EmperorSteele

Do you have Ever, Torch, Indom and Reunion spreadsheets, as well? Sorry, low hanging fruit there =)

I think one way of rectifying this is to find a text file in your CoH directory called "playerslots.txt" and delete it. Otherwise, maybe the character is on another shard, or you deleted it and forgot?

So instead of "It's Nerf or nothing", it's "Nerf, then nothing!" =P

I THINK they mean "not actually being invisible to the player". But otherwise yes i agree being 93.8% transparent is about as minimal fx as one can get!

I'm confused, do you mean the mission on the boat? You know she doesn't "fly all over the place", right? She has three specific spots she flies to, predictably at 75/50/25% heath (or tries to, anyway, mezzes and debuffs can muck her up). Two of those times will have her fly through an ambush that intercepts the players. It's not that much of a challenge =)

The issue with porting ANYTHING from NPCs is editing it to fit the player models... and in the case of male characters, porting the piece to work on the Huge bodytype, as well. So that's twice the work right there.

My thoughts were similair to @Scarlet Shocker; lose most of the warwalls, make most of the city a "single zone". Some areas would still be walled off for security purposes, like Eden/The Hive. Though I don't know why folks would remove PvP, unless this new version of CoH also does NOT have Villains. While the constraints needed to make PvP fair would horribly impact PvE performance, I belive the idea that opposite player factions would never come into conflict is asinine at best. So what, you have no problem beating up Skulls and Hellions, but the moment you come across a serial Thief/Arsonist/Saboteur with delusions of grandeur and a nifty costume, suddenly you don't feel like doing your job anymore? Because you might lose? Pfft, some Hero! So yeah, no PvP is fine, but then no Player-Villains, either. Which probably wouldn't be a huge loss, since most of the time we're all teaming up anyway.

Yes and no. On one hand, there IS a way to replace music and sound effects in the tools and utilities section of the forums (on mobile and too lazy to link). You tell your base to play "Track01", and have a file somehwere in your CoH directory for, I dunno, the My Little Pony theme, and name THAT "Track1", and that should work. On the OTHER hand, only YOU would hear the replaced song. Any visitors or SG mates would hear the default "Track1". Or, if they too have replaced sounds and effects, they would hear whatever they have for "Track1".

So, fun fact, you can change your costume while summoning, and the phantoms summoned after you change will take on your new look! Sadly, we can only change costumes every 10 seconds (or close to that) so not exactly what you had in mind =(

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Cap au Diable, the base portal is in the university courtyard. Maybe Croatoa as well, but I l'm not 100% sure offhand.

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I have an Elec/SR Stalker for this sorta concept. The baddies never see you coming, you can use Lightning Rod to instantly pop into a group of foes, and... well, that's about it. I know that a long wind-up for Assasin Strike doesn't exactly scream "speed", but I just pretend that time is in slo-mo like when Quicksilver is doing his thing in the X-Men movies. He's only level 20-or-30-something, but pretty fun, for the most part!

While on one hand, i hate it when I see people with the same powers as me, otoh I feel the need to advocated for Mind control here. Let me put it this way: Mass Hypnosis. Cast that, put the whole group to sleep, then take your time getting your siphon speed/siphon power/fulcrum shift in nearly complete safety. Then follow up with Terrify, then either Mass Comedy ot Total Domination to get the group back under control. Granted, this doesn't work well in groups, and I beleive corrs/fenders get Mass Hyp if they take the Psi APP, but it's a strat that works well enough for me =)

My experience playing MMs has been... not great. However, between the buffs they recently got and the hands off approach to getting the most out of the auto attacks, I'm heavilly leaning in that direction, thanks to the responses in this thread! I'll try to remember to let y'all know how it goes!

I mean, I kinda feel the same way... but otoh I like knowing that the proc has gone off and is working. Though I'd prefer an indicator more like Time Manipulation's Time Stop and not a distinctively elemental one. As someone who mains a Mind and Illu, the electric cage is tolerable, but I feel like I'd have a harder time with proc visuals if they were a stone cage or an ice block.

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I mean, we can already use theads to buy super inspirations, which I think is a good use for them. The problem there, though, is that the content where they'd be the most useful (Hard Mode), ya can't use 'em! Also, there comes a point when you have hundreds of super insps in your e-mail and base and stored in AH and you STILL have a ton of theads... I know the idea of crafting the P2W boosts was fielded and argued against, but I'll +1 that. It would be nice if the player could decide which of thier currencies to spend. It makes sense from a thematic perspective, too. The whole idea of threads is how much you've impressed The Well... impress it enough, you get moar power. A temporary boost isn't completely out of line. Either that, or a new set of temp boosts/temp powers so that the original inf sink is maintained. The overall idea is that things bought with threads should probably be temporary. Enhancements and such are one and done, but temp boosts/inspirations you have to keep restocking (ideally, anyway. I already pointed out how this doesn't always happen).

Hmm... For Sentinel or Blaster, take Hover, and use it to stay out of melee range of your foes. If you take Energy blast, position yourself directly above enemies so that when you hit them, they get knocked back straight down instead of flying all over. They take some time to get back up, which is less time they will spend shooting at you. Which means you take less damage. If you're brave, you can dip into melee range for a moment then fly back up; this will sometimes set the AI to prefer melee attacks and they'll forget to shoot you for a few moments, buying you time to attack without taking fire yourself. Basically, just try some strategy instead of Leeroying into the mobs =)

That's the downside of any buff-heavy support set. Emp, Pain, FF, Fire to a lesser extent... you can't use the best powers on yourself. On the flip side, TA is useful to you all the time... until you need to heal or you run out of end or that -15% acc just isnt cutting it for keeping you from gettining hit =)

I think Enter is actually 4 characters, 8 if you have a space between paragraphs. It's in html, so each line break would be presented internally as [Br], but with pointy brackets instead of square ones. So yeah, you make your bio to the exact count, exit out, go back in and look, and whoopsie, the last couple words are missing!

...but you just posted. You're still participating Hey look, a haiku!

So occasionally when I play, I'll load in a second account and team with my FF/Psi defender... just for shits and giggles mostly; but some days, I want to do a TF but don't feel like PuGing (even though it'll take me twice as long... bit I technically get twice the rewards, so...). Pop some bubbles, set follow and an auto attack (proc'd out Dominate) and I'm good to go. But I've been starting to wonder if I could be doing something better here? Like, instead of /Psi, what about sonic or rad for the debuffs on their attacks? What about a Corr for more damage on each attack? Heck, maybe another Support set might be better? Hell, maybe have a pocket TANK instead to hold agro while I melt face and don't need shields? So, with the basic understanding that this alt character is supposed to be "Fire and Forget", what would you all reccomend?

So, basically what you're saying is that it's Mender Silos' fault. Lot of that going around.

I think the piece count thing is to give smaller builders an even shot at winning. Because, let's be honest, even though "more" or "bigger" isn't always better, think about all the bases you've seen, either in screen caps, or having visited them. The bigger, more complicated bases are -usually- the visually more impressive ones. If there's a small base that you fondly recall in spite of that general trend, well, that's what makes that smaller base exceptional. I mean, look at the Cosmic Council base on Excel, or the Black Friday club or RATS hideout on Everlasting, or Dacy's Haunted House... and then tell me that those can be improved by taking out half the pieces, or the builders having spent half the time making them. Sure, in some cases builders are just selecting max plot size and filling all the space with surperfulous details, but it should be easy for the judges to differentiate between everything being placed with purpose, and everything being thrown all over just to fill space.