Mr_Hellcat

Does anyone remember when they just "forgot" to include a wall of the dock in Talos? Like a HUGE section of it by the PI ferry. Oh and I'm pretty sure there're still holes in the trees in Eden that you can get to just by jumping at them a few times. I used to have my toons go sit on the geometry outside of of the War Walls to sulk, back in the day.

Edit: Nevermind, nothing to see here.

Feel free to chime in with your own morals/stories/whatever. Personally, mine isn't even going to really involve gameplay but what the game's meant to me and my life.

I'm not very well known since beyond my group of friends I tend to keep fairly to myself. That's not to say I haven't had my moments of brief infamy or at least being known. But hey, since for now things seem to be on the brink, I figured I might as well stop keeping to myself even if no one cares or this post might not exist before the Mayan Apocalypse wipes everything out.


I started out playing City of Heroes because I needed something to keep my mind off the fact that a long-term relationship had ended spectacularly in flames, somewhere between Issue 5 and Issue 6. I remember that specifically because shortly after I started I was doing the CoV beta because I'd bought CoV.

Over the years I've drifted away and back to CoH, but the entire time I played almost solely on the Liberty server as @Hellcat 3.7, @Mr. Kitteh, and finally @The Hellcat now. I've been many things during that time: friend, teammate, confidant, cohort, manwh***, etc, but it was all part of the process.

I can't even remember how it happened, but I got invited to a supergroup on Liberty, MDK, and during it's time before people drifted away we did some pretty cool things. I remember driving from Minnesota to Chicago for a get together and going bowling and drinking with friends. A later get together involved a friend of one of the MDK leaders, @Skystrike I think it was, introducing us all to the horribleness that is Tobasco sauce in mixed drinks.

Inbetween those two though, we as MDK did something pretty epic, to me at least. See, one of MDK's affiliated group's leaders lived in the DC metro region as did one of the MDK leaders, so we had a get together in the DC area and a bunch of us met in Chicago and road tripped it there with like 6-8 people in a truck non-stop. When we got there, we of course proceeded to sight see and, being MDK, had a night of drinking and fun before road tripping it back.

Alas though, not all things are meant to last and people started to drift from the game and MDK ceased to exist as it once was while I drifted away from the game for who knows how long. I can't even remember why I started playing again, but eventually I did.

When I got back I'd been gone for awhile and the people I knew weren't around so I looked for acquaintances, people I teamed with a little bit, pretty much anyone that knew me enough to want to talk to me and I ended up wrangled into one of one of my now best friends @Camo Fire's rooms.

After being there for a week or two, I teamed with a friend of his @Secret Lover and randomly started talking to her. She was upset one day so I randomly offered to talk to her on the phone if she gave me her number and she needed someone to talk to. To this day, neither of us has any clue why she did since I was basically a stranger. So I called her to see if there was anything I could help with since she was upset and we hit it off.

I mean really hit it off. By chance I called her after midnight so we started talking on Valentine's Day, 2010. After a few visits to each other, it became evident the whole "visiting" thing wasn't working out, so I moved down to Florida in November, 2010 and proposed the night I got into town right when I saw her for the first time since driving down, even though we were moving in together literally the next day. Then this past February 11, 2012, we got married.




My name is Mark and I've been playing since 2005. I only have about 4-5 level 50's, I've only done a few of the endgame trials and I get more excited about making an awesome concept character than actually getting it to 50.

But the moral of my story in City of Heroes? Quite literally, I wouldn't be where I am, nor would I be who I am, without City of Heroes. This' cheesy, but while I may barely have any 50's in the game, BECAUSE of the game, I've been able to become a level 50 in life.

My favorite bug I can't even tell for sure if it was a real bug, but it didn't happen to me. I just remember seeing the picture from the CoV beta of a Kaiju-esque toon.

Wait, wait.. no, my favorite is getting the initial badges for the Invention tutorial on BOTH sides before it went live. One through the obviously missing ceiling in Steel, and the other through a really tiny crack in Cap that I respec'd my toon into TP just to get the badge even though it involved flying just right or you'd get auto-TP'd away.

After respecing I then got bored with the toon after awhile and deleted it.

Right now the servers show every server with two yellow dots except Virtue has three red and Freedom's full.

Soooo obvious question.. does anyone else's updater say Version 18 something?

Also.. did anyone else's shortcut get changed to their beta directory?

Bah they should just push out 9 and 10 then say "due to the high demand and requests, we've decided to release the Mutant Pack early! Thank you City of Heroes users for your support!" and put it up on the store.

Wasn't expecting that. Was busy eating then bam! Total "oh shi-!" moment.

I forsee this ending up pissing people off in the end.

Curse you multiple accounts to choose from! >

If the want is there that badly, why not just put the mutant pack on the store and continue to do the contest for those that want to try for it for free? Yes, I know it's to get it early. Two an hour is a long time to wait for a chance. I could be playing CoH.

The third just dropped on Twitter and was already claimed.

Valid question regarding updates.. they haven't posted the patch notes yet, have they? Or was this just for the mutant pack?

Also.. am I the only one that thought Hurley and Ben's two-line exchange outside the church spoke volumes about how their relationship'd grown and wished they could've seen how awesome they ended up?

Just because they didn't show Winston in the Church doesn't mean he isn't moving on. He just isn't moving on with them. Christian said that world was created for them through their connections, which is why they had to move on together.

Winston will most likely move on with Walt and Michael, whenever Michael removes his earthly bonds, which to me is why he and the others were on the Island still. They're basically ghosts except I kind of interpret it as FLocke was forcibly keeping Christian and Locke from being able to be awakened in Purgatory. Though to be fair, that could just be because of the metatime we interpret the show in because it's a show.

I think even had Ben sorted himself out and forgiven himself, he probably wouldn't have been in the church with them either, and would instead have moved on with his daughter.

Speaking of Ben... for all the creepiness and being a cold, calculating mastermind wannabe... it only took a split second to truly show he'd redeemed himself, when he saved Hurley from the tree since that didn't involve thinking or planning. He just acted.