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Creole Ned
10-11-2005, 11:04 AM
Heads up to anyone mulling a return to City of Heroes. They are putting in a change to their character name policy (http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/archives/2005/10/city_of_heroes_22.html). Thusly:

Starting 10/24/2005 the City of Heroes® and City of Villains™ character name policy will change. Names for characters under level 35 on game accounts that have been inactive for over 90 days will be changed to unreserved status. This means that those names will become available for new character names if picked by an active player. This policy is being enacted in order to free up character names based on player feedback.

If your game account is inactive for over 90 days and you reactivate your account you will need to log back in to any characters affected by this policy to move them out of unreserved name status. If your old character name has been taken by an active player, the game will prompt you to rename your character. You will be given only one opportunity to rename your character. It is possible that your character name may still be the same if an active player has not chosen to use that character name. Your global handle will not be affected.

All characters in an unreserved name status will be shown in your character selection screen; however, their photo will not be shown, indicating that they are in unreserved name status.

If you do not log into the game with a character in unreserved name status, the character’s name will remain available to any active player until you log that character into the game. Logging into the game with the affected character will change the character’s name status back to reserved.

Any questions about this policy can be directed to support@cityofheroes.com.Sayonara to:

Kinetic Flux
Doc Nostril
Atomic Blast
Whiplynch
Big Cap (hee hee)

...and many more. I hardly knew ye!

Seriously, though, I can guarantee there are people right now waiting to grab Kinetic Flux and Atomic Blast. :jester:

jackrabbit
10-11-2005, 03:56 PM
I suspect Whiplynch will probably survive. ;P

Creole Ned
10-25-2005, 10:10 AM
The name change policy goes into effect today. If I had a free character slot, I could take over Kinetic Flux and rule the world (using Propel)!

Q
10-27-2005, 01:44 PM
I could take over Kinetic Flux and rule the world (using Propel)!
Best of luck with that!

Circuit
10-27-2005, 02:16 PM
You haven't played a controller since the containment changes. When an enemy is slept, disoriented, immobilized or held, a controller's attacks do double damage. Propel takes quite a nice chunk of HP off of a villain when he's locked down. Plus, besides the slow activation, it's still one of the most satisfying powers in the game. :)

Creole Ned
11-07-2005, 01:53 PM
On a whim, I made a random character on Triumph, complete with costume created via the "Random" button and tried to use the name Kinetic Flux. It turns out no one had tried to grab it, so I have successfully stolen Q's name. Muahaha!

Of course, this means no one else can get the name so I've actually saved it for when Q returns, which will be never, so this story ends now. :yay:

jackrabbit
11-07-2005, 02:22 PM
Lousy story! Who's your editor! Get him on the phone! I want explosions! I want romance! I want exploding romance!

Creole Ned
11-07-2005, 02:31 PM
I've got your exploding romance right here, pappy!

jackrabbit
11-07-2005, 02:47 PM
put that away, please. This is a family site.

FoeKilla
11-07-2005, 04:49 PM
since when cock bag?

Circuit
11-07-2005, 04:55 PM
Fuckface has a point.

Creole Ned
11-07-2005, 05:11 PM
Here is the new Kinetic Flux. A worthy tribute, yes?

http://creolened.com/images/new_kinetic_flux.jpg

Q
11-07-2005, 09:02 PM
If I was in a grave, I'd be rolling over in it right now. But thanks for the name reservation!

jackrabbit
11-07-2005, 10:49 PM
he sort of has the same thighs, though.

Tai
11-07-2005, 10:55 PM
Pretty poor random generator algorithm in my opinion!

jackrabbit
11-08-2005, 07:30 AM
I was going to wonder aloud who would even use it when the costumes it comes up with are simply bad, but then I remembered 80% of the costumes I can only assume were player-picked in the game and I realize the random generator has more fashion sense than most of those.

Creole Ned
11-08-2005, 09:58 AM
The random character creator is actually better than it used to be, as it now applies a consistent color scheme before throwing together eveeything else in whimsical fashion.

Medic
11-08-2005, 02:44 PM
'I'm Rick James as a SuperHero, bitch!'

Creole Ned
11-09-2005, 05:38 PM
You know, it occured to me that while no one is likely to grab the name Whiplynch - because it is clever and original - the character is too low level to be protected, so I *could* grab it if I wanted to. I wonder what a random costume generated Whiplynch would look like? :madhop: