Red_Raccoon

I know this. Hence my telling the OP that DESPITE the existence of a filter, profanity is against the TOS. I'm not sure what it is you think I'm starting or what your objection to my comment is.

Good point. I can't imagine Dr Doom using the F-word, for one.

To the best of my knowledge, profanity is prohibited by the TOS (despite the presence of an optional profanity filter). I'm pretty sure there is no general monitoring of player dialogue for infractions, so you are safe to use profanity in semi-private chat (like Team or Supergroup) if you know that the other members of your team or group will not have a problem with it. However, if you use profanity in broadcast or local or if you group with people you don't know, there is a possibilty that you will be reported. (why someone offended by profainity would not be using the filter I can't say, but they're out there). Since it is against the rules, a ban could result from complaints.

I can't see why this would be a problem unless you get into really graphic or gory details. Plenty of in-game content deal with these issues.


Again, just don't get too graphic when in public chat. I don't think you're required to avoid the topic entirely, but keep it clean if you don't know who all may be listening.

Ala Chun Li?

Maybe Capcom threatened to sue?

You forgot the Resistance.

I did. I admit I was a bit skeptical about Going Rogue bringing the population back up to big numbers. And then I logged in yesterday and saw that the load level for every single zone was either yellow or red. I have NEVER seen that before. And when I logged in, even the low pop servers had crowds of players everywhere. So much for DOOM, eh?

Fortunately, I have characters across many servers, so I had no problem finding one with no wait time. This was something I was told I should do back when I started. Now, finally, that advice really makes sense.

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The proceeding chart on that page shows that the LGTF is indeed a signature task force, level range 45-50. Shouldn't that mean then that the entire arc would spawn enemies at level 50? Sounds like it's a bug if only Hamidon was level 50.

Or did they change this and the wiki is out of date? Like I said, I haven't done a task force in a while.

At this point you might be better served directing your questions regarding the EULA wording directly to NCsoft. Some of us have suggested possible reasons why certain provisions are in there, but no one in the Player Help section can give the definitive answers you seek. We're not lawyers and we didn't write the EULA.

I think it's less an issue over whether or not they "care" if you own it as it a matter of whether or not they're actually going to take the time to verify if you are the actual copyright holder. I can't imagine why it would be worth their time to do so.

I've always assumed that the purpose of that wording was so that if they make a promotion video or demo or something that includes images of actual players playing their own characters, they don't have to go and get permission from each individual person to do it. Makes sense to me.

While it can be a challenge to come up with a truly unique idea, creative people are managing to pull it off everyday--or at least create material that doesn't infringe on existing copyrights. In the year and a half that I've been playing CoH, I've created 50+ heroes and villains, simply because I keep thinking up new ideas for characters. If I were to start publishing my own material, I have no doubt I could come up with another 50+ before long.

No, but Bob Kane would get his character gernericized in about 5 minutes, just like anyone else to tries to create and play Batman. And he wouldn't be able to name his character Batman, as it is blocked.

NCsoft doesn't have some sinister agenda to steal other people's copyrights. They simply don't want you to use any previously copyrighted material, period.

You compared it to a hypothetical situation involving a reward being taken away (in fact, the OP made the same exact comparison), which I think is unfair because that is a significantly different situation.

I think most of us agree that there is no good reason for the cape and aura mission to be linked.

This comparison would be more apt if adding the new cape mission took capes away from players who earned them with the old mission. But they didn't. Is it annoying that players now have to redo the cape mission to get the aura mission? Sure. I think it definitely should be optional. But no earned rewards were actually taken away.

This is exactly the reasoning behind why I usually save the boss for last.

However, for a team, rule#1 isn't take down bosses last or take down bosses first. It's that everyone needs to be on the same page. It sounds like the problem in the example the OP gave was that the squishies were targeting the bosses (and risking drawing aggro) while the tank and scrapper were targeting minions. If everyone had been going after the same targets, I think it would have worked fine either way.

Come off it. How would a squirrel learn to ride a bike in the first place?

Jack in Irons