# Anyone playing City of Villains? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855 "2005-11-13T16:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/21 "2005-11-14T20:34:16Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > I didn’t feel dirty playing a villain until I took a mission where you kidnap victims for the Vahz. I feel guilty every time I take a mission to stomp on those poor downtrodden miners. I don’t think I’m a very effective bad guy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/22 "2005-11-14T23:02:20Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > [1] We have The Hook in the Car Door and The Animator - a frozen Walt Disney. Not to mention my stalker, the Kidney Thief. I also play a necro/dark mastermind named Cole Bas. A little more detail on the way the group is set up–there are two ranks that are identical in everything but name. Urban Legend-themed characters get the Urban Legend rank (so they can have the title), and others get the Mass Hysteria rank (or other ranks, as appropriate). I’ve been out of town a fair amount lately, as well as extremely busy at work, so I haven’t had as much time to play, but I like the game quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/23 "2005-11-15T01:33:42Z")
And I have The Phantom Hitchhiker. But I can’t play until I can pick up my copy of CoV. I preordered it and played the head start, but I haven’t been able to drive since then to go pick it up. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/24 "2005-11-15T03:51:07Z")
Microwave Poodle was the name we were tossing around for a rad/rad Corrupter. Feel free to take it and run with it. Or Poodle Microwaver, I suppose, for the villainous take on it. In addition to The Suspended Animator, I have a few other villains on Protector, most in the Urban Legends, although not themed. Minor side note: until the extension of the character limit in names to 20, he was going to have to be Waltsicle. 🙂 Thus far (level 9, in Port Oakes), I am enjoying the villain theme. I like newspaper missions where I am taking out villains who are claiming to rival my power. It is a little weird that the mission text reads like I am hot shit, but on the way to the mission I am dodging groups of minions on the street, but I’m dealing with it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/25 "2005-11-15T13:51:56Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Thus far (level 9, in Port Oakes), I am enjoying the villain theme. I like newspaper missions where I am taking out villains who are claiming to rival my power. It is a little weird that the mission text reads like I am hot shit, but on the way to the mission I am dodging groups of minions on the street, but I’m dealing with it. Dodge? Why would you have to dodge when they can’t see you? Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/26 "2005-11-15T16:13:18Z")
> [@AndrewL](#): > > Played it during the beta test. Was sufficiently dissapointed with it not to upgrade my account when it opened commercially. In fact, I’ll probably be not renewing my CoH account when my current paid for perior runs out either. Well, that sums it up for me – apart from cooler powers, it’s like COH only more of a grind and buggier. Just a gripe, whatever patch they applied on 11/14 has really screwed things up for me. I crashed like 6 times in 3 hours. They really need to do better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/27 "2005-11-16T01:20:09Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > Dodge? Why would you have to dodge when they can’t see you? > > Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Tee hee hee. Just wait until I Dominate your ass, Stalker-boy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/28 "2005-11-16T08:23:23Z")
Awwwwwright, I gave in and made an MM on protector. Beware the mind rotting Ms Glutamate, Zombie/Poison MM ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855/29 "2005-11-16T13:39:32Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Tee hee hee. Just wait until I Dominate your ass, Stalker-boy. 😉 Things I like best about being a Stalker: One shotting orange Lieutenants. Things I like least about being a Stalker: Missing. Due to debt and a habit of targeting Red Bosses on the way to missions, infamy is not a problem for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-city-of-villains/330855.md?page=1)