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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.
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On 11/11/2020 at 12:05 AM, EmperorSteele said:
"Taken down", like, where the heck are they keeping the giant-ass pumpkin Atlas was carrying?
...though I guess it'd be the same place they kept the original globe.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?
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On 11/13/2020 at 9:25 PM, JKPhage said:
Just keep them hovering at the lowest setting to the ground, use the flying version of emotes and apply appropriate up/down/side animations and it seems like it would work relatively well.
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.
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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.
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10 hours ago, Twisted Toon said:
I think they were having issues determining whether the lights for the alarms should be called "red", "blue", "bad guy on the grounds", "good guy summoners", or just "You're too late. The bad guy got away while you were busy arguing about labels that don't really matter".
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.
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22 hours ago, CrudeVileTerror said:
Your efforts to conflate the concepts ultimately comes across as trying to pigeonhole people as good or evil merely on -where- they end up spending their time. And that's bad.
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.
22 hours ago, CrudeVileTerror said:I think you should probably shelve this discussion until such time as the community has had suitable time to re-evaluate said shorthand in light of Redside Hero content and Blueside Villain content being introduced to the game.
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.
22 hours ago, CrudeVileTerror said:This thread is being treated a joke by the vast majority of people posting in it, as near as I can tell.
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.
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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.
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5 minutes ago, CrudeVileTerror said:
A real hero supports everyone doing the noble and just thing, regardless of labels or past deeds.
If a "hero" doesn't support a villain doing the right thing, just because that person is a villain, then the aforementioned "hero" is actually a vigilante.
Okay, I bite.
How is using the terms, red and blue noble and just?
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22 minutes ago, jubakumbi said:
Why do you think it's funny to play an overbearing control freak, bent on making everyone sumbit to your POV, like a Dictator, then call yourself a Hero?
Why should any of us be consistent with your minority POV?
Why does anyone think, even in jest, these sorts of passive aggressive missives have positive value in the community?
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?
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12 minutes ago, CrudeVileTerror said:
And really now . . . if -anyone- is going to support a minority, @UltraAlt, then it's going to be heroes.
Check the in-game lore. We've got plenty of examples of it already.
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.
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On 11/14/2020 at 1:13 PM, Saikochoro said:
Red is easier to type than villain and gold is easier than praetorian. To be consistent it is then therefore easier to type blue.
Why do heroes need to be consistent with the minority?
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On 11/14/2020 at 5:32 PM, ivanhedgehog said:
You are obviously not ex military. they understand blue force/red force
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.
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9 minutes ago, The_Warpact said:
"Red" vs "villain "....I about died having to type out "villain ", its just too long...😉😀
Like I said, villains are lazy.
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If you take the base portal, my routing makes sense. It takes me around 5 minutes as well, with out little side projects on characters along the way.
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16 hours ago, Saikochoro said:
Honestly can’t tell if the OP is trolling or not. You’d think something like this would be obvious, but sometimes people can surprise you.
This sounds somewhat reminiscent of the east/west versus grass/snow argument in SWTOR. Most people gravitated toward snow/grass because it was easier for people to understand and identify faster. Red/blue is just easier to type. That’s said, it honestly don’t matter.
"Blue" is so much easier to type than "hero"?
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7 hours ago, Ironblade said:
Back in the day when farming took place in Peregrine, level one characters routinely made the trip to Portal Court.
3 hours ago, Veelectric Boogaloo said:That's all well and good for people with a few alts. I just finished powering through getting one explore per zone on each of 40+ alts and it was, quite frankly, awful. And many of them already had some of the zones covered. I wouldn't wish what I just did on anyone and there are plenty of folks with way more alts than I have. It was one thing when I got the accolades in every zone when nothing else was going on just for the merits on live. There was no real pressure and nothing to keep track of. Having the full accolades as a requirement for LRT would just be insane.
I don't consider the LRT to be critical for getting around, but I'm still working my way through my 70+ alts.
I have a couple capped at low levels that won't worry about getting it.
Probably have 20 some more to work through at this point.
Not that rough to do as far as I'm concerned and I stop and run a tf if someone is recruiting and I have time to run one.
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22 hours ago, Keovar said:
.... managed to bring some measure of peace between Paragon City and the Rogue Isles....
No peace between heroes and villains any time soon.
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On 11/11/2020 at 11:36 PM, Keovar said:
Could Praetorians be allowed in Kallisti Wharf, and a TUNNEL portal added inside the central building behind the Statesman statue? If not TUNNEL, then maybe a manhole cover (or either the truck Null is perched on, or even the floating one) connection could reach from Pocket D to Kallisti Wharf.
KW is where you run costume contests and the like, which low-level or 'never leave' Praetorians have no access to.I know. Like a base teleport to get there is too complicated.
/e shrug
After the update, you will be able to teleport back to Praetoria as well. I think there will be at least 3 Praetorian zones with base beacons.
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On 11/11/2020 at 4:32 PM, csr said:
Even given the P2W option, for the most part I'd just spend the time to get the explores and pick up 5 RM in the process. Where I'd want the P2W option is fairly common for me though. I see someone advertise a TF, I have some toon that I want the badge for, I say "let me switch", and then end up on a toon I find doesn't have the LRTP power unlocked yet. Also, if there's a red-side toon I don't want to switch alignment on I might also just fork over the INF if given that "out". There's no easy to explore zone comparable to Atlas Park red-side or yellow-side.
No harm in becoming a rogue and traveling to Altas to get the badges.
After the update, there will be Gold-side teleport badges.
I'm not going to call Praetorians yellow, makes them sound like they are a bunch of chickens or scaredy-cats (if you are cat people over there.)
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add it so you automatically pay what is necessary to get the salvage at the time?
This could give you information as to the price of items posted on the market and how much other people have pre-posted bids - which would take the PVP out of the Market.
Honestly, the best PVP is in City of Heroes is the market, and I would prefer it not to be changed. Not to say I'm a like a ebil marketer or anything...hey... look over there. something shiny.
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20 hours ago, csr said:
There is an ambush, with some sarcastic dialog ridiculing the ambush itself.
As for the level of street spawns - they actually are set off hero activity in the area. Higher levels and larger spawns mean higher level heroes and more heroes moving about the area. I've mostly been finding L20-21 Freaks over by the Magic Store when hunting. The ones over towards the Hospital tend to be higher level regardless of activity.
No one else I can see in the area.
But will look over by the magic store next time I look.
maybe the mission text should indicate that "Hunt down 20 Freaks near the Magic Store in Talos".
Always good to get direct mission information.
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18 hours ago, LiquidBandage said:
By supporting this colorist labeling regime, you are breathing life into narrative that there is more than one way to describe something.
The first part of your post is correct.
To me it isn't a matter of using another descriptor, it is removing the superhero mythology by not gaming as Heroes and Villains but rather and different colors.
In superhero comic books, the heroes are not "blue" and villains are not "red". There are heroes and villains and that is basis of the superhero mythology.
I agree that there are retconning deconstructionist that want to turn it all into a gray scrambled muck where there is little to discern a hero from a villain.
There is an actual play wall that you have to breach using Null the Gull or the alignment system to pass through.
Heroes are heros.
Villains are villains.
There are those that are on there way one way or the other, but there is not really any grey area. You are a villain moving toward doing good in the world, or a hero moving toward criminality. There is no true neutral position between the two.
And for those that think they are sneaking around on the Hero side stealing stuff, you are working for the force of good by defeating the forces of Evil.
Come to think of it, half the time people are running around as villains, they are actually fighting other villains... go figure.
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20 hours ago, Greycat said:
When someone's talking about synapse or LRSF? No.
When someone's talking about DFB? Yes, they should.
Use what's needed when clarification is needed.
I agree - if they are playing on the villain side.
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21 hours ago, Krimson said:
My main's name IS Blue. 😄 Good luck with this particular crusade. Years of working in a bakery have wrecked my hands so I type in a way that's convenient.
In now way am I attacking anyone for having disabilities.
Play the game the way you enjoy it.
We all have a responsibility to express our views when we feel we need to do so.
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