UltraAlt

.... 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.

Like I said, villains are lazy.

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.

"Blue" is so much easier to type than "hero"?

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.

No peace between heroes and villains any time soon.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

I agree - if they are playing on the villain side.

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.