Wanted! City of Heroes Players!

Is it wrong for me to be a teensy bit glad my SO is going out of town because that means I have unlimited CoH access for the next several days? :dubious:

We’ve competed, bickered, argued and fought over game time almost daily – no exaggeration – since we got it last Christmas. We have the healthiest relationship of anyone we know, and in fact have been together almost seven years. But for some reason this stupid game brings out the worst in us. Anyone else have similar experiences?

Anyway, through Sunday I have carte blanche with [Smegol]my precious[/Smegol], and I intend to take full advantage of it. Groceries, exercise and a social life are all overrated anyway. As of Monday he asks that I log off by 10 PM so he can play (he’ll be visiting his family in California so he’ll have access there). That’s actually earlier than I log off when he’s home, as I often have to wait until he’s in bed to play. But I can’t complain too much because in the big picture I’m still getting more time than usual. And I’m taking next Wednesday off work for even more quality time. :smiley:

I’m up for a Task Force on Saturday or Wednesday if anyone’s free. Sunday I actually do have other plans so I’ll only be playing until mid-afternoon. By Saturday I should be about level 25 or 26, and by Wednesday I should be pushing 30, if not beyond (it’s hard to estimate how long it’ll take to level at this stage).

By the way, now that I have the coveted Stamina, I’d welcome suggestions as to what to take next.

I finally got Ms. D_Odds to play, but she isn’t that good. She and I are keeping a pair of characters together, and are currently doing all the Hollows missions.

Blue Genesis (level 18 Inv/EM tank) has the Caverns of Transcendence mission. 8 people needed.

Both Jim Beam (38 MA/SR scrapper) and Star Lighter (35 Nrg/Dev blaster) both have the Envoy. Hopefully Pleonast will see this and bring out Eye of Maya*. I’m sure Jingo Belle can also attend. Star also has Terra. I’d like to do one of the Envoy missions this evening, work-willing.

Nordic, who do you play other than Jingo Belle? I need also teams for the Caverns of Transcendence and Dr. Vahzilok.

D_Odds,

I do have Shockfox, a level 18 elec/elec blaster in Virtue. He’s been languishing in limbo for a while now, but I could break him out of retirement if you want his services. Or, you could ex Jingo Belle – I’m willing to forgo xp to lend you a hand; lord knows you’ve been good to me.

Are you just talking about Virtue? I have a level 13 healer in Pinnacle who might be useful. I have many more characters in various servers, including Virtue, but they’re mostly unplayed and low-level.

At least four of which have to be levels 12-15 in order to exemp those higher than 15.

If I recall Ms. D_Odds has a blaster. She might want to recreate herself. Blasters need to move to survive (at least until they get things like superspeed and stealth) which can be really frustrating to someone not used to playing computer games (I know…).

We always set up our six year old with a tank. Hard to die. Easy to play (an Inv Scrapper works too).

That’s why she’s got me following her around always, a fire/kin controller. She doesn’t go on unless I’m there to help. I’m more at risk than she is, although she once failed to get on the elevator because she thought she could run into an open door. :eek:

She plays some computer games, mostly the popcap type games (bounceout, zuma, bejeweled). She’s fine using either keyboard or mouse, but we’re working on using both simultaneously. She keeps hitting the scroll wheel when using the mouse to look around, so she uses the q/e keys instead, which is too slow.

I play the same way. Drives Brainiac4 crazy “How can you not use the MOUSE!!!”

In my defense, I would like to note that the actual quote is:

“I’m continually amazed that you don’t use the mouse.”

Note the conspicuous absence of overemphasis.

:wink:

Thanks to my much beloved daughter who, despite my repeated warnings, pleadings and site blocks, likes to find anime music videos and download them, my computer is now a very large paperweight.

So, I will be off of CoH for a few days while I troubleshoot the problem (BSOD on boot, including when trying a reinstall) and dispose of my daughter’s (soon-to-be) corpse.

But anime music videos are so cool!!

:wink:

Seriously, are you certain that’s the problem?

Ooo, links! Give us links! (Just kidding.)

I wondered what happened to you last night. I was looking forward to whacking some archvillians.

It really is amazing how different teams can be like night and day.

The first team I joined last night was not only incompetent, but rude and attitudey as well. One example: We had a mission set for Tenacious, fighting Tsoo in an office building. We got into a tight spot right outside the elevators on the second floor. The healer was not doing his job. I was within a hair’s breadth of dying, so I and two others retreated down the elevators. After we recharged, we went back up to find that the battle was over but two of our teammates had died. One of the casualties actually said, “We were fine until some people ran. Why did you run?”

WTF?! What did he think, we decided to go shopping? :rolleyes:

After my fourth death :frowning: and umpteenth snarky comment from that “team”, I quit. I hooked up almost immediately with another team. We gathered at the mission site, and I noticed it was set for Invincible. :eek: I said “Sorry guys, I’m not doing Invincible. Good luck.” When they asked me why I told them I had just died four times on a Tenacious mission and didn’t want to die any more tonight. They assured me we would be fine and persuaded me to stay, though I didn’t have high hopes. Turns out, we managed to pull it off; in fact we did two or three missions at Invincible. We did have a few casualties now and then, but fortunately I wasn’t one of them. :slight_smile: And they were friendly and had a sense of humor throughout. Makes all the difference.

By the way, Stamina rocks!

Nordic (and anyone else interested): If you’re on Virtue, I’m “@Skywatcher” on global chat channel Cecil. Except for the two teams that I mentioned earlier, all the ones I’ve been in were like your second one or better. I’ve had great luck when accepting blind invites.

Anyone else see that 1337 Ĩ34|< in SC last night?

Okay, I think the second word is “freak.” What’s the first?

I don’t really mind getting blind invites; if I join and they’re doing something I really don’t want to do, I can opt out, though I’m not sure that’s ever happened. But I know some people have a peeve about receiving blind invites, so when I’m recruiting I always send a /tell first, specifying the mission, the level, and the difficulty. I’m often thanked for it.

Leet. :slight_smile:

Can’t remember the name but one guy showed up in SC last night broadcasting in nothing but 1337. He was looking for a team. Someone else pointed out that he’d have better luck if he’d use proper English, to which 1337 ƒ®34|< replied that he prefers 1337. :rolleyes: Either he doesn’t realize that the only ones who are going to take him seriously are other 1337 ƒ®34|<5 or he doesn’t give a damn.

Hmm…next time I run into a 1337 ƒ®34|<, I’ll use eunoia’s line from that column.

I just tend to call leet-speakers B1FF, and confuse the hell outta them.

Not 100%, because I can’t boot to figure out what’s wrong. I do know that she was the last one to use the computer when it was working, that she was downloaded zipped anime videos from fan sites (she finds them faster than I can block them), and it’s not the first, nor the second, nor the third (about when I stopped counting) time that she’s infected a computer with both virii and spyware via these downloads. Yet, if I break her fingers, I’m in the wrong.

Every time I give my kids a little rope, they find new ways to hang themselves with it.

Well, I obviously am not familiar with your family situation, kids’ computer privileges, or the like, but to use a safe-sex analogy (Heh. I can just imagine D_Odd’s eyebrow twitch at that phrase in this context) maybe teach her how to scan files for viruses, et cetera, before opening them up? I’m sure she’s not happy about losing access to the computer while its broken, either.

Candid, it’s mine she crashed. We all have our own (I upgrade so often - too often, per Ms. D_Odds - that everyone gets my hand-me-downs). She was exercising my ferrets, who reside in the same room as my computer, when she logged on to download her videos.

She has been taught how to scan downloaded files. She doesn’t. (Well, maybe for a few days).

She has been told not to download files. She doesn’t listen. (Well, maybe for a few days).

We do have Parental Controls on. I see all the sites she gets on and tries to get on and fails. The bulk of them are related to Sims or anime. I’ll review a site I don’t know and block if appropriate (she’s still angry because I stopped all the fanfiction sites). I’ll probably stop all downloading, which should anger her as she can’t get new stuff for The Sims. I’d still prefer finger-breaking, but that’s just the Sicilian in me talking.