Organica

Fun!

In a not-so-fun way, I mean.

I really thought I'd eventually get used to the new interface and learn to like it... but even without all of the "click twenty times to bid on something, click twenty more times to claim it", there are other things about the new interface that really bug me.

For just one example, clicking to remove a bid and removing a completely different bid because the bid I was trying to remove was suddenly filled, and everything moved up 1 position to fill the empty spot. Then I have to try and remember what bid it was that I just cancelled by accident.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...204518&page=60

The above thread in the Screenshots & Fan Creations section of the boards is used for costume help, if you repost your request there you'll get help from some of the most creative costume designers in the game. If they can't come up with anything, no one can. ^_^

Transfering servers will wipe your local friend's list, for the reason that they are local to the server you were on, not the one you're moving to.

Global friend lists remains unchanged. Name changes do not affect friends at all, I think.

I guess the one question I'm not sure of is, if someone else has you friended, does the new name appear (confusing them) or does your name just disappear from their local friend's list?

I did the old hami raids twice. I didn't like it -- there were quite a few ATs who had little or nothing to do during the raid.

I like the new raids a lot more. I do agree with Leandro, the new hami has good mechanics but as a boss encounter it's not so interesting. But it's 53 merits and can be finished in as little as 30 minutes on a good day. Good days vary wildly -- the monster hunt can go on forever or be over very quickly, the raid itself can go like clockwork or become a long, drawn-out, painful process depending on who's shown up that day. But on a good day on Virtue, you get hami to spawn quickly, you run evacless, and you fight through the final mito spawn and it's over remarkably fast. Then they do it again, and sometimes a third time. ^_^

I have a billion influence that I wouldn't mind converting to a billion infamy. @shinobu or @shinobu valentine.

Not sure where best to post this, but one of my friends is a writer who regularly contributes "flash fiction" to a web site called the Daily Cabal, and his story posted two days ago has a superhero/villain theme:

http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/05/i-...ou-a-mix-tape/

Just thought some people might get a kick out of it. ^_^

So far I think we've learned that, among the many multiple alternate dimensions out there, there's at least one where Recluse is a smart, competent supervillain who deserves to be on top.

Just not here, based on the evidence at hand.

Anyway it's an interesting argument but this thread has strayed quite a ways from the original post.

What we all really want to know is... who is Fusionette based upon?

Stupid characters with stupid names, looks, and concepts (if there is a concept behind them) generally don't get played, and so I feel free to delete them if necessary. But I rarely delete toons, and never once they're up to level 15 or 20. I did that a couple of times when I was first playing the game, and I later realized in both cases that I shouldn't have.

You can all disagree with the writer all you want. He didn't say we had 40,000 subscribers, he said at worst we had at least that much, and that was still a pretty good number.

He never said he believed that was an actual number. Sheesh, people really don't know how to read do they?

The population is down, there's no denying that no matter how easily you can find a team. Just the fact that it's an old game and we're recovering from a worldwide recession means the population is down. Population will go back up in July. How much it's down, and how much it will go back up, who knows?

We're up. FOr the moment.

I have a private base on Virtue that has several bins filled with crafted IOs. One contains random drops that I've crafted, one contains level 50 damage/defense/resist/heal IOs that I intend to sell (I usually fill it up and then use it as extra inventory to sell during a double exp weekend, for example). Two are filled with IOs in the 30-33 range, which is what I normally slot my characters with. As noted, such IOs can be difficult to come by, so I like to keep them handy for when I'm IOing out a new character.

If anything, e-mail has made it easier for me to put stuff into and pull stuff out of my base storage, since several of my characters are in other SGs.

But I tend to sell all purple drops and level 50 IO drops, if they're sellable. And I sell a lot of other IOs that I get too. I like to make money, I like to see the market working, and I don't have a need to hoard everything I get my hands on. And I try to ignore the fact that all of my ranged damage IOs aren't all together (I was compelled to rearrange everything in one of my bins only one time, so far). ^_^

I sell all my salvage. I don't hoard any salvage ever. At all.

So I'm more of a marketeer than a hoarder. But I guess I knew that already. ^_^

In theory a person that farms with 5 or more fire/kins to outfit at once, I'd say. Where money is no object.

Which is pretty much what others have suggested.

Although I haven't been playing my official Midlevel Crisis characters much, I'm still trying to generate recipes in the 30-33 range.

With that in mind, my latest character just hit 30, and I rolled 120 merits and about 2500 tickets (bronze rolls). Put a few things up for sale that sold immediately, including Mako's Bite Chance for Lethal Damage (30), Mako's Bite Acc/End/Rech (30), Devestation Acc/Dam (30), Crushing Impact Acc/Dam/Rech (30).

Currently listing: Razzle Dazzle Acc/Rech (30) for 1 influence.

When I have more market space I have these to sell as well, all level 30:

Adjusted Targeting to hit buff/rech/endurance reduction
Force Feedback rech/end
Gift of the Ancients def/rech
Obliteration: Chance for Smashing Damage
Red Fortune end/rech
Serendipity def/rech
Smashing Haymaker dam/rech
Stagger stun/range
Stupefy acc/stun/rech

While I like playing all ATs, I do have 9 level 50 scrappers for a reason. ^_^

Jump in, flip out, and kill stuff!

Sometimes I use my two accounts and two computers to PL one toon with another. But the problem is, the other toon doesn't do much or say anything, so I find it terribly boring. Then I go back to teaming with actual people, which is much more fun. ^_^

But yeah, quite a few people have done that sort of thing, or even run up to 8 accounts concurrently as noted above.

I sell to vendors, mostly.

I played a lot of different characters so it wasn't too much of a problem. I played at least 6 different characters over the weekend.

It (mail) seems to be tied to the chat server, which has been up and down. I was using it to IO out a level 23 toon. (Normally I'd not only have the market available, I'd be able to run the game on both of my computers, but one isn't working.)

Anyway... e-mailed a bunch of IOs to my lowbie. Logged her in, collected them. Went back to my level 50, turned in tickets to get the salvage I needed to craft some other IOs, and I sent off 6 luck charms, 6 ancient artifacts, and 6 rune armors... and I realized after I started that I wasn't seeing the e-mails pop up immediately, but I continued anyway. "They'l show up eventually, they won't get lost," I told myself.

Well, they DID get lost. The chat server was down. When it came back up, I had mail... but it was the IOs I'd sent previously, so I got duplicates of those. (Which unfortunately were level 25 accuracy and damage IOs and 1 level 20 recharge IO, why couldn't it have been a few Luck of the Gambler recharges? ). The salvage all disappeared. I didn't report it because it was kind of a wash anyway, not a huge loss and I got something else twice.

I also saw someone report that they accidentally hit "spam" when trying to claim the stuff they'd sent themselves, and it all vanished. When you open up e-mail those buttons are often right on top of each other (for me, until I expand my mail window). Not a good design decision.

Anyway I managed to IO out one toon with generic IOs, but I wouldn't trust the mail system for other stuff right now.

I really didn't plan this as part of a celebration for the game... but it kind of worked out that way.

First of all, when I couldn't find a team right away Saturday morning, I did something I've been wanting to do for a while. I logged in each of my level 50 characters (gotta get the 6th year badge anyway right?) and proceeded to talk to pedestrians with named that started with M and N. I made notes for each character -- how many hours logged, how many times logged in, how many badges, and whether they had field crafter or task force commander (and what pieces they needed to complete task force commander). I've never been one to track my characters this way, so I was curious what I might find out.

The verdict? I play too much. But it was interesting to compare. The level 50 toon with the least hours logged, 54 hours, was no surprise because she was level pacted to my other account all the way to 50. But another toon that I legitimately played to 50 had only 97 hours logged. On reflection, this was the toon I started up during the double experience weekend last Fall. Three others were at 115 hours, 135 hours, and 147 hours. So I can get a toon to 50 in 115 to 140 hours of regular play on mission/task force teams.

On the flip side, my "main" has 648 hours logged, and my first 50 ever (who I have hardly played in years) has 512 hours logged. Also, my first toon Organica, who is only 43, has 383 hours logged. So yes, it used to take much longer to get to 50, and yes, I do play too much. I have two other toons at over 300 hours logged and six other toons at over 200 hours logged.

So then, after that... I got asked to join a manticore task force. Well,why not? We set this for an hour and we literally finished 4 seconds over. We were pounding on the last paragon protector when time ran out.

Then the leader said he wanted to start a numina. Ah, I needed that on my newest scrapper for task force commander! Again we set for an hour, and when we finished we noticed (only after the fact) that we'd gone over the limit by a full 37 seconds.

The leader announced he was doing Citadel next. I considered joining, but really, three task forces in a row? I needed to take a break. I'm not some crazy person who does nothing but sit at the computer running task force after task force... right?

A few hours later I logged back in. A SG mate was joining a run at the new Positron part 1. I'd done it once already, it's fun, so I joined. We finished that in a bit over an hour.

I announced to my SG that I'd only done three task forces so far that day. ^_^ And one said, "Then you want to join my Synapse next!" Um... sure! This took longer of course, the usual 2 hours or so, though I didn't really keep track. I made jokes about how crazy I was, running four task forces in one day.

He immediately said he was going to run a Sister Psyche. Well, it was only half past 9 PM my time, what could it hurt? Five task forces in one day, sure! Other people have done such things, why not me?

By the time we finished this, it was just after Midnight. But just as we started the last mission, one of my old friends had come online. I haven't played with him (or his roommate) in quite a while. He asked if I was up for an ITF. Ah... in about 30 minutes? Sure, I guess. I mean, I know it's not a long task force, right?

Well, maybe. My friends have been into badge collecting lately, and wanted to try a Master's run. At 1 AM Pacific time, with a mostly PuG team, including some who had been out of the game six months and one who'd never been to Cimerora. Plus my friends love to charge forward zerg-style, and didn't really want to alter this significantly for the Master's run. They (and I) have really well IO-tunes, but I had no idea about the rest of the team. I assumed the whole Master's idea would be stillborn, but the team played well and we nearly made it all the way through the 2nd mission before we ran into too much aggro and two people died.

More importantly, however, we couldn't teleport people to the end of maps, so we had to slog up the hill old-school style in the third and fourth missions. Not the speed run I'd been thinking of when I said "Yes, I'll join my sixth task force of the day!" We finished at 3 AM, and I was ready to fall asleep. (It had taken quite a while for us to get a full team to start.)

Anyway... six task forces on six different toons. I've never done that before, and I doubt I ever will again. I had a fun day though, and it probably counts as a fine celebration of six years in CoH, don'tcha think? ^_^