Author Topic: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH  (Read 22338 times)

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #60 on: September 12, 2014, 03:25:27 AM »
Pre-aggro-cap herding.  Going to Monkey Island in FF and pulling literally every monkey that you could see into one place, hitting foot stomp, and actually being able to see the meter for monkey kills jump.  That was so much fun.

Going into Perez Park with a friend.  You go left, they go right, you both herd your half of the map, then meet in the middle on the other side.  Just watching a tidal wave of baddies rushing down the streets.

And the Crystal Titan room in the Eden trial.  Sigh.  The single greatest loss to the aggro cap.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #61 on: September 12, 2014, 04:25:18 PM »
I remember posting asking for help during the going rogue beta, when I found out that inspirations stacked.

I had been trying to play a stalker without using more than one of each of them at any given time.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #62 on: October 17, 2014, 12:11:40 AM »
I saw this topic so it gave me a bit a nostalgia so I thought I would post.

I was interested in this game because it had flying and super speed and things almost other games at the time didn't have...if they did it was a power that you would click to get a short burst of speed for 3 seconds and then take 30 minutes to recharge.

A very silly fact when I started I made a scrapper dark melee and dark armor....I hated the character....ran out of energy way too much and felt like the speed of attacks was terrible.

I then made an illusion/empathy controller.....and really got into that character.

I read tons of forums....and I recall seeing so many couch back quarter back players telling everyone what to play and how.

Even in game had way too many people telling me to "be quiet" "stand back" "just heal".

I hated that....

So I did things solo and used to fly around for hours every day and helped players in steel canyon....I would show up and heal them.
I did this so much I guess I became kind of notorious on my server.....and so when the very first special event happened, with the big pumpkin headed giants(who later became eochi) people let me just sort of fly in and help.

After a while I used to get asked to help people who would set the difficulty up to the highest level and be unable to complete missions.....literally they would make up stories on how they could do this or that....and never could show me.

It seamed I was also one of a few people who used alot of invisibility....so I would ninja missions.....get tot he end and teleport the group....I did this before it was the thing people did.

I was one of the first that helped beat the hammidon on the server I played on....and I think I single handedly changed a lot of people's view of this game. 

I used to take new players with me....to go on grand adventures in the shadow shard...as I had group flight...I would get on a task force and people would say ...."its impossible"...."we cant do it".....and I would have them stop and listen to some strategy I came up with....and they would then do it and we would win.....barely...but we would do it.

I recall being on a team when the special task force in the hive with the crystal guardian was almost impossible to get a team for....and you had to be a certain level to play in it......and being with a team of tanks who gave up......to which I guess I got them to give it another go.....I a lowley controller at the time...inspired my team to try again and we beat it.

I inspired countless teams and groups over the years I guess....I had more friends on my friends list then I new what to do with.....and had to be honest....I couldn't actually remember the majority of them.

I even played with Misty Lacky and Golden Girl and even the developers at differing points.....

Got killed by a developers during the big arena pvp testing....because my defender was doing a little too much debuff....I think she was the reason the defender set of psionic lance and storm powers got nerfed so hard core.

Sooo.....anywise I had to post.....so many good memories...and so many fun players to play with.....

heck I recall playing a differing character on another server....and getting invited to a pick-up group where the leader...actually claimed to be me....their character was even modeled after my illusion/empathy......I was flattered....I also never said a word.....since it was interesting to see a another player get inspired that much.

And that's what I recall the most.....the players in the end....who inspired and dared to inspire others.....in a game about dreams....and how if you tried hard enough....your dreams could come true.

 

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #63 on: October 17, 2014, 07:52:21 AM »
I played the game for over 4000 hours ...without EVER making any alt! :P

I just can't do it, it's like, Doctor Doom is Doctor Doom and I am Jenn Space, that's the way it is! XD



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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #64 on: October 18, 2014, 03:28:30 PM »
My first 50 was an Energy/Energy Blaster that I picked solely for the visuals, knowing nothing about how the ATs worked or how Knockback worked. My time learning the game was like learning to drive a manual with no clutch and the emergency break on the whole time.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #65 on: October 18, 2014, 05:05:15 PM »
My first 50 was an Energy/Energy Blaster that I picked solely for the visuals, knowing nothing about how the ATs worked or how Knockback worked. My time learning the game was like learning to drive a manual with no clutch and the emergency break on the whole time.

My experience as well, except I picked a SS/Inv Tank. Not realizing having SS would not allow me to pick up or bend stuff, and that Inv was more of a concept than a reality. LOL.
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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #66 on: October 18, 2014, 09:34:44 PM »
I farmed so much I could actually Headbang while I was farming \m/.

I mainly soloed because I'd be so tired from work. That my ability to play would usually get me labeled as a bad player.

My first 50 heroe was a claws/regen scrapper, my first 50 villain was a thugs/poison MM.

I played with a small group of friends on Infinity and near the end we all switched to Freedom villain side.

We remade all our main villians and street sweeped up to about level 15. Skipping all the contacts (it was awesome).

My first encounter with an enemy mob I thought I was pvping. LOL!

I never really RPed but if COH comes back I have a character in mind. :P

I still have all my MM macro written down in a note book ready to be cracked back open (Dear God Please!).

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #67 on: October 18, 2014, 09:48:01 PM »
When the game went F2P I had almost enough tokens to unlock lifetime IOs (like 24 out of the 25 necessary or something), yet never got a character to level 50. Closest I came was like level 47 on my Stalker, my first character ended up as a 44 tanker by the time the game shut down.

I was really, really bad about leveling characters, but I still had so much fun in the game. I loved doing all the little storylines from the different contacts, and if I missed one I'd make a new character to do those storylines on.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #68 on: October 19, 2014, 02:27:53 AM »
When the game went F2P I had almost enough tokens to unlock lifetime IOs (like 24 out of the 25 necessary or something), yet never got a character to level 50. Closest I came was like level 47 on my Stalker, my first character ended up as a 44 tanker by the time the game shut down.

I was really, really bad about leveling characters, but I still had so much fun in the game. I loved doing all the little storylines from the different contacts, and if I missed one I'd make a new character to do those storylines on.

I never hit 50 either! :P I was wayyy too busy doing all the different story arcs I missed because of the choices I made earlier in my heroine career, in Ouroboros, that I didn't made it past 41! XDD A ton of them weren't even giving me xp anymore because I had to be scaled down to lvl 15 but I didn't care, I'd do them anyway for the passion of crime fighting and saving the world! :)
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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #69 on: October 19, 2014, 03:59:55 AM »
I remember high levels dragging 100's of mobs down the streets of Perez.
That reminds me of the time my brother and I were running down the street in Perez on our way to a mission. was a little bit ahead of me and tended to aggro all the Skulls before I got there. Neither of us were attacking, just running to the mission. I found myself running along side dozens of Skulls, all intent on getting the scrapper (my brother). I had the sudden image that my character was playing along, "yeah! get that no good hero!", hoping that the mob wouldn't notice that he was wearing heroic spandex...  ???
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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #70 on: October 19, 2014, 09:13:29 AM »
There was one Double XP weekend, not long after IOs came out that I was Pimping out my main toon, I either blacked out..or fell asleep after about 25 hours of doing nothing but Katie Hannon TFs...and continued to play half competently, all I remembered was Zoning into the 10 times the victor mission...then blinking and it being done...and someone asking If I was going to zone out..

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #71 on: October 19, 2014, 02:54:45 PM »
I think, the most ridiculous thing about my time at CoH was this crazy perception I had of how mediocre of a player I was. In my sig, I have a quote by John Cleese, who, in my mind is one of the wittiest men on the planet. I really had no idea that I was mediocre. Probably less than mediocre because in the first couple of years, I was playing on a laptop that barely met the minimal requirements. I'd enter a mission, and by the time I'd "zone in", I'd be dead. I'd look to see what killed me, and there'd be nothing. Off to the hospital, and a long hike back to the mission entrance. This time, I'd have a wakie, just in case.

I re-entered the mission, and again, I was dead when I zoned in, but I couldn't see the first mob. So, I popped my wakie, and then I took a couple of hits from some invisible mobs! No idea what they were. I called in a support ticket, and explained to them that I was getting clobbered by invisible mobs. He completed the mission for me, and that was that. Only later did I realize that my laptop was acting up, with all manner of issues, hard drive, integrated video card - I think playing the game for 12-14 hours a day was working that laptop too hard, getting it too hot. In any event, I was glad when it died so I upgraded, making my own desktop after weeks of careful planning and shopping, with kudos to Father Xmas from the forums for his guides to building a machine by myself.

The really ridiculous part was that I wasn't using the computer for anything else but playing coh. I mean, I had an email address, but I wasn't in the habit of emailing back then. There was no facebook, I don't even think MySpace was out back then. I spent that ridiculous sum of money to make a computer just so I could play CoH much better, and decrease those insufferable 2 to 4 minutes of load time (per each zone - shadow shard tfs were excruciating before I upgraded) and more importantly, actually not be the guy who was zoning in as the mission was being completed. It was nice to actually arrive at a mission door first or second, instead of being dead last. Gave me more time to go get cookies and stuff.
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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #72 on: October 19, 2014, 07:22:37 PM »
There was one Double XP weekend, not long after IOs came out that I was Pimping out my main toon, I either blacked out..or fell asleep after about 25 hours of doing nothing but Katie Hannon TFs...and continued to play half competently, all I remembered was Zoning into the 10 times the victor mission...then blinking and it being done...and someone asking If I was going to zone out..

that was you? :p
Yezz, I remember Teaming with someone half asleep.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #73 on: October 20, 2014, 06:09:14 AM »
Was it during Double XP Katie Runs? if it was it might have been.

It was worth it though after that weekend I had Perma Hasten and Perma AM...

MMM perma AM was delicious.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #74 on: October 20, 2014, 06:09:38 PM »
During slow times i used to entertain myself by Taking my namesake lvl 50 Elec/Energy Blaster to lowbie zones and punching baddies in the face. I would make a game out of seeing how far I could make them fly backwards.


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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #75 on: October 21, 2014, 04:33:55 AM »
I had so many 'n00b' moments...  *sigh*
Started playing in 2004 and was there when the servers went dark... but took a lot of time off in between...
I would be gone an issue or two at a time (due to work and RL) and always come back feeling like I was 'lost'
Luckily, I had many good friends in the game that helped me along each new issue and always welcome be back, over and over again.

Still my favorite mission was FrostFire... but getting there as a low level toon was always a challenge... but it did teach me a lot about not getting to close to draw argo and to get around most all the maps and missions maps... with some patience.

If all goes as planned... I look forward to many more 'n00b' moments in the years to come!

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #76 on: October 21, 2014, 08:29:54 AM »
My wife and I (mostly my wife) used to sit in Atlas Park, critique people's costumes, and offer to escort them to Icon and pay to have them changed if they were really bad. We both stopped drinking since then. :-[

My original main on my second account never made it to 50. I think I started that account in '06 and as far as he ever got was 47 or 48. I don't know how many 50s I actually had, but he wasn't one of them.

I never really had a problem helping other people level, but I generally avoided PLing my own characters like the plague.

I used to give all my purples away to people in a couple of chat channels I was in until one person yelled at me and promised to harass and haunt me 'till the end of my days if I didn't start using them or at least making a little money off of them. So I started hoarding them.

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #77 on: October 24, 2014, 12:12:44 AM »
I started the game when City of Villains came out.
I thought, WOW!! ME?! A VILLAIN IN A GAME?! IT'S ALWAYS THE HERO BUT HERE I COME!  (i was so young! :) )

Created my first character, then boom! CITY OF VILLAINS! loading.... Loading... BREAKOUT!

While I was running through breakout, I was so amazed. Oh joy!!! I'm a criminal mastermind that Summons ZOMBIES. ZOMBIES!
Then i got a glimpse of the little battles the Arachnos vs Longbow had during breakout. I saw one of the heroes use some cloud power that summoned a cloud and struck lightning. My ignorant self thought, Wow when do I GET that power?!

I didn't find out until many MANY failed alts and 6 months later that storm summoning was a hero only power at the time...

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #78 on: October 25, 2014, 08:36:04 AM »
I made a healing class character called "Jesus the healer"
and made him a black Jeff Lebowski character. (from the Big Lebowski) He called everyone dude.
Someone got annoyed with the idea of me playing as a black character and I got the character
blocked with the name being all weird.

It was a shame, my crew thought he was awesome.
He healed a lot of superheroes!

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Re: Ridiculous facts about your time at CoH
« Reply #79 on: November 14, 2014, 11:10:40 PM »
The dumbest thing I did, that I care to share, was leveling to level 8 , but only being trained to level 2.  I was in Kings and didn't know where the trainer was.

The second dumbest would be joining PUG's in the Hallows.