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Do Rogues class as Redside? If so I'm one of those numbers!

I play only for the Roleplay now, if I didn't I would badge hunt. I'm not one for alts and such! I have a few but certainly not an alt-o-holic. What keeps people playing the game itself? The endgame all seems relatively easy in comparison to MMO's of the same era of City of. As I understand it- speaking mechanics here not community/RP ventures- these are the main draws; > Badge Hunting > Fully IO setting your character build > Alts > Endgame raids Once I done all these I just generally log in for RP now!

I've been to Praetoria in-character a few times but I have to do some story weaving to work it into Roleplay. My character is an advanced Clockwork, she invites others on the journey via some sort of Virtual Reality, but like... Ready Player One style VR where it's all very real, allows me to RP there in a normal sense with a few invited friends. There is also such things as time travel, I mean it seems widely used in City of Heroes, even a key point of the games lore. You could maybe craft stories that give deeper insight into 'everyday life' of a Praetorian. I assume the TUNNEL network into Praetoria is a sort of 'time travel', I don't think it's ever explained.

I love taking Medicine on high DEF characters. You can get in a free heal most the time.

There was/is plenty of news articles signalling the 'return of City of Heroes' and the like. https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/22/perfect-ten-helpful-tips-for-returning-to-city-of-heroes-in-2019/ https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/after-a-secret-server-shocked-the-community-100000-fans-are-finally-playing-city-of-heroes-again/ https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/17/18411040/city-of-heroes-score-private-server There was an awful lot of controversy about it all because the server was running for a long time and kept quiet. But the cat is out of the bag now and other teams have reverse engineered things- I remember seeing the Code Documentation book for the entire game and it was like reading the Bible, it was very interesting, the sticking point of all this is that City of Heroes is never going away, even if every private server currently running gets nuked the code and everything needed to run it is out in the wild already. The risk here is of course being the largest, most popular server attracts the sights of legal teams so they can set an example. I think everyone that was (key point was) an old veteran of the legacy game has already checked it out, some stay, some go, some tell their friends, they come, they go. Player retention was a large issue for the legacy game too, it's just the way MMO's are, almost universally.

If I was looking for something outside of the norms I'd approach anyone out in the world that had the Roleplaying tag above their head. Whenever I have that tag on show I'm up for Roleplay no matter where I end up!

From my understanding of RPing for years and years isn't continuity a key point in character development. Like it's a pillar of what makes Roleplay... Roleplay, surely? I mean I do both 'RP1' and 'RP5' I might meet a character Roleplay with them but not have the chance of meeting them again for a long while. But if my character did meet them again to remark they never have seems to go against what I think Roleplay is, unless your character has a bad memory or something of the sort.

I'm not a fan of any sort of pigeon holing on various degrees of Roleplay I think 'I'm open to X and enjoy Y' is enough. This system is confusing to me, I've no clue what I'd class myself as, I log on, portray a character with their own motives, wants, goals and drives, then log off. If people aren't a fan of the RP style I adhere to (I'm not even sure what that is in itself) then they're free to move on and find someone like-minded.

Attempting to force min/max playstyles on other players. I love min/maxing myself but it's pressuring it on others that sucks this attitude killed Classic WoW for me, people chased 'what is best' over 'what is fun'. Always what is best to the extreme degree so many things turn out just generic and expected.

Is there any examples of this happening with other projects where leaked/stolen code was used to operate a private server then that server became a completely separate and legal entity? I'm not sure on the story of Runescape but I see it brought up at times when it comes to discussions about private MMO servers.

Damn that sounds cool, love it.

I think Roleplay is/always has been popular in City of Heroes/Villains because it allows a wide swath of characters. You could feasibly have pretty much any concept in this universe and make it plausible; catgirls, robots, aliens, mutants, golden age heroes, etc. But I do find rooting characters (or involving it) in the game lore makes them more relatable, grounding concepts in the universe means you will have less friction. I made a thread some time ago here in Roleplaying to ask more about Praetorian Lore because my character is a sentient Clockwork from that dimension and I really wanted to involve those ideas.

I would love to play this arc!

Pretty cool!

I've not heard of this one either, going to have to find it!

I've gotta find this rooftop park in Atlas, didn't know of this one.

Kings Row - Has that whole 'amateur' Super Hero feeling to it, sorta Spiderverse beginnings, fighting simple crooks street to street. Siren's Call - Metahumans fighting toe to toe, Arachnos vs Longbow, it has a great feeling of 'total warzone' when you enter Sirens Call, least of which you know the threat is very plausible. Cap Au Diable - The zones history is great, love the place and I enjoy Roleplaying there as often as I can, it was a toss-up between this and St. Martial though!

I put mine in Katana's Lotus Drops (The AOE) it seems to proc more often in that slot. I typically use; Buildup > Lotus Drops > Golden Dragonfly > Soaring Dragon, not sure if this is optimal though.

If it was In-Character drama I'd say that was a good thing! It's when OOC ends up in a blender with IC drama that things start to go bad.

My Roleplaying pet peeve is pet peeves, there is enough divisiveness between RP'ers as it is. I think this hobby has hundreds of different ways of being viable or fun, there isn't a wrong way to Roleplay other than the basic tenants that make Roleplay... Roleplay. The key is to find communities within communities that you mesh with, this could be a Supergroup or a Chat Channel etc. There is parts of my Roleplay people won't like and I dislike some parts of Roleplay others enjoy, being tolerant to different styles even the things that may seem silly to you is what I feel works best, that doesn't mean you have to partake in that specific style of RP. Any types of RP (or even characters) that I dislike I just quietly avoid without kicking up dust.

I know so many of us love the customization in City of Heroes, being able to play a character close to the concept you have is part of what makes this game fantastic. It seems like a simple implementation for my non-programmer mind to add more costume slots so that we can have a single character with 12 or 16 costume slots instead of 8? In my case I'd love more because I have alternative looks of a single appearance; For example mask off, cape off or on, aura on and off variants.

Wow what an amazing base build. I love it.

I stick to Rogue which is "Redside" that can group and do stuff with Blueside, seems to offer the best of both worlds, I highly recommend it. As for SG's (Guilds) that's still something I'm looking into, Roleplay is really fun here and it's what I enjoy most but sometimes I crave something deeper than Club RP.

I've very quickly realized the price of this build is insane! I had a go at making the same build as Extors but with much cheaper Sets, thoughts?

I'm trying this build too, thank you for sharing it Extor. Brand new and made today, now to get to 50 and beyond!