (http://secretworldchronicle.com/)Nifty and AWESOME SAUCE!!!!!!!!! Spreadin' the word! 8)
Free FREE FREE podcast series based on characters created in CoH. Also, if you prefer to buy the books, volumes 1 and 2 are out from Baen Books (a division of Simon and Schuster)
Secret World Chronicles: Book One: INVASION!
Secret World Chronicles: Book Two: World Divided
Dear TheDevilYouKnow, A very hardworking friend once reminded me "work to live, not live to work/" If I don't speak sedition or heresy, may i with respect for your process suggest letting more joy in? For me that's books, music and movies, silly card games with friends or just hanging out. Or adding a photography or art class (ungraded, just for fun), go or learn dancing, just something fun that you've never done before but have thought would be nifty, e.g. archery, tai chi, etc. etc. etc.
Thank you john for thinking of me I do appreciate it. I hadn't realized how much i actually missed CoH. I watched the City of Heroes Remains. It was beautiful and heart wrenching.
I didn't actually realize how narrow my world had become. I've had tough times before, I just didn't think losing CoH would trigger one.
But, I am trying. I'm involved in The Phoenix Project, which I do enjoy. I have started reading comics again I am trying to get the gray out. :)
But again, thanks for thinking of me. It helps restore my faith in the basic goodness that I believe exists in people.
Frankentrain's creator is impatiently awaiting the next installment of Secret World Chronicles.
She's actually taken to doing (gasp) work stuff at home. The Horror!!! :P
Guh! I miss flying so much. I'm starting to have dreams about my winged heroes now.
I may have to install CO or DCU just to survive. Madness! Somebody stop me.
I can create a character in CO about half the time. The rest of the time I get all the way through the process and get "Character creation failed" at the end. No explanation why. I'm not overly enthusiastic about creating new characters in CO anyway (due to feeling that they're all the same, unlike CoH where a new character really felt new), but that kills what little altitis I have.
Well, I'm having to spend so much time with work-related stuff that I don't have time to do much else, really, but I do miss City. I've even caught myself wanting to play through Oranbega again, of all places, and I hated those maps.
Sigh. :)
I would give up every other game in order to play the Orange Bagel and layercake cave maps again. And I hated them.
Y'know what pains me? Right now we'd have Bio Armor, Martial Combat and Sorcery. I so wanted to play those sets! Ugh! It's just so frustrating.
Tell me about it. I was just thinking LAST NIGHT of a character that used Martial Combat.
And I had a Titan Weapon/Bio Armor Brute (Yes, loosely based on Nightmare from Soul Calibur) on the Beta server that I didn't really get to play with. I would have loved to play him (or something similar) on the live servers, because I really liked what I saw of Bio Armor (especially the ability to only show certain parts of the armor; it was essentially another level of costume customization).
Such a horrible shame.
heh, your not the only one who made soul caliber replicates lol, i had a titan weapon toon on live using the fleshy axe and i made him look like astaroth lol, i didnt go with invuln secondary because titan weapons was a massive end hog so i used energy aura for the end drainI had an Electric Armor/Titan Weapon Tank on Infinity named Agent Atomic. He used the Atomic Mace, and was given the nickname of "baby rattle" by a friend I ran with.
The only 'kid' of mine that definitely was influenced by outside popular media, IIRC, was an homage to two Hong Kong action films: Mr. Vampire, and a more obscure film called '2002'. He was a gay, nominally Taoist-ish priest (but knew practices of other faiths - lots of them) who saw dead people. He was also a pretty good excuse for me to practice my abysmal Mandarin.Well, the characters I miss number in the dozens. There's Agent Standin, Arbiter Pinny, Arilou, Dark Dave, Emerald Radiant, Tanker Belle, Tan'Ker, Steel Point, Unit 452, Master E, Agent Electron, Cog Caster, Sasyk, Nano Crusader, Serenity Dark, Dark Anarchy, Captain Wrong (and his Wrongbots), and just about the entire roster of the Bouquet of Roses super group and Roses Gone Wild villain group.
He referred to himself as a 'concierge in the Green Room of the afterlife'. And he was a lot of fun. I miss him. And the rest of my brain-children.
I still feel like 'something' is missing from my life. There have been times when I could have really used 'heading into the City' to help my head and heart. It was that way for eight years....a place to celebrate, a place to vent, a place to be creative, a place to share with friends and a place to be a 'me' I could never be in real life. How long will I feel this way?
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I am, however, going to visit the local Humane Society today, to see about starting the process to adopt a cat.
Haven't you suffered enough?Only joking, but of course...
Not well. 2012 was a very bad year for me. It started off with my grandmother dying, my cat becoming extremely ill, and my husband going in for a two week stay at the hospital due to aspiration pneumonia, with all the attendant bills, some of which we're still paying. It ended with CoH being taken away, and me making the decision to put my cat down due to stomach cancer.I am truly sorry for the loss of your grandmother; may i offer condolences and a prayer for you and yours? It seems like 2012 was a difficult year for so many people.
This year hasn't been much better. Hubby is once again in the hospital for aspiration pneumonia, this time staying in for five weeks (so far). Mom-in-law is also in the hospital for a malady they can't pin down. Dad has been laid off his job at age 61. I've been dealing with a stubborn infection.
I very, very badly want to go home to Paragon, after all this. Hang out in Founders Falls with Trey, or Gemini Park with Parz. Go see Cape shows in Atlas Park. Heck, even run an old Posi TF, or (heavens help meh) Quaterfield.
I am, however, going to visit the local Humane Society today, to see about starting the process to adopt a cat. So that's a plus.
I am truly sorry for the loss of your grandmother; may i offer condolences and a prayer for you and yours? It seems like 2012 was a difficult year for so many people.
Johnrobey is a class act. He offered me kind words when I need them. I regret never getting to play with him when our game was active.I agree. He is a class act. An example many people could do well to follow. I'm not saying anyone here is a horrible person...just that he's a good example of the way this CoH community should be.
I also agree that JR is a wonderful person. Though I have never met him, I'd consider it an honor to be among his friends.Hugs, Healix! I think we're all friends on Titan - i mean I feel we're all friends on Titan
JR!I'm so silly, Healix! I love our interconnected posts: Here's your hug reflected in song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegRh8Z4H-o
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Wow...and I AM an Aquarian! (Jan. 22nd!!!)Well now how is that for Mystical! (My dear friend Maureen's favorite word)
Hello everyone, I'm Scott. I'm new here to the Titan Forums
*waves* Howdy! Welcome to the*thank you for the gift of teas that just arrived* How ever did you know? ;) *munches absently on a few nuts; today i like almonds* Thanks SG Titans for the love; i think i must have (and do) really need it - things are as they say "medically interesting" for me at the present moment, tho not life-threatening merely "interesting" - and yeah i have actual diagnoses and even medications for some of it. Thus far 52 has been an interesting year that included a 3-month of warning then watching a world end; so my diversion after CoH sunset has been thinking about the environment(s) on our one shared planet and how it might all somehow be better - hence the meds for helping me think not too much. If i were more advanced in Meditation i might not even need any meds - seriously one MSW i knew thought in the future all medicine/medical assistance would involve a "prescription" meditation referred to by the Buddhists as mindfulness tho in the West i think we just call this simple "consideration"; and meditation, per se, (per a Satguru from India) is merely what one chooses to pay attention to; e.g. watching television is a meditation, even tho the western mind often doesn't think of it this way. Anyhow for physiological reasons i might have the attention span at times of a fruitfly--but no worries, i have followup appointments with pro's next week. Like the one wise lady said once "Compassion is the answer to everything." (Apologies if i am quoting V.V. out of context 'cause i think remember that a theme in more than one of her novels.) My interpretation may be off and/or i may be misremembering but that was the message i got when reading Magic's Price and Magic's Pawn. Let me shamelessly (meaning without fear) plug one of our great(est) leaders here on Titan: http://www.mercedeslackey.com/biblio_series.html http://www.mercedeslackey.com/ I really recommend her novels highly; the work(s) of her artist-husband Larry Dixon, and i Thank TITAN NETWORK and TonyV for introduction to Rae, the Quinch, all of Team Wildcard, and each and all of you amazing people! What the children and adults of all ages have been able to accomplish truly amaze me. I'm currently meditating/contemplating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FXv7Da0ueso with renewed respects and best regards to Samuraiko/Michelle T./D_R As per the homosexual agenda i'm enjoined to "Be *FABULOUS*" Man, i hope i am up to the task. Have a super day!!nuthouseforums :D
Also, there's a lovetrain for JR? I'll hop on! I barely know the guy and I like him.
*emails johnrobey a lovely gift basket of flavored teas*
Please feel free, dear Moderator, if I am posting too much and/or duplicating what's been said before. Thank you for your moderation. :)
(https://i.imgur.com/KRxeTOW.jpg)First, fellow Titans, a heartfelt Thank You from my limbic system! <3 (my attempt at a heart graphic - which reminds me of a young child's drawing that might be a horse or a dog or a cow, but clearly has 4 limbs, a head and a tail *wink*)
Hello everyone, I'm Scott. I'm new here to the Titan Forums; though I've played City of Heroes since the later part of the Beta Testing in February 2004, and I was there until the end. Alot of people knew me as IceCicle, Aeon, Icarian, along with other alts. As for what I've been doing since the end of CoH (other than play CO & STO) is work on a project that I've discussed with some as a way to keep our characters alive (outside CoH Cannon). And very soon, hopefully in the coming week, I will be ready to unveil what it is. I hope it is something that many of you will not only enjoy, but may want to participate in.Welcome, Scott. Very much looking forward to the project you'll be unveiling here on Titan. Consider yourself caught up, and just dive in. ;)
I'm sorry I haven't visited here sooner. I have alot of catching up to do as far as the Community here goes. But in doing so, I hope I can offer something that will be enjoyed by many.
Take care everyone. See you soon!
Johnrobey is a class act. He offered me kind words when I need them. I regret never getting to play with him when our game was active.ahh, Perfidus, no worries! We get to play right here on Titan Network forums: http://www.tubegle.com/great-big-sea-most-recent-folk-rock-videos/ Sea of No Cares by the Great Big Sea. This isn't the version I used to have on cassette audio tape that Winona made for me sometime during the mid-1990s.
I agree. He is a class act. An example many people could do well to follow. I'm not saying anyone here is a horrible person...just that he's a good example of the way this CoH community should be.Know that whatever you perceive in my persona as a "good example" is something you yourself either are or can be. At worst, you simply haven't discovered yet your own Inner Strength (tho I thank City of Heroes for teaching Heroism and Teamwork so well!)
I also agree that JR is a wonderful person. Though I have never met him, I'd consider it an honor to be among his friends.It's far too late, Healix. I've considered you a True Friend since the first day we met here on Titan Network forums.
http://www.tubegle.com/great-big-sea-most-recent-folk-rock-videos/ Sea of No Cares by the Great Big Sea. This isn't the version I used to have on cassette audio tape that Winona made for me sometime during the mid-1990s.
Point being, games come and go; life has a lot of interesting avenues to explore; yet even years later, true friends pick up right where they left off as if there'd been no interruption. GAME ON!You are so right about that.
Duuuuude. It's always weird when someone who's not from here mentions liking those guys. It still feels like no-one off the island has ever heard of them hehe. Good taste you've got there though, Great Big Sea rocks! :DGreat Big Sea does indeed rock!!! I love that entire album!!!! The first song of their I ever heard was "The Chemical Worker's Song" which still takes my breath away for its lyrical poignancy as well as their acoustic artistry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAxujKev1I
To quote my friend, Kate, "Sure I have good taste. I have lots of other taste too!"
Modified to add P.S. Triplash, i forgot to ask which island?
And yes, as a 38 year old, I still find it strange that I miss a game and community so much.Eight years is a long for time, almost one fourth of your life the game's been a part of it - so it's not that strange! :)
Holy cow! I have been to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia!
In fact some of my SCA friends formed the Northpack of House Ironwolf in Nova Scotia!
http://tyson1.com/northpack/
I love it up thar!
I have not given up - I have contacted 2 groups of developers here in Michigan but have not heard back yet and in fact I doubted that they would reply but it won't stop me from trying.CoH: Youth League? ;D
I have a few more I will talk to and I have decided to also start building my own kid friendly game based on CoH loosely. I want the same gameplay but with different ways to earn experience. I want to be able to have experience earned by badging! Yes, I want kids to earn XP by exploring the world!
I want to also add in some math and science along with history all bundled into a game written so a 10-12 year old can learn as they play without being aware of it.
I have not given up - I have contacted 2 groups of developers here in Michigan but have not heard back yet and in fact I doubted that they would reply but it won't stop me from trying.
I have a few more I will talk to and I have decided to also start building my own kid friendly game based on CoH loosely. I want the same gameplay but with different ways to earn experience. I want to be able to have experience earned by badging! Yes, I want kids to earn XP by exploring the world!
I want to also add in some math and science along with history all bundled into a game written so a 10-12 year old can learn as they play without being aware of it.
I have decided to also start building my own kid friendly game based on CoH loosely. I want the same gameplay but with different ways to earn experience. I want to be able to have experience earned by badging! Yes, I want kids to earn XP by exploring the world!
I want to also add in some math and science along with history all bundled into a game written so a 10-12 year old can learn as they play without being aware of it.
I have not given up - I have contacted 2 groups of developers here in Michigan but have not heard back yet and in fact I doubted that they would reply but it won't stop me from trying.
I have a few more I will talk to and I have decided to also start building my own kid friendly game based on CoH loosely. I want the same gameplay but with different ways to earn experience. I want to be able to have experience earned by badging! Yes, I want kids to earn XP by exploring the world!
I want to also add in some math and science along with history all bundled into a game written so a 10-12 year old can learn as they play without being aware of it.
I'm envisioning a sort of cross between Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and National Treasure, where you roam around the world chasing down villains to retrieve the artifacts they stole and stop their dastardly plots. You'd use math to solve puzzles in ancient temples, science to shut down their evil genius inventions, and you'd track them down by researching history, geography, and local plants and animals to figure out the clues they left behind.
Oooh, now I wanna play it :P
Ha, I love it! :D
Why I'm only from the grandest, most beautiful island around, lad: Newfoundland. It's a dirty big rock sitting off the East coast of Canada. Oddly enough we call it "The Rock". :P And if you believe our local TV station's callsign, we're also "The Tip of Atlantis". (I'm... skeptical on that one myself, but you never know!)
Well, i don't know about Altantis but hey it's possible; in any event living that close to/on the Atlantic Ocean must feel amazing!
Newfoundland sounds beautiful - and only on youtube did i find comments talking about newfie culture - i guess it's like folk music; just find all that stuff so charming. Well, i don't know about Altantis but hey it's possible; in any event living that close to/on the Atlantic Ocean must feel amazing! I just imagine the cool sea breezes and how the ocean air must smell and taste. I bet it's fun watching flocks of sea gulls take flight in the sky perhaps while walking a rocky beach. BTW, glad you got a chuckle also out of Kate's saying. :)
Hmm, misread that at first... saw it as "Altlantis", which would have been a nice name if CoX had ever added an undersea area... ;D
Ha, I love it! :D
Why I'm only from the grandest, most beautiful island around, lad: Newfoundland. It's a dirty big rock sitting off the East coast of Canada. Oddly enough we call it "The Rock". :P And if you believe our local TV station's callsign, we're also "The Tip of Atlantis". (I'm... skeptical on that one myself, but you never know!)
My wife is a Newfie, so I got to spend a lot of time there. :)
What's black and blue and swims in the ocean?
A mainlander that makes Newfie jokes.
Actually, the Newfies export the jokes to the mainland. It's when they invite you on a fishing trip that you should be worried....
Nono. You should worry when we tell you you're getting "Screeched In". We get you blitzed on apaint thinnerspecial whiskey we call "screech" and make you kiss a raw fish.
I felt this way when I heard we were losing our game...I still feel the loss.One of the most heart-breaking lines in one of the most heart-breaking scenes in the series.
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The other day a friend asked me what I wanted to play... and it hit me all over again. I miss City of Heroes so much, it has been such an epic game and it's hard to believe it's gone.Did you tell your friend that you wanted to play City of Heroes?
I felt this way when I heard we were losing our game...I still feel the loss.
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Here is an interesting article about the strong attachments people can form for nonhuman objects:
http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/thats-not-a-droid-thats-my-girlfriend/560/
This certainly rings true for me, since I feel about losing my characters much as I would feel about losing my RL best friend. I feel naked without them. Something that I cherished is gone from my life.
ps I want Geminoid F 8)
In a way, those characters you created are facets of you. Somewhere in your psyche lurks those personalities that you created. Which, is why I say that I have way too many voices in my head. Not only do I have dozens of Heroes that I had created in CoH/V/P, I have dozens of characters that I've created for other RPGs both PnP and MMO. I would say that I have, literally, hundreds of characters floating somewhere in my head. NCSoft took away the platform in which I could interact with a good portion of those characters. So, it's like they locked away a part of me. That, is probably what a lot of people are feeling now days. And, that's why a lot of people are a little irritated with NCSoft. (understatement of the century :o )
This certainly rings true for me, since I feel about losing my characters much as I would feel about losing my RL best friend. I feel naked without them. Something that I cherished is gone from my life.
In a way, those characters you created are facets of you. Somewhere in your psyche lurks those personalities that you created. Which, is why I say that I have way too many voices in my head. Not only do I have dozens of Heroes that I had created in CoH/V/P, I have dozens of characters that I've created for other RPGs both PnP and MMO. I would say that I have, literally, hundreds of characters floating somewhere in my head. NCSoft took away the platform in which I could interact with a good portion of those characters...
Speaking as a computational intelligence expert, I don't think we'll actually see independent A.I. Whether or not it's possible is beside the point; the way I think we'll wind up advancing our technology, we'll have our brains neurally interfacing with computers, using ALUs and CPUs and GPUs as direct aids to our own thinking capacity and learning to control our computers and machinery much as we do our own bodies.
There will be intelligence in our machines, but it won't be artificial. It will be us, integrating our tools under the control of our minds just as surely as are our bodies.
Speaking as a computational intelligence expert, I don't think we'll actually see independent A.I. Whether or not it's possible is beside the point; the way I think we'll wind up advancing our technology, we'll have our brains neurally interfacing with computers, using ALUs and CPUs and GPUs as direct aids to our own thinking capacity and learning to control our computers and machinery much as we do our own bodies.
There will be intelligence in our machines, but it won't be artificial. It will be us, integrating our tools under the control of our minds just as surely as are our bodies.
Okay, I found this site and registered.. glad to see I'm not the only one.
I felt a little loss when the game shut down.. didn't think it would really bother me in that I wasn't playing as often these days.
But I actually got pretty sad when I parked my little Taxibot on top of Wincott's car one last time before my final logout.
Lots of fun and memories, and hard work put into those toons. So stupid that I was feeling melancholy over some pixels.
So I shook it off, dusted off WoW.. hated it. Went to SWTOR, made a 50 and got bored..
GW2.. fun but not the same.
Then it hit me, it wasn't ever so much the game. It was the people and the freedom that game offered.
It's pretty sad and pathetic really. I do have a real life.. but at the end of the day I want to sit down and relax. CoX was how I did that.
I really miss this game, and I'm not finding another game that fills that void. It really sucks, I want CoX back. I really missed playing with all of you. :'(
WALL OF TEXT which I know means most people won't read, but I'm writing more for myself than for you, so skip it if you don't like reading.
Contrary to Nyx, I Do have an unfilled void in my life now. I can remember many, many years ago seeing CoH advertised and thinking how cool that would be, but paying to play a game has always been against my better judgment as money is hard to come by and shouldn't be wasted on non essentials. If I had only known then... It wasn't until I saw in an online community mention of CoH being free to play that I dived in. And it was that... nothing near my normal toe testing the waters and checking the deep end first (Jaws). Within a week I was paying to play. And I don't know how to express what a huge deal that is for me, so please do your courtesy gawking here. Thanks, looks believable, I can see you understand what I'm saying.
Some people here mention how they feel silly crying over pixels. Take heart that you weren't telling everyone in your real life that you could now fly when you first started playing CoH, because that's exactly what I did. I didn't care about the looks or what people might think, because now I had to maintain my secret identity and be mild mannered, so of course they wouldn't believe me when I said I can fly now!
It was eleven months that I got to play. I'm a solo guy, and was very cautious of other people in game due to the stories I'd heard about the WoW community. But as luck would have it, and as we all know, the CoX community is amazing. After the first month I had some really fun people to dork around with and that's when I met some of the experts. And not just normal experts. Specifically my teacher, with the toons that when new people teamed with us they would all stand there in awe as Malta and Freaks and the rest were instantly annihilated without mercy, all while the toon was looking exceptionally fabulous! It was like an off screen cue card holder was giving the new to the team people their lines because it was always the same thing: "Holy Sh*t!"
Oddly enough, my main teacher is the worst at communicating. One person, understanding what I was talking about, said you have to learn the language to communicate with him. For a long time I thought maybe he just hated me! He didn't. I just hadn't learned his language yet.
Despite the many people that I played with who had what I call Supertoons, he still had a unique-to-most play style. I watched him do it for weeks without understanding it, but when he finally explained it made so much sense. Though some of his toons just devastated mobs before anyone else could get there, the same principle was used in teaming. What his teachers had taught him and he knew for himself was that tanks are for aggro, so the tank runs around and gathers while everyone else watches from a distance. Then, when the tank stops moving he's out of the line of sight of the foes so even ranged guys come in and he is mobbed, the team moves in and AoE's them all in seconds, and then it's on to the next area. Once I understood what I was seeing because it was explained to me, it was so obvious! After that going back to the normal team experience of simultaneous multiple one on one combats of team members and foes all spread out just seemed tedious and silly and looked so messy! I just can't get over the differences in the two play styles. And yes, many of you know this, but so many really good players just never did this and it's really night oranges and day apples different. This was when I finally understood why he didn't explain to new-to-team players what was going on. His thought was people should pick it up from observation. Mine was, like me, explain it so we're all on the same page, so I became the narrator usually. We learned a lot from each other and I am happy to say we still email occasionally, usually about what game doesn't stand up to our expectations in our search for the next MMO.
I say it's odd that he's so bad about communicating because when I first met him, we spent several hours standing in Wentworths as he patiently explained the whole thing to me. This is when the game finally started to make a bit of sense to me. I still couldn't build a toon, but I knew what things were now and what my goals would be.
I grew up on Marvel Comics. I'm lost in that world and don't want to be found. All I wanted to do when I first saw CoH was be a hero and fly. I had no idea how complicated MMO's were and was not at all prepared. I was overwhelmed and a not too bright noob and this guy just wasted his time, hours of it, to help me out. Through him I met other "Supers" and finally got one of them to map out a MIDS build for a tank I'd started playing as Dual Blades/Fire. I know. Many will think I should have made it on my own. But for me, true understanding of the system came from referencing that build and branching off from the guidelines I pieced together every time some one spit out a pearl of wisdom which I would copy, paste, and save for later reference. I never actually simulated the build that was given to me entirely, I was a bit scattered with my many toons. But I managed to keep what I liked while doing what I would have never done but was guided to do, and wound up with a, though Fire specific, Supertoon! My bread winner to support my bad habit of blasters and too many other toons. My teacher helped me with my next one, a "world tank" rather than a fire specific so I could play more freely I guess. He helped me as I leveled him up. It was a different experience than the first one because it was easy for him to understand the builds in his head, whereas I need a map to reference over and over. So I had pages and pages of notes! The end result, though I still needed to get all the recipes and slot him properly, was a very fun Axe/Shield tank. Now I could play and not get killed All the time. My first three toons were blasters, still my favorite type, and tanking would have been my last choice. But City of Hospitals was not as fun for me as a blaster, so they were moved to the back for a while during my education. Later I was able to play them more properly using what I'd learned about building toons and playing the game. And nicely enough, I found out tanking is fun too.
That site where I found out CoH was free to play; I had 100+ avatars. Characters of my own creation, favorite characters from more obscure sci-fi books, and some other sources. All very real in my mind. I've not been able to go back and enjoy that site still. It holds no appeal to me, as was the case for a while before I left.
At CoH, when I found I could have toons on each server, I started populating other servers since Victory was full. In eleven months I had 44 active established toons, and 25 or so more waiting for power set purchases or me to just have the time to start them up. I was really looking forward to one of my early original toons getting to be a Beast Master/Nature's Affinity mastermind! It was the perfect set choices for his look and story. The character creator was frustrating to me because of it's limitations. (Yes, I know what you're thinking. This is how I am. Imagine what I'm going through now without CoH!)
I spent hours making my first toon. Many hours. I was quite happy with him. I changed boots and gloves after a month or so. That was all. He got duplicated with different power sets on other servers a couple of times with Circle Of Thorns costume pieces, but he basically only had minor changes.
I was passing through Ouoroboros once. One of my favorite spots. Most of my toons are there still, as I decided it was the most appropriate place to say goodbye to them. Anyway, I noticed a cool looking toon and complimented him on it. The guy thanked me for the comment and then proceeded to tell me he had seen me around for a while and his toon was inspired by mine. Wow! That was the best compliment I've ever gotten! Good way to make it on to my friends list!
All of my toons were the same way in that I never had any use for costume slots because I spent hours, days, weeks, and more getting them just right for my tastes. Once I had them done, there wasn't ever any improvement I could find to make on them. I experienced a humble pride every time someone would stop to compliment me on one of my toons or their names, which was a semi-regular occurrence. Several times the compliment would come after many missions with a person then out of nowhere they would say something. Perhaps that's what people do, but for me, I don't say something to someone unless I consider it exceptional and genuinely feel what I'm saying. Similarly, I only used SG Bases for my toons on a server. The design was a simple four rooms all for storage and crafting, purely for function only. It surprised me every time someone came into my base and despite all the bases out there and all the people that have made them I would still be told my approach was cool and unique and had never occurred to them. Then I'd bake them brownies!
As it turns out, for the original characters I made that were new to me rather than already existing in my mind, the hours spent in creation provided the time and inspiration for names, origin stories, character development (duh - but you know what I mean) and so on. In other words, the process of creating was usually accompanied by watching these people develop as real-in-my-mind people. So on one hand I'm creating, and on the other I'm actually viewing it happening as a spectator who is removed from it. If that makes sense.
Well, it makes sense to me, and not long ago, it occurred to me that this is the key to why CoH is missed. I'm sure many have already figured this out, and I know what I disliked most about NoCompassionSoft taking our world away was taking my toons from me, but maybe I've rediscovered this. Yes, I miss my friends. In such a short time I met so many wonderful people and I wish them all well and think of them often. Yes, I miss Ouro, and the Shard, and Talos Island. But what I've realized is more than anything I miss my heros. Not Stan's Spidey or Moon Knight or Superman. MY heroes. Mine. I never cared that I was doing the same missions over and over so much because what was really going on was I was spending time with my heroes who are real to me in a world where our realities juxtaposed.
To me, This is why I miss CoH. To me, this is what the secret of CoH's appeal is and what motivated the community to such (in my limited knowledge) great efforts and response to our loss. This is what I will have to have from any game I choose to pay for in the future. And since most games don't have that, well, I'm back to not spending money on some computer game.
It was worth it though. The escape from daily life and all the crap that I've got going on. The perfect way to wind down and relax and not worry. I can't tell you how therapeutic soloing the Fire Cave in AE was for me. A nice thrill to have the patrols flood around me and my hero. Would we survive!?! It was a thrill every time. And that was a good way to give back to my friends who helped me make my Supertoon, by pl'ing their new toons left at the door while they went to sleep for the night, and of course it was fun if they wanted to join in too.
So how am I handling the loss? The way I handle most of the reality based things that make me sad. Escapism. I've caught up on my movies and videos. Currently working my way through seven seasons of Mystery Science 3000, along with other stuff. I've finished a couple of Nintendo games I have here. Most of my time recently has been me populating a galaxy in my offline version of Spore. Not too many complaints about that character creator! Heaven would be combining CoH and Spore qualities into the same creator! Oh to dream. But Spore is entertaining though a bit monotonous. And I do a bit of writing! See! Another reason you wish CoH was still around, because I'd be there instead of writing all of this!
Online? Unfortunately, everything gets compared to CoH. I've tried Champions Online and the creator is fun, as long as you don't mind comic book graphics that make it harder to see a real hero, being limited to the base line of costumes if you're not going to buy the one's you want, and a human face that is just off no matter what I do to it. I think it's the mouth and jaw. I'm free to play there, so only have two toons. I guess a good way to put it is they are both still below level 15. I've designed many toons, but even with a life time membership I think you're limited to 8 toons? Likely you can buy more I guess. I won't be buying 50+ more though. And I liked having that freedom of still being able to make plenty more heroes that CoH offered. One friend there had over 100 toons. He used the costume slots as well! That's a lot of creating!
I'm still solo at CO. Actually the first my first community experience there was a person who sent me a team invite out of the blue. I was involved in an area event at the time so figured he was there somewhere too. He never said anything to me, and I was busy with the mission so didn't have time to chat, then a few minutes later all I got was, "Fool," and he was gone. Not the best first impressions for me, a guy who already feels stupid in most computer games of any type, even at an experienced level. I've teamed with a few others. It's nice because it makes me remember my good teaming experiences on CoH. I've tried to connect with the CoH community there, but not hard enough I guess. I do like that there's all kinds of different toons. It's fun to watch them. I wish the graphics were better though. The main things for me are the graphics. I'm kind of attached to the CoH appearance, rather than looking like a two dimensional character moving about in a comic book, which is what CO is to me. And my lack of understanding the game mechanics and systems. I need my patient teachers who are natural experts. So I'm just not inspired to pay to play. Not like I was with CoH. CoH got me paying just on the game alone, before I knew anyone there. You create and you play, level to four and Fly! I wonder if that would be different if I'd not experienced CoH first? I guess I should play it properly, since it's the genre I want and I won't be doing DCUO!
An email told me that now Tera was the game of choice, so I looked into that. It's ok. No wings and I can't fly and standard creators with limited avatar selection and what looks like yet another system to learn. Really after almost a year of having my hand held in CoH I was only just starting to gain any comprehension of what to do. Maybe in a few years I'd be really good at building and slotting a CoH toon. A more recent email seems to show that Tera has failed the test! Ha! I never even found them on there! It's ok for what it is I guess, but I won't pay for it.
Found out about Marvel Heros Beta testing somewhere and signed up for that, and the fools let me in! At least it's Marvel Heroes and has that potential. The story is enjoyable, and my limited experience is pleasant so far, all beta issues aside. However, it fails for me. I know these heroes. Most of them aren't my preference. I usually wound up liking the more obscure characters. Meaning they are less likely to be made into playable characters in the future. And I'm really glad I've not heard, "just like Diablo" for a while because it was getting really annoying and it holds absolutely no meaning for me, having never experienced Diablo, and I'm not really wanting to now. My main issue is obvious I'm sure. And made worse because in a video they addressed the question at a presentation at a NYC comic convention. No creatable characters. Their reasoning: they showed a picture of a guy with three forks taped on one hand and three butter knives taped on the other and said because no one wants to see knife and fork Wolverine. (Immediately part of my mind was thinking, would I make that if I could?) Come on. Really, what kind of stupid lame excuse is that!?! It's the kind of lame excuse, my mind answers, that someone who wants to avoid the question would give! I'm looking at these guys thinking they have a chance at something great here, and they're missing it completely! Kind of like if Coke goes out of business and they start selling fruit drinks. Their second excuse: Loosely quoted - "because seeing nine Iron Mans running around blasting bad guys is 'kind of cool!'" Ugh! No. No Marvel Heroes. No it isn't. It's bloody confusing and bland and lame and weak and AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! And, what they call flying is not flying. I typed that loudly and will leave it at that (except that they seem to think it's out of this world). Good points. Cut scenes have voice overs for weak but passable static comic book pictures. Heroes have voiced comments that cue on proximitiy to specific other heroes or specific situations like leveling or finding a medal or standing idle. I really never understood how CoH could have missed out on having these basics. No one knows, but I used to do my own voice overs for the CoH cut scenes!
Marvel Heroes is fine for the standard player that has a limited imagination and has never known or wanted more. Then again, the majority of the populations don't like to do their own thinking do they? I don't mind too much the awkward point of perspective, but I do mind not being able to get a first person perspective. The game is challenging at times but at the same time manageable for a bad player like me. Sadly, the best part of the game is it is/will be free to play. This is good because I won't be paying to play it. Too bad for me that I will not be spending money to get a specific character to play. The game isn't that good. It goes back to wasting money on frugal things. The fact that I won't be buying a character I like will mean I'll probably not be playing it so much as I might. I think the sole drive that will keep this game interesting to people who want to pay for it will be in putting out new playable heroes. Though it is really nice to recognize places, characters, and things one may know from knowledge of the Marvel universes, I don't see that it has a long life expectancy.
So I'm here on Titan again. Trying to find a spark of hope that the two projects by players-for players to make a (better than) CoX is really going to happen, and will it happen before I die?
I'm like Starship above me here. I could have posted with just his final two paragraphs and left it at that. Only I express a lot. My sense of loss is profound and I got very sad, and angry, and so on and I still deal with these reactions months later now.
I don't feel that Starship or I or anyone was stupid to feel our emotions because in our reality these characters did exist as our selves, our friends, our companions, and our heroes.
I'll never knowingly help NoCompassionSoft with any support from my wallet or opinions. I'll actually go out of my way to denounce them if I get the chance and anyone cares to listen. Their track record is warning enough given what is on wiki about them, and their blatant disregard for their customers solidifies my resolve in this. I won't even look at GW2 for free to play. I'm ok with cutting off my nose to spite my face here if that's what I'm doing. It's challenging for me to dislike something that I want to hate instead. I try to avoid hating. It's a lot of effort to not write to NoCompassionSoft and tell them what I really think about them for doing this, foul language included.
I'd pay twice as much and more to be able to keep playing CoH. My friends say they understand that I miss the game. They watched me experience it and had to sit through me blabbing on about it. I trust them when they say they have an idea of how important CoH has been to me. My personal life is full of crap. CoH quickly became my therapeutic escape.
I miss my friends. I miss teaming. I miss the community. I miss mauling Sappers with vengeance. I miss laughing every single time I jumped off the edge of the platform at Ouroboros to free fall and land in the pool! I did that a lot! I miss the game itself. And yes, I miss my heroes. I don't miss it any less than I did before. I want it back. Now.
I'm still waiting and watching. I haven't forgotten. I'll be there to beta test our new home if they'll have me for that. Please, anyone with anything they think I should be aware of in regards to this quote me or message me some how if possible so I can know where to watch.
This is good stuff.
I actually read it all. Long text dont bother me. Hell, I have to read stuff ten times as long in an hour for class so this is really short to me. To some, anything over three or four lines thye get bored. I guess not everyone like reading but I like that opening line where off the top it is known it is long but ya writing it for more yourself than for everyone else. Kind of kills the moans and groans from people saying "It's too long for me." "It was too many words for me. "It took too long to read for me." "you're supposed to keep the reader in mind, which is me." and such.
Glad you had good time and good people you came across in COX. Not sure what was up with that "fool" guy in CO. Sounds liek a pogue having a bad day or something, but I noticed something over there in CO even with ex-COX players. Not much team chatter going on, but lot of complaints about lack of team chatter. ??? I dont get it. I tried talking on teams, usually end up with one word answers if any at all. Keep in mind this is just normal team. One guy was complaining in team chat for at least the past 15 minutes about how no one talks in CO and no one is friendly and how in COX, people always talked to each other and such. So we in COX channel got on a mission team, something I rarely do in the first place, and just decided to do mission with social stuff in mind. No rush. This guy was more than clammed up than a glues up oyster. Between me and a couple of the other guys, we tried every angle to start a convo with this guy but ironically he wasnt interested it seemed. Reason why people dont talk much on teams is because people dont talk on teams. Just as easy as it's form a team, sometimes somethign as simple as "what's up" Or "LEEEEEEEEEEERRRROY Jenkins" can get some semblence of conversation started. If it's quiet on a team, it's easy to say anything. Smash alerts, understandable, 2 minutes, not much time for talking but not much excuse for other times especially when a few other team mates are being social. Or that guy just needed something to vent about and that was an easy subject to vent about that he figured no one was going to test out.
That is the main thing I liked about COX and like about CO. Customization. Although I heard Marvel is a cool game, I'm not comic book fan. I'm a creative fan. Meaning, I dont care to play Spiderman, or Wolverine along with the tons of spiderman and wolverines with a Hulk thrown in there every now and then. I like playing Heat Linger, Ace McGrain the street fighter, Dozen Minds, Toasty, and etc.
With CO, I got one or two slots each level 40. The first 40 I got two new slots each one after that was one extra slot. I heard there is no limit but unlike COX where the slots are there already, just about, you unlock them beyond the first 8 by getting 40s. Which can be good or bad depending on the purpose. A serial alter will run out of slots quick while a person who makes a toon level them to 40 and then start a new one will never feel lack of space.
Overall you would think gamers would be more humbler towards new players as one point in time they all were bumbling newbies that didnt know their sword from their armor, that is unless they were born with the entire game of WoW, COX, CO, DCUO, and etc implanted in their brain from birth, then they had to learn it either on their own or from someone else.
, but I admit it's more the fact I need to open up more and take an initiative. When no one wants to lead, someone has to stand up, or everyone will just stay in their own caves.
Go ahead, you won't need it.Thanks. :D
while i still long for coh, im not so much sad anymore as i am extremely bitter and angry at ncsoft, they have burned their bridges and given me a good reason to hold a grudge against them until such a time as they release the game, even if they release it i cant say that i wont ever forget what they did and not be angry at them
in the meantime though im basically going through my massive list of steam games to try new things, cant really get into any mmos though as all of them are disappointing to me and just dont fit my playstyle
Thunder Glove, I too have gravitated to LoL. I think because it is easy, and I am not emotionally invested. With CoH I was... with every single toon I had... Interesting point...
at times I still feel......................
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It also makes me realize that part of the reason I liked CoH so much is that not only did any team combination and powerset combination work, it also didn't require you to be a master strategist to win every single fight.This. Gone were the days of WoW where you had to get a tank and a healer...even in the days after the dungeon finder it was pretty annoying.
I want CoH back. More and more every day.
This. Gone were the days of WoW where you had to get a tank and a healer...even in the days after the dungeon finder it was pretty annoying.
I remember going through some missions with my katana/willpower scrapper Serkana and one of my friends with an invulnerability tanker. We were facing the Lost, so he was pretty much resistant to everything BUT Psionic attacks, but as I had Willpower I was immune to most of it. So the two of us cleared out some missions with the difficulty raised with him tanking and myself off tanking when he would wipe (due to psi attacks). In what other game can I have a character that can DPS and Off-tank long enough for the tank to rez and come back? Also, I would be having fun the entire time and not have a lick of frustration.
Man...Other MMOs just do not even come close to CoH in so many regards. :-\
This. Gone were the days of WoW where you had to get a tank and a healer...even in the days after the dungeon finder it was pretty annoying.
I remember going through some missions with my katana/willpower scrapper Serkana and one of my friends with an invulnerability tanker. We were facing the Lost, so he was pretty much resistant to everything BUT Psionic attacks, but as I had Willpower I was immune to most of it. So the two of us cleared out some missions with the difficulty raised with him tanking and myself off tanking when he would wipe (due to psi attacks). In what other game can I have a character that can DPS and Off-tank long enough for the tank to rez and come back? Also, I would be having fun the entire time and not have a lick of frustration.
Man...Other MMOs just do not even come close to CoH in so many regards. :-\
Well, this kinda sneaked up on me, though I should have seen it coming.I know how you feel. Superhero movies and TV series have been my (oh so poor) replacement for CoH. I have lost count how many times I have watched IM1 & 2, Thor, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, Green Lantern (both animated and live action), The Justice League, Sky Captain and the world of Tomorrow, etc.
Saw (and enjoyed) IM3 today, and tonight the loss of CoX is hitting me harder than ever. I never thought about it before, but for the past 8 years after any superhero movie I always came home and played my own heroes (or villains).
Tonight it feels like a gaping wound. :(
And 'you' doesn't just mean you, Natalia. It means every poster on this board. I'm very sorry I didn't get to know some of you before the game was taken from us all.
Hello All. I want to start this post by saying that I miss each and every one of you. Granted I did not know each of you personally, but I am sure I saw you somewhere in our homeland of COX.
Well, this kinda sneaked up on me, though I should have seen it coming.
Saw (and enjoyed) IM3 today, and tonight the loss of CoX is hitting me harder than ever. I never thought about it before, but for the past 8 years after any superhero movie I always came home and played my own heroes (or villains).
Tonight it feels like a gaping wound. :(
I had such a detailed CoX dream the other night that I was devastated when I woke up. Dreamed I was teaming with new people on missions similar to those we all did in Peregrine and getting to know the other players in game chat. That's what made us so different, that's what keeps going thru my mind- our community. Lord I miss that.
Trying to salve some of the loss by reading VV's "Secret World Chronicles", Peter Clines' "Ex-Heroes" and Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One." All good reads. Enjoy the characters and plot-lines but just can't grab that feeling of interaction we shared in-game.
::insert heavy sigh here::
you might also give Wearing the cape (http://wearingthecape.com/) a try. It's not too bad a read, from the little of it I've experienced.
There is not a single day goes by that I do not think of COH. I find it hard to believe just how impacting a game could/can be. When my stress level soars due to work/family, whatever, I just want to log into the game and lose myself for a while. The game actually kept my blood pressure in line. (I wonder if I could sue NCsoft for causing my BP to increase? lol) Anyway, I so much miss every aspect of the game that it still hurts. I just hope that some day we can all re-unite in Atlas Park or Genesis or Alpha city or whatever it may be called and once again feel the lure of COH. I hope next time whomever has the game understands the impact that such a game can and does have on the community. I miss you all!
nataliaofvirtues, you put in words what my heart feels. Nobody understands this better than this community. CoH will never be 'just a game' to us.
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Supergroup day was two days ago. On Saturday, we wear yellow.
but she's on a laptop, and it's mouse-heavy
Well, it's not that she can't hook one to her laptop; it's that she doesn't have the space, really. We used to play City of Heroes in my room (I'm desktop; she's laptop), which meant she was usually sprawled out on my waterbed playing with her computer on a portable desk thingy. Thus, no room for a mouse. :(
Either she'd have to go in the dining room and play in there at the table, or she plays alone at a coffee shop, or there's no Marvel for her, basically.
Ahhh. Yeah I didn't figure you'd have missed that she could use one. What can I say? I was still very sleepy-headed when I said that, hehe ;D
Still though, sucky space issues are sucky. Maybe it's time to start thinking outside the box. Is there something nearby she can rest the laptop on while using the desk thingy for the mouse? You might not use that setup all the time, but it could be better than not having a mouse as an option at all. *shrugs*
I told her we could "go ghetto" on it. Use the green laptop desk thing I've got that she's been using, and set my work briefcase next to her on the bed for the mouse. :)
Now we just have to get around the HUMONGOZOID patch downloads for the game. . . .
I have not missed CoH more than in the last week or so.
And I realized last night when I thought about what I was going to do on the way home from work today that I'm still planning around the need to get home and eat dinner before the Wednesday evening Hamidon raid on Guardian...
I'm Still StandingFunnily enough, my most advanced character in CoX is a Warshade named Agent Standin. He was initially supposed to the the fill-in member for the team on Agent night, if one of the others couldn't make it. Also, he was the back-up Tank. His full name is Stil Standin. He's the Stand-in Agent who is Stil Standin. ;)
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Taken 5/20/13, courtesy of ICON.
I'm Still Standing
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Taken 5/20/13, courtesy of ICON.
How is Icon letting you get into Atlas? My version sure doesn't.The most recent version of Icon will allow you access to different zones (vary depending on the origin you choose) at the end of character creation. You probably just need to grab the new download.
The most recent version of Icon will allow you access to different zones (vary depending on the origin you choose) at the end of character creation. You probably just need to grab the new download.
Imagination is a wonderful thing. I don't think I actually played with very many of the people I have seen posting here, but I do recall seeing some of them.
I can and do imagine entire adventures with people I never actually adventured with....and it brings a smile to my face :)
Press 1 for flight
press 2 for hold torch
Press 1 for flightThank you! This is wonderful! Was about to ask how, also.
press 2 for hold torch
Thank you! This is wonderful! Was about to ask how, also.I'm not brave enough yet. I'm afraid doing this will make me really sad and it took me long enough to get over losing City of Heroes the first time; however, I am very happy that other Titans are able to enjoy this! Yay and thanks! (Here's hoping in time I feel brave enough to fly again online.) :(
Thanks again! Off to fly!
I'm not brave enough yet. I'm afraid doing this will make me really sad and it took me long enough to get over losing City of Heroes the first time; however, I am very happy that other Titans are able to enjoy this! Yay and thanks! (Here's hoping in time I feel brave enough to fly again online.) :(
I'm not brave enough yet. I'm afraid doing this will make me really sad and it took me long enough to get over losing City of Heroes the first time; however, I am very happy that other Titans are able to enjoy this! Yay and thanks! (Here's hoping in time I feel brave enough to fly again online.) :(
I'm not brave enough yet. I'm afraid doing this will make me really sad and it took me long enough to get over losing City of Heroes the first time; however, I am very happy that other Titans are able to enjoy this! Yay and thanks! (Here's hoping in time I feel brave enough to fly again online.) :(
I checked out from Paragon City about a year or so before it closed down. Cimmerora didn't appeal to me, and none of the Roman stuff. Going Rogue sealed the deal for me, it's like they kept adding more and more new characters, without tending the characters that already exist.
Something else that disappointed me was so many story threads always left unresolved. It got to the point where it was irritating. I wanted to know more about the Shadow Shard, I wanted to know more about The Coming Storm. I wanted to know so much more about the stories that ALREADY existed, and they just kept starting new ones instead of resolving the old ones.
With Ouroboros existing and allowing us to explain away leaving old content in the game, I saw no excuse for this. So, frustrated, I left. Then the big "no talk of other video games" forum purge took me out of the only part of the game that I thought was worth paying for - the forums. Then, I didn't leave Paragon City - Paragon City left me.
So, I started my own place. And so far, it's done pretty well.
Do it. Its very soothing.Okay! You talked me into it, Illusionss. I'll give this a try after I get home from church tomorrow. (Feeling extra brave now and confident even! *cues hero theme music before going to bed.*) Have a super evening, Titan Network! Cya sometime tomorrow, maybe as early as tomorrow evening, since I'll be "learning to fly" all over again. (Guess what song by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers I'll be posting over at the Titan "What Song Are You Listening To Now?" thread.) ;)
Plus you get to take more screenies of your characters.
If we could go to more than one zone, I would spend a lot of time just flying all over the place.
I never realized how much I counted on the presence of other people.
Dear Aura Controller,
This is all great and all, but I miss you all.
And I've lost all contact with all the best friends that I made in city.
I have there emails addresses but haven't got any responses from them in... a long time now.
I feel so alone...
Guess that's why I started uploading videos to YouTube so I might get a following to interact with. Is that sad? >.>
I have now flown in Atlas Park! :) I recreated one of my blasters and was very happy that I could Load costumes from my saved costumes files. :) (Even bigger smile if possible.) I also did a bit of /em holdtorch with the 2 key. If felt odd seeing Ms. Liberty's dais empty, nor being able to access City Hall, Fort Trident, the Train Station, etc., as well as seeing Wentworth's empty. Odd also to fly just above AP warehouses and NOT get zapped for nuisance damage by the frisky Clockwork, and odd for the parks to be devoid of Hellions and hapless citizens, but it was so good to see the City again and be able to regular run (no Sprint or other power activation options yet that I could see), jump, swim in the lake, and FLY!!!!! Wooot!!!!
Tahliah, this is just for you :)
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Now back to wondering whether Atlas has a Pocket D manhole cover.... because BadgeHunter is gone, and I just cant remember how else to get into Pocket D. I don't think Nerva has a portal to it.
With that said.... although this is in truth an experience with some melancholy undertones, simply being able to log in and fly around is BETTER than every other game I have tried since closure. Alone. No friends. No NPCs.
But I still miss City of Heroes. I just want to play again before I die.
Just don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon, and we'll diligently keep working to make that happen, okay?pinky swear? :D
I had to stop working with Missing Media. I was just too exhausted and low on energy to do much of anything immediately after. Even now, I can't really bring myself to get back into it.
Just don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon, and we'll diligently keep working to make that happen, okay?
Things gotta get better, right?
I know it was "just a game", but there's still a gaping hole in my life where a creative and social outlet (as well as frustration release valve) used to be. I still haven't found anything that completely replaces it.
... But you know, I have learned two important things in all the time I have spent circling around the sun on this little rock.
First, is that the future really is what we make of it. Yeah, it can be hard to face sometimes, but we can either accept a fate that others think they can impose upon us, or fight for what we believe in. I have fought quite a bit in my life so far, for myself and, more importantly, those that I love and the things that I care about. I've made it this far... I'm not about to give my enemies (whoever they might be) a reason to celebrate!
And second... The world has this amazing ability to not only get you down, but to just repeatedly kick you while you're down there. But no matter how hard it does, just manage to laugh through it all and tell them 'You kick like a wuss...' ;D
I Want to thank you Super Firebug for your post. I've been around but posting elsewhere. I did mean Missing World's Media. I worked with them for about 4 months. It was fun but some RL badness happened I couldn't reup.
TonyV thank you for the cup of hope. I'll wait. What choice do I have?
Codewalker - as always, Thanks for Icon. It's the Methadone to my Heroin addiction.
I'll hang in there as long as there is still hope.
Also, since the last time I posted in this thread... Dungeon Fighter Online was shut down on this side of the Pacific. So now I've lost my Berserker too, the weaponized-blood madman that was there for me when CoH shut down. If that wasn't bad enough, a couple servers I played on for other games closed up too.
I'm starting to wonder if I'm cursed.
There needs to be a new approach to how MMOs are owned and run - they need to be taken out of corporate hands and put into the hands of the people who actually play them.
Looked a little different, like the same game with different zones and content but it was definitely CoH.
I was driving in my car this morning, put on the youth-culture radio station, and the song in this video was playing: http://youtu.be/0U6gs9d0Kkk
The memories made my eyes water.
See my earlier comment about it definitely being CoH.
You don't remember me (Agent Standin, Emerald Radiant, Arilou, Dark Dave, and several others) from Infinity?!? :'(
Not surprising really, since I usually ran around solo. ;D
Whenever I saw Taxibot Belle on Infinity, I would send her a PM saying "Thank you for your contributions to helping others." Or something along those lines. I really appreciated what the Taxibots did, especially when the Hollows was still new and sparkly. Belle just happened to be the first Taxibot I ever saw.
Ah...memories... :)
To true that. Belle was one of the greats, and the memories are really fantastic.Like I said, I usually played solo most of the time.
And as for not remembering you, I might. Have a screen shot? I'll be the first to admit I remember costumes better than names most of the time. ;)
I was driving in my car this morning, put on the youth-culture radio station, and the song in this video was playing: http://youtu.be/0U6gs9d0Kkk
The memories made my eyes water.
Like I said, I usually played solo most of the time.
Hi-larious. ;DI looked through my photos that I have hosted and couldn't find it. It seems that I lost my folder of screen shots that I had on my computer as well.
I'll have to admit I do not remember Agent Standin, and I think I would had I read that bio. I had an unfortunate habit of soloing most of the time (at least until they came out with the incarnate trials and I lost my mind running them).
The one toon that really tickles my memory is Emerald Radiant. I swear I saw that toon several times in Dark Astoria, or maybe Atlas, and noticed the costume...But then again my memory could be made of mush.
Emerald Radiant was created as a Radiation/Energy Defender. All his powers were colored Green as well.
I'm sure no one could guess the inspiration for THAT character. :roll:
Nice :)Those look great. :)
That reminds me of a character I made for a costume contest once. The theme was "amalgam", basically you take two different comic book characters and blend them together. I made a Green Lantern / Ghost Rider outfit for him, and a Captain America / Iron Man outfit. (I also made a Doctor Doom / Joker outfit, but that turned out much less impressive, hehe.) I called him Genepool... loved the name, but I couldn't think of a powerset that worked with it so he just sat there collecting dust bunnies. (In his defense though, he farmed the heck out of them. At one point he hit the cap on dust bunny salvage. Whee!)
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I still laugh at being able to make Superman in CoH but not being able to make him in DCUO.
Of course, Aquarius (and the other members of the Zodiac that I can't make on CO - Cancer needs Stone Armor, Pisces needs Sonic Blast and Sonic Resonance, and Scorpio needs Dark Armor) isn't as iconic as Superman, but the similarity is there.
Actually you can! Stone is the primary powerset of THE MOUNTAIN, one of the Premium Archetypes. Also in the Premium Archetypes is THE VOID, whose powers stem from Shadows and Darkness. Or even better, make heroes of your own using the 2 FREEFORM slots granted in the Gold Package- Just $14.99+tax a month or, for a limited time, $29.99+tax for 3 months. Or, if you can, put together $299.99+tax and get the Gold Package for your entire LIFETIME! Yes, you heard me right- for your entire LIFETIME! 500 Zen per month, access to 12 Character Slots, 5 Costume Slots per Character and all the archetypes until you die in your real life!.... I don't know how much of that was sarcasm, but if you're serious, you missed some key words in my post. I didn't say that CO has no Stone or Darkness powers. I said it has no Stone Armor or Dark Armor powers. The only defensive power in CO's Earth set is Defiance, which is shared by all the Brick frameworks and is not specifically stone-related. Darkness has no defensive powers at all.
How truly versatile the City of Heroes was.
-You could play it as a single person, linear story game, and still never play the same story twice, and get all the way through it each time. (minus incarnate task forces of course)
You know what I truly miss? now having tried the other flavours of MMO out there in a desperate attempt to fill the gap?
How truly versatile the City of Heroes was.
*snip*
From the way some people describe their experiences, sometimes I'd almost swear they were playing a different game, because they really enjoyed spending most of their time on stuff I avoided.
CoH remains the only MMO in which I could often log in and play all night without talking to another player or killing a single thing, and still not be bored.
Speaking of things some people avoided - CoH remains the only MMO in which I could often log in and play all night without talking to another player or killing a single thing, and still not be bored. Which is to say, logging in and spending all night base editing. :pspeaking of base editing...
I'm just feeling very impatient, and very worried that my poor old computer won't be able to handle all the Plan Z goodness when it finally does arrive. (Buying a new computer, unfortunately, doesn't look to be in the cards for quite a while, unless I get lucky with the lottery)
I certainly think CoH could have done with one or two long-form quests (Shining Stars I think was a step in that direction by having a series of thee short arcs strung together by one story and one set of characters, and the cape mission that had you hauling ass all over paragon was another) but yes, I too liked the punchy door-mission style of play where you could pop in and see "mission accomplished" in between five and twenty minutes.well I think the shard TFs and three Hero side TFs (posi. Original, Synaspe, Citadel) were forms of the long quest. Then the missions where you had to talk to various people or do the phone check thing, fly across maps for nothing much. Hell, most civilian contacts required flying (or what every travel power) through different maps and rarely the map the contact was on. Luckily they shortened the phone contact. I remember when it was that you had to do 3-8 missions before they even allowed the phone or the main arc for that matter all the while hoping by the time they got to the story arc the character wasn't out leveled it yet. Think they nullified those issues with Ouroboros mostly besides the fact that the character had to then exemp. down and still create a backlog of arcs, but then they added the turn off xp thing to alleviate that too. The devs were on their stuff as time went on in that game. Although looking back, I wish the community as a whole wasn't "speed run" fanatics. where one could actually slow down a bit and get major rewards while enjoying the storyline. One of the reasons I wished TFs were soloable. Too much speed runs. I guess people were short on time all the time. Nothing like getting into a mission and two seconds later it's complete because the invisible guy ran to the end of the mission sometimes before all the team was able to load into the map. It just seemed like more people treated the missions and the TFs more as an inconvenient chore to level. It sucked the fun out of it for me. Now I aint saying I wished it took all day, but it would be nice to kill something every now and then. Which seemed to be the only time I was able to, was when I played solo. Then people ask, Why play solo in an MMO? So I can actually kill some stuff and enjoy the game instead of doing map tours and hanging around people that is always in a rush.
wait... so you're saying it wasn't a nemesis plot? :o*dopeslap*
wait... so you're saying it wasn't a nemesis plot? :o
Damn that sneaky oil can, now he's got me seeing plots in other people's dreams.
Something I mentioned in another thread just now. . . .
The impending shutdown notice was August 31.
We're coming up on a year from that, now. Is there anything in mind?
Same.
When people give up, nothing happens. And since that isn't an option, that only leaves us one choice.
Keep the hope, and see what happens.
The cries for nerfs happen in just about most MMOs. At least the ones I came across.
I miss CoX, and honestly CO has only really rekindled my nostalgia. The sole reason I play it anymore is roleplaying, if I were to lose that, CO would be dead to me, because I have fun in other games regarding actually playing them alot of the time. The general stupidity of the die-hards of CO only rubs me in the worst ways in places. Roleplayers are still the only intelligent players I tend to run into over there, but theres always tools asking for nerfs to powers that are good, then defending only their own powers/devices so they can have that automatic edge over others....
The cries for nerfs happen in just about most MMOs. At least the ones I came across.
The sad part is that the devs seem to actually listen and swing the nerf bat, a term I first heard of in COX during the usual nerf cries for some powers being too strong or over powered.
I'm still not handling the loss well. Pining for CoH made me try CO again lately, and that wound up just reopening old wounds.
I wish someone would at least tell us they're making progress on the private servers... hell they can use my a_noni_moose handle if needs be!
I was that blaster with rise of the phoenix after all >:D Teamwipe? I don't care I'm standing up! They might kill me again, but I'm taking some of them with me! >:D
That's the kind of attitude that can make even the most grizzled old scrapper proud. *sniffle*This is why I like Dark Armor (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Armor) on Brutes and Tankers.
This is why I like Dark Armor (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Armor) on Brutes and Tankers.
I loved being able to get right back up after going down amidst a crowd of enemies. i'M bAaaAAAAaaaaCkkkK...
I should've made a Street Justice/Dark Armor Brute character named "Cauldron-Born" after the unstoppable undead monstrosities of Irish Myth. If it had been out, I'd have used Savage Melee for him instead.
Haha, I wanted to make a blaster with the martial secondary (I forgot what it was going to be called now) so bad xD That wasn't going to be a pretty sight. . . But it would have been fun.It was Martial Combat (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Martial_Combat), my friend.
It was Martial Combat (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Martial_Combat), my friend.
FIGHT!*steps out from behind a now battered and smoking Arachnobot* I'll bill you for the repairs later.
*punch* *punch* *BAMF!* *kick-kick-kick* *BAMF!* *smack smack smack* *KA-PUNCH*
... Flawless Victory.
Martial arts combined with some kind of themed projectiles.That was "Martial Assault" to a T. SHURIKEN IN YOUR FACE! And OMG was it fun to use. I had loads of fun with Void Summoner, my Dark Control/Martial Assault Dominator on Beta. But thinking about all of that potential gone makes me all mad and sad again.
It was Martial Combat (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Martial_Combat), my friend.
Reaction Time and Reach for the Limit were so broken on beta server. Throw Sand was kinda bastardry as well. Since it blinds enemies, you could almost use it as a cone AoE placate. Martial Combat actually had a lot of survivability for a blaster combat set, enough so that there were a lot of blappers on beta who used it. Generally, it was just tough enough to get you into melee, where your bevy of offensive powers and sheer ridiculous damage output would put them down before they'd put you down.
Blasters would've gotten a lot of buffs in i24. They were damned vicious on beta.
Reading through this thread . . . I figured I'd post again for my dad. He's still not taking it well. He wont get on here though, I've told him about the forums; says it would just upset him more. Almost everyday we wind up talking about city. At the end of our talks he goes back into his rooms. The end of these talks come suddenly. I tell myself he's playing his new game or something . . . I know what he's really doing though. Thinking of your father crying. It's a painful thing. He used to have an Arachnos shirt he'd wear this thing at least once a week. Ever since that announcement though . . . I haven't seen that shirt. I don't even know if he still has it.
My father and I haven't grown distant since the closure, but we don't have the same bond. It used to be, "Hey it's friday. Ready to run through a task force?" "Hey, come on this team and be my tank." or, "Let's show them what we can really do." Now it's only, "Remember that time when . . . ?" The memories are great and I love reminiscing with him but our relationship isn't the same. We try other games. They aren't the same. :/ Kinda silly I guess to think of being so close to my dad through a game, but it was great relationship.
We're working as hard and fast as we can to get "Heroes and Villains" up and running - you and your dad will be teaming up as superheroes again.
It's 3:55 am here. I'm trying to sleep, but I can't, because all I want to do is run some missions, maybe even an iTrial or two. This is not the first time.that's every day for the last three weeks for me. "all I want to do is fracking log in and see people and run missions!"
That's how I'm handling it: insomnia.
that's every day for the last three weeks for me. "all I want to do is fracking log in and see people and run missions!"oh for me it's everytime I get bored of another game/drawing/writing. And then it's not there so I go, "I guess I'll go on youtube." Funny you'd think my productivity on my art would skyrocket without the game, but nope xD
Funny you'd think my productivity on my art would skyrocket without the game, but nope xD
I've found that when you enjoy what you're doing you can spend most of your time playing and still be productive at working. Your mind's being engaged, your creativity's being satisfied, you're just feeling good overall. Work and play both go better when you're having a good day.
But if you're bored and uninspired, you could have twice the time available and still get less done. You just sit there on your butt, feeling your brain go numb bit by bit, and you're well aware that an eternity is passing but somehow there's still never time to accomplish anything.
That's why I'm doing my damnedest to stay upbeat during all this. See, my Dad had a major stroke a couple years ago and now I'm looking after him. Health wise he's doing much better now but he still can't do things like meals or housework, so I simply can't afford to fall apart. If I give in to depression or bitterness and sink into a rut, he pays for it, and that's just not an option.
So I watch fun TV shows and Youtube channels. I play creative video games and immersive board games. I come here and make silly jokes so I can laugh, and maybe make someone else laugh a bit. Whatever it takes to stay positive, man. 'Cause giving up just ain't a choice for me.
Nearly one year post-announcement...Still angry and hurt. Got into an argument the other day with someone because I hadn't let go of a pair of my characters from City of Heroes and moved them into another game, even though what they were didn't match up with the game lore for RP purposes...It's...Why should I ever let go? I played CoH from just a few weeks after I turned 12, until the shutdown when I was a few months into being 20 years old. My entire teenage life was led by CoH. I didn't really have a social life outside of it....It's...still raw, it's still hurting.
You make a good point. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. Hang in there man.
Thanks man. And believe me, I'm hanging in just fine. 'Cause what happened to Dad isn't even the worst thing that happened that month. Ten days before he went into the hospital for that stroke, Mom went in (on my frigging birthday no less) for complications due to her cancer. She passed a month later, and we couldn't even properly mourn because we had to stay strong for Dad. So believe me when I say, if THAT **** didn't destroy me, then there's no way a pack of dirtbags in fancy suits is ever gonna knock me down.
Our city may be closed to us for now, but there are already people working on our way back in, it's only a matter of time. We just need to find something to do while we wait. We stay positive, conserve our emotional energy, and if they ask us to help, we help. Edit: And you know what else? Laugh. Laugh a lot. It helps.
Stay strong, everybody. We will stalk those streets and fly those skies again.
On the note of doing otherthings, there needs to be a group somewhere for us to play games together. ftp stuff, or some other games xD
I thought I heard there was a Steam group, but I don't do much on Steam so I'm not sure. I'm thinking it's worth starting one if there's not already though. And hey, hit up the Other Games section too, there might already be a group somewhere. *shrugs* Can't hurt to check. :)
I thought I heard there was a Steam group, but I don't do much on Steam so I'm not sure. I'm thinking it's worth starting one if there's not already though. And hey, hit up the Other Games section too, there might already be a group somewhere. *shrugs* Can't hurt to check. :)City of Heroes! (Unofficial) is the group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/coh-unofficial (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/coh-unofficial)
City of Heroes! (Unofficial) is the group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/coh-unofficial (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/coh-unofficial)
Haha, yea. One day :3c Plus we have our memories. ^^You are so very right. I was hit hard by the loss, but It was helped immensely by Icon and the work of the fantastic Syrusb Liz. Shameless promotion: she created this fantastic work of art for me to crystallize my memories and feelings:
You are so very right. I was hit hard by the loss, but It was helped immensely by Icon and the work of the fantastic Syrusb Liz. Shameless promotion: she created this fantastic work of art for me to crystallize my memories and feelings:
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=fc00.deviantart.net%2Ffs70%2Ff%2F2013%2F178%2F3%2F4%2Flc_ellscrycs2_by_syrusbliz-d6aw6t9.jpg)
It helped me with my loss, and I will always be grateful.
City of Heroes! (Unofficial) is the group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/coh-unofficial (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/coh-unofficial)
Just keep holding on and believing that we will somehow get our City back!
This reassurance made my day, Tony. Thank you for everything you do.
I made this for the anniversary today. Kinda answers the question. Still heartbroken and full of disdain while utterly confused.
(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=img22.imageshack.us%2Fimg22%2F3268%2Feh4n.png)
The pain of the loss was especially bad today, and last night. An RP session went faulty on me because someone watch's to many bad anime's where one tiny little fighter or power armor suit "destroys 7 battleships in one shot!", bleh, the worst part of this godmoding is, well, the persons trying to stick to the lore of CO. Problem is he makes it even more cheesy and black/white then it already is, which deeply annoyed me.
I realise that CoX didn't have perfect lore either but, I realise more then before how it's actually reasonably scaled. And it was much more likable for it, compared to CO lore, which I honestly don't like at all anymore. Because, it's just so black and white, and very bland to me because unfortunately the characters are cheesy, even the villains. "Most advanced suit in the universe" got to me alot last night.
It's especially hard, and I'm hoping for CoX to return more then usual, and even more-so hoping to see how valiance online or the phoenix project goes. Any of the plan Z's doing well would be a good thing, honestly I suspect it'd be the end of CO if they did to, a shame since CO had so much potential :(. But thats life and the nature of competition. Given CO likely won't get shut down but still, it'd certainly lost many players if good competition showed up again.
I've not really posted on these boards, but all this time later I just can't let go. I believe this video (for those who have not yet seen it) still illustrates how I feel,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6QJmyP_azI
(https://i.imgur.com/qXnMnOE.jpg)
This was the last image I took of my main character, and I've not been able to bring myself to delete it.
Nothing else comes close, not CO, and not DCUO to the customization, the fun, the...well...FREEDOM to make the character I wanted to make.
I miss all those RP sessions on Virtue, all those friends made, all those TF's ran, all the joy of each new update..
I miss it all.
Personally I wouldn't delete it. Mine were deleted by accident and I've missed them ever since. You just have to hold on and be part of the community. :) The kickstarter for TPP starts soon. Personally I'm hopeful for it and the other plan Z's to turn out well.
I went through and took screenshots of all of my characters, and in addition to being squirrelled away on disk, I have them all in a folder on my tablet where I can pull them up and look through them to keep the memory... and the hope... alive.
We have an anonymous request that goes out to NCSoft.Thanks, Twisted! ;D
<Plays song> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlHz0wF0Ig)
I confess I haven't read this thread in months, but this made me smile:Sometimes, there's no school like the old school. ;)
Thanks, Twisted! ;D
We have an anonymous request that goes out to NCSoft.Although this song was originally about warmongers (i think), the refrain was stuck in my head the day after the closing
<Plays song> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlHz0wF0Ig)