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robotech_masterDid you used to play City of Heroes and are thinking about coming back? Or have you never tried it but gotten curious based on the way it's going free-to-play? I can help. :)
Whether you're a lapsed player or a not-yet player, I can send you a free 10-day trial for the game. If you're new, I'll be happy to set you up with some in-game cash, too (though it may have to wait a bit; I'm going to be gone to GenCon this weekend).
Then, if you like it enough to want to buy a month of gameplay time for $15 (or less, see below), I'll get a free month myself. :) (Returning players will get a free month of gameplay for themselves, too. But new players apparently don't, sad to say.)
Any characters you make and play here will also be available to you in a couple of months when the game goes freemium, so it's kind of like getting a head start. If you like it enough to want to pay for it for a while, there are some really great strategies you can use for getting game time cheaply.
When I stopped playing, I was pretty burned out on the whole thing, and there were a whole raft of niggling little annoyances that made the game less fun to play. But when I came back, I found a remarkable number of those annoyances had been fixed in ways I never even expected possible.
For example, there's no more juggling of sidekicks and exemplar mentors now, because sidekicking and exemplaring is automatic based on the level of the owner of the mission. And players now earn XP while exemped unless they choose to turn that off, and have access to powers up to 5 levels higher than the level to which they're exemplared, which means that a level 20 character could tag along on missions as low as level 15 and still work on leveling up and keep all his powers—there's no more getting annoyed that all the mobs are blue or green when the mission belongs to someone lower than you, and people are a lot more willing to exemplar now.
And the new Incarnate system at level 50 is pretty neat, with some great bonus powers to make your already-awesome character even awesomer.
Anyway, it's a great game and a lot of fun, and it's only going to get better when I21 comes out and it goes free to play in a couple of months. Great time to get a head start now! If you're interested, let me know your email address. I'll set comments on this post to be screened so only I will see your addresses.
Whether you're a lapsed player or a not-yet player, I can send you a free 10-day trial for the game. If you're new, I'll be happy to set you up with some in-game cash, too (though it may have to wait a bit; I'm going to be gone to GenCon this weekend).
Then, if you like it enough to want to buy a month of gameplay time for $15 (or less, see below), I'll get a free month myself. :) (Returning players will get a free month of gameplay for themselves, too. But new players apparently don't, sad to say.)
Any characters you make and play here will also be available to you in a couple of months when the game goes freemium, so it's kind of like getting a head start. If you like it enough to want to pay for it for a while, there are some really great strategies you can use for getting game time cheaply.
When I stopped playing, I was pretty burned out on the whole thing, and there were a whole raft of niggling little annoyances that made the game less fun to play. But when I came back, I found a remarkable number of those annoyances had been fixed in ways I never even expected possible.
For example, there's no more juggling of sidekicks and exemplar mentors now, because sidekicking and exemplaring is automatic based on the level of the owner of the mission. And players now earn XP while exemped unless they choose to turn that off, and have access to powers up to 5 levels higher than the level to which they're exemplared, which means that a level 20 character could tag along on missions as low as level 15 and still work on leveling up and keep all his powers—there's no more getting annoyed that all the mobs are blue or green when the mission belongs to someone lower than you, and people are a lot more willing to exemplar now.
And the new Incarnate system at level 50 is pretty neat, with some great bonus powers to make your already-awesome character even awesomer.
Anyway, it's a great game and a lot of fun, and it's only going to get better when I21 comes out and it goes free to play in a couple of months. Great time to get a head start now! If you're interested, let me know your email address. I'll set comments on this post to be screened so only I will see your addresses.
