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Insofar as MMO playing goes, the last week or so has been one of the best weeks of my life. I'm hard-pressed to remember a time I was this absolutely glued to a single game at the exclusion of all else. The play mechanics of City of Heroes just agree with me to a degree I can't overstate, and it's been nice to be back in Paragon City making new characters and just... playing the game.
Over the last few days I have:
Run more task forces.
Made several new characters, some of them copyright infringing, like the Wii Fit Trainer or danger-bird Twitter.
Wrote a badge-hunting guide for an new-to-the-server zone that didn't have one before.
Infected two friends and thus went out punching up bad guys with a psychic wolf and the mortal incarnation of Youtube Culture.
Made a snake-powered giant robot.
Discovered the "Martial Combat" powerset, which was on the beta servers at shutdown. The basic attack allows you to punch a dude in the gut and have him fly in a slow-motion straight line backward, as if a special effects team were hauling him away on a wire. It's the Practical Effects powerset and I feel like any sentai/Power Ranger/Kamen Rider character I make should have it.
Started writing a mission in the mission architect. Shh, spoilers, but there's gonna be a whole post dedicated to that when I finish it out.
Collected exploration badges.
Played missions I had never seen before, with a quality of writing that proved to me the best was yet to come.
Rediscovered old favorite missions and contacts.
Watched server usage skyrocket.
Had a great, great time.
...and one negative:
Lived in deep dread that NCSoft is going to step up with big lawyers and bigger money and absolutely destroy this. I know there are private servers out there, the source is out, there's no way to really put this genie back in the bottle. I have the server software downloaded myself, even if I don't know how to run it, because JUST IN CASE okay.
I just don't think I can go back to a world where this game isn't running.
Over the last few days I have:
Run more task forces.
Made several new characters, some of them copyright infringing, like the Wii Fit Trainer or danger-bird Twitter.
Wrote a badge-hunting guide for an new-to-the-server zone that didn't have one before.
Infected two friends and thus went out punching up bad guys with a psychic wolf and the mortal incarnation of Youtube Culture.
Made a snake-powered giant robot.
Discovered the "Martial Combat" powerset, which was on the beta servers at shutdown. The basic attack allows you to punch a dude in the gut and have him fly in a slow-motion straight line backward, as if a special effects team were hauling him away on a wire. It's the Practical Effects powerset and I feel like any sentai/Power Ranger/Kamen Rider character I make should have it.
Started writing a mission in the mission architect. Shh, spoilers, but there's gonna be a whole post dedicated to that when I finish it out.
Collected exploration badges.
Played missions I had never seen before, with a quality of writing that proved to me the best was yet to come.
Rediscovered old favorite missions and contacts.
Watched server usage skyrocket.
Had a great, great time.
...and one negative:
Lived in deep dread that NCSoft is going to step up with big lawyers and bigger money and absolutely destroy this. I know there are private servers out there, the source is out, there's no way to really put this genie back in the bottle. I have the server software downloaded myself, even if I don't know how to run it, because JUST IN CASE okay.
I just don't think I can go back to a world where this game isn't running.
