City of L33t Heroes!
Jan. 25th, 2008 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Normally when I play City of Heroes, I play on the Virtue Server. This is the "unofficial" role-play server, and you get a lot of people who role-play, who devote a lot of time and thought into creating their characters and developing a background story for them.
Last night I played a new character on the Freedom Server. This is the most populated server, and it attracts a lot of power-levelers and leet kiddies. It's often referred to as "Freedumb". So, how bad is it?
My new character joined a "sewer" group. It's popular to form a large (8 person is the max) group of brand new characters and run through the sewers attacking everything in your path. You can get to level 5 or 6 in an hour or two very easily.
On my 8 person team, I had:
Kid Death. That's spelled with a period at the end -- always a sign that you're so desperate for a cool name that you'll just add extra punctuation until you get a combination that nobody else has used yet.
Angel4U Our healer. Nothing says class like using leet speak in your character's name.
xXxScrapperxXx Who was a scrapper, in case you couldn't figure that part out. I called her "triple-x Scrapper".
Luke Skywalker No fancy punctuation, and yes, he looked exactly like Luke Skywalker. Exactly. Only he was a psionic healer for some unexplained reason. No, you're not allowed to imitate copyrighted characters like this -- he'll be named "generichero13414143" soon.
And finally, our illustrious leader, a big black guy with a white beard and afro named:
Chocolate Salty Balz Yes, it's a South Park reference. No, that's not going to save him from becoming "generichero 0987098347123" soon.
And people make fun of the role-players on Virtue. :P
Last night I played a new character on the Freedom Server. This is the most populated server, and it attracts a lot of power-levelers and leet kiddies. It's often referred to as "Freedumb". So, how bad is it?
My new character joined a "sewer" group. It's popular to form a large (8 person is the max) group of brand new characters and run through the sewers attacking everything in your path. You can get to level 5 or 6 in an hour or two very easily.
On my 8 person team, I had:
Kid Death. That's spelled with a period at the end -- always a sign that you're so desperate for a cool name that you'll just add extra punctuation until you get a combination that nobody else has used yet.
Angel4U Our healer. Nothing says class like using leet speak in your character's name.
xXxScrapperxXx Who was a scrapper, in case you couldn't figure that part out. I called her "triple-x Scrapper".
Luke Skywalker No fancy punctuation, and yes, he looked exactly like Luke Skywalker. Exactly. Only he was a psionic healer for some unexplained reason. No, you're not allowed to imitate copyrighted characters like this -- he'll be named "generichero13414143" soon.
And finally, our illustrious leader, a big black guy with a white beard and afro named:
Chocolate Salty Balz Yes, it's a South Park reference. No, that's not going to save him from becoming "generichero 0987098347123" soon.
And people make fun of the role-players on Virtue. :P
