Tiny Bolt

I wouldn't mind helping out on one raid. But it'd pretty much be a one shot deal for me...the set up time is just something I can't do often, if ever, due to real life constraints. And I agree, Infinity for the most part is decent players, it's really the lazy factor.

But I never participated in old Hami...my main was a stormy and I didn't feel like sitting on my hands for hours to do the one thing I was allowed to do, which, if I remember correctly, either O2 Boost someone until my eyes bled or hit Hami once for the damage credit.

But I'll give the new raid a shot if you decide to try it again on Infinity, if you can drum up enough interest. I'm easy enough to train if it involves a) corruptors/defenders/controllers or b) ranged stuff and c) it's on a day I can attend.

The '6 years old' argument holds no water considering a couple easy facts. First of all...I hear more about UO than I do CoX when reading about gaming things. It's still active from 1997. At this point, they are in a holding pattern when it comes to advertising for new players, etc, but they're still active. I hear about EVE all the time as well, and it came out in 2003. Those are two examples. Ten bucks I'd find more if I did more then just think of things off the top of my head. I think CoX is shooting itself in the foot just pretending that games don't have lifespans past a couple years.

Seriously, I have hardcore gamer friends who would have never heard of CoX if they hadn't known I played some silly little game no one has ever heard of. When they ask what games I'm playing, if I include CoX their response without fail is "Wait, that's still around? REALLY?" Since I've been playing since the release year, I've heard this a lot. I'm sick of it and find it ridiculous they still haven't heard of it other than from me.

I just don't comprehend what in the world the marketing department is doing with their resources. The only ad campaign I have seen was a couple splash pages in some comic books I picked up a couple years ago.

Does the marketing department really think that's all the advertisement the game needs? Clearance sales and a couple comics and a couple web ads?

Though I am wondering how much is marketing fail and how much is advertising fail...or at the two departments merged at NCSoft? As in, the marketing department also handles ads and hyping up the game, rather than outsourcing to their ad buddies.

To the whole GR no info thing: I took a break recently for 3+ months from the game. The only info I had to catch up on when I got back was 'Ultra Mode'. Which I only found out about because my fiance peeked at the forums and found HeroCon reveal info. My interest has actually been rapidly decreasing in GR. I'm sure it'll be cool when it comes out, and my fiance and I will probably buy one copy when it hits, but we're debating wasting our money past that, because at this point we're getting it just for pistols, which are cool, but not worth money we could be spending elsewhere.

I'm not saying that they need to tell me every single thing that is included in GR, but tidbits occasionally would be nice.

I'm guessing because this time there are 'real' prizes we won't get the plethora of categories we normally do in these things...that being said, my question is, is the self-selected committee the one who is going to decide both the categories and nominees, or just the categories, ask for nominees, and then vote from there?

It's just hard to tell from the first (or following posts) the exact layout of the contest-y type thing. Jiamabob.

Also, if you need a memo writer, I volunteer. I'm all about the useless jobs.

Like Eran, I'm late to the party, but...

Thanks ya'll. May your losses be few, friends be many, and enemies stay far away from your loved ones.

Hey guys--

Sorry for dropping off the map. Life was busy, yadda yadda, you all know the song and dance. That being said, I might try to make it this week if ya'll will have a slot open on a strike force team. Mebbeh.

Awww. Bye, bye Slax.

*leaves out a plate of d00mcookies*

Captain Hammer is serious!

...about himself.

Being awesome.

With his hammer.

...that is not his fists.

As others have said, this is a heavily instanced game. When using /search (or /sea if you're feeling lazy...), enter close to your level range and hit 'search' button. This will show more than just people in your immediate area. Greys are on a team, whites are not. There's more colors, but those are the two basics. Search also shows you their location...it helps to see just how many people are in missions. There's a strong rumor persisting that Castle let it drop that sub numbers are really much healthier than various powers expected (I think over 100k at least).

And to add to the ghost town impersonation, there are people who /hide from search functions, so you won't see them in game unless they send you a tell or you're standing next to them. And Infinity is a server with a slight soloing bent, compared to, say, Virtue. We team plenty, just not as much as you'd expect with a relatively large server population.

That being said, feel free to global friend me if you want to team, or chat in game, or have questions about the game. @Tiny Bolt and @Tinier Bolt.

Global channels are also helpful--it's where quite a few people find teams. I've heard rumors of finding teams on channels like Infinity Hamidon, but I'm not personally in that channel, so I don't know. AE Anonymous' chatter can be really frakkin annoying, but it is a highly useful channel to find a team in...but you probably want to put it in a seperate tab so you aren't swamped with chatter from it. If you want badge missions and tfs, Infinity Badges and Inf Badge Seeker are great.

Have I ever mentioned I <3 you all?

I won't make it tonight, but have fun y'all!

I'll run the start of everything during the week so I'm up to date next week.

AE Anon kinda goes in waves if it's active redside. I play mostly redside if given the chance, and I do see quite a few people online. I...really don't know what to say. I either solo, play with friends, get an invite to a team, or start one myself. I guess you can always try and prod me in game, though that has varied success, seeing as quite a few times I'm just poking in on my way to something else.

But you can try! Global is same as forum handle, and secondary account is @Tinier Bolt.

Honestly as a 'fun' movie, a zombie apocalypse but with super powered beings would be fun, and one I may actually go see.

For a serious movie, I'm with the 'new hero' camp. It would be interesting to see the structure of CoH from a new hero's perspective. And we come in contact with the Freedom Phalanx quite a bit, but as the game stands now...we do more than they do for everyday crime fighting. It makes more sense to have a new hero who is actually hitting the streets everyday. It'd be an Everyman play, but with super heroes.

If we went with Epic Film, I'd go with Hero 1's story. It gets me in the gut everytime. Hell, don't make it a double feature, and have him die halfway through, then have a group of heroes run the LGTF for the second half of the movie, so for the climatic scene you can Hero 1 being taken down for his own good. Tear jerker, semi-twist, traditional epic tale, it'd be a great story to consolidate into 3 hours or less, and you can include the blankity-blank Freedom Phalanx without getting bogged down in 'here is generic epic hero team that can beat anything together. Hurrah.' You have many alien fights, lots of fun effects, and can have both the main heroes (first half during the set up for sacrifice of Omega Team) and then newcomers (second half--perhaps the idea of new heroes coming to pick up the mantle of the big dogs).

Hey, Slax, I know you're mostly in Aion and RL, flying around and doing things like chores...

...why don't I have an official dUmb title? Or is that only a first/second gen dUmb thingy?

Hmmm?