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[Duuvian]

I searched for a thread about City of Heroes, the old one was pretty old. Anyways it's free sort of, and I'm playing it for free when I catch my long lost buddy online, but mostly it's worth coming back to if you played it before. New people are limited a bit. As many months as you paid for back whenever you played count as these things called Reward tokens, or something. There's a bunch of different reward merits, paragon merits, vanguard merits, etc but the type you get for having put money in the game in the past is what gives the most valuable type which unlocks features. The disappointing part is that depending on how many months you had subbed it may still not be enough to unlock some things that you had while being a subscriber. The plus side? None, really, as that money could have been better utilized elsewhere silly. The neutral side? It's free now all the time, plus if you lived in the days when subscribing to games wasn't as much of a budget breaker if you had it subbed for a good period you get most of the stuff VIP gets. The exception is Invention origin enhancements usage and basically anything that you would use the market for are very high on the unlock tree which is unfortunate, but I suppose it would have to be to be functional. Also requiring VIP is the content allowing you to gain what appears to be an extra level once you reach the max. This would play a large role in the voluntary PVP due to the maths at work and thus pvp is somewhat sparse due to the doubly stacked playing field between free players, premiums (which are returning former subscribers) and VIPs in that not only can VIPs gain an additional level via Incarnate status but also use IO's to flatten opposition.

However that's OK with me I suppose since PVP is pretty rare now from what I've heard and I'd mostly limit it to me and whoever else wants to go dogpiling onto whoever we find anyways.

The PVE game is also pretty cool. You can fly, jump, teleport and superspeed around a city, which is pretty cool. Fighting is pretty fun in groups and it's easy to set a suitable difficulty level. I tend to increase difficulty settings for the group until people start dieing and then keep it there. It's pretty well balanced as far as gameplay goes; but expect to take a great many bullets as it's a health points type game.

Spoiler: Violent J and the Insane Clone Posse (click to show/hide)

Violent J the criminal Mastermind prepares to enter his cloning facility, conveniently placed inconspicuously in a corner.

Spoiler: If you are playing on Freedom server (click to show/hide)

Also, I was apparently the first one in my supergroup to log in, and apparently once all the leaders stopped paying for subs it demotes them until someone logs in to get automatic leader. It seems I am in possession of a pretty well equipped one on the villain side on Freedom server. Unfortunately I'm not VIP and that is what is required to pay base upkeep. This SG has tons of prestige so rent wouldn't be a problem once someone like myself puts forth an effort and tries to find a reason to put forth an effort to recruit someone with VIP status from within the game to pay it. That reason would be people wanting base access I suppose. Since I can live without it I suppose I'll just say that if you are VIP and want to make a dwarf base and are paying anyways that's fine with me, I have the prestige stocked up.

Alternately if anyone wants a supergroup I can invite them to mine. It's got a sweet teleporter once someone can pay the bill. Until then I suppose it's more of a I don't have one anyways type sg's in that it doesn't do much for you as population is sparse in the SG so I can't guarantee having a buddy to level with.

Also amusingly enough since I didn't name it the SG is called "Evil Corporation" and it's on villain-side. Also the current members who are also returning refugees would like to do some pvp if we can find a way which will likely happen at some point maybe, yet probably if it's possible to dogpile on those bastards with IO's and still win. It would be nice if you could pillage enhancements in PVP but I suppose that must be against the business model.

I didn't make the SG, I just was the lucky bastard to log in first once it went free. I can change stuff if wanted.

Also I'm usually only on CoH when an internet buddy of mine who I've never met in person is on, so I might login and play for a bit and log out if the dude isn't on so don't expect too much from your glorious leader if you join, though I am once again absurdly rich in a videogame due to my market shenanigans (though mostly in CoH it's because by the time you hit level 50 you were quite wealthy anyways). Anyways though I'll share a suitable amount of infamy/influence or whatnot. I came back to give the game a try and my old pal was on so we started grouping again and I guess he's second in command now in this supergroup. Not that there is any real command, just ranks I suppose. I can't really force you to do anything other than take it like a man or leave if I change your rank name to something nefarious. That would be terrible.

From this thread, it seems that Freedom is the server to play upon if you seek B12 companions as of 12/8/12

[klingon13524]

I played for a bit. I got tired of every other character in the game being a demon, and quitted.

[Duuvian]

I played for a bit. I got tired of every other character in the game being a demon, and quitted.

Yeah, I noticed that too. It might have been a new powerset is my guess. That tended to happen back when I played years ago, where everyone made a new character with that powerset to try it out.

[Shadowgandor]

What a coincidence, was thinking about making a thread about this game as well.
I started playing again since a week and immediately bought VIP in order to unlock all slots and my old demon toon :p
Anyway, I'm playing on..freedom I think and it might be fun to team up with some fellow B12ers. Perhaps even start our own supergroup and build our heroic fortress?

[klingon13524]

I played for a bit. I got tired of every other character in the game being a demon, and quitted.

Yeah, I noticed that too. It might have been a new powerset is my guess. That tended to happen back when I played years ago, where everyone made a new character with that powerset to try it out.

What's a powerset? I thought it was just a hoard of 13 year olds...

[Duuvian]

I played for a bit. I got tired of every other character in the game being a demon, and quitted.

Yeah, I noticed that too. It might have been a new powerset is my guess. That tended to happen back when I played years ago, where everyone made a new character with that powerset to try it out.

What's a powerset? I thought it was just a hoard of 13 year olds...

Oh, haha, my mistake, I apologize. I guess it could have been, it is a free to play game and children are notoriously under-compensated in monetary earnings at their educational facility. I probably either play MMO's at night or when they are at school due to the hours I work when I have a job. I suppose there is some overlap and I do change my schedule a lot though. I don't remember seeing kids on but then again I usually keep global-type chats on a tab I don't watch and I don't go around asking players how old they are either, since that information won't affect me and would be kind of weird and unnecessary for me to know...

I thought you meant all the characters were being followed around by a bunch of demon pets. On the villain side one of the archetypes is the Mastermind and I've recently seen a lot of those with the Demon Summoning primary, which of course lets them have demon pets.

Powerset is a set of a powers that you choose at the start of the game for the superhero/villain you play as. Basically you're a superhero or a supervillain. As you level up you choose which powers in your Primary and Secondary power set to unlock, and can also choose from power pools that any archetype can choose from, rather than the archetype specific powersets.

[Shadowgandor]

Heroes nowadays can choose mastermind as well, just like villains can pick controllers Since praetoria(sp?), everyone can be anything ^^

[klingon13524]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I played for a bit. I got tired of every other character in the game being a demon, and quitted.

Yeah, I noticed that too. It might have been a new powerset is my guess. That tended to happen back when I played years ago, where everyone made a new character with that powerset to try it out.

What's a powerset? I thought it was just a hoard of 13 year olds...

Oh, haha, my mistake, I apologize. I guess it could have been, it is a free to play game and children are notoriously under-compensated in monetary earnings at their educational facility. I probably either play MMO's at night or when they are at school due to the hours I work when I have a job. I suppose there is some overlap and I do change my schedule a lot though. I don't remember seeing kids on but then again I usually keep global-type chats on a tab I don't watch and I don't go around asking players how old they are either, since that information won't affect me and would be kind of weird and unnecessary for me to know...

I thought you meant all the characters were being followed around by a bunch of demon pets. On the villain side one of the archetypes is the Mastermind and I've recently seen a lot of those with the Demon Summoning primary, which of course lets them have demon pets.

Powerset is a set of a powers that you choose at the start of the game for the superhero/villain you play as. Basically you're a superhero or a supervillain. As you level up you choose which powers in your Primary and Secondary power set to unlock, and can also choose from power pools that any archetype can choose from, rather than the archetype specific powersets.

Nope, they made chars with wings and customized them to be black and red demons. And then took the flying travel method and ran around with names like coolguy666. How I love to hate free games.

[Boksi]

Dammit, I started playing this game a few days ago and totally missed this thread.

I've got a hero character on the Union server and a villain on Triumph, but no friends or anything on either server. So ronery ;_;

If I could get some friends to play with I might even decide to spend money on this game.

[JamesCorella]

if more people from here play it ill join too

[Sirus]

I used to be a premium player, and had lots of fun. I'm thinking of reactivating my old account and starting some new chars as a free player.

[Boksi]

Hmmm. According to the wiki, my hero(lvl 14) is approaching the max level(15) for the earliest task forces and the earliest trial. I don't wanna miss out on them, but I don't have anyone to do them with

EDIT: Wait, there's time travel in this game? Does it extend to task forces, I wonder? Need to do more reading.

EDIT2: Ah, so you automatically exemplar downwards if your level exceeds the max. That's nice to know. Now I don't have to worry about overleveling anymore.

[Duuvian]

Hey everyone, sorry about not keeping up on this thread. The best way to contact me in CoH is through the email system in game. You will have a global chat name which you can use to communicate even over other servers and when the recipient is offline. I think your default global name is the name of the first character you log in as (though it's changeable). Mine is @Ya Dead Homie since that was the name of the character I logged into first when they released that addition a long time ago.

Basically just send an in game email (it's on the chat window) to @Ya Dead Homie and I'll get it.

You can also send me tells via /t @ya dead homie, text here

even if you are on another server and I'm offline. There is a limit to the number of offline messages the game stores. I'm not sure about emails but you should be able to reach me in the near future that way. I'll usually login at least once during the day to see whether the dude I used to group with in CoH is on or not and send him some messages if not or team up if so.

I'll read this thread now and edit in some answers for questions and stuff that I know about, though there are a lot of gaps in my knowledge, especially about newer features.

Hmmm. According to the wiki, my hero(lvl 14) is approaching the max level(15) for the earliest task forces and the earliest trial. I don't wanna miss out on them, but I don't have anyone to do them with

EDIT: Wait, there's time travel in this game? Does it extend to task forces, I wonder? Need to do more reading.

EDIT2: Ah, so you automatically exemplar downwards if your level exceeds the max. That's nice to know. Now I don't have to worry about overleveling anymore.

Yep. They made it significantly easier to form groups during my hiatus and you don't have to worry about missing out on stuff.

Also,

Spoiler: Time Travelling will make it so much easier for you (click to show/hide)

It appears you can do all the story arcs and such that you missed while leveling in a special zone called Ouroboros. It's a very, very good system in my opinion. Ouroboros is accessed via a teleporter temporary power. You earn the teleporter power by having a time travel related badge. For returning players, this might be where you had gone back in time to fight the 5th column nazis (where I got mine) Fortunately for you, there is an exploration badge in the Ouroboros zone that qualifies as a time travelling badge. Ask for a kindly person who has an Ouroboros Portal (you can use theirs) in /b chat which is zonewide, arrange to meet them somewhere through tells, and then go through their portal. Then, when you zone in, look up. There is a 'wire' type object that goes to the very top of the floating island's construction. Somewhere up there (small area) is the exploration badge.

How I would recommend leveling up is this: Do your contact's missions. If you can get a group, do so because with time travel you can go back and learn all the intricacies of the story at any time, and you'll be a little more powerful due to having more slotting in your powers by that time (though enhancements scale down to roughly to the effectiveness they should be at that time, there are also more of them.)

The exception to this are the bank missions, which give a useful temporary power. This is because you are introduced to contacts through a 'broker.' This broker will contact you after you do a certain amount of newspaper missions, at which they will direct you you to rob/defend a bank in an alternate instance city zone (these are fun and tricky missions to be handled slowly and with care). If you succeed you get a temp power (low level villains get a jetpack for instance that lasts for 1 hour of in game usage. I recommend conserving by only using it to jump over obstacles, especially if you saved a power pick by only taking superspeed as a travel power  in City of Villains, as the Rogue Islands are about as well fortified as you'd expect from a paranoid super villain mastermind.)

Ooh, actually can you even contact me via global as a free player? I sure hope so, that would make it a lot easier to give you some guidance. I remember there were some limits on new free players (not premium which is what I am I guess since I had a subscription at one point) regarding zone wide chats, but I'm not sure if that covers global chat or not.

[Flying Carcass]

City of Heroes is a great game. I played off and on (mostly on) for a number of years between its release and issue 14, so I was quite pleased to get back into it when it went free-to-play. I was a subscriber long enough to have pretty much all the content I had when I stopped playing; the only thing I don't have access to is the invention system, which I never really was a fan of and had only one character with any number of IOs (and mostly simple damage IOs at that). As of late I've been leveling a brute hero-side on Freedom server called "Captain Enterprise", currently in the early 40s, so give a yell if you want to team. Of course, I haven't been on since Skyrim released... >.>

[Boksi]

Nice to know.

I'm @Bokahilla then, according to the menu. I've got a character named that on the Union server, too. And I can't send you an email because I either need to reach the next tier of Paragon Rewards or be a VIP to send emails

In fact, I don't think I can even send tells, either, though I can use /reply. I can use the friends tab in chat though. This is what I've read, anyway.

Another thing that might be important is time zone, since I'm on GMT +0. What are yours?