Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine City of Heroes: Your Chance to be a Legionnaire - Part 2

So where is everyone?

Right now I've been playing Blue, getting the
history badges.

Where would everyone like to play?

Been playing Hitman 2. Needed to work out some frustrations but really sniping people.

Does anyone have any characters on Victory? I'm trying out a new Dark Melee/Dark Armor Scrapper there.

I've got various characters on Victory that
are at level 2 just to try out powers I hadn't
used before.

What's your scrapper called?

I know it's late, but if anyone hops on, I'll be on Infinity for a little while.

Ubasti.

I've got a couple... Kamisori is a katana/DA scrapper I'm thinking of rerolling because I built him badly. The 4th of July Kid is a Grav/Emp controller.

Anybody on tonight? I'm gonna hop on but don't know where I'll wind up, depending on who I find. Look for Princess (though I need to be careful not to get her to 17), Linus on Freedom or my new Chillflare on Triumph.

I've been on Protector after checking Infinity & Virtue but I'll look for you

If anyone's around i'm on Freedom under the name Clockwork Knave.

In case you were wondering, guys, debt at
level 30 is 10k a death.

Blue died 3 or 4 times tonight-- I want
to say 4, but I'm not totally sure. I do
remember three. Am kinda tired ...

On the plus side, he ended the night a hair
under 20k in debt.

I tell you, street hunting at level 30 is kind
of like hunting again in Atlas Park as a level
1 ... just about everything there can kill you.

But Blue will get up there. 8-)

Woo-hoo! I got Captain Hottie to level 20 last night!

Finished the Dr Vaz story arc, too. Somehow I did it without "defeating" Dr Vaz. I tried and might have been able to if I tried long enough but the mish XP is was put me over to level 20 and I was impatient to get the Capt a cape.

Blue, CH is the one I was talking about with Super Speed. It's tricky but he can jump over the Perez wall if he finds a springboard because SS gives a jump boost (as does sprint, just enough to make things a lot easier). Speed is a pain in zones like Boomtown and Faultline, tho, because of the big huge pits.

Mysa and Doc are on Virtue battling some Sky Raiders in Boomtown if anyone wants to join us.

Sky Raiders in boomtown? Neat. I won't be on for a while since I'm still on at work but Prism could use some time out in PC...

Vee,

Is Doc now too high for Synapse TF or was
Condo SKing him?

Blue has died more times over the last couple
of days than he's died in months ... but I
finished the night out of debt. 8-)

Huh. Colorific is going to have speed as his
transport power. One of these days I need to
get Charlie Brown or Sally Brown up to 14 so
I can see what superjump is like. AlmightyGremlyn
is going to have TP as a travel power if I ever
get to play her enough to level her... I may take
her into the Hollows at some point and just stand
around doing idle heals if nothing else ... I
just hate teaming with people I don't know
though ... pickup teams tend to be bad ...

Doc, when he left, was 16. So he can still do Synapse right?

Glad you got Blue out of debt. Maybe now he can help powerlevel Gung.

I can't believe that Garth has 14K in debt. But he earned a full bubble + tonight. I think I'm halfway to 23 now.

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 ...

I just wish I could get a stable connection...
it'd make my life so much easier. I try not to
do door mishs unless I have someone who can
team with me to act as a doorstop ... when you
get disconencted, you lose all the progress
you have made on a mish since you entered it. I
wouldn't mind the disconnects nearly so much if
I just didn't have to worry about that...

Yeah Doc is still 16, getting close to 17 I imagine, but I don't think he leveled last night. Mysa had him SKed last night and the two of them took out Dr. Vahz after taking down a whole bunch of Sky Raiders.

Speaking of Crey Industries, they seem to have taken an interest in my hubby.

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?

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....

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.

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.

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.