Since March 2002 I've been watching this website at City Of Heroes .

Basically its an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) based around super-heroes.

As a long time Legionnaires fan, this is like a dream come true for me. I designed my character, his powers, his look, his name, his background, even his battlecry and I get to Role-Play as a Legionnaire!

If anyone else is a member or if anyone wants to join, drop me a line or find me on the "Freedom" server under the name ION Prime

This looks like it could be lots of fun, particularly if we put together an LMBP team. Just think Cobalt Blue, GreyBird, Speelbinder, Fat Cramer, IronRat, (and little ol' Varalent) etc as a real team battling evil in the City of Heroes!!!!

Would have been fun if it didn't cost so much per month I can't imagine many of us here willing to subscribe at $30/month

My hubby and I got to do the last week of the beta, though I didn't get to do anything until the final night. So there I am, fresh off the character generator, and I'm fighting an alien invasion. I'm also dying every 10 seconds or so.

But it was fun, so we're going to give it a try. I don't remember which server we saved my character, Chillflare, on, though I imagine I'll be able to create him on the Freedom server, too. We were hopping on to each one at the last minute since you only got to save one character each.

I just don't game enough to spend $30 a month on it. It does sound like fun though.

erm....its $14.99 a month?

It is $14.99 a month and you get one free month when you buy the software. Plus, if you purchase the software through Amazon and buy a 2 month subscription card, you get 50% off the card. So you can play for 3 months for 15 bucks (+ the price of the software). There is a glitch not allowing the certificate for the 50% off to work right now but as soon as Amazon gets it worked out I just may buy the game and try it out for 3 months.

If only it came for Mac...

I gotta say Ive been playing it non-stop since the 3 day head start before the Launch day and its amazingly addictive.

We had an alien invasion of Rikti last week, reminded me of the blight for some reason, but it was so much fun whacking these guys

Awe, I kinda want to play but that's a high monthly fee. I already have Netflix that I don't take advantage - having to pay more moolah to save the world on a monthly basis?!? gah!

It looks fantastic, but my system is nowhere near strong enough to handle online roleplaying. Never mind that I really don't have the time to get the most out of the investment.

So far I've just set up shop on Virtue and Victory. I forgot to double check this thread before I started getting into it. My main character's name is Chillflare (ice and fire powers -- Freezerburn was taken in "Wild Guard" ), but I think I'll play with the character generator some more this weekend. It's fun!

I spent a good chunk of time on their website looking at the sample characters and some of the listed powers and, yes, it looks like it's fairly well thought out. Especially costume design.

*sigh*

I'd love to join Varalent et al., but I don't think Windows 98 and a mere* 366 MHz Celeron processor can handle it, and I don't think my wallet can handle anywhere near $30 a month.

It's entirely intriguing, though. I would imagine that the virtual venue is designed to bring in many people who are not normal RPG fanatics. (I would qualify on that score.) It's being marketed all over the place. Not having to imagine or HeroMachine an outfit is also a plus.
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* I started out on a CP/M box with an 8 MHz processor -- yes, 8 -- and 64 KB of memory, two 160KB floppy drives, and no hard drives, so yes, you whippersnappers, the need for that "mere" is highly amusing to me

Consider me hooked. Been playing since I loaded it yesterday. Just hit the 7th level. And I'm on the Triumph server if any of you want to join up. I'll post a pic below of my character. But I have to share a story about his name.

I had decided for my first to go with a Lightning Lad like character but more dark in appearance. His name was already set, based on an RPG Garth I play in a Smallville (TV) setting. Gar Randall. So when it came time to figure out a hero name I couldn't think of a one.

Then I remembered that Odin had a staff or something that was the embodiment of lightning. So I looked it up and it was called Gungnir. Cool and unusual. Then I spotted something at the end of the entry in Wickpedia that made me laugh. The rune name for Gungnir is Gar. Not making this up. I figured it was fate.

Anyway, here's my first, and so far only, hero:

Oh, and he has a robotic right arm. Lost in his accident that granted him his power.

Does this RPG software generate your character's look from his or her attributes, powers, decoration, etc., in a manner similar to HeroMachine? Or did you work the look up elsewhere?

Sigh... It's a dream come true, but I certainly won't be able to afford it anytime in the near future.

Part of the design is to actually create your character from a standard mesh. Much like HeroMachine but more complex. I wouldn't hesitate to say that there are infinite combinations. Maybe when I have more time and am ready to create a second character I'll do screen captures of each step.

I decided to bite the bullet. The cost for one person is $14.99 a month with discounts if you buy either 2, 6 or 12 month memberships. I decided to plunk down $77 for 6 months to try it out. You can also buy 2 month Subscription Cards through a number of retailers, most notably Amazon and Game Stop, for $29.99.

okay LL but my question is can you import other skins from an outside source like you could with Freedom Force ?

My answer would be no since this is an on-line game, much like Everquest. To my knowledge Freedom Force was something you played without having to be on-line to do it.

Although with all the combinations available you could probably recreate anything you wanted with time and patience. I saw someone running around yesterday in what looked like the Earth 2 version of the Boy Wonder's costume, including the R on his chest. It must have taken the player some time in recreating it.

Until I can get home and start up a new character, here is a quick peek at the character creation screen, courtesy of GameSpy :



Each heading (Head, Upper Body, Lower Body) has a drop down that lets you change different aspects. In the image above the lower body is set to tight (as opposed to baggy, leather, armor, etc). You then can pick (for most but not all) another subset. Here you see Pants then another subset listed as Tights 1 (I don't remember how many categories there are) and an additional choice of Flames. Each of these options can be colorized to your choice or you can chose the option to copy the color look across the entire body (including hair).

You could literally spend days just going through the different options.

GameSpy has more screen shots that you can see here .

If there really is enough interest I'll try to do an option by option creation of my next hero. One based on a character I created who is the son of Gar Logan and Terra Markov. Don't know how his power will transfer to the game yet but I'm sure it'll be fun figuring out.

Scott, I'm really tempted to join you. Does the 14.99 get you unlimited heroes or is it an additional fee for each one you create? Also, what are the minimum requirements (ram, etc) that you think you should have on your computer for this to play well. Don't know if I should join now or wait until later this year, when I plan to upgrade to a new computer.

Vee, you can create up to 8 characters on each server and there are 11 servers. I would think 88 characters would be enough for anyone. The catch, though, is that each character can only be played on the server it was created on. There is no way, as of right now, to copy the character and all of its attributes and levels to a different server. Hence the need to coordinate with on-line friends prior to chosing a server to build a character on. For the record, I'm on Triumph.

As for the requirements here they are, straight off the box, both minimum and recommended:

Minimum System Requirements:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP * Intel Pentium III 800 MHZ or AMD Athlon 800 MHZ * 256 MB RAM * 4X CD-ROM Drive * 2 GB available HDD space * GeForce 2 series or ATI Radeon 8500 series video card * 16-bit sound card * 56K modem * Direct X 9.0 (included on disc) * keyboard and mouse

Recommended System Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP * Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1700 * 512 MB RAM * 16X CD-ROM Drive * 2 GB Available HDD space * GeForce FX 5600 or ATI Radeon 9600 series video card * 16-bit sound card * broadband internet connection * keyboard and mouse with scroll wheel

A valid credit card or time card is also required.

Hope this helps.

I'm so stuck on this game. My hubby likes it too. And he's happy I like it so much because that meant he got to upgrade his PC so he could give me his old one so I'd be able to play, since it's not on Mac. (He was doing a gradual upgrade anyway but was glad to speed things up a bit.)

I'll have to get screen grabs of my characters to post. I've got two so far.

I saw someone named Kid Flash who looked a whole lot like Kid Flash. I've heard the creators will delete any such characters, though, to avoid copyright trouble. It think it's just copyrighted names they're checking, though.

I think the thing now is to try and get their attention, without breaking copyright laws, so you can get featured in their monthly comic. I don't know when it will start up but all subscribed members will receive the comic when it starts. And they are supposed to feature some of the denizens that were created by us.

I haven't seen Kid Flash but I do think Robin was calling himself Robin. I don't plan on creating any copyrighted characters but I have noticed others. I've seen the Tick, calling himself The Tick, and Witchblade. I think, though, for the most part everyone is trying to come up with something original.

Seymour, do you and the hubby each have a copy of the game? Caroline wants to play, although I'm not sure our desktop is up to speed for it, and I'm wondering if we can use the same copy or if she needs her own. Since you have to register when you start I'm thinking two copies are required.

you could play on line with others too via a local LAN party or through Gamespy besides playing the game solo.

I never got that far into the game. I did pick it up because of its comicbook based theme but it just didn't capture me the way CoH has.

if you dont want to play at the same time you can use the one copy. Just set up seperate characters for yourselves.

I love the game! I hang out on Justice, Victory, and (as of this afternoon) Virtue.

My characters so far:

Justice: Goddess Urd (Illusion Control/Kinetics)

Victory: Electricia (Um, the two Electric Blaster power sets)

Virtue: J-Frost (Ice Blast/Ice Manipulation)

What Comic Addict Lad said.

I think he just loaded it on both our machines, and we share an account. But we can't play at the same time. (He can, however, play other games at the same time.)

CoH is very very addictive. Once you get out of the mindset of levelling, and you start enjoying missions, chatting to fellow heroes and generally whacking people about its an incredible amount of fun

Having discovered that my museum exhibit (computer) isn't up to snuff by comparing it's virtues to the minimum requirements posted by Scot (Thanks Scott!), I've realized that I absolutely must go out and immediately upgrade to a new computer.

It's great when you find a bunch of friends on-line too and just team up to help with each others missions. That's what I wound up doing last night. Been playing with a friend from Illinois since I started but then two other friends of ours showed up, one stationed in Germany and the other in Hawaii and we had a blast.

I'm still really weak on the extra commands and chatting. And still focusing on the leveling because I want to hit the magic level (10) so we can form a real team.

Vee, if you can afford it, I really think its worth it. Believe me I wouldn't say that about any game. I'm someone whose computer is mostly used for programming and storage (you wouldn't believe how many comic books I now have saved electronically). I'm not a gamer at all but this one is just too fun.

Lightning Lad Said: "I'm someone whose computer is mostly used for programming and storage (you wouldn't believe how many comic books I now have saved electronically)."

Which reminds me, how are those Legion discs coming along?

wow Legion discs.....I'm in, who do I have to shurg to get a copy?

I've actually got all series including the current run up to the current issue all saved. The special one-shots and such is an on-going thing that I don't think I'll ever get completed. I just added the Amazing World of DC Comics #9 to the collection. But as it stands to get everything, series-wise, from Adv. #247 to The Legion #32 takes 8 GB. That's gigabyte, not megabyte. So the best way is to burn a couple of data-DVD's. Otherwise it takes almost 13 CD-R's to hold it all.

This is my plan. Anyone going to the San Diego con this year can request copies from me via e-mail and I'll bring the discs. Any other requests, for those not attending, please also send me an e-mail so we don't get the board in trouble with TPTB. They probably frown on this new electronic format of comic trading.

I'm seriously contemplating (No you're not, I've decided for you already!) the prospect of upgrading my computer. I've actually found myself checking out various computer sites online to see what's available.(Of course you have. I told you we were getting one!) Guess I'll go out looking this weekend if I have a chance. (Unless I get too antsy and make you buy one before then.)

Now I have to decide whether to be practical and get something sufficient to accomplish the minimum that I want it to do...and maybe a little more Yeah right! or go all out and get the top of the line model with all the bells and whistles, (Ding! ding! ding! We have a winner!) knowing full well that as soon as I get it home it will be antiquated.

So todays question is: If you were going out to buy a new computer what would you say it really MUST have so it's not a waste of money? (Please, please, please tell him he has to get the hot little gaming machine I saw at the Dell site! Man it had EVERYTHING! Please!) As you can tell, I'm of two minds on this.

Depends on how much control that other guy has over you.

Personally I've found the pre-made machines by HP to be good, long lasting computers. If you are going to be doing a lot of gaming then concentrate on one that has higher end components for the video card and memory. I've never owned a Dell but if I were going for a strictly gaming machine and didn't mind spending the extra money, this is who I would get my machine from.

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! *Runs for cover*

(Now that's cool! Love the Conspiracy Blue version of the Level 51 Performance model! But, judging from his reaction at the moment, I'm not sure if I have THAT much influence & control.)

Alienware does totally rule the Gaming systems market...mine has been very good to me

Now I know theres alot of Gay Legion fans, but theres a couple of gay supergroups in CoH too.

Might be cool for meeting people, hanging out etc?

Im in a cool little SG at the moment called Hardcore Heroes - yeah I know sounds like a convention for ex porn star studs LOL

With the Legion 'ending', now is your chance to work out that frustration. Grab a copy of CoH and play along with us. Just imagine your favorite Legion editor when you WACK-er a few bad guys.

I swear, the game is addictive. Caroline is already calling it herocrack.

BTW, I even started a Live Journal for my character. Not much updated yet but I'll be adding to it as I play. You'll find his journal here .

Weeeeelllllll! I broke down and got the new computer yesterday (the weekend turned out to be very hectic...which allowed me a small moral victory over that OTHER guy! )

Ordered the game from Amazon. It should arrive tomorrow (which proves HE has more control than I'm willing to admit. While I delayed the computer purchase by a day, HE made me fork over extra cash for one day shipping! )

So I guess I'll see you in Paragon City later this week!

Cool Vee! You'll have to let me know when you are on-line. I try to limit my times to the weekend but sneak in an hour or two at night as well.

Got the game but didn't get home early enough from a meeting last night to deal with installing etc. I may try to do so today when I get home. Can't wait to try it out!

Cool. I didn't get logged in last night as I spent the whole night fighting to fix Caroline's machine so she could play. I'm off tomorrow so I may spend some time on line tonight.

Hope you have fun with it Vee. It's a blast!

We should start a Legion World super group of characters inspired by Legionnaires (careful not to break their copyright rules, of course). Gungir can be our founder if he isn't already in a group (or we can all start fresh on one of the servers).

At the very least, look for me on Virtue Saturday afternoon -- Chillflare or Dark Iris. Because of my show, I won't have time to play til then.

Gun is about 11th level now and getting ready to form a team with some friends from my e-mail RPG's. But if we get others on Virtue (I'm only on Triumph right now), I could recreate him and start over.

Chillflare and Dark Iris are parts of teams already.

Anyone got a spare 10th level who can start a group (that's the minimum to start a group, but you can be any level to join) on any of the servers? It doesn't have to be a Legion-inspired character, just one who can register the name Legion World so the rest of us could join. It would probably be really hard to coordinate, but it would be fun if we could level up together.

Hmm. Kaos and I hadn't come up with a group name yet. We want to register The Adventurers since that's our group in the game but the characters we started out with who are 10th level are part of that group. They're original for CoH. I'll run the name by him and see if he'd mind.

Decided to try a Controller today, and when I saw mind control as one of the primary powers, I had to do an homage to our favorite telepath. Here's Saturn Lady, an amalgam of costumes and a tweak on her look based on what the costume creator has available.



After I joined a team to help level her up a bit, one of the guys said I was hot. I returned the compliment. How much of an assumption is there in these games that the gender of the character and player are the same? Was I obligated by some gamer code to tell him I'm a guy? Then he had to leave, and I just stayed paired with another female character. We teamed really well, and I got the impression she might be a woman in the real world. Should I have said something?

Just curious. This MMPOG stuff is all new to me.

Hey SS,

I had a similar conundrum the other day as I was making an electric/electric blaster. Something else else along the lines of Spark/Lightning Lass (long have I had a soft spot, or not so soft spot for Ayla Ranzz)

And I thought...as a married 31 year old man, should I be playing the role of a young teenage hot chick?

And as I thought, I decided hell yeah!! If I have to look at my characters ass all day as they run around, I'd rather see a cute female butt, and if someone guy wants to try and hit on my for cyber....he's gonna get a shock and cursed out

Look me up on Freedom, Ion Prime or Ion Lass or Homeland

I created a Legion-Based Character for Virtue thi afternoon...

His name is Gravity Lad (I wanted Gravitas or Gravis, but they were taken already, and besides I eventually wound up with something far more Legion-like), and surprise, surprise, he has Gravity powers...and force fields.

Not real clear on the 31st century Green Lantern lore, but Gravity Lad (Hey, his initials are GL too, I didn't even plan that, SWEET!!!) is an Oan. Apparently the giant Battery sprung a leak and irradiated the populace of the planet, causing random mutations...and my character's eyes to glow green. The Battery radiation is the source of his powers, but the radiation is deadly to others, so he must wear a jeweled belt (a green jewel, naturally!) to help keep the radiation in check.

Need a real name for him, for his "secret identity"...can anyone tell me what Oan names (presuming they've mentioned them in the comics) are like and give me some examples?

Cool!

I'll hop on as Saturn Lady tonight and look for you. I ran into another Legion fan who recognized my costume. He was a flame guy whose costume was a bit Inferno-ish. I told him I'd let him know if I got a Legion SG going. Guess I'll have to get her levelled up fast so we can do this.

Virtue is the place to be for our Legion-inspired team! (So you can do your RPG thing, Scott.) If anyone else levels up to 10 on Virtue, let me know so we can be all coordinated. Maybe I could post something to the CoH message board. As long as we stay "inspired," we should be OK, right?

A new strip each day this week: http://www.inktank.com/AT/index.cfm?nav=984

Actually looks like I'm behind a few days. As usual.

These have made me laugh my ass off this morning. Good thing no one else was in at the time.

Last one for now.

Yesterdays.

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

Well, I hope to get my supergroup up and running this weekend. Saturn Lady isn't at 10th level yet, so there are a few hoops I'll have to jump through. Look for her on Virtue. I plan to call the team Legion of Virtue.

LLLV!

I'll have to create a character over there. Presently I'm working on getting Gungnir up to 14th so he can teleport himself. And I'm working on writing a series of articles for The Pulse and have created a character just for that purpose. I need to work on her a bit too.

The last of this week's scheduled toons. I don't know, Eric, if you or any of the other players here have seen this group referred to in the strip but it cracked me up. I've been trying to figure out what the hell they are doing since I first started playing.

Glad to see some from the board are playing this game, it is the best!! I have been playing since Feb during Beta,

I am "Hanford Man" on Victory.

Check out the Origin of Hanford Man if you like...

Yes, I have run across this group a couple times, and I've been just as stumped.

I have seen that little group too. I stared at them for 15 minutes before I realized it...

Legionnaires of Virtue is now an official supergroup on the Virtue server! Look for Saturn Lady and send me a tell. I hope to be online Sunday night and Monday.

It'll be pretty informal -- no fancy web site or anything. Just a chance to instantly find other Legion fans on the server and blast Hellions together (or the Clockwork -- a precurser to Robotica?).

Way behind on levels since I haven't had time to play recently. Gravity Lad just made it to level 6 today...

I haven't had much time this week either. Saturn Lady's only just made it to 7. I had to use one of my other characters to set up the group and then pass leadership to my hubby, who then waited for me to sign back on as Saturn Lady to pass leadership back to me. And that's all I'll have time to do today since I've got a performance (doing "South Pacific" with my local theater -- really gets in the way of my newfound addiction ).

Whew.

Played for 12 hours last night and Gungnir finally reached 14th level and got self-teleportation. Just too much fun.

Now I've got to focus on The -Pulse. She the character I created for the series of articles I'm writing for The Pulse.

This is the first mention of CoH in the Angst Technolgy strip back in October of 2001.

Enormous Codpiece Man...change that to Lad or Boy, and you've got yourself a new Sub!

Hey Eric. Caroline and I both created Legion themed characters on the Virtue server. Don't know when I'll get on as I have to work on a website for Bevis today but here are their pics. And we've both added Saturn Lady to our Friends list. If you'd like to add us (Garth is still in the Outbreak trainer as I just created him this morning) we are Garth Ranzz and Tasmia Mallor.

Awesome! These look great, you two. I just hope the copyright patrol doesn't get you for the names.

I'll try to be on sporadically today. I didn't get everything done I'd hoped earlier in the weekend, and my hubby has to work, so it's a catch-up day.

Lar Gand reporting for duty. I will try to be on today too.

Where have you been today? I keep hopping on to no avail. I now have two characters. Look for Saturn Lady and RJB. RJB is the current supergroup owner (Financier). Saturn Lady is a Founder. I'd like to get a couple of you on so I can promote you to founders so you'll have invite privileges and it won't all depend on me.

Here's RJB:

That's so cool! I love RJB!

I got together with Caroline and a friend of ours, Kaos, and we've created the lil' Justice League. Actually we aren't high enough level yet but as soon as we hit 10 we'll form it. Here's a pic of us standing in front of Paragon City Hall.


left to right: lil' Superman, lil' Batman and lil' Diana WW

All of them are set to the shortest height setting and real low towards the atheletic setting.

And actually lil' Superman and lil' Batman don't exist anymore. We got pulled over by a police drone tonight and were busted for copyright infringement. Real nice GM and he was cool with us. Just changed our names and asked us what we'd like so as to not mess up our theme. So now we have lil' Clark and lil' Bruce. Caroline's lil' Diana didn't get busted because Wonder Woman was to long to use to begin with.

We're on the Virtue server with this team too so look around your ankles for little crime fighters.

I must have been missing you, been on a couple of times on and off today. I will make sure to put you on my friend list next time I am on.

I was on yesterday afternoon, and tried sending tails to Saturn Lady and Garth, but to no avail.

I did add SL, Garth, Tasmia, and Lar to my friends list though. I'll add RJB next time I'm on.

If anyone wants to, they can add any/all of my Virtue characters to their friends list. They're not all Legion-based, but at least you'll know when I'm on. My characters' names are:

J-Frost
Xenoblade
Gravity Lad
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As for meeting up, what time zone are you guys in? Maybe if we arranged a particular time to meet up, we wouldn't keep missing one another. Just a thought...

I am in the Central time zone. Playing on a specific day maybe hard for me because of my job (I never know when I am going to get overtime), but I would do my best to show up for meetings.

Woot!

We got to play last night! (Unfortunately, I'm at work and can't post the group pic, but I will when I get home if no one else has.) Saturn Lady, Garth, Lar and Tasmia ran around beating up the Lost (and getting killed on my mission since Saturn is a higher level -- sorry again). We got lots of stares, but I only got one tell -- anyone else?

The options are better for finding us now. RJB, Saturn Lady, Garth, Lar and Tasmia all have invite privileges, so if you run into any of us, you can get on the team.

Sorry I missed you. I've got J-Frost and Gravity Lad on my Friends list. I'll add the others too.

I'm in Eastern, but my game playing has been really sporadic because of rehearsals and performances for the community theater show I'm in (plus real-life stuff -- stupid lawn keeps growing). The show's over after this weekend, so I hope to hop on for at least an hour or so most weeknights, probably 8-10ish range -- a little later if we get on a mission and lose track of time (like last night).

Let's all try to get on at 9-?? EST Wednesday night this week and go from there.

Bwa ha ha ha! I love it! Too bad there aren't any water powers. I'd make a lil' Aquaman (oops, lil' Arthur). (I did catch a guy in Aquamanish duds last night (shirtless, beard, green pants and a watery name), but I didn't see what he used for powers. Of course, the game's land-locked, so talking to fish wouldn't be very helpful. I could just make him a tank-er.

I will do my best to be there...

I'm probably working 12+ hour shifts this weekend again but I'll try.

Oh, and we are in the Mountain Time Zone.

Here's one of the pics I took of the group last night.

Woo hoo! Go Legion!! My pic looks much the same.

In case anyone is wondering, that thing on our chests is our supergroup symbol. It appears when you go into "Supergroup Mode." Unfortunately, there were no L's or anything close to the Legion symbol, and not having a symbol wasn't an option.

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We need two more members, just starting, for a Seinfeld team on the Liberty server. I already have Cosmo Kramer and Caroline has created Elaine Benes. We need a George Costanza (tanker wearing a sweater?) and a Jerry Seinfeld (blaster with jeans and shirt or jacket and tie?).

Any takers?

Our extended team with Andrew Nolan, Mon-El and Gravity Lad.

A new set of strips from http://www.pvponline.com with a CoH theme.

Excellent pic, LL!

Oh, and I've created a second character for our Virtuous Legion...Drakefire! See, I told you I felt left out that I had made an original character instead of basing one on an existing Legionnaire...didn't do TOO badly with his look, though the helmet isn't quite right!

Cool! Can't wait to see him.

I hope to be online at least Sunday night, though I'm not sure what character I'll be yet. I'd like to take one of my higher levels and concentrate on them for a while just to work out the story arcs a bit more. If you don't see Saturn Lady, look for Chillflare or Dark Iris. Chillflare is high enough to sidekick people.

And what happened to Vee? Wasn't he going to pick up the game with his new PC? I hope everything's OK.

Going to try to post a pic of J-Frost (never posted a pic on the boards before, so I hope I get this right)... I'll post my other characters (esp. Drakefire) later if I can get this one to work...

Here's Drakefire:

Well, the hubby was on my account when I got back from the show last night (hurt my foot so I didn't go to the cast party -- it's OK now), so I used his account to create a new hero for the Legionnaires of Virtue. Here's Tasmia's cousin, Shadow Lad.



I couldn't get a costume I liked that was very close to his Legion Academy days, so I got a bit creative. He's taking the skin-bearing cue from his cousin. (D'oh! I just realized I forgot the pointy ears. Oh, well.)

He's also got a different set of darkness powers than Caroline's Tasmia. She's a scrapper with dark powers. Grev's a defender.

That pic ought to get Lash playing if nothing Eric.

Looks good though. I've been trying to get Gungnir up to 15 but I'm still about 3500 points off with 2000 in debt. Just can't make any headway and it makes me not want to play at all.

I also need to play The -Pulse soon since my next article is due next weekend.

Should we try for 9 EST again this Wednesday? Is that too early for our Mountaineers? Would a different day be better for you, Patch?

What level is everyone up to now? I can play with Saturn Lady again (still 8) or try Shadow Lad (4 -- maybe 5 by Wednesday) so our missions aren't skewed too high.

Wed, 9pm EST is good for me, though I might be on a little earlier, it depends...

I just hit level 7 with Drakefire this afternoon, so hopefully he'll be caught up with everyone by Wednesday.

Btw, can anyone else see my pictures? Half the time the page doesn't seem to load them for me...

Nope. The pictures have never loaded for me, no matter which computer I use.

I will try to be there on Wed. night, but tomorrow is Microsoft Patch Day (patching computers is what I do in case you were wondering ), so I might have to work late if I don't get enough done tomorrow. A little bird told me that there is a critical patch coming out that effects just about all Microsoft products. So I will have to be ready to patch 4500+ computers by the weekend or sooner.


As far as a different day, it won't really matter, what day we pick. I am basically on call and could have to work at any time. Whatever day you guys decide, I'll try to be there.

Patch Lad, I can fully sympathise with you. While I'm not in the LAN department who is in charge of the patches here at work, I have to help coordinate the down time so that the associates who need access the the intranet are not interrupted during the day. And that includes those overseas too. Microsoft has become a bad word around here lately with all of their security flaws. It almost has me considering switching over to a MAC. Almost.

Oh, as for the time, 9 EST is fine with Caroline and myself. I should be home by then tomorrow (being 7 pm here in Utah). I'm not working too late and with all the construction it takes 90 minutes to get home so I should be right around then and should be able to play for at least 2 hours.

I realize I'm way behind all of you but I did get the game loaded on the new computer and tried it out (on the same server ~ Triumph? ~ that Grunjir is on) before I went into the hospital. I'll see if I can't get up to speed quickly and join you guys soon.

Yay!

Sorry to hear you've been having troubles. I just saw your Variable Villa post.

The Legionnaires of Virtue is on the Virtue server, so create a character on there, too. We'd love to have you! I hope you feel better soon.

Vee I didn't know you were in the hospital. I hope everything is okay. Don't feel you are obligated to join us if your health isn't up to it. Just take care of yourself, that's more important.

On a lighter note, you'll get used to hospital visits when you get into playing CoH. Believe me.

Yeah, I know what you mean about hospitals...Drakefire really feels like himself, the villains in Perez Park keep tearing him new holes in his containment suit!

Hey guys, sorry I missed you all again. Patch Day was a bust, but other things kept me from showing up anyway. I'll do my best to be there next time!!

Hey Seymour! Last night was a blast with Condo & Shadow Lad. We made a great team! Sorry to "depart" so suddenly. Lost mapserver connection just as I clicked on the trainer to get my lvl 9 and by the time I got back you were gone.

For all the rest of you, I'm now on Virtue as well with two "heroes" Condo is now a lvl 9 blaster and Cosmic Rokk is a lvl 7 tanker. (I just HAD to create Rokk. It didn't seem right to not have one of the founders of the Legion not be represented!)

It's been lots of fun (as you said Scott ) but a bit confusing because I'm not sure who is who. Could you each post your "heroes" on here so we all know each other?

I know the following:

Seymour = Saturn Lady & Shadow Lad
Caroline = Tasmia Mallor
LL = Garth
RP friend of LL & Caroline (Andy?) = Ferro Lad
Pex = Drakefire

Who else?

PS: KP you would just love this game!

Vee

Well, in addition to Drakefire, I also have:

Gravity Lad (an Original Pex Creation, based on the Guardians of Oa)

Cosmo Girl Zero (an alternate female Rokk with different powers - Her power sets are "Empathy" and "Dark Blast", I gave her a modified Grell Rokk costume)

Non-Legion Associated Characters I have on the Virtue Server Include:

J-Frost
Xenoblade
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Non-Virtue Server Characters I have include:

Electricia (on Victory...I think!)
Goddess Urd (on Justice)

I think I've seen J-Frost & Xenoblade online. Wish I had known it was you.

Since no one was around CoH last night, I went ahead and created a new hero (heroine?) I want to have one of each of the types to see what the differences are in strategy etc. Since I have a blaster (Condo), and a tanker (Cosmic Rokk), I went ahead and created my defender (Mystical Mysa) and boy did she turn out HOT!!!!! She has 2 healing powers as her primary set so far and energy blasting powers as her secondary set. (Got her up to lvl 4 by last night when I started having server problems.)

Since I couldn't come close to her all white gown type outfit, I gave her one similar to Nura's preboot, but I was able to give her some pointy antennae. You should have seen all the guys that were hitting on her! (Mysa will never lack invitations for team ups. She got FIVE offers last night alone to join a supergroup! Of course, she demured because she's hoping to get an invite to the Legion of Virtue

Maybe down the road she can split off from the LoV and start up a supergroup called the Subs with some of your alt IDs!)

PS: Cobie would be drooling after her in an instant!

Scott (or anyone): How did you get those pics that you posted? Is there soemthing on CoH that allows you to take pics or did you use something like PaintShop?

You can do screen prints from within CoH. Under the Menu you can go into your options and make sure that the screen print function is turned on so all you have to do is hit the PrtScn key on your keyboard when you want a picture.

Now I know that'll just take a picture of your character's backside but you can change your POV (no, not Brian but Point Of View) in a couple of different ways. The simplest is to use the scroll button on your mouse if you have one.

If you need further help from that, just give me a shout. I'm actually arranging with Thomas (our friend who plays Andrew) so that he and Caroline and I can be on line at the same time with our main characters (Gungnir for me, Blue Battler for him and Lady Maleficent for Caroline) and I can take a group pic for a tshirt so we'll recognize each other when we pick him up at the airport in SD for the con.

Thanks Scott, I'll try that tonight. BTW, we missed you the other day. We had a blast. Hope to catch up with you on CoH again soon.

I actually created an Emerald Empress character the other day on a server where I don't know anyone just so I could play around solo. I get tired of playing in groups sometimes and chatting. Just wanted to see how it was running around by myself. Plus I forgot to take notes for my article during The -Pulse's training mission and had to create a new character to go through it all over again.

She's level 4 now and a Magic Controller. Focused on the dark powers since those send out a kind of skull when attacked which I figured was going to be as close to the Eye as I was going to get without the automatic targeting drone (which I didn't want to use). Already at 4 she has a sniper power that can take out lvl 3 and 4 foes from about 3 times as far as normal with only 1 shot.

I've decided to do a Tharok too but I'm going to wait for City of Villains to be released next year so that I can play him more 'true to life'.

You too Vee. Just felt burned out lately and haven't wanted to play. And that's caused me to be late with my next article for The Pulse but at least Jen was understanding. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood this Wedensday, if we all get together then.

LOL! I almost created Empress instead of Mysa last night, but I didn't think Empress would stand a chance of being invited to join the LoV!

I can understand that. I imagine since you're work involves the computer all day, there must be times when you just want to be away from it. Just wanted you to know that we DID miss having you around and I was excited about introducing you to "Rokk"

Can't wait to meet the old Rokk myself. It'll be fun having the three founders all together.

Oh, and no hitting on Immie when I'm not around.

LOL. I have a feeling you're REALLY going to enjoy having Mysa around at times as well. The scenery will improve dramatically when shes on!

Hey, guys.

No sweat about disappearing, Vee. I understand about connection problems. I waited around a bit to say good-bye, but I was ready for bed.

I'll try to get on Wednesday night again, but I'm not sure if I can. We've got company. It depends when they leave. They're no night owls, so I should probably be able to get on around 10 my time for at least a Founders screenshot.

Oop -- gotta actually do some work now.

I wish I had a faster computer.

Okay, if some of you don't show up on CoH soon, I'm going to run out of charachter slots to fill. Since no one was around last night either, I ended up completing my fivesome. Let me introduce you to them:

Condo ~ Level 9 Mutant Balster

Cosmic Rokk ~ Level 7 Mutant Tanker

Mystical Mysa ~ Level 5 Magical Defender

Kid Lyle ~ Level 4 Scientific Controller

Brin ~ Level 2 Natural Scrapper

Both Brin & Lyle are very easy to spot because their uniforms are pretty accurate. Lyle is in black & white and even has an "I" on his chest and a headband. Brin is in his preboot orange & black. I was able to give him those shoulder "wings" that he had back in the preboot & discovered that the "trident" chest emblem looks enough like a wolf's face to work.

Duuuuude Lar Gand was on some last night, I sure didn't see you...

UTS, read my lips: RUN, DO NOT WALK to your friendly neighborhood computer superstore and get yourself a new unit ( )

There are some great bargains out there right now and beive me, it's worth it. I'm having a blast with CoH and I would love to "see" STURat the Mage join us!

Damn! Maybe it was while I was creating Kid Lyle or Brin. I will be on tonight as well so hopefully a bunch of us can hook up.

Hey everyone! I had a great time on our Legion mission last night (even though we all "bought it ~ some more than once! ) Mysa leveled and got her flight ring (I promise she'll get Resurrect next time)

Andrew seemed quite taken with her, which was fun and she sure proved her worth by using her mystical healing powers to keep everyone else battling all those Ogres & Blade Bearers, etc.

Look forward to seeing everyone on again soon. I'll probably bring Cosmic Rokk next time but who knows...

PS: Scott, I haven't been able to get the screen capture option to work so next time if you're there I hope you'll take pictures of my guys & gal.

Last night was a lot of fun -- especially glad we got an indoor mission. It's better when we have a clearer purpose. Otherwise, we spend too much time just running around. It'll probably help when everyone hits 7, and we can do those Perez Park missions we're all stuck with. I was with Drakefire -- I want to beat something up (and get more XP).

If your keyboard button won't work, you can also type /screenshot in the dialog box, and it'll take one. I have to do that because I'm switching from Mac to PC, and my Mac keyboard won't do a printscrn.

If I ever get over my funk and feel like playing again I'll make sure to set us up with a group pic. And for those with multiple characters if we just let them log off then back in as that character I may be able to do some fancy photowork and make it look like we were all there at once.

Is it possible to take more than one screenshot at a time? I log out everytime I take one, save it in MSPaint, and then log back in. Is there some trick I'm missing, that it's actually possible to take more than one screenshot and have them save themselves somewhere so I don't have to log out and save before I take another one?

As for last night, it was fun to actually fight something for a change...even if it did kill us!

If you set it up to do screen prints by just using the PrtScn key it will actually save the files to a screen print folder in the CoH folder. No need to exit the game or even really stop playing.

Excellent, I've got 129 of the little buggers just sitting there, and I had no idea they were there!!!

I'll have to look to see if that's where the are then also. I suspect though that they'll all be pics from behind.

Seymour: Shadow Lad & Condo make a great team! Another fun night blasting baddies and getting XP. BTW, after you logged off I stayed on for about 20 minutes and got lucky. Found a spot with lots of groups of 7 Skulls and made lvl 10 in about 15 minutes (and worked off all my debt!) Condo now has Sniper Blast as well.

Vee, they will all be from behind because they are from the point of view used in the game. Only changing that POV before taking the pic will change that rear-end shot.

Hey guys, I've been having a problem with a Kid Lyle mission (Level 4 Scientific Controller). It's a cave mission to capture the lab boss and his team & free the hostages.

First time I went (solo), I got all through the cave, freed all three hostages and killed everyone (I believe). Still no mission complete so I retraced my steps and covered every inch of the cave on it's various levels. Couldn't find anyone else (BTW, I did get the disc from the lab equipment the first pass through). Finally gave up and left.

Yesterday afternoon, I was in a team up with another player and we went to try to complete the mission. I thought maybe he would see something I missed. (I didn't realize that all the Vaz would be back since it was now a team mission and not still my solo) In any case, we killed everyone we could find but then kept getting "Rescue the forth hostage" and no mission complete even though we could not finad anyone else.

I have to assume there is another even lower level or hiding place that I haven't discovered (or its a bug) Any of you familiar with this mish that can tell me what I need to do to complete it or what I'm doing wrong?

I'm not sure of that mission but always check your map to make sure that you've covered everything. Those caves can be tricky and there are sometimes areas that are accessible even if they don't look like it. Make sure that you've got the map fully completed and walked through fully at least one time before giving up. I've been on a few indoor adventures that do the same thing and I wind up finding the last one on the ground floor that had totally been cleaned out previously. I think sometimes those kidnappers change floors.

Yeah, I thought the same thing so I brought up the map on the second pass each time and still couldn't find anything. Ran around rubbing against the walls & clicking on them to see if there was a secret opening. Couldn't think of anything else to do either time.

Scott, that would be very cool if you could Photoshop the whole gang in. I'm bummed I forgot to get a screenshot Wednesday night while Flame Sidhe was there. I don't know him (or her) off the game, but I don't think he logs on with that character very often. He was a 3 when Saturn Lady was a 3 a few weeks ago, and now he's a 4 and she's 9.

I'm stumped about your mission, Vee. Maybe I'll sign on as RJB (only took him to 3), and we can give it another shot tonight if I get a chance to log on. (If I use a 3, it won't skew the level of the baddies inside.)

I finally managed to get some pix of my CoH heroes so you can all get to see them since you haven't met them all. First one I think you all know...



Condo is currently a level 10 Mutant Blaster with energy powers as primary and secondary sets.

Here's my version of our Founder, Rokk. His name on CoH is Cosmic Rokk and he is a level 8 (I think) Mutant Tanker



I wish I had tried to do his preboot skimpy black uniform but didn't think of it at the time (actually didn't think of it until a few nights ago when Seymour asked if I had.

In any case I kinda like the way he turned out.

Then there's my version of Invisible Kid, Kid Lyle. He's a level 7 Scientific Controller with Primary Illusion powers (which means he eventually can earn invisibility) and Radiation Emission as his secondary

For my Natural Scrapper I was torn between Val & Brin but I decided on Brin. He is currently at level 5. He came out a bit heftier than I planned but I love the way his outfit turned out. Had a couple of people complement me. (They didn't have a wolf emblem so I used the trident. I think it looks pretty good.)

Last of the Legionnaires is MysticalMysa and boy has she turned some heads! I keep getting hit on (if they only knew;) ) She's a level 7 Magic Defender with Empahty/Healing as her primary set and energy balsting as secondary.

Last of all, but the first hero I created when I first joined CoH is BlueMage over on the Triumph server. All the others are on Virtue. His been ignored recently so he's only a level 3 Magic Blaster with Fire Energy as his primary and energy powers as his secondary.

Let me know what you guys think and be sure to add all of them to your lists.

I think they all look awesome. Brin and Rokk really came out well, and Mysa is a hottie.

I'm sorry I haven't been able to get on this weekend. I actually played for a littlle while last night, but I had this idea for an ice/ice blaster named Little Nippy. I had to go with Little Nipper, but he came out kinda cute. I doubt I'll do much more with him, but it was fun.

You could have called him Brek and made him like POlar Boy

Literally, I suspect!

Mysa is a little hottie and Lyle is perfect.

Caroline talked me into playing this weekend but I kept having connection problems. We did manage to create two new characters though, on the Triumph server. I present to you Nicole Richie (me) and Paris Hilton (Caroline).

I made Nicole a little shorter than I probably should have but she stands about 5'1" and I think in life she is 5'2" so I wasn't too far off. She has ice powers for her primary so she can give you the cold shoulder and gale as her secondary so she can blow you away with her incessant talking.

STU....I mean UTS and everyone else, if at all possible RUN, DO NOT WALK to your nearest computer store and get upgraded. This is too much fun to miss out on! With July 4th coming up there should be some great deals on computers. Good time to do something.

Oh, there is another Paris running around but we haven't seen her yet. I was able to get Nicole Richie as my character's name without a problem but Caroline had to use Ms Paris Hilton.

Scott: LOL! Those are great. I also had lots of connection problems this weekend so I can understand the frustation. Don't know why you can do the creation process without a problem but I ended up doing it as well. Created CometKid (I'll post a picture later) on the Triumph server. He's a blaster Electrical primary and energy secondary.

I think they are messing up the servers getting ready for the first update. Hopefully onces it goes live all of these server problems will disappear.

Just had a thought about the connection problems. Do you think it's the Virtue server or Triumph serve that are overloaded (near or at capacity)? If so would it make sense to chose a less active server? Of course it would mean starting each character over from scratch, but it might be more fun in the long run.

Usually the Triumph server is one of the ones with the smallest load. Justice and Virtue are almost always maxed out in red.

Here's CometKid (found on Triumph) as promised



and an experiment brought about by my conversation with Seymour the other night.



Rokk's skimpy balck unifrom came out okay buy the fleshtones aren't availble as a color choice other than for the skin. That's as close as I could get to matching up to skin-like colors.

I made this Rokk a controller with gravity powers as his primary and force fields as his secondary. I'm not keeping him since I like the other Rokk better but if I get to the point with CosmicRokk where I can give him an alternate outfit, I may try this again.

Vee, I love all of your outfits. You have a definite flair and have some greatly detailed uniforms. I need to learn to take more time with mine.

So, of all the people playing this game in the world, there can only be one person with any unique name?

Bummer.

But look at it this way, if you come up with a really cool original character name, no one can take it from you!

Exactly. I love my first character's name. Gungnir. It fits and actually has some mythological meaning to it. And no one can steal it.

I have two new characters to show you guys as soon as I can edit the screen captures. Caroline created Kent Shakespear (no room for the final 'e') and I created Charma. Couldn't quite get her hair the way I wanted but I think she looks pretty much like her appearance in Legionnaires #66. I'll post them when I can.

This is totally an aside, but every time I see the avatar of Pex the Unalive, it just screams to me that it's really a very, very young Dennis Quaid. Does it to anyone else? Very cool!

(I've always thought he was a wonderful actor, by the way.)

Somebody better not have taken "StuRat" already!

What server did you put them on? Virtue? or did you choose another one for them?

Hmm. Gives me an idea for a new character.

UTS, does this mean you're contemplating?

Actually we put them on Liberty I think. The server that has the other Legion team? I'm real bad at remembering what server I have characters on.

Okay here is Charma. She is a Science Controller (to go with her post-boot background of having performed experiments on herself). Her primary power is Mind Control with the first slot being taken by Mesmerize (can't wait for Dominate to become available). Her secondy power is Force Field with Personal Force Field for the first slot. Couldn't figure out a good secondary from the choices so I thought that the force field would help her survive.

And here is Kent. Caroline will have to tell you what his powers are.

I think the other Legion group is on Protector server.

Charma & Kent (sounds like a sitcom ) look great. Didn't they have chains for her though?

I tried. No chains and no hoop jewelery.

Seymour actually had a more extended conversation with the guy we met (I believe he's called American Pride on the Virue server.)

I do recall him saying that he was Magno Lad (or maybe just Magno) in the group but Seymour went back and forth with him and wrote down all the info.

They must be on Pacific time because it would be 1 AM when they get together. Seymour mentioned trying to do something with them on weekends. Next time he pops in here he can fill in the details.

Sounds like a plan to me. I'd kinda like to start a new Legion group where we would all be at the same level and begin together.

That would be fun. And maybe we could do it on a less congested server. I wouldn't mind redoing any of my heroes. After creating each of them I've found things I wish I could change but you don't have that option.

What I'd like to do is creat the LSV. But the City of Villains expansion doesn't come out until next year. Doesn't mean that I'm not up for creating them now though. Just want to do something a little different.

Maybe we can figure out which server is quieter. Triumph and Protector as usually the least loaded ones. I think I'm almost maxed out on characters for Triumph but have nothing on Protector. We could all meet on Protector and plan to have our new characters already through the training mission.

The LSV sounds like a great idea! or we could do the LMBPers. I've been trying to get UTS, Cobie, KP & others to join us.

Kent Shakespear (sans the 'e' as it wouldn't accept it) Is a Science COntroller on the Protector server. I'm hoping to meet up with more Legionnaires there, maybe, come on guys!

I wanted to make a healer, and Kent is my fav healer!! In an RPG, he is my sweet honey, and I am his devoted, besoted Tasmia (Umbra.) We actually make a heckuva good couple.

Man you guys have been busy. Make sure you post if you are going to move to a server, Ill be sure to join you. I have a lvl 17 on victory that could start a group, but that is usually one of the more congested servers.

I really need to get a new computer so I can play this game. It sounds really cool.

I created "Pex The Unalive", a magic controller with a primary of Illusions and a secondary of Radiation Emission...he might be cool!

Oh, and he's through the tutorial mission, standing underneath Atlas's Statue, waiting to hook up with his fellow Legionnaires on the Protector Server!

I don't like re-creating characters, especially ones that are going so well to begin with, so you more than likely won't see Drakefire on Protector. I'm tinkering with the idea of doing a Ultra Boy and/or Infectious Lass character for that server instead!

So much for going to bed at a decent time tonight.

The guy we met on Virtue was AMERICANPRIDE. His group is on the Protector server. They're not an official supergroup yet because everyone's only about level 6. He told me they have Magno Lad, Electricity Kid, Saturn Lass, Cerebral 6, Uni Power Lad and Tai Chi Kid. I just created Starlad (gravity controller with kinetics as secndary) and could only find Magno, Saturn and Cerebral when making my friends list.

They have three "rules" they like to play by:
1. Keep powers as accurate as possible (so Chlorphyll Kid is out).
2. You must have Lad, Lass, Boy, Girl or Kid in your name, though there are exceptions.
3. Choose hover as soon as pool powers become available. It's your flight belt.

He said they also like to keep costumes as close as possible with one or two differences. I haven't seen any of them yet, so I don't know how well they've done that.

I like how we're doing with Legionnaires of Virtue. We're all fairly close in level. If we make one group at once and try to level together, it could take forever as we try to coordinate schedules. But if you do one, you know I'm there.

I can't get Starlad posted right now, but I wil ASAP.

I might do a Wildfire type character if its alright with you, I am a much better Blaster than a Tanker. I have a lvl 17 Blaster on Victory, so I am more familar with what that type can do.

Sure, that'll be fine, Patch. I've got Pex and "Drura" as my Legion characters on Protector, with one or two others if/when the whim hits me.

Question for those of us migrating to the Protector Server from Virtue: Are we going to try to hook up with American Pride's Legion, or start our own and level up together? If the former, I'll need to create a character that fits the Lad/Boy/Girl/Lass/Kid requirement. If the latter, both Pex and Drura stand ready to fight alongside the Virtuous Legionnaires!

Oh, about Drura, the closest I could come to her powers was the Mutation Defender, and she has Radiation Emission/Radiation Blast as her power sets. It's really cool to see her emitting all these green noxious blasts and encircling the enemy with radiation infections. I have a feeling she'd give the Vazhilok a run for their money!

I'm all for keeping up with the Legion of Virtue for now. I just need to get Garth caught up, level-wise, with the rest of you.

As for starting out fresh on another server, I'd rather it just be our gang (and anyone else here we can rope into playing ) rather than joining up with someone who already has a set of ground rules for playing with them.

Good, I'd hate to abandon Drakefire altogether as he's one of my favorite creations so far. Speaking of the LoV, did anybody show up last night? I forgot it was Wednesday until this morning, by which time it was already Thursday...

Hmm, I may actually make an exception to my rule of not duplicating characters across different shards, and make a Virtuous Drura...she totally kicks nass!

I am glad you feel that way, I really don't want to start over again anyway.

Just playing around while we decide what to do I created a couple of heroes (and villains ) on Protector. Here are their pics...

I think you'll all recognize the first one.



Night Lass is a mutant tanker with Invulnerability and super strength

And since Lydda's boyfriend isn't on this server, his kid brother is there to "protect" her.

MagnetiKid is a mutant controller with gravity powers and forcefields as his secondary.

Since Scott mentioned possibly doing a LSV group, I decided to do some baddies as well. The first one I did was this little guy



Validdus is a currently magic blaster with electrical powers as both his first and second sets but I don't think he'll stay around too long. I made him as tall as allowed and discovered that it makes it very difficult to see around him! I may redo him, and if I do, I think I may change his powers a little

Of course, I couldn't NOT do my favorite baddie of all



Scott, I'd love to see how she comapres to yours!

Finally, I created this guy to play in order to hopefully have him at 10 by the time we're all ready on Protector so he can start the Supergroup for us.



BTW, I was going to call him just "Vee" but someone already had that name!

D'oh! I thought I had posted a pic of my Empress. I will admit your's is much, much better than my rendition. And I love the eye on her chest. Didn't even see that chest detail when I created mine. So, what are her powers?

She's a magic controler with mind control & empathy. BTW, it's hard to tell in the pic but she wears the Eye of Ekron on her forehead

Okay...trying to show pics again, hosted at a different place this time. Let me know if you guys can see them...

First, we have Drura...



And then there's my namesake, Pex The Unalive...

Yep, see 'em just fine! Drura came out great!

I can see them. Drura looks incredible.

Vee, yours are a lot of fun. I love how you adjusted Validus. And Varalent is very cool. I hope to get Starlad up tonight if the ftp program my hubby set up for me is working again.

Thinking about it more, I'd like to just stay on Virtue. I need to concentrate on a character or two so I can get them levelled up and able to explore other parts of the city that are too dangerous right now. I'm not sure if I want to do it with my blaster. His power set isn't working out. Shadow Lad would be a good one, and I think Saturn Lady would turn out well too.

BTW, my trip got cancelled so I hope to see some of you on CoH over the next few days.

Seymour, I think Shadow Lad AND Saturn Lady would both be good. They have great balanced power.

Too bad I can't play them both at once.

(Hmm -- they're on different accounts, so if the hubby isn't home, I suppose I could bring his computer and a monitor into my office and -- nah )

Drura is really great looking! Pex did a great job with her. She and my newest creation Rond Vidar had fun killing baddies last night.

Rond has finally come out of the closet and declared himself to be Earth's Green Lantern.



I also started a character on Victory today because all the other servers were down. His name is Killowatt Kid.

Seymour, did you get Starlad started? I was able to "Friend" a starlad & a star lad on Protector but I wasn't sure if either was you and neither was online to find out.

Starlad is me. I just got him out of the tutorial and trained to 2nd. He hasn't done anything yet.

Vee, I just heard back from support about Gun's doppelganger. What I had been told when I started was incorrect. Your character name is unique only to the server it was created on. The same name can be used once on each server. Kinda makes me want to go and create a Gungnir on the remaining servers so no one else can.

But this does go towards another question of moving characters. They have stated that they do not yet have a way to do it. If they are allowing the same name on each server then I don't foresee a day when you can transfer your character.

I thought the same thing. Guess you could possibly move them but have to adjust the name, but it would certainly make it less appealing.

They are allowing you to copy your character to the test site, so they do have a mechanism in place for doing so.

And heeeeere's Starlad -- on the Protector server:

[guilty chuckle]

Better not have been you, UTS!

I have to admit, I have as much fun (if not more) creating heroes as I do actually playing the game. I find it facinating to see how the different combinations of powers affect the game playing. It's really challenging to find power combinations suitable for use with certain Legionnaires (Rokk & Pol's lack of magnetism being a great example)

I really wish they had set up the various types with primary powers as they have, but allowed you to pick any other type of secondary instead of just the limited sets they've chosen.

Oh well, long explanation for introducing the following new additions to my menagerie on Protector.

First is StormKid, my version of Storm Boy who joined during the 5YG (wonder if he was the same on as from the issue in Adventure when Supes is forced to quit the Legion in order to join Plant Man, Shadow Man, Storm Boy, & Liquid Man protecting another planet?) He's a defender with Storm Summoning as primary & electrical blasts as his secondary.




Then there's FireLad, a blaster with fire blast as his primary & fire manipulation as his secondary (of course)




And finally, my version of Mon, Marvel Lad (harkening back to when he first joined the LSH for his name) He's a tanker with Invulnerability as his primary and energy melee as his secondary.

I think there's a Gungnir on Virtue as well but I figure that might be you. I've been checking on the different servers I've been on to see if he's there.

Hey Gary! When are we going to talk YOU into joining us on City of Heroes. You'd have a blast, I can guarantee it. For incentive, I should let you know that I saw someone's version of Nightcrawler on the Virtue server and it looked pretty good (You CAN create characters with tails & pointy ears and any skin color) I'd love to see your version of Nighty as well as a Legionnaire since you're so creative.

Plus you can take Teleport Friend or Teleport Foe at 6th level instead of hover. By 20th level a teleporter can teleport individuals, himself or even a full team. If I can ever get Gungnir up to 20 he'll be able to do all the teleports.

Nope, not me either. Gungnir on Triumph is my only one. Although I am still sorely tempted to create one on each server just for the hell of it. And if the name is taken on a server then I'll just name him The True Gungnir.

And Vee, I'm with you. Its a blast just to create them and see what kind of powers and looks you can give them. I wish they would offer a way to do the tutorial then go back and adjust your powers if you find them to poor to play. I'm having a bit of trouble with Charma. She can handle her own okay but would probably work better with a group.

Scott, that's a great idea! You should send it to them. I know what you mean about being able to adjust something (powers or even outfit) after the tutorial. I've been less than happy with Kid Lyle's combination of powers. The only reason I picked them is because the one set gave him the chance to eventually achieve invisibility.

After discovering this weekend that he could actually get there through a pool power, I bit the bullet and decided to redo him completely as "I-Kid Lyle". (So next time he's on he'll have to apply for admission to the Legionnaires of Virtue again! ) While I was redoing him, I went ahead and made some minor changes to his look as well, nothing major, just some little changes here and there.

Same thing happened to me with "Validdus" (too big to see around) and "Brin" (don't like the claws he ended up with as a Scrapper) but I haven't gotten around to redoing them yet. I would redo "Cosmic Rokk" as well but I have him to high up in level to want to start him over again.

I would have been much nicer to be able to go edit them without having to delete them completely.

Just to let you all know:

While I was on CoH last night I saw some Broadcast messages that said the new update would be rolled out today, including the ability to have 3-4 different outfits for your characters. I don't think they're doing anything about editing them per se, just allowing you to create some "changes of clothes" but I don't know what else is coming as well.

Ohhhhh! Now that I think of it, that means our Legionnaires could have an Adventure era outfit, a Grell era outfit, a 5YG outfit, a post boot outfit....oh the possibilities!

Yeah, but still no capes. And from what I've read, when they were beta-ing the update, you actually have to complete a certain type of mission and pay (use influence) to do outfit changes. It won't be as simple as being able to re-edit your character.

And here is the breakdown of what the changes are for Through the Looking Glass (set to go live today):

Through the Looking Glass includes the following new content:


2 New City Zones

· Peregrine Island – This zone, north of Talos Island, is home to the secretive Portal Corporation.

· Rikti Crash Site – In this zone, the Rikti War still rages. Join the battle and keep Earth safe from the alien invaders.


New twists to missions

· 5th Column Prison – When you’re defeated in certain equipped 5th Column bases, you will have more to deal with than a hospital bill.

· Circle of Thorns Crystal Prison – Like the 5th Column, if you are defeated in selected lairs, the Circle of Thorns will have a big surprise in store for you.

· Circle of Thorns Gate Room – The Circle has found a new method of protecting its dark secrets: the Gate Room.

· Circle of Thorns Orichalchum Crystals – Magic can bring power, or magic can bring pain. These crystals have become infused with the Circle’s dark magic, and heroes will often find themselves surprised by the results.

· Tech Danger Lab – Technology can be somewhat unreliable. The only way to find out what the Tech Danger Lab holds is to experiment and observe the results.


Outdoor Mission Maps

· The villains of Paragon City have taken the fight to the streets.


Contact\Mission\Story Arc Content For levels 40-50

· The sick amusements of the Carnival of Shadows have turned deadly. Learn the source of their powers on your quest to save a single soul.

· Expose the darkness in Countess Crey’s closets and bring her secrets to light at last.

· Begin to plumb the depths of the mysterious Malta Group.

· Nemesis: How far will the Prussian Prince of Automatons go in his bid to conquer America?

· As with many new technologies, Portal Corporation’s advances involve great risks. Venture to alternate realities to keep Paragon City safe from the many hazards of the multiverse.

· Is there any hope for peace between the Rikti and Earth? Not if you don’t keep your eye on the factions that have begun to splinter Rikti society.

· The Praetorian supervillains may well be the greatest threat your fair city has ever faced. Take the battle to their home dimension to keep Paragon City safe.


Trial Room

· Sewer Trial Room – Deep within the sewer system, something is growing. Characters between levels 38 and 40 must battle the Hydra to keep it contained – but be sure to come prepared for a long, hard fight.


Tailor

· Now your costume can change and evolve with your hero. At 3 locations within Paragon City, you can update your outfit – for a price.

· At levels 20, 30 and 40, you can earn extra costume slots by performing tasks for Icon’s tailors. Now you can customize your look on a daily basis! You may perform these tasks at any level after the initial level.

Hmmmm, some interesting things there. Wonder if you can rescue a teammate from the prisons?

Or even teleport him/her/it out. Might make teleportation a very important power to have!

Oh Saturn Lady, can I do anything to make you more comfortable/happy/pleased? Just let me know. I'm here to make sure your every wish is granted!

Yes, you can dely my hubby at work a few hours so I can get home before him and get on the account first to play her!

I'm enjoying Shadow Kid, but I'd like to play her sometimes too. But no, he's always on when I get home from work playing his Celtika character and getting all Mr. High Level.

I'm so glad Caroline and I have different accounts. Hell, she's getting more of her money's worth than I am right now.

I may try to log on tonight and see what it takes to change a costume. Been looking to do some alterations to Gungnir. I just wish I could get him passed 15th level.

Wait until you all see the numbnuts all congregated under Atlas' statue in Atlas Park DANCING! Weird, very weird!

They are screwing up the connection by doing it. Same thing at the tailor in Steel City. Damn lag was so bad I almost couldn't get my suit changed. Boomboxes and dancing everywhere. Like a kid with a new toy, though, hopefully it'll wear off by this week end.

So anyway, I did tweak Gungnir's outfit. I like his look better now. I'll post a pic when I can get a good screenshot of him.

Okay here's the old look (left) vs. the new (right) for Gungnir.

Hey Scott, I like the new one lots better. The contrast makes it easier to see the design on the uniform.

How much did that cost to do or how does it work? I had heard that you have to run a mission for the tailor in order to get it done and that you automatically were able to gt a new uniform at lvls 20, 30, & 40. Other than that I thought it was a pretty high cost in influence points.

Actually it isn't too expensive unless you change actual features. For instance I changed out my glowing eyes face for the first face choice just to make Gung more realistic.

And you are right and wrong. Anyone can change their costume/features for a price. The only thing that cannot be changed is your body type (size, sex, etc). The minimum fee just for entering the tailor (if you don't cancel it) is 640 influence. For that you can change all of your colors (face, hair, costume, etc) until the cows come home. BUT once you start changing the actual look (hair, patterns, etc) then the fees begin. I don't know if it is a standard fee of about 1300 influence of if it changes depending on the feature being altered. And you can do this as many times as you have influence to spend but you cannot save your old one unless you pay to go back to it, recreating it.

Once you reach 20 (and then every 10th lvl after) you can take on a mission for the head tailor (there are regular Icon employees and a main tailor in the stores). This allows you to have a second (then third, fourth and fifth) costume you can change into. If you are part of a supergroup then you will still have that choice as well. So you can tailor your costume to suit your mood the higher you go. Maybe some civilian clothes or a business suit. A suit of armor for space missions. Whatever.

I'm not sure what the missions consist of yet nor do I know if you still have to pay for those extra tailorings or if they come free for completing the mission. I do like the fact we know have choices. Especially since I was in a rush when I created Gungnir and left the option to make the colors carry over into every aspect. I am much happier with his current look. Even though my friends keep saying I look like Jesus now.

I think I can guess the answer to the following but do they allow you to change the powers?

Your guess is right.


The answer is no, btw.

Hey, where was everyone one tonight? I thought we were going to keep, or try to keep, Wednesdays as our Legion meeting day.

I was on until about 11:00. Kept checking back and forth between Virtue (with Condo) and Protector (with Varalent) but never saw anyone else online.

Sorry I missed you while you were on cause I could have used the company, Condo's at lvl 12 and making progress to 13 is difficult since I've got nothing but Steele Canyon, Boomtown & Perez Park missions being given to me. Getting to do lots of comparison shopping for hospitals

Maybe we can find a time this weekend for everyone to gather. I enjoy CoH either way but teaming up with friends is much more fun than soloing.

I wasn't able to get on but Caroline and Thomas (who plays Andrew) were on Virtue until 10:00 PM our time. I'm surprised you guys didn't run into each other or at least see each as being online. I need to get Garth up there so maybe I'll try to play him a bit this weekend.

Work has been so crazy lately, the backlog at home has been growing and growing, and I just had to tackle some of that pile last night.

We should do a task force this weekend. Beforehand, get Garth up to 11th level, hold Condo to 12, and I'll get Shadow Kid up to 11. What's Tas and Lar these days? My hubby has done several task forces, and he says the best chance to survive them is to be sure everyone is within a level. Even with one 13 and the rest 11 or 12, it can skew the mission so that the 11s die frequently. (He speaks from experience as one of those former 11s.) If you don't die too much, you're guaranteed to level at least once.

Things get really cool when we get past 20. He was playing with a team last night and got a mission in a CoT castle (at least that's what it looked like from the inside -- I didn't see the entrance), and there were these Daemon Lord things that looked awesome.

Hmmmm? There was definitely some weird things happening yesterday. For a while there was no Atlas Park 2 or Kings Row 2 appearing for me (of course there was still some dancing going on ) maybe that had something to do with it.

As I said, I ended up spending some time in Steel Canyon trying to complete two missions (Clocks & 5th Column) but discovered that the hospital there is much pricier than good ol' Crowne Memorial! ) Cost me 350 debt each time!

Worst part is I mostly saw...and tried to run from (sometimes successfully ~ ususally not) lvl 16s & 17s. Poor Condo at 12 didn't stand a chance when he got caught. I think I finally worked off all my debt before calling it a night.

I will be on again tonight as I am just about every night so maybe I'll run into someone then.

BTW, I have Varalent up to level 7 (almost 8) on Protector so I should be able to create our Supergroup over there shortly. It is definitely less congested and should be a good server for us to all start at the same level ~ maybe we can talk some more people here to join us and have a full Legion roster! Seymour is on there as well with his Starlad so as soon as I get the Legion group set up I'll pass the ownership of it over to him and then use Varalent to create an LMBP/LW group there as well

I think Garth is still at 7 but he's still low enough to gain levels pretty easy.

And I know what you mean by weird stuff Vee. Those duplicate cities (KR2 and such) are supposed to be there to help with server load. Since there has been no green light since the update there should be no reason why those second copies are not available to play on.

Plus, if all of those fools (and Caroline is, unfortunately, one of the) don't quit causing me to get booted or have extremely bad lag time because all they want to do is dance I'm going to find a way to make this game a PvP (player vs. player).

Sorry I couldn't make it last night, things have been crazy. I think Lar is up to 7 or 8 so he has some leveling to do. I think a TF would be a good idea, I haven't been in one of those yet. Let me know when you want to meet and I will try to be there.

Isn't there a minimum level for a task force? I thought you had to be in the double digits at least to take one on.

I'm not sure either though I thought the same about needing to be in double digits. I'll put Condo on hold to wait for the rest to catch up to him and work on some of the others. If we can do a task force at lower than 10 levels I have Cosmic Rokk @ 9, Mysa & Rond @ 8, and I think the new I-Kid Lyle is at 5 or 6. Poor Brin is still languishing behind (I think he's a 4-5)

I'll check later and post the levels here so we can coordinate if it works out that we can do a task force mission.

Maybe we should have a CoH Legion Try-out!

The server problems seem to continue. Seymour and I got completely knocked off Virtue for a while tonight. Not "Lost server connection" either. We got a "Mapserver disconnect" Took a while before we were able to get back on. Fortunately there was no problem on Protector so we were able to have some fun there in the meantime.

I had no problem hanging out on Triumph last night in Independce Port. As long as you stay away from the low level places (Atlas Park, Kings Row, Galaxy City) and the dancing fools, it all seems okay. The other night, right after the update, I kept getting the Mapserver Disconnect error every time I was near a group of people goofing off instead of playing.

And I finally managed to get Gungnir to 16th level last night. Seemed to have taken forever.

Varalents almost at 10 so I should be able to create our group over on Protector shortly. Hopefully this will give us an option if things continue to be a problem on Virtue.

I think I'm going to call the supergroup "Legion of Super Protectors" but I'm open to any suggestions.

Congrats on getting to 16. The levels sure do get more and more difficult to attain.

There's definitely something up with Virtue. It went down again last night, but I had no problem bopping around on other servers.

Let's set the task force for Monday. That gives the lower-than-11s a chance to level over the weekend. You do have to be 11 to do a TF. We can't sidekick anyone in. And we need at least 4 people.

Who's in and what time do we want to do it? RIght now, my Monday is wide open.

I'll send an email to Legionnaires not part of the board.

Monday is fine with me. Wide open also. Just let me know when.

Condo is itching to get back in action!

I'll be out, I'm afraid...I'm pretty sure Drake's on Level 9 or 10, so he wouldn't qualify, and Drura is waaaaay behind. Besides, Monday and Thursdays are wrestling nights on TV...

Bummer, Pex. A few hours today, and you'll be all levelled up and ready to go.

As Shadow Lad would say "Woot!" Varalent has achieved level 10 and will be creating the Supergroup "Legion of Super Protectors" momentarily.

So everyone, be sure to create a hero on Protector server so we have a back up to use if Virtue continues to be a problem.

Why don't I read the messages here more often. I've been playing this game every weekend for the last 2 months and I had no idea that you guys have been on there. Unfortunately I have to play on a friend's computer (he doesn't mind too much) and can only play on Saturdays. My own computer and connection are just way too slow right now. I'm hoping to fix that situation soon.

I'm at my own computer right now so I don't know exactly what servers my characters are on. I have a lvl. 11 (?) Super Lad Kid who's a blaster, a lvl. 11 Dr. Psyke who's a defender, and a few more that I never really spent much time on.

If you guys are planning on Playing Monday, I just might be around. What server are you planning on playing on? Which characters should I look out for? Are you playing with Legion-esque characters or just any originals?

I get so addicted to this game every time I play it. I've been meaning to get a new computer for awhile now, but this game has finally convinced me to do it sooner rather than later.

Glad to hear you're playing, Super Lad Kid.

Legionnaires of Virtue is an SG on the Virtue server for Legion fans with or without Legion-inspired characters (though it can be more fun with Legion-inspired characters, especially when we get recognized).

For the task force on Monday, it has to be a level 11 or 12 character -- and it doesn't have to be an SG member. We need to get at least four people. When do you think you'll be on? We need to set a time soon.

Whenever you play on Virtue, look for Saturn Lady, Cosmic Rokk, Tasmia Mallor, Garth Ranzz or Lar Gand. They can invite you into the SG. Other members include Shadow Lad, Drakefire, Andrew Nolan and Flame Sidhe -- and Vee's 500 characters.

Vee's starting up on Protector. I'm Starlad there. I forget all his IDs, but they're on earlier pages.

SLK, I beleive we will be on Virtue server on Monday. We are all Legionesque characters there. Some of us have more than one. I think they're all mentioned on this thread somewhere, but I'll try to list all the ones I can remember:

Suddenly Seymour:
Shadow Lad
Saturn Lady
RJB
+ non-legion heroes Chiilflare & Dark iris

Pex:
Drakefire
Gravity Lad
Cosmo Girl Zero (a femaleversion of Cos whom we've never met ~ hint, hint, Pex)
+ nonlegion heroes J-Frost, Xenoblade, & Template

Patch Lad:
Lar Gand

Scott:
Garth Ranzz

Caroline:
Tasmia Mallor
+ non Legion heroine Lady Maleficent

Thomas (non LW friend of Scott & Caroline):
Andrew Nolan

Vee:
Condo lvl 12 blaster
Cosmic Rokk lvl 10 tanker
Mystical Mysa lvl 8 defender
Rond Vidar lvl 8 defender
I-Kid Lyle lvl 7 defender
Brin LoneWolf lvl 3 tanker

We have a supergroup on Virtue called "Legionnaires of Virtue" that also has a few none LW members including Mon' el & Flame Sidhe

Some of us are also on other servers. I have a few on Triumph server as do Caroline & Scott & Thomas. I'm BlueMage & CometKid on Triumph, Scott is Gungnir. I think Caroline is also Lady Maleficient & Lady Demonica and their friend Thomas is Blue Battler.

I just created a Supergroup on Protector server because Virtue is super crowded. The "Legion of Super Protectors" was founded by my Varalent character (lvl 10 blaster). I have a few other legionesque heroes there as well and Seymour already has one.

Suddenly Seymour:
Starlad

Vee:
Varalent
Emerald Emprix
Pol
Storm Kid
FireLad
Marvel Lad (Mon)
Night Lass
E Lad

We're hoping that others will create some on Protector as well so we can all level up together. All of ours (with the exception of Varalent) are lvl 2 or 3 while we wait for the others.

Finally, I have miscellaneous heroes on other servers as well. (Can you tell I love the creation process as much or more than the actually playing? ) and some of the others may as well. Mine are:

Killowatt Kid - Victory server
Vigilante Greg - Victory Server
Cubanisimo - Freedom server

Not sure what anyone else may have but I'm sure some are on other servers as well. Just post your server info here and changes are someone will find you. And go ahead and create one on Virtue & Protector if you're not already there.

Look forward to seeing you in Paragon!

PS to SLK and everyone: Please don't be put off or intimidated by my apparent horde (hording?) of characters. I'm by no means trying to reserve them all for myself. Go right ahead and create any of the same ones yourself. I just enjoy the variety and if you're on with yours I'll play one of my others.

Thanks for all the info, Vee, and don't worry about hording too many characters. Lessee if I can list all of the ones I created -

Super Lad Kid - Science Blaster

Dr. Psyke - Magic Defender

Mini Mite - Natural Tanker

Holy Inquisitor - Mutant Scrapper

Rose Thorne - Mutant Defender

Lord Akafis - Natural Tanker

Dragon Ohm - Mutant Blaster

Robotomech - Technology Tanker


Other than the first two, none of these characters are much above three or four levels. Like you, I have as much if not more fun creating characters than actually playing them. I think I like Blasters and Defenders best. My tankers die way too much. The problem with Defenders is that they need help after a certain point to do their missions.

I think I might make a Legion-related character for the Protector server, or maybe another Super Lad Kid. I don' think I have any characters on the virtue server that are even close to level 11 or 12, so I just might skip that one.

SLk: Don't give up on Virtue, most of those on the list are in the 6-8 range, so if you have a character on Virtue bring him/her along. Besides Condo can sidekick you if needed.

You may not be able to take part in the taskforce tomorrow (if we manage to pull it off) but you'll have alot of fun otherwise with the group.

But defintiley create someone on Protector and let us know who you are (and which servers for each one) so we can invite & friend you.

I like blasters & defenders best as well. The nice part about the group is that all five types have crucial roles and do better as a group than on their own. That's why we have so much fun.

WOW. I guess I should have checked on here. I've been playing on Pinnacle.

MY Guys: all on Pinnacle...

Shadowkeeper
Chorus
Prysm
EnVogue
Earthlinq
Thom Kallor
Kenetic

DB: Why don't you create one on Protector & on Virtue? We're all having a real blast when we get everyone together.

I've never been on Pinnacle but now that I have incentive I just may have to check it out

Yeah!!!! Woot! Woot! Just found out that Frostfyre will be joining us in Paragon as soon as he gets his game installed and his characters up!

OK I just made Danny Blaine on Virtue. I may already I will make Danny Blain on Protector now.

Great! I'll look for you

All righty, I'm going to officially announce it. The Legionnaires of Virtue task force will take place at 1 p.m. EST on the Virtue Server. Let's meet up near the AP1 trainer, and then I'll go to Positron (I think he's in Steel Canyon) to get the mission.

All characters must be 11 or 12. Sorry, they don't allow Sidekicking to reach that level. That's got to be your original level.

So far, we have Shadow Lad and Condo confirmed. Anyone else? If we don't have enough, I'll just put out a Broadcast to get us at least 5. (4 is the minimum, but I'd rather have 5.)

Hope to see you there!

Unfortunately Garth won't make it. We tried last night to work on getting him up to at least 10 but he's still a mid-range 7. Virtue kept freezing up or giving me Mapserver errors. In three hours of play I managed to earn a whole 300-odd XP.

BTW, Positron is next to Valkyrie in Blyde Square (I think its Blyde) in Steel. But be careful. The last couple of times I've been there since the update there have been attacks by level 32 villains. There has been a lot of carnage there.

Well since it's pouring here and the fireworks displays have been cancelled I simply have no choice but to spend all night on CoH!

Join me if you'd like.

Great. Now I'm all paranoid about the Virtue server's problems. They better not ruin our task force!!!!!!

We got booted off for a bit tonight. Maybe 10 minutes totally inaccessible. And bad lag at times. But I was able to get Garth up to 10th level in one felled swoop of killing everything that moved in KR. Thanks for all the help tonight guys!

and gals ! Don't know what would have become of you without Mysa!

And it was loads of fun having Danny along. Glad you were able to make it DB!

Definitely! It was fun having Danny around.

And Mysa is easy on the eyes.

Danny's Porcupine Pete is great!

Sorry I had to bail on you this afternoon. My hubby wasn't expecting to have to work a 12-hour shift two days in a row during what was supposed to be a three-day weekend (he had his own task force planned for today), and he sounded so depressed when he called to let me know, I had to do something for him since we weren't doing our TF.

As for the task force, I'm sorry it didn't happen, but I'm excited for an all-Legion TF next weekend. Feel free to play your characters up to 12 this week. As long as we stay in the 11-12 range we'll be OK. I've heard the level of the bad guys you face is the same as the highest-trained level on the team, so more than just Condo being a 12 wouldn't be bad.

Once we're in, we'll have to be careful about training. You can train during the middle of a task force. Anyone who's a 12 who levels to 13 should wait until everyone else has reached 12. Even without training, though, you still get the higher hit points and better damage.

I never heard back from Mon 'El or Flame Sidhe, but maybe they can make it next week. I know I can't do Saturday night, and my brother is coming by sometime during the weekend, but I don't know when yet. Hopefully, we can do Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

Hey, Vee, any chance you could get another computer and account this week so you can play Condo and Mysa? (Hmm, I wonder if the hubby would be willing to play Saturn Lady for us ...)

I'm really looking forward to the Task Force and I'm glad we decided to wait until more of us were up to level 11 instead of doing it with others. You never really know what the other players are like as we discovered yesterday after you took off Seymour.

Porcupine Pete (Super Lad Kid), Garth (Scott), Tasmia (Caroline), Andrew Nolan (Scott & Caroline's friend, Thomas) & Mysa decided to head into Perez later in the day and ended up teamed up with a rather "forward" lvl 8 tanker that kept hitting on Mysa.

Our newest Legionniare, Porcupine Pete was very gallant and kept trying to protect her from his advances (Mysa sends Pete a VERY big smile and hug) but it got to be so annoying that we finally broke for dinner and logged off in order to get rid of him. Before logging off, Mysa had the last laugh, however.

As we were heading back to the gate out of Perez, this moron really got annoying and went so far as to say that Mysa now belonged to him. Being a rather headstrong girl, Mysa didn't take kindly to that and told him that she didn't belong to anyone. She then thanked everyone for a fun time and told Mr. Moron something like "Next time maybe I'll bring my other character, Cosmic Rokk. He's a level 11 (she fibbed) tanker that can probably sidekick you if you'd like (sweet smile)."

It was fun to watch him realize that Mysa might be a little more than he perceived. Andrew laughed his head off all the way back to Atlas Park! This did cause us to agree that we would not bring anyone into a team up in the future unless one of us could vouch for him or her. Most of the other players are nice but you do run into some real jerks that take all the fun out of it.

On another note, we all popped over to Protector later and Varalent inducted Super Lad Kid, Scott's Sun Boy, Caroline's Silver Chalice (Mordru's granddaughter), and Thomas' Dox 5.1 into the Legion of Super Protectors. I made everyone a Founder so that there are plenty of people to induct other members into the group.

Finally, it was really great having our newest recruits (SLK's Porcupine Pete and DB's Danny Blaine) join us this weekend. Can't wait to get some others on as well.

It was a blast, Vee. Thanks for giving me the heads up about it. It's nice being able to team up with people that you already know about. I've found myself in some pretty lousy groups before, but was stuck in them in order to get a mission done.

I doubt I'll be able to get Porcupine Pete up to level 11 by this weekend. I left him at just a bar under lvl. 9 with a bit of debt to work off. But since I can only play on the weekends, I may have to sit out the task force mission. Thanks to all for helping level last night, though! If any of you decide to work on the Protector server, I'll gladly lend a hand there.

Hmmmmmmmm......but since they (Condo & Mysa) are both on the same account I don't think it would work anyway.

Very tempting though since we've seen how useful Mysa can be on these missions. I wouldn't want to give up Condo's firepower, however if you guys think Mysa would be more valuable to have along, I'll make sure she's leveled to 12 and use her instead.

PS: Saturn Lady would be awesome to have along if your hubby would join us on the task force. Teleport cound be very useful on the task force, along with her other skills.

Let's see... if you spend all day Sat working on getting Pete up to lvl 11 and we schedule the task force for Sunday....

Or maybe I can create a seperate account and create another Condo & get him up to 12 this week and let someone else (maybe SLK) play him during the task force mission...or....


Okay maybe I'm obsessing about this too much!

...or maybe not enough!

We (Thomas, Caroline and I) stuck around for a bit last night and managed to get 5.1, Lasa and Dirk each up to level 5.

Dirk is a blast. I've never played a fire controller before and his main fireball seems to have quite a range to it already. Can't wait to be able to make him a sniper with it. As with Garth, I'm going to try to keep him as true to his character as possible so no teleport for either one. I love that power though.

Garth still needs a little work to get to 11 but hopefully I can do so by this weekend. If we try for the TF that would be the best time for me. It'll be the last weekend to play before the con. The following week and weekend will be spent getting work ready to run without me and the household set up for Caroline's parents.

Scott be sure to post a pic of Sun Boy, Lasa & Dox 5.1 here. They all looked great!

PS: Speaking of pics...we still need to get a group pic done.

PPS: Are we still doing Legion night on Wednesday this week? I'm game and Scott could work on leveling Garth.

I think we can be available for Legion Wednesday. It'll give us a chance to try to get a new group pic. And I'll get a pic of us when we are on Protector again.

I should be able to hop on for at least enough time to do a group pic Wednesday. I can probably hijack my hubby's computer for a few minutes so we can get Saturn Lady and Shadow Lad in it. But with all Vee's characters, we'll need a little of your Photoshop magic.

And Vee, if you can level a new character to 12 in one week, we're going to have to have an intervention and send you to Gamers Anonymous.

Keep in mind that the only reason I'm spending so much time on the computer is that my good ol' doctor has ORDERED me to cut back on any unnecessary outside activities for the time being (my compromise with him in order to get permission to return to work ). Since I can't go out and get into trouble with my volunteer stuff, I really have no choice but to play CoH or I'd go stir crazy.

(Now that I think of it, maybe I have gone stir crazy and this is all a fantasy world I'm living in )

In any case, it would be challenging but given the amount of time I have on my hands, certainly doable. Remember SLK got Porcupine Pete up to a level 6-7 in one day from scratch! Bet I could do it easily given a week before the task force.

I was very tempted...but I created another member of my menagerie instead. I'll post a pic when I get a chance but we now have a scrapper named Kid Karate Val on Virtue (only one slot left there now ~ wonder who I can fill it with ). Love watching Val kick butt (literally) The martial arts path appears to be really cool.

Andrew & Tasmia got to meet him earlier tonight and they inducted him into the Legionnaires of Virtue so be sure to say hi if you see him.

BTW, Andrew, Tas and Mysa then went hunting and Mysa reached level 12. She now has recall friend (teleport) which should bw helpful to Garth. From now on, every time he dies in the midst of battle, Mysa will be able to teleport him to safety and rez him.

I think it only appropriate for the Legionnaire who has died the most to live up to that in CoH.

Honestly, being a blaster is great but it gets you the kind of fans you really don't want.

Now that's my kind of doctor.

I figured it was something like that. I'd probably be going a bit nuts if I had those same restrictions -- work and straight home, but don't DO anything. I'm glad you found something we can all share. Heck, I'm glad we all found this so we can hang out.

But I will admit, in the back of my mind, I was thinking about the MMORPG-addiction story I wrote a few months ago for my parenting magazine. I'm glad it's nothing like that, and I'm sorry if I offended.

As for the task force, shall we say 1 p.m. EST on Sunday?

No offense perceived or taken Seymour. Expressions of concern can never be offensive, IMHO.

1PM Sunday works for me. BTW, how much time do task force missions usually take? I haven't the faintest idea if it's a couple of hours or deep into the early morning hours on Monday (kidding )

Hope to see everyone on tonight. Just remember, if some unknown Legionnaire comes up to you (or sends you a tell) and says "Hi!", smile you're in Vee's company!

I've been told by more than one person that task forces have a set time of 6 hours to complete. I don't know if that is true or not, just what I've heard.

So what time tonight?

It's 8:30 EST, and I'm hopping on now.

And expect the task force to take about 4 to 5 hours since none of us will be familiar with it.

Current server status:

Freedom UP
Justice DOWN
Pinnacle UP
Virtue DOWN
Liberty UP
Guardian DOWN
Infinity UP
Protector DOWN
Victory UP
Champion DOWN
Triumph UP

The only working server I have a character on is Triumph. This is really starting to suck.

I blame Imra and Tas for breaking out that damn boombox and dancing in the middle of a mission.

Drat! And we were doing so well, too. At least we completed the mission. A few more like that, and we would have had Saturn Lady ready to go for the TF.

I hope it counts as completed. It wouldn't be the first mission I got screwed out of since all of these server problems began.

So what's the deal with the TF? Are we restricting it to lvl 12 only? I've got Garth to 11 but if I can't play tonight (and there is only about 90 minutes I have left for that) then I won't get a chance to lvl him to 12. Isn't 11 high enough?

I SPROCKIN' GIVE UP!

Were we just cursed tonight to always be on the server that was nassed up? If this is what their first update does I don't want to be around when they launch City of Villains next year.

They can be lvl 11 or 12. Can't get admission into a Task Force with less than 11 and we want to keep from going past 12 so everyone is within 1 level of each other. You are already qualified at 11 so no need to worry (though 12 would be nice )

We should get a list of those at 11 or 12 that will be available and interested.

So far, I know of the following:

Garth Ranzz (11)
Tasmia Mallor (12)
Shadow Lad (12)
Andrew Nolan (11)
Condo or Mysa (both 12)

Possible if they can reach lvl 11 by Sunday 1PM Eastern (since you can't join the TF after the group has started)

Saturn Lady (9/10 - not sure which)
Drakefire (9)
Porcupine Pete (7/8 I think)
Lar Gand (I think Lar's either 11 or 12 but I don't know if he's available on Sunday)

Please confirm the above so we know and add any others I may have missed.

Yeah, it seemed that the trouble just followed us around tonight. Too bad, the sewer mission was great with everyone involved.

Hopefully, we got it out of our system so we don't have a problem on Sunday!

Sorry, guys, but I don't think there's any way I'll be able to get Porcupine Pete ready to play by Sunday. Even ifI do, Sunday's not a good day to play. Right now Pete's just a couple bars short of Level 9. It's going to be slow until I can make some major upgrades - which just might happen before the summer ends!

That's too bad SLK, Pete was lots of fun to have in the group. Maybe you'll be ready for the next time we do a TF.

PS: Be sure to let us know if this changes by any chance!

You know, the more I think about it the more I wish there was some way to allow another registered player to have access to one of your characters ~ particularly in the case of TF missions. Perhaps by providing a "permission" option which can be turned on/off by the character's owner.

That would be cool. The characters exist on the servers, I think, so that should make it theoretically possible and not too hard. You should mention it on the message boards.

Boy oh boy! Have I got a surprise for all of you! Can't wait to show you my latest! You are NOT going to believe what fun we're going to have on Virtue now!



(I told you I had one more slot to fill there )

Don't forget -- task force at 1 p.m. EST Sunday. Meet near the trainer in Atlas Park. I got Saturn Lady levelled up, so she and Shadow Lad will be joining us. Vee, unless another blaster shows up, go ahead and play Condo.

Woo hoo!

Seymour, are we sure that we're better off with Condo (lvl 12) blaster than Mysa (lvl 12 defender with Healing / Rez and energy blast)? Remember Garth will be with us

Just want to be sure we have the best group we can put together. In either case, I'll be sure to have both of them topped out on enhancements without going past lvl 12

15 minutes to the start of the TF. So why are you here reading this instead of logging on to CoH?

I'm waiting!

Well it was a fun attempt while it lasted. Vee, I hope your computer is okay since Condo never showed back up. Seymour, same to you. We missed have SL around but I hope your computer didn't get fried.

I haven't been on all week, mainly due to being too worn out from cleaning the house inside out. Wouldn't have mattered if I had gotten Drake up the proper level since our internet connection (and cable) has been out for most of the day...

Thanks, Scott. Mike never did find out what exactly was happening, but things seem to be up and running OK now.

At least I was able to get Shadow Lad up a level and get him a new power. It was tough to choose.

As for the ridiculous difficulty of the TF, here's what Mike heard back and his response to them:

RE: Positron Task Force.

> > FROM: Saturn Lady
> >
> > this damn thing spawns level 16 bad guys
> > even though the team members are all 11
> > and 12 level. We can't even HIT the bad
> > guys. And this is supposed to be FUN?
>
> Discussion Thread
> Response (Jeff) 07/11/2004 02:28 PM
>
> This is normal. Task forces are designed
> to give heroes the maximum level cap of
> mobs for the mission. So a level 16 mob
> is quite acceptable for positron. Thank
> you.
>
When a team of 8 heroes at levels 11 and 12
get mobs of level 16 enemies, the heroes are
unable to **hit** the enemies, let alone kill
them, and the heroes die. And they die. And
they die again.

You should NOT advertise this one as being for
Levels 11-15 or whatever it is. Don't be
misleading and make players think that their
level 11 heroes will be able to complete this
task force when you know very well that they
will not. Make it levels 13-15. Level 11 and
12 heroes are unable to successfully navigate
this taskforce with mobs of solid purple enemies.
I have played several TFs previously (with
higher-leveled heroes) and never seen such a
ridiculously high gap in enemy-vs-player levels.

Nor have I EVER been so frustrated, nor felt so
misled, with the game that I am PAYING to play.

And we already have an update:

> Response (GM Critters) 07/11/2004 07:52 PM
> Hi,
>
> What was the highest level character in your task force? This
> is what the mob spawn is based on. If your highest level was
> level 12, and the mobs were spawning level 16 mobs, this may
> be something that we need to look into. Any additional
> information will be helpful.

> The highest level characters on the TF were level 12. We had
> three 12's and
> a few level 11's. Task force was started on Virtue Server
> (separate issue:
> when is this one gonna stop crashing? ;-) )at approximately
> 13:00 today
> (Eastern time). I do NOT recall what out Task Force teamname
> was, I'm sorry.


> Hi,
>
> I am transferring your ticket to our QA team for further
> review as a bug report. Your ticket may be set to "Solved"
> once they review it without further correspondence if it is
> not necessary. Someone will respond again if more information
> is needed. Please be aware that our QA team is not available
> on the weekends. Take care.
> GM Critters

Condo finally did make it back after numerous failed attempts and a few "almosts". Wish I hadn't tried so hard at that point however. Got killed two times when I reconnected and immediately lost mapserve. Apparently you can die while frozen in place with no connection. Ended up with 1250 in debt without landing a punch, or even seeing anyone I could hit!

I did finally manage to get Condo out of Steel City but he'll have a tough time working off that debt!

Also wonder why the hospital in Steel City is located up north in an area infested with higher level baddies instead of down near the the yellow line train. If you get killed, you have to navigate through the entire city, running a gauntlet of baddies lining the streets & taking pot shots at you that "hit" you for 50-100 points each. Sheesh!!!

Fortunately, Condo had hover, so I was able to fly above them with his tail between his legs

This is just a question out of curiosity. What type of conection do you use to play this game? I'm going to be moving later this month where I will have the possibility of getting a fster connection. I don't think I could afford a cable modem connection. Does anyone play just using a regular dial-up connection? I'd like to be able to play in the comfort of my own place without having to mooch off my buddy's computer on weekends.

SLK: I only have a dial-up connection & it plays just fine for me. (And you know how much time I spend there ) CoH is designed to work with a 56K modem so you should be fine even if you don't get a high speed dsl connection.

I also don't think I've had any more (or less) trouble with lost mapserve connections than anyone else so I don't think the type of connection you use is the problem.

Hope you are able to get set up at home. I suspect we'll get to see Pete (& others) more often once you've moved.

Hey Seymour: Any further word from the GMs about the Task Force? And are we going to attempt it again when we get everyone up in the 13-15 range? I would loved to get back there and kick some nass after what they did to us on Sunday

Condo is now at lvl 13. After lots of "arrest" last night, he was finally able to pay off his debt as well. However, I think next time, it should definitely be Mysa that participates. We really needed a full healer along, although I'm not sure even that would have saved us against all those 16s!

Garth is still at 11. Haven't tried logging back in since the TF try on Sunday. It seems I have the worst luck, server-wise, when I try to play him.

Caroline ran into a group of players for married people the other day. Kind of fun knowing that we aren't the only couples playing the game. And the oldest among them is in his 60's which made Caroline feel better. I created a Tanker (only my second one) with a Western look. Still haven't 'met' my wife online though.

Mike got an email requesting more information specific to our team, but I haven't heard what they did with it. But at least it sounds like the TF was messed up, and we won't have to deal with that in the future.

I definitely want to try again. TFs seem to be the most time-effective way of levelling. As far as levelling beforehand, I guess it depends on when we try again. I won't be able to play at all until August after this Thursday, and I don't know if I'll be able to get on this week.

Once everyone is in the 11-15 range, we can compensate a bit for any differences because we can SK. So if Condo and Tas hit 15 but Garth and Shadow Lad are at 12, they can be SKed up to 14. The key will be keeping things even.

Once Drakefire gets levelled up enough, by all means Mysa should join us. We do need the blaster firepower, though. I don't think we got a good example of how things will go.

Are you implying, sir, that Mysa doesn't have firepower! I'd be careful the next time you see her. She won't like that at all!

Mysa has firepower, but in a situation like we'll probably be in, she won't have time to use it -- she'll be too busy healing. After I did my snipe, I was barely using my other powers because I was just hitting heal as fast as I could.

Ohh, that's okay then! She just gets a little peeved when people underestimate her magic casting.

Are we on for Legion night tonight at 9 PM Eastern?

Scott:

For what it's worth, the mapserve issues seem to have gotten much better this week (so far!) I think I've only lost connection once or twice since Sunday on Virtue.

BTW, last night I saw a couple playing on Virtue server. Called themselve Mighty Mom & Dyno Dad. Didn't chat with them but they looked like they were having a good time. If I recall correctly, they were about lvl 4-5 blasters.

Not sure if any of you know the answer to this question but...are the Dual Origin enhancements that much better than training enhancements? Condo is now at a point where he can use them so I stopped in the store last night to be nosey. I knew DO's were expensive so that didn't catch me off guard but I noticed that they have power levels as well.

So, how does a 15 DO that increases endurance compare to training endurance cost reduction of 15? Or is it more like a 30 or 20 or 50 or ???????

All about Enhancements…

Planning which Enhancements to equip to your hero’s Power is strategically vital to ensure maximum effectiveness from your hero.

The small number under the Enhancement is the level of that particular Enhancement. Heroes can equip Enhancements that are 3 levels below their Security Level up to 2 levels above their Security Level.

Example:
A Level 15 hero can equip a level 12 enhancement to a level 17 enhancement.

The levels of an enhancement can also be identified by color.

Green = Higher Bonus

White = Normal Bonus

Yellow = Lesser Bonus

Red = No Bonus

“Training Enhancements” can be equipped by heroes of any Origin. They provide a slight bonus to the Power it is equipped to.

“Dual Origin Enhancements” are Enhancements with increased bonus because they can only be equipped by heroes of specific Origins depending on the Enhancement definition, which can be found in the Description (ie. Mutation, Science).

“Single Origin Enhancements” offers the greatest benefit to a power when equipped and are specific to only that Origin.

Combining or Stacking?

Stacking an Enhancement is defined as having two identical Enhancements in two or more different slots of a power.

Example:
A level 10 Damage Enhancement in Slot 1 and a level 10 Damage enhancement in Slot 2 under the Power Brawl.

Combining an enhancement is the taking two powers and merging them to create a higher level power.

Example:
A level 10 Damage enhancement in Slot 1, click on it, and combine it with another level 10 Damage enhancement in the Enhancement Inventory to form a 10+ Damage enhancement (which is as effective as a Level 11 Damage Enhancement).

Stacking Enhancements is much more effective than combining Enhancements and will provide more of a bonus to that Power. However, Powers have their own individual limits on how many Enhancements that can be stacked. This limit is very high and cannot be reached by adding Enhancements alone.

You don’t have to pick one or the other. You can still receive a benefit from your Powers if you have stacked in a Power a level 10+ and a level 11+. It all depends on what level your hero is, and what the Power level/type of an enhancement you are equipping.

And for good measure:

Where are the Enhancement stores located?

This is the list of different enhancement store and their location.

Agent Six - Founder's Falls

Biotech Nix - Independence Port (Crey Cove), Talos Island (New Sparta )

Cooke's Electronics - Steel Canyon ( Blyde Square ), Skyway City (Astral District)

Deimos Innovations - Independence Port (Crey Cove), Talos Island (New Sparta )

Exarches Industries - Talos Island (New Troy ), Independence Port

Freedom Corp Basic Training - Steel Canyon ( Bronze Way ), Skyway City (Astral District)

Freedom Corp Special Forces - Independence Port (Industry Pier), Talos Island (New Thebus)

Future Dynamics - Independence Port (Wave Landing), Talos Island (New Sparta )

Holstein Armitage - Bricks Town

Image Inc - Skyway City (The Gruff), Steel Canyon (Grimy Ridge)

Mark IV - Founder's Falls (The Gaspee),

Orion Labs - Steel Canyon (Near Talos Island Tram), Skyway City ( Vista Plaza )

Pandora's Box - Steel Canyon ( Platinum Lake ) Skyway City ( Vista Plaza )

Penny Preston - Founder's Falls (Liberty Town)

Caroline and I will try to be there. Not sure I'll be home in time. And Thomas may not make it. He lost power during the bad storms yesterday in IL and, as of this morning, still does not have power at home.

Hey Scott, where did you find that info? Certainly not in the game manual that comes with the cd.

What makes you think I didn't know it off the top of my head?

Actually, City of Heroes FAQ is quite extensive and easily searchable. Just go here to start.

Just a guess!

$30? Did the price go up? I only played it the first month, but it was only $15 at the time. The only reason I stopped is because my graphics card apparently isn't up to the task of giving me color in the game.

No, that was inaccurate information early on in this thread. It still works out to about $15/month.

My DO enhancements have been a mixed bag so far. I scrimped and saved and bought several 15s in anticipation of becoming level 12.

There is a noticeable change in the accuracy of my heals with that enhancement, more than I think I would expect from a training enhancement. But I'm disappointed with the healing enhancement. Before installing the 15 heal, I had a 9++ in there and was healing 54 per use. With the enhancement, I'm healing 61. That's more than a 10% increase, but it doesn't strike me as being much more than I would have gotten with a 15 training enhancement for a lot less money. I haven't noticed that much of a difference with my 15 DO recharge reduction on that either. (Can you tell I'm really trying to boost Shadow Lad's healing potential to make him more useful?)

As for my damage DO's, I've noticed a significant increase in my snipe damage, but not as significant with my other damage power.

I guess you REALLY see the difference once you start stacking them (as opposed to combining them). And don't waste your money buying extra DO enhancements if you're going to combine. You just won't get anywhere close to enough bang for your buck.

As for tonight, we've got to start packing now that most of the laundry is done, but I'll be hopping on for a little while.

Task force update:

>> Discussion Thread
>> Response (Vyvyanne) 07/15/2004 06:02 PM
>> The missions for Positron, despite being available starting
>> at level 10 are all set to level 15. This means you can see
>> a range of mobs from level 13-17. This is why it is only
>> recommended for a full group of players level 13 or higher,
>> but is available for lower so you can decide how much of a
>> challenge you want.


> [===> Please enter your reply below this line <===]
I fail to see the logic in allowing players to enter a mission when you, the developers and QA staff are *fully aware* that those players will *not* be able to actually hit any of the enemies, thereby instilling frustration, in your PAYING customer, for your product, as well as making the customers feel misled that they would be able to fulfill the TF missions.

Nowhere in-game have I *ever* seen notification that the Positron TF was intended for 13-15. If the TF is intended for 13-15, then make that common knowledge instead of this seemingly shady "10-15" range that is patently false.

To make sure that I understand: You, COH's QA staff, are telling me that the level 16 mob spawns, that are purple cons for a group of 11 and 12 heroes, is by *design*? You, the staff that creates and supports COH, *designed* the game to spawn mobs of creatures in TF missions that you know the paying customers will not be able to defeat? Am I understanding this correctly?

Thank you for all your efforts on this.

> [===> Please enter your reply above this line <===]

So it looks like we'd better try to level up before attempting again so we can SK anyone who doesn't make it. Hold Condo to 15 or he won't be able to join us.

Bastards.

Not to worry, Condo's having a hard time staying alive on his latest mission...and it's in Kings Row!!! Burnser (Hellions Boss)has goten him three time in a row and each time has fully recharged before Condo could get back from the hospital.

Guess I should probably save this one for a team up with a healer. It's the only way I think I'll be able to "arrest" him.

Funny thing is I chose it because I figured a KR mission would be slightly easier that Boomtown or one in Skyway City. It appears I was wrong! (Imagine that )

Missions are all about you and don't care where they are. The only thing safer about a KR mission at your level is getting to it.

This sounds like the perfect mission to do with Shadow Lad. Sorry I won't be able to help you with it.

I knew that it's based on my level. As you said, it's just safer getting to it in KR when you're going alone.

:sniff: Condo may have to wait for your return then. That Burnser is one of the Damned and he's tough!

Silly humans! Imagine being enthralled by staring at a stupid computer screen for hours on end amking believe they're hunting! HAH!!!

What do they know about hunting?

Nothing! That's what and I'm a Big-game hunter!

Why don't they make keyboards big enough for paws?

Sure, like chasing crumpled pieces of paper or stalking birds through the window is any better!

Well, I just ordered a new computer, os it should be arriving in the next couple of weeks. Plus, I'll be moving at the end of the month, so some time after that you will probably see alot more of Porcupine Pete. I hope everyone doesn't get too far ahead of me.

That's great SLK! Look forward to seeing lots of Pete & Super Lad Kid.

For those of you that haven't checked out the updates page, it was just announced that capes will finally be available for your heroes. There is a catch though, you're going to have to earn them.

Apparently they'll become available for you to add to the uniform once your hero reaches level 20.

I've also seen mention of the possiblity to redo you power selections somehow but I don't no the details. Kind of sounds as if it will be as a reward for completing a particular mission.

Anyone going to be around tonight at 9 PM eastern for our regular Legion night?

I'll be there but I know that Scott, Caroline, Seymour, & Thomas are all gone (out of town to SD or vacation) this week. Hopefully some of you will be there.

Good news! I just found out that the place I'm moving to will have DSL available at a reasonable rate! So combined with my new (still-in-the-mail) computer, I should be able to play CoH with little difficulty!

Bad news! I probably won't be completely hooked up until the middle of August. Looks like Pete and SLK are going to get further behind.

CoH update (cause I know you all missed it so!)

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Protector server ~ Legion of Super Protectors:

Well, you have no one but yourselves to blame!

Since all of you abandoned me this week, except for SLK (he & I did have lots of fun when he was able to be on CoH)& Thomas [Andrew Nolan] early on, I got bored and had too much time on my hands. So, on Protector I decided I didn't like Storm Kid (and he's really a bit of a stretch as a Legionnaire) so "bu-bye" to him.

I also "had" to redo Marvel Lad (Lar) on Protector. Tweaked his uniform a little bit in anticipation of an eventual cape for him and decided since I really DON'T care for tankers, I'll leave Night Lass as the only one on that server.

Taking Storm Kid's slot in Vee's Legion ( ) is none other than...


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Dag Wentim of Zwen, better known as Stone Kid!

He's an Earth Controller with Healing and he's been a great deal of fun (already at lvl 5). Turns out that he can hold his own against mobs, too...even mobs slightly higher in level. I'll post a pic as soon as I take one.

The next time one of you is on Protector, I'll have to get you to invite the new Marvel Lad Lar and Stone Kid to the Legion of Super Protectors.

As for the others: E-Lad hasn't had any exercize recently so he's still at level 5, Pol's at lvl 6, FireLad is at 4. Emeral Emprix is still at 3 & my remaining tanker, Night Lass is at 2 waiting for someone to team-up with. The re-booted Marvel Lad Lar is at 2 but should be much higher shortly.

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Virtue server ~ Legionnaires of Virtue

Condo has accumulated (and paid off... and accumulated again!) a great deal of debt but is getting really close to reaching level 15. Guess he'll have to go on hiatus when he does so we can use him on our next attempt at a Task Force mission. I'll confess that I goofed in my last power selection for him. I chose "Heal Self" and wish I could take it back. Can't ever seem to use it when I most need it, and another attack power would probably have been a better choice for him. Maybe I'll be able to redo this choice, if what I'm reading on upcoming updates is true.

Mysa should be at level 13 shortly so she will likely be the first of my Legionnaires to actually wear a cape (Condo won't get one ~ doesn't seem appropriate for him) I think capes will become available at 15 (if I remember correctly)

Congrats to Porcupine Pete! SLK got him up to level 12 yesterday! He really is a great deal of fun to watch and team with.

My other Legionnaires on Virtue are progressing nicely as well. Cosmic Rokk & Rond are still at 10 but I-Kid Lyle & Fun-Loving Quiz are both up to level 9 and Kid Karate Val is up to lvl 6. Poor Brin LoneWolf continues to be ignored and is only up to lvl 4.

Although I haven't changed anything on Virtue, I'm very tempted to boot my tanker, Brin LoneWolf (again while I love how he looks, I just don't enjoy playing this archetype) and I'm even considering redoing Cosmic Rokk (also a tanker) even though he's up to lvl 10. I'll probably hold off until I find out more about what's coming in the near future regarding redoing powers.

I really like Pol's power set over on Protector (Force Field defender with Energy blasts as a secondary set ~ really has the right "look" for magnetic powers) so that's how I would redo Rokk, if I decide to do so.

Haven't done either yet, but if you guys don't hurry back there may be more wholesale changes for y'all to adjust to on Virtue as well as Protector. I have some great ideas for some other Legionnaires if more slots open up

Finally, I do think I'll boot Empress and save her for a future rebirth in City of Villains. She just doesn't seem to belong in the Legion, after all.

Updated Update (I TOLD you guys you were leaving me with too much time on my hands! )

Empress is history (although she will reappear In CoV...I had to PROMISE her that, so she wouldn't come after me with the Eye! )

Sad to say so is Brin (Yes I do feel bad for ignoring him. Maybe the new creative team will beef up his powers somehow and give me something else to work with that I might enjoy more. Gonna miss the lug.)

So, who shall replace the two of them? I'm going to try to wait for suggestions from all of you regarding whom you'd like to see me take a crack at in creating to join my merry band. (But don't wait TOO long!)

Lots of possibilities remain...one slot open on each server...hmmmmmm?

As promised, here's the first ever pic of the latest addition to Vee's Legion...Stone Kid!

And here's some interesting info about the upcoming expansion to CoH...City of Villains!

Halloo and greetings from Oregon! We're actually in a hotel that has Internet access (though I must admit a certain pleasure in being stuck without it for a while). It's been a long day on the road, but I had to check in with my favorite thread.

Mike's looking over my shoulder and has more info on the power tweaking. He says once the trial zones (missions) become active, the Terra Volta zone (in Indepence Port) will allow you to "respec" your character's powers upon successful completion. That's what he's heard at least. For those of you unfamiliar with Terra Volta (like me), Mike says you can't get into it until 23 and survive (in a large group) until 27. Eep!

And here's the final word he got on our attempt at a task force:


Hello Mike,

Yes, the task forces were changed a little over a month ago to always generate villains of the highest possible level for that specific task force. This was done intentionally by the development. However, at the time they decided not to adjust the level ranges for those task forces that were in place before that change was made. You are correct that it would be very difficult for a group of characters at level 11 or 12 to be able to complete the task force. However, it should not be as difficult for a level 10 character to team with some level 12s, level 14s. and level 15s for example, especially since they adjusted the difficulty of purple level villains a few weeks back. By restricting the level range from 13-15 as you suggested they would be limiting the group arrangements that could possibly take on the task force, and this is not something they wanted to do.

I will pass on your concerns to the Cryptic team, as they may decide to change the level ranges at some point in the future.

Eric again: So there you have it. We need some 15s to SK the other guys to be able to survive this mission.

I don't know if I'll have time to get on again before I get home this weekend, so I'll probably catch you in Paragon City next week!

So after our little mini-Legion gathering last night and talking about JSA and Infinity, Inc. I went and created a new character on a server I've not used before, Pinnacle. This is Mister Terrific, a Natural Tanker. I think he came out pretty good. Now if we can just get a few more JSA related character on the same server.

He did come out "Terrific" .

I'll see about joining you over there (WARNING!!! There are almost as many members of the JSA as the LSH Don't say I didn't warn you!)

BTW, I think Pinnacle server is the one that Danny B usually plays on. We'll need to make sure to let him know when we're over there.

Well here's my (1st ) contribution to our JSA group.


I think that other than a slight difference in the helmet, once he earns his cape he should look pretty good. What do you think, Scott?

Looks great Vee! What do you think about my Sand? I'm still working on him since I can't figure out which way to go with his powers.

Wow! He's coming out great. I guess he really SHOULD be an Earth Controller, the problem is that I can't think of anything that makes sense for his secondary power set

I think he worked out okay as a Tanker. And I'll focus on his Earth powers for his armor as he goes up in level.

But I do think that I like Mister Terrific more. He seems more in character and easier to control. I'll probably switch back and forth to keep them close in level.

Thanks for the game again tonight Vee. I'm finally coming out of my CoH funk where I didn't want to play anymore.

Oh, and I could have gone the Martial Artist route with Sandy. That's how he originally started, before being turned into a silcon beast. And didn't they kill him off recently?

Here's my contribution to Infinity, Inc. (also on Pinnacle). I couldn't get the face quite right but I wound up using Face 10 with a full mask and the skull superimposed on it. This let me give it a black base which helped because it made his hands black like he was wearing gloves. With the suit option you don't get to pick gloves so in this way I was able to keep Mr. Bones' signature black gloves.

He's a Mutation Defender with Rad/Rad powers. It actually works kinda well. Radiation Infection makes them vulnerable to his Neutrino Blast and X-Ray Beam. This was the best way I could come up with to mimic his cyanide touch. Decided to go that route rather than his super-strength. I think his next power will be Accelerate Metabolism. This will give him the ability to heal as well as boosting run, attack speed and recover of allies while making them resistant to most effects like sleep and disorient.

Think I'll do Obsidion for Infinity Inc with full Dark/Dark powers. I'll give it a try when I get home.

But I'll have to look up a picture, not sure I could do him from memory like I've done the rest.

Does this help Vee?

Or maybe this one?

Thanks, Scott! Ugh, kind of a boring costume. Well, we'll see how it turns out (or else just might turn into the original Star Spangled Kid )

Caroline created the Crimson Avenger this morning. The latest one, the girl with a blindfold who doesn't remember who she is. Caroline has just about filled up all the slots on Pinnacle now with new characters.

That's why we have so much fun on CoH, so many slots to fill, it never getts boring!

I know. I wish we didn't have to earn capes. I'd love to do a McFarlane version of Mr. Bones, before he became a government drone.

Yeah, I'm peeved about the capes also but at least they will be available...even if you do have to wait to lvl 20 to get them. Hope they have a variety and not just one style

From what I've seen its one style that you have control over the colors and designs on. I hope I'm wrong though.

And thinking more on the Infinity, Inc. I may have to do a second like I did with the JSA. Either Nuklon (who might be to hard to create, power-wise) or the Silver Scarab.

The Scarab will be interesting considering you already have Dr. Fate in the JSA. Assuming your Fate is Hector.

Actually, I envisioned him as the original (Kent Nelson) one that I grew up with, but your guess is as good as mine about who it is under that mask . Haven't followed JSA at all since the early 80s until I added it to my pull list about 3 months ago. Not really all that familiar with all the new versions of the old characters.

For example, I've figured out that Sandman died somehow and Sandy became Sand after being healed. I think I figured out that the original Star Spangled Kid died somewhere along the line & the new one is somehow a combination of him & Starman.

I think Obsidion & Jade are brother & sister and the kids of GL and Rose from Rose & Thorn.

So many unanswered questions & confusion about the JSA...

PS: What does Silver Scarab have to do with Fate?

Okay, this is taken from http://www.dcuguide.com/Who/SilverScarab_Bio.htm since I can't keep his continuity straight myself.


Hector Hall is the son of Carter and Shiera Hall, the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, while his parents were on archaeological expedition. Unknown to the Hawks, Hath-Set had placed a curse on them in their Egyptian incarnations that would culminate which the birth of their offspring. As a result Hector was born without a soul, destined to be a vessel for the real Silver Scarab, Hath-Set's agent of vengeance.

After Hector was born Shiera decided to retire from crimefighting, while Carter continued his career as Hawkman. However as they would both often go on archaeological expeditions they often had to leave Hector behind in the care of baby sitters. As a result Hector felt neglected by his parents and some of the only happy times he had was in the company of the other Justice Society members' progeny. When they took him to the hidden city of Feithera, home of the winged bird-people, to visit their godson Norda (the son of a winged Fietheran and a human) it only aggravated Hector further as he was not able to fly with his parents as Norda could.

Desperately wanting to join his parents in the sky Hector began creating a suit made entirely of Nth metal combined with some solar power improvement of Hector's design shortly after he began his college studies at UCLA. A couple of years later he discovered that Lyta Trevor, his childhood friend and daughter of the Golden Age Fury, was also a student at UCLA and the two began dating. Lyta dreamed of following in her mother's footsteps and become the next Fury so when Hector showed her his armored suit that he would eventually wear as the Silver Scarab the two decided to ask their parents to sponsor them for membership in the Justice Society of America. Before doing so they invited Albert Rothstein, another of their childhood friends and the godson of the Golden Age Atom, over for christmas and try to convince him to join them in their quest. Before going to petition for membership of the Justice Society they were joined by the Hawk's godson Norda who joined them as Northwind, but all of them were eventually turned down due to their youth and lack of experience.

Shortly after being turned down, Jade and Obsidian, the children of the Golden Age Green Lantern and the Golden Age Thorn, also turned up at the JSA meeting petitioning for membership. Seeing how the JSA wasn't about to let any of them join the six heroes left the meeting to figure out what to do next. The Star-Spangled Kid, who himself had been a young kid when he started out felt that the young heroes had been dealt a bad hand by the rest of the JSA and since he himself was about to announce that he was about to form a new team he left the JSA to ask them to join him. So along with JSA member Power Girl and Brainwave, Jr., the son of of the original Brainwave the eight heroes formed Infinity, Inc.

Following a fight with the criminal Ultra-Humanite who exposed the Silver Scarab as Hector Hall, the Scarab publicly unmasked at Infinity, Inc.'s first press conference. At the same press conference he announced Fury was his fiancee. A side effect of revealing his own identity was for him to reveal that of his father's as well, which at first this put a further strain on their relationship.

Hector and Lyta's happiness was to be short as Hector fell victim to the ancient Egyptian curse by Hath-Set and was taken over by the evil entity that had remained dormant inside his body since birth. Side by side with a reincarnated Hath-Set, the Scarab went up against the Infinity, Inc. and although the team eventually beat Hath-Set and destroyed the entity, it was at the cost of Hector's life. Just before dying Hector learned that Lyta was pregnant with his child.

However, death was not to be the end the end of Hector as his consciousness had been cast into the Dreaming where he was found by Brute and Glob. Having created a dreamworld of their own hidden within the dreams of a young boy and walled off from the rest of the Dreaming they wanted to create a dream king of their own in the absence of the real dream lord Morpheus, one that they would be running and could use in a scheme to eventually assume control of the Dreaming.

Convincing Hector that he was the heir to the role of the Sandman, guardian of the dreams of men, after his predecessor Garrett Sanford died, Hector became the unwittingly pawn of the two nightmares who would play the role of his sidekicks while molding him. From his base in the dream dimension Hector would look in on his pregnant wife Lyta and at some point he began visiting her one hour every night while she slept without exposing himself to her thinking the strain of seeing him alive might harm the baby. However, his nightly visits did not go unnoticed and he was eventually discovered and unmasked by Nuklon. Once exposed Hector told Lyta of his new role and he asked her to marry him even though he would only be able to stay out the dream dimension for one hour a day. Lyta accepted his proposal but decided to return with Hector instead. The two then got married and left for the dream dimension.

Morpheus eventually broke free from captivity and when he learned of Brute and Glob's disappearance he set out to find them. After locating and recapturing Brute and Glob and sent their pawn Hector to the realm of the dead and returned Lyta to the world of the living.

Once again death was not to be the end of Hector but rather a new beginning. Hector was to return to the living and fulfill his destiny. Hector's soul and consciousness was to be reincarnated and become the next person to assume the mantle of Dr. Fate. Although Mordru the Dark Lord tried to kill the newborn Hector to assume the power of Fate for himself the JSA managed to intervene and bond the child with the power instead instantly transforming Hector into a new Doctor Fate.

Still working on him, but what do you think?

Pretty damn Obsidian like! You got the face dead on from what I can tell.

Just a reminder to everyone that we're going to try to do Legion Night on Virtue server tonight (Wednesday) Try to be on by 9 PM eastern.

We need to try to get all of our chars up to (but not over!) lvl 15 so that we can try that Task Force Mission again soon.

Here's my latest JSA addition ~ the Earth 2 Robin with a slight twist ( and a nod to pre-Crisis continuity)



His a fire/fire blaster, the explanation for which is found in his bio.

Great game tonight!

I wasn't tired, though, so I got busy on Pinnacle. Here's who I've got so far -- Power Chick (martial arts, regeneration scrapper -- liked regeneration better than invulnerability):



No boob window, though, so I tried this, the best I could find:



For someone sweeter, I tried Starspanglegirl (energy/energy blaster):



I wanted to do Golden Age Flash, but they didn't have the hat. You gotta have the hat.

The night before, I did Big Kid (martial arts/regeneration scrapper) on protector. Apparently, colossal is one of the special titles you can get at 15, so it wouldn't let me use it:

Those came out terrific Seymour. The two ladies look awesome and it's great to see Gim(and in his Adventure era costume no less!)

Gim's perfect (maybe we should do an Adventure era Legion) and I love both versions of Power Girl. Star is good too but I'm not that familiar with her.

That would be cool but we would need to do it on another server (Vee's Legion has filled all of Protector's slots and all but one on Virtue ) Like maybe Infinity? Don't think I've heard anyone having anything on there.

(Let's see now...eight slots to work with in the Aventure era...hmmmmmm...I could...)

Definitely on a new server. I don't think I have anything on Infinity and that sounds like a good name for Adventure Era Legionnaires. Grife. I wasn't go to log in to the game tonight, take a break but now I want to design a new Garth.

Make sure you tell Caroline about our Infinity Adventure. I imagine she'll come up with almost as many ideas for characters as I will.

She already asked if she could have Imra this time around.

Cos is on his way from Braal on the Starship Infinity. A new Adventure is about to be founded!



He's a Force Field Defender with Energy secondary.

I'm thinking of going with THE Adventure look. Lightning Boy.

Glad you like my creations. I just took Gim through the tutorial, so I could re-create him on Infinity no problem. I'd really like to concentrate on Shadow Lad, though, since I'd like to take him high to see what happens. I'm ready for new missions instead of running the old ones over and over as I create new characters.

Don't get me wrong. I love gaming with you all no matter how we do it. And creating characters is a lot of fun. I just want to take one all the way.

What do you guys think?

Good job! He looks great!

I agree, Seymour. I'm concentrating on Condo & Mysa myself but I most enjoy playing with our group. Since I seem to spend more time there than most, Condo & Mysa would be way ahead in level at this point and we really wouldn't be able to do teams with them.

I'm really looking forward to getting you, Caroline, Scott, SLK, Pex, Patch Lad, DB, etc all to the point where we can do big TFs together.

Gungnir and Garth are my main focuses. I can't do like Caroline who has almost as many characters as Vee.

Oh, and the above wound up named Lightning Ranzz. Lightning Boy, Lightning Lad and Garth Ranzz were all taken.

Wow, must be a lot of Legion fans on Infinity.

He looks good, by the way.

Hope to see you online tonight -- somewhere (if I can ever get out of work, that is).

I'll be on (actually I am right now...jumping from server to server to see if anyone else is on! )

Hey guys! Just wanted to let you know we met a big Legion fan on Infinity server last night. On that server he has a character named UltraStar but said he had a Mon-el based character on Justice server. Sent him an in game email to invite him here. Hopefully he'll check out LW and join.

Seymour, I tried to send you a PM letting you know where we were last night but I see it's still listed as unread. Didn't you get the message?

I didn't get on last night. I didn't get home from work til late, and I had other things to catch up on. We're trying to force our bodies back into EST mode, too, and took a sleep aid to help us get to bed earlier. We've had a hard time getting up in the morning.

Should we shoot for another task force Sunday the 15th? 1 p.m. EST again? This weekend is shot for me. I'll have some time to get on, but not a block to commit to a TF. That should give us all a chance to reach at least 14 (or SK anyone who doesn't).

That sounds about right. I definitely want to wait to make sure that SLK is set up with his new computer at home. Also we need to try to find out if Pex, Patch, DB and the others can join us. We absolutely need lots of fire power and (as we discovered on some of the recent missions) lots of full healing & rez.

I very much want to play Condo but fear that we'll really need Mysa more to help keep everyone alive. I still wish there was some way to have someone play one of my two characters so that we could benefit from both of them.

The 15th might be doable for us but I don't know about getting Garth up any more levels. He just barely hit 12 and I don't foresee being able to get two more by then.

Seymour, don't forget to start the Adventure era Gim on Infinity!

Don't worry, Scott. Someone should be able to SK you, especially if Mysa or SL can hit 15.

As for Gim, I'll get him on Infinity ASAP!

Condo 8191/9093 with 822 in debt. Level 15 coming up!

Condo: 8499/9093 with 484 debt. Inching closer & closer. (Hey at 15 I get a title. Any suggestions?)

Condo: 8952/9093 NO MORE DEBT! (yay!)

Mission accomplished!

Woot!

But can you do it with Mysa? If I can't get Mike to play SL, we'll need another healer.

I have only begun to try!

(It will be tough because she's a defender but we'll see! )

OK, I've got Big Kid on Infinity. Cos, Lightning Ranzz and Star Kallor are on his friends list. Look him up! And Caroline should definitely do Imra this time.

She did. She's Imra Ardeen' (note the apostrophy on the end)

The move is finished! The new computer has arrived!!! Now I just need to get the DSL going and I'm all set. I think I might be able to play on the 15th. We'll wait and see. Can't wait to join all you guys in the comfort of my very own home with my very own computer!!

After a great day running around with Vee and another friend of mine who may be joining these boards now, I ate dinner and went back looking for Vee. I guess his computer was having problems again (happened for a while earlier) or we just kept missing each other as we wandered from server to server looking.

I got a bit tired of that and stopped on Infinity to create a new character, Princess P. She's an illusion controller, natch. I was partially inspired by my friend, who was playing an illusion controller named Prism Lord, plus I had been thinking about her for a while. Here she is. (I'll definitely have to get her to 20 so she can have her pink cape!) I know she didn't have shorts as a bottom, but the bikini options in the game just looked obscene.




So look for us. I'll probably play her more than Gim. I like Spectral Wounds!

Princess P looks great! I'll add here to my friends list and look or you.

Don't let Mysa hear you say that, Seymour. She very much likes her bikini bottom.

I did continue to have proble,s for a while with my connection but eventually did get back on. Sorry I couldn't track you down. Ended up on Pinnacle late last night also but with a new char as well, "The Demon Angel" for the Buffy gang Caroline & Thomas wanted to do. We had fun playing "celebrities" and meeting our adoring fans!

I hope Prism Lad does decide to join here, he was a lot of fun. And maybe he'll go ahead and create some Legionnaires for our various groups as well. Always great to meet another true Legion Fan (when someone's fav is Color Kid, you know they're a REAL fan! )

That's great SLK! I've missed seeing Pete around. (Love the way he looks with the spines! )

Hey everyone! Be sure to say hi to our new LW member, UltrStar, when you see him. We meet him a few nights ago in Atlas Plaza (on Infinity) with our Adventure era Legionnaires. He's a big Legion fan and has a Mon based hero on Justice.

Maybe we can talk him into joining us on Virtue & Protector as well!

Hi everyone.

Yep, Prism Lord is me. I had fun playing with you two, SS and Vee. Prism Lord is one of my maaaaany chars.

I've got a char on most servers, except for Justice which seems to be the busiest (only one I see hit three dots every night). I'm creating a webpage with pix (and, eventually, profiles) of most of 'em but here's the list:

Champion Server:
Shayne Storm -- lvl 7 weather defender

Freedom Server:
Gerriod -- lvl 2 ice tanker

Guardian Server:
Man of Mystery -- lvl 5 mind/rad controller (forget the 2nd)

Inifity Server:
Bolt of Blue -- Lvl 8 electric blaster
Querl Dox -- Lvl 3 FF/energy bolt defender
Queen Amethyst -- Lvl 2 energy blaster

Libery Server:
Red Streak -- Lvl 3 fire/fire tanker

Pinnacle Server:
Greymalkin -- Lvl 2 invulnerability/stregth tanker

Protector Server:
Mystery Man -- Lvl 2 ice/kinetic controller

Triumph Server:
Shadow Yamamura -- Lvl 12 dark/dark defender
Mister Brazil -- Lvl 13 MA/heal scrapper

Victory Server:
Kamisori -- Lvl 12 katana/dark scrapper
The 4th of July Kid -- Lvl 9 grav/empathy controller

Virtue Server:
Prism Lord -- Lvl 8 ill/rad controller

Mr Brazil is part of a supergroup of internationally themed heroes. Everyone is Mr/Ms country. I'm way behind everyone else on that SG, since, as much as I play, I end up splitting my time over several chars.

Prism Lord is my out-and-proud char, done in a rainbow theme. Vee helped me find the coustume outlet in Steel to add a big pink triangle to the costume, to

Overall, I find my playstyle tends to prefer defenders and controllers to dammage archetypes. Those give me a feeling like I'm playing with the big picture, trying to keep track of what the team needs and how to deal with it. I like my scrappers but I get frustrated when I can't keep track of a mob and, I turn around and realize that I've wasted time fighting a thug while a boss has been dealing us a ton of dammage. (I've gotten grumpy with teammate scrappers for the same a couple times.)

Anyway, look forward to teaming with some of you in Paragon City.

Glad to see you here, LyleLyle.

Now we need to get Prism Lord up high enough in level so that you can join us for the Task Force mission we're trying to put together for this coming Sunday. (I think you need to be lvl 11 as a minimum to get into the mission but Seymour knows more than I do)

Most of us have heroes scattered on various serves just like you. I think almost all of them are listed on this thread so look for us on any server.

We do have Legion based groups on Virtue (Legionnaires of Virtue) and Protector (Legion of Super Protectors) and are starting an Adventure era group on Inifinity which Querl Dox could join (no name yet since none of us is high enough in level ~ although another new poster here, UltraStar thinks he can get on set up for us)

We ususally have Legion nights on Virtue every Wednesday for which everyone tries to be on with their hero around 8:30-9:00 PM. Those are always a blast!

Anyway, I'm really glad you decided to join us here and look forward to interacting with you more here and with Prism and your other heroes on CoH.

Vee

Thanks Vee.

I actually created Querl on infinity for the Adventure group. I've been wanting to play with the FF defender, based on what I heard about the potential of FF and I realized that Brainy was a good excuse for that.

Queen Amy I created in a homage mood. I was thinking she'd be fun to play with other Legion chars, which is why I created her on Infinity, but then I forgot that Inifinity is Adventure era Legionnaires. (Too bad you can't create a Life Lass char.) I should re-create her on Protector... hopefully my originally intended name, Lady Amethyst, isn't taken. (I still can't believe that Princess Amethyst is too long for the game.)

I think I'm going to put some focus on Prism Lord... partly to TF with you guys but also because I've been hearing that the illusionist is a fun powerset that I need to play with (along with FF).

I'll try to join everyone on Virtue Wednesday... is 8:30 EST? I'll have to be late for that, I don't get home until after 9 and then there's greeting-boyfriend time, but I'll try to be there.

I can't wait to see your Amethyst character wherever she winds up. She's another favorite of mine.

I'd definitely like to take an illusion controller far in the game. I've heard Phantom Army is way cool to see in action. Hopefully I can do that with Princess P, though I'd really like to take Shadow Lad far just so I can see what's out there. My partner's character is almost level 30, so I pop in now and then to see what cool things he's fighting.

It is 8:30 EST. Hopefully, you can make it on when one of the Founder-rank characters from Legionnaires of Virtue is on so you can join the supergroup. I originally envisioned it as Legion fans and Legion-inspired characters, but the Legion-inspired have been so fun, almost all the members are that way. But you're still welcome to join in.

For the task force, it looks like if you can make it to level 10 (not an easy task -- maybe you could have your boyfriend play him while he's waiting for you to get home ) by Sunday, you can join us. Someone will be glad to SK you. But just SKing you isn't enough to get on a TF mission. We had thought the lowest you could join was 11, but I think it's actually 10.

I'll definitely be on just about every night this week making sure that I get Mysa up to lvl 15. She's already more than half-way there so I should be able to do so.

My Cosmic Rokk is one of the Founders so if you see Mysa on, send me a tell and I'll switch to Rokk in order to induct you in the SuperGroup then switch back to Mysa.

I was thinking of you, natch, when creating my Amy character... actually I did wonder if you were the one who reserved Lady Amethyst on Infinity.

I think I can get Prism Lord up to ten by Sunday. Since it's Sunday, I can probably get some good movement on Satuday... I got almost two levels Saturday.

Tho' last night was about getting each of my tanks up a lvl... I'm kinda liking the powertype tho I hear it stops being fun at the higher levels.

Hey, hey! Mysa turned 15 tonight!

Also, thanks go out to UltraStar (one of our newest members here on LW) who used two of his heroes on Infinity to create a SuperGroup for our Adventure era Legionnaires. So we now have our SG in place. It's named Legion of Super Friends and currently has UltarStar's Wildfire-X and my Cos as members. Next time we're on Infinity, we'll get the rest of you signed up.

Well, Prism Lord make it to Lvl 9 last night. I wanted to go a little further, but there didn't seem to be a lot of people on, and trying to solo just got me debt. (Couldn't even get much of a team in Perez.)

I played with character creation and designed a Liberty Bell-inspired guy. Didn't have any powers I wanted to play with that would'a been apt for a LB protegee, tho so I never finished him.

Anyway, I recreated my Amethyst char on Pinnacle, but it sounded like Protector might've been more apropriate.

I'm dying to get a character to 20 for the second costume, I want to give some of my characters civvies, so they can go out in their Secret ID.

Last night while Prism Lad, Shadow Lad, Tasmia & my Mysa were recovering from one of our near death experiences, we were talking about how many characters we all had scattered across various servers. To make it easier for everyone to keep track, I suggested that we all post our list on this thread. So here's mine:

Virtue: (Legionnaires of Virtue)
Condo, lvl 15 energy/energy mutation blaster
Mystical Mysa, lvl 15 empathy/energy magic defender
Cosmic Rokk, lvl 10 invulnerability/energy melee mutation tanker
Rond Vidar, lvl 10 empathy/radiation science defender
Fun-Loving Quiz, lvl 10 energy/energy science blaster
I-Kid Lyle, lvl 9 empathy/elctric science defender
Kid Karate Val, lvl 6 martial arts/super reflexes natural scrapper

Protector: (Legion of Super Protectors)
Varalent, lvl 12 energy/energy magic blaster
Pol, lvl 7 force field/energy blast mutation defender
Stone Kid, lvl 7 earth control/empathy mutation controller
Marvel Lad Lar, lvl 6 energy/energy mutation balster
FireLad, lvl 5 fire/fire mutation blaster
E Lad, lvl 5 energy/electric mutation balster
Night Lass, lvl 3 invul/super strength mutation tanker
Doc Gym'll, lvl 3 empathy/radiation mutation defender

Infinity: (Legion of Super Friends)
Cos, lvl 5 force field/energy mutation defender
Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster

Pinnacle: (JSA based SG & Buffy based SG in the works)
Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster
DrFate, lvl 6 dark/energy magic blaster
Dark Obsidion, lvl 3 dark/dark magic defender
Robin Flamebird, lvl 4 fire/fire magic blaster
Demon Angel, lvl 6 fire/energy magic blaster

Triumph:
BlueMage, lvl 5 fire/energy magic balster
(I'm also working up some Titan based characters on this serve. I'll post them when they're done)

Champion: (yes, I even have Marvel based X-heroes. Prob a few others soon )
Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster
Ice Bobby X, lvl 5 ice/ice mutation blaster
Alec Havok, lvl 2 energy/energy mutantion blaster

Guardian:
Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster
CometKid, lvl 4 fire/fire mutation blaster

Victory:
Killowatt Kid, lvl 3 kinetic/radiation mutation defender
Vigilante Greg, lvl 3 assault rifle/energy mutation blaster

Justice:
Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster
White Cross Kid, lvl 3 energy/energy mutation blaster

Freedom:
Cubanisimo, lvl 2 fire/energy magic blaster

Liberty:
Varalent, lvl 2 energy/energy magic blaster

I'd also love to do a Defenders group somewhere. There were some great characters in that Marvel comic!

LyleLyle: I'll be on every night this week (remember tomorrow is Legion night on Virtue!) so I'll be around to help yopu get there. Just look for one of my horde

Wow, Vee, now I realize why I got confused trying to get down all your chars from this thread. You've been much busier than I.

I'm still trying to remember the bad guy from Giles' past. Then again I did like Giles so I could do a Giles-inspired char.

Has anyone tried playing with binds? I've played with coloring my chat bubbles, but I've been reading about some of the possibilites. I remeber on char I ran into that had a bind command that indicated what she was attacking.

'course I haven't decided on what would make apt colors for Prism Lord...

I've not tried binds or macros myself, not even sure where to begin with them.

I'm hoping that I can at least get 1 more lvl for Garth with tomorrow night's game.

And that list doesn't include all those that were and are no more (Validuss, Emerald Emprix, Brin LoneWolf, Infinite Knight...hmm, I think there were one or two others but can't remember them right now)

Never tried to do binds. Hell, I can't even figure out how to take a pic other than from the back!

Edit: Just remembered there was also a Storm Kid on Protector

Hey, fellow Legionairres....

Just wanted to say hi to everyone here who helps fight the good fight in Paragon City.

That game has to be the most addictive game I've ever played. I swear it calls to me when I'm not playing it.

I was just wondering about your Legion night on Virtue on Wednesdays...
Is that east coast time?
And how long does it last for?
I just created a few more Legion characters on Virtue and Protector and was hoping to run into some of you guys but I'm not home from work on Wednesdays till 7pm west coast time.

I'm off Thursdays and Fridays so maybe I'll see some of you during those days.

F.Y.I.....

(INFINITY)
UltraStar --lvl 28 tanker
Son of Jor-El --lvl 13 tanker
General Zod --lvl 4 blaster
Fyre-Storm --lvl 4 controller
Wildfire-X --lvl 9 blaster

(JUSTICE)
Ultra-Star --lvl 12 blaster
Green Lantern X --lvl 4 defender
Lil Bub --lvl 3 scrapper (tiny wolverine)
Mon-El of Daxam --lvl 8 tanker

(PROTECTOR)
Smallville --lvl 3 tanker
Comet Queen --lvl 3 blaster

(VIRTUE)
Brainiac-5 --lvl 2 controller
Dev-Em --lvl 2 tanker
Laurel Kent --lvl 2 tanker

Catch ya in Paragon, folks.....

UltraStar, Legion Night on Virtue starts around 8:30 - 9 PM eastern and we're usually on for a few hours (at least) so definitely come looking for us when you get online. Can't wait to see your version of all of those characters! Comet Queen in particular is a great idea and I assume Smallville is a version of Kal.

Here's a challenge for you ~ see if you can get one of the ones on Virtue up to at least level 10 so you can join us on the Task Force mission this coming Sunday. (Unless you already have a high enough level character on Virtue.)

Binds are interesting and frustrating but way cool when they work.

I created my first original bind last night, a stock cheer for tough sucessful battles and completed missions. Hopefully, you'll get to see it tonight. I already made dinner for tonight (cold, glazed shrimp), so I should be able to sign on soon after getting home.

Last night, while in between working on dinner, I created some new characters. One, after getting a bunch of names rejected, got called Retro Girl, which I'm hoping doesn't get zapped. I didn't realize why that sounded catchy to me until I hit go. (Annoyingly Yesterday's Girl is also too long a name.) Her costume was an attempt at creating a Marvel Girl costumer, but in different colors, as I wanted a swinging 60s style character. Her powers are mind control and force field.

The other characters were a redo of Shane Storm (this time in long shorts instead of attempting to fake up a speedo) and The Silk Stranger, a scrapper in a suit. If I get these characters going, the other Shayne Storm and Man of Mystery (a name I created when Mystery Man was already taken) may go.

Oh, and Prism Lord is now halfway to ten. Yea! I'm hoping for eleven by Sunday.

I'm ashamed to admit I don't recognize those. Is Marvel Girl Jean Grey or Mary Marvel? Shane Storm related to Sue & Johnny Storm of the FF? Mystery Man I don't know at all.

PS: What servers did you put them on?

My Retro Girl was supposed to be like Jean Grey's original identity. Too bad CoH doesn't have the cool cat mask. The colors are totally different, tho since I wanted to fall on the side of homage.

Shane Storm is just a storm character. I have to double check what the servers are, tho.

I'm done moving!


My new, powerful gaming computer has arrived!!


My DSL is hooked up !!!


My City of Heroes is at my firend's place and I won't be going there until this weekend.


Grrrr, the waiting is getting unbearable. I will be back to Paragon City soon, and it will be in the privacy of my own home. I just hope everything runs OK.

So when is the next attempt at a TF mission going to be? Sunday? What time?

Haven't set a time yet but I would guess Sunday early afternoon (maybe 1 or 2 eastern?) Can't wait to see Pete again.

Hope the hurricanes (yes, two of them roaming around here by FL) don't interfere with me being able to get online on Sunday. I will be quite perturbed if they do and I miss out on the TF!

LyleLyle: Waited around in Steel Canyon for a while after you disappeared. I was going to TP you "out of harm's way" to the tram but it got too late. Let me know if you're going to be on tomorrow with him & about what time, and I'll try to be there to get you out of that nasty neighborhood if you'd like. Can't afford to have you get any more debt!

Hey how do you guys post your CoH pics here?

I know how to take screenshots during the game but how do you put them here without making it a link?

Also...
is there a Legion team on the Justice server?
If so what's it called?
Mon-El of Daxam needs a team!!!!

Plus I still have room to create 2 more heroes there.
I figured they'd be either Legion or JLA or something.

Did I hear something about a JSA and Titans group out there somewhere?

Ultra: The pictures need to be online somewhere. I use the free webspace at "My Netscape" because, unlike other free webspaces like Yahoo, etc., it allows hot linking.

Once you've got the pics uploaded somewhere, use the "Full Reply Form" function here by clicking on the button below the reply window on this page. That will bring you to a near identical message window which will have a number of buttons below it. Chose "URL" and enter the url of the pic.

I don't know of any Legion group on Justice (don't think anyone here plays on Justice) If you decide to start one there let us know on this thread. I'm sure some of us will start characters over there.

We do have a JSA contingent on Pinnacle but I don't think the SG has been formed yet. I've got three characters there: DrFate, Dark Obsidion, & Robin Flamebird. Lightning Lad (Scott) has a Mister Terrific, Sand II, & Mr Bones. Some others have StarSpangled Girl, Power Chick, etc. I think if you go back 3-4 pages on this thread you'll see the discussion about them.

I am in the process of starting up some Titans character on Triumph and I'll post the info here as soon as I have them set.

I've heard Marvel is coming out with a similiar game in 2005. I hope DC follows them! I have three old comps that won't be able to run City of Heroes. By the time I have *time* to build a new comp (or two) I might as well just get the Marvel game.

Can you imagine if DC does do one and have an entire Legion server. Geez, that would be fanboy heaven. Can travel to different planets, fly around Metropolois, explore Legion world. Let me stop myself before I pass out.

Jorge

That would be awesome but both Marvel & DC will be hardpressed to improve on City of Heroes. It really is well thought out and designed. City of Villains which is due out next year will allow even more interaction including allowing players to battle each other.

Just a suggestions ~ shouldn't this thread's title be amended to include City of Heroes so people know what it's about. Something else else like "Your Chance to be a Legionnaire ~ The City of Heroes game thread"

I'll bet there are other LW posters playing that haven't read this thread because they don't realize it's about CoH.

Thanx, Varalent...

Let's see if I can do this....

My main character on Infinity.
UltraStar, lvl 28 tanker:

UploadedImiges.net


(edit)
Well, it kinda worked.
Not the same way you guys do it with the whole pic on the page but oh well.

My fault UltraStar. In my instructions I should have told you to use the "Image" button, not the "URL" button.



Sorry, but there you go!

Sorry about the disappearance, everyone. Got into a fight with the boyfriend while rebooting and haven't really gotten onto my machine since then. Sigh, boyfriends, go fig.

Worse than CoTs aren't they

But are they as bad as the Vaz?

Only when you try to wake them up before the first hit of the snooze button.

I levelled Shadow Lad tonight! I levelled Princess P to 5, then teamed SL up with a group that had an illusion controller with group ivisibility, and we kicked butt farming Boomtown. (Something else else to look forward to for Prism, Lyle.) So now I'm up to 15. We should have a grand old time on Sunday.

Alright let's try this again, shall we...?

First, all my Infinity characters.....

Kara Zor-El, Lord Anarch,Fyre-Storm, UltraStar, T'Pol of Borg, Son of Jor-El, and General Zod.


And now my new Titans and JSA characters on Truimph and Pinnacle.....

Kidd-Flash, Starr-Fyre, Captain Shazzam, and Hawkman.


Did it work???


*EDIT*

Ooops....

Sorry, gotta work on scaling these things.
:]

But since I know how to do this now....
Next post ...
All my Legionairres!!

Okay I shrunk this one a bit so......

Every Legionairre I have in the City of Heroes (so far):

(don'cha just love Photoshop...?)



Technically, since me and my girlfriend broke up last week I could include her character, Kara Zor-El since I'm now using her, but she was in the other shot.

Above roll-call as follows...
Mon-El of Daxam(Justice), Brainiac-5(Virtue), Comet Queen(Protector), Smallville(Protector), Wildfire-X(Infinity), Dev-Em(Virtue), and Laurel Kent(Virtue).
Laurel, by the way, just earned herself 5000 bucks 30 seconds after I logged on for the screenshot earlier tonight. Some guy said it was because I was sexy! Didn't have the heart to tell him....besides, 5000 infl. buys a lot of enhancements for a lvl 2---Maxed out!

See you guys in Paragon City....

and
Long Live the Legion!

They all look great!

Nice job on Hawkman. Did you add the mace, or is that one of the weapons that appears for a power?

And I wouldn't pass up 5000 bucks either. That was sweet.

Sorry to hear about your girlfriend, though. I hope you're doing OK.

And on a totally unrelated note, has Vee checked in lately? I hope he made it through Charley OK.

Well, I'm finally back on, and in the comfort of my own apartment. No more having to pretend to visit my buddy just so I could play City of Heroes on his computer.

BUT, my computer keeps restarting on me while I'm playing the game. I'm not really sure whats going on there. I might not have enough memory.

Anyway, I'll try to play in the Task Force mission. If it continues to be too bad of a problem, I might just give up. We'll see what happens.

Haven't seen Vee and have been worried about him. Have logged in and out of several servers checking for him. Has anyone else heard from Vee yet???? Is the Task Force still on???? Wondering if Vee even has power on since the hurricane....

Hey guys, all the heroes look great.

Not a regular thread poster here, but just wanted to let Caroline and everyone on City of Heroes know that there are still many blocks and neighborhoods here and there in Vee and I's town that have been without power since Friday night.

Things should be restored throughout the week and loss of power will hopefully be the only reason for Vee's absence.

Yeah, I'm definitely hoping it's just a power issue. It seems most likely.

No TF yesterday since Vee and a couple others couldn't make it, but we did have a blast farming and then switching over to Infinity, only to end a long, long day (9 hours for me, YIKES!) continually dying on that stupid Patchwork mission. That one's always a bear.

Shall we shoot for the TF this Saturday? Would a different time be better?

Saturday won't work for us. Its our live DnD game day. Sundays are generally the only weekend day that will work.

Sorry about not TF yesterday but I did say to the group that was playing Saturday night that unless we heard from Vee I wasn't comfortable playing. He's the organizer of it. Besides, there is no way Garth is going into a TF without Mysa.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let everyone know I'm okay though still without power at home. They're saying it may take until Saturday before it is restored though I'm hoping it will be on much sooner than that!

I kept hoping and praying that it would come back in time for the TF because I was really looking forward to that. It would have been a much needed escape from all the hurricane related issues I've been dealing with.

Sorry you weren't able to do the TF on Sunday but hopefully I'll be able to join you for the next attempt if we're able to this weekend.

Since I only have access from work I won't be on CoH at all until power is restored at home but I'll keep you all posted from the office.

Thanks for worrying about me!

Vee

Yay! Vee's OK!

It wouldn't have felt right to do it without you even if the others had made it since you've been so patiently holding your characters at 15.

As far as rescheduling, let's shoot for the 29th. Sunday is normally a better day for me too, but this Sunday is different. Gotta have our blaster and scrapper, though, so it looks like 29th is our best bet. And that way we'll be sure Vee's power is back. He'll probably be busy restocking the fridge on Saturday if power really is out that long.

Maybe we can get everyone up to 15 by then. Speaking of that, I learned an interesting thing about TFs on Saturday. Once we reach 15, we can't train any higher while doing the TF or we'll get kicked off. So that means no tentacles from me.

Glad to hear you're okay, Vee. Hope your power comes up soon. My BF's good friend lives in Ft. Meyers and I've been nagging him to call, but he keeps forgetting until it's a bad time. Do you know how badly Ft Meyers was hit?

Sunday was a fun nine hours. We got quite a few characters built up. I hope you weren't too bored, Seymoure, going after stuff under your level. We had lots of fun on Infinity, afterwards.

I'm not sure if anyone else heard but Seymoure had a great suggestion for the Infinity group -- when we get a second costume at lvl 20 we could create Cockrum costumes. Unfortunately, playing Brainy I don't have as much to look forward to there. Still a great idea, tho.

(BTW, there's a trainer named Numia who you'll find a pic of in the manual. I bugged one of the developers while in San Diego about her costume and it turned out that, unforuntaely, the cool little leg-wrap thing she sports is exclusive to the character -- all the trainers have something unique to them so that no one can be imposters. Too bad, cause the leg thing is pretty much perfect for a Levitz-era White Witch.)

Argh, it's so tough trying to build all the characters I like. I just re-created my Fire Tank as yet-another bare chested hottie character and redid Retro Girl as Yesterday Girl. I'm gonna post a revised roster soon.

I've tried to do the Cockrum Garth outfit and just can't get it right. Although I love the idea of doing that change at 20. Maybe with that I'll go from the Adv. #247 look to the one with the cape and give him his robotic arm. Then work on the other costumes as they are earned. Should be able to cover all of Garth's looks with the slots available.

BTW, if the 29th is okay with everyone else for the next TF try then I'm all for it. Gives me enough time, even with taking this week off from playing CoH, to get Garth to at least 14.

If I don't have power by the 29th I will have expired for sure. August is NOT a fun time to be in FL without AC. The worst part about it (besides the AC) is that you really can't do anything once it gets dark. Can't read, can't write, can't listen to music, I'm missing the Olympics, and I can't play CoH or visit LW!

I'm embarrased to admit that I was very bummed when 1 PM rolled around yesterday and it was time for the TF and I STILL had no power! Everything had been bearable until then but I couldn't stand the thought of missing out on the TF! It's what I had been looking forward to so much. (Isn't that silly?)

I'm sorry you guys didn't get to play but I can certainly understand Garth's reluctance at not having Mysa around

Sounds like you all had a great time anyway and by the 29th we should all be as powerful as possible to take on the baddies.

Lyle: Fort Myers is just about next door to Port Charlotte where Charley came ashore. Although I have less info than all of you, I'd guess they got hit pretty hard there.

Love the idea of the Cockrum era outfits but Cos will be difficult to do. They do not give you a color comparable to caucasian skin color for the pants. I tried a version of the Cockrum outfit early on and Cos looked jaundiced. (I think the pic is still available on one of the early pages on this thread.)

Edited to post the Cockrum version pic:

Saturn Girl's pink bikini might be difficult to do, and I forgot the whole reason I did Adventure-era Gim in the first place was because I couldn't do the other.

So maybe level 20 we can freestyle -- if we were designing the characters, how would we do it? That could be fun! Though once Princess P gets her pink cape, I don't know if I'll ever want to switch.

It's so unfair that women get all these skin-revealing costume choices, but guys are so much more limited. Yeah, we get the bare chest and some variations, but women get a wider variety -- plus bare legs. I wanna create a guy in the string bikini! Heck, even a kilt would be cool.

Lyle, I wasn't bored. We hit enough with high XP that I even got a bubble or two. Sorry we didn't get Prism levelled. As much as we wound up playing, we could have. I had a lot of fun on Infinity too. Jeckie is about to surpass my other illusion controller, so it'll be fun to see what powers come up.

SLK: Be sure to check out the Community Message Boards on the CoH website. They have extensive technical FAQs and lots of people there to help with connectivity problems.

Thanks for the info, Vee. My boyfriend's flying out tonight for a work trip (sniff) so I'll send him a nagging voice mail to try to call her while he's waiting for takeoff.

Prism's close to 12, so I think I can get him there by the weekend. Maybe I could even get him to 13. Any votes for the next power? I think flight becomes available, but would Accelerate Metabolism be more useful to the TF? Maybe Group Invis will be available by then, how useful is that to a group Seymour?

Flash, BTW, is a cool power for illusionists, but it needs some enhancements. I don't use it often because it has a long recharge, so I guess I tend to "hoard" it, not wanting to have a moment when i really wish I could use it. I'll really like it when I get stronger recharge enhancements on it. Maybe I'll even stack.

Oh, yeah, the lack of male skin in the game does bug, kinda like that Adam Warren-written/Ed Benes-drawn Gen13 issue where Burnout rushes into action without his fire-retardant costume and burns off his shorts -- which we know because of the girls in string bikinis talk about Bobby having no clothes.

I mean, really, seems silly that you can't create a Robin or Namor character when you can create a Witchblade.

Lyle: I'm pretty sure flight isn't available until you hit lvl 14. Not sure what Accelerate Metabolism does (increase allies damage maybe?) If so that could be very useful. Not sure that group invisibility is all that useful since you are "discovered" as soon as you attack when invisible (although it should boost everyone's defense slightly, which is always nice.)

Fly unlocks at 14, and I think Accelerate Metabolism is then too.

Lyle, what enhancements do you recommend on Flash, besides recharge reduction?

I don't know what enhancements the guy had, but group invisibility was great. Yes, we were "discovered," but I noticed a significant boost to defense while we remained invisible. There were five of us going after mobs of eight or nine a level or two above us, and I barely had to use my heal. And with the BF gone, maybe Lyle could even get Prism up to 14 by the 29th.

Well, if we're looking at the 29th, then we should be able to get Prism to 14th.

I've got Flash enhanced with Enhence Hold and Recharge Red, so far, but I'll probably add Accuracy, since I tend to miss a bunch in a mob when I use it.

Maybe I've got the name wrong but I was thinking of a Rad power that gives the whole team a healthy green glow and boosts their stats. I've been putting off taking it for a while, trying to justify why a light controller would have the power.

If group invis becomes available that becomes tempting for the TF. If not I think I'll go with Accelerate Metabolism.

I forgot about rad powers. I was thinking pool powers. That could very well be it, and it might be available at 12 in that case.

Still no power, still no CoH!

Guess TPTB just don't realize that Paragon City is being overrun with Vaz, CoTs, Skulls, 5ths, Hellion & Clocks while they take so long in getting power back to my house!

And think of all the new heroes that haven't come into being because I haven't been around!

How will you ever meet your quota of new heroes without power Vee?

Seriously though, I hope that they get you back on line soon. They are telling one of our properties that it'll be by this Saturday so hopefully they'll have the residential restored before then.

Here are some tidbits my hubby got from a member of his supergroup:

From "Mischief," a member of PRISM (a gay fan/creator comic-book group).

Friday August 13, 2004

The panel, "Where’s My Cape?" by Jack (Statesman) Emmert was to start at 11:00 AM. I arrived at Wizard World a little early, so I went to the NCSoft table to see if I would win a free City of Heroes T-Shirt. You can win shirts by answering trivia questions.

Sitting at the NCSoft booth is the Statesman himself. I walked up and introduce myself to Jack. I told him my name and that I was with PRISM. His face lit up and he said, "You guys are great!" and he really appreciates our support and thinks we were terrific. He asked me if I saw the PC Gamer article on Gay Day, I told him I had.

He informed me, "you don’t know about this, because this happened off the boards," but a group of conservative Christians contacted Jack attacking us — asking for him to do something about us. As Jack put it, "I told them to STICK IT."

Then he jumped up and gave me a free T-Shirt. Isn’t that cool?

Then off to the panel he hosted. Some of the items have already been revealed on the boards as hints or fact, but I also have some very juicy inside news for what’s up and coming for both CoH and CoV!

Panel info

Alliance Chat — not sure if they’re going to do it as an interim chat feature or if they’re going to skip it, but their new idea is far better than any of us ever expected?

Special Chat System — It will be server-wide, it will be customizable and you can select your own moderators and SGs that you want on your Chat System. Until then, the SG limit will be upped. The Special Chat System will not be in the next update. Not sure if it’ll be in the one after that or later.

HQs — are coming. They will be customizable.

New Non-Combat System — this is big. Jack wouldn’t say much about it, but hinted it will be huge. He also said it will allow you to, "also do stuff offline," (?!?!?!)

Mission Difficulty — will be customizable. You will have the option to raise the difficulty level of mission to harder - no option to make missions "easy".

New ATs Coming — including one with wings. The reason it will be restricted to one AT is because it is too expensive and time consuming to offer wings for all Power Sets.

Lower Level Missions to Be Tweaked — Missions 1-20 will be tweaked. For example, the Rave mission will have added music, lights and rave dancers, instead of a silent empty warehouse with just mobs.

Jack feels really good about the game from L1-20, but less so at upper levels.

Badges — will be added. Collect Badges and you can up your Endurance or Hit Points.

CoV Characters will basically use the same AT blueprint as CoH.

Stat Kiosks — will be up sometime soon.

Power Sets — will have powers added to them. They won’t just stop at 9 per set.

"TONS!" more stuff will be added to Character Creation, including flowing fabrics based on the cape technology.

Mind Controllers — Telekinesis will be fixed. There will not be a pet for the MC, but Terrify will be able to slot Damage Enhancements.

Teen Body — will be added to Character Build

Customize Your Powers — eventually you will be able to customize your power colors and animations.

Shields — will be added.

Easter Eggs — start looking for them soon.

Mission XP — will get a boost.

Server Wide Events — like the Ritki Invasion are planned

Defender — Jack feels this is close to the best, most balanced and well designed AT. Still need to fix Defender at higher levels where he is not as needed in groups. After Controller, Tanker is the next AT to be fixed.

Shape Shifting — will be added. It will be a while since it’s tough to do, but it is coming.

CoH/CoV — You will be able to bring your CoH character into CoV.

Open Public Beta — for CoV is likely.

CoV — is a considered a "sequel". You do not have to have CoH to play CoV. If you have both games, you will still only need to pay $14.95 per month.

HUGE CoV announcement coming out next week

Dependant NPCs Being Considered — ala Champions, Dependant NPC maybe be added. For example, you could have a Lois Lane-like NPC that would call you while you are missioning and need to be rescued from a hanging off a building. This is hard to do, but something Jack would like to do.

GENERAL COMMENTS

Jack is bewildered and disgusted that most players are XP crazy. He doesn’t care if someone hits L50 today, next year or in 2 years as long as there are fun stuff to do at any level. He is more interested in the role-playing and the content of the game.

Jack is an intelligent man and a captivating speaker. I found his comments and observations about the creative process fascinating. I’m so glad I was able to have been able to hear him speak. I was thrilled he knew PRISM and spoke well of us — and defended us from attack by homophobes.

That’s the main nuts and bolts of what he said during his panel. I’ll post more later.

Some of my thoughts:

Sounds like some cool stuff coming up. I can't wait for the HQ (a real Legion HQ -- I wonder how customizable)! And Wings!

Mission customizability seems cool, but how will you know in advance if you want to make it harder -- unless you're the anal type who keeps track of every mission you've ever done to see which are front-loaded, etc. so you can raise the difficulty with your next character. And there are some missions (like that damn Patchwork and his minions) that I think are too hard to begin with.

That's great what he said about the Christian group.

Customizable powers is pretty cool. You can be color-cooridinated no matter which set you go with. Lyle's Amethyst characters could all have purple blasts. Or our Prism-based characters could have a full rainbow of powers.

Saturn Lady has telekinesis. I didn't notice anything wrong with it.

And we were just talking on Sunday about how cool it would be to have a server-wide event like the invasion. Andrew Nolan wasn't in on the beta and was asking about it. I told him it was pretty cool, but I had just gotten out of the tutorial and jumped right in and died immediately.

Best of luck, Vee. I have an inkling of what you're feeling. When we moved every company we worked with were idiots, flaking on our appointments or messing up one way or another. It took us three weeks to get online and I was going though major CoH withdrawl. (Worse, we're still fighting with SBC over how much we owe them. They think we owe them money for the service we didn't recieve in the time after we told them to cancel all service and they didn't follow up on it.) It was such a relief to get back to Paragon City.

Got Prism Lord to lvl 12 last night, thanks to a Hydra hunting group. Flight isn't available so which would be most useful for the TF: Accelerate Metabolism (buff speed, END, DMG and resistance), Radiation Infection (debuff ACC and DEF), Greater Invisibility or Air Superiority?

Thanks for sharing that Seymour! That is some cool news, all the way around.

I had wondered about the CoV/CoH thing. I had read that it would be a separate game and a separate fee to play. Glad its going to be under one fee.

Hey Seymour, is Mike part of PRISM? I was trying to get into that group (mostly as the most visible gay SG, but they also seemed like cool players) but eventually gave up because I realized the members were so high level.

They did a really cool "Gay Day" event at AP. A massive amount of toons at the Square, jumping around, dancing and screaming "Happy Pride!" There was also a special "Pride Day 2004" SG so that you could easily get your character to wear the color-of-the day (red like the gay people were wearing at Disney World that day).

BTW, if anyone wants to create yet another char there's a pretty cool SG on Triumph. They're called Global Heroics -- all the heroes are Mr/Ms Country with a costume design inspired by the country's flag. Their website seems to be down but you'll be able to find it here:http://www.4thorder.us/gh (It was working yesterday.) Send a tell to Ms Germany if interested. I'm Mister Brazil there.

Similarly I an into a cool SG-to-be the other night, BTW. I teamed with a pair of heroines -- Klymaxx and SheilaE. They've got a Grace Slick and oh I forgot the other. They were fun to team with.