ShardWarrior

Thank you both! 🙂

I think you're not looking at this in the correct context in order to avoid admitting you yourself have admittedly done illegal things in the past. For you to sit here and say it is perfectly fine for you to be doing something wrong yet other people shouldn't do something you have done yourself is in fact hypocritical.

I think what they meant was that people who break the rules themselves shouldn't cast stones at others. At least that is how I understood it.

LMAO! What a load of complete and utter nonsense.

This is the crux of it right here - "play as I want you to, or else". People who don't share a certain viewpoint are not tolerated. I find it fascinating that you're perfectly ok playing a for all intents and purposes illegal copy of a game, but I get that is tolerated because you don't like NCSoft or whatever. I guess it is only illegal and stealing if it is something you don't like. Anyhoo, this is probably a separate thread at this point. We've pretty much derailed this one.

What about the people you don't know whose feelings are going to get hurt? They don't count. No need to respond. I already know the answer 🙂

LOL!! Too funny 😛

You didn't answer the question.

Who did I call a name? Show me the post where I mention any by name specifically. You're ascribing the phrase as a negative when it really isn't.

If you told someone you are playing a male Mutant superhero with claws and regeneration powers, what/who do you think is the first thing that comes to mind?

Depends on the intent, doesn't it? Sometimes the shoe fits and the truth hurts, but it is still the truth. Some folk are more community minded than whereas others are more self centered egoists. There is nothing wrong with differing opinions. At least to me, the best is to agree to disagree and let others play the way they want.

Nor should you. Absolutely nothing wrong with healthy debate! 🙂

@jubakumbi - these are the same kind of people who tell others they "aren't playing right" when they don't do stuff the way they think it should be done.

Again, a compelling argument can be made that any character created in the game is a ripoff.

Eg. "Costume policing"

The inverse of this is also true - it clearly showed those who have over an over inflated sense of self importance and put their enjoyment of the game above others. Those people took it upon themselves to dictate to others what they should and should not do because they don't like it. These are also the same kind of people who criticize how other players play the game - regardless of what the character may look like - because according to them "you aren't playing right". I have no qualms whatsoever admitting I make clones. What is the harm in it? How is it affecting you from enjoying the game other than you simply don't like it? I had them on live for years and never once was there a C&D filed or copyright infringement suit made, so your paranoia over the whole thing is just that - paranoia.

Never suggested otherwise. I just doubt it is the pressing issue many are portraying it to be.

You missed the point completely. None of what you posted here has any impact on other players character concept or design, which is something I think everyone can agree most all players are very passionate about. If not, we would all be GenericHero001202 and all look the same with the same power set combo. As of this moment, is CoHHC legit? Do the HC folk have express permission from or legal agreement to be using NCSoft's intellectual property without some form of compensation for the owner? If the answer to that is no, are you playing a legit game? One of the thoughts on all of this is that the game code is out in the wild now, so anyone can start up a server anywhere. NCSoft would potentially be issuing C&Ds and filing suits to shut them all down forever. Is the cost of doing that worth it to them for an antiquated game? As I said earlier, do some Google searches for skins/mods for just about every game out there and you'll find downloads of skins or mods of copyrighted characters being used without the consent of DC or Marvel or whomever. Some of them have been around for decades and they are still here. Many of them are widely known and well advertised via YouTube and such. If Marvel/DC are so evil that they are going to file copyright infringement suits, why are all these other sites/games still up and running? Maybe, just maybe Marvel/DC are looking at how much it will cost to file lawsuits against all of them and came to the conclusion it is not financially worth it to them? Perhaps Marvel filed their lawsuit years ago because they were looking to get into the MMO marketplace and wanted to quash the competition? Marvel and DC both have their games out on the market now. The whole "OMG MARVEL IS GOING TO SUE!!!" argument doesn't hold water anymore as far as I'm concerned. To be anal and paranoid and want to become the "costume police" is just being paranoid and anal. I can give another example - CBS for decades never said one single word about Star Trek fan films. In many cases, they fully supported the effort of some who made very high quality studio level content. That all changed when Axanar came about and someone tried to make money off of it. The HC folk have said CoHHC will remain free so long as they are in charge of it. I believe Marvel and DC will do the same as CBS - nothing. It simply is not worth it to them. The Marvel who filed the suit is not the Marvel of today. So what is more likely to happen - Marvel and DC are going to threaten to sue because someone made a clone in an antiquated free MMO or the IP owner is going to pull the plug because someone is using their property without their permission? Spend more time enjoying the game your way and let others do the same in their way. People adore their clones just as much as the next persons "original" concept.

So your fun is more important than someone else. Got it. The self-centered nature knows no limits. Anyone can make just as many compelling "reasonable" "x%" "judgment calls" about any character anyone makes on here to show infringement of some kind. It is making a mountain out of a molehill IMO. As of now, you're technically playing on an illegal unlicensed version of the game. Should everyone report you? What you are doing right now is probably far, far more likely to get the game shut down than someone making a Superman clone.

Only if they are in edit mode. If not and you have a grass or some other surface plate covering the gaps between rooms, they will be fine.

One important disadvantage to keep in mind doing the 1 room thing is that it becomes very tedious to find objects using the Current Room tab. It can get away with using separate rooms, however it becomes tricky when editing as you'll fall through the grass floor when crossing over doorways and such.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. All depends on what the deciding person(s) view as "reasonable". Absolutely. And I can comfortably say even if the rules were to change, I still would not report someone for it.

I could argue your example is too close for comfort to X-23 (and another "alternate universe" Wolverine whose name escapes me at the moment) and should get genericized. Personally, in reality I would let you have your fun with your character and not say a word, but that's me.

Personally, I disagree. One could argue that any Mutant Claw/Regen scrapper is "too close for comfort". I can only speak for myself here - as a child when we played and tied red capes to our necks and pretended to fly and leap tall buildings, we weren't pretending to be "generic superhero 132ZXDFG". I don't begrudge anyone their homages.

Again, where is the distinction made? Would it not be ok for the costume to be yellow and blue, but ok if it were pink and red? What if the character were tall instead of short with red hair instead of black? Is it ok to have a uber-muscular green skinned SS/INV tanker with purple pants so long as it isn't named Hulk or any synonym of the word "hulk"? At the time, I believe it was prudent to err on the side of caution due to the Marvel lawsuit. I'm not so sure that applies anymore or whether or not it is as strictly enforced today. There are readily available free skins of copyrighted characters for just about every game you can imagine all over the internet - from Minecraft to the SIMS to WWE Wrestling - you name it. Players are winning costume contests here in HC based on "homages". There are a lot of people doing it. So do we genercize everyone? Based on what criteria? Where is the line drawn? Trying to determine where that the "thin line" is is not so simple.