UltraAlt

Thanks for all the hard work on the update.

Still have the CoV box and the Preorder COV box from GameStop. CoV was Episode 6 of City of Heroes called "Along Came a Spider" (end of 2005). Though you could buy it and play it stand alone, it gave superheroes access to superhero bases - without it, heroes didn't have access to super bases without buying CoV until CoV was integrated into City of Heroes in 2008. I'm sure if there were records available (and there maybe some) that the percentage of players that bought CoV and did not buy CoH (or already own COH) was very small. If you want to play Villains, that's fine, but it is a cage of your own making. The first City of Heroes character I ever made was based on a Champions Campaign that I played in where the players played super villains. That being said, I made 10 characters the first day I played. I had bought the City of Heroes not long after it came out and had plenty of time to read and reread, and reread the book while I was saving up to buy the parts to build a computer to be able to play it. I had plenty of time to design characters that I wanted to play before I could even play the game .... add I didn't "create" all the characters that I had pre-designed on the first day that I played. Similar situation for CoV. Before the Beta was over I had a slate of characters ready to be created when CoV came out. I never liked CoV as much as City of Heroes. Honesty, I pretty much hated the Praetorian stuff even in the beta. Buzzing fluorescent lights have to be the most annoying video game sound ever created.

So here we go. Garth Ennis deconstructor of American superhero comics being referenced as to what superheroes are about. Quote from his Wiki-page "Despite having written a number of superhero stories for Marvel and DC, Ennis is noted for subverting the genre and mocking the characters in this work." No. His work is not a good example of what superhero comics are about. His works are for those that disrespect American superhero comics and work to break the American superhero mythos. All the tools that are there in CoV are in and because of City of Heroes. Take the mechanics that were part of CIty of Heroes out of the game and COV can claim maybe supergroup bases (this was boxed with CoV to get CoH players to buy it because originally you couldn't have a base unless you owned CoV) and PVP. Otherwise, CoV was always just subpart of City of Heroes. Sure you could originally purchase it alone, but I'm sure if the records were there to check, there was a very small percentage of players that owned CoV that didn't have City of Heroes.

There still are in Planetside 2. If it was just grunt shooting, I wouldn't be playing it. I'm not the best shot in the world either. There are plenty of tactics that someone that can't aim (pretty much at all) that can change the tide of battle ... sometimes in huge ways. Planetside 2 has massive battles(for anyone that doesn't know) and a 96+vs96+ in a region happens. that's just in one region on a map with no zoning between regions and dozens of regions on a continent. It is also not just ground troops, but also ground vehicles, aircraft, resource collection, base building, etc. But I'm here to play City of Heroes and not defend Planetside 2.

Waffle!

I have always thought the Beast jump looks like a cat thrown at a screen door. Four legged animals don't jump like that. They pounce. The Coyote and panther forms do such a good job doing jumps. Don't know if there is an easy way to port those leap animations across into the beast run set.

I could get it to work when I made a new character after the last patch. The characters I had on the server before that point can still switch around the stances an they work. They did a stealth patch today, maybe it fixed it.

I got that when I traveled in the future in DCU one time. Well, at least one time that I remember. Those dag retcons! It really sucked.

They kind of did. All you have to do is go to Null the Gull in the Pocket D and you can change to whatever alignment you want. There is no reason to destroy the Hero/Villain dynamic of a superhero game for everyone simply because you think you should be able to team-up with everyone like there is no difference between heroes and villains. At a minimum, 70% of the players on-line are heroes. If you want to be bad (even a little bad in your case), you have to pay for your choices. That's what an alignment system is about. The DEVs gave you a quick way to change with Null the Gull. Use it if that's how you like to play.

I made a room in a base that you have to teleport into. As you turn around the room, the writing is on the wall ... CAN -> YOU -> ESCAPE -> THE DEATHTRAP? I ended up trying to put in a hidden way out, which I could only hide so much. Originally, you would have to log out or use the base teleporter to get out of the room ... which was rapidly filling with water... or at least has water for a floor and massive amounts of water were being pumped into it. from high up on the walls.

... then you probably could care less about badge titles. That's because they don't care about character conception. They probably have a 50 (or multiple 50s) for bragging rights (even though it was probably power-leveled in the AE in a fire farm) They are leet because they are in the end-game. They may or may not really enjoy the game. Some simply want to brag about how cool they are and actually care about the character as long as they can show how OP or powerful they are. There seems to be an increasing number of players that really have no character conception. Sometimes you can simply tell by the name. Everyone should play how they enjoy the game. I understand that some people simply aren't creative or do not feel that they are creative enough. Sometimes we can see this in a name. I have never told someone that their origin stinks even if I don't understand it. Once I pointed out spelling error. 99% the time I will tell them they have a cool bio or something to that extent. Anyone with a naming issue should talk about this with whatever team you are on. Other people will be more than willing to suggest names and you can pick one (or those) that seem(s) cool and see if you can change the character's name next time you are in character selection. It cost nothing to change character names. If you have a concept for your character and you need help fleshing it out, sometimes just talking about it with other players helps to get it organized in your mind. Some players create an idea before they even pick a power set. Some players pick a powerset and craft an idea around it. Some players write their bio before they ever enter the game and already know what badges they want to get so that they can display that name. Some players write their bio once they are in game when they get the chance. Some players don't even know that you can write a bio for a character and do not know that the badge titles can be displayed on their character. Some can't be bothered do deal with finding decent name, writing a bio, or picking a badge. We all play differently. One of the things I love about this game is the character creator and how many different concepts that I think are cool that I can come up with. I can't play them all at the same time, but, when I have the itch to play that kind of character, I have them. When a team needs a certain archetype to make things run smoother, I can switch up to whatever I need. They all have character conceptions and a reason for doing what they are doing.

btw. Most LFG messages don't bother saying any color or side, because, as I have stated before - most of the player heroes and most of the players know that. There are just a few that feel that they need to say a color instead of hero or simply nothing when recruiting for a hero team. They stick out like a sore thumb to me. People are still posting on this thread, so they must be having fun with it.

.... and so you post on it ...

Is it odd that it mostly seem to be villains reacting to my post? Not surprising, instead expected that they would defend the red/blue usage. I'm very glad to see Praetorians comment on it.

bag of holding? Portable hole? Quantum singularity? Same place they keep the model of the Death Star that they never put on display in Atlas Park?

A hover stance jump would be kind of funny ... or at least funny to me. I think it is a valid stance and the movement would be faster than in hover mode, so I can see why the fly stance would make more sense than hover.

Made a new character. Ran around for a while testing LRTP stuff. Leveled to 20. Went to the costume vendor/customizer in the pocket d. Tried setting stances. I can set them in the customizer, but it doesn't change my stances when I get out of the customizer. Logged into another character previously made. Changed stances at the customizer in base. Worked. Went to the vendor in Pocket D and changed it. Worked. Logged back into the new character. Went to base tried to change the stance a couple of times. Stance still not working when out of the customizer. I know what it is supposed to do and what it is supposed to look like. It functions on a character that was made before the update. It is not working with a new character created to day.

Doesn't really matter because heroes in this game can not respond to villains doing bank heist missions. Can you imagine what a bank heist mission would be like if it was on the hero side and the heroes could respond? The villains are out number more than 2-1. There would be a pop-up message on the heroes event channel. The same kind of message that comes up with a fire happens. You might get the heroes to respond if you are a zombie mastermind because for sure they are going to respond to a zombie invasion.

This is a game about heroes and villains - and has tip missions that allow you to chose the path of your character's morality. If your character is running around doing villain missions then you are playing as a villain. The missions are villainous. The Hero side is doing missions that are supposed to be for the good of the City and to repel the alien invaders. I'm not pigeonholing people. Characters? Yes. Villains are villains until they change their alignment. If you are a vigilante running missions on the villain side, I consider them to be taking villainous actions. Characters. Not people. People can decide to only play villains. That's their way to play the game. To make my points clear :: 1) I - myself - do not like seeing the terms blue and red used when recruiting for teams. (I'm not going to join any teams that recruit and use the term blue. I'm just not going to do it any more. Don't want me on your team? Use the term blue when recruiting. I tend to be very helpful on any team that I'm on. We all make decisions about how we play the game.) 2) I - myself - believe that the color terms started to be used because villains were too lazy to type more characters and choose to use the term red instead - and that those villain players started using the term blue when playing on the hero side. 3) I - myself - believe that heroes never had a need - even before the sunset - to use that term blue when recruiting. A majority of the games population has always played heroes and on the hero side. 4) I - myself - clearly see that the populations that are showing up when you go look at them on the server listings show that - at the most, and, often, it is quite lower - 30% of the game population is showing up as villains at any given time. For this reason, I -myself - believe there is no reason for a hero team to need to indicate at all that they are a hero team as that is 70% of the games population. 5) I - myself - believe that since hero and blue have the same number of letters that there is no reason to use the term blue - but, noting above, I don't think think that a hero recruiting needs to be noting either. 6) I do think villains are lazy because they want to steal instead of work for something, they like to break the law as long as they can get away with it, etc. Characters are villains, I'm not calling players villains. Characters are different than players, and there shouldn't be any confusion about that. 7) The game is about heroes and villains (and the the two alignments between those groups ... and, yeah, the Praetorians [I will admit I pick on the few valiant players that play Praetorians]). The game is not based on Blue and Red. City of Heroes. City of Villains. Good versus Evil (edition). 8 ) I - myself - believe that the game when Rogue (For real) when City of Heroes :: Going Rogue was released and the line was blurred between the two sides and was disastrous for the City of Heroes franchise on multiple levels. These are all my opinions. Opinions that I wanted to share because it is something that I felt that I need to express. I only have 2 villains. And they are villains. They are not nice people. One would rob you blind and leave you not knowing what week it is. The other would poison you and leave you for dead if they felt like it. They are villains. I don't play myself in this game. I play characters. Each character has their own motivations - even if I can't use the game to express that clearly at all times. These are forums to discuss the game and how we play it. I'm doing that. What hero content within the villain zones? What villain content in the hero zones? I haven't seen anything about that on the beta notes, but I could very well have missed something. You know what? Look around at the world today. If people come upon this and think is funny and get a good laugh out of it, then I think that's a great thing. I think that is a positive on it's own merit. I had a great time gaming tonight which left me very little time to come to these forums. Teamed up with probably a grand total of 60+ characters played by other people tonight. Only 2 of them were played by players on my friends list. It is possible that I was on a team with some of the players that have posted on this thread. If you see an @UltraAlt or UltraAlt Running around in THE CITY. That isn't me. I'm always wearing a mask.

Maybe seems a bit skewed toward bases on Everlasting. Everlasting 5. Excelsior 1. Other servers - All your bases are belong to dust. (or is that the rest of us. I get confused sometimes) I guess Everlasting has the best base-building help-sharing community. Good working together for the good of the community.

Okay, I bite. How is using the terms, red and blue noble and just?

I don't seem to be imposing my will on anyone. It seems a topic that people like to post about. Why should anyone be consistent with any point of view? I am stating my view point and defending it. Nothing more than goes on in any other thread. The fact is, it is something that goes on that heroes don't need to be a part of. I do think it takes away from the flavor of the game. We all have the ability to post on things that we are interested in posting about. Apparently, you find it enjoyable to post here ...with the simple aim of attacking me. And, yeah, calling me a dictator or an overbearing control freak is a direct attack on me. Is making personal attacks on someone a benefit to the community?

Yeah, but aren't going to be supporting villains unless they are going rogue. And support is different than compromising as well. Villains can be red all day if they want. I could care-less, but heroes shouldn't call themselves blue simply because villains don't want to take the time to type a couple more characters.

Why do heroes need to be consistent with the minority?

I'm not sure what being ex military or not has to do with understanding blue and red forces. The red forces are the enemy. It's that way in most video games. Heck, it was like that on old game board with chits battle simulations. But people would be saying at they were playing the Allies or the Axis and not the Blues and the Reds. 70% of the player base is playing heroes at any given time. There is no need for heroes to use the term Blue. Hero and Blue has the same number of characters. They are playing heroes, not blues. If you are running a team and recruiting, it can be assumed that you are running a hero team unless you say otherwise. I'm not going to team with sad people.