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I've been meaning to try my hand at creating a sort of "cosmic entity" character. I think this one turned out pretty well: "The Crystalveil":

Lockdown, Grav/FF controller

Starlight. ❤️

Overthinker: Mind/Psi Dom

Heavily inspired by Order from Freedom Force, Court Order Regen/Warhammer tanker.

Spill - Water Blast/Atomic Blaster Boneyard - Dark/Dark Blaster

Hello, everyone. I am new to COH, and this community. I felt an introduction would be a good start. My name is Archaeological_Hawk. I enjoy archaeology and old Hawkman comic books — both Silver Age and Golden Age. Other interests of mine include hockey, snowboarding, amateur radio, Cold War espionage, Syphon Filter, and history in general. Anyhow, I look forward to making new friends here on the forums!

YARRR!! Avast ye landlubbers. Seek not me pirate booty chests, lest ye summon the wrathful curse of a spirit!* * Sorry, no special badges for defeating the giant pirate or collecting chests. International Talk Like A Pirate Day is a minor holiday . . . if it's even a holiday at all. Maybe we can add more booty next year.

A supermodel whose life was cut short when she got caught between warring Circle of Thorns factions, now brought back as an avenging spirit: "The Macabre Invective"

Mentalis: Psi/Psi Tank

The Wallaby Street Justice/WP Scrapper

With the release of Psi armor and never leveling a Psi meleer up to the t9, it felt like a good time to make another Martian Manhunter pastiche, The Mind-Searcher, a Psi/Psi scrapper. For being a pastiche I really am liking his look and had fun with his backstory.

Crystaria's new design.

Put the accolades in START to be purchasable for an extreme amount of inf (800 mill to 1 billion inf) Alternative: Put them as rewards behind the aether system for extreme amounts (I would prefer START and inf, but this may not fly with the HC devs). Third option if HC doesn't like the first two: Put them as rewards purchasable for an extreme amount of Merits. (And yes I know this suggestion is gonna get opposed by many lol) This suggestion comes out of a discussion in

An aging hero, from a bygone era, unable to sit idly by as new foes rise up to threaten Paragon City, "Coherent Ray" dons his powered armor and beam rifle once again...

A friendly alien that just so happened to be in the neighborhood, and decided to share her "electric personality" with the "locals" - she's "Shockbody":

I personally do not see the need. If we are going to start putting accolades and such into the P2W or Aether vendors, we may as well make. everything free. This just makes it that much easier for those with the means to not bother engaging in the actual game content. The passives are really not that difficult or cumbersome to get. There are far, far better ideas out there for influence sinks.

Reminds me of my Peacebringer

If you didn't want to get into politics, you shouldn't have raised the topic of politics. I have personally looked at this feed and did not see a hint of anything political. It's all just people talking about City of Heroes. Of course, if you don't want to associate with Bluesky for any reason, you don't have to. This is not any sort of official HC endorsement of the feed. We have nothing to do with it.

After being absent for probably several years, I tried launching the game (Tequila) and alas, no luck. I was sad, fearing that the game was no longer supported. After a quick google, it brought me back to the forum where I found the new launcher. After downloading and installing it, it quickly identified the Tequila install, allowing me to keep my account and characters. I just had to log in to each character to keep the names (a very sensible policy) and there were my old characters again. It was like seeing long lost friends. Kudos to the developers for making that transition so effortless. Everything I needed to know was right here in the forums. Well done to all and thank you!

War-Druid, Plant/Earth Dom

It wasn't me, but I have something like that: I play them almost exclusively in mini-mode. Put the Circle of Thorns "backpack" on a costume like this, and it'll get much closer to the ban hammer. It's not exactly the same as pictured, but I attached the costume file for anyone that wants to play around with it. hiveling.costume

Storm-Feather, Stormblast/Tactical Arrow

So one 3d creator I follow takes some commissions. Decided to give them a try - the style wouldn't work for all my various characters, but for MB here... Needs some post-printing and processing cleanup and obviously painting and such, but... (Artist - Highpolya on Fiverr.)

Team Up time!

Oh, while I'm dreaming, I want HC to drop the asinine "if other servers have it, HC can't have it" rule. Why on earth should other servers have even the slightest bit of influence on what HC does? It's the dumbest notion ever conceived!

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Tomorrow-Man, Energy/Time blaster

To everyone that donates: THANK YOU!!!! I know we all benefit from being able to play the game, but this silly game really means a lot to me. I came back here when I found out that the game was back online. While I am NOW aware that it has been around for years, I did not ever expect it to be playable again (I, like many others, was left out in the cold after NC Soft terminated operation of the servers on Nov. 30th, 2012). I looked for any information about the game for years and never found anything other than memories before I gave up. I just happened to be talking to a friend about how great this game was when I went to google to find general info about it to show him. It was then that I saw that not only had it come back, but had done so LEGALLY (all the I's dotted and T's crossed). I couldn't have been more elated to find it! Last year , August 28th, 2024 I came back home, to my REAL home, Paragon City. After 12 loooong years in exile, I resurrected many of my best friends (and created some new ones, too) and we went back to the task of helping make Paragon safe for it's citizenry once again. I know that we all donate for our own reasons, but I, for one, am damn glad that so many others share my passion for this game. So, as I said to begin with, THANK YOU for your participation!!! (BTW, I have played about 352-353 of 365 days in the last year, so... yeah) Sincerely and respectfully, your friend, Scott Williams

Apparently it was a bad financial decision to try and market a line of magically animated toys that love their owners a little bit too aggressively, so they instead sent them out to deliver their unique form of love to bad guys everywhere... "Walloping Winnie":

Could we please get a trainer in Ouroboros?

Hello. I just wanted to say thank you to the people who keep this game going. It is amazing what you have done, what you keep doing, and that it is still going. You didn't just bring the game back, but continue to update and add to it. City of Heroes/Villains is my favorite video game of all time, and I feel very lucky and appreciative that the game is still going. I also want to thank all the players. We would have no game if we didn't have people playing it. THANK YOU!

The Helipad Haunter Darkness Control/Arsenal Assault Dominator

5150! Girl Mercury (Kinetic Melee/Super Reflexes scrapper), my only speedster, is my 51st level 50 :) Yeah, more Spectrum. The alts I'm currently leveling were rolled back in 2019, and I was designing their first six costumes before level 10 (when it's free). I had discovered the cool look I could get with Spectrum pieces, and I used them a lot for different alts' "level 50" costumes. Though I have made a few alterations to my original designs.

Kind of a basic costume but I like it, and the name is fun. Radicool Rad/Ice Blaster.

I've said it before over the years, but it's worth repeating. some things that seem to be so simple are an absolute nightmare to implement. The code is twisted and complicated, and so many times a minor change will result in major problems. "I only changed the colour of those trees, why did city hall vanish?" kind of problems. There are a lot of suggestions that have been implemented, but we are a volunteer group of people doing stuff in our spare time. One dev might be passionate about costume parts, another might be brilliant at stories. Another might love redoing zones. We gain devs, we lose devs. If a particular suggestion resonates and they go "I love that idea" they will look into it and decide if it's even possible. Then how much work is needed to implement. Then that dev leaves because real life gets in the way and it's another project on the back burner. To be honest I'm always in awe when a new page comes out for the sheer amount of work a small group of people have been able to pull together. Most legacy games are frozen in amber. Maybe some bugs are fixed if you are lucky, but there are few that have the level of skill and dedication that we do. I love reading peoples suggestions, and a lot of them are interesting and clever. But we aren't a multi million dollar enterprise with unlimited resources and hundreds of staff to spend months on implementing ideas. We are a volunteer group that does what we can because of the love we have for the game and the willingness to spend a lot of our free time working on something that is really time intensive.

Here is Nuclear Vomit

My pet projects Bio twins kinda...

Not to mention saving themselves the extra effort to send an alt an ingame email. Learning to earn influence is part of the game, just like leveling up, selecting/slotting/enhancing powers and learning your way around the world. As others have mentioned before, there are plenty of ways to earn influence. No need for a pity system.

I'm sorry, but we should not just be handing out large amounts of influence to new players simply because they're new. Everyone should be learning how to generate influence on their own. Others have already touched on the fact that you're always going to have bad apples as well and that this sort of system would be set up to fail as someone will go in and snatch all the inf to horde it as opposed to it actually being spread around. Teaching someone how to achieve something they want is often better than just handing it to them.

Seems like it would be about as useful as the guides they don't read, the farms they don't join and the players they don't ask for help, another resource they wouldn't access because they're unaware of it or have some aversion to using it.

Sure, but God-level powers will require God-level opponents, otherwise you're just adding some chariot-blades to your steamroller.

Does anybody else find certain maps that just bug you for a silly reason? For me, it's this map right here: This is the main floor of this map. The floors reached by the elevators are always the same. The mission entrance is at the top of this map. My "problem" with this map is the entire bottom section, including the elevator and the floor it leads to. It's all completely extraneous because every single mission I have ever gotten that uses this map is completely resolved by the second elevator. Regardless of specific mission requirements. For example, the mission that finally prompted me to post this required me to click on four glowies and defeat a named boss. In this instance, the first elevator led to one glowie. The second elevator led to the remaining three glowies and the named boss. Mission complete. In all of the times I've seen this map, there has never been any need to venture into the lower section or enter the last elevator unless I decide I simply want to clear the entire map. It just seems like a waste.

Jupiter

A toggle that allows me to change all of my KB powers to KD. Kheldians to get similar levels of mez protection as Bane Spiders do. Shorten the Synapse (or break into two like Positron) and Citadel Task Forces. Give Force Field and Sonic, sleep protection in their AoE protection toggle. [EDIT] Assign Tina McIntyre and Maria Jenkins a specific portal in Portal Corp so we aren't running all over the place [EDIT] Reduce cooldown of Team Transporter, Assemble the Team, and Mission Transporter to 10 minutes [EDIT] Allow pure heroes/villains to visit Rogue Isles/Paragon City respectively, even if it's very dangerous (like the drones will target you) [EDIT] Give VEATs, Sentinel Epic power pools

City of Heroes homecoming helped me save money on my car insurance.

87.9 mph. Jet packs are limited to the old cap (58.7 mph). Increases current flight speed by 25% and raises the cap to 102.27 mph. If you slot a 50+5 IO in Fly and Swift, and use the Increase Flight Speed empowerment station buff, you'll hit ~101.7 mph with Afterburner. The answer depends on the context of the word "efficient". If you mean "slot efficient", a 50+5 IO in Mystic Flight and one in Swift, plus the Increase Flight Speed empowerment station buff, will put you at ~86.3 mph, which is close enough to the cap to call it a day. If you mean "I just want a blue number (combat attribs) without fucking around with slots and buffs and shit like that", slap a second IO in Mystic Flight and move on.

Clearly, then, the solution is to introduce a new currency/salvage type. 😛 Sorry. I'll show myself out.