HairyLou

I've been trying to make a bind or macro to use one of the base teleport power to insta-travel to my SG base without clicking it. One-click base portin'! I've tried things like the one below (and the other prestige/day job powers) but it seems the different base teleportation powers doesn't "work" like other powexec-commands? Do they just have really convoluted unknown names? I mean they do exist on the popmeny that we know as Fast Travel so they should be able to be added to macros and binds? If I understand things correct I should also change the order of them because things execute backwards? But in the log it first says the power doesn't exist, then that it can't use the passcode without (being close to) a portal /macro_image "Veteran_TeleportBase" "Base Tp" "Supergroup_Portal$$Enterbasefrompasscode PASSCODE-196" Edit: I got this working: /macro_image "Veteran_TeleportBase" "Base Tp" "Powexec_location Me Monitor Duty Teleporter$$Enterbasefrompasscode PASSCODE-196" but I have to double click the macro. Still beats moving the mouse about or having a second macro/bind. Seems I was too eager to put under scores in the powers? Also works for powers that doesn't spawn a portal: /macro_image "Veteran_TeleportBase" "Base Tp" "Powexec_name Base Transporter$$Enterbasefrompasscode PASSCODE-12531"

I've been banging my head against a wall trying to set up a macro that activates one of the base powers, but it seems there's no pow_exec for them? At first I though it would be as easy as /macro_image "Veteran_TeleportBase" "Base Tp" "Supergroup_Portal$$Enterbasefrompasscode PASSCODE-196" ...But of course it wasn't. It actually worked the first time around, so someone probably just activated a portal near me and I was so happy. The whole double/tripple click to get to the base; activating one of the base tp powers (and clicking the portal) then having to click on the sg-base every damn time is really annoying for me for some reason. Given that the Fast Travel meny is a popmenu with those powers there has to be a way to activate them? It would be so nice to have a couple of those in a tray for instant one-click base tp. Edit: I got this little one to work, but have to double click the macro. Still beats anything else I've seen: /macro_image "Veteran_TeleportBase" "Base Tp" "Powexec_location Me Monitor Duty Teleporter$$Enterbasefrompasscode PASSCODE-196" Also works for powers that doesn't spawn a portal: /macro_image "Veteran_TeleportBase" "Base Tp" "Powexec_name Base Transporter$$Enterbasefrompasscode PASSCODE-12531"

Has anyone done an updated version of "best of" list for this? This is how I've done it, but there's room for improvement. L1-14: Officer Wincott vs the Trolls : Probably better redside or Praetorian L15-19: Deadlock's personal story (won't work once they change things, but now it's great) L20-24: The Chameleon Suit (Use base power to get back, crystal in the base, out through the portal and you won't have to travel for round 2+. Guessing this won't work after the planned changes.) L25-29: A Madman's Council (while still very easy, there has to be a better one?) L30-34: Smoke and Mirrors (No travel, great, and with stealth it's very fast) L35-39: ??? Haven't done this yet. Not sure what to do really. L40-49: The Hydra Dimension (even nerfed you still kill everything on the 2 maps fast, but with the moved portal in Bricks there's some running involved) L50: The Center's personal story (won't work once they change things) I'm currently running through all blueside arcs, so I got the praetorian tourist anyway.

When you select that, all your enhancements are temporarily turned off untill you either compplete the story arc or abort the Ouroboros "task force". Same with inspirations, it's greyed out until you're done. So you don't have to do anything, you're just "naturally" weakened. It can be something of a shock if you're used to you're 50 slotted with a bunch of sets.

I "honestly" expected an egg hunt with a new power slot for every egg found today.

Myeah, ended up giving up totally and started playing on another keyboard. Problem was, even with remapping, I could not use two keys at the same time, so no cirkle strafing etc. Still useful to have it remapped for the odd times I do play on a computer with the keyboard and forget it doesn't work. 🤣

I remember how my SG used to run pvp zone bash-up's where we just lined ourselfs up, two accounts, for people to beat so they could get the arena pet. (And the pvp badges.) It was not.. unpopular. 🤣

Is there a list of rewards for badges somewhere, not counting the accolades? Like: Rewards for day jobs (Temp powers etc) Rewards for invention badges (more space etc) XP (Exploration badges, any other badges?) Anything else I don't really remember since live?

Ah, heck everything really deals a little damage? Turns out Time Crawl does a wee little damage too. At level 6 I'm already up to 2.036 points of damage dealt even if none has registered on the "damage inflicted". I have to admit I'm getting a wee bit depressed about this.

Yes, I'll probably have to go that route sooner or later, or but MSR isn't very xp profitable though. For now, I'm going for all the badges I can get that gives xp just to see how far that takes me.... Some interesting notes: Level 2-3: Exploration badge 10 XP Level 4: 20 XP That's quite a jump between 3 and 4, weird level 3 doesn't give 15 XP. History badges: No XP. Still getting them though. 😁 I guess I need to find out what badges does give xp so I don't waste time on the ones that doesn't. So far I've done: Regular zones: Atlas, Kings, Steel Hazard: Faultline, Perez, Hollows, echo DA, echa Galaxy, Boomtown and Crey's folly. ...and that barely got me to level 4. Edit: Finally made it to level 5 after doing Skyway as well. Twinshot first mission, let them fight, not much XP for two dudes. Technically due to the story arc it's really cosplay/sparring even if we're supposed to not know it, so I've still been a good boy, no thugs where harmed making this character. 🤣with 20 xp per exp badge and 1.000 xp to go it's quite obvious even with every badge there is, including redside, that won't take me very far. I'll have a nice stack of merits, but not much xp. Soooo.... Any good tips of missions I can do peacefully on the way?

...Oh, and most non-combat missions, like architect entertainment tour, doesn't give any xp. Damn... I made a fool of myself, not being able to find the exp badge just inside city hall. Then I realised not all badges gives XP. I got two badges when I finished Atlas Park explorer badges, but only got the five merits, no xp. 10 xp per badge at level 2, so that's 22 badges to get just to get to level three... Anyway, even if I of course make up my own rules: Is it cheating if I have someone mentor me while i get the badges in high level zones? I tried out Twinshots first missions with a fire/fire blapper today, and while I can let the other NPC heroes do the fighting successfully, they're so bugged it's a pain and the xp is very random. Sometimes I don't get any att all when Twinshot "arrests" an arachnos liutenant, other times I seem to get xp even when not fighting at all. (I suppose I might have to initiate fighting to make sure I get some.) I technically sort of still see this as a light version of pacifism, like military priests and doctors. I have to give myself some slack, because this is pretty much an impossible task even from the start. I'm not even sure I'll get to level 5 by getting the badges that are possible to get. Edit: If anyone else tries this, remember to level up as soon as you level up. I took another 7 exploration badges, earning just 10 xp when I leveled up. Given that it's just a base tp away nowadays that was... golly good gosh, oh the pain and suffering, stupid! Level three barely after all badges in Atlas, Kings and Steel...

Some lessons learned from todays testing on a ice/time troller: Damage IS dealt in the tutorial. At first I didn't think so since no badge tracker appeared, so I started working on Isolator and suddenly I had dome more than a thousand points of damage. I made a new character (psi/time troller) and turned on damage tracking. Every attack against the infected does indeed do 10-15 points of damage. Apparently not enough to start the badge tracker if you just complete the tutorial. I guess I should try skipping the tutorial or doing it together with someone, letting them dish out the clobbering. One way or another I obviously need to get some damage done and I have a faint memory of it not working for others to do it for me (skipping tutorial doing just buffing in a team some months ago does ring a bell). That's enough for me to gain 10 xp for my first expolration badge, with another 210 points needed for level 3. I'll run out of exploration badges quickly. 🤣 I could make a lot of inventions for the invention badges I suppose. Would cost a lot of money even if I run TFs on other alts for recipes and materials. I can skip a whole lot of missions as time goes by, by using auto complete. It is a bit like cheating though, but I do think that would end up being sort of necessary sooner or later. I've started scouring Ouroboros for possible missions/arcs but so far I haven't found any that doesn't contain at least some minor degree of fighting. Gonna look through the thread about Ouroboros badges though, since that would be another set of possible badges to add some minor xp. Why psi/time? Well, it's a set I haven't done before. I haven't really done an empath since way back in early pre-IO days, but I don't think people realise how much empaths do bring to the table early on when everyone is still having end problems. Then again, not many know anything about time either, except that it's almost as annoying as sonic blasts. 😜 (If I stepped on any toes, I'm sorry, didn't mean that as serious as you thought.) I do think Time is the best secondary at the moment for some reason, still not sure about primary, not that I'll take a whole lot of them. This will be... complicated... I might have to go with a somewhat more generous "I don't do more damage than necessary", the Pater Familias road (what would the good father do? Example: I might have to hurt you a little to stop you from hurting yourself or others.)

Wow! I didn't really expect this (or any) kind of response. Thanks all, you've made me think way more about this than i.. um.. though... My initial idea was to give myself a challenge, doable but complicated, I though: To walk through the game 1-50 without getting a single point in my "damage done" badge counter. I didn't concern myself too much really about the ethical implications since I don't really do RP. I do find that kind of discussion interesting both from a game/challenge perspective and in actual real life, but I was mostly thinking of "Is it cheating" in this context. Of course in the end that is up to me, but there's always going to be people arguing that I "cheated" for all sorts of reason (Oh, he used 2xXP, that's cheating, Oh, he use base teleportation, cheater!). While dark or kin would definitely be more popular in teams because they "feel" more useful (my main kin will always have a team even with people sporting perma-hasten), I felt that an Empath would "feel" right (and also not something I've really played even if my main back in the days where all healers (thermal bad guys). Having such a power set and a proper name to go with it would clearly signal even from the start that this is not a damage dealer. Teams wouldn't really matter much since I've got supportive people that has no understanding whatsoever why anyone would do such a stupid and pointless thing. But they're supportive! 🤣 I'll have to look in to the tutorial, but I'm pretty sure the damage does count in there too. I recently realised I've sort of tried this before: I went to pick up all exp badges to "level up without fighting" once, and never checked my reward window until I was through 3-4 zones and started to wonder why I never levelled up. (I ended up deleting that char and didn't play again for two weeks.) I had completely blocked that out of my memory. The question is, does it even work if someone else does the damage or do I personally have to deal some damage before I start making xp on the "side stuff". The first challenge for me is basically to find out how far I can get by just getting all exp badges, plaques etc I can get. The next challenge is to find out how many/which missions can be done without any voilence at all (completely ghostable). Can I do them +4/8 with stealth/celerity? Can I get far enough to start using the crystal and repeat some ad nauseum? To be honest I don't really expect the solo experience to last very long but want to go as far as possible despite the horrendous 30-40 gap. When all else fails, be a support(ive) character that advocates peaceful solutions in huge teams that don't listen to me and "defeat" every huge mob they come across. 😇 As several of you pointed out, most teams seem to be ok with people as long as they share the danger and don't hug the door even if they don't "see" people doing a lot. My recent run as a debuffer corr does contain a lot of nuking, but most of the run people have seen me make enemies shine in various bright colours while I mostly stand still, preserving my rare, precious endurance that can't really cope with all the toggles. I'm pretty sure half of them don't understand what I bring to a big team since mobs go down in 1-2 seconds and my toggles take longer than that to set up. Still not ever seen anyone complain. That single AM every now and then is usually enough to for people to say "Oh, he contributes!". That is what makes me come back over and over again, the friendly, non-elitist community that in my experience makes this game completely unique from any other MMO I've tried.

Hmm, been running around debuffing with a corr for the last few days. Didn't thing fear, confuse, sleep did any damage at all. I know most holds (all?) and immob do damage as well. But damn, so you HAVE to do some damage before you even start making xp out of exp badges. Well, then it's already failed even before I started. I didn't really mind a team doing a bunch of damage as long as my "damage done" doesn't go up. I guess I could have someone do the initial seal clobbering for me and then go for the exp badges etc? That still doesn't take you very far though. Don't mind that it takes time generally, but I do opt for efficiency. Looks like I'll have to go back to the drawing board.

Every summer/vacation needs a new project. I'm thinking about going non-violent in CoH this summer, to level up a character without doing any damage at all on the way, but I do require some input: Basic premise: Don't earn a single "damage dealt" point up until level 50 Do you think using Confuse to let them kill each other is cheating? How about playing in teams that do damage but I still only do holds, immobilize etc and healing? I don't really see a way of going all the way to 50 without that. Archetype and build? Right now I'm thinking ice/empath controller. Ice slick etc will help me get away without dealing damage. Then again, Mind control with the confuse could be useful if we don't think of that as cheating. Would you suggest any other AT/powersets? First bunch of levels isn't too hard, all exp badges and plaques with double xp on. After that there is single missions and story arcs with more role playing elements, but most of them do end with some combat. Even glowie mission often require killing, (cough), defeating and arresting everything in the last room. So, any tips on the way up, any good missions/arcs?