# Wanted! City of Heroes Players! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023 "2005-01-10T10:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/501 "2006-06-09T01:38:04Z")
Yeah, I got an email telling me I can play again till Sunday. Too bad my desktop isn’t set up, otherwise they might have been succesful in getting me to sign back up. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/502 "2006-06-09T01:46:57Z")
If you’ve been out for more than a couple of months, prepare to wait several hours just to get everything up and running again. There’s been multiple complaints of the autoupdater only running about 15kps, even on high speed connections, and there’s a few hundred meg of downloads to get through. As I said, last night it took about seven or probably even eight hours to patch everything up properly. I started at about four pm and it didn’t finish until after midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/503 "2006-06-09T02:20:09Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] [http://uk.cityofheroes.com/news/article/1386/](http://uk.cityofheroes.com/news/article/1386/) You probably don’t have “recieve emails” checked. [/QUOTE] Ahh, thanks. That’s likely the culprit. I look forward to seeing you all again in game! (Is CECIL still up and about on Virtue, or failing that, is it still the global channel for Doper chat?) ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/504 "2006-06-09T02:21:17Z")
No clue. I don’t suppose there’s a European servers version on Defiant or Vigilance? (Or even the french server, I could probably get by on 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:** [June 9, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/505 "2006-06-09T02:53:33Z")
[QUOTE=Mind gamer] (Is CECIL still up and about on Virtue, or failing that, is it still the global channel for Doper chat?) [/QUOTE] Yes and yes, although: - If you haven’t played in a while, we may have kicked your characters from CECIL to make room for others. You’re welcome back in any time – if I’m on (@Brainiac4 is my global handle) I can invite you. - There was some wackiness with one of the West Coast servers that screwed up global friends lists and chat channels. You may need to resubscribe to #CECIL. @Culex, @Balanced, @Kerzak are all ops for #CECIL and can invite. We also have a spinoff villain group on Protector, the Urban Legends. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/506 "2006-06-09T15:17:32Z")
City of Heroes makes page 1 of the Wall Street Journal: > [@](#): > > **To Find a Mate, Raid a Dungeon Or Speak Like an Elf — Flirting in Online Games Can Lead to Offline Love; Lord Krideldek’s Ploy** > Over the years, Mark Brown searched for Ms. Right in all the usual places: at parties, work functions and the occasional singles bar. He ended up meeting her inside a videogame. > > Mr. Brown was sitting at his computer in England, controlling a character named Mighty Thud in an online game called City of Heroes. Across the ocean in Maryland, Jody Petroff guided a figure named Molecule Witch. > > The two superhero characters began chatting after each survived a brutal ambush by villains. “We seemed to work on the same wavelength,” the 38-year-old Mr. Brown says of the couple’s first online exchange of text messages. “There was something that first night, something about the personality behind the keyboard.” > > Soon, the two, who both are computer programmers, were playing and chatting online every day. Three days ago, they were married. “Meeting Mark was completely surprising, but he’s the most wonderful thing that’s ever happened to me,” says Ms. Petroff, 37. Sorry about the lack of a link, but I access the WSJ through a work proxy; I checked the WSJ Free Features, and this article wasn’t included ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/507 "2006-07-06T18:40:36Z")
I dusted off my Robotics/Traps MM (and reestablished the CECIL global channel) and hit level 6, so now robot Sparky has a friend. I tried naming the new 'bot “Buzz” but found that the game wouldn’t let me! WTF is wrong with “Buzz”? The new robot does have a name but I can’t remember what it is ATM. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/508 "2006-07-06T21:18:50Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] I dusted off my Robotics/Traps MM (and reestablished the CECIL global channel) and hit level 6, so now robot Sparky has a friend. I tried naming the new 'bot “Buzz” but found that the game wouldn’t let me! WTF is wrong with “Buzz”? [/QUOTE] My son had the same problem with his MM – he couldn’t name a zombie “Logan”. I think it’s names on the protected list. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/509 "2006-07-13T19:27:04Z")
[Double XP on live next weekend](http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/42894). Compensation for the global chat problems, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/510 "2006-08-10T17:16:30Z")
[http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=6182863&an=0&page=0#Post6182863](http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=6182863&an=0&page=0#Post6182863) ---
**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:** [August 31, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/511 "2006-08-31T16:49:47Z")
[http://www.cityofheroes.com/game\_update8.html](http://www.cityofheroes.com/game_update8.html) Features include: [Quote=City Of Heroes Site] Safeguard Missions (Heroes only) Vandals are creating mayhem and destroying Paragon City while high profile villains are attempting major bank heists! Emergency broadcasts from the new Police Band scanners (see below) call Heroes to action, resulting in a frantic new twist on Mayhem Missions. Heroes must stop the mayhem (in massively destructive versions of Paragon City zones) and prevent the heists from occurring. Police Band (Heroes only) Offering similar functionality to the Newspaper Missions in City of Villains®, new Police contacts throughout various Hero zones grant Heroes Police Band access, opening a plethora of new missions and rewards. Pocket D Arenas (Heroes and Villains) For the first time, Heroes and Villains can officially battle each other using Arena kiosks set within the neutral ground of the Pocket D nightclub. Faultline Reborn (Heroes only) Faultline transforms from a hazard zone to a city zone! Paragon City’s Measure X has passed, reconstruction of Faultline has begun, and the effort has revealed some major surprises. Veteran Rewards Program (Heroes and Villains) Launching together with Issue 8, the Veteran Rewards Program retroactively\* rewards City of Heroes and City of Villains players for their past active playing time. Specifically, for each increment of three months played, players will unlock special costumes, powers, badges, and more! The program is retroactive by player account and rewards will be applicable to all characters within each respective account. \*This means time that players have already played counts towards their rewards! [/Quote] ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/512 "2006-08-31T19:35:21Z")
And the veteran rewards program is what brought me back. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/513 "2006-08-31T20:05:51Z")
[QUOTE=CandidGamera] And the veteran rewards program is what brought me back. [/QUOTE] I understand the veteran rewards include trenchcoats and wings. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/514 "2006-08-31T20:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] I understand the veteran rewards include trenchcoats and wings. [/QUOTE] Precisely. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/515 "2006-10-13T14:59:01Z")
[http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2092861](http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2092861) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/516 "2006-10-15T05:54:11Z")
The new Faultline is certainly interesting. Now, if they could just keep the thing from crashing so much! ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/517 "2006-10-15T23:34:42Z")
Don’t complain. My desktop is down and my laptop can’t handle the graphics of CoH/V. I haven’t been able to get online in months. With luck I will have my finances set by November so I can get it fixed and back online. But I will miss the Halloween event. ☹ ---
**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:** [October 16, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/518 "2006-10-16T12:23:21Z")
[QUOTE=Lok] Don’t complain. My desktop is down and my laptop can’t handle the graphics of CoH/V. I haven’t been able to get online in months. With luck I will have my finances set by November so I can get it fixed and back online. But I will miss the Halloween event. ☹ [/QUOTE] Speaking of - Hallowe’en starts Wednesday and runs through Nov. 1. Two weeks of Trick or Treating goodness. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/519 "2006-10-16T16:07:26Z")
I just created a character on Virtue named Lone Hermit (never mind the redundancy.) I’d like to get into the CECIL SG; when will you be on that I can get an invite? I’ve been playing on Victory server for the last few months, and our SG there is doing well. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/520 "2006-10-16T16:37:35Z")
[QUOTE=The Mad Hermit] I just created a character on Virtue named Lone Hermit (never mind the redundancy.) I’d like to get into the CECIL SG; when will you be on that I can get an invite? I’ve been playing on Victory server for the last few months, and our SG there is doing well. [/QUOTE] **Toaster** is almost always on (@Culex) and she can send an /sgi. Also, If I’m on (@Maus Magill), I can send you and /sgi. If you’re not on the CECIL Global Chat Channel, please join. Perhaps, now would be a good time for a Global Handle roll call. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023.md?page=27)