Wednesday April 23rd 2008

	Not A Roleplayer 12:01 am-Turk Comments (1) Show » CoH, Screens Permalink This below is an instant message I got from an old DAoC guildie (take note of the name of said guildie) regarding my activities in City of Heroes. [12:25] Antiroleplay: so i hear you’re a roleplayer!!!1111 [12:25] *** Auto-response sent to Antiroleplay: Playing City of Heroes. My global chat handle is @Turk [12:26] Antiroleplay: it’s true! Next I have a screenshot. Nothing special about it. Unless you zoom in to the full size image and read the text in yellow. I wonder where Anti heard this information? Below is an in game chat log from the guild chat channel that is mandatory you stay in character. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: No wonder no one eever finds this guy, living in ze sewers for 200 years, I wouldn’t want to find ‘im either. [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Oi don’ know what you wuz expectin. It’s the bloody sewers after all, eh? [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: eh? Another english? [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: sounds more…canadian. [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Pfft. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: Your canadian eh? [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Oim Nick Wicked, an’ Oim a bleedin Rock star, mate. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: hm.. [SuperGroup]Nick Wicked: Canada! Oi nevah ‘erd such a thing. [SuperGroup]Sofie La Mystere: ah’ve never ‘eard of you. And here is my in game tell to this “Nick Wicked” person. [Tell]–>Nick Wicked: your such a putz [Tell]Nick Wicked: hahahahahaha So you see I’m not the roleplayer here. I just don’t swing that way. Unlike Nick Wicked.
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Sunday March 30th 2008

	Touch Your Boobie 10:22 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide CoH, Screens Permalink Played some more with DarkIzer the newb, While me and his son drank Diet Pepsi at my house he was enjoying Coors Lite at his house. Here is the highlight of yesterdays City of Heroes session: Important lesson learned. Don’t drink and play mmorpg’s.
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Friday March 28th 2008

	More City of Heroes 4:37 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide CoH, Screens Permalink Still playing City of Heroes. I’ve been playing mostly in the mornings with my healer bot (action shots below). I only played with my friend (the newb) once last weekend. I figured out one mystery. I would send him tells in game when I saw him online and never get any responses back from him. As I found out he plays with the chat window minimized. Because it’s in the way of seeing whats going on. That is the reason he gave. From his newb point of view I guess I understand. There is a lot of stuff on the screen. It is probably a lot to deal with all at once. For those of you that keep track of these things or are just curious (or bored even) here are two shots of Gawain’s good guy. The first one shows his bio (here is his badguy bio). The second is just a heroic pose. I also joined the guild that Gawain’s hero is in. They are role players. The server we play on (Virtue) is the unofficial role playing server. But I wasn’t quite ready for this role playing thing. Turk is now a member of League of Misfits! [Team]Turk: do I need to say anything? [Team]Turk: can I just say thanks [Team]Turk: not a lot of chatter [Team]Lowblow: yeah go ahead. [SuperGroup]Turk: Thank you for the invite into the team. [SuperGroup]Acorn Avenger: Hi Turk! [SuperGroup]Acorn Avenger: I’m the Acorn Avenger! [SuperGroup]Lowblow: ((they’re rude, turk, don’t worry. except for acorn avenger who is not rude but awesome instead.)) [Team]Turk: jesus their talking to me [SuperGroup]Acorn Avenger: [[naw, I';m rude OOC, AA is just nuts]] [SuperGroup]Lowblow: ((ok, I take back what I said then.)) I have a number of problems about role playing my character. First and foremost is the fact my hero is based on my old high school era comic book. So granted there is not a lot of character there to play with. I guess I’ll have to come up with something or use the crazy angle G uses. Some of it is just weird. To speak ooc (out of character for the newbs) you use double brackets at the beginning and end of the ooc text. [[This is dumb.]] Which to me is dumb. For now I guess I’ll just not say much in the guild chat channel. I think I’ll talk DarkIzer into joining up too and then make him open up his damn chat window.
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Wednesday March 19th 2008

	Newb Perspective 12:02 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide CoH, Screens Permalink I’ve introduced my best friend to the mmorpg genre with the game City of Heroes. Like me he is a comic book fan. So it was the perfect game for him. I am a little jealous of him this being his first foray into this kind of game. I remember the excitement I had when I took my first steps into Dark Age of Camelot. In a way he is lucky. He will have more than a few advisors to guide him in this type of game. I wish I had someone there when I first ventured into DAoC. I can remember all kinds of stupid shit I did as a newb. Here are some screenshots of me and him: I can’t wait to introduce him to other elements of the genre. The human element like guilds and grouping with complete strangers. So many things he can learn about right away instead of having to go through trial and error. I am so jealous of him. To have his newb perspective of the world. I kind of get bummed out when I think how quickly he will become jaded when he sees all of the human waste that do unfortunately populate these types of games. What a fun time! And yes that is a girl character I’m using in the game. Call me old fashioned (and a bit of a sexist). But I think a woman should have some set roles in both real and virtual worlds. So when I make a healer I usually make it a girl. A warrior? A mans work. Healing in my book is like making babies, cooking, and cleaning. All the job of a good woman. Seriously though I just like looking at a cute ass now and then instead of a dudes backside I’m usually looking at in these games.
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Friday March 14th 2008

	MMO Business 12:36 am-Turk Comments (0) « Hide CoH, General Permalink Closed my two World of Warcraft accounts. Time is good till beginning of april (so farm my gold farmer) or so. So bored of WoW. Me and my best friends kid (my nephew) have been playing it every saturday for awhile now. I just can’t go on. Time for a change of pace. Going to reopen my City of Heroes and City of Villains accounts. Probably going to buy a second box and have the nephew play with me on saturdays. The superhero angle of CoH may even get his dad into a mmo. I like to make posts like this just to keep track of how long I play these games for any stretch of time.
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Monday August 29th 2005

	City Of Heroes Again 5:54 pm-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Screens Permalink I really blame this on Kiltorn and his post in the forums. That and of course I’ve just not felt really at home in any mmorpg as of late. World of Warcraft has lost it allure. Dark Age of Camelot has once again left that stale taste in my mouth. So it only seemed natural after reading his post that I should revisit City of Heroes. I forgot how fun it is. I forgot how quickly things move in the game. I haven’t forgot my past issues with the game. Although it does appear that they will be adding the arch nemesis for your super hero into the game in the form of a stand alone sequel called City of Villains. The problem I have is that since this is not an expansion pack it means to take advantage of this feature you need to pay for both games. For now I’ll just not worry about that kind of thing. I have to admit it is fun playing the game, especially since I’m such a comic book geek. I of course don’t expect it to last. I get in these kicks and they seem to only last a month. But I’ll concentrate on having fun.
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Thursday April 29th 2004

	City Of Heroes 11:59 pm-Turk Comments (0) « Hide Screens Permalink Well I got to say City of Heroes is pretty fun to play. Of course I only played maybe 2 hours max today before I took my nap for work. I made level 3 already, but the chat in game says leveling is slow. But so far I’ve been having to much fun just playing the game. Character creation is quite involved, if you spend the time on it. You can just about make any kind of super hero you can imagine. You can only tweak the costume. There no stats to adjust. But you do get to pick your primary and secondary powers. At level 6 you also get to choose from a power pool of additional powers. You gain powers every other level. Now there are no items in this game like in your standard mmorpg. But three things do drop from mobs. Every mob you kill gives you xp (of course) and what they call influence points. You use these points to buy from the two item types from npc’s. The two item types are power enhancers and inspirationals. Power enhancers of course enhance your powers in a many different possible ways. Inspirationals are one shot items. They can do all kinds of things, buff, heal, damage add, etc. You start in training zone which looked to me gave no exp for mobs you killed while not on a mission. But that’s only in this training zone. Missions are the games bread and butter in the same way I imagine WoW’s quests are (got to pimp WoW). You get missions from npc’s called contacts. Missions can vary from fedex type quests to patrolling an area to going into a instanced “dungeon” to kill all the mobs inside. You will find clues inside these missions that can add to the flavor of the whole super hero thing going on in the game. My three levels I’ve made are form doing missions only. You can run into mobs on the street either committing a crime or just standing around talking shit. And the powers are kinda like Camelot’s styles/magic really. Each time you use one it costs endurance and has a short re-timer on it. You can que up two powers in advance and even set one power to auto attack. That’s pretty much all I can think of for now. Any questions you guys got I’ll try to answer them. Uh and I may have been overly harsh in my news post. I don’t miss not having a secret identity or an arch villian at all. The game is fun as it is.
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