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Seems like sensible behavior to me. They know if you come running up to them that you are bound bring trouble! They might even been running in fear of you attacking them.

The DEVs are the "dms". If you are running an RP group within THE CITY that is your sub game within the game. Who knows. Maybe the DEVs will decide it is your turn for attention. I'm against it, so I'm going to stop posting to this thread which helps promote the discussion of something I don't want. I was enjoying interacting with you, but this is counterproductive at this point. I hope to see you in THE CITY. Have fun. (plus I'm too tired at the moment to reply more to this post. sleep calls.)

oh, I see. So it's like forcing your AE mission on the people around you instead of them deciding they want to play it? Weird. I RP all the time and I don't have to do all that "scene setting" stuff. Do they really bother reading each others scene setup when they are standing around in the same place? So when each person walk up to start to interact they are expected to scene setup with 1000+ words before interacting with the others?

I don't play them. See you next week.

Well, first off, are you sure you played "all" the hero content. I have no idea how many characters you have played or how many different archetypes and power sets you have tried. Second, you're playing a villain and not liking it, and you enjoyed playing a hero. You enjoyed playing a hero. And playing a villain is not fun. Seem clear to me, if you really do want to enjoy playing the game, stop playing a villain and make a new hero. The content isn't the same when you play with a different archetype or powerset. The content isn't the same when you team up with PUGs. All the variation is there. Alt out. Be free. Explore different types of superheroes. Explore different genres. Any one that isn't labeled as a farm would be new content. There are hundreds of AE missions that people have made. You can even make your own. It isn't that hard, but it is time consuming. How about build a base? Have you checked out the PVP zones?

Okay, but you aren't here to make changes to other games. This is about changes to THE CITY. The other games are really irrelevant in this discussion. You didn't understand what I posted. We actually sat in the same room and role-played with each other in real time. No computers. No text. We talked to one another. People actually still do that. People LARP as well. I hope that hasn't turned into people standing around in costume in the same club and texting one another. You can talk on Discord and be in game at the same time. You can be on Discord and use emotes, move your character around, and even do missions. I'm confused about being able to verbally communicate somehow stops anything that would be not be stopped by texting. I'll even go one further, you can role play and actually keep running missions without needing to text at all if you used Discord. You could do emotes in-game while talking. You could just go open mic and just rattle on all you wanted to ... and it wouldn't be interfering with anyone else. A message that more than fills my chat window is spam. You can @ a player by sending a tell. yes. By all means. Send tells. If actually speaking to someone on Discord is too much of a hassle. you're not being punished. It would be punishing other people to allow you to post chat messages that more than fill the text window. Obviously. That is what you are asking to be able to do. He majority don't need the massive amount of words in post that you are suggesting. When I do, usually only in the /help channel, I just send another line of text ... and in total ... I don't think I have ever sent chat messages that were back-to-back without reply the level of word count that you are suggesting. I want you to enjoy playing it as well. I think it is a great game that allows us to be very creative. I understand that your RP is an expression of your creativity, and I'm not trying to limit that. You would be able to generate far more words faster in Discord than typing them into text chat. It would also enable immediate interactive response. Everquest (I can't remember if it is 1 or 2 or just two) allows voice chat. Not only just voice chat, but you distort your voice to fit your characters sex and race. Not only that, but if you use a camera, the game will make your characters face react based on your facial reactions. Do I want that here in THE CITY? No. Would I use those things on a Discord channel? I wouldn't. For those that have been text chatting RP for 20 years, then that is what they are ingrained in doing. They are doing that because that is what they are used to doing versus having better solutions. We used to dream about making a game like City of Heroes when we were playing Champions with the original box set. You know. Sitting in the same room. most of the time not even using a map. Rolling dice and having fun face to face. I don't think that Discord is such a bad option versus trying to change how a games text features that work perfectly well. Anything you could say in one text block could be said over multiple text message. The main gain I can see from larger text blocks is not allowing people to interact with you while you are typing the next sentence. Which, honestly, is seeming to be the reason that you don't want to verbally communicate in the first place.

whoops updated my reply before I was done with it... You have me lost at this point. I was playing RPGs before there were text-based RP games on computers. If there is an issue with people going OOC in chat, just give them another channel to ooc in or they can OOC chat in game. Push-to-talk goes a long way. Sure. It can be RP if you are simply gaming your own character, but it does work best when other people are involved. Yes. It is about interacting with people. What do you think using Discord is? If you have a standard RPG group, you can make your own Discord channel for free. Sub Channels could be made for zones (Pocket D, ext) or specific names areas (The Tiki Lounge, etc.) People in the area in-game could be invited to the Discord channel. I'm confused about how having the ability to communicate more freely and quickly verbally is not able include these "random events". I'm very much against the ability of players to spam so much text that it fills and/or exceeds my entire chat window. My in-game ignore function is far too small to deal with the people I may potentially need to put on ignore. I seriously doubt there will be any amount of DEV discussion about this and highly doubt it will be implemented in-game. You should look for alternative methods if you want this additional functionality.

Should not be issues with Discord. Discord works independent of the game. There are City of Heroes Discord channels. I understand that they would be complaining on the Discord channels if they were rather than here. I use Discord at some points while playing City of Heroes, and it has not caused and issues for me or the other players that I game with that use Discord.

Huh. Seems odd to me. Why doesn't it work out well? Maybe there is way to improve that system.

Maybe Discord is the option?

Welcome to THE CITY. (At least, you might be in THE CITY, unless you are a dastardly villain or a dystopian refugee/citizen of Praetoria...) Go with your character conception. If you get into the character, you are more likely to play with them. Just take your time and enjoy being a superhero. If you run the Origin arcs they aren't going to take you so far that you need travel powers early. Take your time and fight street crime. Keep your reputation on flat to begin with. Raise up the difficulty level as you feel comfortable with your powers against enemies. Don't feel bad about turning the difficulty down and resetting a mission if you are having problems with it. All enemy groups have a weakness. Watch their behavior. With controllers try to get containment. "Controllers are the masters at locking down and controlling their opponents. Few can escape their will. Controllers do extra damage to any target that is already Held, Immobilized, Slept, or Disoriented." -https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Inherent_Powers#Containment This grants critical damage on your attacks. If you are in a group, and use an AoE, make sure that there is a wall to dive behind if your team doesn't have a "taunting" tank. Walls give you 100% def and res after the possible initial alpha. if you are solo, the best tactic would be to try to immobilize or hold and fall back and fight ones that get through. There is no shame in falling back or running out of the door on a mission if you need to. This is based on the way that I build characters from the start: I add a slot to powers that take accuracy as soon as possible. I put 2 accuracy in the first two slots of any power that takes accuracy enhancements. I put 1 endurance reducer in any power that is going to be constantly toggled on. I put 1 endurance reducer in any power that cost more than 10 END. I try to put a second slot in toggle Resistance and/or defense powers as soon as possible. By level 10 I try to put an additional slot in Stamina. By level 15 I try to put another slot in Stamina as able. (If you have the influence for it, try to get an attuned Panacea :: +HP, +End The third slot on attack power depends on how much damage it does. Low damage powers get a slot for the powers SFX (-def, slow, etc.). High damage powers get damage enhances. Always get powers that help mitigate stun, holds, etc. if possible. If not, always carry at least 2 break free (or higher level Resist Effect inspirations)[https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Inspirations] You're going to have a hold power. I suggest getting 2 acc in that, then 1 recharge. Then 1 hold. After that, as able after level 27, get an attuned Lockdown: chance for +2 mag hold. Slot that in the slot that you had the hold in, and then put in another slot and add a 2nd from the Lockdown set (I would suggest the ACC/Hold or REC/Hold) and/or a hold enhance. The hold is a very powerful tool because the enemy can't fight back. If you can keep a boss lockdown until you take out their minions, you will have a much easier time. This won't work on some of the bosses, but you can lock down LTs or minions instead. But again, the main goal should be to have fun and explore the game. If you don't get a travel power, THE CITY seems to be a much bigger place and you get to see everything that is going on at street level. You can get a flight pack for free from the day job of parking (logging off your character) in the Shadow Shard. You can get to the Shadow Shard by going to the tram in Atlas Park and looking for the yellow swirling vortex looking thing at street level below the tram platform. Click on the Firebase Zulu option to get in. Move down onto the area where the people are exercising and park there. After 3-4 days of parking down there you will be charging up the flight pack (it will show up in the top right of your power window once you get it). You can charge it for up to 2 hours. Don't forget to check out: Don't forget you can use the /help channel in-game. The Community is pretty helpful in most cases. And have fun! See you in THE CITY.

That's probably what they were complaining about then. I knew it had something to do with not getting the xp that they felt that they deserved to be getting. So I guess the xp was reduced to make up from the extra xp from the R3z0rZ.

As summer grows hot, The Freakshow rez from the dead. Doctor Vahzilok?

I never checked, but I have a friend I game with the complains about it every time we fight freaks.

What is all this about the R3z0rz? No one bringing up that you don't get xp for them being defeated a 2nd time?! "Typically, every first line of Haiku has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5 syllables." - da 1n73rw3bz

Lol. Thanks. Sorry about the extra effort. Yes, quite hideous and not at all what I would like to see added as an option for CoH. At least something like Mako's head would be a good start. I could see a more traditional shark head but back to owl heads ...

Okay. Screenshots please. I'll just have to deal with solar panels or leaking miniature-atomic-reactors .... not so hard to find enriched plutonium in THE CITY.

And still you missed that spider.

Warshades were the villains before COV.

Prepare for my devastating Polka attacks!