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After 20-ish years of playing. When on an MM I'll move 8 to left of 1 in a 4X3 formation. So far it is the best configuration for my style that I like. TEAM & LEAGUE window go top left. EDIT: I'm a clicker - not a key'er ! 😄

I can't say that I've "saddled" any of my toons with a name. Quite simply if a name is taken I find another that I'm happy with. It may take the hour or so to find that appropriate name whilst I'm building the costume and writing the Bio but I do find that name eventually. Apropos of this - the English language has not yet run out of words. I don't belong to the "I want that name and I want it NAO" brigade (if indeed it is a brigade in volume), likely a loud minority. But I am happy that many a popular name is taken for enforcement of creativity if nothing else. I also agree that this new policy being activated is a good move to free up dead accounts of names and I would add that I would hope the policy is extended to level 50 toons which have not been played within 5 years to be freed from the encumbrance of their unused name.

Looks really scary until I realise, he's just a future pie...

I see your leet and I'll call with this one I bagged from Jan 2024 @ 04:36 AM UK time...

Easily done - welcome to the afflicted.

When playing support I'm usually behind the peloton to observe where best to, well, support. On attack like blaster then I like to be at the edge of the fray regularly looking back to our squishies in case they are getting overwhelmed. As for other players, in my experience most are rushing past the optionals to FINISH FIRST SO THEY CAN SAY FIRST rather than enjoying the game and being a team player. I've played with Snarky and can confirm his said play styles.

Going to need a few accounts.

Well that's going to have to be unfixed immediately...

Yes - hat doffed to the Wiki-Keepers.

What else should be expected when brand new players looking for the nostalgic experience are being coaxed into AE who then miss the whole point of this 20 year old RP game resurgence. I think one of the reasons CoH is a high point in gaming to me is that it took a fortnight to earn a travel power back in the day and to complete the zone, The Hollows (where's da hallows? the AE babies ask - as the old joke still goes). It was a real task of learning and time commitment to get somewhere. Every ability was hard earned. All the while subconsciously learning how to use my few abilities in the most effective and economical way possible. I wouldn't give up my HC conveniences today though, nor do I skip the lower game 20 years later. It was nice that there was a recent greater awareness of how passionate people feel about their gaming experiences. What with NC licensing our game back to us. How they/we have a sense of ownership. A game is still a physical thing to me. It was a physical thing, programming in BASIC some half century ago, then magnetic tape, then floppy discs, then CDs. Those physical formats have caused a sense of ownership to be instilled in the established gamer. It was a guarantee that our game is available, back then, whenever we load it up. It was always on the shelf or in the stack or on the pile, depending on your storage methods. It was always there. Fast forward to so called RMT game services where you can pay someone to play a game for you so that you don't have to bother with it (Eh!?) and online only where there is a vacuum of physical media and a creeping sense that you actually don't possess the game in any case which you paid hard earned money to purchase. Once the operator switches it off, it is off for all and forever. But why would that be a bother? You haven't learned the game, you've skipped the whole process of levelling up where you could have learned how to play the game, how to use your power sets, how to synergise with the complimentary powers of your 'teammates' and how to interact with your chosen esoteric community. You have barged your way to the highest level in order to play a gaming character which you have no idea to how to play. You are a liability in a team and you still get your rectum handed to you solo. Because you neglected to learn how to play. The reality is that fewer people will take up the experience. The community will shrink. There is one outstanding long term value which Homecoming has freely given to gamers the world over whether CoH is around or not. We still own our games. 'Online only' is tainted by the closure of servers which service only a minority and they don't make profit. More precisely, they don't make massive profit. As far as I'm concerned if they make 'a profit' however small then they are a going concern. That always irked me about how Paragon Studios was closed, still being profitable. HC CoH doesn't need a profit because it is upheld by our community who support it financially too. With games like The Crew 1 being currently cracked by the fans, much like CoH has been, there does appear to be a future for games we feel we own because we paid for them. Equally dedicated fans of any franchise are now proven to bring back to life and usage perfectly adequate games enjoyed by thousands. CoH and all future rebirthed franchises will be used as bench marks for all fans to show companies what can be done with heart. I think companies will eventually build 'end of life offline' into all games, I think it will eventually be standard once companies learn that without it, it is affecting the bottom line as is evidenced by those currently burned. They are increasing in number and they are vocal about it.

Nowhere..

The problem I've been seeing lately with Mo runs is the lack of familiarity of them by obvious new players, playing tactlessly as if they are on a +0 speed TF/SF.

He really, really loves that picture.

There is no "best" - only best for your enjoyment. Each plays the same in a different manner and slots it differently. Play them all and decide which is best for you. I've been learning the game for 20 years and I doubt I will stop learning it.

Wildly, I doubt it. Even if it is so, we can all be in the same boat. Though not everyone will ostracize the mistaken, Shall I vehemently correct the mistaken? 🔨

Like I said in the OP, I stand corrected, have you anything to contribute?

Hmm, happy to be wrong but that must be the first time I have personally experienced the Mandela Effect. Thinking that there was a General Chat on retail and that it was on here on HC from the start. Anyone else got some good Mandela Effects, game related the better?

demand one....

General chat existed before lfg existed on retail. On HC they have been around the same length of time. (to my knowledge)

Any amount of moron can protest anything they want in general chat which isn't really game specific, just 'general' chat. A social conversation facility. Speaking of facility, g/ignore is a facility. Even though some keyboard warriors players like to project threat of g/ignore it is as much a facility as any game UI - NOT A PUNISHMENT - , ignore those whom you find offensive, temporarily, ignore the copy pasta uncreatives, ignore the spammers and all manner of tasteless, incongruent wiffle waffle that you desire. It is your game for you to ignore whosoever you wish to. Often I have seen changes of mind in attitude in general. Many of us custodians of the game will be first to point out intense tastelessness, reminding other players that there are children who play our game also. Many friendships have been made through general chat an it remains a means of open contact and expression. Remove it and there will be a small vacuum in the game, I mean, how will we be able to lead the unlearned? Suggesting removing that which you can easily ignore is a stretch. Using ignore as a threat - well - if someone would ignore another person at the behest of a stirrer then I would want that idiot to ignore me.

The devs have indicated that, while it's not an official rule, in general they are much more inclined to award the badge if it is not asked for than they are if it is asked for.

Ouch - no warning before hand, i bet you are turning in your portable coffin.

Enjoy your stay, some never get to leave 😛