Greycat

Nope, I do not have them enabled. I've verified that. Never have.

Because not all TFs have stories that are told in one zone.

Aside from possibly dealing with some power changes, I'd say perfectly playable. There's nothing so massively changed that a (say) issue 4 character with SOs couldn't play through the game. No, they wouldn't be joining multi-star hardmode TFs, but there's nothing that would make it particularly difficult to play. Now, if they were used to dumpster diving with a zone full of mobs, they'd find the play*style* had changed, sure. But playability itself? As someone who (a) had a character who still had original stamina in a build on live at the end and (b) has played "emulate early issues" (TO/DO/SO only, adhere to original limits for when you could pick - say - travel powers, pick some throwaway powers to emulate taking the Fitness pool at the proper levels) - didn't really have any issues playing.

...except that's rarely true.

If you have character *builds* (like mids files,) you can probably use them as a guide - not sure how much the current Mids would like the old file versions. But as others have said. Characters themselves? No.

... and this reply was needed roughly *three and a half years after the last post* why?

Shards need to go away, frankly. It "made sense" (from a "keep people paying to play this") perspective on live - one currency for Alpha, a different one for Lore/Destiny/Judgement/Interface, etc, but here, no. As far as not seeing the recipe? Scroll down when looking at Alpha - and *only* Alpha - abilities, and you'll see things made with other components (Nictus fragment, Gr'ai matter, etc.) These are created with Shards. They'll be in your create tab. If you're already slotted up on Alpha and have everything you want from there, just convert to threads. You can do a 10 for 10 once a day (with a 1 million inf fee, IIRC) or 10 shards for 5 threads the rest of the time - or just let them keep building up. I have characters with hundreds because I can't be bothered with the useless things.

Honestly, my issue with it has never been range. It's wasting it when someone's AFK or otherwise not accepting it - i really wish there were a way to set it up to auto-recharge (or get a *massive* recharge boost) if not accepted.

Because is not borscht.

I *want* to say this was looked into on live and broke things. Not going to absolutely say it 100% though, going from rusty memory.

I had to double check on something... it does just search on "rating," not "My rating," which you could otherwise use instead. So... yeah, that or some other bookmark of some sort would be handy.

And yet people have to *do something* to see that, as opposed to having it just openly displayed, is the way it is now. STO and the others have *other* reasons for showing the chat handle - including duplicated names, something else that there's a distinct want/not want here. (I also never said it's the only reason - but it could be one of the deciding factors for some.) Right now, there's no particularly compelling reason to have that showing. The idea's asking for a change that would be forced on people one way or another if it went through (yes, like any other change to the game.) But instead of just changing, say, how a power looks, it's linking to something that could well be tied to their actual identity... for what? (People do, after all, often use the same handles through other games and other media.)

It's ... one fast recharging click. Or two. It's even AOE now. Which, mind you, means as a buffer I can't skip the people who don't want it or need it. And yes, I've had people complain - only thing they can do is get out of range. And I certainly wouldn't want to switch the cast and effect range. I do *not* want a squishy buffer getting closer to the enemies. Honestly, if someone else is running off doing their own thing, their safety is on them. If they run out of range and die? Then they should be staying with the team.

While I don't mind the thought of having more reason to visit up there, there *are* also (a) DE monsters (not GMs) and (b) at least one bit of an easter egg if you look around a bit more up there... don't think it's on the map, actually. 😉

Not sure if that's still in the game assets. Had to go back and double check if you were just missing seeing an option, and I don't see it. If it's available? *shrug* Sure. More options.

Wanna try again champ? I've put quite a bit out there, live and here. "Let's try to broad-brush everyone who doesn't like an idea I do" isn't a good look. Brush that wide, you might slap yourself in the face with it. Don't do it. Yes, that includes your signature.

And I'm sure some of the people here don't play STO don't because of it. "Because that's how it works over there" isn't much of an argument. And frankly, you don't need to understand - and I'm not being snarky (or @Snarky ) about that. I think I'd mentioned elsewhere, I don't understand why people get so wound up over not seeing their character in the middle of a fight (with powers, etc going off everywhere anyway) but... *shrug* doesn't hurt me, doesn't hurt the game, makes them happy, sure.

I don't generally mind. THe only time it really gets to be "a lot" is in - say - an MSR or an invasion, and I have bigger things to worry about at that point. Honestly I've never really gotten the "I can't see my character" thing... outside of a mission or when you're not fighting? Sure. Middle of a fight? What, you want to make sure you're a pretty corpse? But... *shrug* no skin off my nose.

If it's related to the thread, otherwise, just create a new one 🙂

And what if they don't want *others* to see their global by default? (I don't care, I wouldn't use it, but there may well be that aspect of it for some.)

I don't enable notifications for anything pretty much, yet every few times I hop on the forum I get some sort of prompt to enable push notifications. I've said no already. If I wanted them, I'd turn them on. I don't want them, I don't want to know they exist, ever. Is there some way to perma-disable this?

This is why you can add stars to the player notes. No, you can't see it in chat, but if you want to flag someone (good or bad) so you can see if you're teamed with them again or in the same local area, you can do it.

Yeah, other than the sash (females get the carrier sash, which was deemed close enough,) there are no held pieces. The tights and fire stripe pattern are generally available, the eye glow is an aura, most everything else is a power.

"All we need." 😉

There are sub-50 mission doors around that edge of Portal Corp (typically cave entrances around the outside,) so bumping them to 50 probably would *not* be a good idea, actually.