A Blast from the Past

I recently reinstalled City of Heroes, just for nostalgia's sake. I missed being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and upon meeting new friends who had also previously played, I was curious about whether or not we could ever have crossed paths during that time. Considering my discovery that I have 12 heroes spread across 7 servers, it seems like it would be likely, but it looks like they played primarily on one of the few servers I didn't try.

It turns out that my highest level character was only on level 18 when I stopped playing City of Heroes a number of years ago. That's not really very high I imagine, yet she felt very powerful to me at the time. Upon taking her for a test drive this morning, I realized she really must be powerful, since I completed a mission all by myself (I don't remember how to find a group or what my character is supposed to do once in a group) first try, without really remembering what my skills do, how to steer (I kept trying to use LotRO commands, which don't translate over to CoH), or what all those little consumable things do (although I did figure out that right-clicking them gives me a description without actually using them).

Interestingly, the game tells me that I have not played my characters for 3388 days, which is roughly 9 years ago, which is impossible since the game only came out 5 years ago. I wonder how long it has really been, but I know I didn't play for very long because my computer at that time couldn't really handle the game, and physically melted inside trying to run it. Interestingly, I remember playing around Christmas time (I remember gigantic battles against a huge snowman, with upwards of 50 heroes combatting it), so external temperatures were not a factor in my computer's little meltdown. I wonder if CoH days count double, because I estimate I last played 4.5 years ago.



This is a picture of my lvl 18 hero, Burninatrix. She burns stuff. It's pretty sweet. I wonder if I wrote up a backstory for her, but I don't remember how I would find out for sure. I wonder if the fun I had with her is at all related to the fun I have with my main character in LotRO, who also burns stuff (my first real delight with my Loremaster was throwing Burning Embers, which has the nifty side effect of leaving a scorch mark on the ground around the target).