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I definitely enjoy characters the most from 18-44. A few characters make the cut and are still enjoyable at 50, but even then, I prefer being exemplared back down to pre-incarnate levels. When I solo, I do story arcs. Taking the time to read the mission text, think about how whatever character I'm logged on at the moment would react to it, etc. Tip Missions, too. When I team, I set aside the roleplay-vs-game, because, no team ever has time for that. And because team banter can be fun as well. I tend to look at a group of +3x8 Malta with the team, and type stuff like "They look friendly. I bet we can talk this over." before pulls. I don't have a strong preference on duo-ing or midsize teams or full teams. For characters, I definitely prefer Control and Support characters the most. But any character at all with a well-fleshed out backstory and established motivations is a joy to play. This past weekend I solo'd the Night Ward story arc with "Ward" on my Invuln/SS Tanker on +2/x3 (lvl 34 character). That was kinda brutal just because the damage output was low (No Footstomp yet, no Spring Attack, allll single target punches), but it was all kinds of fun just imagining the Talons freaking out over just how many of them kept swarming me and I just WOULD NOT DIE. It got VERY nasty at the end when I had four, yes, FOUR purple-con Elite Bosses on me at all once. But I activated the Ring of Peebles for an extra +30 resist all on top of being a well-tricked-out Invuln, and basically nothing could harm me. I did have to keep an eye on the endurance bar and my inspirations, but when I got down to the last EB it was like "seriously, what are you gonna do? There were four of you, then three, then two, now just you. You cannot harm me." Definitely felt very Super on that mission.

I think here is the best place it's just.... Don't get your hopes up for any kind of Official Word-of-Developers answer. In the last 13 months, I've only seen the Devs announce completed work as they release it in patch notes. I have not seen them formally promise anything in advance of it being completed. They do open some weekly discussion threads to solicit feedback and opinions, but again, those ares still not a formal Q&A with any kind of promised list of items. To be clear, I agree with their approach 100%. Promise anything before it's known to be doable and there's holy hell to pay if it turns out it's not feasible. And this isn't their full time job, they're working on this as a labor of love while still holding down day jobs, while still dealing with family and social obligations like anytone else. It doesn't make sense to pre-promise anything under those conditions. They have surprised me with the amount of work they've churned out thus far though, including making the switch to a 64-bit mode, and lots of other "for the long haul" items, as well as the newer powersets, etc.

well.... I'd say the Thematic Defensive Niche is already filled by Energy Aura. EA is basically already "Force Field Armor". That said. Nothing wrong with asking for a second flavor of Force Field Armor, I suppose. No armor set works quite like what you've proposed, that's for sure.

I was teaming with someone just yesterday who got auto-booted from a team three times just last night, 6/6/2020. It was not a TF. It was just a regular mission team. World Wide Red arc, I think. Not flashbacks. Just at-level-content. I was not team leader, so I can't give a yay/nay on Eclipse's speculations about team leader being pure hero vs not. It did seem to happen right when someone ported to Ouro or to Base though, each of the 3 times.

I don't think it can be all that bad. The citizens of both Paragon and the Isles aren't dead from starvation, so crops and livestock are still grown somewhere. InFront Steakhouse, Up N Away Burger, El Super Mexicano, and all the rest get sufficent supplies to make restaraunts possible and affordable. I doubt it's all supposed to be brought in by Portal Corp. There are several hero contacts that are with the FBI, CIA, FAA, the US Military, etc, so some degree of the USA still exists enough to have such agencies and national identity. You do occasional tip missions to help rescue foreign dignitaries and ambassadors and there's concerns about international incidents, so there's some functioning governments abroad. It just always struck me as odd that Nemesis and the Council and Malta and CoT are so focused on succeeding in Paragon City instead of going for vastly lower hanging fruit across the globe.

I actually kinda would like to know more about the rest of Primal Earth. What's going on in say.... Belize? Or London? Or Cape Town? Or Kiev? How come all the heroes and villains have to duke it out over one city and one island chain? Some kind of spiritual magnetic attraction that compels them to seek each other out? Do we have to say "There can be only one!" at odd intervals?

I only join "Kill Most" (or "Kill All") teams. It means I pass on most teams, or decide to organize the team myself. But I'm happier with how the missions go, even if sometimes I only end up with 4-6 people on the team instead of 8. I also much prefer missions vs harder enemies.... Rularuu, Malta, Carnies, Night Ward, First Ward, etc.

That does seem a bit strange to me. I would expect each story arc to be treated like any other individual story arc for this purpose. If they thought the merits-per-time came out to too high a figure, they could reduce the merit reward, just as they could for any other story arc. But really, what's the differnce between running "World Wide Red" or "The Mysterious General Z" or "The Unknown Ubelmann" vs the Who-Will-Dies.

Probably lots of places with a similar skyline. But at ground level? I can't think of a one. This is also a big part of why I like Redside so much. Many of the redside zones just FEEL more real.

Now if you could talk to the mission contact at any level, but upon accepting the mission, you became auto-exemplared, just like you do in Ouroborus, with the same dialogue box to select additional challenge options (can't take away opportunitty to get the badges after all....), I'd be willing to think about it. I suspect needing to GO places would still annoy many players... but I do miss the days of seeing everyone travel about the world on a regular basis.

See this is how I get ideas for my alts lol. "Oh, they're ragging on Trick Arrow today. Okay, Fire Control / Trick Arrow alt coming right up...."

Nice to have? Sure. QoL? Sure. "Need"... I can't get behind the use of that word here.

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If any changes are to be made, best if it were player-configurable warning default = no message warn me if I bid more than X for salvage warn me if I bid more than Y for a recipe warn me if I bid more than Z for an enhancement Where YOU type in X, Y, and Z. and warnings ONLY happen if you fill them in. I personally would leave them blank. But that should be less invasive than warnings vs "recent prices".

I tend to buy the pvp ones attuned, because I'm usually already in hte "Attuned" section when I browse to buy them. And also because I tend to slot them early. Sometimes lvl 10 or so. And especially if I'm choosing to slot an entire set, like my tanker who has 5/6 pieces of Shield Wall slotted, well, he's only lvl 32. I want those pieces to level up with him. I've been told that PvP pieces "act as attuned" but I think that only really means "if you exemplar below them, you keep your set bonus" I do not think it means, a lvl 15 Defense/Endurance/Recharge piece will actually SCALE UP WITH YOU. If I'm wrong about that, okay, I'll change my buying habits. But I do not wait until 50 to slot things, and I take my sweet time levelling up, often disabling XP for quite awhile at various stages, so I do want to make sure pieces scale up with me along the way.

Torchbearer has a green light on it. Not that I'm checking every couple of minutes or anything, no.... /twitch.

Glad to see the community being understanding and supportive. Far better than the 12 pages of nerdrage posts you'd get on Blizzard forums anytime a WoW server went down.

Seriously. There are a couple workarouds though. I've found that I can often reclaim 200+ "wasted" characters that it claimed where consumed but really weren't, by going through my entire bio, top to bottom, delete spaces between first and second word, replace with one space, delete spaces between second and third word, replace with one space, etc. It seems to lose characters especially if you go back and edit text in the middle of something you've already written. Alternately, use NotePad or TextPad, get what you want written, make sure its' 1023 or less, and copy/paste the whole thing in all at once. It's a hassle. Would be nice if the in-game editor was more reliable. But if it's not a nice easy fix, either method above can be made to work.

If there's issues that somehow prevent the existing bio text field from being expanded, them I'm fine with the initial bio being limited to 1023 characters, and a "More" button being added for additional text to go to a new field. That way also, you don't have to worry that inspecting someone would suddenly pull up War and Peace. You'd get an initial bio, and maybe there'd be more to read if you were so inclined to click their "More..." button.

Have heard rumors Utility Belt will include things like Bolas. That could be a nice device-y way to work in a Hold to a natural Control set, if the animation was over-the-top and wrapped yoru arms as well as your legs.

welllllll..... I probably wouldnt' recommend Praetoria for your first character. It's doable of course, and if you're dead set on it, a Demon/Dark is a DARN good choice to do it with. But Nova Praetoria/Imperial City/Neutropolis are..... not heavily populated most nights, let's just say. Praetorian teams can happen, but they're the exception more than the rule. Still, if you enjoy it, go for it. And don't be shy about inviting others you see goldside. Teams form far faster if you invite vs wait to be invited.

All servers are back up, I just logged in!

Reunion and Everlasting are showing as up for me. The rest are still down though. Master: no, no, we have not even begun upon the path. Ed Gruberman, you Must learn patience. Ed: yeah yeah yeah, patience. how long will that take? Master: time has no meaning. to a true student, a year is as a day. Ed: a year??? i wanna beat people up right now!

Hair physics for ALL hairs, male and female, would be nice. Even as an optional thing you could choose / block at the tailor, or in the Menu/Options/Graphics, etc. It does seem odd that if you have a "Low Ponytail" on a dude or the "Glam" hair on a female, and you do a huge Superjump, then during the downward arc your hair stays EXACTLY in place. It seems like AquaNet lives on in Paragon City 😉