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Title: My biggest regret...
Post by: skippy7721 on July 09, 2013, 10:56:33 PM
Outside of the "I wish I had played more" saying that we all tell ourselves... I did something downright stupid back in the day. I remember when going rogue came out...I thought..oh nice...something new! I proceeded to log on and within 30 mins I found myself lost in a new map area wondering which ways were right. I grew frustrated and realized I had become attached, downright dependent on the old maps like atlas park and the hollows along with everything else that followed. So dependent that I let the expansion maps rot as I played new toons on the old maps...that is until today.

As I flew around today I was completely taken back by the amount of design and beauty of the maps going rogue implemented and I never took the time to appreciate it when I should have. That is my biggest regret...those map designs are gorgeous.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Pinnacle Blue on July 09, 2013, 11:22:50 PM
Well, to be honest, Praetoria wasn't as... developed as it could have been-- by which I mean it probably needed content up to 50 in order for it to have been more populated than it was.  Did Praetoria even have TFs?  I don't remember it having them.

I know someone back on Pinnacle had a Praetorian-only character that he took up to Night Ward, but not beyond.  (I considered First Ward and Night Ward to be a bit more like hazard zones than regular zones because-- missions aside-- they had that feel to them.)

But yeah-- the zones they did do were gorgeous and very well done.  I just think that should have been leveraged better than it was.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: thunderforce on July 10, 2013, 12:02:46 AM
Quote from: Pinnacle Blue on July 09, 2013, 11:22:50 PM
Well, to be honest, Praetoria wasn't as... developed as it could have been-- by which I mean it probably needed content up to 50 in order for it to have been more populated than it was.

On the other hand, I took a Praetorian up to 20th through the original Praetoria content (finishing about two hours before the black dawn), and there was more than enough - I'd say there you'd have the opposite problem, in that if you teamed you'd practically have to turn off XP to have any chance of getting the plot in as well. Sure, then you're back to "same old, same old", but you're coming out into Striga and the new Faultline - there's good stuff blueside.

I think one of my regrets is I finally got to 50 (although, as an altoholic, I'm pleased to say it was around the time I got Battle Hardened) but never did try a Peacebringer/Warshade or one of the special Arachnos types.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Phaetan on July 10, 2013, 03:04:48 AM
Quote from: Pinnacle Blue on July 09, 2013, 11:22:50 PMDid Praetoria even have TFs?
Only Incarnates coming in to trash the place.

QuoteI know someone back on Pinnacle had a Praetorian-only character that he took up to Night Ward, but not beyond.
Moe than one, I can think ofat least three other people besides myself that had Gold-only characters. (Man, I miss Erika Enriche.)

QuoteBut yeah-- the zones they did do were gorgeous and very well done.  I just think that should have been leveraged better than it was.
Absolutely.  Praetoria had amazing designs and some really interesting plots and characters.

The Devs were simultaneously expanding the stories for Praetorians and destroying/abandoning the zone in the next Issue.  It was weird.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Tahliah on July 10, 2013, 03:23:28 AM
Quote from: Pinnacle Blue on July 09, 2013, 11:22:50 PM
Well, to be honest, Praetoria wasn't as... developed as it could have been-- by which I mean it probably needed content up to 50 in order for it to have been more populated than it was.  Did Praetoria even have TFs?  I don't remember it having them.

I know someone back on Pinnacle had a Praetorian-only character that he took up to Night Ward, but not beyond.  (I considered First Ward and Night Ward to be a bit more like hazard zones than regular zones because-- missions aside-- they had that feel to them.)

But yeah-- the zones they did do were gorgeous and very well done.  I just think that should have been leveraged better than it was.

I had a toon that was Praetorian-only.  I anticipated that eventually they'd develop the storylines, add zones, etc. to take the content to lvl 50, and I wanted to be ready to go!  ;)

As to the OP, I loved Praetoria and also thought the zones were stunningly gorgeous.  The storylines were also excellent, with great story, great dialogue, and fully-developed contact characters.  I thoroughly enjoyed it when it came out and spent many a happy hour there.  But like so many others, I ended up abandoning Praet for Paragon (or others who abandoned it for the RI).  There were few people there, the baddies were more difficult (and while I love a challenge, I wasn't that successful on my usual squishy toon choices and opted for my Praet-only toon to be an MM--she skated through even the worst Praet had to offer in terms of difficult foes).  Sigh.  I miss COH so much.

I think my biggest regret, or at least one that's right up there is similar to yours, I regret that I didn't spend time in the new zones (the other ones, First and Night Ward and New DA).  I didn't complete any of them on any toon, and I wish now I had.  I thought we had all the time in the world . . . .
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Brightfires on July 10, 2013, 03:50:30 AM
I also had a "Praetorian Only" character... Song of Autumn, an electrical tank (She was one of my bird-things; the elder and matriarch of the Praetorian flight. Winter Sky's mother, Summer Moon's mother-in-law and Spring Rose's grandmother.) When the game shut down, I left her standing in Imperial City with Kang. She was level 30, had never left for Primal Earth and never would have.

My only real regret is not having time to run (and FRAPs-) the villain side version of the New Praetorians arcs. I did the hero-side versions with Shade in Shadow, but just didn't have the chance to get to the other side. :(
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Blondeshell on July 10, 2013, 04:07:07 AM
Quote from: Brightfires on July 10, 2013, 03:50:30 AM
My only real regret is not having time to run (and FRAPs-) the villain side version of the New Praetorians arcs. I did the hero-side versions with Shade in Shadow, but just didn't have the chance to get to the other side. :(

It may be a small consolation, but you can at least read through them here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mr._G_(Primal_Earth) (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mr._G_(Primal_Earth))
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Angel Phoenix77 on July 10, 2013, 04:37:42 AM
my biggest regret was backing champions over city of. :( if I had it all over to do I would have backed city of 100 %
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: goodtime on July 10, 2013, 04:43:18 AM
Unless you were a melee toon, Praetoria was solo-unfriendly.   I guess I picked mostly characters that were end-game beasts.   Dropping the difficulty wasn't even an option, because that just meant you spent even more time there.  And there wasn't any later content because no one was playing in those zones (there were redname posts about it).

I wish I'd got the combat log plans (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Combat_Log_Plans_Badge) for any one of my bases.   :(  I think I was closest on Virtue, creeping up on 22 million healed.   If you ever teamed with a horrible Empathy/Plant defender named Akrasia, I apologize for my auto-Heal Aura.   I did try.   You may have seen her in invasion mobs, mothership raids and incarnate trials.  She wore a princess hat most of the time.

I wish I'd gotten to play i24.  Seriously.  I had been thinking about dropping my sub again.   But the stuff that was being talked about for i24 was getting me interested again like I hadn't been for a long, long time.   Even just flying around with Icon I've noticed changes to Bricks and Perez.  :(    The blaster secondary changes, the new powersets.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Phaetan on July 10, 2013, 05:16:21 AM
Quote from: Blondeshell on July 10, 2013, 04:07:07 AM
It may be a small consolation, but you can at least read through them here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mr._G_(Primal_Earth)

The link needs the closing parenthesis, which wasn't included in the link.

I'm somewhat glad that I didn't get to play that arc, though.  It and the prereq to unlock it didn't impress me much and I think I favor my own headcanon instead...
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Blondeshell on July 10, 2013, 02:03:35 PM
Quote from: Phaetan on July 10, 2013, 05:16:21 AM
The link needs the closing parenthesis, which wasn't included in the link.

Fixed. Apparently the forum software doesn't recognize a closing parenthesis as part of a raw URL unless it's set up as a bounded link.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: thunderforce on July 10, 2013, 02:42:18 PM
Quote from: goodtime on July 10, 2013, 04:43:18 AM
Unless you were a melee toon, Praetoria was solo-unfriendly.

I did OK on a bots/FF mastermind (difficulty 2? Whatever just includes bosses solo but doesn't up anything else), but I guess you weren't thinking of non-general-availability types.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: dwturducken on July 10, 2013, 03:17:07 PM
I also had a Gold-only toon, a demon summoner MM, but it wasn't a conscious decision. It kind of happened organically, as I didn't spend much time over there and just followed the path before me. :)

My only real regret is not finishing some things, like the "Who Will Die?" arc. I felt like I had done so much, until it was too late and threads like this started popping up. Thanks a lot, guys!  :P
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: AlphaFerret on July 10, 2013, 03:56:48 PM
I wished I would have incarnate maxed out my main.  When the announcement hit, I became too busy leveling all my other toons to 50.  Not a huge issue, since I luv xp so much;)
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: CC SK TT on July 10, 2013, 06:02:26 PM
I never got my first main to 50 (43, maybe 44 iirc).  She was an Ill/Rad controller and I loved her (especially her costume) but solo she wasn't that much fun and teams tended to hate her pets so I played my other mains instead generally.  I ended up with 3 50s that I would say I am very attached to (tanker, scrapper and defender) and wish my first toon could be in that group as a 50 - would have rounded out things nicely for me.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: thunderforce on July 10, 2013, 06:46:40 PM
Quote from: CC SK TT on July 10, 2013, 06:02:26 PM
I never got my first main to 50 (43, maybe 44 iirc).  She was an Ill/Rad controller and I loved her (especially her costume) but solo she wasn't that much fun and teams tended to hate her pets

How odd. I was always happy to team with someone with Phantom Army - as long as you'd tolerate me blapperlocking onto the anchor every now and then. "Oh, that's the anchor. Too bad I just dialled B for Bone Smasher."
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Golden Girl on July 11, 2013, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Angel Phoenix77 on July 10, 2013, 04:37:42 AM
my biggest regret was backing champions over city of. :( if I had it all over to do I would have backed city of 100 %

Treason will not be tolerated, citizen.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Phaetan on July 11, 2013, 03:12:15 AM
And to think you claimed to have never played as a Goldsider!  Mother would be proud of you.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Angel Phoenix77 on July 11, 2013, 03:19:21 AM
Quote from: Golden Girl on July 11, 2013, 02:19:45 AM
Treason will not be tolerated, citizen.
maybe, but the way back into honor is when someone admits when they are wrong :)
if I had it all over to do, I would have stuck with city of.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Menrva Channel on July 11, 2013, 07:22:43 AM
I had a character I really wanted to get to 50. A blaster. She was level 47 by the end because the last three months i had a hard time playing and by the time I got the drive there were other characters I wanted to spend the last month with. *sighs*
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Rust on July 11, 2013, 08:48:57 AM
I never did finish the Praetorian Storyline - either Loyalist or Resistance. Always regret that.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: CheerGunbunny on July 11, 2013, 10:23:35 AM
Quote from: Golden Girl on July 11, 2013, 02:19:45 AM
Treason will not be tolerated, citizen.

Happiness is mandatory
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Pinnacle Blue on July 11, 2013, 03:10:54 PM
Huh.  More folks had a Goldside-only character than I'd've thought.  I just knew of the one on Pinnacle.

My biggest regret is never having participated in a DKTF.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Triplash on July 11, 2013, 04:54:40 PM
Quote from: Pinnacle Blue on July 11, 2013, 03:10:54 PM
Huh.  More folks had a Goldside-only character than I'd've thought.  I just knew of the one on Pinnacle.

The day Going Rogue launched I made a Praetorian version of Triplash named Traincrash. I wanted her entire leveling process to be gold-only, and I figured the post-20 zones would be added later so I'd just "pause" her for a while. Although she would've eventually come to Primal Earth anyway, since I had storylines developing in my head for most of my characters and I wanted Trip and Train to "meet" at some point. I was exploring the nature vs nurture theme with them. (Triplash was a DM Regen Scrapper, and Traincrash started out as a DM Regen Stalker... but then they let Brutes have Regen and I immediately rerolled her. Brute was always what Train was meant to be, ever since I first heard about Going Rogue.)

Anyway, I would've happily made her and several others gold-only (probably one for each story path), if Praetoria itself had ever gone all the way to 50. And after First Ward and Night Ward were added, I felt like it was going to one day, too. Sadface.


QuoteMy biggest regret is never having participated in a DKTF.

There was a Donkey Kong Task Force?!? :o   Sweeeet!
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: OzonePrime on July 11, 2013, 06:23:55 PM
Not having the privilege of playing with a lot of you guys!
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Rust on July 11, 2013, 08:22:29 PM
Quote from: CheerGunbunny on July 11, 2013, 10:23:35 AM
Happiness is mandatory

The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Pinnacle Blue on July 11, 2013, 08:26:12 PM
Quote from: Triplash on July 11, 2013, 04:54:40 PM
There was a Donkey Kong Task Force?!? :o   Sweeeet!

That's not quite what DK stands for (http://dechskaison.blogspot.com/p/guides-and-builds.html).  :P  IIRC, the rule for participating is that everyone had to, individually and regardless of archetype, soak at least one alpha strike.  If you were too timid to do that, then your participation was not wanted.  I forgot the exact reasoning behind it, but I believe it was to get people over their fear of taking damage or debt and to drive home the point that this was, first and foremost, just a game.

I could be wrong, though.  Would that the forums (and the game, of course) were still in existence (*sigh*).
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: MaidMercury on July 14, 2013, 11:59:43 PM
No regrets.
started with:
Windows 2000
15" CRT Monitor, Duel AMD proc. :roll:

I played everyday....except some days when I was visiting relatives.
And the time my computer stopped working, Northbridge chip set fried) and I had to purchase parts to make another. with new OS, graphics card, etc...

I tried CoV, but after a week, it didn't seem fun to me.
I was not the villain type... I was Blue side definitely.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Lucky666 on July 15, 2013, 02:21:19 AM
I made so many characters that were awesome and could do some of the funnest things I could think of but the one concept I heard about but never got to. I wanted to make a stone brute that could run like 23mph with granite on plus soft cap defence all around. I had the build and everything and the IOs needed were not even all thate rare so it was never a resource thing. Just thought I had more time.

I regret it, he would have been awesome with his battle axe booking around. I heard about the concept and even seen one guy in atlas park with a real fast brute it was were I got the idea. If/when the game comes back on I think it'll be the first character I make. Some people didn't like the granite look but I thought it was cool as hell to look like a rock monster. First time I got master of statesman TF way before incarnates were even a thought in the devs mind our tank was a stone tank her name was Amber and she was the coolest chick in the coolest Super group I knew. I miss that Super group I was with them to the end and met the leader shortly after playing exiting Warburg. They were a great group.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Nyx Nought Nothing on July 15, 2013, 03:33:07 AM
Quote from: Angel Phoenix77 on July 11, 2013, 03:19:21 AM
maybe, but the way back into honor is when someone admits when they are wrong :)
if I had it all over to do, I would have stuck with city of.
Don't mind GG. She aggressively unicorns anyone who doesn't preemptively adhere to whatever she's got in her head as being the shining path this quarter. She's just got a very strong sense of right and wrong: she's right and anyone who disagrees with her is wrong.

Quote from: Rust on July 11, 2013, 08:22:29 PM
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The morale will continue until the beatings improve.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Bloodspeaker2 on July 16, 2013, 10:46:04 AM
No regrets. Had fun, but I'm not one to dwell on the should, could or would in my life.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: r00tb0ySlim on July 16, 2013, 11:55:23 AM
Badges!!!  I need my stinking badges!!!  I regret not finishing those last couple hundred on my main...I was busy doing incarnate stuff it seems ;D
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: grouchybeast on July 17, 2013, 10:31:27 AM
I had a Praetorian Carnival character, a Mind/Psi Dom, and I think I got her up to...maybe mid-30s?  It took a long time, and involved a lot of exemping, and bringing in characters on a second account when Praetoria was empty.  Ultimately I was planning to take her through all the Incarnate Trial content, and finally go back to defeat Tyrant, and I do regret not completing that project.  And I had so many low level characters created using new powersets. :-(
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: thunderforce on July 17, 2013, 02:54:35 PM
Quote from: Nyx Nought Nothing on July 15, 2013, 03:33:07 AM
Don't mind GG. She aggressively unicorns anyone who doesn't preemptively adhere to whatever she's got in her head as being the shining path this quarter.

Er, do many people troll with references to humorous roleplaying games? I suspect not.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Dollmistress on July 20, 2013, 02:40:33 AM
Nothing relating to in-game content, really. I did pretty much everything it was possible for someone to do, plus a few things that technically should have been impossible (like exploiting bugs on the test server to explore places like Port Oakes' semi-defined Cap Au Diable terrain, etc).

My regrets are:

1) Collecting almost every NPC costume code in the game, several of which were purchased for three-figure sums of real cash, although a couple were won via forum competitions :) Of course, I'm kidding myself. My real regret is that I never quite finished the full collection :)

2) Not killing Twixt as much as I could have. If I had been around for the final 2-3 days of the game, I would have tracked him down for an ultimate showdown while the game dissolved around us. Still the only person in the real world who I would immediately punch in the face if I met him in person.

3) Unloading on Beefcake via email when he cleared the archive of badge hunter records. I was upset because those records included a friend who I used to team with for years, who had died irl, hence the overreaction. Sorry Beef.

4) Following from 3, overreacting in general. I mellowed a lot after the first two years when I had lots of very bad rl issues going on (2006+07) but by then the "damage" was already done and I spent the rest of the game's history with an "interesting" (though flatteringly visible) reputation for being quite extreme and, frankly, insane. Which I played to a lot, parodying my former self, which sometimes didn't help things although in hindsight I tend to think of it as spending six years roleplaying my main without ever breaking character :)

5) Not finding out the contact details of many close friends in the game before it shut down. Most had moved on anyhow, but still, some of them were in the 16-19 age bracket just beginning to make career plans and I would have liked to have known if those plans panned out and how they are doing now.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Nyx Nought Nothing on July 20, 2013, 06:09:12 AM
Quote from: thunderforce on July 17, 2013, 02:54:35 PM
Er, do many people troll with references to humorous roleplaying games? I suspect not.
Quite, but she isn't many people, just one with a fairly consistent pattern of behavior over several years. Classic examples of her standard MO exist just in the past month alone, but i am not going to link or directly mention them since those threads and posts were variously locked or deleted because they were, well, classic GG misrepresentations and distortions being stated as facts. She likes to use smiley faces and 'clever' quips even when outright lying. Although i suppose it isn't technically a lie if you believe it yourself, so maybe lying isn't precisely accurate in some cases.

While i admire her dedication and loyalty to the game i do not respect her behavior and dishonesty.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Kaiser Tarantula on July 20, 2013, 07:57:46 AM
My biggest regret is letting a huge gap exist in my CoH history between issue 9 and Issue 23.  At the time, I had to quit because of my financial situation.  Yet despite how frickin' good the game was, and how much I loved it even back then, I never bothered to resubscribe and start playing again when my financial situation improved.

Then I came back just weeks before the shutdown notice hit.  I had thought CoH would be around forever.  How could they kill such an awesome game?

That question still echoes, and I recieve no reply.

Aside from that, not trying out Dark Control on the Beta Server while I had the chance, and not giving my little baby Defender more love.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Triplash on July 20, 2013, 04:58:34 PM
After hanging out here the last few months, I regret not being more active back on the official forums. It's fun sharing laughs and whatnot with you guys.

Like, I would've loved to use this pic sometime when it had actually happened:

(https://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz55/KansasCrawford/Funny%20Pics/AreYouBeingMapserved_zpsb6836bf6.jpg)


Or to say this to Zwill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bIDGDbupgE


*sigh* Don't be shy, kids! It's a boring way of going nowhere!
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Lucretia MacEvil on July 20, 2013, 05:15:34 PM
Quote from: thunderforce on July 17, 2013, 02:54:35 PM
Er, do many people troll with references to humorous roleplaying games? I suspect not.

... So, the word "troll" is no longer changed to "unicorn"?  When did that happen?

On-topic,

My biggest regret is not making close in-game friends until a couple months before the closure.  I MISSED OUT ON SO MUCH FUN!!!  :(
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Rust on July 20, 2013, 05:54:57 PM
Another regret of mine: Not being more social with you crazy people when the game was still around.  ;D
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Castegyre on July 20, 2013, 06:00:10 PM
CoH was my 'go to' game from about 3-4 weeks after it launched until about 5-6 weeks before it shut down. I played a lot of games since EQ beta in '98, but CoH was the one I was always sure to come back to during that time. Near the end everyone I knew seemed to disappear. I was mostly a redside player from the launch of CoV onwards and no one was logging in, every where I went was quiet and empty. I only belonged to a couple of chat channels by then and they were quiet. So I lost heart and simply stopped logging in. I wasn't there at the end, even if it was by myself, to see the servers shut down. I regret that.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: ukaserex on July 20, 2013, 07:09:19 PM
I think my biggest regret was letting my real world frustrations seep into my interactions with other players in game. I got a handle on it in the later months before the end was announced, but, boy, was I rude to some folks that really didn't deserve it.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: JaguarX on July 20, 2013, 07:25:27 PM
Quote from: ukaserex on July 20, 2013, 07:09:19 PM
I think my biggest regret was letting my real world frustrations seep into my interactions with other players in game. I got a handle on it in the later months before the end was announced, but, boy, was I rude to some folks that really didn't deserve it.
It happens. DId you leave it that way or try to make amends prior to the end at least?
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: ukaserex on July 20, 2013, 07:45:07 PM
Quote from: JaguarX on July 20, 2013, 07:25:27 PM
It happens. DId you leave it that way or try to make amends prior to the end at least?

With some, yes. Others, well, I hadn't reached that point where I realized how petty I was in that particular instance.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: JaguarX on July 20, 2013, 07:47:20 PM
Quote from: ukaserex on July 20, 2013, 07:45:07 PM
With some, yes. Others, well, I hadn't reached that point where I realized how petty I was in that particular instance.

yeah, no worries. Soon you might have your chance to make amends.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Graydar on July 20, 2013, 07:51:10 PM
I never beat Hammidon, or the Statesman TF.. ;_;
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Ashen Fury on July 20, 2013, 09:25:06 PM
I regret the breaks I took from the game, more than anything else. I always managed to catch up to the current content, but I missed out on a lot of time with the people I knew for so long.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Achilles6 on July 21, 2013, 03:13:55 PM
Like many, I really didn't think the game would end, and I would have all the time in the world. Things that I regret not doing (they were on my "list of things to do"):

Hamidon Raid; Shadowshard TF's; Statesman TF; Night ward; Not collecting "moar badges"!!!!; Not trying out some of the later powersets; Not getting my Dark/Dark Controller to 50; Not getting my Beast/Nature's Affinity MM to 50; not starting a Plant/NA Controller; not finishing my SG's base for the 3rd expansion.

Really...I could go on and on.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: GamingGlen on July 21, 2013, 10:22:19 PM
I really don't have any regrets about playing the game, or at least none come to mind.  Perhaps I might have forgotten a few minor ones.

I can't say I wanted to play more.  During one month between shut down announcement to actual shut down I concentrated on playing STO.  I had been suffering COH burn out for awhile, and it really came to a head when I played a lot after the announcement, so I went elsewhere for a bit hoping to find a replacement.  STO, which I like and useful for the sci-fi-based screenshots I want and will put COH characters into, wasn't it.  Neither is CO.

The one regret I have, which is more of a wish, was that I wanted more more things to do in the COH world than just beat up criminals.  I was fulfilling that desire somewhat by writing a comic book, using COH screenshots, of one of my characters as more of a secret agent (she isn't really super, just has high tech gadgets).  Ah, the one regret I do have: I never finished that comic and have only a couple pages left to do, but, as great as Icon is, I cannot do a final climatic action sequence.

side note: what map is the one where you are on the moon or whatever is in orbit and you can see the Earth from it? (for a sci-fi shot of characters in "space-suits" on a barren moonlet)  I can replace the Earth with any number of planet shots from STO (or off the internet for that matter).
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Samuraiko on July 22, 2013, 07:16:28 PM
This is my biggest regret (http://samurai-ko.deviantart.com/journal/Samuraiko-s-Video-Project-List-259753695). :-\

*sighs*

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Sailboat on July 22, 2013, 07:36:41 PM
Quote from: Lucky666 on July 15, 2013, 02:21:19 AM
I made so many characters that were awesome and could do some of the funnest things I could think of but the one concept I heard about but never got to. I wanted to make a stone brute that could run like 23mph with granite on plus soft cap defence all around. I had the build and everything and the IOs needed were not even all thate rare so it was never a resource thing. Just thought I had more time.

I *did* get a Stone Tanker soft-capped and massively run-boosted, only I went with Stone Melee.  While I feel your pain, I do think it's funny that a Granite build was too slow to make it before the game went out of existence.  :)
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: MWRuger on July 24, 2013, 05:52:22 AM
Little late I suppose but I had a`few gold side only toons. I played mostly squishies, blasters mainly. It was absolutely possible to solo safely there. Heck, I even did the zone events solo a few times.

I don't have any real regrets. There were things I didn't do but that's true of most things. I guess my only regret is that I can't play right now.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: KABCOMson on July 25, 2013, 05:04:40 PM
Wow, this list of my regrets can go on for miles. But i just wanna tell you the top five.
1: I never got to play with my family as often as i wanted. Even though they would be on at random times in the day, i always just wanted to get onto a vent server and just talk while we did a +2*2 synapse, just me, my dad, and my uncle who was in miami.
2: I never put PvP enhancements on my three man mastermind team. Around issue 19 or 20, i used mine, my uncles, and my dad's accounts to do an experiment, i wanted to make a three man mastermind team, all bots, one dark, one force field, and a sonic. i made that team, took it to 50, than went into the 50 PvP zone with regular inventions (sorry its been so long i forgot the name of the zone) and was walking around with all bots on aggresive. out of nowhere an ice/ss trys to take me out and all the bots kill him within a couple mins. when i found out the applications, i wanted to fit all three with full PvP enhancements, but never got around to it, to this day, i still have epic dreams of me being the king of 3v3 zone combat.
3: I never made the name KABCOM (my dad's favorite name to put as a toon's first name) famous. No matter what my dad did, he could figure out the best way to take out the toughest of the toughest. One of his major ideas was to make a team with nothing but ice/kin corruptors. with this he wanted to keep constant speed boost on the whole team ( after it could be applied to an area instead of just one at a time) and use blizzard on every mob with max lvl. Sadly, i never got to join that team, seeing as though i wanted to just play my mm team at the time.
4: I never got into a big SG. I have heard of SGs that did daily TFs and went on hammi raids more often than others, but i never got to experience it, the only time i did a hammi or a major TF was when it was exclusive to our family and only our friends would get the manpower to start it. Never got to meet that many people in the game
5: Finally, and this is the big one. I never went rouge or vigilantie. I had heard of the powers that you get when you do and that they were nice, but never got to experience it. I had done everything from killing the tyrant on an incarnate, to helping out with the seed of hammi, but not once did i ever do a tip mission. All i did was use my paragon points to change sides in the test server, but that was it.
If only there were a way to at least see my city one last time :'(
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Mantic on July 25, 2013, 05:39:25 PM
Quote from: KABCOMson on July 25, 2013, 05:04:40 PM
If only there were a way to at least see my city one last time :'(

So... you've not found the Icon thread (http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7288.0.html) yet?
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: KABCOMson on July 25, 2013, 06:22:26 PM
ok, stop, hold the phone, hold your horses, and STOP THE TRAIIIIIIN!!!! what do you mean the icon thread?
???
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Phaetan on July 25, 2013, 07:17:29 PM
Go and bask in its glory.  Make costumes, visit zones, spawn NPCs, have Nemesis /em discodance at the feet of all your alts in one screenshot...

Just...go...
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Eoraptor on July 26, 2013, 01:36:12 AM
Like so many, I regret never playing all the way through the Praetorian arcs. I just never cared for Going Rogue and figued i'd get back to it when I was bored with standard quests.

I also regret deleting my screen captures and character names in a fit of depression. the client was long gone because of a hard drive crash, but the caps, thse I CHOSE to delete, sadly.

this one is not so much a regret as a missed opportunity, but I never got to hook up with one of the role-play oriented supergroups. I loved my heroes and their backstories and playing them out, but I had a hard time, especially in the Freedo era to find like-minded individuals.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: KABCOMson on July 26, 2013, 05:29:12 PM
Quote from: Phaetan on July 25, 2013, 07:17:29 PM
Go and bask in its glory.  Make costumes, visit zones, spawn NPCs, have Nemesis /em discodance at the feet of all your alts in one screenshot...

Just...go...

well i figured out the costume thing but i never heard of the rest, when did this happen?
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Phaetan on July 26, 2013, 06:48:49 PM
Icon 1.6 and later, I believe.  if you have 1.7, you can go past character creation and into the game.  No combat or powers you can turn on, except flight, but the permanent NPCs are there, you can detach the camera, spawn and pose NPCs, and all of that other fun stuff...
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Arachnion on July 26, 2013, 08:38:20 PM
Quote from: KABCOMson on July 26, 2013, 05:29:12 PM
well i figured out the costume thing but i never heard of the rest, when did this happen?

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Titan_Icon

All you need.

Read it. Love it. Live it.

Oh and I highly recommend you use the I24 beta client.

You can tell if you have it already by the login screen you have.

Back out from the first screen of ICON as you would have done normally in the game.

If you have a creepy smiling guy (Marauder) then you have I24 there.

If you don't see him there, then you do not have I24.

Here is a safe place to grab the beta client:

http://www.savecoh.com/p/download-issue-24-beta.html

:)
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Jonfan on July 26, 2013, 09:13:40 PM
Quote from: Angel Phoenix77 on July 10, 2013, 04:37:42 AM
my biggest regret was backing champions over city of. :( if I had it all over to do I would have backed city of 100 %

Champions? Champions wasn't even a blip on the radar to me while CoH was up and running.
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: Eoraptor on July 27, 2013, 02:59:10 AM
Quote from: Arachnion on July 26, 2013, 08:38:20 PM
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Titan_Icon


Oh and I highly recommend you use the I24 beta client.

You can tell if you have it already by the login screen you have.

Back out from the first screen of ICON as you would have done normally in the game.

If you have a creepy smiling guy (Marauder) then you have I24 there.

If you don't see him there, then you do not have I24.

Here is a safe place to grab the beta client:

http://www.savecoh.com/p/download-issue-24-beta.html

:)
Definitely try for i24. the buildings on several maps have been upgraded, as have many of the costume parts. hell, they even went back and tweaked a few bits of the ancient "enforcer" costume parts that have been around since i1
Title: Re: My biggest regret...
Post by: General Idiot on July 27, 2013, 03:47:48 AM
Enforcer was added much later than that. In a patch on 11th December 2007 according to ParagonWiki.