Anyone playing on any of the private servers, Homecoming, Thunderspy, Rebirth, etc.? Made any meme characters or cool OCs you want to share? Please no server feud autism.
>>1204789can i coom to this while playing? this is VERY important for any mmo
>>1205358You can very easily make a big titty bimbo in BDSM gear. From what I've experienced, Thunderspy's got the best character customization.
>>1205385Seconding for Thunderspy. I'm glad others are also sick of this server feud bullshit.
>>1205358You can coom to anything anon
I think Rebirth may have overtaken Thunderspy in CC stuff
Personally I've been playing my first full run of the game on Homecoming for the most vanilla experience and most potential RP partner but I'll be taking a look at thunderspy and rebirth afterwards
>>1208168Oh did you join in January?
>>1208202I'd joined at least a year ago but I started playing again about a week ago. Going through the Loyalist route right now in Praetoria. I'm hoping to experience the game open up some more once I hit level 15, but I've also been told to stop gaining XP if I want to experience all the quests on Homecoming because of the level restrictions.
>>1208232Oh damn you missed the January period where they had a massive spike and there was thousands on it was pretty nuts, its getting dead again though. Also yeah Praetorian Content in general will make you go above 15, its very easy to level. The thing is you can pretty much do any mission at any level.
>>1208265Okay, good. I was worried I'd have to keep myself low or I'd lock myself out of everything.
I would try Homecoming again, but last time I was on, I was literally being stalked and kept an eye on by a GM for being involved in the development of Thunderspy.It was three or so years ago by now, but that kind of thing is hard to ignore.
>>1209260Honestly Homecoming is fine as a userbase, after all it is the most populous CoH server so its great for finding mission teams etc. There's always going on at all hours of the day. Its literally the GMs that ruin it. Specifically the upper echelon of GMs, since the younger GMs keep getting driven out by how weird the upper echelon are.
this game sucks even as an MMO. i don't get what people ever saw in it.
>>1209389Be that as it may, It doesn't have features I actually care about. I could play a server with 0 players, just me and whoever I bring along, if it means I can have the features I want.
>>1209424Unique concept I guess. Even now there's only been 3 Superhero MMOs, but thats cause they're not viable.
>>1209424>>1210266mmo that isn't hard locked to genre, you can make fantasy or sci fi or art deco or anything like that.
>>1209260Who are you?
>>1209260I call bullshit.
>>1209389Die HC fag. It has absolutely nothing over other servers besides mindless farming.
>>1204789HC, Everlasting shard. It's not the best but it beats Champions Online. You can find some good RP, but there are plenty of people who will bring real world politics into the game. Troons, people who go into PI Council missions/TFs and scream about bashing le fash - shit like that. Pocket D is still a miserable experience of men and men roleplaying as women trying to get ERP.>>1209389>Honestly Homecoming is fine as a userbase,Disagree. HC is populated and stuff, but Everlasting is full of snobbish, cliquey RPers who try to gaslight new players into the LeoLand mentality of "CoH is the best community, we're the best players, RP is an art!" shit. There are some good players, but most of the RPers on Everlasting are drama nerds playing high school bullying games.
Reminder that every single person involved with city of heroes private server development is fucking insane and also it's not even that good of a game. May as well play sims online or VR Chat because the main draw is dressing up dolls. The people who argue this point are the same people who thought Secret World was a good MMO.
>>1224491Yeah, everyone in the private server development is a batshit crazy, leftist SJW troon. The quality of the writing of new content is miserable and pathetic. That said the game itself - the proper game made by Cryptic/Paragon back when it was live is good. The game having a built in mission editor is a godsend for RPers and people who enjoy the combat though.
>>1205358Yes
>>1225105Ayyy gurl, lemme smash in Pocket D.
>>1225506What server?
>>1225980Everlasting.
>>1225982Look for Sinful Succubus then. Probably won't be on for another 10 hours or so.
>>1226015I recognize the name from goofing off in Pocket D. Nice.
>>1226389Funnily enough I've probably only been there a handful of times. I haven't been playing for long, definitely haven't RP'd with anyone yet
>>1226588I ran the barfly route in the D for a bit when I was between SG/VGs. Saw lots of people, listened in on RP, tried to make social connections. Sinful just stuck with me between design and description being vivid and interesting from what I vaguely remember. Problem with Pocket D thought is that if you're playing a male character that's not gay, you're outnumbered by questionable lesbians/futa and sparkledog sorts.
>>1226594>you're outnumbered by questionable lesbians/futa and sparkledog sorts.Yeah that's the impression I got in the little time I've spent there. Honestly I'd say sitting around in Pocket D waiting for RP to happen isn't my thing, I'd much rather improvise and do some light RP with people I come across or group up with while running missions. Might just be because I haven't played this game for long so I'm still enjoying the content it has to offer as opposed to people who've been playing this for 15+ years.
>>1226606You make perfect sense. Game has a dense core of people who were in the prior private server from during and after Live. Help chat is people who have played since beta and can not comprehend that new players are learning and playing content and not just farming or getting meta builds off of the forums/discord. Lots of cliques and drama. Me? I just want to RP, meet people and have fun. I'm doing story content right now reside and having a blast.
>>1226611Well if you're still at a reasonably low level and looking for company while doing missions I wouldn't mind joining in, so feel free to message me anytime.
>>1222720It literally has a population and thats something for those who want population
>>1224479Ahhh I don't play the RP server but I think thats more of just a general RP server thing, at least from my experience. RPers in general are just cliquey, dramatic and batshit no matter what MMO game. Hence why I avoid those servers. But yeah CoH has always had that weird mentality of "We are the best community in all of MMOs" which is a little pompous and egostical to think that. I know plenty of other better communities. Maybe back when it was a live game sure, it had a great community, but all those people are gone, some are literally dead since it was full of 40+ year olds at the time. I think when people say that about CoH its mostly nostalgia goggles as the ones that tend to say that are people who would have been 19 and under at the time of CoH being up, so they saw it all through a younger, rose tinted glasses kind of lense. It probably had its fair share of drama it wasn't privvy to. That and they've all grown up and ruined the "great community" since that "great community" on live was mostly full of Boomers and Gen X, not Millennials and Gen Z.
>>1227039Yeah. I played Champions and City of Heroes back on live, and Virtue - my home shard, was a clusterfuck of elitist RPers who could not RP their way out of a paper bag. Which was fine when City was live. But after it died, and people finally had to switch games, all these insufferable cunts from Virtue went to Champions and demanded "Virtue Quality" RP/ERP/Story/Characters. Said players forced a governing union on CO's native RP population with threats, blackmail, coercion and skullduggery. I loved CoH. It had a unique playerbase and some really amazing and interesting people, but it's not the best community. It never was the best and it never will be on account for all the drama queens and fucking ingrates that have latched onto the game.
>>1227069I'm surprised you didn't leave Virtue then if it was for the RP, Union was also an RP server if I remember correctly, just a lower pop one. But again I've noticed its a trend mostly with RP servers in general. They're full of wackos, coomers, people who start drama over nothing, narcicissts and elitists, mostly coomers these days especially FFXIV. WoW is mostly wackos. Check out this shit for a laugh, some of the shit they're kicking off about: https://wyrmguardsecrets.tumblr.com/
>>1227114Honestly I considered swapping servers, but between the cost to swap shards (I think there was a fee?) and my IRL friends joining late on Virtue we stuck there. That said you could usually avoid the truly shitty groups once you figured out the troublemakers. RP is fun, but RPers are a trainwreck. The worst part is that six to eight years ago the drama would be focused on RP stuff or game stuff. Now everything is focused on external politics/identity politics/etc. I'm at the point where I stay IC unless I either feel comfortable with the person/group or have to go OOC. The amount of RPers actively looking to incite drama over pointless things is ridiculous. That said I've also met a few on HC from 4chan directly, and others in game who ended up being 4chan posters hiding their overall power levels.
>>1227114>Check out this shit for a laugh, some of the shit they're kicking off about: https://wyrmguardsecrets.tumblr.com/Missed my reply to this on >>1227125 Giving it a read now and in return I offer one of the two well known Champions Online name and shame pages. https://clubcapricebingo.tumblr.com/ The other one was nuked because pedophiles were called out on it, and they threatened legal action. Fucking roleplayers. Millennium City Walmart was the name. Full of screencaps, evidence and general hilarity.
>>1227131Yeah the wyrmguard secrets one is a lot more whinier than the one I posted. Yours is like exposing bad RPers, wyrmguard secrets is just people whining about the dumbest most petty shit and it just makes me think RPers are lunatics.
>>1227154If you think about it, people are either creative enough to create new identities to pretend to be, or batshit insane and desperate enough to do it. I'm a bit of A and a bit of B I guess. Wyrmguard's an interesting read. Lots of bitterness and spite over petty things, and even more over idiotic things. Makes me glad I never got into WoW aside from trialing it two or three times. Superhero RP has plenty of baggage, but until somewhat recently the worst stuff was finding out your romantic partner was getting dicked down deep by your nemesis, or that your sidekick was shit talking you in public
>>1227154Whoops meant the one you posted
>>1227125RP supergroups always has the worst and most constant drama too. Very explosive.
>>1227161True. I'm glad the one I am second in command of is drama free. We've had four drama players who joined and only had to kick one. The other three got the "Hey, we see you've been doing X. That's not acceptable and you need to change your behavior or leave" message. It's almost scarily relaxed, friendly and non-cliquey. I think it helps that just about everyone came from a respective bad/dramatic SG and just wants to have fun and RP.
>>1227167I think due to the smaller size of the game everyone has had a bad SG experience on it, guranteed at least one that went catastrophic and tits up. Feels like for a while everyone was on the "I'm burned out on SGs and SG drama so I'm just not g onna join any SGs" period for a while and everyone was freelance, but now they're making a comeback with the NCSoft okaying the game thing. But it does feel like everyone's still in that burned out on SG drama period and since the games so small they keep running into the same people. Its not a game to keep beef in as the community is too small that you're guaranteed to keep running into them.
>turns into a hc circlejerk thread
>>1227868Seems that way, yeah. On the bright side there are good people hiding in the cracks and crevices at least.>>1227872All the HC chatter seems to be questioning the mod staff and complaining about Everlasting RPers unless I'm missing something.
>>1227069As someone who played CO at the time I actually remember when CoH shut down and the "amazing community" came over to CO and acted like they were forced to. Before CoH's shut down the CO community was pretty nice, I don't remember any drama at all, any big incidents, any arguments over the general chat etc. It was mostly older skewered as most of the player base were people who played the tabletop game way back.Then CoH closed and a lot of its community begrudgingly came over to CO and threw a hissy fit over it and acted like they were forced to come over or somethign and not like it was their choice. And all they did was complain. Complain about the game, complain how they missed CoH, complain about how CO doesn't have this thing that CoH has or does this feature differently to CoH. All I kept sying was they don't HAVE to be here. So that was really annoying. After a while the complaining about CoH calmed down as they accepted it was fucking dead (or fucked off to the secret private server I guess) and yet the community wasn't the same. It was full of drama and elitism and as you said talk of "bringing it up to Virtue standards" and shit, acting like CoH's community was the best comunity in the world, they even said that most of the time, and how they thought CO's community wasn't as good and full of drama not realizing THEY brought the drama. No way from what I saw was that shit the best community in the world, unless we got the leftoverts of the worst of the worst.So yeah it ended up killing CO for me and it came to me as no surprise there was deceptive private server shit going on because yeah, that seems very much like CoH's community which was NOT a friendly community IMO.
>>1227872Half of its about CO and WoW and just the RP community in general.
>>1228014CO was reasonably good for a while, yeah. As someone who was in Courage and Valor, the /co/ and /v/ focused 4chan SG it was really fun. Sure, there was some trolling but people mostly were just hanging out, shooting the shit and leveling. Also photo ops. So many screenshots with the team. You did have people like Vivian and her compulsive need to fuck everyone and everything, not to mention her emoting giving birth in the Club Caprice lounge fountain in a packed CC - but her and the sexpests aside it was a nice community. Cryptic was still baiting us with "Yeah, Forge will be brought over really soon! You can make your own missions!", but the game was still reasonably fresh. Not to mention Alerts were not implemented to funnel everyone into five minute power leveling instances instead of doing world missions.They went to CO, GW2, WoW. It's just CO was the general migration point, sadly. They pushed CORP as a full authority RP community/governing body and that was a joke. CORP was running lolicon orgies and shit in hideouts while trying to "crack down" on "Unwelcome RP!" (Read anyone or any SG not affiliated with CORP.). Amusingly the Virtue parasites that were not on one of the private servers more or less moved on once Paragon Chat was working. Good fucking riddance, but sadly they did enough damage that CO lost most of the non-roving futa rape game RPers.
>>1228222CO is just extremely neglected these days, has a barebones skeleton crew which is literally a handful of people. They keep the server up and running, and release new furry items and that keeps the money coming in. It used to get hand me down content from STO and Neverwinter just reskinned, now it doesn't even get that. Just furry items.
>>1228281There was a purge of people who brought evidence of pedophiles using the game to swap pizza to the GMs. Said Pedophiles just happened to also be lockbox whales.
A couple of Anons posted in the /aco/ OC drawthread months ago, and had a porn picture of their characters done.
>>1214731I'm Arde.>>1217908I don't know what to tell you. I was in Pocket D around Christmas of 2019 on Everlasting, and a perfectly-visible GM camera bot was just staring at me the whole time, as if to say, "why the fuck are you here?"Since then, I moved to Thunderspy for good and haven't looked back. I kind of miss RP, but given what people in the thread are saying, there doesn't seem to be much to miss.
>>1228222The way I see it, you could have every non-circlejerking roleplayer on 4chan move to Everlasting, and it wouldn't affect the ratio of circlejerkers to actually-decent-people in any meaningful way. There's just not enough of us to do that.That said, if you do the same with Thunderspy, that same group, or even one half its size, would be a significant benefit to the community overall.That's why I stay on Thunderspy, even during the dead periods. Because I can make a lasting impact, even as a party of one.
>>1235142Archive link that shit
>>1235531Makes sense. I would move, but I am running a large VG now and I doubt I could convince everyone to just alt over to TS.
>>1237089>Archive link that shithttps://www.imagebam.com/view/MESRL7K
>>1237652Based
>>1237656Going off the posts, the two chicks and the dude are OCs from one of the private servers.
>>1237480I had a large supergroup that I brought over to thunderspy for a couple months but there turbo autistic cliques there drove them away. Like any private server. They got extremely mad about nobody paying attention to them
>>1235517The lonely loser who has to beg people to play games with him and has a 2nd discord account to pretend to be a vtuber tranny. You're one of the reasons people stray from CoH. If you want to help the community grow just shut up and don't say anything.
>>1237790>>1238232Okay first of all, nice hateboners.
>>1238232Second of all, at least I've made a name for myself. I don't fear the judgment of my peers, unlike you who hides behind anonymity to fling shit at people you don't like.You're free to prove me wrong and say who you are. I know you won't, because you can't handle a level playing field.
>>1238142I considered it but I've got a mix of hardcore shitposters from 4chan and normalfags. Last thing I need is a transfer followed by. "HE SAID THE N-WORD!" or related drama. Some of these people are great RPers but goddamn lightweights who would shit themselves at the even thought of a racial slur or light trolling.
For the role players in the thread, any luck with role playing lately? Met a random player in Pocket D, chatted and role played. At the end they thanked me for being their first role playing partner in the game and asked if I would be in game later in this week.
>>1238142>rpfag complaining about people getting upset when no one pays attention to themHeh..
>>1235517RP is at it is everywhere these days. Mostly elitist cliques and ERP fiends just standing around a singular hub and then going to nightclubs to dance to plug dj. Its like that everywhere now not just CoH. MMO RP is dead.
>>1238504Its always weird because they're redside RPers, its always gonna be dark and I know some like "no dark stuff please" and its likew why are you redside?
>>1239012I hope they're not crazy and clingy
>arde reported my post about him being a vorefagliterally nobody in any of the servers wants you
>>1239549It is odd, but it's a solid group. I know half are hardcore shitposters, a quarter are probably hiding their power level as well.
>>1239551Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. I'll find out tomorrow when they show back up. They did not want to fuck on first meeting though, so that's a good sign.
>>1226606Here's how it goes in any MMO with RP at any RP hub where you're waiting for walk up RP:>If you're a guy character you'll get no walk ups at all except rarely a gay guy who will then stop and lose interest quick once they realize you're not gay>If you're a girl character you will get SWARMED with walk ups, weird OOC PMs and the like, mostly by straight men playing lesbian characters but also male characters. They will all try to ERP with you, especially if you're new and someone they've not seen around. If they realize you're not down to ERP, they lose interest. Except the creeps in the PMs.
>>1239837Accurate. You did forget the predatory gay characters going after males though.
>>1239848I'm not gay so I'm not really in that scene, I've found the gay guys I've experienced have been cool and backed off after. Sometimes they lose interest way too quick that its obvious they were after ERP. This wasn't on CoH though so it may be different there.
I like cute and romantic RP and hate that I have to hide that fact when I'm role playing in Everlasting.
>>1239551They never showed up.
>>1240776Oh no, dont be the clingy one
>>1241130I would not say I'm being clingy. Only met the player/character once after all. I merely have a faint distaste when someone says "Hey, I'll see you on Wednesday." and never shows. I get that IRL exists and life changes of course. It was just a slight disappointment. With that said, I probably made a mistake offering my Discord to someone I've been RPing with for the last few days. I offered it out of convenience/RP scheduling, because they seemed reasonable, pleasant and friendly. Damn good RPer as well. I just did not consider it might seem weird until I had said it. Hopefully it was not a red flag to them.
I don't RP but I still like to write bios for my characters and then delete them because I'm afraid they're cringy and gay. But then I read some stuff that other people write and instantly feel better and the cycle continues
>>1242087That's the slow road of learning how to RP. Godspeed, Anon.
>>1242087We need more traditional hero bios, a lot of them are just edgelord demons and cat girls now. We need the cheesy silver aged heroes. Feels like everyone starts with a hero then descends into weird magic shit like demons and angels
>>1241144Easiest way to make it seem less creepy is just be very point to point with them. Talk about scheduling and don't be personal.
>>1242294They ended up adding me today, and I apologized and explained that I have some IRL care taking stuff that occasionally makes me vanish and that with Discord I could drop a message in advance. All is well, I think, one of the best RPers I've met on Everlasting and just really great to chat with IC and OOCly. Very impressed by them.
>>1239118we weren't RPfags, faggot. It was the resident autists who were throwing tantrums from lack of attention due to new players forming teams.
Long, unasked for blogpost inbound.>Play on Homecoming.>Trial and tribulations with the roleplaying community and going into Homecoming blind.>Still eventually find a good SG with a great crew more interested in fun over drama.>End up in unexpected RP friendship turned relationship with SG member.>It's fun, nice. No real complaints.>Player slowly begins getting territorial ICly.>This turns to OOC.>Do not realize this is happening, but find self unhappy with RP.>Finally realize that the character I roleplay is not fun anymore.>Talk to SG leadership, explain problem.>They get me.>Tell RP partner I want to take an extended break from RP on my character.>Offer ways they can either stick around our SG or go with my character in RP.>They lash out at me and talk horribly.>Tell me to never get into an IC or OOC relationship because all I do is hurt people.>They make a fuss in SG chat and insinuate I was at fault.>They leave the SG.>Get a sudden and very unexpected out-pour of sympathy from SG and non-SG friends.>SG has a meeting.>It's the most active/excited everyone has been in a while.>Someone outright asks OOCly if it's from the former player not being around to be possessive/strange.>Have some new roleplayer friends I've been doing scenes with that don't give major red flags as well.I think I dodged a bullet.
>>1243416this happens literally all the time in rp spaces, it is literally always happening every second of the day, be glad it didn't get worse lmao
>>1238142It was probably the same two no life people that you would be safe to ignore. If you already have a group it's easier to just strong arm cliques to fuck off. Turbo autists always neat themselves when ignored. You can also just show them being autistic. No one tolerates turbo autists and it usually takes one person getting tired of it, saying it
>>1243629Taking a half-decade break from RP dulled my instincts it seems. I see the warning signs and passive aggressive messages for what they are now, but yeah it could have been a lot worse. Codependent RPers are a batshit crazy nightmare.
>>1207860way more textures, fewer models, it's a tradeoff.
Speaking of RP a gay guy approached me on Pocket D last night it finally happened He swiftly lost interest when he realized though. Really tried to look for an out to end the RP.
>>1243416Never get into an RP relationship on any game
>>1243629WoW is the worst for it but that might be because its the largest RP community on an MMO
>>1243629>>1243735MMOs tend to attract a certain kind of pathological personality because they can't get actual socialization in the real world, and CoX was no exception - in fact it may have even been WORSE for CoX because the level of customization meant you could REALLY make your OC donut steel that is an idealized version of yourself with it.Then when CoX died, you either had >people who were autistically obsessed with a game that had been dead for almost as long as it had been alive>people who were invited to SCORE, which by definition was an incestuous elitist sekrit club circlejerkBecause all of the normies would have moved on with their lives. The death and rebirth (and secret sever in between) distilled the population down so we have more psychos per capita, so yeah I wouldnt be surprised if shit like that was way, WAY more common.
>>1243886back on virtue I had someone RPing as a probably illegally young girl (cherry something, cant recall) approach me for what was obviously going to be some kind of ERP, but was simultaneously trying to be a shy subby bottom but also initiate, so it was like 15 minutes of >stutter typing>blush blush>totally accidental hand contact>blush blush blush stutter type stutter type mumble mumble blush blushIt was quite an experience watching someone humiliate themselves like that. I eventually made some kind of excuse and left. Kind of ties into >>1243925 because it was clear that they didn't exactly want someone to pin them down and fuck them in the ass (because if they did they could have just been more direct), they wanted someone to WANT to pin them down and fuck them in the ass.RP would be fun as fuck if it werent for the fact that it's done by RPers.
>>1243925CoX suffered from good customization and a weird, gaslit fanbase who was told time and time again that they ARE THE BEST. THE BEST ROLE PLAYERS, THE NICEST PEOPLE, THE HECKIN MOST WHOLESOME COMMUNITY. Leo pulled a hell of a con on the private server members. SCORE are a bunch of talentless hacks that would have run their private server circlejerk had a brave soul not leaked proof of said private server. Also fun fact for Homecoming players! Your chat logs are monitored and traded around by the GM team! It's an open secret that the weirdos, troons and creeps that make up the GM team trade saucy RP logs players have, and spy on RP as well. They also let their friends break the ToS, which is why people RPing babyfucking who got caught escaped punishment and the person who reported them had their account deleted. >>1243931Cherry is always a huge red flag name. That said your encounter describes a fair amount of people on Virtue and a larger amount of people in Homecoming.
>>1243925I feel its especially the case now on private server CoX rather than live as all the boomers who were pretty based and nice and friendly have all stopped playing, some have even just straight up passed away. Feels like any time I go on there's some memoriam going on in Atlas Park. So now all thats left are the millennials and zoomers and their current day personalities who played as kids and proclaim CoH on live as having "the best community ever" and they don't realize it wasn't THEM that made it the best community but it was the boomers who are now gone.
>>1243925>people who were autistically obsessed with a game that had been dead for almost as long as it had been alive>people who were invited to SCORE, which by definition was an incestuous elitist sekrit club circlejerkI think people focus too more on how deceptive and shitty the SCORE thing was and not on how strange and pathetic it was. All that elitism and all the secrets and deception and weird power plays (some of the weird power plays they still do today with the other servers) for a now 20 year old superhero game that with each year gets more and more dated. Even the character creator isn't that amazing anymore with some of the stuff you can do on other MMOs like editing the whole face. Maybe for the time sure. But DAMN all that crazy Game of Thrones tier deception and planning and backstabbing over a fuckin superhero MMO
>>1243925>people who were autistically obsessed with a game that had been dead for almost as long as it had been aliveSadly CO got the remnants of those that weren't invited to the sekrit server and they constantly acted uppity. They loved the term "Best community" and some shit, they seemed like a nightmare community. See: >>1228014
>>1243938>a brave soulStroyer was a butthurt autist who would have been happy to continue the sekrit club for another six and a half years if they had shown him what he felt was the appropriate level of positive regard. Don't lionize him.the TRUE brave soul was the person that leaked i24 after he got sick of leo fucking about and playing footsie with the code.
>>1243931Was it Candi?
>>1243938>Leo pulled a hell of a con on the private server membersTheir autism over "WE COULD GET IN TRABBU" is so fucking weird. Its why I genuinely think its all just a power play, they wanted to run the game THEIR way and do a little dictatorship. The whole "We could get discovered and shut down and they could send us to prison!!" shit was so over the top. Also not very convincing when there were private servers for 4 or 5 other NC Soft games publicly flowing around. They knew they wouldn't get shut down.Same with the HC "Talks with NCsoft thing" NCSoft clearly gave zero fucks with the almost five years the server had been up and the various other private servers around. The whole license thing I think was purely to show off and for power.
>>1243982something like that, but couldnt say for sure, I only every saw them the one time like 10 years ago.
>>1244001Oh because I once teamed with a Candi who was similar to that and her bio had graphic descriptions of her nipple and clit piercings and GMs told her to remove it from her bio or get banned lel
>>1243989people with an incentive to believe something are less likely to try to look for reasons not to.
>>1243970Sarcasm, Anon. They're all a bunch of cunts in SCORE. >>1243989It is exactly that. They talk about how bad TSpy is with heckin nazis, but they're basically janny browncoats at HC. >Same with the HC "Talks with NCsoft thing" NCSoft clearly gave zero fucks with the almost five years the server had been up and the various other private servers around. The whole license thing I think was purely to show off and for power.They want to be the only private server. It is indeed a power play. HC is trying to form alliances to form the "City Council" which is just an excuse to blacklist anyone they dislike.
>>1244030the "city council" consists of HC and the other splinter servers that were also using HC's shit, so it's still just them, they're just consolidating their base.
>>1244045Yeah. It's honestly pitiful. It's going to get worse as well. I'm expecting the quiet player purges to go loud. Things like BAB from Live joining is only empowering those retards further.
>>1244030>>1244045>>1244049I genuinely think their plan was to shut down other private servers but they backtracked, because I remember their original statement before they altered it because people were quoting a specific line being like "Hmm that seems suspicious" and then they were like "Oh no no we're not shutting down other servers, but its not OUR fault if they get shut down because they're unlicensed :))" like ok.. weird. NCSoft haven't touched them for four years so if they touch them now its no coincidence. HC has always had a weird relationship with the other servers they get very skittish whenever someone brings them up and want to shut down all talks about them. Even when other servers reach out to them, which makes the City Council thing odd because again HC hasn't been very forthcoming or outreaching before, now suddenly they are out of nowhere in an attempt to absorb all the other servers. At first it seemed like it was cause of Thunderspy's political views but then it became apparent when Rebirth popped up and other servers popped up that its just not the case they act like that with all servers.Other servers have previously tried to get a working relationship with HC, to try and share code and stuff like costume parts but HC have declined, someone even did it publicly in the discord once and gave them a whole bunch of free costume content and they just deleted it. They're just weird. Even with the whole "City Council" thing apparently they're still VERY dismissive. It's clear they see themselves as "the actual server" and the others as the fake pretend servers.
>>1245019HC are a bunch of weirdos who enjoy their iron grip over the HC shards and now the CoH license. These are weirdos who never moved on from CoH, people who spent over a decade running CoH private servers. They've had a taste of power and authority. They don't want to give it up. It's mentally unstable roleplayers and jannies trying to play banana republic. Right now everyone who plays on HC does so at their whim, under their authority. Do you really thing they would jeopardize that power by getting help from/helping over private servers?
I like to play super hero game c:
I've been considering making a character on Homecoming to see if they've got any fun AE arcs to play through, but I can never work up the will to actually do it.
>>1245285There are a ton of new AE arcs. Some pretty good.
>>1245025>>1245019Ties into What Cipher (and to a lesser extent Leo) have always been after, frankly.Cipher is like one of those game hoarders that seek out one of a kind/lost media and then keep it for themselves, who claim to be into preserving games but really just want to be the only person with access to them - he apparently did exactly the same thing with Earth and Beyond when it died, though I've never actually met anyone from that community so I've never heard their side of it.Leo on the other hand is just an egotist that wants his secret club of sycophants. SCORE, HC, "city council," the "private beta test server" (which is just SCORE), none of that matters as long as he has people doing pic related.
>>1245378Exactly. They get fame, worship from idiots, free money "to maintain the servers" and a near unlimited amount of underage ERP from sycophants. They are in their glory.
The mapserv event gives pretty decent XP my only issue with it is nobody knows how to league properly
>>1245384Remember when leo spent entirely too fucking long yalking about how the age of consent in argentina is 16? Like four entire full-length paragraphs? And then when you google it its apparently actually 18?That was kind funny wasnt it?
>>1246344I think league functionality also broke with the Mapserv event update. Not 100% sure, but I heard it in a few teams.
>>1246516Nice of them to break shit that was already functional
>>1246754Expecting anything from SCORE/HC GMs is pointless.
Nice to see they fucked up bios too
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/with-a-near-unprecedented-official-license-for-its-fan-server-one-of-pc-gamings-great-mmos-has-a-vibrant-future-let-it-be-shouted-far-and-wide-city-of-heroes-lives-again/NCSoft confirmed the license agreement btw
>>1246916>No name of the NCSoft source listed Um this is clearly just PCgamer once again being puppeted by the master puppeteer Leo. As for NCSoft, they just really don't care about one of the biggest gaming news sites reporting that someone else is falsely claiming to have license to their IP. Until the CEO of NCsoft himself comes to my door and tells me the license is real and apologizes for shutting down CoH in favor of a bunch of flop games like Wildstar, I will not believe it.
>>1247487I think the one thing HC always grossly over estimates is the amount of fucks NCSoft gives about the private servers. They not only have never shut down or C&D'd a single private server of CoH but have never done it for any private server of a western focused game of theirs that has been shut down. There's a pretty healthy Wildstar Private Server too. NCSoft shut those games down for a reason and thats because they're heavily focused on the Asian market and in the early 2010s they shut down a ton of games that didn't hit. It's no coincidence that CoH shut down after NCSoft attempted Korean servers of the game that flopped.They just don't care about HC, Thunderspy, Rebirth, any of them because they're never gonna revive CoH because their target audience doesn't play it. Same with all the other Western games they have. They're a blatant Eastern Game company now because that's where they make their money. Homecoming being up doesn't affect them at all now because they're not infringing on any moneymaking opportunities for NCSoft. Yet HC still treats it as a massive boogeyman.The "talks" for the license agreement was probably at the lowest level and they just did it because they do not give a single fuck and want these HC people to stop emailing them about a game thats been dead for 12 years, longer than the game itself was up.HC have to know this, they're either really stupid and easily afraid or they're very calculating about this and want this Evil NCSoft and "we need the license" narrative for a reason
>>1248365>they're either really stupid and easily afraidSee >>1244008 - ive seen HCdrones just completely pull shit out of their ass to justify literally anything HC does because they just really really want to believe everything is fine and they know what theyre doing.>or they're very calculating about this and want this Evil NCSoft and "we need the license" narrative for a reasonSee above. Earlier you could and did see people justifying everything by going>"they probably need to (ban streaming, run through the RP SGs and nuke anything they didnt like, not have any new content for months at a time, etc) because of the talks"But now they can just say "because of the license">no new content? Must be restricted because of the license>new content but its a dogshit rehash? Must be because of the license>new content that's totally original but terrible quality? The license may saybthey only have a certain amount of resources to use for new stuff>TOS enforcement/changes that no one likes? License forcing them I guess>TOS stuff NOT getting enforced despite people bitching? License may need them to go through ncsoft and theyre dragging their feet, sorry.It can be the answer to every question
>>1249191Honestly the "new content" HC has put out has been pretty shit. The hard mode TF modes are shit, the vaunted Dr. Aeon TF is a quarter great CoH story and seventy five percent butchering the lore of the Gold Brickers by adding "Princess Zoey" the OC donut steel queen of the hardened criminals who speaks almost exclusively in MMMGRHGF! (Not even joking.) and yelling attack moves. Really anything Nu-Bricker is a disappointment. I did not try the page seven Striga story drop because it's Fifth Column related so I suspect it will be some ham fisted "hecking parallel to current IRL events!" plot. SCORE/HC "Devs" do not understand the game and HC is probably going to end up some shitty Ship of Theseus game that people will consider to be the true, official City of Heroes experience because of the licensing.
>>1242087The only real "RP" I do in CoH, or any MMO is writing bios for my characters and if I'm on an RP team or a team that's RPing i'll play along, not mention gameplay terms, act all heroic so their immersion doesn't break. Its pretty fun, no other MMO I've found has teams that RP during the missions.
Come home, Alphabet Man
>>1250010Fucking faggots ruining CoH. There was plenty of representation in Pocket D, no need to put fake lore in the game.
>>1250010Patron hero of female toon players
>>1250010>take an existing character from the lore and make him gay despite never having been even so much as hinted at before>said existing character was killed by Sky Raiders in what can now be considered a hate crime>specific real world event is referenced, something that never happened in official lore outside broad strokes such as World Wars I & II being things that happened>aliens, magic, mutants, ridiculously powerful technology, super heroes exist in this world, and are accepted as normal, but we are somehow expected to believe gays and trannies are not>particularly when you can walk into a tailor and change genders like thatHomecoming proving once again that they have no idea what they're doing.
>>1250020Tailors couldn't always change your gender just like that, it's only because of Captain Indomitable's bravery that trans folx got the representation they needed and the flesh carver industry could advance.
>>1250020HC are a bunch of hacks. Project '12 when?
>>1250034Isn't that what Rebirth is?
>>1250046>Isn't that what Rebirth is?Not that I know of. Rebirth has unique stuff.
>>1249248I hate the Aeon task force why's it SO long? It's stupidly long and feels like it could have been 3 seperate TFs. Or at least the Gold Bricker stuff and time travel stuff seperated.>>1250010>>1250020Yeah their writing sucks, again the Aeon TF. It feels like a parody of CoH just nothing is serious. I'm dreading what they'll eventually doing to the Freedom Phalanx. IMO with the lore just freeze everything in time.
>>1250420What are you talking about? Aeon taskforce is like 25 minutes.
Which server comes closest to vanilla experience? I don't care about stuff like custom costume parts or other things like that, I'm just talking about story arcs, zones etc.
>>1250555It's 25 minutes if you have a team who has run it dozens of times with good builds. Takes an hour or so for pubs or normal people. The higher difficulty version and not cheesing normal mode cranks up the time as well.
>>1250635Oh without a doubt it's Rebirth. For the 1st 2 years they were online they were static and absolutely fixated on being as close to live as possible. And while they have added new things since then, you can easily ignore that if you choose.
>>1250809I join pugs all the time for it, it's like 30 minutes on average. It's literally way quicker than many official TFs.
>>1250635Rebirth, they have a lot of bonus costume content but you have to unlock everything like you used to, including prestige for bases.>>1251236Yeah the only custom stuff they've really added is a lot of costume stuff which nobody really complains about, other than that its pretty vanilla.
>>1251236Shame that the RP community has been redirected to Homecoming. From what I was told during my brief Rebirth visit, people from Homecoming went and pulled the "Everlasting is the true RP community" and caused stupid drama with existing RP groups in Rebirth. Having spent a few months in Everlasting I feel it's probably true.
I'm from Thunderspy. Stop complaining about Homecoming and play on Thunderspy, We're curbing retarded behavior if you just screenshot it happening. The alternative is turning on the logs that records all chats. If you honestly trust Homecoming people not to "Ctrl+f" your private chatlog on you when they want to be justified in getting rid of you, good luck. A Thunderspy dev asked some Homecoming RP group what features they would like to encourage them to play there and the group just wanted to drama farm without getting banned.
>play on torchbearer>don't encounter any of the Homecoming social issues anyone always complains about>still enough of a population to do teamsFeels good just having fun.
>>1253532>The alternative is turning on the logs that records all chatsIf you RP but do not do this you are an idiot. RPers can and will backstab and having logs is essential in modern times.
>>1253504Rebirth is the better experience for sure, not just authenticity wise but better costume content, better community, and an admin team who communicate and clearly give a shit and arent' trying to pull shenanigans. Its just nobody plays because HC was so aggressively first and aggressive in being the dominant place
>>1254204Lack of players is my main problem. I quit the group I was in because of a leader with no desire to do anything but RP in Pocket D. I could ideally go to Rebirth, but my friends who checked it out said the RP scene was dead, and the HC license announcement combined with some HC visitors causing issues in RP killed off native RP outside of insular friend groups.
>another year>the city of heroes thread is still predominantly about inter server shitflinging and faggotryalmost like there isn't really much game here so retard drama is the actual draw.
>>1255359>almost like there isn't really much game here so retard drama is the actual draw.I would argue against that. Game has a ton of content, but at the same time it has been 21 or so years since launch. I could bitch about in-game, RP community drama if you want. I've had plenty of that shit lately. Otherwise I'm just slowly getting invention enhancements for my level 50+ characters, working on costumes and having fun.
Is Homecoming really that bad now? Played for a bit because an IRL friend got into it and he talked me into tagging along. Didn't get to super high levels before I burnt out from what I remember so maybe I wasn't exposed to enough autism.
>>1256074Not really. Threads like these just tend to be loud about it.
>>1256074Depends. If you turn off General chat and avoid RP drama you can have fun without an autism overdose. One of my biggest complaints is the random, new lore plaques added. Some of which brings RL shit like gay pride or stuff that goes against the timeless comic setting into the stead. If you even seem like you are going to talk badly about it, people get pissed. It's stupid.
>>1256543>goes against the timeless comic setting into the steadI mean, isn't there a whole thing about how minority metahumans were disproportionately drafted to fight in Vietnam functioning as part of the catalyst for Malta's present ideology? I also recall an arc dealing with Malta concerned about China's growth and its growth projections creating a 'meta-human power imbalance'.Though I kind of guess that stuff's just inevitable with a group like Malta that was basically /pol/schizo: the group before /pol/schizo was a thing.
>>1256563Stuff like Might For Right and other political issues in CoH are not overly brought up in game. Which is fine with me. Cryptic/Paragon made a surprisingly deep and interesting universe for their MMO. The problem with the modern changes is that it's shitting on established lore to try to push modern politics/issues. Some of the new bits of lore, like the airship remains in Prometheus Park in Atlas is kinda cool. It's not nearly as hamfisted as rainbow benches and Stonewall references while also making an established hero gay. As a gay male it feels like token pandering and queerwashing by out of touch members of HC. Plenty of gay players and characters have existed since Live, and the progressive push for stuff like Paragon Pride Parade feels like a manufactured spectacle.
Hc shill thread
>>1256620I've seen more complaining about it than anything else.
>>1256597okay, I am sorry to kind of beat this dead horse, I do understand 4chan is, well, a thunderspy and rebirth place and that's fine. I do just want to note though that the 'captain indomitable was gay' thing only is apparent in part of a history plaque chain while the might for right act is its entire own history plaque chain plus being heavily tied in with Indigo and Crimson's content. There's also the fact that, yes, it's turning an established character gay, but there wasn't much established with them, they're a hero who was helping to investigate the Sky Raiders with The Sky Raider's Secret arc and you don't even interact with him alive. He's kind of dead when you find him. I also feel like there's an exploration badge somewhere from back during live where he's mentioned but I can't seem to find it.So this doesn't even meet the criteria for a retcon as that would require it to contradict previously established information.
>>1256808>I do understand 4chan is, well, a thunderspy and rebirth place..You sir, are delusional if you think HC doesn't have numbers here too. The big difference is that here numbers don't count for shit against a sound argument. And ain't no one cares about your victim complex. Folks are more likely to chuckle at HC taking 6 months to test a color change on a bench and some badge text than anything else.
newfag here, i'm trying to figure out which server to tryi like the look of thunderspy's features, but i'm worried about playercount. i've never played the game, so i don't know how it impacts gameplay, but i don't want to be locked out of stuff because no one's online and i can't solo/duo it.homecoming has a lot of people on it, but i've read some pretty horrific things about it. if it's hc or nothing, is stuff like >>1250010 ignorable?hopefully this post doesn't feed into any arguments or anything, not my intention
>>1257116>muh popfake post
>>1257116nvm, deleting this post because i found my answerall the guides i found just said vague stuff like 'you can solo some things' but i found out about the difficulty/team size systems through an obscure new player tip video lol
>>1257116Very ignorable. In fact that plaque and those benches are the only ones of their kind, and they're located in the zone with literally nothing in it that wasn't released on live when it sunset.
>>1255359Always and forever. They can't stop themselves. Kinda similar with a lot of private server threads on here though, FFXI thread is mostly private server console wars.
>>1256543This is gonna be the biggest drawback going forward. The thing about private servers of dead games, CoH included, is that its a snapshot right of the final moments before it closed. HC are making a lot of big sweeping changes including continuing the story. Other servers don't do that. They'll add a bunch of costume stuff and powersets sure but that seems to be the limit.
>>1256597I dunno if its a hot take but I always thought CO's lore was better, but to be fair they had the tabletop to go off of.
>>1257350Thunderspy has made plenty of big sweeping changes of it's own, overhauling some archetypes entirely.
>>1257352Yes but they haven't added any new actual content. Like task forces or story arcs.
>>1258060But it has made big sweeping changes.
>>1258107Homecoming is more like the original game but went past issue 24 with new content.
>>1258121Homecoming changed up all Blaster secondary power pools. It's not very accurate to live.
>>1257350I wouldn't be so sure about that. There hasn't been a private server I've been on yet that hasn't made big changes to the game. Weather it's rebalancing classes, speeding up levelling, or adding new content, rough as it may be compared to live, or simply being broken in many areas, though that's hardly intentional. And not a single CoH private server is an exception.
>>1258482I asked about that and there is a bullshit sounding claim that they can not make any old servers, and they they can only do new servers updated to the latest SCORE issue. I hope, pray that someone leaks the source out from SCORE so proper servers can be set up.
>>1258512I wasn't just talking about City of Heroes. I have played many privates servers of many different MMOs. Even those that claim to be vanilla are always altered in some fashion. So I very much doubt a "proper" CoH server would ever get set up either.
>>1257351I dunno, I never quite liked how CO and City both tied a sort of 'meta origin' to a single event. Though it especially feels egregious to me with City of Heroes because there are explicit metahumans before Statesman and Recluse opened Pandora's box, two of them we fight in the present (Nemesis is from the 19th century and Giovanna Scaldi of the Carnival of Shadows and the soul within Vanessa Devore's mask was a mutant from the 18th century)
>>1258550It's explained in the novelizations. The box stores power of the well. It was opened two or three times before Marcus and Stefan opened it to cure Marcus of his lung damage. The first time opening it was in Rome with the heroes of mythology. The second time is mentioned by the Furies but never said when/where. The third time is during the 1920's and the birth of a new age of heroes and metahumans.
>>1258452They're kind of obsessed with fiddling with the numbers like that, maybe its all they can do but the majority of their updates is just minmaxing shit like that.
>>1259347Inept "devs" who can barely do a change without fucking someone else. Thus the proliferation of claims of "Spaghetti code" by the playerbase. The CoH code is serviceable, it's SCORE and the HC devs that are retarded.
Pretty hypocritical up in this thread
Nothing like watching a SG shatter and crumble because of RPers having clashing egos.
>>1261768I remember during HCs launch a lot of SGs popped up and thats when a lot of people realized they'd changed in the past 8 years, especially politically. The clashes and devastating crumbles were fun to watch.
>>1261768Also which one?
>>1262188>I remember during HCs launch a lot of SGs popped up and thats when a lot of people realized they'd changed in the past 8 years, especially politically. The clashes and devastating crumbles were fun to watch.Still is happening now in HC, matter of fact. Plenty of new SG/VGs pop up, neglect to ban politics talk or do not enforce the rule and get torn to shreds. The SG I was in went to hell because the chief tard wrangler ended up wising up to the SG being a sinking ship and left, the chief tard invited all their friends and took over. Leader has apparently given up on even pretending to be a leader and is content to be a figurehead to said chief tard and their delusions.
>>1262289It just felt especially fun at the start because a lot of them were old friends, trying to remake their own SGs and just failing in a massive disaster.
>>1262345I can see that, yeah. It's equally funny and sad seeing old groups from Live trying to live in their 2012 bubble even now. These little cliques that want their own little CoH universe and flat out ignore anyone they don't accept. United Underworld from Virtue splintered into a few groups like that after revival efforts on Everlasting failed a few times.
>>1257350Sorry, don't mean to interrupt the gaslighting, but the 5th anniversary is coming VERY soon and Tspy has new content for it.Pic related is VERY captionable.
>>1257350how is turning numbers up on TFs to match fanfic AE arcs and calling them "hard mode" in any way continuing the story?Homecoming hasn't released any content that adds to the story in a meaningful way. They just put a gay bench in the game.
>>1264026It's not continuing the story but it is pissing in the lore pool. Cramming idpol shit into a superhero and ERP simulator.
>It was 5 years ago today that the shitstorm happened
>>1204789OP says "no server feud autism" and puts an HC load screen pic up.Ok.Fine.Don't need to talk about other servers because I know ALL the dirt on HC.And I'm going to tell it ALL motherfuckers. Every lie. Every distortion, the censorship that has become their go-to. All of it. About the only thing off the table is the money-grubbing because of board rules.Now OP could stop me by deleting this thread. Or other HCDrones could up the post count and wait out the time it takes the thread to die.So let's start at the beginning. City of Heroes launched in 2004 a little bit before WoW did. So it doesn't follow all of the things WoW copycats assumed were the new standard. Notably how your character looked had NO effect on how it performed. Game had a good life until the publisher NCSoft pulled the plug unexpectedly in 2012 while it was still making money.Sometime between the announcement of the shutdown and the actual shutdown, a dev sent a full copy of the game to the head mod of the City of Heroes subreddit. It's this leak that private servers use today.TO BE CONTINUED
Pretty impressive showing.
I remember when these threads were more common and the thundertrannies would have a meltdown when you'd mention population in the HC vs TS "debate" when someone would be wondering which server to try.I still vaguely remember the wall of text some shit huffing idiot wrote up about the server not having a bustling population because of people being told to play on HC if they wanted to group frequently.
>>1264026Far better than Thunderspy's offerings of absolutely fucking nothing with a side of a retarded furfag's "vision" of what the existing game content should be butchered into.
>>1265333No examples so you are just making shit up obviously
>>1265333>nooo don't make the game 64 bit
Five years later and Thunderfags are still seething in their cuckshed because Homecoming got ALL the benefits by acting professional meanwhile they're still known as "the 4chan server" that everyone avoids like the plague. lol
>>1265226No Posi I noticed, is he the dev who hates private servers that was talked about in this thread then?
>>1265280They still do>>1263967There's a couple of more Tspy devs being randomly aggressive in the thread.
We were doing so well with the no server autism. Are you all addicted to cross-server drama or something? Its not like the bickering is gonna convince people to suddenly switch to another server so it serves no point.
Decided to check out some of the questions for the CoH dev Q&A and a lot of them are pretty turbo autist and if I was a CoH dev I'd have no idea on how to answer them. Not only because a lot of it is about stuff from 10+ years ago but its like obscure lore shit, paragraph long questions.
>>1265226Nothing good will come of this. These people have not worked on City of Heroes in a decade at the least. Just wait till someone asks something like "Are Statesman and Lord Recluse gay lovers?", "Does Hamidon think trans lives matter?", "Is Tyrant secretly Donald Trump and Praetoria a MAGA paradise?". Any sort of current day, idpol shit that is allowed to be answered - though neglect or intentionally by the HC "leadership" organizing this is gonna poison the well further.>>1265513As opposed to Homecoming where HC "dev" friends who break the ToS are lightly given a tap on the wrist? Like the two or three players who were caught trying to find younger players OOCly for ERP? Or where screenshots taken of the HC discord show the higher ups trading player ERP chat logs that they found while spying on people in Pocket D and hideouts?Now before you sperg out at me, all private servers for CoH suck. They're all various groups of cunts from Live who got a taste of power and get an impotent chubby from having authority over other players. It's basically a powered up version of running a SG or Club Base for these people.
>>1265854>all private servers for CoH suckPrivate servers in general suck and are always full of "my server is better" drama, its like discord server drama or guild drama x10 and all boils down to the same thing, getting hard over power as you said. Just check the FFXI and Everquest private server threads here. All of them have the same kind of drama as this one.Though CoH for some reason has some real deidcated cultists that get hard over this 20 year old game thats now showing its age.
>>1265594>We were doing so well with the no server autism.I dunno if you noticed Anon but the entire thread is server autism. Thundercucks can't help themselves.
>>1265742Anon reveals that he has never been to a fan Q&A before. This happens all the time. They answer the best they can, and move on. Many questions don't get an answer at all.
>>1265871>Private servers in general suck and are always full of "my server is better" drama, its like discord server drama or guild drama x10 and all boils down to the same thing, getting hard over power as you said. Just check the FFXI and Everquest private server threads here. All of them have the same kind of drama as this one.>Though CoH for some reason has some real deidcated cultists that get hard over this 20 year old game thats now showing its age.Seems like it, yeah. The insane cultist aspect is somewhat net for City of Heroes though. My theory is that the normalfags and non-gamers who played back on Live kept the no lifer players from being too autistic/balanced things. Once Live shut down, the socio-political shit like trooning and the 2016 election really flared up. With the normalfags gone, and the secrecy of the private server - as well as the "We're the best!" gaslighting that Leoland was based on, it's no wonder that modern CoH private servers have a culty, insane feeling to both players and people in charge. These are people who have played millions of hours of CoH, who live, breathe and dream the game. They're huffing their own farts from Live over a decade later thinking they are the characters they play in some cases.
>>1265916I mean you'd have to be a no lifer to host/play on a secret cabal private members only server of a dead game. I think it just gets funnier as time goes on because CoH is getting more and more dated, and it no longer does stuff thats really unique anymore. A lot of other MMOs have character creators as good or better than CoH's (can create faces), other MMOs have mission creators, home and base creators, are no longer your typical fantasy MMOs etc.
>>1265971True. The one thing CoH has going for it currently is the sheer level of detail put into the lore, and the combat. Sadly SCORE and the private server ruler jackoffs don't understand that and are bound and determined to forcibly rape the lore to try to make the game more modern. If they wanted to make CoH better they should focus on low-impact story stuff, new costume and new base items.
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>>1265333What are you even mad about? Defense changes that the staff collectively agreed on, which HC has done in a far more sweeping way?Making underutilized content co-op?The ability to unlock Incarnates by playing group content outside of iTrials instead of being rewarded for farming?A 64-bit client?
>>1265052HCDrones choosing to up the post count with around 15 posts I see. But it matters not. On with the true history of HC that they plainly don't want revealed!Ok now this subreddit mod had a full copy of the game and some other stuff. His name was Leandro "Leo" Pardini and he lived in Argentina. Now mentioning Argentina is important because Leo couldn't be prosecuted for having an illegal copy of the full game code due to a lack of relevant extradition treaties apparently. At this point Leo had choices. He COULD choose to release the code anonymously onto the internet, making him the man of the hour and a hero to the whole community or even just hide in the background without anyone else the wiser.But alas, he couldn't bear the thought of someone ELSE controlling a server..fuckhead.
>remember mastermind being a lot of fun>coming back it feels very differentFunny, how everything seemed so much better back then. I wonder if it was always like this, if a patch changed it, or if it's because I'm a grown man putting in more effort than making whatever sounded cool and rolling with it. Still, it was fun to go down memory lane. Those custom missions are cool but I miss just being able to go out and do random missions without putting a lot of time into finding specific groups for it as, from memory, that was the only way to level back then. Even still, most of the people that play this have played for close to two decades, reminds me a lot of going back to dark age of camelot. Everyone already has everything memorized and are so unused to new blood that the thought of someone not knowing something is a foreign concept. Truly is a different experience when it's new to everyone.
>>1266554Mastermind was always a low tier class.>Those custom missions are cool but I miss just being able to go out and do random missions without putting a lot of time into finding specific groups for it as, from memory, that was the only way to level back then. Just because you can basically power level yourself to 50 fighting level 1s doesn't mean everyone is interested because it's fucking boring, lmao.> Even stillEven still trying to convince yourself further of things that have no bearing on your experience.There is nothing to "memorize" in this game. People have been farming missions since before AE existed. The only difference is now you can convince yourself it's all AE's fault your having no fun despite the option still being there.>>1266511His excuse of >b-b-but it had so much timestamped code!that was cleaned out in a few days was cringe. But it still doesn't mean anyone is going to suddenly play on a dead server.
>>1266511>HCDrones choosing to up the post count with around 15 posts I see.Plenty of the last posts you mentioned were shitting on HC. As they should. At least mine did and rightfully so. I want the fucking source that Argentinian cunt has so I can make my own server, as vanilla as possible. No more letting troons and discord jannies run CoH.
>>1266855Whats stopping you from pulling it from the git, or are you retarded?
>>1266864>Whats stopping you from pulling it from the git, or are you retarded?From what I was told, the Git is SCoRE tampered. I just want the 2012 era package that was leaked to Leo.
>>1267704I'm pretty sure SCORE has never released the codebase for their version of CoH. But they did release the barebones i24 version from the start once it was scrubbed of timestamps. It's also been maintained and "fixed" as much as needed to run smoothly on modern hardware with no changes made to the game iteself.>I want the fucking source that Argentinian cunt has so I can make my own server, as vanilla as possible. No more letting troons and discord jannies run CoH.I think this says a lot about you after revealing just how shallow your interest is. A google search away from your answer for all this time... lmfao. Have you even played this game before, my nigger?
>>1266554Nah Mastermind was always low tier, very slow, very not doing much. It just seemed cooler when you were younger cause of all the cool pets.
>>1267704The one released isn't Score tampered its just i24.
>>1266648That's like saying classic wow is the same as wow as it was in 2004. It's twice as hard, at best, to get groups of people to do anything but run scarlet monastery aoe parties. The only thing I can agree with is that power leveling is boring but for everything else I can already tell you're going to be an argumentative cunt so I'm not even going to go there with you.>>1267783Yeah, I figured as much, nostalgia can hit hard sometimes. Too bad they were always shit though.
>>1267823The only part that is argumentative is that I disagree with you and have played the games to confirm my own delusions. Played Classic WoW a few months ago into the mid 40's on a mage before I got bored. To my utter shock and dismay would you guess the LFG channels were popping and finding grouped content took no effort? I never had to form my own group once, lmfao. You might not be that lucky on some servers for CoH, but you can definitely do paper/contact missions without a full team.The games are dead because they're out of their heyday. Not because some dorks chasing efficiency are speeding their way through parts of the game most people enjoy.Good on you for bringing up one of the most alive and well MMOs to show just how "bad" the state of MMO gaming is nowadays. You convinced me on this discussion board, I kneel.
>>1267770>I think this says a lot about you after revealing just how shallow your interest is. A google search away from your answer for all this time... lmfao. Have you even played this game before, my nigger?Of course not, I've never touched the game. Nor did I play it for years back when it was a live game. Nope. I'm just a band wagoner. Really though, can you honestly tell me that SCoRE and HC as groups are healthy for CoH? I'd prefer to see NCSoft taking over operations if it means getting disinterested Korean office workers behind the wheel, even if it was just giving oversight to the HC team. For the majority of the groups running CoH private servers it's just a way of flexing their e-peens. They make changes to better suit their personal views and tastes, be it altering powers for archetypes or adding or changing lore. I spent enough time on Virtue and the forums to know that the average "big name" player is an egotistical idiot. I'm not a "big name" myself although I'm probably an idiot in my own way. >>1267785That's good to know. I was told when I first joined that "SCoRE could only release the newest builds due to 'spaghetti code'." Maybe I'll tinker around and see if I can not set up a private server locally for laughs. Thanks for the correction, Anon.
>>1267864>Really though, can you honestly tell me that SCoRE and HC as groups are healthy for CoH?It seems like you're confused. In no way did I endorse them or any of those faggots. Yes, I will play on homocumming occasionally when I want to experience stuff with a group of more than 2-3 people.You have such strong convictions yet you still play on these servers while decrying there should be a way for you to make your own (there is and it was always open to you)I don't care about some roleplayer on Virtue. I don't care about how many virtual dicks you crammed down your throat to be part of their in-crowd to only suddenly learn they're faggots. You made a post about how you couldn't do a thing that nobody was stopping you from doing and you tried to pretended like things would be better if you could.We are here folks. We're finally going to get the City of Heroes server we all deserved, right? Surely some uppity faggot wasn't mouthing off purely because it made him feel good in the moment?You're a roleplayer, all you know how to do is pretend.
>>1267908Honestly Anon you are right. I'm full of convictions and frustration with the state of the City of Heroes private servers. I was also ignorant about which version of the server data existed to be downloaded. I did not do much homework on it, I'll say that. I've had a shit few week due to my cat dying - and I know, nobody asked. and I was being rude and antagonistic, so I'm sorry. Genuinely sorry. You don't have to forgive me or acknowledge me, you can troll me if you want. However I feel bad for being a cunt when there was no reason to do so.
>>1267924You're not a cunt, you were just wrong and jaded as fuck. I hope things get better for you, losing a cat is hard.
Quit being fags and play on Thunderspy. There are no tranny devs and the jannies just get rid of bots. It's embarrassing that a small team of Brazilians have out developed the server with thousands of dollars in donations and the "official" license. The only people that have been banned are absolute turbo spergs that make chris chan look normal. Even then the list is hilariously small. The population wouldn't be small if you bothered to actually stick around. Instead you're here on 4chan in a /vm/ thread complaining about the shit offerings of Homecoming. There's a reason you aren't posting on their discord or their forums. You could just be chilling and fun posting. Instead you're here anonymous because the "official" server has nothing to offer you. We removed political talk because polniggers can't control their power level and don't deserve anything. Go join a political discord we're here to play and try to develop city of heroes.You could even contribute to the game itself. Several community made powers were added. A lot of new costume parts where either made by the community or designed by someone who participated.Mastermind are only boring if you play them like a pussy. They were originally designed as janky tanks. So if you play them like that aggressively they're fun.
What's endgame?
>>1268648incarnate powers are cool as fuck
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/celebrating-the-20th-birthday-of-city-of-heroes-an-mmo-resurrected-by-the-people-who-loved-it-enough-to-bring-the-game-back-for-good/Homecoming gets the spotlight again
>>1268979As well it should. They saved City of Heroes.
>>1268648Incarnate Powers, so you're literally a god since thats what gave the Greek Gods their powers and shit. A lot of the endgame was Praetorian stuff which is your typical alternate superhero multiverse stuff where he heroes are evil. Apparently after that we were meant to start going to space but game closed.
>>1268164Why Thunderspy specifically? Why not Rebirth?I started to suss out Thunderspy's actual intentions when other servers like Cake and Rebirth appeared and they started to sperg out over those too. Its not about not playing HC for moral reasons its about playing Thunderspy specifically. There are more than two private servers you know.
>>1269097If you're playing any of those other dead servers then you're not playing Thunderspy. Simple as.
>>1269140Rebirth has a decent population though
Why wouldn't I just play on the biggest server? Isn't that Homecoming?
>>1269278Yes.
>>1269097I'm >>1268164. I can't speak for anyone else. I go with Thunderspy because that's my home server. I didn't intend to imply anything else. I don't have anything to say about rebirth, so I didn't mention them. Aside from having it's own 3d modeler, rebirth was getting a good deal of it's hard technical dev help from Thunderspy. Rebirth has frequent random issues, but I don't have a real opinion on them. HC is a blackbox when it comes to their devwork. Meanwhile their community is the worst kind of stepford smiler friendly. Meanwhile on Thunderspy you can ping the head dev and call him a shitter or ask about something technical without someone getting butthurt about it. At worst you're asked not to talk politics, spam nigger or complain about trannies out of nowhere, because nobody wants to deal with it anymore. It's not adding anything to the game and just scaring off casuals who just want to play the game and forget about their day..
