Yes, I am still playing …

I did hop ontp CO briefly the other day — and found myself stuck with Psiclone (Lvl 12)  in Canada with the choices of (a) doing Lvl 13 mishes, (b) trying to redo the Lvl 12 “two people recommended” mish that I’d died in last time., or (c) taking out 100 Viper agents.

Sigh.

Hopped over to the Desert. Which, after much searching for missions, I determined meant going wading in the radioactivity pools, one of my least favorite areas to date. 

So I signed on as Force of Will, did some research and respec on her TK Blades setup, and ran her from 7-8 in a short interval (even, as noted below, Vanquishing Ferd), before having to sign off for dinner.

 

 

My gameplay of late has been restrained, and will be for a while. The flu knocked me out pretty much all last week. But at present, the biggest time competitor is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, in which I try to write a 50K novel in 30 days.

But even if that’s keeping me from playing CO and CoX, there’s a tie-in: my novel stars my perennial CoX main (and CO toon as well), the ever-popular Psiclone (spelled in Cox with a hyphen due to duplicate naming).

I’m covering that over in my Doing Write blog, which has a link to the work-in-progress in case you want to see what sort of crappy fan-fic I can write when I put my mind to it. 😉

Heroic Tweets for 2009-11-01

  • Twenty Sided » Heroes of Champions Online IV – Mega-kudos for an Agatha Clay gadgeteer. http://bit.ly/3bhoLR #
  • Twenty Sided » A Star is Born:Let’s Play Champions Online Pt. 6 – Let's stop that NO ORDINARY STORM! http://bit.ly/2iFgYj #
  • Force of Will has completed "Vanquished Ferd". #
  • First Annual Architect Awards Winners! | @ #CoH – I'm lagging these for future gameplay. http://bit.ly/4cawrP #

CoX: Boo!

We signed onto City of Heroes this afternoon — me, for the first time in a few weeks. The Halloween event is in full swing, of course.

We brought on Fazenda and Araware — two of our oldest toons — and managed to ding 30 in a few hours of Trick-or-Treating and Zombie-bashing.

We also tried out the Halloween Event — banners and fiends and XP, oh my! It wasn’t clear what we were supposed to do with the Deadly Apocalypse thingie. Paragonwiki has more details — it’s complicated, but kind of cool once the details are spelled out. We’ll see if we do something with it next time around.

Heroic Tweets for 2009-10-22

  • In what level range would you like to see new content? | #Champs Official Site http://bit.ly/2ScYhc – I vote, selfishly, more low-lvl stuff. #
  • Wentworth's Store at Hero-Con 2009! | City of Heroes http://bit.ly/4eaMLb – Okay, I'd buy a #CoH shot glass. #
  • Twenty Sided » A Star is Born:Let’s Play #Champs Pt. 5 http://bit.ly/FAzNI – Yay! More Star On Chest! Now in Post-Tutorial Glory! #

Heroic Tweets for 2009-10-20

  • Going Shardless – MMORPG.com http://bit.ly/Wu9xf – Good notes on #Champs shardless server setup. Net advantage, but some drawbacks. #
  • The Deadly Apocalypse is upon us! | #CoH http://bit.ly/4pFVuk – Halloween event is live on CoX. Yay! Might actually play sometime soon … #
  • On The Media: Transcript of "Game Theory" (October 16, 2009) http://bit.ly/TyEjL – Using MMO economies and behavior to predict RL outcomes. #

CO: The Penny (or Cryptic Point) Drops

The Cryptic Store finally shows what sorts of things you’re going to be able to buy, with new items going on sale Midnight tonight Tuesday (i.e., now).

  • Costumes appear to be going for 240 points a pop (and there are some nice ones there, if you just Have to Have them).
  • Emblem packs are 80 points each.
  • Action Figures are 80 each.

Those are the old news. Now for the new:

  • Character slots: 1200 for a set of 4 (beyond the initial 8).
  • Costume slots: 400 for two additional (you get up to three plus one SG slot by lvl 40).
  • Full respec: 1000 per hero for one respec/retcon.
  • Rename: 800 for a single hero.

All are the above are for Cryptic Points. In addition to any you may have picked up elsewhere (I have 400), they can be bought for cash for USD $6.25 per 500 (under My Account). So those four character slots will set you back $15, if I’m doing my math (though it may be more, since you can only buy them in 500 CP increments).

Welcome to the world of microtransactions.

Are the prices reasonable? Hmmm. I suppose they’re not outrageous. It’s enough to make me think twice about doing them, though, which makes it problematic. Is it worth a month playtime (equivalent) to respec my hero? I dunno.