Roughtrade

This is possibly the coolest name for a chat channel.

Awesome Guide. Been using this for a week now to steer through stuff with friends who refuse to look things up for themselves. I'm gona look for more of your posts so I can give you more influence.

Venture's last post is as useless. There is a supposition that many people are "spinning up alts left, right and centre..." There is a theory that the GMs and original players "hammered out any and every name I could think" But there is no proof of either. If there was actual data that name camping was this serious of an issue, then show it. Otherwise all you are doing is whining that the name you wanted wasn't available. People might be making more Alts. Maybe. Some returning players are maybe trying out an AT they never tried before, after remaking their old favorite. Some players have never been on CoH before and may be trying out all the ATs before finding one they like. Maybe. Might be. It sounds reasonable that it could be happening. But there is no proof. Certainly no proof that people are hoarding names or making up unreasonable amounts of Alts just to prevent others from using a name. If they are playing the characters, then that's how the game is played.

I remember it was like the second week the game was live. Leveling was harder and slower. And while certainly people had gone further along, on Liberty on that day everyone was new. And then someone got Hover Something like ten or fifteen of us standing around Ms Liberty, and we all stood there watching him lift up. Shouting hurrays, clapping, cheering, just seeing him lift slowly up in the air. I remember finally getting hover that day and spending like an hour trying to catch the zeppelin to see if I could land on it.

Thanx! Voting Nao Though I will add that I’ve made one of each “faction” and plan on going through it all again once I’ve finished recapturing the glory days of Blue and Red. Which ever faction things fall out to be, I’ll be happy. And, I can’t recall if it’s true, but my memory is nagging me. You *have* to do the tutorial in order to get some missions. Something about not getting secret subversion phone calls that changed the missions while on a regular mission.

Yah. No help. Not the question I asked. In his poll they are labled as grey, gold, one, two. But without any explanation of which one is responsible, loyal, crusader or what have you. If I wanted to run a particular story arc with him, I don’t know which one to vote for because his labels are without any definition.

I got Witchfire, Malfeasance, Roughtrade and Psychic on the server I wanted, and I came to the game a week and a half late. I am really glad the early players were not jerks who would hammer out any and every name they could think of early on.

A couple of people have posted similar reasons to mine but since this silly thread won’t die, I guess it bears repeating. And let us preface with saying I believe City of Heroes is better than EVERY OTHER MMO for these reasons. Primary reason, number one, on the top of the list. Level 50 cap. That’s it. No more leveling. This allowed the Developers to make content that was something other than just chasing ten more levels of the same thing. I know at some level all MMOs become repetitious, it’s the nature of the beast. But CoH ending the level chase was one of the best things I have seen in games and I wish more of them took the lesson to heart. This allowed them to do things like my second point.... Expansions were not ONLY about end game content. We got Croatia, new Archtypes, The Hollows, Striga, power proliferation, Cimmeria, and an entire new game when Pratoria became playable. What other game out there does that? Yes, we got Incarnates too, along with time travel and a way to go back and collect missed badges. City of Heroes never devolved into a game that only gets played at the Endgame. In fact, unless you want to turn off XP or use the time travel option, it is nigh impossible to see all content for your “alignment” without using multiple characters. Sidekicking/Exemplaring If a friend of mine joined the game today, I could take my level 50 from the close of Live and play along side her. She could do my missions, I could do hers, or we could both wait for the next Rikti Invasion and go bananas. We are not limited to any particular zone, or stuck only doing the starter content. Other games may have a head fake at this, but No One has done it better, or even the same to my knowledge. Character Creation! I am sorry but I have to disagree with the people who feel that CO had a “better” costume creator. DCs was worse, with costume tied to gear until later expansions. But even if you liked their artwork better, the power design was just ... meh. Not even bad, just meh. Every powerset felt the same. A “pew pew” build up power followed by a strike followed by a heavy hitter. There never was any real individuality. Again, DCs was much worse, but that doesn’t really say much. No Gear Drops Your character power didn’t depend upon gear drops. You didn’t need Hammi-Os and if you wanted them you didn’t have to fight over drops with five other people who only got one chance a week to try to get it. Your character’s look didn’t depend upon what dungeons they had been in, or what gear they carried. The salvage and invention stuff is a nice mini-game that you can completely ignore if you wanted. There’s much more really; I haven’t touched the ability to create your own content in the mission architect or the badge collections that made more than just titles for your character or that I got a comic book which published two stories I wrote. City of Heroes is infinitely better than Champions Online.

*sigh Now I’m gona havta make up a catgirl so I have a ligit reason to keep posting here.

I may have to find three other posts you’ve made to give you enough influence to thank you for this!

If you do not face plant at least once a day, you are playing the game too easy. Go reset your Notoriety. Faceplanting gives me time to refill my coffee and think of what the next thing I will shout when I charge into melee ahead of the tank and drop my nuke. The nurse in King's Row is really cute, visit her more often. Debt Badges need earning too. Also that.

Do you need help with your pants? (Insert Devil Winky Emojii Here)

This so sounds like Jonny Snow emailing Doctor Horrible.

I think you may be overthinking things. Pick a server and play. It’s all,good. You’re not missing anything by choosing one server over another.

If you didn’t look for something like “Ultraviolent” on the first day, I suspect it was got. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence. “If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.” ~ For those who always wondered where the title came from

Dragging this in from another thread because I think this may be more appropriate... Catgirls wear pants?

Absinthe Rose glances at the rising tide of kittehs and waves a hand. Catnip rains down.

Okay, umm.. so it sounds as if you yourself do not know which one is which for certain. So perhaps label them more clearly? Loyalist Extreme, Loyalist Normal... etc.... My group used to call them Loyalist, Royalist, Resistance, Nhilistic.

Maybe some context? What is Gold1 vs Gold2? I understand one is going to be Loyalist the other Resistance, but which is which? Or are Greys the Resistance?

And to address teh kytties. My Plants Domintor wants to let you know she's got lots of catnip, you want Independence Harbor Splash? Some Port Oakes Otterpops? Maybe you like it with a bit of a DE spores for that extra trippy kick.

Not a catperson myself, but to answer some of the haters... I have never seen a BBS not have some sort of silly "super charged with in jokes" thread. In the early days of actual BBS where your computer had to call my computer on the phone, ours was called The Sugar Bowl. And as someone else pointed out, you are not required to participate. Don't like it here? Don't read this thread.

Ew.

Hated may be the wrong term, but maybe.... the Pick Up Group, I despise it in other game systems. I grudgingly sign up on random dungeon runs to get the doohickey of doom required for my crafting and then never again. I love the versatility of the CoH system. Yes, there are people who insist on team with one tank, one defender, balanced damage vs control, etc... but you do not *have* to do it that way. The DFB spasm of late has been fun to see what can be done. I was on a team that was six controllers, my dominator and a sentinel. We trashed through three runs before it broke up. I’ve done teams of three MMS, two Crabs, a Widow and two Stalkers. Five Brutes and three blasters. Or maybe one was a Sentinal. We used a lot of greens but it was fun. You don’t need a “perfect” team in CoH. For fun, my friend and his three kids got on, all made up robot themed MMs and just trashed a bunch of newspaper missions just so we could let five sets of robot minions cut loose on a mayhem mission. I’ve played on teams of all archery themed heroes, all tanks, all controllers.... Some were teams of eight, some only four of us. But there was never any content we could not do. We might have to tweak notoriety, but probably just back to “normal” mode. City of Heroes is the only game where I look forward to PuGs.

Face Planting. Yes, you can do the game and never once visit the hospital, going from Zero to Fifty without Debt. That’s boring. If I’m not face planted once an hour then I’m taking things too easy. If we don’t team wipe once a day then we’re not taking enough risks. This gets terribly difficult for me now that I’m helping my friend teach his kids to play. First you learn to do it right, then you learn to skate backwards in high heels, yanno? I can hear him over the headset talking about pulling and watching aggro and then here comes Halo, blasting the lead boss with a snipe and then snap shotting the next two groups while shouting “TAG!” Oops. Umm. Tanks grab aggro?

Followed by a Plant Dominator Name : Abagail Diamatto Place of Birth : New York City Origin : I was born with these, yanno, telepathic powers. And then I experimented with some drugs, Dyne and stuff, and added in some really good stuff I found made with Devouring Earth spores and it expanded my mind. I can control plants and stuff now. Better living through chemistry! Supergroup : I’ve hooked up with a lotta different types around the Isles. I don’t get along well with the Spiders, but I’ve gota lotta connections all around Port Oakes and Sharkshead and some family ties over in Independence Port. These days I do odd jobs for this outfit called Malfeasance that’s run out of Cap a Diable. Archetype : They say I’m wachyamacallit.. Domineering. My Pop says I’m a pushy broad. I control things with my mind. Men. Boys. Certain women. Plants. Occupation: I like to keep my hand in the recreational pharmaceuticals game. For that, I usually work out of Pocket D or King’s Row. Base of Operations : I got a place in Port Oakes, a suite of rooms in Uncle Emil’s villa. Hero or Villain : I’m a bad, bad girl. Wanna spank me? Brief Physical Description : Well now, here’s where it gets a little weird. The drugs that changed me turned my skin green and my blood green and turned my hair orange. They also gave me some pretty big boobs, like a full two cup sizes upgrade. But I’m still short and sweet. Brief Personality Description : I'm a real wild one, an' I like a wild fun. In a world gone crazy everything seems hazy, I'm a wild one. Ooh yeah I'm a wild one. Gotta keep it loose, gonna keep it running wild, I’m a real wild child! Goals and Motives : Have fun. Get high. Make Money. Opinions on Important Factions : Most of them are real downers. I’m loyal to my family, ‘cause blood is the only thing that counts. After that, eff ‘em all. Quote : Give us a kiss! Claim to Fame : If you know me from anywhere, it’s from the society pages. Hanging out with celebs, selling drugs in Pocket D or kicking your ass back in the alley. History My mom is second cousin, once removed, of Emil Marcone. I grew up in the Family, and learned really quickly how to get what I wanted from boys. When my boobs developed, so did my telepathy and it got even easier to get anything I wanted. High School was a breeze; most of the time I just snitched the answers to test questions from the mind of the nearest brainac around me. In college I was dating this biology major and we started making up this wild trippy drug from Devouring Earth spores. Like LSD on steroids. We started shopping it around the University and ran up against some Trolls who thought they could take over our business. A little mental push, along with a generously low cut blouse, got their leader to see things my way. When my bio-major boyfriend went all jealous, I had to cut him loose. I think they buried him in the Hollows. That’s when I started doing Dyne as well as the Petals. And it turned out to be a really good thing for me, because when all those chemicals combined with my DNA it had a radical change and made me what I am today. OOC Drug Trade While not particularly smart girl, Abby is smart enough. Using her telepathic talent she picked up tips on how to make her own drugs and after enjoying some on her own she has gone into business. She can often be found in Pocket D making deals or handing out free samples. Her main specialty is in various psychotropic compounds but she dabbles in mood altering and 'combat drugs' because the market for them in the Rogue Isles is so good. 'Rosepetals' A hallucinogenic compound that also causes violent outbursts. Users perceptions are distorted and their adrenaline output increases by a factor of ten. Street users also call it “Pink Rage” because of the angry outbursts it causes, which burst blood vessels in the eyes and turn them pink in habitual abusers. 'Ultradyne' A variation on superdyne. Increases strength and speed of the user and significantly reduces mental facilities, like superdyne, but a much shorter period of effect. Useful as a 'combat drug' and popular with members of the Council. Does not have the green skin side effect of superdyne, but can cause immediate heart attacks and seizures in as high as ten percent of the users. One of the major side effects of repeated use is the user becomes extremely susceptible to any sort of mental conditioning. Combined with simple 'brain washing' techniques and other drugs it makes an almost perfect, low cost, super soldier. Almost perfect if you don't mind having ten percent of them have their heart explode when they get angry. 'Statue' Euphoric dreaming ensues with a side effect of completely shutting down the voluntary muscle response. Not quite a catatonic state, user is aware of their surroundings but is unable to respond. There are others, but those are her main staples. Abby is one of the few villains I have that really is unrepentantly evil. She’s a psychopath, or at least severely disturbed. She’s not completely ‘Joker Level” insane but she is wildly unpredictable and crazy as hell by most people’s standards. Abby is telepathically active, if somewhat undisciplined. She projects a nearly constant telepathic buzz. Other telepaths can easily tell her current mood, not that she does much to hide her feelings most of the time. She is capable of reigning it in with concentration but will not do so unless somehow forced. When she’s ‘on her meds’ (and she is rarely off them) her telepathic talent is greatly augmented.