Titan Network

One I recall very easily is when I had my level 10 or 12 kinetic in Atlas and was running around using my buffs.

Now most kinetic buffs target an enemy and I was using my heal to help a lvl 1 and he sends me a tell:

"DON'T KILL STEAL FROM ME A**H***"

I love new players. They are sometimes so cute and stupid.

*dramatic flashback to Rude Tells thread on the official forums... starts sniffling, then blubbering, then flat out crying* :'(

To my main, whose character concept didn't suit flying, super jumping, super speeding, or teleporting (but would have been the first to get a vehicle travel power if they ever added those):

"You are ****ing STUPID not to have a travel power."

woooo.


I could go on for days just from COX years alone, let alone the bunch of stuff from other games.

"your opinion doesnt matter."    -And yours does?

"I can solo GMs easy not problem."  Then proceeds to get wiped by a weak generic green conned EB. "The EB cheated. He held me." -Well well, GM slayer. You can defeat GMS no problem but a hold fro ma green conned mob kill you easy?


"I hate PUGs. PUGs are the worse thing in games. People just dont know how to play this game right." -So I asked why not just form your own team with people that fit your style? They reply "Because no one play as good as me."   -O.O well alright then expert. One of those lonely at the top things huh.


"I'm goign AFK for this TF and no one better kick me." -After about about 20 min waiting after waiting for him to come back hoping he wasnt just joking, andn ot being able to go on to next mish because he still in map, I kick him. Two minutes late he just rant rave i ntell saying how he is going to report me and goign to ignore me and etc wit hjust about every cuss word thrown in there for good measure. I simply reply "If you want back in sure. but had to kick you to progress and if you plan on sitting at teh doors the entire time then you will not get back in because one ya dead weight. Two if it's goign to be seven then the seven that put in work should get the spoils. Three go ahead, report me. They will look at the chat log and probably ban you for a while just due to those cuss words and your little rant." With one final F*** U. that was last I heard from him.


"Hey whay are not healing me?" from teammate in a tell. I reply-  "I'm a tank. I'm the guy that keep aggro off of ya so  you can do your thing and kill stuff."  His reply "Well you should go get some heals so you can heal me."   *face to palm*  my reply trying to avoid being  snarky to be snarky. "Well as a regen scrapper you have more access to heals than I do. Invul have no access to heals for others besides the power pool which I have no room for yet." Hi reply "I didnt take my heals. It's not my job to heal myself. It's your job." *face to palm again* "ok man, well not sure what else to tell you. I have no heals you have no heals. Looks like weare in perdicament. Why not ask the empath team memebr to follow you across the map and heal you?" Two minutes later. Guess he actually sent tell to the empath and I get  tell from empath. "That guy is crazy if he thinks I'm going to follow him because he wants to be suicidal. I told him five times in private chat to stay with the team so I can heal him. I'm not dying because of him." Me "Well maybe he's new."  Empath-"Well he's going to learn today."  My reply "Yeah. Apparently he also think tanks are suppose to heal him too."  Empath-"I give up!"







And a few not to me directly but some I found interesting.





PVP zone. Villian. A stalker.

"STOP F***ING DRONING!"   Now otherwise I would understand his frustation but then my memory hits. Five minutes ago, he was droning and someone else said to him the same thing he was yelling. So out of curiosity to find out what his logic was I asked "Hey, wasnt you droning people 5 minutes ago?"   His reply "Yeah and? I'm not droning now and people that drone are stupid fucking trolls that should kill themselves."   I was too busy rolling lauhging to respond. But wanterd to say "so people who drone in your own words, should die by their own hands, but yet, you was droning so does that mean you also should go kill yourself and just called yourself in your words again, a stupiud f***ing troll?" But I thought that would be too much easy picking and left it alone.


"Noob! Keep me alive!" The person he called noob proceeds to TP him into mid air and drop him into a gang of purple mobs once we get outside. Mind you this is the days before the prompt. What followed was basically incoherant cuss filled rants in the broadcast.


"People suck in this game in WoW people did this. IN WoW people did that. In WoW people had mroe respect. In WoW the gameplay is better. This game is too easy, in WoW it wasa challenge." and so on.  Until people told him to STFU. That was issue 8 time period Steel Canyon Virtue around 9pm or so in July early. Only reason I remembered is that is the day a transformer on the block blew and lost all power shortly after that WoW rant. Sadly, from some of the same people that told that guy to STFU and to go back to WoW did the same thing shortly after Nov 30th. for a few days in CO abotu CO and how it's not COX and etc. Man, hypocritical behavior.


"Anyone else notice that some of the servers are getting empty?" "STFU you noob!." "Go troll somewhere else." "The population is just fine." "Oh great, another doom sayer."  "Dont feed the trolls." "Take your DOOOM!!! SOmewhere else, Noob."  "TROLL!"  Original poster- "Geesh, my bad for hitting a nerve. I guess this game will have one less person to worry about."   More replies to it. "WAAAAAHHHH! GTFO and go cry somewhere else."   --my thoughts- Wow so much for friendly community I9 Sept. time period. Victory server Victory chat channel.


"Get over it! Its just a game."
"Dont force your view on us we're grieving." *but we are going to force our grief on you and everyoen else.* "Dont like seeng people grief, then leave." -which could be taken for bot hends. dont like seeing people not greive, then leave.-  End of days on the forum when both sides tried to play rooster with it as if their side, grieving vs people that not grieving, had sole rights to express their view but the other side had no right to. Both side accuse each other of forcing their view on the other and telling them if they dont like their view then the other side should leave all the while forcing their point of view on the other IN A PUBLIC FORUM Where people from both sides played for years and of course where people will not feel the exact same in reaction to the exact same event some will grieve some will not but it was more about "I feel this way and want to express my view but if you dont feel my way then you ahve no right to express your view." And out of all the dumb things I heard said to me and said to other the end of days stuff took the cake. That was the only time I actually felt sad and felt slightly ashamed to go aroudn telling people, "hey join the save coh cause because we are friendly bunch and everyoen point of view is respect" when the behavior from both sides showed the exact oppsite. Made me look like a plain fool in the face of those I recommended to join to and check us out. While that type of crazy behavior was going on FROM BOTH SIDES Asking for a point of view to be respected but not havign the decency to respect other points of view and instead did exacty what the other side was asked not to do everything from asking them to respect the view grieving or not but having no respect for those that are grieiving or not. Asking them to not force their view grieving or not but still forcing the view onto other grieving or not.

Awww, the Rude Tells thread... by the time I got there that thing was already its own legend, so I was reading it a bit at a time to catch up. I only ever got to page 60. Sadface.


One story does spring to mind though. It was from the first time I ever tried out redside, way before the Mercy revamp; I was giving Brutes a shot. There I was happily smacking away on a pair of level threes or fours or something like that. I've got the group about halfway done, when suddenly one of the mobs goes down much faster than it should've. I'm thinking, "Wow... Brutes huh? Nice." But then I see what really happened... a ranged guy had come along and jumped in on my spawn. Whatever, I think, it's a little rude but not worth getting upset over. Normally I would've just left quietly and found a new spot. ....But not with this guy. No no, this guy deserved just a liiittle bit more.

See, once the mobs were dealt with, this jewel of social ettiquette started cussing me out for stealing his kills. Me stealing his kills. Now this was back when I was still pretty new both to City and to online gaming in general, and I hadn't yet learned any real skills. So there had been plenty of time for him to have started first. Which he hadn't.

After trying to hold my patience for a few exchanges, I finally asked him if he was seriously in such dire need of that 14 inf I had just gotten that he would stand and argue with someone about it. Well apparently he was sentimentally attached to those particular two mobs, because he insisted that he did in fact need it. That he had rightfully earned it, and I had no right to come along and steal it. So I opened up a trade window and I gave him that 14 inf, plus about a hundred or so more that I had collected up until then, and a couple of L2 TOs to boot. His cup overrunneth. Then I told him that he might have a more pleasant time playing the game if he just found his own enemies to attack, rather than waiting for someone else to fight half the battle for him.

And then I put him on global ignore.

Quote from: Triplash on May 27, 2013, 09:52:32 PM
Awww, the Rude Tells thread... by the time I got there that thing was already its own legend, so I was reading it a bit at a time to catch up. I only ever got to page 60. Sadface.


One story does spring to mind though. It was from the first time I ever tried out redside, way before the Mercy revamp; I was giving Brutes a shot. There I was happily smacking away on a pair of level threes or fours or something like that. I've got the group about halfway done, when suddenly one of the mobs goes down much faster than it should've. I'm thinking, "Wow... Brutes huh? Nice." But then I see what really happened... a ranged guy had come along and jumped in on my spawn. Whatever, I think, it's a little rude but not worth getting upset over. Normally I would've just left quietly and found a new spot. ....But not with this guy. No no, this guy deserved just a liiittle bit more.

See, once the mobs were dealt with, this jewel of social ettiquette started cussing me out for stealing his kills. Me stealing his kills. Now this was back when I was still pretty new both to City and to online gaming in general, and I hadn't yet learned any real skills. So there had been plenty of time for him to have started first. Which he hadn't.

After trying to hold my patience for a few exchanges, I finally asked him if he was seriously in such dire need of that 14 inf I had just gotten that he would stand and argue with someone about it. Well apparently he was sentimentally attached to those particular two mobs, because he insisted that he did in fact need it. That he had rightfully earned it, and I had no right to come along and steal it. So I opened up a trade window and I gave him that 14 inf, plus about a hundred or so more that I had collected up until then, and a couple of L2 TOs to boot. His cup overrunneth. Then I told him that he might have a more pleasant time playing the game if he just found his own enemies to attack, rather than waiting for someone else to fight half the battle for him.

And then I put him on global ignore.

I call those types "vultures". Too weak to survive on their own and too cowardly to simply ask for help or join a team and rather let someone else do the work for them and pick off some xp/inf.


No, of course it's probably not against the rules sure. So one day this partuclar vulture that made is very obvious in CO I just simply asked about his behavior. His reply "It's not against the rules." Ok, he was right. So I went vehicle mode and murdered everything in any direction he ran into. Eventually he sent a tell saying "stop that." I replied smuggly "It's not against the rules. But you see, soemtimes even if it's not officially against the rules, that doesnt mean a person should do it."

Now I was expecting soem tirade about how he can do it but no one betetr do it to hi crap but no...he replied with something that frankly caught me off guard. "My bad, I didnt realize that it was THAT annoying. I'll try to be careful in the future."
And that was that. We had a few more laughs, and even added the chap to my friend list.

See sometimes a vulture is a bloke who dont understand because no one done it to them and they are right, it's not against the rules. I felt bad that I had to do that but sometimes people dont have the capablity to feel anything someone else feel if they never was on the recieving end. To them well it's not against the rules so they should be upset about it until you do it to them and they get upset. Then many times they understand. Of course you have those blokes that are simply in the mindset of "I can do it to you but you better not do it to me." mindset and there is plenty a lot of them. But cant do nothing much for those people.

"You took that power? Why?" Now I know that some powers may have been wasted or didn't seem to fit in the build, but if it was my decision, why would it matter?  That was one of the many things said that bothered me.  Who was the abitrary decider on who takes what power and why it was bad? I agree that some of the powers people took did seem a little off... ...but I certainly didn't harrass them about it or question it.  Sometimes it was just to fit the build for RPing or a specific characters story.

One of the other things that bothered me, not really what was said, but more of an action was someone who sent you a blind invite, you hit decline, maybe even send a tell saying you were busy, then the user still spammed you with invites.

I had more positive experiences than not. I do remember, though, that a person on a pug team I was leading with a few friends up and had the nerve to say "Yeah I've g2g. I'll stay on the map. Kick me if you need to"

:o

So, after a few minutes of wondering if this random person, who just joined our team, really actually expected to stay idled on the map, soaking up the xp .... I was like "Uhm, yeah, no" /kick

A leader with a rad, a kin, and a storm on the team telling me on my empath I couldn't leave even though I had a migraine because he needed a healer.

Oh ... there is this other story ...

*Playing on 3 person pug farm. My empath, a tank, and can't remember the 3rd person who was actually leader/owner of said farm*

Me: *notices lack of that taunting sound going off*

Me: *notices my aura heals are drawing aggro off the tank* (tank is level 44 or something mind you)

Me: *to the tank* Do you not have taunt?

Tank: No

Me: Uhm ... why?

Tank: I 'm built for herding.

:o

In WoW:

- I had joined a dungeon team and the leader hadnt bothered to invite a tank.  So, I was very carefully trying not to draw too much aggro
with my hunter, after I was informed I couldnt use my pet.    The leader then exlaims "OMG, only XXXX DPS, how can anyone be that low?"  Then kicks me.   I almost sent a tell saying "learn to build a team, you might get more DPS", but figured it wasnt worth it.

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- I was standing in the middle of a zone, when some guy stops and examines my armor.  "OMG, all your armor is green and it has the wrong stats.  Lol."
Me:  "Yeah.... I wear what I get in drops."
Him:  "Noob"
I guess he couldnt conceive of anyone new to the game who didnt have a rich max level character to finance outfitting his alternates.


In CoH:

I joined an ITF, and the leader, who is a /Fire tank proceeds to tell the rest of us how awesome he is,and about his uber purple build.
He then proceeds to continually die throughout the TF.
I guess someone forgot to tell him that buying an account with a tricked out character isnt sufficient - it helps to know how to play that character.

The infamous line given to me comes to mind:

"You're a defender, so you're the team's healer."

*Has completely ignored the fact that my powersets are debuff powers.*

"I'm not a healer."

"Well you're a useless defender."

*Kick*

If that's truly what he thought, really he was doing you a favor by kicking you off that team in that you no longer had to put up with him. :p

I used to build characters for extreme duty at times and I was testing a mid 30ish fire tank in Brickstown once herding huge grous and getting the feel for what my limits were. I had an empath start healing me. I was very polite and said please don't heal me.

He was quite offended and wanted to know why?

I explained I was testing the character and I needed to get the feel of what his limits were. I said give me 10 more minutes and I would be glad to team with you and run any missions you want but let me just get used to where I am with my build. He watched me until I was done and then he joined me for the next 2 hours running his missions!

I guess it wasn't as much stupid as just uninformed on what highend build can do and how to test them.

Quote from: Ironwolf on May 28, 2013, 01:40:52 PM
I used to build characters for extreme duty at times and I was testing a mid 30ish fire tank in Brickstown once herding huge grous and getting the feel for what my limits were. I had an empath start healing me. I was very polite and said please don't heal me.

He was quite offended and wanted to know why?

I explained I was testing the character and I needed to get the feel of what his limits were. I said give me 10 more minutes and I would be glad to team with you and run any missions you want but let me just get used to where I am with my build. He watched me until I was done and then he joined me for the next 2 hours running his missions!

I guess it wasn't as much stupid as just uninformed on what highend build can do and how to test them.

Look at it from his point of view. From what you've said, he was trying to be nice, and you shut him down (albeit politely). It sounds like he was curious and somewhat put off that his non-killstealy assistance was unwanted. You explained, and all was good. So why is this in the stupid people thread, again? The player wasn't psychic, he couldn't be expected to know what you were doing. (unless he was an empath/psi, of course  ;D)

I have a contribution to this thread as well, though it's not really something that was said. As a matter of fact, we didn't exchange words at all. It was still pretty funny, though.

*paints the picture*
I'm killing mobs in Faultline. I can't recall why--it wasn't a lost hunt, perhaps I was just street sweeping on the way to a mission. Who knows. Anyway, I notice some blaster hitting my mobs with AoEs from about 20ft behind my character, real inconspicuous like.  :roll:

I figure the guy happened upon the mob the same time as me, and we just didn't see eachother. So I continue in a different direction than I was heading, and sure enough the guy hits my mob again. And again on the next mob. So it turns out he's a vulture. Ok, I can play that game.

The next mob I run towards, I first disable all the aggro auras on my scrapper, leaving only the defensive ones, and then hop directly in the middle of the mob. I wait. Within seconds, the guy attacks my mob, and I quickly hop out of the fight. These enemies swarm the blaster and kill him in seconds. I don't see him again.  ;)

Started a rad/rad defender blueside a long time ago (before Faultline revamp but after the radio introduction. Was right after I discovered that applying a City of Heroes trial code to a paying City of Villain account gave full version of City of Heroes, indefinitely)

Teaming with a blaster and a scrapper needing support in the Hollows, I get to the mission (not unscathed, hollows-newb I was, but in good enough condition after healing) and find the scrapper repeatedly attacking my debuffs anchors. To which I proceed to explain he should target something else because it's debuffing the others. To which the blaster replies that I shouldn't talk like that to the scrapper (I forgot his name), because he has a lvl 50, and the scrapper trashtalks me.

Also complained that he couldn't see my debuffs, so I quit, saying that being 50 apparently doesn't provide good eyesight nor manners.

By and large, I didn't really consider anything "stupid" - mainly because I asked so many stupid questions myself and everyone was always kind about answering them. There was one guy who kept hanging out in an AE farm with us and wasn't getting anything because he was F2P, and the only thing that annoyed me about him was that we had to keep answering that same question over and over again. He just wasn't listening/reading, and that was annoying.

There was one player shortly after I rejoined (when the game went F2P) who decided to preach to me about how to play my Empathy defender. She was wrong about all of it, by the way. I sent her a global friend request, which she accepted, and then I always knew when she was online so I didn't accidentally end up on a team with her again.

I preferred to play with people who were fun, not people who were min/maxed. So far, I haven't found people like that on other MMOs.

Paraphrasing, because I saw these types of logic many times from the less informed players who came from such cookie-cutter team setups as WoW, and typically the ones who were arrogant enough to be force everyone to let them lead (particularly the first few)...

"We need a Healer!" (Loved that CoH was designed so efficiently that you didn't always need to have a "healer" or tank to accompany you on missions, and often times when you did have them, they kind of had nothing to do if the team co-operated effectively enough.)

"You're a Force Field Defender? Pfft, you can't even heal, what good are you?" (As I usually was playing my SR scrapper, I loved me some bubbles!)

"You're an empathy defender, why are you using attacks!" (Because standing around and following the group with nothing to do except when the scrapper runs off and aggros three extra groups gets boring. Deal with it!)

"Stop using your knock-back powers!" (Every enemy I knock onto his bum, is one less enemy that's hitting you. I'm doing you a favor, so quit complaining...)

"Without a Radiation Defender/Troller, this is impossible!" (Right after the AV change way back when AVs were suddenly hard as heck to kill because of their regeneration rates. It wasn't just a matter of needing debuffs, it was a matter of needing to hit them harder too, which means not being stingy with inspirations and buffs to the team. Radiation helped, but wasn't always needed specifically. Sometimes more damage in general sufficed.)

"LOL! Kheldians! XD" (I don't care what anyone says, I loved my Peacebringer, and my Warshade as well, even though I never got her to 50... Built properly, they could be tons of fun, they just required more planning to setup that way than standard ATs.)

Quote from: Mister Bison on May 28, 2013, 08:04:47 PM
Started a rad/rad defender blueside a long time ago (before Faultline revamp but after the radio introduction. Was right after I discovered that applying a City of Heroes trial code to a paying City of Villain account gave full version of City of Heroes, indefinitely)

Teaming with a blaster and a scrapper needing support in the Hollows, I get to the mission (not unscathed, hollows-newb I was, but in good enough condition after healing) and find the scrapper repeatedly attacking my debuffs anchors. To which I proceed to explain he should target something else because it's debuffing the others. To which the blaster replies that I shouldn't talk like that to the scrapper (I forgot his name), because he has a lvl 50, and the scrapper trashtalks me.

Also complained that he couldn't see my debuffs, so I quit, saying that being 50 apparently doesn't provide good eyesight nor manners.

yeah on the manners part.


But with the visual part, depends on the settings of their computers. Some settings actually caused the effects of buffs and stuff sometimes fiddling with the particle count caused that stuff to not be visible.

Realized that when I got a new computer and did a reinstall and everything went to wacky setting where buffs and auras was not visible. First I thought it was a bug, then remembered I did reset all my options and setting from the last machine and after a little tweaking, raising the bar from performance to high graphic setting solved that.

Then with invention of colored powers some buffs especially anchors in a crowd can be hard to see and tell which is anchor and which is merely debuffed, on my old computer with medium settings (and that computer was no slouch.). So it might not been such of a case of eyesight and could be he was telling the truth and couldnt see the buffs. But still, I noticed it's pretty common for alort of COX players to get snippy over the smallest things in game.


Like this one guy, I didnt care for speed boost but at the same time generally didnt mind it if it came my way but my friend despised speed boost especially. It wasnt that her computer didnt handle it or what not or hated kins, it was just that speed boost was just one of those powers that she didnt like. To her the end gain, which since she mostly played solo and solved her own end problems wasnt worth the unwanted speed boost the buff provided. So any ways it was me, my friend and two others and this kin we picked up abotu to run some good old missions, random missions arc missions papers we didnt care what ever came up. So like most kins trying to be helpful, he started to speed boost everyone, of course without asking and depending on view that could be bad ettiquette in itself but hey, it's only a buff in my eyes no big deal. But my friend pipes up in as friendly manner as possible, which is sometimes unusual for her as she is usually direct which can come off as plain brash in text form, "Hi. I understand your willingness to buff but I do not care for Speed Boost and would like to kindly ask you from speed boosting me. Now I have a kin myself and I know sometimes it's slips, but I prefer to not have that boost." Ok, so immediately the Kin speed boosts her again. She sends tell to me "I guess that guy didnt understand me the first time." So we get to the mission and she again pipes up. "Alright, again, I guess the first time somethign was missed or forgotten. It's ok, but remember I do not want speed boost." So again without saying a word the Kin as if on que speed boost her again. Again she send s tell to me "Ok I think this guy is trying to be an ass. I'm about done being nice." So before it gets turned into a big thing I figured, let me have a go at it. So in private text I send the kin a message first just asking about general stuff, like how does he like the kin build and stuff and how long he been playing and how the kin is a great assett to any team then I laid it on him "Look, I know you're trying to contribute but not everyone like the speed boost buff. I know you probably dont mean anythign bt it but to prevent uneeded conflict just simply skip *her*." He replies back. "She will take the buff whether she likes it or not. If she dont like it, tough." And again hits her with another speed boost. Well, my first instinct was to say ok and let the result I knew was coming take it's course, but I calmly said again, "hey now, as I said, to prevent issues, just skip her. I have no idea why she dont like speed boost I dont care why she dont like speed boost but for what ever reason she dont. And just like anyone here, and as I assume you dont like people telling you how to play your toon, dont force something on someone else. But I hate to remind you it was you that ask us to join this team. Although I dont have the star, and guess you missed it but the person that is requesting to not to be speed boosted is team leader. I'm sure you probably wouldnt mind being kicked but hey, again to avoid conflict, knock it off or just do yourself a favor and leave."

No more replies but he stayed. So he speed boost my friend once more and while she was moving, and thus ended up aggroing the nearest group and two more. I think maybe half on purpose and half on accident but either way she started to beeline towards the kin, the rest of the team killing as many as they can, and of course her beign a tank the damage is miniscule, of course the kin seeing this tank with about three mobs worth of group coming at him bolts. So my friend stops, gather up all mob she can in a corner and tp friend this poor chap into the middle of the mob tp herself out and before he realized what just happened he was face planted. Eventually after the dust cleared and everyone is standing around except the kin, he eventually ask for an awake. The other two team mates said they was fresh out and rest of team continue on. I had an awake but hesitated, as on one hand it did serve him right but on the other hand...I gave him the awake. He eventually catches up to the group and again speed boosts her. He is then kicked from the team and knowing her, she probably placed him ignore. Guess the poor chap needed to vent so he start sending tells to me ranting how my friend that he kepted speed boosting against her wishes was b****, and how she sucked, immature, and etc like he opened a book of insults and just threw them all in there. I think I gave in to the urge of snark with my next reply. "I find it ironic you are angry that someone just basically chose whether or not you will be part of this team against your wishes but had no qualms about enforcing your powers on them against their wishes. Not to be mean or anythign but maybe now you know their frustration. I think in this situation every should be happy. She dont have to worry about speed boost and you can speed boost people to heart content but unfortunatley not as part of this team by the decision of the the team leader."


TLDR- In short some people were plain pushy and rude with their powers and buff. I played buffers and it wasnt hard at all to skip a person who wished to not be speed boosted or whatever. How every "Stupid" their reason is, it's their character their choice and I dont think anyone else had any right to force a power especially one such as speed boost upon them. One of the things I noticed that was rampant in COH, people getting jollies on speed boosting people from the looks over it, becasue they simply enjoyed haveing power over how someone else character moved and the ability to do it and not much the player can do about it. Luckily null the gull came along and I noticed there were a lot less kins running around. I guess it was no fun in griefing people when they can simply cancel it. Those people gave kins a very bad name.

Quote from: JaguarX on May 28, 2013, 09:44:24 PM

TLDR- In short some people were plain pushy and rude with their powers and buff. I played buffers and it wasnt hard at all to skip a person who wished to not be speed boosted or whatever. How every "Stupid" their reason is, it's their character their choice and I dont think anyone else had any right to force a power especially one such as speed boost upon them. One of the things I noticed that was rampant in COH, people getting jollies on speed boosting people from the looks over it, becasue they simply enjoyed haveing power over how someone else character moved and the ability to do it and not much the player can do about it. Luckily null the gull came along and I noticed there were a lot less kins running around. I guess it was no fun in griefing people when they can simply cancel it. Those people gave kins a very bad name.

This is true, until they changed how the boosts worked. It was near impossible to not speed boost someone when it became an AoE effect. I was playing my Ice/Kin and dropped a speed boost on the tank who requested it. I got barraged by three people who said they didn't want the boost. I informed them it was an AoE effect, and I couldn't target it. Then, I told them to go see the pigeon in Pocket D.

I won't say here the responses I got, but I added three people to my ignore list that day.

Quote from: Gothenem on May 28, 2013, 10:05:10 PM
This is true, until they changed how the boosts worked. It was near impossible to not speed boost someone when it became an AoE effect. I was playing my Ice/Kin and dropped a speed boost on the tank who requested it. I got barraged by three people who said they didn't want the boost. I informed them it was an AoE effect, and I couldn't target it. Then, I told them to go see the pigeon in Pocket D.

I won't say here the responses I got, but I added three people to my ignore list that day.

oh yeah, when it became AOE there was not much that could be done.
When they made the pigeon I think it then became up to the player to fix their settings to appropriate actions. Then when ya point it out how to fix it so that they dont have to worry about it, they got rude it seemed. WTH? It's not that type of attitude I noticed only on COX, that what seems to be over-inflated sense of entitlement but it seems rampant all over the net. It's just that it seems that COX was in no way immune, or else, null the gull wouldnt ever have even been needed. But hey, you know, the relative few always bork it up for the rest.

And I think it would be unfair to not mention, even though this is supposed to be suptid comments and actions, that not all kins were "touchy and pouty" when ya didnt want their powers (pre-null the gull). Many just simply said, "thanks for telling me." "Ok." "No problem less people I need to buff." "If you say so." "Gotcha." and left it alone and didnt buff them and when they accidentally did they usally immediately follow up with a tell "My bad." "Sorry, forgot. I'm used to my keybinds. I'll try to not do it again." And there were a lot of those. But at the same time there were a lot of the other variety that I was glad to see the joy of their day of annoying people that didnt want speed boost taken away when Null the Gull arrived and didnt shed one single tear when they realized the fun was over for them and hung up their kin to find something else to annoy players.

If anyone ever asked me what I think was the greatest addition to the game from I1-I24, I would with no hesitation say Null the Gull with AOE buffing. It's nullified alot of stupid. Now people couldnt complain about not wantign speed boost and still getting it because they could nullify it if they chose to now. And buffers dont have to worry about targeting and just let it go and it's done. And people that nulled it dont have to worry about drive by buffers of speed boost ever again. And those that got their jollies forcing others to play their toon the way the kin want them to play which is usually !fast movement because I said so and you cant do nothing about it hah ha! cant get their jollies anymore and had to move on. Good riddence I said.

Quote from: Shenku on May 28, 2013, 09:09:09 PM
"Without a Radiation Defender/Troller, this is impossible!" (Right after the AV change way back when AVs were suddenly hard as heck to kill because of their regeneration rates. It wasn't just a matter of needing debuffs, it was a matter of needing to hit them harder too, which means not being stingy with inspirations and buffs to the team. Radiation helped, but wasn't always needed specifically. Sometimes more damage in general sufficed.)

Ah, yes.  I distinctly recall an encounter in Croatoa with a team wanting to take down Jack in Irons.

Team lead:  "I don't think we can do this.  We don't have a Rad or a Kin."

Me:  "So?  I'm Dark/Dark.  I'm all you need."

They really didn't believe me.  I did manage to finally convince them to give it a try, and we put Jack on his butt pretty quickly.  Then I told them there was a hidden regen debuff in Twilight Grasp.  Of course, since it wasn't listed in the power's description (prior to the addition of the real numbers in the details), they didn't actually believe me.  Oh well.

Quote from: eabrace on May 29, 2013, 12:56:01 PM
They really didn't believe me.  I did manage to finally convince them to give it a try, and we put Jack on his butt pretty quickly.  Then I told them there was a hidden regen debuff in Twilight Grasp.  Of course, since it wasn't listed in the power's description (prior to the addition of the real numbers in the details), they didn't actually believe me.  Oh well.

Literal example of Knowledge is power.

Would have infuriated a number of PvP regen scrappers too, especially since it must have been autohit at the time. ("What the hell is he rezzing ? WHAT THE HECK, WHERE IS MY REGEN !?")

Quote from: Mister Bison on May 29, 2013, 03:49:36 PM
Literal example of Knowledge is power.

Would have infuriated a number of PvP regen scrappers too, especially since it must have been autohit at the time. ("What the hell is he rezzing ? WHAT THE HECK, WHERE IS MY REGEN !?")

Just to clarify, I was talking about Twilight Grasp (PBAoE heal, hitting a target required).  But you are correct that Howling Twilight (PBAoE rez w/ targeted AoE disorient effect) was auto hit and also applied a -Regen component.  Pretty sure the help text didn't mention that one either.

Quote from: eabrace on May 29, 2013, 12:56:01 PM
Me:  "So?  I'm Dark/Dark.  I'm all you need."

They really didn't believe me.  I did manage to finally convince them to give it a try, and we put Jack on his butt pretty quickly.  Then I told them there was a hidden regen debuff in Twilight Grasp.  Of course, since it wasn't listed in the power's description (prior to the addition of the real numbers in the details), they didn't actually believe me.  Oh well.

Oh my, what a big smile this put un my face! I was something of a D3 specialist, a combo I discovered shortly after I started playing (two or three weeks after launch). In the early days, no one wanted us...despite D3s being able to (patiently) solo AVs back then.  No direct heals and/or direct buffs? Rejected...except by the rare gem of a PUG that had a clue.

One of those in-the-know players provided what I still consider one of the best things I ever heard in the game (the direct opposite of the stupidity avalanches the thread's about). Got a /tell asking if I wanted to join a team and what kind of Defender I was. I first answered "Sure, and I'm a Dark/Dark." I  immediately started typing my usual kinda pathetic follow up along the lines of "I have a powerful area heal, multiple debuffs including a LOT of  ToHitDeBuff, an unresistable AoE stun, an area slow, and..." when I get the invite. I click "Yes" and the first thing I hear in team chat was "We got this now: I found us a Dark Defender..."

Practically cried I was so happy...and played my ass off to make sure the guy's confidence was justified!   :)

Quote from: Mister Bison on May 29, 2013, 03:49:36 PM
Literal example of Knowledge is power.

Would have infuriated a number of PvP regen scrappers too, especially since it must have been autohit at the time. ("What the hell is he rezzing ? WHAT THE HECK, WHERE IS MY REGEN !?")

Yeah, pretty much accurate... Very rarely on teams did I actually see people give Dark/Dark defenders the respect they deserved. I had one for a bit, and it was a ton of fun, though I never finished leveling it up high enough to see it truly shine.

Side note, there was an instance where I was told to sit back and wait outside of combat because I was on a SR scrapper during a Master of run for the Statesman TF, and the team didn't want me to die causing them to not get the badge... Yeah... Kinda hurt my pride a bit as a scrapper... He always seemed to be underestimated on teams, even though I could easily step in and tank if our actual tank died while taking on an AV(Actually ended up tanking the ITF a few times on that same scrapper. Wasn't easy, but it was doable with the proper buffs and praying Elude wouldn't drop when I wasn't paying attention enough to pop some blues/purples to keep from dieing...)...

That was the good thing and bad thing about CoH. There were so many powers to choose from, the options were virtually limitless, but too few people actually educated themselves on what every set could do, so a lot of sets got outright ignored, or simply didn't get much respect from people who never really saw what those sets could do. I rarely saw Ice tanks, for example, even though I actually enjoyed mine, and knew quite a few people who had higher level ones who could tank like beasts.

Quote from: Dollhouse on May 29, 2013, 04:47:53 PM
"We got this now: I found us a Dark Defender..."

I'm sure that wasn't me, but I know I said that a couple of times myself on PUGs.  And I know our whole team was happy the couple of times you ran with us (mostly because everyone in my SG was very familiar with what a D3 could do in the right hands.)

Quote from: Gothenem on May 28, 2013, 10:05:10 PM
This is true, until they changed how the boosts worked. It was near impossible to not speed boost someone when it became an AoE effect. I was playing my Ice/Kin and dropped a speed boost on the tank who requested it. I got barraged by three people who said they didn't want the boost. I informed them it was an AoE effect, and I couldn't target it. Then, I told them to go see the pigeon in Pocket D.

I won't say here the responses I got, but I added three people to my ignore list that day.

That's when you give them 2x ID instead.

I think Darks got more recognition after COV launched because it was one of the better secondaries for Masterminds, so a lot more people got to experience it.

Quote from: Rabgix on May 28, 2013, 11:27:25 AM
The infamous line given to me comes to mind:

"You're a defender, so you're the team's healer."

*Has completely ignored the fact that my powersets are debuff powers.*

"I'm not a healer."

"Well you're a useless defender."

*Kick*

Heh. this reminds me of my worst PUG/Tell situation.

Working with two friends and two strangers on a bank mission. One of the strangers was an overly agressive tank who kept berating me for not healing him fast enough.

I was playing a Storm Defender.

That's right. I had one heal, possibly the weakest in the game, the ever popular 02 boost; and this winner full of tiger blood (thanks Charlie) was giving me grief because I could not keep him healed.

He also failed to realize that I was the team leader.

/Kick.

I remember a very funny(or infuriating) example when I was playing my storm/electrical defender in my earlier days.  The team was engaging a mob above and was taking them out nicely, but I fell down and a mob was about to attack me since I fell way to close.  I rushed them with my hurricane, since they were in a very well enclosed room and locked them down, but the teams scrapper decided to rush to a mob by himself and started getting his butt kicked.  He invariably ran for it and pulled the mob directly into my location, just open enough that I couldn't keep them closed together.

A few of the team got killed and the controller turned to me and said "Stop herding defender!  Herding is for tankers!" and quit the team, blaming me for the mess even after I managed to fend off the extra mob that idiot scrapper pulled.  In fact I think I had more moments of anti-knockback phobia on my storm defender and later my more successful storm corruptor that it got very annoying.  I had another case where, in my days where I was really enjoying the debuffs, I had a dominator who hated me cause I called everyone in the team "guys"(it quickly turned out she was a sexist) when I asked how I was doing with my storm powers.  I asked later and she said "right here" and quit.

I had another stupid moment here and there on my kin/energy defender.  Ahem, "Stop knocking them around!".  "Don't listen to Energetic, she's to addled with knockback!" Course it leaves me with the thought "Um, oook so your completely ignoring my multi-stacking fulcrum shift because of my knockback?"  I even left a team once on a force field/energy defender because they were seriously knockback phobic, though they were also mad at the scrapper using shockwave.

I think the most annoying teams though were those that said they needed a healer when I was playing a defender or corruptor WITH that capability.  I even told them I was on a kin and they were all "Its not enough!". I'm thinking  "Um, excuse me?  You guys suck so bad as to need someone else when I already got one of the most powerful heals out there?"  They weren't good players anyways, one of them was an ice tanker who died constantly and the other was a fire tanker...ironicly the fire tanker was able to take care of himself, it still irked me he asked for that.

Lastly I can remember many trials where people DEMANDED everyone already be +3 before they entered, that included sadly even the earlier incarnate trials.  I remember in guild wars with the HA rank "requirements", of which the only way to get those heroes ascent ranks was playing heroes ascent.  Glad I only met a few teams going to the extreme of every trial demanding +3 on virtue, but it left me extremely insecure feeling that I'd have a very hard time getting later characters incarnate powers just because of the elitism of some people.

The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

Quote from: Mazz vs The World on May 31, 2013, 07:04:53 PM
The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

:o

Chrome.  My favorite color...

Quote from: Mazz vs The World on May 31, 2013, 07:04:53 PM
The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

Lol, can't say I ever had anything like that happen.  That is quite the strange question, it makes me curious as to what would make people ask that.  Unless the words you choice to type in the chat box were "I'm black" I am not sure how people would come to that conclusion.  Even then I would take that the same way I take everything on the internet, with a grain of salt.  Cause people be lying about crazy things!

@Taceus they were very slick with this question and often sent it via "tells".

Quote from: eabrace on May 29, 2013, 04:37:01 PM
Just to clarify, I was talking about Twilight Grasp (PBAoE heal, hitting a target required).  But you are correct that Howling Twilight (PBAoE rez w/ targeted AoE disorient effect) was auto hit and also applied a -Regen component.  Pretty sure the help text didn't mention that one either.

Sorry, I keep mixing those two. That was before the triangle of doom then, because this buff also brought the A/V resistance that gave a 80%+ resistance to regen debuff, which meant that twillight grasp's regen debuff of -25% was peanuts (howling twilight was -500, like lingering radiation)

Heh I still remember the day my brain kinda went " Oh Duh! Dark Miasma is better than just Tar Pit"  Though Tar pit is awesome itself.

I still remember being yelled at by someone while on my Super Reflexes Scrapper since the team I was on kept wiping down to a Tank and I. They didn't understand that  not all Scrappershave the same taunt aura that Brutes and Tanks commonly get with their Defense power sets.

And for the speed from speed boost complainers I would commonly tell the people to go visit Null in pocket D. It's kinda funny the amount of people who have been in Pocket D but never knew Null was just sitting on top of a taxi. Let alone something you could talk to.

Quote from: Mazz vs The World on May 31, 2013, 07:04:53 PM
The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

I got asked if I was Greek a lot, but that was because my main character had a Greek name. Surprising the first time someone sent me a tell all in Greek, tho'.

Heh, a friend of mine had a toon named Testikles... well, it could have been greek ;D

Quote from: Mazz vs The World on May 31, 2013, 07:04:53 PM
The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Not sure why this mattered on an MMO but this was asked constantly, I guess it had to do with the words I chose to type in the chat box!

Well, are you?   ;)

Though I did like to make more female heroes then male. I figure what's better to look at from behind for 5 or 6 hours.

But I used to team a lot in my first SG with a huge bodied tank called Spumulater (or something like that).

After about a year I found out that the person playing that toon was a mom in like her mid 30's. It just blew my mind lol.

Quote from: doc7924 on June 01, 2013, 06:07:37 PM
Well, are you?   ;)

Though I did like to make more female heroes then male. I figure what's better to look at from behind for 5 or 6 hours.

But I used to team a lot in my first SG with a huge bodied tank called Spumulater (or something like that).

After about a year I found out that the person playing that toon was a mom in like her mid 30's. It just blew my mind lol.

yup. no telling what the person behind the toon is like or controling said toon. That well done near proffesional grad looking toon might be merely the brainchild of a 8 year old. That ranting raving lunatic that troll everyone and speak in broken sentences and wear bright coloredmishmash of stuff might be the VP of major corporation and one of the most powerful Forbes 500 women in the world. That little girl toon might be a little girl while the little girl toon next to her might be some big fat guy laying in his laz-E-Boy chair with his wick hanging out. The naked cat girl might be a nun, the prude toon berating the cat girl might be a stripper.

But usually people try to assume and assert their assumption is right merely by what they think a person that would play a toon like is or will act online. 99.9% of the time it's completely wrong. And nothing wrong with being wrong but when a person assume and insist they are right as if they are that person or eveb know that person that is when they really are saying "Look at me look at me I'm an idiot that know people without even knowing them and my accessment is neevr wrong!" but while a bit odd to ask certain questions, it's better than one of those guys that just assume wrong and insist they are right even when ya try to tell them. There was plenty of those people in COX and on the forum. More than I seen in any other game so far. Most other games, most people dont give a crap about who you are in real life. They just call you "noob!" and keep it moving. In COX people will argue about who you are and why what they think you are is right and what you know you are is somehow wrong?

"You must be from Idaho."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are from Idaho. I know where you are from. Only people from IDaho use that word and play atoon looking like that."


"Well I heard that word many times outside Idaho and I'm not from Idaho."


"You are lying. I know you are from Idaho."


I mean really? And that is the mild example. You're telling me where I'm from now because of a word and the look of a toon? Sometimes it extends to what ya meant by ya words. Even after you tell them, they have the nerve to tell you what you meant even after you corrected them and tell them what you meant.

I once had a long, very intelligent chat with someone I was teaming with. Must have been about 10-15 mins, about all kind of things.

Found out a little later he was only 11 years old! I was like - wow - we had such a great chat I couldn't believe he was that young. And I was 49 at the time!

Also one time I was teaming and a lot of us on the team had teamed like 1,000 times before. So were were chatting back and forth in team chat, cussing like sailors. and making all kinds of rude remarks when one of the toons that was quiet chimed in and said basically that her son plays this toon and he is only 6 and could we please not chat so rudely or at least do private chats. We all got very quiet after that out of embarrassment lol.

Young people are often more knowledgeable and mature than us older folk give them credit for... and likewise us older folk are just as often more ignorant and immature than we would otherwise be expected to be... lol

Quote from: Kyriani on June 01, 2013, 09:21:30 PM
Young people are often more knowledgeable and mature than us older folk give them credit for... and likewise us older folk are just as often more ignorant and immature than we would otherwise be expected to be... lol

This is true.

Quote from: doc7924 on June 01, 2013, 09:11:43 PM
I once had a long, very intelligent chat with someone I was teaming with. Must have been about 10-15 mins, about all kind of things.

Found out a little later he was only 11 years old! I was like - wow - we had such a great chat I couldn't believe he was that young. And I was 49 at the time!

Also one time I was teaming and a lot of us on the team had teamed like 1,000 times before. So were were chatting back and forth in team chat, cussing like sailors. and making all kinds of rude remarks when one of the toons that was quiet chimed in and said basically that her son plays this toon and he is only 6 and could we please not chat so rudely or at least do private chats. We all got very quiet after that out of embarrassment lol.

Yeah understand that.


But then again, I believe on the box, it said rated T for Teen. WHich last I checked a 6 year old is not a teen. Although even with that I would have toned it down myself in that situation too. But on the same token, I hope she dont expect everyteam to give in to her demand to make chat rated E because she wants her 6 year old to play a game that is not even designed for 6 year olds, especially online game and they have every right to not change due to some parent that wish to make it so their 6 year old can play a game that is not designed for children that young. If it was some Mickey mouse rated E game that is designed for children and people was talking like that that expectation would be wholly right demand. But in a game rated T or above where it might be viewed as irresponsible to allow a 6 year old to play a game that not rated for their age group. COme on. COme into a rated T game, then expect rated T and above behavior, especially when iirc on the box it says that online content NR rated or something of the likes. Meaning, at least to me, that it may not be an appropriate environment for a 6 year old.


Reminds me of this Call of Duty 4: modern Warfare round. We all playing and one squad member was getting murked. We didnt care that he was bring down the score of our team. We all having fun and the squad member looks to be trying to stay alive so we brushed it off a "eh, he must be new." About 2 minutes before the round ended, a female adult get on the mic saying " Excuse me, my son is only 5. Please stop shooting him." One of my other other team mates bluntly stated. "Ma'am, we understand the concern for your son's avatar but you should be worried about your son and the kind of parent that allows a 5 year old to play a rated M game that is about blood war and guts. So instead of getting on here expecting people to turn this into a children's game as if the entire gaming world is supposed to dumb it down for you child only, you should get you child off this game, give yourself a time out and thing about what kind of parent you are for even buying your son this game. I have a 4 years old a 7 years old and 11 year old and I would NEVER allow any of them to play this game. It's called being a responsible parent. You should try it, you might like it."

Well I didnt exactly agree with the way he put it but the main point, I think he was right.

Not really a rude tell as such, but one of my few negative experiences in COH, on Virtue. I can't remember the guys name, but I wish I could.

I was on a reasonably lowbie alt. Somewhere in the mid-teens, probably. I got a tell from a guy wanting to know if I wanted to run missions on PI. I said that I was only a level whatever I was and wasn't sure how much help he could be, but I was on my own and bored, so if they had room, that'd be awesome.

So he put together a full team and I made the trek to PI. We ran a couple of missions, was pretty fun. I was holding my own more-or-less ok, bit of banter and chat. All nice enough, when the guy sends me a tell, asking if I want to join his SG.

I said it was kind of him, but I was an RPer and the toon was already promised to another group, one her 'brother' was in, and I was just waiting for one of the officers to be on the same time I was, for an SG invite.

He asked if I'd reconsider.

I said no, but thank you all the same.

He said that was a shame, and promptly kicked me out of the team, onto a map that was suddenly full of mobs 30-ish levels higher than me, and stomped me good.  >:(

I think that given that I can probably count the number of negative encounters I have on one hand (and many of them were RP drama based) that's not bad going, really for a game I played for 7 1/2 years.

Quote from: Rae on June 02, 2013, 01:43:47 PM
Not really a rude tell as such, but one of my few negative experiences in COH, on Virtue. I can't remember the guys name, but I wish I could.

I was on a reasonably lowbie alt. Somewhere in the mid-teens, probably. I got a tell from a guy wanting to know if I wanted to run missions on PI. I said that I was only a level whatever I was and wasn't sure how much help he could be, but I was on my own and bored, so if they had room, that'd be awesome.

So he put together a full team and I made the trek to PI. We ran a couple of missions, was pretty fun. I was holding my own more-or-less ok, bit of banter and chat. All nice enough, when the guy sends me a tell, asking if I want to join his SG.

I said it was kind of him, but I was an RPer and the toon was already promised to another group, one her 'brother' was in, and I was just waiting for one of the officers to be on the same time I was, for an SG invite.

He asked if I'd reconsider.

I said no, but thank you all the same.

He said that was a shame, and promptly kicked me out of the team, onto a map that was suddenly full of mobs 30-ish levels higher than me, and stomped me good.  >:(

I think that given that I can probably count the number of negative encounters I have on one hand (and many of them were RP drama based) that's not bad going, really for a game I played for 7 1/2 years.

I would say 98% of the people I encountered in the game were great and even hung out with some of them in the game for 4 or 5 years.

Then you get the 2% that are real d***heads and I have met my fair share of those as well.

To answer someone's question yes I am black!! LOL!! Back on topic, reading everyone's comments makes me miss COH even more. Although there were rude people who said crazy and absurd things it was still so very entertaining!

Quote from: Mazz vs The World on June 03, 2013, 03:57:52 PM
To answer someone's question yes I am black!! LOL!! Back on topic, reading everyone's comments makes me miss COH even more. Although there were rude people who said crazy and absurd things it was still so very entertaining!

That was the thing I loved most about COH and most MMO's - If you were nice and played well and got along with other players - no one (at least I didn't) cared what race, religion, sex, whatever you were behind that hero you played.

Even if you were an a-hole, it didn't matter. Just proves anyone can be an a-hole no matter race, religion or sex.

Quote from: Rae on June 02, 2013, 01:43:47 PM
Not really a rude tell as such, but one of my few negative experiences in COH, on Virtue. I can't remember the guys name, but I wish I could.

I was on a reasonably lowbie alt. Somewhere in the mid-teens, probably. I got a tell from a guy wanting to know if I wanted to run missions on PI. I said that I was only a level whatever I was and wasn't sure how much help he could be, but I was on my own and bored, so if they had room, that'd be awesome.

So he put together a full team and I made the trek to PI. We ran a couple of missions, was pretty fun. I was holding my own more-or-less ok, bit of banter and chat. All nice enough, when the guy sends me a tell, asking if I want to join his SG.

I said it was kind of him, but I was an RPer and the toon was already promised to another group, one her 'brother' was in, and I was just waiting for one of the officers to be on the same time I was, for an SG invite.

He asked if I'd reconsider.

I said no, but thank you all the same.

He said that was a shame, and promptly kicked me out of the team, onto a map that was suddenly full of mobs 30-ish levels higher than me, and stomped me good.  >:(

I think that given that I can probably count the number of negative encounters I have on one hand (and many of them were RP drama based) that's not bad going, really for a game I played for 7 1/2 years.

That was actually the recruiting method for one of Virtue's bigger, more well-known non-RP SGs. Unnamed Heroes or Forgotten Heroes or something like that. The leader's name escapes me at the moment, but there was once a thread about him on the official forums. The thread basically exploded because A LOT of players had been lured out to IP and abandoned over a period of YEARS. So the SG leader shows up in the thread and makes a well-written, totally unapologetic defense of his recruiting methods, citing recruitment rate, membership size, SG base assets and other factors as indicators of his success. So a lot of people were livid, of course, and a lot of people were also dismissing him as a unicorn.

The scary part is, after studying his one or two posts (he didn't stick around to debate it much as I recall, just made his points and left), I didn't think that guy was a unicorn, at least not in the traditional sense. Or rather I should say, I don't think his intent was to unicorn. I remember this guy one of my sisters used to date, back in her "bad boy" stage. He would say stuff all the time that just made you wonder if he was looking for a reaction, or really was rotten to the core; but he'd always say it with a straight face, like it was just a casual comment. Years later I found out he had indeed been medically diagnosed as some kind of sociopath. The part of his physical brain that allows most of us to feel empathy was honest-to-goodness...inactive. The guy seemed to function well in terms of work and finances, but if he saw his best friend dying in the street, he'd probably want to check his watch before helping, just to make sure he wasn't going to be late to any appointments.

Eventually, one day, on a lowbie character, the Unnamed Heroes guy sent me a recruiting tell. I was in AP, he was in IP. Of course I knew exactly what was going on and boy, I let him have it in a /tell. He never responded or anything. Now that I think about it, my anger might have elicited nothing in him besides bewilderment or mild irritation.

Quote from: Captain Electric on June 04, 2013, 01:58:59 AM

The scary part is, after studying his one or two posts (he didn't stick around to debate it much as I recall, just made his points and left), I didn't think that guy was a troll, at least not in the traditional sense. Or rather I should say, I don't think his intent was to troll. I remember this guy one of my sisters used to date, back in her "bad boy" stage. He would say stuff all the time that just made you wonder if he was looking for a reaction, or really was rotten to the core; but he'd always say it with a straight face, like it was just a casual comment. Years later I found out he had indeed been medically diagnosed as some kind of sociopath. The part of his physical brain that allows most of us to feel empathy was honest-to-goodness...inactive. The guy seemed to function well in terms of work and finances, but if he saw his best friend dying in the street, he'd probably want to check his watch before helping, just to make sure he wasn't going to be late to any appointments.

YEah believe or not, there are many of those type of people. And of course 99.999% are not sociopathic turn everyone they come across into chopped liver any more than someone crying full of emotions and trying to get revenge on the world because their dog died. I know quite a few personally. Nothing is wrong or weird about them, all of them I know are highly successful, they just have different view of things just the way thier minds work. Some do get a bit flustered when they view too much mush is surrounding them. ANd most are not trying to be mean but it's a case where some just cant relate. Like if someone goes to walmart and standing at checkout numbe is this guy there bawling outloud all day and night about his imaginary friend. To many, reasonable and normal emotioned people probably will find this bizarre, uncomfortable to be around and or a down right annoyance, and probably think the dude is bat pancake loco. But to the guy, the death of his imaginary friend is very real and hurt very deep and people who tell him to move along, or he's crazy, or tell him to cut it out and the store employees that try to remove him are pure heartless and mean and emotionless and cruel. While to others that cant relate to losing an imaginary friend, it's merely a removal of an inconvience. And like anything there are levels and thresholds.

Some people have more empathy morethan others and in different areas. In a way 99% of the world is sociopathic in some manner. Some feel empathy for the guy struggling and have to steal diapers because he cant afford any while others say he is a criminal and should be locked up while those same people can feel empathy for someone who lost a house ina storm while others say they should not have moved there in the first place while feeling empathy for a cat while others think it's nuts but they can feel empathy for a guy in the cold while the first guy see it as merely an opportunity to get diapers but feel empathy for his friend who just got shot. 

Here's one!!!

LF DfB...Please send tell for invite!!!

Sure, Energy Aura.  I have someone with the Lost Cure ready for that AV! :D

I enjoyed the Rude Tells thread back on the official forums. Psychoti (I believe that was his name), in particular, had a way with stupid people, both in gaming and in real life. It's been fun reading some of the stuff here. I have to say, though, in the 5 years or so I played, I can't say I ever had a rude tell, stupid comment, or been griefed by anyone. Maybe cause I rarely grouped, and spent most of my time on /hide to stop the blind invites and gold spammers....

Quote from: Night-Hawk07 on June 04, 2013, 05:52:25 PM
I enjoyed the Rude Tells thread back on the official forums. Psychoti (I believe that was his name), in particular, had a way with stupid people, both in gaming and in real life. It's been fun reading some of the stuff here. I have to say, though, in the 5 years or so I played, I can't say I ever had a rude tell, stupid comment, or been griefed by anyone. Maybe cause I rarely grouped, and spent most of my time on /hide to stop the blind invites and gold spammers....

They were too busy flocking to my path like how zombies smell fresh living meat. :D

Glad I want the only one who got stung  :)

I know CoH wasn't perfect. There were people in the community I didn't like, or avoided and probably a few people who didn't think much of me.

But they were my community. They were a part of something I loved, and they helped to make it what it was. I very much hope to be annoyed by them again in the future, and about them in return :-)

Quote from: Mazz vs The World on May 31, 2013, 07:04:53 PM
The dumbest comment/question/remark I got quite often on COX is this one right here:

"Are you black?"

Haha Mazz, that was because of a couple things.

1) You were a daily PvPer
2) PvP community is small, which means everyone knows everyone and wants to know their business (Small-town esque)
3) You've been on teamspeak with some people (Including me) and they could tell by your strong accent, and then apparently that got around
4) It's the PvP community, they'll find something about you and rip on you about it for a good long time

You're just as guilty as all of us for the last one of course. Nobody left CoH PvP clean. Anyway, that explains the question.

I wouldn't say this was stupid but because of my toon's name, Older'n Dirt, I'd always get the, "Bet you're not older than me." remark. In my 60's. I'd usually reply, "I'm probably old enough to be your father or grandfather," and usually win that conversation. I did lose twice though, once to a lady, who after my usual "I'm probably old enough to be your father or grandfather," reply said, "Then you must really be Older than dirt, I'm 75"  and then again to a man who said he was 70. My answer to both those people was, "WOW, I now have someone to look up to!" I had a good laugh, and I'm sure both of them did too, on those two occasions

Quote from: Sentry44 on June 04, 2013, 11:45:20 PM
Haha Mazz, that was because of a couple things.

1) You were a daily PvPer
2) PvP community is small, which means everyone knows everyone and wants to know their business (Small-town esque)
3) You've been on teamspeak with some people (Including me) and they could tell by your strong accent, and then apparently that got around
4) It's the PvP community, they'll find something about you and rip on you about it for a good long time

You're just as guilty as all of us for the last one of course. Nobody left CoH PvP clean. Anyway, that explains the question.

LOL, hey yes I was known to be all up in PVP but.....I was asked this question during PVE alot and this is what I was speaking about. I would be on a team and all of a sudden someone would ask me my race. So I thought that was interesting it was probably because I used slang when I chatted amongst the team I guess????

Quote from: ahmpizzedoff on June 05, 2013, 06:03:42 PM
I wouldn't say this was stupid but because of my toon's name, Older'n Dirt, I'd always get the, "Bet you're not older than me." remark. In my 60's. I'd usually reply, "I'm probably old enough to be your father or grandfather," and usually win that conversation. I did lose twice though, once to a lady, who after my usual "I'm probably old enough to be your father or grandfather," reply said, "Then you must really be Older than dirt, I'm 75"  and then again to a man who said he was 70. My answer to both those people was, "WOW, I now have someone to look up to!" I had a good laugh, and I'm sure both of them did too, on those two occasions

My mother-in-law played almost as much as myself, my wife and my son.  She was in her 70s.  She would still be playing if it was available.  :)

Quote from: adarict on June 05, 2013, 08:27:50 PM
My mother-in-law played almost as much as myself, my wife and my son.  She was in her 70s.  She would still be playing if it was available.  :)

I had a  friend that played a character Old Bat.

That toon was based on her grandmother.

She was brisk until the end. lol. Kind of like a second grandma to me in my adult life. And as she said, "I'm not dying until I'm good and ready to and if death comes early he's going to have to sit down and wait until I'm ready." She lasted two and half more years and kicked 89 in her sleep. When she was good and ready to go I guess.

And that old lady didnt give a crap, she spoke her mind. If something was pancaked she'll say so, and dont care who you are family or not.

The amount of stupid I was witness to over the 8 years of playing can not be told in one post. 

Lets just say it was never so much the single thing someone would say, but it was seriously noticable at certain server events like a weekend hami-raid, or nightly Incarnate trials, never mind the endless levels of stupid that would happen when certain groups of people would gather together.  If it was just one or two, most of the rest of us could deal with it...but there seemed to be gremlin eating after midnight that would drive the stupid into the epic levels when a critical mass was reached.  Then the tards would overwhelm the rest of us....

Quote from: Lant on June 06, 2013, 01:31:31 PM
there seemed to be gremlin eating after midnight

I believe that gremiln has a name: alcohol.  ;)

Quote from: eabrace on June 06, 2013, 03:16:27 PM
I believe that gremiln has a name: alcohol.  ;)

(https://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz55/KansasCrawford/Funny%20Pics/GremlinsHolla_zps4db8a19e.jpg)

If it was only alcohol, that would be at least entertaining....I think that some people just...um...were special.

Quote from: Lant on June 06, 2013, 08:09:56 PM
If it was only alcohol, that would be at least entertaining....I think that some people just...um...were special.

Some people have a tendency to turn into...gremlins online because A) they can get away with it. B) who is goign to find out?   C) Not like anyone going to to do aything about it much. D)BEcause they can. E) Some people are just truely that way  F) They get bullied in real life and this is their oly chance to have any sort of power to make up their helplessness feeling in person. G)They can be a bad ass and no one can call their bluff.


Alcohol induced people, usually are merely entertaining, even the drunk angry ones and rarely doing it just it just to do it to get on someone nerves.

Quote from: JaguarX on June 06, 2013, 11:05:33 PM
Some people have a tendency to turn into...gremlins online because A) they can get away with it. B) who is goign to find out?   C) Not like anyone going to to do aything about it much. D)BEcause they can. E) Some people are just truely that way  F) They get bullied in real life and this is their oly chance to have any sort of power to make up their helplessness feeling in person. G)They can be a bad ass and no one can call their bluff.


Alcohol induced people, usually are merely entertaining, even the drunk angry ones and rarely doing it just it just to do it to get on someone nerves.

Also known as GIFT. Link below if you'd like to read a bit more about it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT)

Quote from: JWBullfrog on June 07, 2013, 12:03:42 AM

Also known as GIFT. Link below if you'd like to read a bit more about it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT)

ah yes, that basically describes it quite well.

GIFT.

learn something new everyday.

I just remembered something that a few of us did at the end on Virtue that was technically on the opposite side of this conversation, but it was extremely liberating and a long time in coming. Spamming goldspammers!

Not long after the announcement and the subsequent loss of GM's either being online or just not caring to stop some things (like IP infringement), the goldspammers were still showing up in AP hocking their spam. A group of us spontaneously decided, since this person was obviously a moron and didn't care to look at the chat he was spamming to figure out that the game was being closed down, that we were going to get rid of these guys. We spammed his spam not in chat, where it would bother everyone else, but instead we found the idiot and proceeded to visually spam him to call attention to him. We hit him with AOE's, heals, bubbles and generally jumped on his head for a good 10 minutes before he logged.
I have to say I don't feel bad about that... ;D

Quote from: blackjak on June 07, 2013, 02:15:49 AM
I just remembered something that a few of us did at the end on Virtue that was technically on the opposite side of this conversation, but it was extremely liberating and a long time in coming. Spamming goldspammers!

Not long after the announcement and the subsequent loss of GM's either being online or just not caring to stop some things (like IP infringement), the goldspammers were still showing up in AP hocking their spam. A group of us spontaneously decided, since this person was obviously a moron and didn't care to look at the chat he was spamming to figure out that the game was being closed down, that we were going to get rid of these guys. We spammed his spam not in chat, where it would bother everyone else, but instead we found the idiot and proceeded to visually spam him to call attention to him. We hit him with AOE's, heals, bubbles and generally jumped on his head for a good 10 minutes before he logged.
I have to say I don't feel bad about that... ;D

hmm wished I thought of that way before the game closed, when the gold spammers first started.

It's funny but I actually felt at first like a banhammer was looming over me as I harassed him even though he didn't react visibly or in his spam texts. I guess years of being in the community and never having a problem other than a few annoying people buzzing around killing immersion or disrupting RP made even messing with a spammer feel like you were breaking a "law" of the city.

I remember this one team I was with the leader got frustrated and wanted to restarted the mission so he tells the entire team to log off. Everyone else, realizing that you don't need to log off to reset missions, stays online. A couple minutes pass and logs back on and realizes we didn't log off. He curses at on the broadcast for not following his orders and the team decides to go on without him.

Quote from: doc7924 on June 01, 2013, 09:11:43 PM
I once had a long, very intelligent chat with someone I was teaming with. Must have been about 10-15 mins, about all kind of things.

Found out a little later he was only 11 years old! I was like - wow - we had such a great chat I couldn't believe he was that young. And I was 49 at the time!

Also one time I was teaming and a lot of us on the team had teamed like 1,000 times before. So were were chatting back and forth in team chat, cussing like sailors. and making all kinds of rude remarks when one of the toons that was quiet chimed in and said basically that her son plays this toon and he is only 6 and could we please not chat so rudely or at least do private chats. We all got very quiet after that out of embarrassment lol.

I think I was on that team... Or had the same thing happen to me.

Quote from: JaguarX on June 05, 2013, 09:50:51 PM
I had a  friend that played a character Old Bat.

That toon was based on her grandmother.

She was brisk until the end. lol. Kind of like a second grandma to me in my adult life. And as she said, "I'm not dying until I'm good and ready to and if death comes early he's going to have to sit down and wait until I'm ready." She lasted two and half more years and kicked 89 in her sleep. When she was good and ready to go I guess.

And that old lady didnt give a crap, she spoke her mind. If something was pancaked she'll say so, and dont care who you are family or not.

I had a toon named Abe Vigoda.  I'm surprised it never got nerfed.

Quote from: hurple on June 08, 2013, 08:47:23 PM
I had a toon named Abe Vigoda.  I'm surprised it never got nerfed.

http://www.abevigoda.com/

Yep, still alive.

Was on a team and we were blowing stuff away quickly then the leader playing a blaster said "Something is wrong, we can be doing this better, don't do anything until I tell you do to so"

(Blaster runs into large group and goes spat)

"Why didn't you do anything?"

me: You didn't tell us to attack.

".....well do something!"

me: ok (rez the blaster and he goes spat again)

"why didn't you come save me?"

me: you didn't tell us to

(blaster quits)

So we finished the mission and had a good laugh.

where to start.

I can't remember but I know I've heard some stupid stuff.

oh yeah, some people who know me on protector will know who I'm talking about, and it may not be the stupidest of things but it's definitely the most memorable (I lost a few globals due to it)

let me set the stage, I have a friend who likes to play CoH, (who doesn't?) but thier friends like them to ALSO spend time writing replies to posts in forums. ok are we clear on the conflict now?

Good, so this friend had a few weeks of AFK TFing under thier belt, and alot of people were getting a bit ticked off and rightfully so. I had planned a Dr. Quarterfield and we were low on participants so I got my friend online "Are you possitive that you will not AFK?" "yes"
"Are you absolutely sure you wont AFK?" "yes, just get on with it already"

Team in tells "awww not her! she'll go AFK" me "she says she wont, as her friend I'll believe her" team "are you sure about this? you do know this TF is 6 hours long right?"

I agreed.

my friend had just camped out at the door, I get flustered as I had put my reputation online "hey ___ are you there?" I say in a tell "yeah" they say. "why aren't you helping the team?" they say: "I'm not much help I'll just die anyways"

I face palm and keep encouraging them to play in between each enemy group I face, finally I see motion on the map and go to ease. but we were just completeing the mission. everyone exits and we wait.

team "___ is afk, they didn't exit"

"nah I saw her moving before we exited" nearly a minute or 2 later after a short break;

____ "huh? oh sorry I didn't know we should exit yet."

so then it's every mission after that the same stuff happens and the team starts complaining to me. finally my friend says "Yumi just came online and sent me a tell she demands I stop playing and post on the forums, I'm going AFK try to cover for me"

so I try to cover for them, then they D/C and I just keep the team moving.

2nd to last mission 6 hours under our belts the team had not mentioned my friends absence.

then miraculously my connection redflags DUE TO WINDOWS UPDATE SCREW YOU MICROSOFT. sorry rant asside, after the mandatory auto reboot I log in to find my friend had just logged back in, there was now a very heated argument with some nasty words being directed at my friend, i was no longer team leader and team lead kicked my friend from the team.

now my friend gives me the old guilt trip "you continue, I deserved this" *goes to cry*

I remember thinking "OH F#$%... eitherway I make someone mad, my friend obviously wants me to quit but wont say it, and even if they don;t and I continue they'll be mad at me later... just what I need Fem agro after my first Dr. Q TF.."

so I told the team they could finish alone knowing if I stayed on for long enough to explain I would get the super fem agro hammer.

so yeah.. 6 hours wasted and some decent friends now block me.. I miss my globals.

Quote from: Mistress Urd on June 08, 2013, 10:37:48 PM
Was on a team and we were blowing stuff away quickly then the leader playing a blaster said "Something is wrong, we can be doing this better, don't do anything until I tell you do to so"

(Blaster runs into large group and goes spat)

"Why didn't you do anything?"

me: You didn't tell us to attack.

".....well do something!"

me: ok (rez the blaster and he goes spat again)

"why didn't you come save me?"

me: you didn't tell us to

(blaster quits)

So we finished the mission and had a good laugh.

I loved teamed with people like that.

Go running into a huge mob like +2 or 3 to them, get their ass kicked and then blame everyone else.

I did team once on a TF with a TANK that refused to go first and get agro because he was afraid to die and "I don't want debt".

First off - that's a tanks job. The first 4 years I tried tanks but never was any good. then the last few years I had finally gotten the hang of tanking and got pretty darn good at it.

But if you are a tank that always thinks you will die - then quite frankly you must suck.

After like one or two mission the leader just kicked him of for being basically useless as a tank.

QuoteBut if you are a tank that always thinks you will die - then quite frankly you must suck.

Or they were a newish player who came from some other MMO and wasn't used to the fact that you could fight more than a few guys at once in CoH without it being a death sentence. I wish more MMOs did that. Notably, TOR is especially bad with it because almost literally every cutscene in the class quests has this big thing about how outnumbered you are or whatever, and then it's the same three guys because if they actually threw the whole armies the game's so fond of going on about at you it'd be unwinnable.

The grief I took pvp'n on my stalker and widow for using overload/elude and sometimes even hide was always fun.....way too many "curse out" tells to post here.  The funny thing was that these peeps were using regen powers and sometimes pop'n like junkies.  Hey, I used up a lot of inf to trick out those OL and Elude slots so I'm gonna use em!!  Hypocrisy = Fun times!! 

Quote from: r00tb0ySlim on June 09, 2013, 04:02:10 PM
The grief I took pvp'n on my stalker and widow for using overload/elude and sometimes even hide was always fun.....way too many "curse out" tells to post here.  The funny thing was that these peeps were using regen powers and sometimes pop'n like junkies.  Hey, I used up a lot of inf to trick out those OL and Elude slots so I'm gonna use em!!  Hypocrisy = Fun times!!

I always got that on my EA Stalker. My EA was insanely effective inside, and out of, Overload, thus I was one of the VERY few toons who was a regular in RV and didn't have Hiber or Phase. Not to mention my one travel power to the "normal" SS/SJ Combo.

My obvious rebuttal would always be "Better fall back on a build and power that needs to be properly slotted rather than one that's a "Get Out of Jail for Free" card.

The amount of stupid things said in the PvP World could fill this thread to capacity in no time ;)

Quote from: JWBullfrog on June 07, 2013, 12:03:42 AM

Also known as GIFT. Link below if you'd like to read a bit more about it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT)

I have that on a teeshirt I got at PAX in 2010. It's one of my very favorites. :D

Why are you even a Defender if you don't have heals?

I used to love making a new toon...skipping outbreak and hitting Atlas as a lvl 1.  More times than I can count a lvl 2 from outbreak would zone in and ask me to PL them  :o.

Quote from: rollthatkatamari on June 11, 2013, 03:41:31 AM
Why are you even a Defender if you don't have heals?

Why are you a tank if you dont take taunt?

Quote from: JaguarX on June 11, 2013, 01:07:19 PM
Why are you a tank if you dont take taunt?

I had (have...it is still my toon) a lvl 50 tank WP/BA that was made to solo.  I wanted 1-50 alone.  I was bothered relentlessly by a team to tank even AFTER I told them I was on a 1-50 SOLO run.  I finally agree and they get upset I don't have taunt and kick me.  Maybe I should have named him SOLO ONLY  >:(

Quote from: MindBlender on June 13, 2013, 11:04:05 AM
Maybe I should have named him SOLO ONLY

That or "DIDN'T TAKE TAUNT".  :)

This thread is hilarious/sad, but one thing (so far) has jumped out at me big-time:

Quote from: Shenku on May 28, 2013, 09:09:09 PM
"LOL! Kheldians! XD" (I don't care what anyone says, I loved my Peacebringer, and my Warshade as well, even though I never got her to 50... Built properly, they could be tons of fun, they just required more planning to setup that way than standard ATs.)

Anyone who ever said that never saw a MFing Warshade in action, let alone built one.

Quote from: blackjak on June 07, 2013, 02:15:49 AM
I just remembered something that a few of us did at the end on Virtue that was technically on the opposite side of this conversation, but it was extremely liberating and a long time in coming. Spamming goldspammers!

Not long after the announcement and the subsequent loss of GM's either being online or just not caring to stop some things (like IP infringement), the goldspammers were still showing up in AP hocking their spam. A group of us spontaneously decided, since this person was obviously a moron and didn't care to look at the chat he was spamming to figure out that the game was being closed down, that we were going to get rid of these guys. We spammed his spam not in chat, where it would bother everyone else, but instead we found the idiot and proceeded to visually spam him to call attention to him. We hit him with AOE's, heals, bubbles and generally jumped on his head for a good 10 minutes before he logged.
I have to say I don't feel bad about that... ;D

I did something that I found out was truly banhammer-worthy afterward:  There was a spammer in AP WW on Virtue.  He had either an attack aura on, or some PBAoE attack set to auto, so I managed-- with lots and lots of trial and error-- to stun, then TP enemies that were yellow right next to his lvl 1 spammy self.  I eventually killed him.  ;D

Quote from: Joshex on June 08, 2013, 11:14:19 PM
where to start.

I can't remember but I know I've heard some stupid stuff.

oh yeah, some people who know me on protector will know who I'm talking about, and it may not be the stupidest of things but it's definitely the most memorable (I lost a few globals due to it)

let me set the stage, I have a friend who likes to play CoH, (who doesn't?) but thier friends like them to ALSO spend time writing replies to posts in forums. ok are we clear on the conflict now?

Good, so this friend had a few weeks of AFK TFing under thier belt, and alot of people were getting a bit ticked off and rightfully so. I had planned a Dr. Quarterfield and we were low on participants so I got my friend online "Are you possitive that you will not AFK?" "yes"
"Are you absolutely sure you wont AFK?" "yes, just get on with it already"

Team in tells "awww not her! she'll go AFK" me "she says she wont, as her friend I'll believe her" team "are you sure about this? you do know this TF is 6 hours long right?"

I agreed.

Spoiler for Hidden:

so we got through the Shadow Shard missions fast enough and moved onto the crey stuff

my friend had just camped out at the door, I get flustered as I had put my reputation online "hey ___ are you there?" I say in a tell "yeah" they say. "why aren't you helping the team?" they say: "I'm not much help I'll just die anyways"

I face palm and keep encouraging them to play in between each enemy group I face, finally I see motion on the map and go to ease. but we were just completeing the mission. everyone exits and we wait.

team "___ is afk, they didn't exit"

"nah I saw her moving before we exited" nearly a minute or 2 later after a short break;

____ "huh? oh sorry I didn't know we should exit yet."

so then it's every mission after that the same stuff happens and the team starts complaining to me. finally my friend says "Yumi just came online and sent me a tell she demands I stop playing and post on the forums, I'm going AFK try to cover for me"

so I try to cover for them, then they D/C and I just keep the team moving.

2nd to last mission 6 hours under our belts the team had not mentioned my friends absence.

then miraculously my connection redflags DUE TO WINDOWS UPDATE SCREW YOU MICROSOFT. sorry rant asside, after the mandatory auto reboot I log in to find my friend had just logged back in, there was now a very heated argument with some nasty words being directed at my friend, i was no longer team leader and team lead kicked my friend from the team.

now my friend gives me the old guilt trip "you continue, I deserved this" *goes to cry*

I remember thinking "OH F#$%... eitherway I make someone mad, my friend obviously wants me to quit but wont say it, and even if they don;t and I continue they'll be mad at me later... just what I need Fem agro after my first Dr. Q TF.."

so I told the team they could finish alone knowing if I stayed on for long enough to explain I would get the super fem agro hammer.

so yeah.. 6 hours wasted and some decent friends now block me.. I miss my globals.

Haha, I was unfortunately on this TF, and you are slanting it just a bit to make your friend look less like a troll. I have screenshots of that person saying they only came back at the end to snipe the badge.

I'd post them, but I don't really see a point anymore. Also, the mods might not like it.  ;)

Edit: Also...you didn't tell us to continue on alone. You called us arseholes, told us you're putting us on ignore, and threatened to report us. How did that work out for you, incidentally?

Quote from: MindBlender on June 13, 2013, 11:04:05 AM
I had (have...it is still my toon) a lvl 50 tank WP/BA that was made to solo.  I wanted 1-50 alone.  I was bothered relentlessly by a team to tank even AFTER I told them I was on a 1-50 SOLO run.  I finally agree and they get upset I don't have taunt and kick me.  Maybe I should have named him SOLO ONLY  >:(

Yeah by the time WP came about I was mostly solo and one time on this team.

I get random invite, I decline and send PM, "Hey I'm a solo tank so I dont have taunt". They throw invite again anyways so I accept.

By the third mob, mind you not many has died, holding aggro pretty well so far when the blaster didnt get knockback crazy as I usually just hop in first anyways. Then I get tell fro mteam leader, the same one that sent me invite, "You dont have taunt?"  I reply "No." His reply" Why are you a tank if you dont take taunt?" "No need for it for my primary playing style."

"well the blaster is sending me angry PMs abotu you not holding aggro and him dying/ He says he is about to quit."

"Well tell him I said one if have concerns with me, PM me and two tell him to stop scattering the enemy everywhere. Even if I had taunt he was dead in the water doing that because I wont or rather wouldnt be able to taunt every single scattered mob in time enough to save his hide."

Blaster quits this time after running ahead too far and kicking bucket.

About four minutes later, his (the blaster) spot is replaced with another tank. We decide to wait for this tank to get here. When he does in team chat, team leader says. "****** is lead tank. He has taunt" Ok, we go with that. Sad to say he had taunt alright, but seem to think that tanks only should be good for taunt and nothing else, judging form the mistell that seemed directed at the team leader. "I'm not supposed to be killing things. I'm supposed ot hold aggro and I could if you let me herd the room." the controller pips up, "Well we would have no problem with you herding if you could manage one group of mob. They are all over the place!" The team leader, "Alright, Crypt (me) will be lead tank now." New tank: I thought you said he didnt have taunt? How can they tank?" Leader-"Look. Take it or leave it." The tank stayed but nothing more on that team was said about the lack of taunt.

But yeah got plenty of those Why do you play a tank but not take taunt.

My replies vary.

"It wasnt inherent so I assumed that means it was a choice for me to make. If you want a tank with taunt, go make one."

"I'm a solo tank. Dont need taunt solo. Told you that before I joined."

"I'm not a prick to the mobs. I dont taunt them. I just kill them"

"Why would I taunt them? I'm a robot that is programmed to take hits and dish out hits" (robot themes toon)

"I'll taunt them after they are dead. Do you prefer a tea bag or the good old middle finger?"

"I dont taunt. I SMASH!!!"

Quote from: JaguarX on June 13, 2013, 03:39:48 PM
"I'll taunt them after they are dead. Do you prefer a tea bag or the good old middle finger?"

Best reply of the bunch, right there.

"You should respec, those powers are useless!"

QuoteI thought you said he didnt have taunt? How can they tank?"

A lot of the tank moves actually taunted anyway, taunt was really more just of something you did from time to time in a power rotation to keep the aggro at its max in case for some crazy reason your attacks weren't capping it alone.

Quote from: Taceus Jiwede on June 14, 2013, 08:56:12 AM
A lot of the tank moves actually taunted anyway, taunt was really more just of something you did from time to time in a power rotation to keep the aggro at its max in case for some crazy reason your attacks weren't capping it alone.

exactly!!

In my regular group, we had a standing policy of putting Taunt on autofire, because our ranged players had a habit of either blasting the mob with a cone or AoE with wicked knockback or just drawing the aggro.

BTW, I don't really have any good lines to add to this thread, because I was usually the one saying the stupid things. They're best left to the sands of time. :)

I can't begin to guess how many times some player would flat-out TELL me to give him influence, or to team with him to help him level, especially as my toons reached higher levels. That kind of player repeatedly made me glad for the HIDE function.

As has been mentioned before, this reminds me, too, of the Rude Tells thread on the CoH forums. I had totally intended to save that particularly-epic piece of Coh-community history, but never got around to doing it, more's the pity. If anyone saved the Rude Tells thread, would you be a hero and post a link to wher we can enjoy it again, please?

--Super Firebug

Incoming munitions always have the right of way.

Quote from: r00tb0ySlim on June 09, 2013, 04:02:10 PM
The grief I took pvp'n on my stalker and widow for using overload/elude and sometimes even hide was always fun.....way too many "curse out" tells to post here.  The funny thing was that these peeps were using regen powers and sometimes pop'n like junkies.  Hey, I used up a lot of inf to trick out those OL and Elude slots so I'm gonna use em!!  Hypocrisy = Fun times!!

Here's one for you.  I had a toon named "Scaredy Cat" who made it to lvl 25 without ever fighting anything.  He'd keep joining teams, and when they would encounter a group of enemies, he'd run and hide. I got cussed and kicked quite a few times, but some teams loved the joke and kept him around.  I mean, it said in his intro that 1) I was going to roleplay the character, and B) when confronted with any danger whatsoever he would run and hide... So none of it should have been any kind of surprise.

Quote from: hurple on June 15, 2013, 06:00:26 AM
Here's one for you.  I had a toon named "Scaredy Cat" who made it to lvl 25 without ever fighting anything.  He'd keep joining teams, and when they would encounter a group of enemies, he'd run and hide. I got cussed and kicked quite a few times, but some teams loved the joke and kept him around.  I mean, it said in his intro that 1) I was going to roleplay the character, and B) when confronted with any danger whatsoever he would run and hide... So none of it should have been any kind of surprise.

LOL....that is funny and it wasn't like you were "hiding" anything especially with your name & bio  ;D

Quote from: r00tb0ySlim on June 15, 2013, 12:58:01 PM
LOL....that is funny and it wasn't like you were "hiding" anything especially with your name & bio  ;D

See now I could get down with a toon like that. That is in the character and nature to not fight.


Instead of bragging to be the biggest baddest on the planet yet never fight or dont give areason for not doing so.

"Brave Sir Robin" comes to mind, for some reason... :)

Yesterday I had a moment in CO.  I was in an alert fighting Kevin poe, an untimed Grab alert.  As the fight with the legendary starts, Kevin does his usual backflipping around like he always does, and someone complains "Stop knocking him!".  I say he's immune to knockback and he says "No he isn't".  Being me I send him a tell stating that He, dead man walking and also Devona hawk can all backflip, but are immune to knockback.  He then says "I knocked him back before." and added me to the ignore.  For those who don't know, all legendaries except for nemesis are completely unaffected by knockback....sigh.

Quote from: rollthatkatamari on June 11, 2013, 03:41:31 AM
Why are you even a Defender if you don't have heals?

Defenders were not a healing class, they were a buff/debuff class that also had attacks.  Healing was a last resort and relying entirely on it was a very good way to, ironicly, fail to support a team properly.  Even empathy had to use it's buffs properly.

Quote from: LaughingAlex on June 16, 2013, 01:53:28 AM
Yesterday I had a moment in CO.  I was in an alert fighting Kevin poe, an untimed Grab alert.  As the fight with the legendary starts, Kevin does his usual backflipping around like he always does, and someone complains "Stop knocking him!".  I say he's immune to knockback and he says "No he isn't".  Being me I send him a tell stating that He, dead man walking and also Devona hawk can all backflip, but are immune to knockback.  He then says "I knocked him back before." and added me to the ignore.  For those who don't know, all legendaries except for nemesis are completely unaffected by knockback....sigh.

Basically.

*facetopalm* at that guy.

Quote from: Stone Daemon on June 13, 2013, 03:23:48 PM
Haha, I was unfortunately on this TF, and you are slanting it just a bit to make your friend look less like a troll. I have screenshots of that person saying they only came back at the end to snipe the badge.

I'd post them, but I don't really see a point anymore. Also, the mods might not like it.  ;)

Edit: Also...you didn't tell us to continue on alone. You called us arseholes, told us you're putting us on ignore, and threatened to report us. How did that work out for you, incidentally?

I did? it.. worked out terribly. lost you guys/gals as globals. I screwed myself over lol.

as for you, if you can find it in your heart to forgive me, I'm hoping we can be globals again when the game returns.

by the way I have nothing to do with ____ anymore, and will never support another AFK TFer. Unless it's you guys, Really, if you remeber everyone on that team not only would I like to say a long in depth sorry, but also I owe you one.

I owe you an entire Dr. Q you guys can door sit or go offline (or on a different character) lol, I owe you that much. seriously when the game comes back hit me up, it's alot of free merits.

Again I apologize for the terrible things I said. if it makes you feel better do the same to me lol.

I say this publically on the titan network forums so there can be a record of my offer.

seriously I miss you guys..

Quote from: LaughingAlex on June 16, 2013, 01:53:28 AM
Yesterday I had a moment in CO.  I was in an alert fighting Kevin poe, an untimed Grab alert.  As the fight with the legendary starts, Kevin does his usual backflipping around like he always does, and someone complains "Stop knocking him!".  I say he's immune to knockback and he says "No he isn't".  Being me I send him a tell stating that He, dead man walking and also Devona hawk can all backflip, but are immune to knockback.  He then says "I knocked him back before." and added me to the ignore.  For those who don't know, all legendaries except for nemesis are completely unaffected by knockback....sigh.

They've probably fought the scaled down version that you find in one of the low level westside missions, who a) doesn't have that backflip power (At least I don't think he does) and b) isn't immune to knockback. Then they go to fight him in alerts and just assume both of those still apply.

Quote from: General Idiot on June 16, 2013, 04:05:24 AM
They've probably fought the scaled down version that you find in one of the low level westside missions, who a) doesn't have that backflip power (At least I don't think he does) and b) isn't immune to knockback. Then they go to fight him in alerts and just assume both of those still apply.

the low level Poe does the backflip power. It's his bread and butter

And cant remember if he is immune to knockback or not never tried at those levels. But yeah maybe he did knock them back at that level. But a knckback animation and the backflip thing is easy to tell the difference...well at least to me, apparently not to every single person.

Quote from: LaughingAlex on June 16, 2013, 02:06:17 AM
Defenders were not a healing class, they were a buff/debuff class that also had attacks.  Healing was a last resort and relying entirely on it was a very good way to, ironicly, fail to support a team properly.  Even empathy had to use it's buffs properly.

Which is precisely why I posted that here. ^.^

Quote from: JaguarX on June 16, 2013, 04:29:29 AM
the low level Poe does the backflip power. It's his bread and butter

And cant remember if he is immune to knockback or not never tried at those levels. But yeah maybe he did knock them back at that level. But a knckback animation and the backflip thing is easy to tell the difference...well at least to me, apparently not to every single person.

The Purple Reign mission ends with regular Kevin Poe. He still is immune to knockback (and any hold I've tried, though he still will take the damage, if the hold deals damage), and he still does the back flips, but he's at the level appropriate to the mission level (8 or 9; I honestly don't pay attention, anymore). He does the back flip move so frequently, it took several times going through the mission to catch on.

And, really, almost anything uttered by an NPC in CO falls under the heading of this thread, but that's a topic for the Champions section. :)

I remember a Katie Hannon TF on Defiant, back in the days when killing Mary McComber 10 times could take quite a while, there was this scrapper named "De L'Abloe" who went AFK at mission door but inside it right after we entered. As I was neither arranging nor leading, I decided to keep my trap shut and go for business.

Around Mary's 5th or 6th spawn, the guy comes back, someone (no idea whether on purpose or not) had aggroed a few cabal near him and as a result he was dead so first thing he does is start complaining about him being dead and why the empath had not kept him alive since it was his only job. He went like that for quite a bit while standing on mission entrance (inside the mission of course) while we were hands full killing Cabal that now were starting to con red and purple to us. Then he decided to enlighten us on how had he built his empath alt, it is, just taking the ranged heals since everything else was useless and he'd rather get more attacks and Pool Powers.

At a certain point, I couldn't keep my mouth shut for longer and I said "then I'm afraid you don't have a clue of how to make an empath so please shut up". He just kept wondering how could ranged heals be a bad thing and left the TF after we completed Mary McComber mish.

It's funny it was the only time I've seen said character, never seen him again which is good enough for me.-

Quote from: dwturducken on June 15, 2013, 03:59:20 PM"Brave Sir Robin" comes to mind, for some reason... :)

Doing that as a Thugs MM with the henchmen kept on passive and doing a running string of dance and speaking emotes... ("Brave Sir Robin ran away... Bravely ran away, away...")   :roll:

Quote from: srmalloy on June 17, 2013, 04:38:33 PM
Doing that as a Thugs MM with the henchmen kept on passive and doing a running string of dance and speaking emotes... ("Brave Sir Robin ran away... Bravely ran away, away...")   :roll:

we need more medeaval garb in the costume designer. and lance melee, and broadsword melee for tanks and such.

I had remarkably few bad epxeriences on CoH... and of those I had none were bad enough to remember.
But at my first MMo, World of Farmcraft, there was one occasion that had me ragequit the group. Well, sort of.
My Main was a Warlock and we were running this one T-roll city instance in the desert, forgot the name.
Anyway there I was dotting everything in range, siccing my dog on whatever was attacking the priest and handing out healstones like they were on discount.
The teamleader who was incidentally our tank (guess who had to keep the healer alive ;)) thought for some reason that I were a mage.

SHEEP!
SHEEP!
GIVE ME BREAD!!
SHEEEEEEEEEEP!!1!

Yes, I tried to tell him that I couldn't do anything of what he was demanding; because, well I was no mage.

SHEEP!
BREAD!
SHEEP!!

Then he'd start again to chew me out that I were the worst mage he'd ever run with and if I could do anything.
3/4 through the instance I snapped and told him, "Wanna see what i can do?"
So I summoned my beloved Infernal, send him to attack the group of mobs that was the farest away from us. When the demon reached it, and was pulling a nice train of mobs, I released it, which makes the Infernal attack the warlock...and his group.
And then I left the instance.
Don't. Push. A. Warlock. >:(

Boy was there some cursing in chat afterwards 8)

Quote from: r00tb0ySlim on June 15, 2013, 12:58:01 PM
LOL....that is funny and it wasn't like you were "hiding" anything especially with your name & bio  ;D

Sadly I never got around to making my ultimate hero: Doorsit Boy!

Quote from: doc7924 on June 18, 2013, 02:55:37 PM
Sadly I never got around to making my ultimate hero: Doorsit Boy!

I actually DID get around to making Lagspike Lad...

Quote from: Dollhouse on June 18, 2013, 07:36:48 PM
I actually DID get around to making Lagspike Lad...

Did he have the same lag powers as the Rikti invasion forces?

Nothing is that powerful! Well...except for Cryptics games....

This was more of an action than a thing.

There was a costume contest in Atlas that I held, and was handing out inf to various people whose costumes I liked. And I went up to one, and opened up a trade. They clicked yes, the window opened, and then they closed it. I assumed it was by accident and sent another request and they kept opening it and closing it and then finally said: "STOP OR I'LL BLOCK YOU" and I had to explain I didn't realize they didn't want inf, I thought they were just incompetent.

Still no idea why they kept clicking accept.

Quote from: doc7924 on June 18, 2013, 02:55:37 PM
Sadly I never got around to making my ultimate hero: Doorsit Boy!

Heh now that and Scardey Cat are funny.  That is the time I wouldn't boot an AFKer if it was part of on going RP joke.  Other then that I showed no mercy to door sitters and TF AFKers.  5-10 minutes of unannounced AFK was boot justified IMO.  I would send them a tell first, and if it was an emergency they had to take off for then I would re-invite them.

Quote
Sadly I never got around to making my ultimate hero: Doorsit Boy!

You wouldnt be that guy in PI named something like "I Click All Ur Glowies" yelling "LF Farm!"?
:)


(needless to say, I dont think he ever got a group)

Not so much a stupid thing but just something that was fun and brought a smile to my face remembering it....

I remember this one time we were doing the Mother Mayhem AV arc and I had my Inv/Nrg tank on the mission. Team of a few members of the SG and some Pugs.

The Pugs were like.. Inv is weak to Psi.. we need to get another tank.

One of my SG mates named Tavy was like.. its gonna be fine.. dont worry about it..

We get to Mother Mayhem and she starts blowing through my hit points..

Pug guy is like.. that tank is gonna die..

Me...she cant kill me.. I hit Dull Pain.. we keep going.. she takes another half of my hit points.

Pug guy again.. We shoulda got another tank...

Tavy my Sg mate was like.. wait for it..

Hit Points shoot back to full,,Dull Pain again..

Pug Guy... huh? How did you get all your Hit points back that fast???

Me.. Oh Im sorry did I forget to mention is was Perma Dull Pain..

ahhhh good times.. good times..

Quote from: doc7924 on June 08, 2013, 11:59:41 PM
I did team once on a TF with a TANK that refused to go first and get agro because he was afraid to die and "I don't want debt".

I recall being on a team with someone who INSISTED on being rezzed, or using a wakie, EVERY TIME he died. We repeatedly told him to go to the hospital, but he refused. As it turned out, he believed that you only got debt upon reaching the hospital. We tried to enlighten him that debt was automatic the instant you kissed the concrete/linoleum/granite/sewage, but he was adamant that he would be penalized only for going to the hospital. Players like that make me wish the game had a button to call the white coats to catch him in a big butterfly net and take him away.

Quote from: Super Firebug on June 24, 2013, 09:40:03 PM
I recall being on a team with someone who INSISTED on being rezzed, or using a wakie, EVERY TIME he died. We repeatedly told him to go to the hospital, but he refused. As it turned out, he believed that you only got debt upon reaching the hospital. We tried to enlighten him that debt was automatic the instant you kissed the concrete/linoleum/granite/sewage, but he was adamant that he would be penalized only for going to the hospital. Players like that make me wish the game had a button to call the white coats to catch him in a big butterfly net and take him away.

Or rather a button that say display reference to  selected player.

Although I could see how a few hooligans would abuse that system to troll and get on people's nerves.

The dumbest thing anyone ever said to me in-game was...

"Wanna team?"

To be fair, in a more general sense that's not a stupid question. And hey, at least they asked rather than just blindly inviting you.

reading all these, makes me sad :(. miss this game

If it helps any, there's dumb players everywhere.

In another game, just now, I announced on the group-recruitment channel that I would like to do a dungeon, and I got an invite almost immediately, and joined a group with four or five other players. I said "What dungeon are we doing?  I'm up for anything between Royal Mastogob and Snowfoux!"  The team leader said "cats 'n rats."  I said "That's not a dungeon."  The team leader said "cats 'n rats" again.

It turns out he was 100 levels below me, and he didn't want to do any dungeons at all  (In a game with a cap of level 200, I'm level 164, he was level 60-something in the endgame area, where the lowest-level dungeon is balanced for a team of level 120s and up).

No, he wanted to fight the minor in-town spawns (Wooly Bow Meows and Stunted Rats), with me doing most of the heavy lifting. I dropped that team immediately.

Yeah, it's a bit off-topic, but for me, "cats 'n rats" is going to be the new "kill skuls."

Quote from: Super Firebug on June 24, 2013, 09:40:03 PM
I recall being on a team with someone who INSISTED on being rezzed, or using a wakie, EVERY TIME he died. We repeatedly told him to go to the hospital, but he refused. As it turned out, he believed that you only got debt upon reaching the hospital. We tried to enlighten him that debt was automatic the instant you kissed the concrete/linoleum/granite/sewage, but he was adamant that he would be penalized only for going to the hospital. Players like that make me wish the game had a button to call the white coats to catch him in a big butterfly net and take him away.

Lmao i've been on a team with someone like this too. Awww it was hilarious, but painful at the same time.

Quote from: Super Firebug on June 24, 2013, 09:40:03 PM
I recall being on a team with someone who INSISTED on being rezzed, or using a wakie, EVERY TIME he died. We repeatedly told him to go to the hospital, but he refused. As it turned out, he believed that you only got debt upon reaching the hospital. We tried to enlighten him that debt was automatic the instant you kissed the concrete/linoleum/granite/sewage, but he was adamant that he would be penalized only for going to the hospital. Players like that make me wish the game had a button to call the white coats to catch him in a big butterfly net and take him away.

Haha! Reminds me of the time we teamed with someone who insisted we stand on the heads of defeated Freakshow so they wouldn't rez....  ;D

Quote from: ladyluck523 on June 27, 2013, 01:25:34 AM
Haha! Reminds me of the time we teamed with someone who insisted we stand on the heads of defeated Freakshow so they wouldn't rez....  ;D

I remember being told that way back when I started around I3.  It is hilarious now, but back then, I didn't know any better.  I still don't know if the people saying it really believed it, or were having fun at my expense.  :)

Heard some silly things, not very many. Besides one racist statement from a player the Dev's kicked, I found CoH players were mostly intelligent players.

I guess a dumb comment I faced was someone asked for help in Founders Falls.
I came over and was expecting a team invite or TF or perhaps help finish someone's mission.

It was some low level player who only wanted a rez from me.
Why they just didn't Hosp.............I don't know. :o

It would have been great if you could have just teleported them to the front steps of the hospital and said "there you go".

Maybe a sidekick woulda gotten them out of the zone, but it doesn't sound like they were thinking that clearly about the game mechanics.

A couple things stand out...

Back around 06' I remember inviting random low lvls to my team and using recall friend and dropping them into mobs. Granted I was asking for trouble but this one time some dude PM's me saying "I put up with enough @#$! at work and im fed up". I asked what he did and he started epically venting about his job working at a local prison and lectured me on in-game manners.

Another type of encounter (Not really anything too specific) consisted of people making comments on my costume that I didn't like. Things like comparing it to other heroes or saying "your toon looks like a hobo!@!" when it really didn't.

Quote from: doc7924 on June 18, 2013, 02:55:37 PM
Sadly I never got around to making my ultimate hero: Doorsit Boy!

I had a Redside Stalker called Notorious Leech.  I really made him to solo, but oddly enough he actually got occasional team invites.

Quote from: Mythic13 on July 08, 2013, 06:23:25 AM
A couple things stand out...

Back around 06' I remember inviting random low lvls to my team and using recall friend and dropping them into mobs. Granted I was asking for trouble but this one time some dude PM's me saying "I put up with enough @#$! at work and im fed up". I asked what he did and he started epically venting about his job working at a local prison and lectured me on in-game manners.

Another type of encounter (Not really anything too specific) consisted of people making comments on my costume that I didn't like. Things like comparing it to other heroes or saying "your toon looks like a hobo!@!" when it really didn't.

...Lemme get this straight.  You griefed players (and you really should have been banned for that) and one of them yelled at you, and that's a stupid thing HE said? 

Wow.  I'm glad you said there's no way you'd ever play again if the game came back.

More importantly, we'd need to see pics to be sure you DIDN'T actually look like a hobo!

(Seriously, you really shouldn't have been griefing players.)

So I don't know if this compares with some of the other stuff that has gone up there, but I think one of the dumbest things people said to me in CoH was "Team" .  I'd occasionally get a random /tell from random complete strangers, and that's all they would say. "Team".  Not "Would you like to join our team?"  or "Can I join your team" Or "Would you team with me?"  Or "care to team up?"  just "Team"  And a couple times I would ask in response.  "Are you asking me to join my team? Or are you asking if I want to join yours?" and I'd get no reply most of the time.  Though once or twice I got the reply.  "Team". 

Anywho, I always felt like that was one of the dumbest and\or laziest damn things people ever said to me, because it makes no sense. A One word tell and no clarification when I asked for it and most of the time they wouldn't even use a freaking question mark. 

Quote from: ag88t88 on July 14, 2013, 07:21:29 AMA One word tell and no clarification when I asked for it and most of the time they wouldn't even use a freaking question mark.

Word.

Quote from: ag88t88 on July 14, 2013, 07:21:29 AM
So I don't know if this compares with some of the other stuff that has gone up there, but I think one of the dumbest things people said to me in CoH was "Team" .  I'd occasionally get a random /tell from random complete strangers, and that's all they would say. "Team".  Not "Would you like to join our team?"  or "Can I join your team" Or "Would you team with me?"  Or "care to team up?"  just "Team"  And a couple times I would ask in response.  "Are you asking me to join my team? Or are you asking if I want to join yours?" and I'd get no reply most of the time.  Though once or twice I got the reply.  "Team". 

Anywho, I always felt like that was one of the dumbest and\or laziest damn things people ever said to me, because it makes no sense. A One word tell and no clarification when I asked for it and most of the time they wouldn't even use a freaking question mark. 

Anytime I got one of those "team" tells I would just reply "nty" and go back to whatever I was doing.  I hated pausing in pvp to ask what, why, where, when, or how.  You know they never checked to see where you were or if you were already on a team when they pulled the list of players in any zone for that "team" invite  :o

Quote from: Pengy on July 14, 2013, 11:59:02 PM
Word.

I see what you did there. 

Quote from: r00tb0ySlim on July 15, 2013, 12:23:01 AM
Anytime I got one of those "team" tells I would just reply "nty" and go back to whatever I was doing.  I hated pausing in pvp to ask what, why, where, when, or how.  You know they never checked to see where you were or if you were already on a team when they pulled the list of players in any zone for that "team" invite  :o

I would respond, "Sorry, I don't speak PUG," to some of the more offensively ungrammatical tells I got on my fire/fire blaster.  Then I wondered what the hell I was doing on Freedom anyway and transferred that character to Pinnacle.

I always *HATED* those "team" tells..or worse yet, blind invites.  Had my message for the find team window say "Blind Invite=go play in traffic".  I always used complete sentences in my requests.."Hey, I'm trying to get a team together, want an invite? Missions mainly, *insert level +/- 3*,"

Quote from: CheerGunbunny on July 15, 2013, 09:18:00 PMI always *HATED* those "team" tells..or worse yet, blind invites.

All of my characters had the search window comment "Declining blind invites since beta." -- and with the inevitability of stupid, I still got blind invites.

I had something in my status along the lines of "Blindly inviting me to your team will result in me arriving, informing the rest of the team that you are illiterate, incompetent, and incontinent, and then leaving."

Which is exactly what I did, several times.

As a BS/Reg Scrapper I had something like "Blind invite = global ignore after my sword has finished it's job on your head".
Also still got blind invites, wich I sucessful ignored :).

I would play as a Defender my search messsage read:

"If you want me for healing, it's your funeral."

On one of my toons my search comment once she reached 50 was "Dual-boxing. This toon will NOT respond to tells or team invites."

I think I got one each and every time I had that toon logged in. Usually something along the lines of "r u a healr?"

Yeah, I'm dual-boxing a Rad/Psi defender at level 50 because it makes a good "healr". Of course I am.

Same character, earlier in her career, got asked several times by the same player "we need a healer, are you one?" This was over the course of several weeks. He must have asked me at least ten times. And every time my answer was the same: "Sorry, not an Empath. Feel free to invite me if you'd prefer to avoid taking damage, though, which would mean you won't need healing."

Not one invite from that guy.

Quote from: ladyluck523 on June 27, 2013, 01:25:34 AM
Haha! Reminds me of the time we teamed with someone who insisted we stand on the heads of defeated Freakshow so they wouldn't rez....  ;D

... I actually believed this for quite a while. 

Then a Freak Tank rezzed right underneath my blaster.  It was quite a learning experience.

On-topic,

I don't really remember any specific incidences of stupidity at the moment.  I got my fair share of blind invites and PL demands, but to be perfectly honest, I think I dealt with more rudeness in real life than on CoX.  *sigh*  Good times, good times.... 

COX was great. If you got static at all it was right there. You could ignore that person right away. In CO it's the opposite. You queue for a mission, missions starts, higher levels look at you and you are suddenly alone. After failing the "group" mission you see them cursing about noobs messing up the missions all the time and how much they suck. Ironic really.

Quote from: blackjak on July 28, 2013, 09:59:57 PM
COX was great. If you got static at all it was right there. You could ignore that person right away. In CO it's the opposite. You queue for a mission, missions starts, higher levels look at you and you are suddenly alone. After failing the "group" mission you see them cursing about noobs messing up the missions all the time and how much they suck. Ironic really.

Seen that in COX quite often actually especially on teams. People, usually the team leader and usually on TFs berating someone else because they are tanking/scrapping/blasting/controlling/healing to what they think is the standard. Seen many people get kicked for the most simple mistakes, even sometimes that was done by the person doing the kicking. I seen people get kicked for not having the "right" powers. Usually it happened to defenders or tanks that didn't take taunt like they are "Supposed" to with out even allowing them to show them they could play. Join team, "hey do you have taunt?" "no." *kick* usually followed by a rant about how they are tired of noobs not taking taunt and messing it up for everyone else. I even seen more than a few blasters get kicked because either they didn't have or wasn't using aoes as often as some people thought they should.

Then of course there was those that refused to team with anyone lower than their level or certain levels because they said even though they are side kicked to proper level, they still lack the power and slots to be of much help. Say, kind of like what people say about lowbie in alerts.
What happens in CO with alerts is nothing I haven't seen in COX often or other games for that matter.

Quote from: Shadowe on July 28, 2013, 06:13:09 PM
On one of my toons my search comment once she reached 50 was "Dual-boxing. This toon will NOT respond to tells or team invites."

I think I got one each and every time I had that toon logged in. Usually something along the lines of "r u a healr?"

Yeah, I'm dual-boxing a Rad/Psi defender at level 50 because it makes a good "healr". Of course I am.

Same character, earlier in her career, got asked several times by the same player "we need a healer, are you one?" This was over the course of several weeks. He must have asked me at least ten times. And every time my answer was the same: "Sorry, not an Empath. Feel free to invite me if you'd prefer to avoid taking damage, though, which would mean you won't need healing."

Not one invite from that guy.

This is exactly why I named my one and only empath:  "Doc Heal" back in 2004 - to avoid this.

Quote from: doc7924 on August 03, 2013, 02:52:45 PM
This is exactly why I named my one and only empath:  "Doc Heal" back in 2004 - to avoid this.

I named my dark/dark defender "Doc Midnite".

I was invited to a team once .... "What, you're not a healer?  You have Doc in your name!"

Ugh

I jumped aboard RIGHT after ED.  I got 3 healers (pure emp) up to 50 before I made a death dealer.  I heard from a few emps that ED nerfed their aura heal from 600 down to 250.   :o  I ran the old numbers and I am sorry...there was no way to hit that number on aura heal.  Hell, I was happy the IO sets got me to 280+ on my aura heal.

I will finish with being a kin troller.  I thought emps were bashed, but if you did not hit someone with speedboost the SECOND it was down, they went off on ya  >:(

Quote from: Shadowe on July 28, 2013, 06:13:09 PMI think I got one each and every time I had that toon logged in. Usually something along the lines of "r u a healr?"

Yeah, I'm dual-boxing a Rad/Psi defender at level 50 because it makes a good "healr". Of course I am.

I grew resigned to the 'r u healer?' tells I got when I was playing Baldr, my TA/Arch Defender... despite having "TA/Arch -- NOT a healer" in his search comment. Made me wonder how people managed to get characters to the level cap without being able to read.

Quote from: srmalloy on August 05, 2013, 03:31:04 PM
I grew resigned to the 'r u healer?' tells I got when I was playing Baldr, my TA/Arch Defender... despite having "TA/Arch -- NOT a healer" in his search comment. Made me wonder how people managed to get characters to the level cap without being able to read.

I suspected for a long time that most people don't read the search  comments.

In around 2010 time period with various toons I had various messages there from, "No SPeed runs." to "No Speed Boost" to "Buffer/Debuffer No heals."and still got invites for speed runs, got request for speed boost, and questions about not having heals.

I don't think people even paid attention to see if the person have the not looking for team or looking for team icon before sending blind invites.


I remember this one guy joined the team and then immediately quit. The team leader was livid and went on a team chat tirade about how people accept the team invite and then quit and etc. Apparently he also sent a nasty tell to the person that quit as the person replied, accidentally to me somehow, saying that "Don't get pissy with me because you cant read. It specifically says, DO NOT SEND INVITE IF THERE IS NO TANK ON THE TEAM, you illiterate son of a bitch."  immediately followed by  "ooops. Sorry about that. That was meant for the dumb ass team leader." Only reason I remembered is that I came across this on so me old files I had about a week ago before my computer had to be reset. This convo just made me re-remember it. But it wasn't the first nor the last time I seen where people totally disregarded the search comments. I teamed with one guy who search comment was "Anyone who invites me to the team is a retarded noob that cant read and likes to suck my "cod piece"" Probably someone else testing to see if people bothered to pay attention to the team search comments. Apparently at least the team leader of this team I came across him on either didn't read it or the description fit. Not sure how many others still invited him to team and forgot to ask. I should of.

I was in a PUG with my defender superheroine...

(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/OmnislashXX/Character%20GIFS/flourescent1.jpg)

...and one of the party members starts to say extremely vulgar sexual things. How he was going to do this and that. Things I won't repeat. Needless to say I left group ASAP.

....a pixel pedo...

I  hated being told I had picked a bad build be cause of stats. I always picked with some sort of theme. :/