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Cerulean_Caver

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  1. In the last week or so we've been the most popular shard on Homecoming?
  2. Precisely because of this I reminded my son not to crowd the trainers. :) he got the message and so a teeny part of rhe problem is fixed. I've also noticed that once you get past atlas and kings that most of the zones are relatively empty.
  3. First, I wanted to say "thank you" to all the people who have put in the hard work over the past six years to bring CoH back. And I have a little story to go with it. I started playing CoH back in 2004 when it was in Beta. I got in about two weeks before it went live. I was in my 20s working in NYC in a job I really didn't like. I had a small circle of friends who I played with. And so when I moved from NY to appalachia (WV) in 2005, CoH was, by far, the easiest way for me to reconnect with the people I'd left behind. It was there while I went through grad school at WVU, found love and marriage and started a family. My son was six in 2012 and would occasionally look over my shoulder when I'd play CoH. He loved it. And I told him when he was old enough he'd be able to play and we'd play together. And then NCSoft pulled the plug. Like almsot everyone we went through our stages of grief and we all moved onto other things because.. it was gone. My son and I played Minecraft, Don't Starve, Portal, Supreme Commander, and most recently Rocket League. We looked at other MMOs, but the negativity and griefing were something neither of us wanted to be a part of. And we went camping, played baseball and did all those things that families do. And once in awhile, particularly after watching a Marvel movie, he'd ask me why there wasn't a game like *that* that we could play. And I'd tell him there was... once. We played Valiance Online (because we could get in on that aplha) and it was ok. But like every other successor it remains so unfinished. And he'd ask "Why don't all these people get togeteher and just make one game so we could play that?" (you have to love the wisdom of children) and all I could say was that for some people it's more important that they do something than to have something done. And then this happened. At first, I didn't want to tell him. What if it was awfully done? What if my memory was too gilded? Would it even work? On his Win10 machine? So i tried it out one night on my own... and about 20 minutes later I was calling him into the computer room "Look! Caver's back. The city... is back." He just stood there, open mouthed, looking at fifteen year old graphics, like us old people stared at the dinosaurs the first time we saw Jurassic Park back in 1993 in the theaters. "I want to play!" he said. And an hour later he had his own account set up. That night he came to me after we'd run a few missions and about all the remakes he said "now I see what they were trying to do". So again, thank you. We both know this can be taken away from us at any minute. But even if it is, you should know you've touched thousands of lives, young and old. Good job.
  4. We will and we did.. And we may be bringing in another couple families over as well :) Gotta raise the next generation right, after all!
  5. I would also like to voice my support for the naming policy. Frankly, I thought 1000 character slots was a bit extreme to begin with. I understand that people could just have created another account, but honestly if you're spending that much time creating characters, when do you find time to play the game? Until it was mentioned I had no idea multiboxing was a thing. But yeah, I can see how that could screw up server load. I suspect the long-term solution to this problem is to charge a nominal monthly fee for an account. I also assume that there are ways to identify legitimate instances of multiple users in the same household playing simultaneously, either through IP, mac address, lack of AFK, etc... My son and I would fall into that latter category and I'm certain we want to pass this wonderful game on to the next generation. In any case, thank you again for all your hard work and effort to make this minor miracle happen.
  6. After much discussion and deliberation my son (13) and I moved all our toons from Halcyon / Reunion to Excelsior yesterday. This thread was a major reason in the move. My son participated in his first few DFB groups and loved it. Thanks, everyone!! CC
  7. I mean, do we really want to give them an excuse? Supposedly people are in talks with NC to bring some legitimacy to all this. I'm sure one of our talking points is "This game is still relevant. Look at all the people playing." And then they look and see "Batman, Baatman, Batmanz, Batmaan, etc.." Oh right. *That* headache. ::)
  8. For me I have one toon at 20, and a handful in their teens. It's slowing dawning on me how much time I spent with my primary in the 'beforetimes', collecting badges, accolades, IOs, etc. There's just no way to recreate that in a short time and honestly, Incarnate stuff came at the end of that. I would love to be able to catch up to that point and go from there. The process getting to that point - seems hugely daunting.
  9. You mean you don't want a Captain America emote where people run around saying "Language!" ;)
  10. I was thinking of the same things, but from a different angle. Homecoming has done an excellent job of handling server load, whether it's because the hardware is 10 years newer or something else. Regardless, every server except Reunion is frequently red and at some point (I suspect) there will be a need for an additional NA server. So I'd be curious to know if there were any long term plans in that direction.
  11. I was looking back at the paragonwiki page on servers and noted that one server was the "unofficial community" server (champion server), insofar as it the reputation the friendliest and most helpful server. That's kind of in line with the "family server" idea. Perhaps we could aim for that moniker as well.
  12. There's a transfer character option on the character select screen for transferring to a new shard. Sweet, as there is a good chance that I'll move off Halcyon because I live in the US. Just makes more sense to have servers closer unless they are completely overwhelmed.
  13. I played on Protector for a long time (I started with the beta and played until last day with occasional breaks in between). My main was "Cerulean Caver", an NRG/NRG blaster who wound up being Incarnate by the end. Alts included Ceiling Burner - a fire tanker, Darkest Echo - a controller and Scuti - a shield scrapper. Redside, my main was "Doctor Boo" - a MM bots/poison guy. Also there was 'Evil Pixie', a invulnerable / SS brute. I mostly played with a couple friends and we kept to ourselves. Caver was a bit more outgoing when he became incarnate, if only because the incarnate group was smaller. So, is there a server that Protector players are congregating towards?
  14. I have to echo this. My son is 13. He's heard wonderful things about CoX for literally his entire life. It was a wonderful shock to suddenly be able to play it. It's a huge gift to us. We don't know how long this will last, but we are wiling to go along with the ride as long as we can. Heck, I've gotten him to stop playing Rocket League to play this. That's insane. but if Excelsior is where families are going to gather, then count me in.
  15. My son and I are playing in NA and we are already on Halcyon (because it had the lightest load at the time). We're likely to stay on it until the load increases to be on par with the other servers. Hopefully there won't be too much lag :P
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