Ghostmaker

I find it odd, myself.

I've gotten to where I never buy TOs at all, sometimes skipping over SO enhancers straight to IOs (Invention Enhancers are pretty cost effective starting at level 25-30, as you won't have to replace them). But while IOs are expensive, most non-set IOs don't require rare salvage, so you can often sell off some salvage for a pretty penny (and it looks like arcane salvage costs are spiking again. Woohoo!).

How the hell can you be /poor/ in this game?

Well, considering that Snaptooth (a powerful Redcap AV) gets his jollies by kidnapping Baby New Year and trying to screw up DJ Zero's fun... yeah, I think they're evil. Not Evil Overlord evil, but banal, jerk-esque evil.

That reminds me.

Darkness and Fire

This is Sister Flame and my main on Virtue, Dominus Nox.

Right before we beat seven kinds of crap out of every Troll and rogue Clockwork we could find

The Television arc is one of my favorite villain arcs -- mostly for the sheer surreality of it. I got my first villain 50 during the last mission Television gives you (the 'battle for Television' versus Nemesis).

And I like to joke that my power was all thanks to the help of Television.

Funny... I just adopted a new dog as well. She's a basset/something or other mix, named Kahlua (but we all call her Callie). Not quite a puppy, she's about 8 months old and terribly curious.

Suddenly I foresee AE missions where the players are ostenibly on drugs, to justify seeing villains in garish colors visible from a mile up.

"Why are those Arachnos troops wearing signal-flare orange armor?"

Yeah. 'Newbism' is one thing; 9 times out of 10, all those people need is another player to give them some tips. And let's be honest, we've all made errors before (I recall trying to navigate the Hollows with the GvE jump pack... and nothing else).

Idiocy, however, is punishable by me suggesting 'Hey, see those guys kitted out SOCOM style? They're wimps! Go beat them up!'

Welcome to Sapperville, grasshopper.

I saw Disco Trolls and all I can think is:

"Oh boy. Ascendant's going to have competition for the humorous arc award..."

*grin*

(Oh, sidenote: If you haven't played Saul Rubenstien's Discount Task Force, I give it a thumbs up; the storyline and text are funny as all get-out)

I know that the katana powerset's taunt is the 'point with weapon'. No idea what the bang-weapon-on-shield thing is.

Could be worse.

I've got this warped idea for a CoH video focusing on Scrappers, to the tune of Fall Out Boy's cover of 'Beat It'. Sad, eh?

I can see it in my head, too

This thread makes me smile. It also makes me contemplate rolling up a toon on Freedom.

A soft tone came from the terminal built into the wall of the hyperbaric chamber.

"Sorry to disturb you, sir, but we've received a communique from Ajax. Alpha priority."

In the dim light, a figure stirred, then moved over to the terminal. Pale fingers danced over the keys, the LCD screen reflected in the man's dark eyes. "So. The Rikti want to wage war, hmm?"

A hard, thin smile curved across the man's face. Like the edge of a sword.

"We shouldn't disappoint them. Prep the Vanguard tactical armor, I'll be down in ten minutes to suit up."

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Dominus Nox
Global Contact: @Ghostmaker
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Science
Super Rank and Super Group: A-Squad Member, The Icons

You win. Best parody of Charlie Daniels I've seen in years

My niece has seen me play CoH, but no playing for her yet; her father tends to tightly regulate TV and games (before you criticize, he IS her father, so I'm not arguing that one).

I admit to some amusement, and a genuine warm-and-fuzzy at Hero 1's response. I was inwardly dreading some soulless redname response of 'You do know this game is rated T for teen' or something to that effect. My apologies to the devs for misjudging them.

Oh, and if Sister Flame swings by Virtue, drop me a global buzz; I'll be happy to team with someone competent.

It's even funnier when you know that character's name:

Rabid Spoo.

I had to look it up, and promptly lol'd.

But yeah, two katanas up from Dominus Nox. So funny to watch him bouncing along like a goof...

And of course, there's always rescuing Dr. Frank N. Scott.

That never gets old

*chuckles*

That was good. I'm going to have to show that one to some friends of mine. Many thanks for letting me take a small part in the process.

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I can't believe no one's mentioned the radio mission where you have to rescue the author and occult specialist Clive Loveking, which is an amalgam of Clive Barker, H.P Lovecraft, and Stephen King.

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Fixed.

I am particularly amused by this mission, as the villains seem to be freaked out by their captive. Clive says it best: The weird and creepy act keeps me safer than any security system.

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And EX: QUESTION ===

What about the physical servers? Are they maintained by NC and just going to be where they are, or are there going to be days of moving physical hardware involved? (and at that point could you please chase the mice and dust bunnies out from under them, as they seem to chew the connections sometimes?)

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The servers and operations are all still intact and will not be re-localized from their current spots. We are however up for new hardware, so that is full of pure win right there.

Ex

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Woohoo! Beer for everyone!

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Liberty Server was home to a really interesting roleplayer who called himself "Cog Warlord" in the days of I1/I2. The Cog Warlord tried very hard, within the restrictions of CoH, to be a real villain, long before CoV came out.
He played using fairly high level Tanker, and in his "Warlord" guise, he'd announce via broadcasts as well as on the Liberty Forum here, that he was going to further the plans of the Clockwork King by leading a charge of mobs to area X in zone Y.

In essence, he created zone events where he'd herd up dozens, maybe hundreds of mobs and lead them back to common player areas like the AP entrance to the Hollows. I can understand why someone might think he was griefing lowbies by doing that, but he DID repeatedly announce his intentions and give plenty of warning of his nefarious plans. The net result was that higher-level players would come out to protect everyone. Given the sheer size of the herds, lots of people had a chance to help and there was a very tangible sense that the bigger toons were protecting the smaller ones. Plus, we got to show off our high level powers.

I'm fairly certain that Cog Warlord eventually got banned for what he was doing, but I will remember him as the first player villain in the game.

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After initially hearing about this guy, I took my claw/invuln scrapper and did the same, creating a giant ambush on the atlas gate of perez park. Rather than RP a villain I sent warnings that someone was launching an attack and began herding up everything nearby. I brought them from the north, south and inside the walls all flooding in, 100s of mobs at a time. The 20 or so people there really enjoyed it and towards the end I almost was able to bring the Kraken, but my lack of a toxic resist and a mean old police drone didn't let me.

Multiple people asked me if I was a GM since I was able to control mobs like that and make them attack the area, but really it was my old wolf herding skills in play.

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I remember occurances like this happening in the Hollows on Freedom as well around that same time. It was great fun having a dozen or more heroes of all levels simultaneously fighting dozens and dozens of Outcasts and Trolls that someone skillfully herded to the gate. It was definitely a one-of-a-kind experience, something the game itself never did previously.

As an aside, perhaps the devs took note of these wonderfully fun events, cause it seems they used the concept to some capacity in the war against the 5th Column and Council -- where swarms of one mob type would suddenly spawn and start an all out war with the other faction.

And even today, to a much lesser extent, you can see some of this if you're lucky enough to be in Skyway during a Supa Troll rally.

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Dear God, yes. I ran across a Supa Troll rally a while back while moving through Skyway (can't remember why).

Now I wasn't exactly in danger per se -- I was something like lv42 or 44 -- but there were one hell of a lot of Supa Trolls to claw through.

But hey, I got the Dee Jay badge

Woohoo! I'm famous!