Veloce
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There are few blind superheroes or supervillains in Comics. Yet, they abound in CoX.
Blind invites, blind SG invites, the ''are you a healer?'' or ''where is that store?'' question... Living in a world of disabled people is a challenge, especially to your patience in a game where you would rather leave that to admirable social workers and go stop the Rikti from threatening humanity again.
So, to you out there having a tendency to click first and talk later, I propose these toughts:
BLIND INVITES : they are unsollicited advertizing, annoying at best, plain rude at worst. Some even spam it after you declined. Now we have the automatic decline invites option (in your team window); but it adds the bothersome act of having to disconnect it to receive any desired invite... risking getting harassed in the meantime ( I once got invited properly, then clicked an invite only to discover it was a blind one from someone else thrown in before the invite I agreed to).Proper play etiquete would be so much better... But some do think respect and rudeness comes together (more on this on a future post entitled ''The Wolverine syndrome'')
I refused each and every blind invite I received since starting CoH in october 2004 (start counting...). They immediately told me that the one at the other end has no idea who I am, what I am doing, what I am capable of and, especially, what I WANT to do... and neither do I about him/her, for that matter. And, because of YOU, I might just get sent to the hospital in the end of a crucial, difficult timed mission while clicking your vision-obstructing unwanted invite window off my screen. In a dangerous place and situation, or while preparing for both, it's like asking wildly around for ''anything'' when attacked by a rabid dog: you might get a nuclear bomb... or a spoon.
As in war, intelligence is the key factor to success. Sun Tzu wrote :'' he who knows not friends and foes will lose; he who only knows friends or foes might win; he who knows both friends and foes will always win.''
If you can't access data on whom you want to team up with (right click on him then click info) browse the looking for team member window for at least a general idea of who it is (archetype, origin, powers, level; don't bother a scrapper with ''can you heal?'' questions), where he/she is (don't bother someone on a mission map) and you may even find out in notes what that player wants or don't want (don't bother someone who wrote ''I work alone'').
In every instance:
1- TALK first (only dogs and horses answer to whistles). find common goals, plan strategies and tactics and how to best combine your powers regarding your agreed objective, even if only for simple hunting.
2- WAIT for the answer (that character might not often be just doing /e leanwall).
3- THANK him/her for answering, even a ''no thank you'' (courtesy will earn you respect; next time YOU might get invited).
4- DON'T spam (you will be then certainly rejected, even /ignored... by me for sure (Shouting street vendors are not popular).
I always refuse blind invites. But I find it hard to refuse someone asking me for help (I'm a hero after all) or offering to share some profitable venture (villainy is so much more fun when exchanging smirks and cackles)... and I would certainly not tackle Lord Recluse or Statesman with a blind person.
Take note: there have been miscevelious people (would you call them heroes?) blind inviting others, then teleporting them high in the air just to watch them fall within an inch of their life right in the middle of a purple mob... Blind acceptance is not much better either (by the way, ALWAYS enable the prompt teleport option in your menu-options-general options window or prior to joining a team).
BLIND SG INVITES : these seem new, and even more annoying. All the above applies here. I get those and I am the FOUNDER of my SG, leading it since October 2004!
Before trying to recruit any crazy aggro player, rude reputation-ruining wrongdoer or salvage-stealing deserter: 1- CHECK on him/her first (at least as told above) and go to him/her; up close you will see if and wich SG that character might be a member of... or you will be told so if you bother to talk first.
2- THEN, use the invite guideline above. Even in the army, they do not recruit someone just because he has one arm and one eye so that it can use a gun. Don't build up the Dirty Dozen or get Judas among your disciples unknowingly, just to add numbers to your roster.
As for being the one invited: I have many characters currently not on any SG. I would not join a group without knowing to whom, and for what purpose (don't wake up part of the Knitting Club if you're scared of needles, or get drafted by the Giant Mutant Tankers if you're a 4 feet tall natural controller). Don't join an SG with rules you ignore or not willing and able to follow (many have them, some even a LOT of them or some very specific ones). Don't join a PvP group if it is not your thing, or one that fobids PvP if you want it. Don't join just for the heck of it, but because YOU have something to GIVE and something to GAIN. You can always rise up to level 50 solo, or team up on the spot, without any membership card.
SEARCHING FOR :blind people can't unfortunately read instruction booklets of look at maps and listing windows... but, oh great wonder of technology, they seem to be able to play CoX and chat. So now, for you Daredevils and Mole Men out there, use your radar sense and avoid rude remarks and the ''noob'' tag:
1- On your NAV window tool bar is written ''MAP'': click on this and you will have both access to the general City map (like at the train station entrance) to see which zone leads to wich, directly or by monorail, and your current zone map. There you will (since I6) see the location of every store, trainer, field analyst, portal, special entrances like Pocket D, adjacent zone accesses and all of your current contacts in the zone. Moving your pointer over them will identify wich is wich, as well as sector names.
2- On your CHAT window tool bar is written ''TEAM'': click it then click looking for team member. A window listing every available player in yours or any zone will appear, with basic data (including messages about teaming up or not:READ IT an TAKE HEED). Many blind people seem to stumble upon it and randomly click on it, obviously unable to read messages like ''TF only or not today thanks''. You will not be well esteemed asking a gravity/force field controller if he can heal... or get a yes and then, in the heat of battle, get handled yellow inspirations. You might find it disapointing.
CHAT window tool bar has also a little icon in the lower right corner: this will give you access to all basic emotes (a good number of them); look it up before asking someone ''how can I read newspaper?''. You will avoid the popular 4 letter name tag or answers like ''subscribe to the Evening Post'' .
And please, do READ (or get read to you, unfotunate sight-disabled person) the basic manual. You 'll ask more pertinent questions than ''what is salvage for?''. I always answer helpfully and politely to those inquiries, but a few are more annoyed than me by them... or quick to laugh at you. Not everyone respects a disabled person. Some even fear them... or exploit them.
Final word on it all: LOOK, THEN ASK BEFORE CLICKING. I became at one time so incensed with blind invites that one of my own alts inadvertently refused an invite into my OWN SG I was myself asking for! (that character is now forever known as the only oh-so-self-important member who had to be asked twice to join! lol!).
So please, be smart, be polite, be resourceful, and you will be on many friends lists instead of one of the numerous generic heroes-villains renamed ''yeah-that-noob''. Believe me, few will respect you as ''The man without fear'' or ''the master of the dark world under'' when showing off your blindness.
Open your eyes.
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| 07/03/06 17:50 |
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Madclergy
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| QUOTE | | In a dangerous place and situation, or while preparing for both, it's like asking wildly around for ''anything'' when attacked by a rabid dog: you might get a nuclear bomb... or a spoon. |
Not to make fun or degrade the quality of this post but while reading this line I came to a realization.
When most people think destructive they think of a Nuclear Bomb but when talking about being attacked by a rabid dog a nuclear bomb would be as helpful as the spoon because both might get you killed (certainly on the bomb, might on the spoon, as you might get lucky and stick it through the dogs eye or something)
Anywayz, I totally agree with the OP, his post was well constructed and kept me very interested due to its tie in with superheroes even when speaking of a mundane event ( i think I am missing a word here, to describe this situation )
I always tell before invite and if they say no I always say "Thanks for the reply" this generally warrents a no response or a "GL"/"Happy Hunting"
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| 07/03/06 20:15 |
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I have to agree with Mad here. and OP. Good post
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| 07/03/06 20:31 |
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Veloce
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a nuclear bomb would be as helpful as the spoon because both might get you killed
Exactly what I meant. Fumbling in the dark expecting to get what youneed or want is not the best way to achieve any desirable end. No degrading here; just explaining a maybe somewhat obscure example. Thanks.
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| 07/04/06 04:14 |
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