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For recipe's sold to an NPC vendor (crafted enhancements cannot be sold to them, only recipes), perhaps. But if you post something on the auction house for a lower price than intended and it sold, no. That's too bad for you. The buyer has already received it and no backsies there.

Go run missions in the Night Ward. Exemplared down to content level. Have some fun with the Awakened. You don't lack for tougher content if you want to face it.

Re: original topic, ability to self-flag in other zones. I'd be fine with this, and consider it a good things, subject to a few conditions. A self-flagged PvP'er in a PvE zone should be completely immune to all effects from non-flagged people of the opposite faction. That is, if someone wants to fight you, they need for formally flag themselves first. Not just attack you, or otherwise, you'd have flagged people TRYING to be hit by somoene else's fireball in order to have them become flagged so that they could fight them. A self-flagged PvP'er in combat with another self-flagged PvP'er should lose all buffs from anyone who is NOT flagged, and should become immune to any heals from somone who is not flagged. They want to provide backup, they need to flag themselves first. A self-flagged PvP'er who is not in combat with another self-flagged PvP'er should retain all buffs and still be healable by non-PvP'ers. Outside of combat with other PvP'ers, you should be just like any other PvE'er,

Has there ever been confirmed Word-of-Devs on this? Frankly, if they have set that as a policy I consider it a mistake. One they of course have the right to make, but a mistake nonetheless. On one hand, okay, I generally do not PvP, and when I do go into the PvP zones, I'm looking for a Shivan, or a Nuke, or a Badge. But I've always considered myself "At Risk" in those forays, and I always considered it PROPER that I should be "At Risk" in those forays.

Totally on board with those being flypose emotes, AS LONG AS, you take 99% damage on flying into any building or hillside because you were too busy texting to look where you were going. 😄 Hands free cellphones integrated into your tech helmets people!

Plant/Psi Psi assault is not the strongest damage, and can have some issues vs zombies / robots, but it's still pretty good and you can use TK Thrust / Roots / Procs to handle robots Seeds of Confusion / Carrion Creepers are both Happiness in a button Drain Psyche being your own personal -Regen debuff is HUGE Drain Psyche and Spirit Tree make you very resiliant as you level up.

Is that even a question? Of course any notices / messages from the GM's are going to come through unfiltered. If a GM is telling someone they're crossing a line and to stop, if the tells were quashed by this filter, that person would probably end up with a much more severe action / ban than if they saw the GM's warning and ceased and desisted on the first warning.

You can ask. But only the devs / mods can choose to change it, or not, based on whether they consider it political, or not. In any event, .... putting it right out there .... the HC team is actually under no obligation to be neutral and fair minded on all matters. If they choose to take a stance that they feel is in accordance with their beliefs, they can... because these forums and the servers are privately owned. They are in no way obligated to provide equal time or opposing viewpoints, etc. Generally I thnk they do a good job of trying NOT to get into it. But if you're truly deeply bothered by a three word sentance in the gmotd, well, you have decisions to make for yourself.

Honestly, it's pretty enjoyable half the time. (when politics is NOT being discussed, and people are talking movies / TV / trivia / things they've cooked recently, etc.) But as we approach November, yes, I expect there will be more and more days where someone just HAS to go there, and segway the conversation into a bout of "The Other Side Sucks!"

If you don't have a Praetorian Double? You ARE the Praetorian Double. They just altered your memories, just like they did to Proton in the Twinshot Arc.

A twenty four hour ban is over soon enough. If you truly feel it was completely unjust, unmerited, and an overreaction, well, put yourself in the shoes of the GM's for a bit. It's probably not the most fun job in the world, and I know for certain I've seen people doing what looked an awful lot like trying to push the bounds and see juuuuuuust how much they could get away with, to try to push someone else's buttons. Maybe it was wrong place / wrong time. And maybe not. Take it for what it is. Try to avoid certain topics of discussion in the future. Yes, you may firmly enjoy speaking your own mind on any topic you please, but at the end of the day, the Homecoming servers are not a public facility, and there is no guaranteed right of free speech on any topic. We are all essentially, guests. If I am a guest, and host makes it quite clear I should avoid certain topics and I keep going back into them, well, why should I not expect the host to become displeased, and to perhaps show me the door?

Thank you guys, SO MUCH, for being willing to deal with what some chat channels can often devolve into. I would find that the most odius and thankless task in the world. "Herding Cats" doesn't even begin to describe it.

Not sure about "most", but certainly willing to concede "many". And it can vary a lot by social groups / people currently present. That said, there's some kinds of behavior that should be given a "boys will be boys", and there's some behavior that absolutely should not. I'd certainly expect people to back off and apologize if they get tells that saying that they're genuinely offending someone. And at a minimum, to just silently stop, even if no apology came. There's really no excuse to continue to bother someone after being told you're causing them genuine distress.

I would not expect such mercy from any PvP'er. I'm firmly in the camp of "you went into the zone, you stayed long enough to get flagged, whaddiya really expect?" I'm NOT actually a PvP'er myself. I'm diehard PvE. But anytime I do enter, for a Shivan, or for some RV badges, etc, I do so knowing I can be ganked, possibly repeatedly ganked to the point where I simply choose to strategically retreat and try again at like 3:30 am, one random night if I get a bout of insomnia. (Insomnia SUCKS, but sometimes, hell, if I'm gonna be awake ANYWAY, I might as well try to use the time....)

I've never used the Ignore feature for anything except the goldfarming bots that existed back in LIVE. I have an overdeveloped sense of Voltaire there. ("disagree with what you say / defend your right to say it") I will report someone if I see them using a racial slur, but not until I scan the conversation and try to capture full impact of how it was used. And that primarily because it's directly against the Code of Conduct and because I don't want people like that sullying the CoH community. But... when it's purely political.... "MAGA" and the like.... yea, political speech may be against the code of conduct, but I just can't bring myself to report anyone for that. I have immediate family with political views that I ..... cannot..... fathom.... for the life of me. But I'd rather try to understand what makes them tick, how they got to where they are, etc, than try to shut people down. I don't feel any pity when I see a GM show up and tell them they'll start handing out silences if people don't drop it. That's the GM's enforcing their rules as the people hosting the game. And I would feel exactly zero shreds of pity if some folks were permabanned for going off politically in chat for a half an hour. But that's qualitiatively different from me issuing a report on political speech that offends me, which.... is a line I just can't bring myself to cross.

50% of the time, General chat is fun and useful and worth reading. 50% of the time, General chat is a toxic morass that .... I question why I have it in my channels at all. I'm pushing 50 and I have never in my life seen people so politicized and so circling wagons thinking anyone with different political views is an inherently bad person with nefarious motives, and that one great joy in life should be to taunt the other side. THAT's the real problem, and I have ZERO clue how that gets fixed or even begin the process of some kind of Detente. But it spills out into General Chat. A LOT. Short of having someone permanently assigned to monitor General Chat and slap it down each time it comes up, I don't know how you can stop it. Sure, political speech in chat channels may be against certain rules, but unless you start silencing / banning people I don't expect it to ever stop. And I'm not really thrilled at the idea of having to have people silenced and banned, either. And god knows I would not want to be stuck with the thankless job of having to monitor general chat or become percieved as the Speech Police. A filter would be nice as a way that doesn't need someone who has to be watching it all the time, it just happens silently in the background. But a big big question is "just how much resources / time woudl this take?" If it's a small lift, something that can be banged out quickly, sure yes, please, do it. If not.... I can't justify asking for even moderate dev time if it's a medium-or-bigger project.

I don't want to sell you deathsticks... I want to load up CoH and play my blaster....

My peeves the existence of EnterBaseFromPasscode any question along the lines of "What's the Best powerset choice?" or "What power should I choose for X?" Lvl 50's who literally don't know what zones connect to what zones. I do not expect any of these will ever go away. They're really 'me' issues more than anything else. But they're there.

Now that would be an awesome superpower 🙂

I do not believe it is purely a function of "I've run it so many more times than you, so I'm DONE with it" I've run that low level content .... a lot. A lot a lot a lot. More times than you? Maybe, maybe not. Over 60 times for sure. Possibly a hundred. I still find it fun. It's the start of my new characters journey. I would consider myself robbed if I leveled too far past it too fast, even knowing that Ouro exists, and I have no hesistation disabling XP if I get a group invite on a character I'm not ready to level up too fast yet. I do accept that it's boring as hell if what you care about is playing a max level character. I would call the difference a matter of whether or not the PLAYER is a story-driven player, but, that's probably not exactly right either. Hard to get exact words for some things that are just internal "I like X" "Y is boring" internal preferences.

For this reason, my Mind/Kin uses Polar Lights for lore pets. Still very fitting for a "magic" themed character. Not obnoxiously huge / doesn't block field of vision Decent AE not something that looks like evil or destruction personified. Just floating spheres of light.

The one type of buff I will compliment people for using on low-to-midlevel teams? Status protection buffs. Clear Mind, Increase Density, etc. I don't harp on it again and again throughout the team. Once is enough. But I do want to provide positive reinforcement anytime I see someone taking time and trouble to make sure their teamates wtihout status protection are covered. And particularly on low level teams, I want to reinforce what I view as good habits.

Then you are using different definitions than I would use. And I'd be curious to see hard data on what the "wider MMO culture" thinks and why you believe that it is so, and not just your opinion/impression. to me, If you're logged into the game at all? You're playing the game. Now there are parts of the game I consider more fun than not. There's parts of the games I really wonder why they were added. There's parts of the game I don't understand why anyone enjoys. But if your character can do it? It's playing the game. And frankly, if someone thinks a pure solo player is someone who may as well not be playing at all.... they can bite me. If I feel like soloing, I will solo. No one is "owed" X many people who are willing to group with them, and I have zero obligation to group with anyone else. I often will. But that is choice. If other people don't like it, that's their problem, start to finish.

Actually I find that very interesting. I had assumed, but not really tested, that an Attuned IO could randomly become any other IO that overlapped any part of it's range. So that a Attuned Shield Breaker Acc/DefDebuff (1-30 range) could not immediately become a Sting of the Manticore piece (lvl 35+). But I thought it you converted it to say, an Attuned Positron's Blast piece, THAT piece, could then in theory become Sting of the Manticore. Or does the hidden/assigned level get re-assigned after each successful convert of an attuned piece?

There's also the Giant 55 Gallon Drum Of Worms of "How would you PROVE your old character was yours?" even if HC had access to the old data. People have moved, changed email addresses, some may have had legal name changes in real life, etc. Everyone starts from scratch. No guarantee that names you had in live can be obtained here. If you have old screenshots, you can probably rebuild the costume precisely (may take some experimentation, but doable). Everyone starts at level 1. Everyone starts with no influence, no enhancements.