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So, who's left who can do Synapse with Doc? Sounds like Garth, Mysa and Condo are out. Grev's still a couple bubbles away from 22 and could SK him. Could a small force do it this weekend?
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From: Standing beside you in Ferndale, MI | Registered: Aug 2003
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Andrew is still under 22. That's one of the reasons I haven't been playing him. Unless it's changed since I last played Andrew, I think that Prism should still be under level 22 as well. Tas just recently hit 20, didn't she?
So it sounds to me like Andrew, Tas, Prism, and Grev could do it one more time.
I'd have time to do it this weekend, but with Thanksgiving coming up I won't have access to a COH-worthy PC from Thursday until probably Sunday afternoon next wekend....
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quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Hey, Gung's welcome to join Blue on some mishs. He's starting to believe Gung's hype about the Crey... you can really see their hands dipping into everything once you start doing mishs in the 30s ...
Speaking of Crey Industries, they seem to have taken an interest in my hubby.
That's cool Seymour. I think I've seen that site before.
So when do the Crey become the main villains? At what level? I probably should try to get Gung up to that level at least since it was part of his background when I created him.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Okay, so I guess the panic has started at NCSoft/Cryptic. According to Caroline (who can sit at home and play in the mornings) the servers were off line for an extremely long time this morning. Longer than normal for server updates. It appears that the devs/GMs are going through accounts and either shutting them down completely or deleting characters that have any tie (name, costume, whatever) to established trademarked/copyrighted characters.
It was bound to happen and this is probably just their way of getting ready for their battle with Marvel, whether it goes to court or not. But this will severely limit the characters you go in to play with if using such characters.
I'm not sure they would go after any of our Legion based ones. At least the ones using the Legionnaire's real names instead of their codename. But ones like my lil' Bruce will probably be toast if he even still exists. Sure they made me change his name but he still looks like Batman. A 48th level character who I've seen before that goes (or went) by the name of Son of Krypton and looked as close to Supes as you can get was deleted today. So I know they are watching and waiting.
Just be careful who you play for awhile I guess. None of our new Avengers should venture out of the mansion for quite awhile. We all might just be best off playing original characters or even the ones we based on CoH mythos.
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One person on the boards reported that (s)he got an e-mail because their character had a name similar to a Marvel character, even though that was where the resemblance ended -- look and powers did not match at all.
I'm not sure which of our characters would be safe from scrutiny. When I saw him do a trivia contest in SDCC, they seemed pretty knoweldable about comics, tho I never got the nerve to asking for a Legion question, so maybe they won't jump on the more obscure ones like Mystical Mysa. (Hey Vee, if they e-mail you tell 'em you're an anime fan and it's inspired by Mysa Hayase from Macross... Lisa Hayes in the American Robotech... she landed on a magic planet and studied there.)
Then again that brings up the question of what makes an infringement. I mean, is Doc Nimbus a trademark infringement, as an original character inspired by a trademarked one?
Anyway, it's a big question mark, but I think we've got a good number of fun characters that aren't problematic. If they don't take actions on our accounts, just the characters, we'll definately be fine.
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Hmm, I'm wondering if they'll have a problem with Shadow Yamamura. Her bio makes her an blending of two icons of Japanese horror -- Sadako Yamamura of the Ring franchise and Tomie of the horror manga series -- into an American setting.
If anyone spots that Olivia Honey is a fanfic knockoff, I don't think I'll ever get my jaw off the floor. (Elsie Flowers/Olivia Honey is a minor character from The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, I think I'm the only one who reads comics and knows that book that well.)
quote:Originally posted by Blue Battler: Hey, Gung's welcome to join Blue on some mishs. He's starting to believe Gung's hype about the Crey... you can really see their hands dipping into everything once you start doing mishs in the 30s ...
Speaking of Crey Industries, they seem to have taken an interest in my hubby.
That's cool Seymour. I think I've seen that site before.
So when do the Crey become the main villains? At what level? I probably should try to get Gung up to that level at least since it was part of his background when I created him.
Brickstown is where you start to meet the Crey on the streets, and that's really not safe for anyone under 30 ... and it's even problematic for Blue as almost everyone there is over 30. In the story arc that I picked up for him the other night he started to meet the Crey, and the mish I had to do to get 30+ soS for Blue involved going into a Crey facility and facing them.
So 30 is the number, big guy! We better get cracking!
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Okay. I just logged on and I still had all my characters. I do feel like lying low for a while though ... I'm hopeful that Star and Andrew will escape the purge ...
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Ok, all my guys are still there. I'm not really sure how much my characters will be in trouble, though. Porcupine Pete, Silver Slasher, Radiation Roy, and Chief Zendak aren't exactly well known characters. I don't think any of them evem made it into DC's Who's Who.
I might worry a little for Val Armor, but not too much. Recently I had him on Infinity when someon decided to do a "clone" contest - who had the best trademarked character. I got kicked out because no one knew who Val Armor was!
The only one I have any real worry about is Blok, who seems to have some recognition value. He was involved in the Legion during its most popular time, so he might get spotted. I now wish that I had named him something a bit different - Block maybe? Bloque? Bloc?
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quote:Originally posted by Super Lad Kid: I might worry a little for Val Armor, but not too much. Recently I had him on Infinity when someon decided to do a "clone" contest - who had the best trademarked character. I got kicked out because no one knew who Val Armor was!
The Infidels!
-signed, the half-Japanese guy named Lyle who has way too much emotional investment in the only two DC characters to have traits in common with him
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I don't think you should play that way scared that your chars are gonna be erased... play what you want and then if they get erased oh well you had fun
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Just checked and all of mine are still there as well. With very few exceptions, I don't really use recognizable codenames. One thing I migh suggest is that you go into your ID "card" and modify your bio so that it deflects suspicion.
For example, even though we all know who Condo is, I doubt any of them would. Yet when I created him, I gave him a bio that reads ... Conan Doyle Arthur, Condo for short, yada yada yada....
If they bio is not character specific you can always argue that it's a mere coincindence in the name being similar.
-------------------- "Hey Jim! Get Mon out of the Zone!! And...when do we get Condo back?"
From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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Where is everyone playing tonight. I haven't run across anyone.
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From: Paragon City on patrol | Registered: Jul 2003
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Well, I got Val up to lvl 10 tonight, so he'll be ready for the Positron TF soon.
I also decided to get started on a backup plan in case my obscure Legion characters get deleted. So brand new to the Triumph server is Mahatma Ghandi!! a natural empathy defender. He can be part of a new supergroup of heroes - Heroes of History!!
I think he turned out pretty interesting looking. I was so excited I immediately made two more chars - Teddy Roosevelt & Moses - but both names were already taken!?!?!?!? Oh well, I guess it just means I need to get more sleep.
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