diku, those days are part of the reason why I love this game. The memories are awesome. I remember farming the wolf mission with Johnny Daemon many times on Thermocline. I don’t think I died too many times.
For me, the thing that I want (aside from screenshots of all my characters in their costumes) is the music. The little musical vignettes for each of the zones are programmed deep in my brain - when I hear the Copper District music, I know exactly where I am. I don’t know who composed them, but they’re a genius.
Yeah, for a time I helped to organize “Fight Night at the Golden Giza” on Virtue… ah, university. I think some of those videos are still up on youtube…
I never did do those shard TFs, except for the first one? The end was amazing… Ah well.
Guys, I’m rolling out Shadow Stranger this final week - going to make the push to 50. If any of you are still around on Virtue, Hero-side, let me know.
I have a bunch of characters on Virtue, but alas, none of them are anywhere near 50. In any case, I just haven’t had the heart to log into the game lately. I’ve made a huge pile of screenshots of all of my characters in all of their costumes, and went ahead and put a lot of my lowbie characters into the secondary costumes I’d designed for them in advance, and got screenshots of those as well.
Hopefully, some time this week I’ll have the time to do a final character export of all my characters (using the tool that Titan Network came up with), and then just hope that some way, somehow, the game comes back in the future.
I’ve got my screenshots and exports - but I’ve been playing the game since launch, so I’ll be damned if I don’t get somebody to level 50. Stranger’s at 48, halfway to 49, so it shouldn’t be hard.
Easier than I thought - got into a Rikti Mothership Raid yesterday - that’s all it took. Any content that folks recommend I should do before the game goes dark, considering the time remaining? I’d been picking on the original Praetorian arcs…
For those that used to be in the CECIL group (way back in the day), Culex still has an archive of screenshots up: http://sdmb.culex.us/extra/. Found a bunch of mine.
Start World Wide Red and leave the game angry
My old ISP still has my images uploaded from the early days of City of Heroes. Mother Marie was in CECIL for a bit but I dropped the game for a while when CoV beta came out and the group was pretty defunct by the time I returned. Later costume options were a lot more elaborate but it’s nice to check out Memory Lane.
In a funny way, I lucked into a bit of closure. My first real “main” was a Rad/Rad defender named The Polish Princess. She had a backstory about being irradiated in the womb when her scientist mother was investigating some Nazi machine, her mother dying and PP eventually taking the fight to the 5th Column. I was disappointed when the 5th was replaced by the much lamer Council. But eventually the 5th returned with the Reichsman task force. Polish Princess was my first lvl 50, beat the Reichsman TF and I sort of felt like her story was done with that victory. I kept playing and other characters had other stories but that was the closing chapter that really meant something to me.
I went through and at least looked at all the characters I made on the selection page. My attempts at playing some characters one last time on Virtue was thwarted by a combination of server crashes and queues which seemed oddly fitting for some reason.
Luckily my two mains, a hero and a villain, who are also my only 50s, were on Protector. I left my villain at the top of the WSPDR building and my hero at the top of Atlas’ Globe and said my farewells and logged off.
Not too often you have to sign off on a whole world. Gahd, the number of details I remember about odd corners where I hung out, farmed a particular foe, or just figured things out is immense.
Parked all my mains on the same pillar in Atlas City, waiting for a future callup. I know a number of SGs etc. were planning to start major task forces right at the last minute… call it the Valhalla option.
Can’t decide - seriously - if it’s sad or stupid to feel so shitty about the shutdown.
If you really loved Chess, and spent a great deal of time hanging out with people at the chess club after school, and had all kinds of friends and great games to remember, then I don’t think it would be stupid or sad to feel a sense of loss if the school decided that NO! No-one would ever be allowed to play chess, ever again, never ever ever.
I’m going with sad. I sat there last night, playing the last minutes I could, with tears in my eyes. Thermocline went out flying - I logged in, took off and never touched the ground again for his last hour. He spent it cleaning up Steel Canyon, the place where I first took flight.
Good perspective, thanks… except that it’s not a school ban, it’s a world-wide ban. Throw away your chess sets and your Fischer and Koltanowski - you aren’t even allowed to think the word ‘chess’ again.
Maybe one day there will be an explanation. Myself, I think there was backroom money to take away competition from DC/Marvel Universe. Nothing else explains the refusal to let the game continue, in other hands, at any price, etc.
Talk about supervillains. We need a Task Force… oh, wait, we can’t say those words any more.
We missed you. I couldn’t bring myself to log on for most of the last couple of months, but being there at the end, with CECIL, was… good. It felt like a little bit of closure.
I never did get to make my City of Heroes machinima music video of Steve Burns’ “Mighty Little Man” starring Justice Blues. But I stilll think of it whenever I hear the song.
I logged in one of my characters, took her to Atlas Park and just logged her out under the statue. I hadn’t had the heart to log in for most of the last couple months. For a while I was logging in periodically just to move my characters around to different Day Job locations, but even that felt pointless after a while.
So I thought I’d try to play a bit on the last day, but … I’ve been back to playing WoW since September, and I found myself having the same problem I had when I first started playing CoH, namely controlling my character’s movement. They just handle so differently. Not better or worse, just different. Mostly a speed thing - CoH characters move a lot faster, and of course the physics are a bit different between the two games.
I didn’t bother logging in. There was no point. I wasn’t an avid player, but I did play a few times a month over the last, what, 8 years? Most of my characters were on Virtue, Champion, and Justice, and most had gotten to 50, although I had a few who never went beyond level 3.
My Invul. tank never did get to do Eden Trial. Oh well.
