City of Heroes nears launch...

[WarLocke]

I'd say something about such a workaround being highly ironic in a MMOG, but I won't.

Go ahead, I think it's ironic too. Apparently with the last patch something was set wrong with the Friends list refresh rate, so it was constantly sending requests to all your friends to see if they were online. It would spike my ping up over 2100, and I'd get disconnected from the mapserver after 15 seconds or so. After clearing out my list (taking 3 or 4 logins) I'm back to only the occassional 56k lagspike.

rather that I'm pretty weary of the Diablo cloning of the fantasy genre. CoH seems like a good way to find out about my stance on MMOGs.

If CoH will be your first MMORPG, you chose a good one. Besides the whole 'fantasy clone' aspect of most others, CoH doesn't adhere to many of the more asinine gameplay elements (camping, loot, etc.); it's like bottled fun. B)

I just booted up AW on Prime one last time (okay, so I want to see the invasion tonight, so second-to-last time) to run a couple missions, and I got sucked into (the end of) a Clockwork story arc. Not only are the story arcs damn cool, but I'm finally starting to see some new mission tilesets - those Star Trek-esque laboratory tilesets are awesome. :lol: