Willdaberry Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Im new to city of heroes (not new to old mmorpgs tho, im an old school Everquest player who knows the pain of going down a level becuz of a death that steals hours and hours of grinding xp in one moment) but still something about this game has caught my eye in a intense way, let me explain...... 1. god this community may be the best bunch of people iv ever encountered i mean, dam its on another level 2 at first i thought the city backdrop threw me off (me being a strictly a medieval fantasy mmo player) but man iv fallen for it deep 3. the customization that you can on a heroes is bar non the best iv ever seen 4. so many awesome awesome classes and options for powers its crazy crazy 5. travel, somtimes i just run around at high speeds and jump around, its kinda very relaxing in a nice smooth way 27 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Dare Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Welcome! Always nice to see new faces. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyriold Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Welcome! I do like the old style EQ as well, pledged towards Pantheon now. This is totally different, the world does not take itself seriously... but it is consistent in that. This is just here to have fun and a power fantasy. While some players will probably tell you about the deep lore in CoH, it's just cheeky comic lore. For me this game is all about having lots of fun and experimenting with power combinations. And yes, the community has only very few toxic players in it. In all my years here i encountered just a hand full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ukase Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Welcome to our city. As someone who's played this game a long time, I have a lot of advice. Most of it is aligned with what everyone else would advice. But the one thing I would tell you that perhaps not everyone would is - take your time. Don't be in a rush to get to the "end game". This game has a TON of small details in both game mechanics and lore that you'll miss if you rush through things. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 Welcome! I just love that somebody recently discovers a two decades old "obsolete" game and appreciates it for what it brings to the genre What really amazes me is that more MMOs didn't look at CoH and say "we need to be more like this" But I guess that's their loss. I wish for the OP many countless pleasureable hours of playing one of the best PC games in human history. 2 3 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarky Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 good to have you. i do need a new assistant 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srmalloy Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 10 hours ago, Willdaberry said: 1. god this community may be the best bunch of people iv ever encountered i mean, dam its on another level The best commentary about the community was something I remember from an ITF back on live, when we had a woman and her five-year-old son on the team. She said that CoH was the only online game she felt comfortable about letting her son play without supervision, because of the quality of the community. And when I tried playing other MMOs -- Aion, Tabula Rasa (both before NCsoft killed CoH), and SWTOR -- I was severely depressed by how rude, vindictive, and foul-mouthed the chat channels were. Yes, there were still courteous and helpful players, but they were far and away the minority. And I have to wonder if it's the setting itself that brings out the good behavior of the community. Well, that and the complete absence of adversarial loot, which inherently fosters jerk behavior. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 5 hours ago, Snarky said: good to have you. i do need a new assistant If you had any decent benefits, you'd probably keep your assistants. (Other than the top notch dental plan) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverdusk Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 4 hours ago, srmalloy said: Well, that and the complete absence of adversarial loot, which inherently fosters jerk behavior. Yep, only heard second hand about having to roll for drops in other MMO's and the arguments people would get into about "need vs. greed", etc. and was so happy none of that was ever a part of CoH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bAss_ackwards Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Everquest? "SoW plz" "Train to zone!" 😁 Welcome to the City of Heroes! (and sometimes Villains) 🦸 3 1 1 Former Paragon Studios QA - Redname Fireman Current and always Scrapper enthusiast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl Girl Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 everquest was my first and only mom experience before CoH, so i sed feel ya on the culture shock from playing in a more anachronistic setting 😛 if it suits You, there are 1000 slots to experiment in the low levels to late teens for fun power combinations and the rp community cooks up some very Fun games. g_d's lil' monster ❤️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSpectre Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Welcome, hero! If you have any questions about the game, try out the wiki. Lots of good info in there! https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Main_Page Black Spectre - A Dark Defender's Home on the Web • The Advanced Bind Guide • The Masters of BAF: A Guide for Leaders and Players • The Wiki List of Slash Commands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 23 hours ago, Snarky said: good to have you. i do need a new assistant Wow, @Snarky that's great. Have you had a facelift or did a wizard cast a spell to make you look 40 times more attractive than you used to be? 1 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwright Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 9 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said: Wow, @Snarky that's great. Have you had a facelift or did a wizard cast a spell to make you look 40 times more attractive than you used to be? Probably using Lady Bathory's skin care bath additives. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminara Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 You fell in love? You fool! You missed a prime opportunity to fall in a machine that makes plasma balls, or a vat of artificial cat food crunch enhancer, or a secret nuclear facility used for grafting fused quartz into the human genome, and gain superpowers! 1 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momentarygrace Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Welcome home! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 1 hour ago, Techwright said: Probably using Lady Bathory's skin care bath additives. Bloody hell! They work liverly 1 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarky Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 1 hour ago, Scarlet Shocker said: Wow, @Snarky that's great. Have you had a facelift or did a wizard cast a spell to make you look 40 times more attractive than you used to be? it's all about a winning smile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oubliette_Red Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 On 10/7/2024 at 12:32 AM, bAss_ackwards said: Everquest? "SoW plz" "Train to zone!" 😁 Welcome to the City of Heroes! (and sometimes Villains) 🦸 I played EQ with a few friends for three months, the final nail in the coffin was when I was running to catch up with them on one of the transport boats. Just before it set sail they decided to hop off and I hopped on just as it transitioned, leaving me to sink or swim in an endless ocean. Since it was a zone you weren't supposed to be able to access nothing had a visible presence. This was before you could swim from island to island. I didn't want to lose my loot, as meager as it was at the time so after my endurance ran out I'd sink and before I drowned I'd regain enough End to dog paddle some more. This went on for 3 hours. I'm a crappy slow typist so there were no long conversations with other players other than calling out to anyone that was on a boat and it's LOC to which I'd dog paddle, sink, drown, dog paddle towards. Eventually, to the surprise to those on board, I majikally appeared on deck. While I could not see the boat, it literally ran right over me. That was pretty much the end of my EQ days, gave all my shit away and logged out for the last time. 2 Dislike certain sounds? Silence/Modify specific sounds. Looking for modified whole powerset sfx? Check out Michiyo's modder or Solerverse's thread. Got a punny character? You should share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl Girl Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 can a person even claim to have played EQ if they didn't end up swimming halfway across the sea due to a boat clipping error?? g_d's lil' monster ❤️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostbiter Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 12 hours ago, Owl Girl said: can a person even claim to have played EQ if they didn't end up swimming halfway across the sea due to a boat clipping error?? Definitely a right of passage. That and showing up to the Nexus and missing your portal by 2 seconds. 1 Torchbearer Discount Heroes SG: Frostbiter - Ice/Ice Blaster Throneblade - Broadsword/Dark Armor Brute Silver Mantra - Martial Arts/Electric Armor Scrapper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Story Archer Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 On 10/6/2024 at 9:38 AM, Willdaberry said: Im new to city of heroes (not new to old mmorpgs tho, im an old school Everquest player who knows the pain of going down a level becuz of a death that steals hours and hours of grinding xp in one moment) but still something about this game has caught my eye in a intense way, let me explain...... 1. god this community may be the best bunch of people iv ever encountered i mean, dam its on another level 2 at first i thought the city backdrop threw me off (me being a strictly a medieval fantasy mmo player) but man iv fallen for it deep 3. the customization that you can on a heroes is bar non the best iv ever seen 4. so many awesome awesome classes and options for powers its crazy crazy 5. travel, somtimes i just run around at high speeds and jump around, its kinda very relaxing in a nice smooth way Welcome home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heliphyn34u Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Welcome! There's plenty of variety in enemy groups too, and not everything is super-grindy. Hope you're having fun bopping through the City! 22 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said: Eventually, to the surprise to those on board, I majikally appeared on deck. While I could not see the boat, it literally ran right over me. Since I never did play EQ, I'm just picturing the riverboat from Over the Garden Wall. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troo Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 On 10/6/2024 at 7:38 AM, Willdaberry said: Im new to city of heroes (not new to old mmorpgs tho, im an old school Everquest player who knows the pain of going down a level becuz of a death that steals hours and hours of grinding xp in one moment) but still something about this game has caught my eye in a intense way, let me explain...... 1. god this community may be the best bunch of people iv ever encountered i mean, dam its on another level 2 at first i thought the city backdrop threw me off (me being a strictly a medieval fantasy mmo player) but man iv fallen for it deep 3. the customization that you can on a heroes is bar non the best iv ever seen 4. so many awesome awesome classes and options for powers its crazy crazy 5. travel, somtimes i just run around at high speeds and jump around, its kinda very relaxing in a nice smooth way Welcome and caution.. the costume creator is known to induce addictive behavior. Alt-itus is real. 1 "Homecoming is not perfect but it is still better than the alternative.. at least so far" - Unknown (Wise words Unknown!) Si vis pacem, para bellum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Water Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 Easily done - welcome to the afflicted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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