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Title: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: ZoeyLovecraft90 on January 06, 2014, 07:56:41 PM
Hello :)
I was just curious about what everyone did during the shutdown on November 30th 2012
So here are the questions.
1. Where were you at the last moments?
2. Who were you with?
3. What server were you on?
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?

My Answer
I decided after much debate that I should go to my mother server Triumph and be there with my first 50
I was with my first Super Group The Girls of Nukem High Under Atlas
I remember a tall blue armored hero RPing "Raises glass in cheer and says"I will not say do not weep. For not all tears are of evil."
I'll always remember what he said. For some reason it stuck with me.
It was 12:03am when I lost connection. I felt very isolated and powerless during the last minutes. I never wept... Well.. Out loud.
....................
Also after your answer if anyone can tell me how to post a screenshot on a forum post that would be great. I want to post a screen shot on that other post today :)
Ty :)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Heroette on January 06, 2014, 08:51:26 PM
Here are my answers.
1. Where were you at the last moments?  Ourobouros, hoping that time would stop and it wouldn't happen.

2. Who were you with?  By myself.  I had already logged earlier but I couldn't stay away.  I was crying terribly.

3. What server were you on?  Justice, on Penelope Pistol.

4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?  I have it recorded but what I remember was all the friendly goodbyes I received.  I still miss everyone on Justice United channel.

5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?  "This really sucks."
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: candidate on January 06, 2014, 09:41:52 PM
1. Where were you at the last moments?

In my base

2. Who were you with?

my 2 friends, since 2005

3. What server were you on?

Justice ( were there others ? )

4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?

SaveCOH

5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?

Fuck you NCSoft.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Thunder Glove on January 06, 2014, 10:09:49 PM
I went crazy that night, playing most of my level 50s, including doing some TFs and SFs I'd never gotten around to doing (LRSF and MLTF, plus an extra ITF), and my first Mothership raid.  (I really don't remember much about the raid; I was focused on chatting, which is very unusual for me, but I was talking to VV's husband.  I was worried about her)

The last thing I did was a Mayhem mission with my Bots/Storm MM on Protector.   When I finished that, there were only about ten minutes left, so I put him right at Lord Recluse's statue in Grandville, and watched the world burn.

... man, I still miss it so much.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Brightfires on January 06, 2014, 10:35:40 PM
Medical issues (Not mine-) kept me away from home, and thus away from my computer. I didn't log on at all on the 30th. I wish I could have...
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Ice Trix on January 07, 2014, 12:48:48 AM
1. Where were you at the last moments?
Atlas, Virtue, then Kings Row, Test
2. Who were you with?
On Virtue was in Atlas with Angry Horde, Test just me
3. What server were you on?
Virtue till close, then test till end.
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
I dont recall. Have it screen shoted somewhere.
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?
Bah Humbug.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: therain93 on January 07, 2014, 02:18:50 AM
1. Where was I in the final moments -- Freedom Server, Atlas Park, City Hall Steps -- youtube: http://youtu.be/TrgJAcoAsKc (http://youtu.be/TrgJAcoAsKc)
2.  Who were you with -- a bunch of upset people
3.  What server were you on -- Freedom Server
4.  What's the last thing you remember someone saying -- something like "maybe they'll forget to turn off Freedom"
5.  What were your thoughts and feeling at the final moment of truth -- disbelief and despair, rising from the pit of my stomach, took lots of deep breaths, then went to lay down and hope to wake up from this nightmare.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Night-Hawk07 on January 07, 2014, 02:19:38 AM
1. Where were you at the last moments?

Running around Atlas beating up mobs on my main: Knight'Hawk

2. Who were you with?

Myself

3. What server were you on?

Freedom

4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?

People joking about how midnight rolledvaround and nothing had happened.

5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?

I shall let a dark lord of the Sith speak for me. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: RockLeeXIII on January 07, 2014, 07:01:08 AM
Quote from: scalebeast on January 06, 2014, 08:51:26 PM
Here are my answers.
1. Where were you at the last moments? 
2. Who were you with? 
3. What server were you on? 
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying? 
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth? 

1 :Pocket D ... some player told me that the ski slop was open and i had never gone skiing ...

2: Well with that player who's name i cannot remember at this time but he has a lizard head lol ...
we both were villains ...

3: Defiant

4: loosing our world sucks ... ( a hero that i met at siren's call but we were chatting at first)

5: mmm ... i hope i can stay awake till the very end however i didn't make it ... different time zone ... fell asleep while playing ... when i awoke ... there game was at the main screen and i was unable to login ...

those final moments just makes me sad ... i really miss CoH/V  and hope that one day soon there will either be a amazing break thru either the server and/or Icon ...
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Floride on January 07, 2014, 08:58:35 AM
This was the last thing I saw. It's from my demo of the last 15 minutes.
I was on Floride, my main, on Liberty in Peregrine, where the Rikti where trying to invade again.
I led the league for everyone in the zone, inviting all requesters.
A Sergeant Essence pet got in the last hit on a Rikti Conscript.
According to the demo file, The last thing said was "enjoy life all" by a toon named "da Hi-1".
Once the grey box popped up I sat stunned for a second, and for the first time in decades, I started to... cry. Feeling all the ties that bound us together, being cut all at once.

(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=imageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg534%2F9471%2F3c9m.png)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Drauger9 on January 07, 2014, 09:46:36 AM
 I was in denial, so I didn't request off work.

I was working and trying to convince myself that City of Heroes was "just a game". So after shut down, I went on playing other games and haven't had a virtual home since. :(.

Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: thunderforce on January 07, 2014, 11:14:00 AM
Quote from: ZoeyLovecraft90 on January 06, 2014, 07:56:41 PM
1. Where were you at the last moments?
2. Who were you with?
3. What server were you on?
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?

In the last hours I got my Praetorian to the end of the Praetoria arc (level 20, not the extended Praetoria) and chose to go to Paragon City; but in the last hour I went to Atlas with Thunderforce, my (multiply-rerolled) first character, on Union, and stood around with dozens of other people complaining. I don't remember who said what last, but I remember someone squeezing out the last healing badge with minutes to go.

Nothing profound. "I'll be damned if I'll ever give NC another penny" would about sum it up.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: TerminalVelocity on January 07, 2014, 12:39:25 PM
I was so beat up about the shutdown that I didn't log on at all after the announcement.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: OzonePrime on January 07, 2014, 02:22:57 PM
Atlas Park
Everyone there in Atlas
Guardian
It's past 3am and we're still here!
3:04am (Teary eyed) Oh man, it's really over!
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: healix on January 07, 2014, 09:58:53 PM
I stood atop the Atlas globe with my big 'brother', a friend I'd had almost since day one of playing. We stood face to face saluting each other until the final message. I cried then....as I cry now, remembering. Few things in life have ever been so missed.

(https://i.imgur.com/zbUrY4dl.jpg)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Tubbius on January 07, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
1. Where were you at the last moments?
2. Who were you with?
3. What server were you on?
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?

(https://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u25/Roderic_Cliche/screenshot_121201-02-58-14_zps0a555a9c.jpg) (http://s164.photobucket.com/user/Roderic_Cliche/media/screenshot_121201-02-58-14_zps0a555a9c.jpg.html)

That's me, the Santa lookalike in the middle, at 2:58 A.M. according to the file name.  I was on until Justice server blacked out.  I don't remember the in-game chat, but I do remember feeling much as I do now after spending the day on Icon and on these threads: emotionally torn up, close to tears.

Keep hope alive, folks.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: The Fifth Horseman on January 07, 2014, 11:21:46 PM
Quote from: ZoeyLovecraft90 on January 06, 2014, 07:56:41 PM
1. Where were you at the last moments?
2. Who were you with?
3. What server were you on?
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?
Rikti War Zone on the Beta server.
With who? There was a league of us fighting the Devouring Earth that were left in the zone after the previous events. I remember Kaiser Tarantula, Embyron, Shadow Fire, Karnage VII and Greigor, but there were many, many more.
Last thing? Hah. [Looking for Group] Malignant Tumor: 50th bio tank seeks any team
Thoughts and feelings? I was having more fun playing the game than most times before. But... NOT the end. :)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Little David on January 08, 2014, 03:22:44 AM
Quote from: ZoeyLovecraft90 on January 06, 2014, 07:56:41 PM
Hello :)
I was just curious about what everyone did during the shutdown on November 30th 2012
So here are the questions.
1. Where were you at the last moments?
2. Who were you with?
3. What server were you on?
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?


1. Ouroboros, with my first and main character (Little David).
2. Nobody; I was pretty much alone, in the Pillars of Ice and Fire room.
3. Guardian.
4. I have a screenshot of the moment the servers disconnected, so:
[Looking For Group] Star Hammer: HEROES
[Looking For Group] Thanatophobia: BUTT THIRD BOY I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE SECOND MAN
[Looking For Group] Dirty Kitsune: "Foo Fighters - My Hero"
[Looking For Group] Red Thunder: We need a Guardian EMU Server ...
[Looking For Group] Little David: *paints L'Ombra blue*
[Looking For Group] Shoqwave: Dis raps for hire vs, NC soft

And in my other chat window:
[Looking for a team.]STORMDANCE: Farewell all of you and be well
[Looking for a team.]STORMDANCE: I will miss u even if I didn't know u
[Friends] Shattered Skull: Goodbye everyone, you made it real for me, and thats all I could ask for
[Friends] Shattered Skull: A Toast: To the Heroes of City of Heroes
[Friends] Shattered Skull: np, kitsune

5. A picture is worth a thousand words.

(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=static.tvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpub%2Fimages%2FCityfbomb.jpg)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Triplash on January 08, 2014, 11:48:15 PM
That last day I was standing on the steps of City Hall. I'm not sure if I was in 33 or some other one, but my heart was logged into 33, that much I know.

I was with friends. I forget exactly which ones, but that's the point. It was just like it always had been when playing... specific people might come and go as the day passed, but whoever you saw standing beside you, or zipping past... chances were pretty good you'd be okay with calling them a friend. Maybe not a "lifelong, close as family" friend; of course not, not all of them. But a "let's have a blast doing something we both find awesome" friend... absolutely.

Like always I was on Virtue. I started there by accident, not having the slightest idea that it was the "rp server", or anything else about it really. I just liked the name. And later, when the lag from being on one of the heaviest-population servers during peak hours finally got too crazy, I asked myself if I was prepared to transfer all my characters and restart my little solo SG somewhere else. And it turned out I wasn't... I had met too many cool people there. I decided to put up with the perma-lag for the chance to keep hanging out with them. So even though I had fully well planned to try out the other servers, and at one point I even got so far as to make a Triplash on each of the english-speaking ones, I never actually managed to make it off Virtue after three and a half years. (Which, with the lag, sometimes seemed more like four and a half :P )

The last thing I remember someone saying was me, cursing. Not at anything ingame, or even at the situation we were facing. Nope. It turns out that I ended my time in the City the same way I had always played it... the crappy little built-in video card overheated and my laptop crashed. >.<

During those few minutes when I was waiting for the laptop to cool off enough to reboot, I thought about it. I realized that even if I managed to log back in without hitting some monstrous queue, and somehow it didn't crash on me yet again, it wasn't going to get better than it had just been. I was surrounded by people I called friends, and at that point everyone had been joking and remembering happy things and were in a good place - relatively, at least. I figured that was as much of a high note as I was gonna get, so I just left the computer off and let that be my ending.

Well... the ending to that chapter at least. But not the ending to the whole story, not by far. I'm sure of it. For now we're just waiting for the next contact to unlock, that's all this is 8)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Brightfires on January 09, 2014, 04:32:08 AM
Quote from: Floride on January 07, 2014, 08:58:35 AM
This was the last thing I saw. It's from my demo of the last 15 minutes.
I was on Floride, my main, on Liberty in Peregrine, where the Rikti where trying to invade again.
I led the league for everyone in the zone, inviting all requesters.
A Sergeant Essence pet got in the last hit on a Rikti Conscript.
According to the demo file, The last thing said was "enjoy life all" by a toon named "da Hi-1".
Once the grey box popped up I sat stunned for a second, and for the first time in decades, I started to... cry. Feeling all the ties that bound us together, being cut all at once.

(https://images.weserv.nl/?url=imageshack.us%2Fa%2Fimg534%2F9471%2F3c9m.png)

It still makes me sad that Kestrel and Prince couldn't be there with you guys, kicking Rikti butts to the very end...
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Ashen Fury on January 09, 2014, 08:19:52 AM
1. Where were you at the last moments?
Atlas Park City Hall steps, with what seemed like half the servers population, clicking all the toggles and buffs and anything else shiny I could, just like everyone else.
2. Who were you with?
I was in a group with a mix of people I had recently become friends with since the announcement, and people I had known for years. I spent some time before the final hour in the old Paragon Dance Party zone with some old friends who had found a glitch they could use to get into it.
3. What server were you on?
Justice. Always Justice, the land of madness.
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
"Everyone should just fly around, all cool like"
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?
Honestly, for the first 2 minutes after the grey box popped up, I was just staring, mouth agape, horrified that this awful thing had actually happened. And then I cried. I cried so hard and so pitifully that it was as if my best friend had died. I left the computer with the grey box up and the last twitch broadcast still running, and woke up my girlfriend, who knew that this was coming.
She comforted me for a while, and then I went back to the computer, watched the devs shut down the twitter, fb page, everything. Listened to them say their goodbyes. At this point, anger kicked in. I didn't want to let that stew, I needed something to keep me busy, right away. I began working on the conversion of the music and sound files that eventually became the compilation on the main page. This kept me busy for almost a week. I still HATE Ncsoft to this day and will never support them again.

(https://i606.photobucket.com/albums/tt150/sealofcasino/screenshot_121201-03-04-31_zpsd7c82807.jpg) (http://s606.photobucket.com/user/sealofcasino/media/screenshot_121201-03-04-31_zpsd7c82807.jpg.html)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: houtex on January 10, 2014, 04:50:40 AM
1) Atlas Park, on the steps of City Hall, with Brawling Humilator, my greatest 50 achievement, with his torch held high, and me typing away on the chat until the very end, and then a little past.
2) All the people around me there.  Some I knew, some I didn't, but we were still all family.
3) Pinnacle, represent! *hic*
4) "We're still up!!!" or something to that nature.  Pinnacle went offline about 5 minutes or so after midnight.

5) When the disconnected box happened to show up... I stared at it.  A lot.  I then haunted this place, and a couple of others I knew of, for about an hour. 

And then, I went to sleep, mopey, sad.  And NCSoft won't see my money ever again, that I vowed, with the exception of if they ever brought back the game, or let it go.  And even then, the latter might not be enough.

One day...
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Whyaylooh on January 11, 2014, 02:36:32 AM
The much-shortened version:

1.) In Night Ward, atop the Westerman Building, at the Stargazer marker.

2.) I was by myself.  It was better that way.

3.) Virtue.

4.) In-game, just my Guardian supergroup telling me to get moving if I was going to get onto Virtue in time to be where I wanted to be at the end.  (According to my demorecord at the very end, there was also some chatter on Virtue from Wakinyan and Operative VI on various channels, but I didn't notice them until I perused the file.)

5.) Some relief, as it looked for a few minutes like I wouldn't make it onto Virtue, and also realized that I needed a final backup of my character there!  I made it, though, got the backup done, and got the demorecord going, with five seconds to spare.  Then, with my screen stuck when the server went down, and my character there holding a torch and watching the souls fly by, crushing sadness as The Cape Radio played "Taps" and "Amazing Grace".  Very bittersweet.  It fit the moment perfectly.  Still brings a tear to my eye.  After that, some denial, I suppose, as I heard that the test and beta servers were still up, and I tried to get another computer up and connected, but then had no luck.  From there, trying to still feel a little hope, but mostly just that numb sort of coming to grips with the fact that this was really it -- at least for the near-term -- as I shifted gears to communicating, and supporting friends who weren't taking it so well.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Floride on January 11, 2014, 05:27:25 AM
Quote from: Triplash on January 08, 2014, 11:48:15 PM
The last thing I remember someone saying was me, cursing. Not at anything ingame, or even at the situation we were facing. Nope. It turns out that I ended my time in the City the same way I had always played it... the crappy little built-in video card overheated and my laptop crashed. >.<

So... Triplash may have actuallv been there when the lights went out, but with an "AFK" over his head?
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Triplash on January 11, 2014, 06:02:50 PM
Quote from: Floride on January 11, 2014, 05:27:25 AM
So... Triplash may have actuallv been there when the lights went out, but with an "AFK" over his head?

Huh. It's possible, yeah. I'm pretty sure I did that thing where you start an AE mission but don't enter it, so the game would think you were in a task force and not auto-log you. So she very well could have been standing there right to the last. I kinda like that thought actually, thanks! ;D
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Sailboat on January 13, 2014, 02:56:57 PM
I gave a LOT of thought to where I wanted to "go out."  I seriously considered  making a brand-new character, going through the tutorial, and getting to the point where one chooses HERO or VILLAIN...and letting the game expire with the choice unmade, the possibilities all lying in the future.

As it turned out, nostalgia got the better of me, and I brought out my first 50, who had spent a lot of time in the Hollows in her youth.  The Hollows was the first place in the game that scared me, that challenged me, and she had eventually overcome it.  But in the process the music for Eastgate Park, that green hill covered with Circle of Thorns mages on the far side of the park, came to symbolize danger and being far from home (at the time, there wasn't even a hospital in zone, so any defeat made for a LONG trip back).  So somehow I associated Eastgate with adventure.

And thus she went out sitting in the lotus position on that great hill, gazing out over the Hollows. 

And we're all still in danger, still far from home.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Ground Fault on January 13, 2014, 04:14:53 PM
I was on Triumph under Atlas on my main, Ground Fault. I spent the night with 5 of my old SG friends from The Mission Mercenaries. We ran the save Statesman mish a couple of times and got screenies with States. We also ran a bunch of AV missions and a TF I think. By the end of the night there were 3 of us left. We started a drum circle. I was getting some tells from old friends I hadnt talked to in awhile. It was like a big family reunion on Triumph that night. The last thing I remember reading was a tell asking if maybe they forgot to unplug us as it was 3 minutes past. I replied, no this is the end but was DC'd before my reply went through. I like to think that Ground is still playing his drum under Atlas with all of his old Super friends, having a grand old time.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Battlechimp on January 18, 2014, 06:30:03 PM
I know that a lot of people wanted to leave having placed their characters somewhere as they waited for the end. I get that, but for me, I wanted to leave the game the way I came in. Fighting evil while wearing bright neon spandex. :-)  Captain Neat-O was the first character I created in beta, he was the first I recreated during the headstart, so he was going to be the one I was playing when the lights went out. By the end I had about 10 different versions of him across various servers. So I was ending it on the original energy blaster Neat-O version on Virtue.

And I was determined to go out blasting. I teamed up with a couple fellow Paragonian Knights, Spectreblade and Big Daddy Dream and we went hunting AVs. We had gone through several missions so far and the last one we were up in a satellite tracking down Antimatter and Neuron. We had just beaten Antimatter and were fighting our way to Neuron when things finally shut down. The last thing I remember was Neuron's encounter dialogue going off and someone saying "There's Neuron" us turning to see where he was and... You have lost connection to map server.

I tried to relog (Virtue had been kicking people all night) then I noticed the time and realized that was the end. Felt sad, but least I was having fun up to the very end.

And I like to look at that last fight, not as we didn't get to finish the fight, but as the fade to black at the end of a good movie where the heroes charge into one more fight against never ending evil. Think end of Angel or the ending of The Incredible. Its not about what happens in that fight that matters its that the heroes are still there fighting the fight
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Illusionss on January 22, 2014, 05:35:58 AM
I am a self-sufficient person to a degree that amazes and sometimes annoys those closest to me. I really do not like most people that much, and I need to socialize [probably] less than anyone you have ever heard of. I could survive in solitary confinement for years if need be, so long as the library were good enough.

In the game I was usually alone, unless I was involved in a PUG task force. Or leading one, I did that sometimes too.

At the shutdown I did not want to be alone. The mere IDEA of being alone unnerved me. I considered taking my main to the Storm Palace, but in the end I did not. I logged out all my characters for the final time underneath the Atlas statue, one by one, in the days leading up. My main died surrounded by as many fellow Virtue-ites as possible. I realized that I loved those people, brawling, quarrelsome, catgirls, all of them. Stupid public RPers in Pocket D? they were my brethren. Unslotted main Tanks on the ITF? I forgave them after the fact. [Yes it actually happened.] All of my prickly I-don't-NEED-you-rubes-leave-me-alone melted away.

Because now I know the meaning of REALLY being alone. I don't have the in-game community, even on a chat-channel, and I don't have my main. I will never, ever forgive NCSoft for killing my top five characters whom I spent thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars on, not if I live to be ninety.

The server went to black with my point of view facing the City Hall steps. Just thinking of it makes me want to break stuff.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: LaughingAlex on January 22, 2014, 10:01:25 PM
The months after the announcement came, before the shutdown, I was transporting toons to CO....

...I regret every moment of that, because none of my toons in CO are to my vision whatsoever, because of the games crap balance.

On the day I tried logging on, I took screenshots of my characters, and of my sg base in the works.  I couldn't complete it in time, the server shut down then.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: johnrobey on January 25, 2014, 03:24:12 AM
Quote from: ZoeyLovecraft90 on January 06, 2014, 07:56:41 PM
Hello :)
I was just curious about what everyone did during the shutdown on November 30th 2012
So here are the questions.
1. Where were you at the last moments?
2. Who were you with?
3. What server were you on?
4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying?
5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth?

1.  I was on the steps of city hall in Atlas Park on what was my Justice "main".
2.  A friend and SGmate from Victory quickly made a new toon on Justice to hang out for those final moments--like many people, we'd done a lot of server hopping that day and evening--and we hung out with those who like us were still hanging on, saying our farewells globally, locally, etc.
3.  Justice
4.  I don't remember now what the last thing said was, but I certainly remember the tone of the evening and feeling sad yet happy that the devs logged in to share this world-ending experience with us.
5.  Even though I knew it was coming, I did feel a moment of shock at the grey pop up Disconnection error message.  I had assumed server shutdown would be like getting booted during server maintenance.  I felt really sad, walked away from my computer and let myself shed tears for a couple of minutes, then started a grieving thread on Titan since I knew I for one need to mourn this loss.

/em holdtorch

*modified to fix typos.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Drauger9 on January 25, 2014, 09:48:54 AM
QuoteBecause now I know the meaning of REALLY being alone. I don't have the in-game community, even on a chat-channel, and I don't have my main. I will never, ever forgive NCSoft for killing my top five characters whom I spent thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars on, not if I live to be ninety.

I always tell people "I'm a natural loner." I can literally go without talking to another human for weeks, maybe months. Yet I find I enjoy MMOs so much and recently I've realized why, the chat window. Even though I mainly solo, I still feel like I'm not alone. Cause there's constant chatter in the chat window. When I'd farm Council for hours, I never felt isolated cause of the chat window.

It's so strange to me cause I never really noticed it until it was gone and I tried playing regular RPGS. I'd always look to the bottom left of my screen to see what everyone was talking about. LOL!
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Floride on January 26, 2014, 04:06:20 AM
Quote from: Triplash on January 11, 2014, 06:02:50 PM
Huh. It's possible, yeah. I'm pretty sure I did that thing where you start an AE mission but don't enter it, so the game would think you were in a task force and not auto-log you. So she very well could have been standing there right to the last. I kinda like that thought actually, thanks! ;D
No prob. And sorry about assuming Triplash was a "he". I blame your Avatar =)
Let the annals of history record... Triplash got deleted with the rest of us!
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Illusionss on January 26, 2014, 04:48:29 PM
Quote from: Drauger9 on January 25, 2014, 09:48:54 AM
I always tell people "I'm a natural loner." I can literally go without talking to another human for weeks, maybe months. Yet I find I enjoy MMOs so much and recently I've realized why, the chat window. Even though I mainly solo, I still feel like I'm not alone. Cause there's constant chatter in the chat window. When I'd farm Council for hours, I never felt isolated cause of the chat window.

It's so strange to me cause I never really noticed it until it was gone and I tried playing regular RPGS. I'd always look to the bottom left of my screen to see what everyone was talking about. LOL!

Yep, same here. I rarely said things on a public channel, but I usually had at least the Help channel up. It was a good way to monitor what was going on; if someone was forming a team to take down a GM or kill ghosts in Croatoa, I could hop on the team if I needed to. But I never did much actual talking till the last month or so of the game. We had so many trolls spending hours telling everyone why we were all doomed, abandon all hope.... and that really ticked me off. I felt those people were feeding on everyone's grief, trying to whip it up to the highest level. I think they were actually enjoying it. We had a few really bad ones on the official forums, too.

I miss having a community, even if I mostly lurked.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Illusionss on January 26, 2014, 04:49:51 PM
Quote from: LaughingAlex on January 22, 2014, 10:01:25 PM
The months after the announcement came, before the shutdown, I was transporting toons to CO....

...I regret every moment of that, because none of my toons in CO are to my vision whatsoever, because of the games crap balance.

I have never found a way to replicate even one of my characters in CO. Its one reason I am not there much. Rather than waste time there I am just waiting for CoT.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Triplash on January 27, 2014, 12:11:56 AM
Quote from: Floride on January 26, 2014, 04:06:20 AM
No prob. And sorry about assuming Triplash was a "he". I blame your Avatar =)

Heh, no need to apologize, there's no way to tell these things online. And Trip the player is a he, just Trip the character is a she. That one you can blame on Icewind Dale... that was the first game I had played that let you choose a female portrait for your character. Since then I pick female characters in games more often than male ones. I'd like to say I don't know why, but it's probably pretty obvious. :roll:

QuoteLet the annals of history record... Triplash got deleted with the rest of us!

Deleted? Nahhh. Her CoH avatar might have been disconnected, but Trip ain't gonna let that stop her. In fact if I know Trip, she's still out there somewhere waiting for me to open a door to another game so she can come back home again.  ...And probably munching on a bag of cookies she got at some interdimensional truck stop.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on January 27, 2014, 02:07:58 AM
Quote from: Illusionss on January 26, 2014, 04:49:51 PM
I have never found a way to replicate even one of my characters in CO. Its one reason I am not there much. Rather than waste time there I am just waiting for CoT.

I have not exactly been able to duplicate most of my COH toons in CO, but I was able to make a fire blaster toon there that felt a lot more fun than the ones I had in COH. Power Armor is a fun set too.  Heavy Weapons is a more fun set to me than I found Titan Weapons. That being said, I really miss Controllers and flavored melee (i.e., Electric, Dark,  Spines, etc.)



Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Thunder Glove on January 27, 2014, 04:04:05 PM
Geez, yes.  The only character I felt to be as much fun as some of my CoH characters was my attempt to recreate my Bots/Storm Mastermind, using powers from the Gadgetry and Wind frameworks.  (I miss the CO version of Dr. Bodog almost as much as the CoH version)  But any attempt to recreate any of my Brutes or Tankers led to a character that felt like a squishy ping-pong ball (due to the lack of Mez protection powers), and any attempt to recreate my Dominators led to a character that was basically a Blaster with a pet (not necessarily bad, but not the same at all).

But, eventually, the client just became too slow on its own. I can't run the game anymore in anything but Perpetual Slideshow Mode, so I stopped playing entirely.

I still miss CoH so much.  There was nothing like it.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Drauger9 on January 27, 2014, 10:33:08 PM
QuoteGeez, yes.  The only character I felt to be as much fun as some of my CoH characters was my attempt to recreate my Bots/Storm Mastermind, using powers from the Gadgetry and Wind frameworks.  (I miss the CO version of Dr. Bodog almost as much as the CoH version)  But any attempt to recreate any of my Brutes or Tankers led to a character that felt like a squishy ping-pong ball (due to the lack of Mez protection powers), and any attempt to recreate my Dominators led to a character that was basically a Blaster with a pet (not necessarily bad, but not the same at all).

How close, is close to a bots/storm MM? If I could get decently close, I'd be very interested in trying that. :)

Are there any other "pettish" classes in CO?
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Kaos Arcanna on January 28, 2014, 01:23:18 AM
Quote from: Drauger9 on January 27, 2014, 10:33:08 PM
How close, is close to a bots/storm MM? If I could get decently close, I'd be very interested in trying that. :)

Are there any other "pettish" classes in CO?

Draug, if you invest some money-- either in a sub or just a Freeform slot-- you can have a toon that can have a number of pets from different sets.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Drauger9 on January 28, 2014, 01:38:01 AM
Oh really? Sweet, I'm going to have to check it out on my next day off. I wont be able to spend any money on it. Until my next paycheck though.

I should have an old account somewhere. My RL friend and me checked it out soon after CoH closed but he didn't like it and I didn't really spend much time playing it.

*Edited to add*

Might as well download it in the background  while I play DCU LOL!
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Drauger9 on January 28, 2014, 02:55:58 AM
@Thunder Gloves

Which AT did you start out with? Range, Melee, Tank or support? Does it matter?

One of the Melee ATs seems like it has storm type of powers.
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Thunder Glove on January 28, 2014, 01:29:40 PM
I played a Glacier, but only for a little while. I subscribed in order to get Freeform characters.  The game is SO much better that way.

It's been literally a year since I last subscribed to CO, so I don't remember my exact build for my pseudo-MM, but I remember he had Experimental Blaster, Medical Nanites, Support Drones, Munitions Bots, Orbital Cannon (with Anvil of Dawn advantage), and Molecular Self-Assembly from Gadgeteering, along with Dust Devil from Wind (to replace Tornado) and Ball Lightning from Electricity (to replace Thunderstorm).  I forget which Energy Builder he had, but it was one of the two from Gadgeteering.  I seem to recall taking an out-of-theme heal, because the Medical Nanites and Support Drones couldn't always keep up with enemy damage (particularly in Alerts), and I was planning on taking Wind Barrier as my block (to simulate CoH's Hurricane power)

Primary Super-Stat was Int, secondaries were, IIRC, Con and Rec.  Specializations were in the Intelligence Tree (of course), the Commander Tree (the Pet Buffing tree), and Protector Tree (mostly for Unrelenting).  Role was usually Hybrid.

I was also going to add Command Animals from Supernatural Bestial (with the dinosaur skin customization) to represent mad cloning experiments, but they slowed my game down too much, and I had to remove them.  If the game hadn't been so slow, I would probably have also added Arctic Beast from Ice (again, dinosaur skin customization) for a total of seven controllable pets and two not-quite-pets (that would be Dust Devil and Ball Lightning, which aren't true pets, but they do follow enemies around and change targets if the first one dies.  The Anvil of Dawn advantage makes Orbital Cannon do that, as well)

Even so, he was a surprising amount of fun.  The pet control wasn't anywhere near as fine as CoH, but there was some.  I particularly liked putting them on Assist, targeting a distant enemy, and then charging up Orbital Cannon.  The pets would wait by my side until the Orbital Cannon went off, at which point they'd charge in and start blasting.  (If I put them on Attack, they'd charge in as soon as I targeted the enemy)

CO is actually great if you want to go pet-crazy.  With a Freeform slot, you can literally take ALL the controllable pet powers on a single if you want.  In addition to the ones I already mentioned, there's Air Elemental, Void Horror, Tyrranon's Familiar, Ritual of Arcane Summoning, Ritual of Primal Summoning, Ritual of Radiant Summoning, and Ritual of Ebon Summoning, and that's not even counting uncontrollable pets or attacks that sort of act like pets (like Dust Devil). You wouldn't have enough Advantage Points to max them all out, and your computer may overheat and explode from the mob you'd have following you around all the time, but you could take them all. :D

Really, even though I didn't like it anywhere near as much as CoH, I'd still be playing it if they had a decent client that ran at full speed.  I did actually like it for what it was, though I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as CoH.  (I really should have played the pseudo-MM more, but I kept trying to get the pseudo-Brute and the pseudo-Controller to work, and they just didn't)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Drauger9 on January 29, 2014, 05:46:25 AM
Thanks for the reply.

I'm going to have to experiment with that. Even if it's moderately close to an MM it'd be worth it to me. (I really love MMs LOL).

Thanks for all the info too, I saved this to my favorites incase it get's buried so I'll have it handy. :)
Title: Re: What did you do during the Shutdown?
Post by: Elfin on February 03, 2014, 04:01:40 PM
1. Where were you at the last moments? I was on the steps in Atlas, after having tons of fun with the Rangle Ship Raid. I had made a toon for it called Rangle Me This. At the very end though I was on my I guess you would call Mains on bot accounts Elfin Medic, and Zanco. I really never had mains though. I had lots of 50s, and played them all a lot. I had parked several toons in the secret room below PI. The Matrix Room.

2. Who were you with? My Australian buddies Jsonic, and Speeedy, and the whole Rangle crew on Skype.

3. What server were you on? Justice server. When Justice went dark I did head over to the test server for several minutes till it went dark as well. I was in RWZ when test went dark.

4. What's the last thing you remember someone saying? Like someone else said I have a screen shot of it but can not remember. Probably something about a Rangle Plot LOL

5. What were your thoughts and feelings at the final moment of truth? I don't remember I just know I was very Sad. I thought I was going to move on to DCUO, I already had a payed account, but I lost interest pretty fast. COH apparently was the only MMO for me. Its the only one I ever played. After Shut down I tried CO, DCUO, STO, and SWOR, but I lost interest pretty fast. My replacement for COH ended up being a Harley Motorcycle. The winter months are rough though cause I can't ride.