mousedroid

You think Paragon City is safe??? Perhaps you missed the thrice hourly muggings on every other street corner, the rampaging giant-ish monsters, or the forces invading from half a dozen different dimensions and/or parallel worlds? Not to mention the drivers who swerve randomly from lane to lane as they drive down the street.

Sure there are a lot of superheroes there, but even they get beat up so often that they need a system that automatically teleports them to the hospital.

No, I think they did Rhode Island a favor by flat out ignoring the dangers of living in Paragon City.

Ain't that the truth. I logged on at 6 AM ET this morning to get some playtime in before work. Around 6:30 AM ET a red message popped up saying the servers were going down in 30 minutes.

I thought to myself, "I thought they said 5 AM PT, not 4 AM PT."

Another message popped up at 6:35 announcing 25 minutes to server shut-down.

At 6:50 a third message popped up announcing 10 minutes to server shut down.

"Oh well, I should at least be able to get one more mission in," I figured. Unfortunately, my next mission was the Defeat 80 Clockwork mission from Praetorian Penny Yin and I could tell I wasn't going to finish it in the time I had left.

Then, at 6:55 AM ET, a fourth red message popped up saying, "Please disregard all previous messages. Server maintenance will begin in 1 hour and 5 minutes."

I lol'ed, finished beating down the Clockwork at 7:02 AM ET, and logged off to get ready for work.

It was fun to imagine one of the higher-ups at Paragon Studios at home just starting a TF when the 10 minute message popped up and then making a quick call to the office to say, "5 AM! We said 5 AM, not 4 AM!"

First MTV stopped showing videos, then the History Channel stopped showing programs about history and now this. Just goes to show that Corporate American can ruin just about anything.

I agree with him, in a way. I'm ok with comic book characters like the little girl from Runways who are super strong despite not looking the part, but Wonder Woman is an Amazon, and that actress does not look the part of an Amazon.

I think it's a legitimate question. I've been to a lot of message boards, and almost all of them have an "Off-Topic" forum.

If you go to a sports bar do you limit your topics of conversation to sports and alcoholic beverages? If you go to church/temple/mosque do you limit your discussions to only your specific religion? When you take a break at work, do you only talk about the Stevens contract or whatever it is your company is working on at the time?

I'm not sure what the harm would be in having a section where people could discuss their favorite bands, sports teams, cuisine, etc. Granted, an O-T forum can be a pain to moderate since topics like religion and politics are inevitably brought up, and they always cause arguements. And that's probably why we don't have one moreso than just, "If it ain't CoX related, take it elsewhere."

Another thought - April 18 is the end date for the 7 Years of Super Rewards promo, so maybe they are going to start a week-long Anniversary celebration on the 19th?

Either way, hopefully they aren't going to stop doing WSTs when I20 drops. That would kinda screw people who have characters in the 40s that they want to take Incarnate, not to mention those who'd like the badges but don't have the time or inclination to run six or seven identical S/TFs every week.

Quarter-centry-old traditions? That's like... 1986. OMG! Was CoH inspired by Marvel's New Universe???

Yeah, but doing Sister Psyche every four weeks is going to get old quick too.

Just ask Manticore.

I feel your pain. I have managed to snag all of the costume codes they've made so far and it was for a character whose concept was that he could steal the bodies of others.

One of the ideas I had was to use Stealth to simulate his ability to walk through a group of villains undetected if he was disguised as one of them. No such luck. Also, since he was a controller, he got mezzed and/or stunned a lot and that always turned the power off too.

So I would vote for both the ability to use Stealth powers with the costumes toggled, and for not toggling the powers off when you get stunned or mezzed. The costumes give no inherent advantage, so there is no issue of balance that would preclude these changes.

So you were trolling? Isn't that against forum rules?

Because it doesn't hurt anything?

I seem to have missed these "best efforts." What was done? Were threats made? Were people banned? Were any animals harmed in the making of these efforts?

Nah. You put it on a timer and if it gets ignored after 10-15 minutes you either have the people get out with life rafts/personal floatation devices, or you have someone else come to rescue them - harbor patrol, or a signature hero.

Emphasis mine.

The above quote is a good reason to occasionally have costume contests with smaller prizes IMO. While I would love to win 250-million inf or more in a cc, I know it's just not going to happen when the top costume designers are there.

I still may enter such a contest if there are a slew of lower prizes, but if it's just like 250-million for first, 100-million for second and 50-million for third, I'll probably skip it. I may think I have some pretty good costumes, but I don't have anything that can take top prize in a contest like that.