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Champions Online Comics

With each new No Prisoners, No Mercy podcast that is completed, we find that they have become like closets – the bigger you make them, the more the content expands to meet the size of the podcast. When we started over a year ago with the show (not including the 4 shows for “another network”) the first one was only 15 minutes long.   Soon they expanded to half an hour, then an hour. Now we find that they easily go over an hour and occasionally the recording secessions run like they did today – 2 hours.  Sometimes the guests are so interesting and we are having so much fun that we don’t want the show to end.

Today”s show was one such show.  The guests were JMO  (a former guest who now has a show of his own) and Tipa from West Karna (also a former guest).  It was a great time and Fran and I laughed until we cried.

The games that we play (at least the games I play) seem to expand with each new game that hits the shelves. I try to play as many as I can so I know what I am talking about – but that is not alway possible. After all, there is only so many gaming dollars to go around these days.

The latest game around the “No Prisoners, No Mercy” household is Champions Online, and my latest character is Sheva (seen above). Both Fran and I have been playing and having a good time.  Which brings up a point…

Much hullabaloo (a technical term my grandmother used)  has been raised bout “Cryptic dollars”.  I have even raised a little hell about them myself over on the Virgin Worlds web site when the concept first saw public light.  As we talked about before, Cryptic has said that anything you can buy in the cash shop that has a game effect  you will be able to earn in game and so far that has proven correct.  There seems to be a misconception these days (I know there was on my part) that it is not possible to “respecc” in the game without paying $12.50 to do so.  The fact is that nothing could be further from the truth.  If you want to respecc all you have to do is go to the “power house” and talk to a trainer. Tell the nice man or woman there that you want to “unlearn” your powers – you can do that all the way down to the first power in the game.  The only factor to consider is that the more skills you have to “unlearn” the more it will cost you.  So if you are going to make mistakes in your selections it is best to do so early on.   I have played two characters now and respecced one with the money I had in my pocket at the time, making no special effort to gather enough for the task at hand.

In the end, the only big deal being made about the cash shop these days seems to be made by people who are no longer playing the game.  Such are the individuals who declare that “the honeymoon is over” while the rest of us go about merrily enjoying the game. 

So far Cryptic has kept to their word.

See you online,

Julie Whitefeather