St_Angelius

Ah, but I have many other toons that use chest details, such as bandoliers, the cyborg peices, roman and samurai peices etc, that get replaced by the SG logo fully, rather than this where only part of the geometry is removed and the SG logo (in this case a lightning bolt) is placed on.

Ah, but four colours for whole character total or 2 colours per costume piece. I'll stick with 2 colours thanks.

Well, I too was in open beta and at launch, only paid for 1 month and saw plenty. Never bothered me much as was never the target, but saw it.

Yes, we'll have to disagree about the character creator. It did have so much potential, but all the big bulky oversized stuff was just ugly. The power customisation, the stance selector and more control over scaling was great. I didn't even have an issue with the cel shading, It was more that every single toon looked butt ugly.

That other game had so many of it's own issues, and non-unique names were one of them. In my breif tenure there I saw so much greaifing over names. There were the release day nerfs to everything, the disjointed gameplay, the mechanics that discouraged teaming, the absolutely awful character creator. About the only thing I saw over there that I would have liked to have seen there, yet doubt ever will, was the Nemesis system.

Ah, but the motorhead song is about the Ted Hughes book, that was turned into the animated movie The Iron Giant, which, for trademark conflicts didn't use the original name of the book.

I don't see why someone else giving their character a silly name has any effect on you. No-one is suggesting you use a silly name, and them doing it doesn't lower your pool of names. You aren't unique in having well writen back stories for each and every character. But having a backstory doesn't marry you to that characters super hero name. Especially in a world where ALL super heros are registered as per the games lore. Just coz your thick-as-bricks only english speaking fire brute came up with the, in his mind, perfect name for himself does not mean that when he registered at the FBSA and gave over the name he wanted to be know by the desk cleark didn't look over her glasses contemtivly and say "sorry dear, that name is taken." Also, a thick-as-bricks brute is unlikely to have a great name that would look good on the front of a comic book in the first place. There could also be a world of difference between what the hero wants to call himself and what the world at large want to call him.

I already gave an example of how I came up with a name for a concept for a character yet when it came to creating in game found, unsuprisingly, that it, and all permutations of it (Flash Fire, Flash-Fire, Flashfire) was taken. A hand full of back up names were taken too, or maybe clashed with a power name (if that is posible) so blazing bolt, for example, was also out. It took me no fewer than 5 minutes to come up with The Blistering Blaze. I name that is not only much better, but also wouldn't look out of place on the front of a comic book.

I have another character where his first choice of names slotted nicely in to his back story. Thus Shock Tactic, was formally the low rent wannabe super Villian Lightning Rod, at least till he crossed The Family and his wife and child paid the price. Other names, for serious heros I have, that you'll no-doubt hate, are

Psi Fire (Appearing in a comic near you soon (tm) ),
Mistique Blade,
Microwave Girl,
Clockwork Kitten, and her praetorian 'twin', Clockwork Kitty,
Kid Ego,
Time Mind (Brought to CoH from an old Marvel RPG campaign I played years ago),
Justin Tyme, (same marvel rpg campaign),
Lolita Lethal and her genetic clone sister Lina Lethal (escaped crey experiments)
St Angelius aka, The Black Angel (First choice name, so went with real name for display name),
Tess Trueshot,
Shadow Smite,
Miss Victory,
Dr Frost,
Cold Chamber,
Perfect Pitch,
Dread Visage,
Trapdoor Spider,
Senior Diablos,
Speedo Sound (former champion Swimmer turned speeder that can't give up his former glory).

Were all of those first choice name, well, for the most part, yes, but not all of them. Could most of them appear in a lagitimate comic book? Hell yes! Even My hero A Cold Spell, a technomance cryo sealed in armour of his own spellcrafting, could. Just because the character had a sense of humour with his own name doesn't make him any less of a lagitimate type hero. Infact, IC wise, he finds all the silly (read as serious) names most of the heroes of Paragon go around calling themselves to be rather childish.

But basicly, as I tried to demonstrate, first choice name doesn't have to mean BEST. I came up with a better name than anything on my short list of names and ended up with The Blistering Blaze, which is far more suitable. I cannot think of any example of a back story where only one name will fit, other than a long established one being ported over, as was demonstrated with the Shepard and Freelance sory a few pages back. I did the same with 2 of my own characters when DP and Time were released and got both. if the names weren't availible, I wouldn't have brought them an and created new stories for new characters with new names instead. I work out my characters backstory before I create them too, but I almost never lock them down to a single posible name, always have a stable of posible names and know which ones I would prefer to have. If that doesn't work, I keep trying, there WILL be something out there that fits without getting silly or lazy.

Hehehehe, love it. Can imagine the NPC dialogue even now. Sometime get amusing dialogue with one of my toons. "Did you Hear? Lord Recluse was defeated by A Cold Spell"


on an unrelated note, sorry for multi posting, but was replying as I was catching up and assumed there would be other posts between mine.

This was very much a problem in that other super heroic MMO which had global@character naming system, yet another reason I didn't stick around long.

On a related note, albeit 8 pages late, but then, I only just found this thread, I recently shocked myself picking up a name for a new Fire/Kin corr to run as part of a due with my partners tank a week ago. After failing and any permutation of the (unimaginitive I know) Flash Fire, I did a little bit of thesaursing and decided to try a name I thought would be easily taken.

But to my suprise I managed to procure myself the name of "(The) Blistering Blaze". Nice double meaning on the first part of the name, and fit the concept even better than any version ofthe original, which admitedly was just a place holder name while working on the concept/costume.

Ah, but then Arcana was replying to B_L_Angels who said she solos carnies at +4X8 on a blaster, Arcana was pointing out how much trouble she had on a SR scrapper on the same difficulty, and that if a sturdier AT with inbuillt mez protection had trouble it was a clever feat to do so with a blaster.

Exactly the point I have been trying to make.

I have no problem with people that get good at games, I have got very good at quite a few games. So no, my world has no problem at all with people who are good at games.

And how do I describe a situation where the average player looses value.

CoX is an MMO, MMO's make money from having more players. Players that find little challenge in a game are the minority. If the devs balenced a game around only the hard core players that have mastered it and feel everything is 'easy mode' that will drive away the new players because the game will be so inhospitable to new players. players that run out of challenge will leave because the game lacks enjoyment any more so the amount of people giving money to keep the game running goes down. the game then dies because it is now not making money.

simply put, the devs have in the past, and by all indications, will continue to balence the game around the majority of the player base, not those who can solo anything at the highest level of difficulty. To do so would be financial suicide.

I guess you STILL don't get it. You, who by your own words, play blasters because they are the only AT to give you a challenge at +4X8. You are not who the Devs balence the game for. As has already been said, if soloing at +4X8 is not a challenge for you than perhaps this game isn't for your because your skill level is just too high rather than most everyone elses (Apart from a small minority) skill level is too low because they cannot solo anything at +4X8.

You hated that tankers got bruising on their weakest attack, well guess what, people that play and enjoy tanks loved it. You hated the stalker changes, well, those who love stalkers loved it. You not wanting changes because they will take away what you percieve to be your last bastion of challenge in this game is going to hold less sway with the Dev's the the many Average player that the Devs balence for.

Not at all, where as you keep insisting that nothing be changed because playing blasters is the only challenge left for you at +4X8. You have mastered chess so you demand that Queens move like Pawns.

they aren't far off saying it though.

So, I have to be elected to know, from the devs own comments, that the game is balenced arund SO's and the "average" player. People soloing at +4X8 on All AT's, and finding most of them "face roll easy mode" are not the average player. sorry to burst your bubble there.

No, you are not the first person to have said that, you are also no the first person to have been told that they are far from the base line of the player base that the game is balenced around.

Personally, I DO enjoy playing my blasters, that doesn't not preclude me from seeing how they under perform compared to the other AT's I play less often. But then, I enjoyed playing Stalkers before their recent buff too. And guess what? after they buff, I still enjoyed them. and it opened up MANY more choices for how I wanted to play with them, rather than having to use hit and run tactics, or stealth straight to the boss and ignore all theother bags of xp along the way. Changes and buffs don't mean killing off how you wish to play. If a blasters snipe gets buffed, it does not mean you have to take it. and it doesn't mean you are "Cheating" your team of its benefit if you do.

First, I Identify as She, and second, I have more than you who are only saying you don't want changes so as to not spoil your enjoyment.

Which makes Corrs Blasters with Buffs

Try it, look at the posers in common between a dark/dark blasty and a dark/dark corr

But in all seriousness, there are lots of corss overs between many AT's.

Personally, I cannot point you to the exact post, but I am sure someone else can, Like Acanaville, who I have seen quote that very peice several times. And believe me, I'll trust her knowledge over things of this nature far more than anyone elses beyond the devs.

Well, you could say Doms are part blaster - part controller. Which is basicly how I view them.

Personally I see Corrs as the closest kin to a blaster, as they are part blaster part fender, and fenders themselves are part blaster.

Sorry to speak for you PRAF, but he gets that from the fact that Doms CAN and DO have both Good Melee and Good Ranges attack chains, so if they were designed not to but have, then they are broken!

Rather simple really


Not name calling, just observation. And yes, blasters are the 3rd most popular at L50, but they are THE most popular a L20, does that not tell you anything? blasters, by the dev's own datamining, from the same scource as your figures are the most abandoned or deleted AT's.

Just because you can solo a blaster at +4X8 doesn't mean that even 80% of the rest of the player base can. Hell, most of the player base cannot solo ANYTHING on +4X8. You asking for blasters to be left as they are JUST so you, and the other uber players CAN solo at that level and still have a challenge IS selfish as it disreguards the rest of the player base that might want to play blasters.