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Realistically, you have done what you can do. You sent them an in game email. Hopefully they read it. Hopefully they respond. There is no way to force either. Now, you have the waiting game. You may also wish to pop onto some of the other shards to see if your name might be free on them. Maybe you can't get it on Excelsior, but can on Torchbearer, or Everlasting, etc.

I thought it was a fairly straightforward "Not opposed to the idea as such, but would way rather see dev time spent on other things first".

I do not know if the pet window can be opened for non-MM's. If it can, I would certainly expect all pet commands to be greyed out. But I can understand a desire just to have the window as a means to monitor pet health at a glance. It's possible to build a macro / keybind to target your pet with a single keystroke or click whatever works better for you. That would at least take away the time of manual retargetting. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Target_name_(Slash_Command)

I actually like Clicky mez protection. Among other things, it can STACK with itself, offering far superior magnitude of protection. But I do get that for others, fire-and-forget while leaving your autofire free for something else is very appealing.

Extremely high pressure water does not take no for an answer. You can even use waterjets to cut diamonds, but that's generally too time consuming. They tend to use lasers when they need to cut diamonds themselves. Waterjet cutters tend to have a pool of water beneath them, becuase that's one thing the waterjet won't cut... the force of the waterjet agitates the pool of water like nobodies business, but the force is dissipated in the process.... as long as the pool of water is deep enough.

fair point, but yes, I meant for that character to personally acquire the tip.

Not sure on Magnetic Lash teleporting foes, UNLESS, a change is made to the pool power version of Teleport Foe to make that something that's actually reliable and works well on Bosses as well. An Electric Melee taunt shouldn't be able to magically Teleport Foe that the pool power by the same name cannot affect.

If this happens, City of Heroes will immediately become a single player game for me. Because I loathe the 45+ "everything is incarnate" content. When the entire team has T4 Barrier and just rotates it's use. When every spawn dies to a Judgement and 1-2 other AE attacks. When anything remotely challanging is steamrolled by a flood of Lore pets I fall asleep. And if everything scales up to 50, it won't be long before everyone EXPECTS you to want to do all content at lvl 50, and would cry foul at the thought of exemplaring down again, ever again. I would never even bother try to team again because it would be frustration city.

No! people must fight and BLEED for their power descriptions! in fact, detailed info should have all the numbers, uncolored, just in paragraph form, and not evne numbers, but spelled out as words, so you have to use reading comprehension to know that assault "Boosts damage done by ten percent" None of the +Damage 10% stuff. (Not a serious suggestion)

If I start a TF, I'll stay for at least 3 hours or 20 full wipes, whichever comes first. But there is a certain point, where if we're just pounding our faces into the blender seeing if we can dull the blades, that I do feel authorized to tip the king and concede. But has to involve a LOT of wipes. And many attempts to change course. Including a pause to google for strategies we may be missing, etc. I mean, in my WoW days, back in Pandaria expansion, I had no problem sucking it up and wiping for three hours STRAIGHT on Mythic Seigecrafter. I mean, I did repeatedly question why I was putting myself through that lol. But I had obligations freely accepted and I was darn well going to suck it up and keep going until it was official 'Call Time'. We eventually got him. But oh god the pain, the agony, the suffering for many weeks.

Earth/Poison was not exactly the fastest killing controller I've ever run in the 1-20 range. Fantastic at kittenizing the baddies. Not so much at actually defeating them. Slotting several damage procs helped, but in the 1-20 range you have only just so many slots to go around, and you still need accuracy too. I relied a LOT on Sands of Mu, and the Def Debuffs meaning that I wouldn't miss with it. But I think I still had to stop and rest after every group of mobs. On +1x1 with bosses. The one that I sometimes try and rage at each time is still my Peacebringer. The Quantums. The Void Hunters. They enrage me so. I will acknowledge it doesn't help that I am entirely irrational on his build and would sooner delete the character than use either shapeshift form. No matter what he's up against. No matter how much functionally better certain powers may be. He is human only, period, anything else is OFF. THE. TABLE. Also it doesn't help that I refuse to level up via DFB, and when I join a team before lvl 20, I disable XP. The lvl 1-20 range is important to me, and I feel like my character has to EARN his stripes on his own, has to be able to defeat baddies on their own, or they don't merit the title of Hero. No powerlevelling and then being a god later. They have to earn their way up. "It is not logical. But is often true." -Spock

I think that's one of few things missing from Ouroborus. Once you ding 30, I don't think you can do a 20-29 tip mission ever again. Once you ding 40, I don't think you can do a 30-39 tip mission ever again. I'm hoping there IS actually a way to do it that I just don't know about yet. Similar to the way you can do the Villain Disruptor / Hero Slayer badge and then do any Safeguard/Mayhem that you outleveled.

The level range factors into it. At LOW level, Doc Quantum basically was a hero. I think you only see him defending banks at fairly low level Mayhems. As you level, he becomes more and more evil, more and more twisted to figure what people will do for what reasons, never mind who he hurts along the way. Similarly, Frostfire, at low missions, is basically a superpowered thug. And in tip missions in the 20's, that stays true. In the 30's, the tip missions have him kind of conflicted in the 40's the tip missions have him reformed as a Hero. Some of the NPC's in tip missions change like that over time. Not all of them. I think Hollow Point / Savage Siren are always Vigilantes. Echidna and Pyris, I think are always Villains. But some shift as you level, to simulate them changing over time (since they weren't really planning on people powerlevelling to 50 in a day or two...)

I'd like a short-to-midrange set with Mr. Fantastic / Plasticman style body-stretching melee. Sort of a Shapeshiter, but not to be confused with a Beastlord shapeshifter who melees as a panther or something. So like... a punch.... or a kick... but from 40 yards away. Maybe include a grapple / hold where you wrap them up for a short duration.

This. Most of mine are written up in third person, but no particular style. Some are written as an intelligence dossier on the character. Some are written up as the character speaking in first person to someone else. It really varies a lot on the character in question and the essence of what flavor I want people to get for that character.

I think a good balance is keep the existing 1024 as what you first see. But also add a "Read More" button that could be clicked to take you to an bigger text area. Then anyone who finds the opening synopsis interesting can get more, but you don't have to worry about if just inspecting someone is going to pull up 'War and Peace' right out of the gate. That said, I absolutely love this idea and hope it gains traction.

I have found two workarounds for this. Option #1: Copy your full bio text, tab out to Textpad or Notepad or something, paste there, edit there, then delete out your whole bio from the game and paste in from the outside editor. Note that this approach, doesn't seem to hang onto hard returns / paragraph breaks. So you have to manually break up any intended paragraphs after you paste it back in. Option #2: In the in-game-editor, manually delete out each space between each word in your bio, and add them back in, one-by-one. Sometimes what looks like a single space is actually taking up 7-8 characters worth toward the 1024 limit. This seems to happen most often if you write out a bunch of text, then click up to the middle of an earlier line, and edit something that causes the wrapping to change in the in-game editor. It doesn't handle that right at all. But if I manually delete out the spaces and manually add them back in, I can often reclaim like 150-200 characters.

Spelt is spelled spelt if you're referring to an obscure grain. 🙂 I'll crawl back under my Grammar Rock now. It's two doors down from Fraggle Rock, and across the street from Schoolhouse Rock.

If you take Kick, Boxing, and Crosspunch, I believe Boxing gets a much higher innate chance to stun. (even if your proc's didn't fire). Plus, Crosspunch might give you an additional AE if you want more options there. Of course taking all three attacks, .... is challenging to fit in for some builds. So many powers, so few power choices. So many power choices, so few slots to assign to them all....

I also try to keep at least 2 charges of Shivan Shard handy at all times for just such emergencies. That's probably not acquireable in the middle of a TF. But it makes for a nice ace-in-the-hole for when you decide it time to say "I'm not left-handed, either!"

In Live, I had two characters who never took a travel power at all. This was before Fitness was inherent, and you had to squeeze in the power selections to get Stamina. They actually skipped Health (I know, I know, but it was HARD fitting everything in on them....), and just took Swift, Hurdle, (on the way to Stamina) and Combat Jumping. And I put 1 extra slot into Swift for *two* run speed enhancers, and 1 extra slot into hurdle for *two* jump enhancers. That was the bargain basement travel power. It worked decently well. Still slow to get anywhere, but if you want someone who's got zero superpowers.... it's an option. As far as the Well .... I have two characters on HC who I'm thinking of never having them craft a single incarnate power ever. They'll unlock the incarnate slots because I can't decline them. But I don't ever have to craft a single incarnate power if I want to keep them mortals. It would sentence them to forever more soloing anything 45+ because no point in even trying to team when everyone else is a god and you're not.

I tried another name on a what-the-hell last night and it actually gave me the green checkmark. General Atomics Mastermind, Rad Emission secondary. Kinda thinking it deserves the full Fallout treatment for pet names. Codsworth, Wadsworth, Prof Goodfeels, Deezer, etc.

My character bio's will always expand to consume all available space.

Your syntax is bad. /unbind z /bind z PowExecName Teleport that should do it for you.

The alt-itis is too strong to resist... you must have at least one of every AT, for each faction, equal numbers male and female, equally numbers of mutants, and magic, and tech, and... Okay. Maybe that's just my own OCD 🙂