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  1. 5 hours ago, Rudra said:

    I do have a question. A couple actually. I know a few trans individuals and their ultimate goal is to be able to afford the operation to transition to their identified gender. So why not just have the character start as their identified gender and so avoid having to worry about Null altering your listed gender identity?

     

    *Maybe* an edge case, but I know of one character who... for whatever reason (something in the body type or costume parts, I really don't remember) has a ... I think it's male character, but uses the female body type. I don't know how common that is though, they're the only one I can think of... and I tend to stay on the RP server!

  2. Honestly, there's a lot that could be done to sort out and streamline the costume items.

     

    Flip side being, as I recall (especially with some items on live when they'd change) it'd break existing costumes in the tailor. Just because of how things are listed.

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  3. 9 hours ago, Oklahoman said:

     

    And, you know, here in the very forums we currently peruse.

     

     

    I was going to point that out, but the launcher's what they'd see trying to get into the game anyway, not the forums.

  4. 13 hours ago, SilentSpy said:

    (I don't recall the game referring to us with pronouns, but I may be wrong, but that could be addressed here as well!)

     

    It's done that for some time - run Dean... whatsisface's arc in Sharkshead and you'll even get some different dialog, I believe. Plus if you make AE stuff, you can have dialog refer to the player as him/her (as well as other variables - name, archetype I believe, etc.)

     

    So it's sprinkled through the game here and there.

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  5. 14 hours ago, DorkLord1978 said:

    Say I wanted to move my main character over to another server, but he's the founder of a SG.  What happens to the SG?

     

    Are there others in the SG?

     

    If they're the *only* character in the SG (say, it's something like their house or bar or something,) that SG is gone. It doesn't move with the character, and there's nobody left to maintain it. So if it's a base you're proud of and want to keep on that server - or for reference while you rebuild it on another server - make a level 1 whatever and /altinvite it to that SG.

     

    If there are other characters, another character will become the leader and you will no longer be in the SG. "Founder" doesn't matter.

  6. On 2/11/2024 at 11:10 AM, Psyonico said:

    Empathy would turn into a perma-Instant Healing ranged scrapper with ~25% defense to all with just itself and hasten... You don't see a problem with this?

     

    "Abused" (heh) heavily back on live with the Repeat Offenders Green Machine teams. All Empathy defenders buffing each other, you had a specific target for your ST buffs so everyone had them. I believe the term they had was "regen blasters." It was exceptionally effective, even on SOs.

     

    So, this comment isn't theoretical. Yes, if the buffs were allowed to affect yourself, they'd *have* to be nerfed. Having tradeoffs (Dark's heal and rezzes, as powerful as they can be, needing enemies, for instance) are not a bad thing. "Team only" is one of those.

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  7. On 2/9/2024 at 7:31 AM, WuTang said:

    By comparison though, WoW profits millions with millions of subscribers, CoH is a nonprofit with 10s of thousands of players. Just saying, no one is coming for CoH, so we can prob dial it down a bit. And those numbers is not me taking a shot at Homecoming, I have no ill feeling towards WoW, but since I found CoH, I've not played a second of it.

     

    You can guarantee no copyright holder of a superhero (or magic, cartoon, etc.) IP will *ever* come to COH and check things out? Ever?

     

    Besides, while not privy to what agreement was signed and all the details between here and NCSoft, I'd call it a safe bet that part of it involves running it much like live as far as stewardship, copyright, etc. goes - and the flip side of that is that a copyright holder has to take steps to defend their copyright. Doesn't matter if it's Marvel vs DC or Dark Horse vs tiny little MMO community. We don't want that sort of attention - and being able to show policing and enforcement does nothing but help us.

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  8. It *really* depends on what we're calling good or bad teams.

     

    There have been what some people would call "good" teams because they can clear the content, finish an ITF in 5 minutes killing everything... that's a boring team.

    There are the teams that just *cannot* work together, running a 5 hour Posi 1 and not learning from what's going wrong or trying to do anything different - that's a bad and frustrating team.

     

    Honestly, I'll be happy with a "competent and fun" team. Might wipe, might not, lots of joking and BSing and/or RPing while we finish up whatever we're doing.

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  9. 11 hours ago, cranebump said:

    Tsoo Faced (ID: 25649) by @Therra Arcson (author ID; board sig unk)

    A straight ahead arcane romp that puts you up against the Tsoo and Banished Pantheon (with a bit of Circle action thrown in). It’s your basic “things are not as they seem” story that focuses on (what else?) dangerous magic, a deadly ritual, and a boatload of everyone’s favorite speed/power-sucking Ink Men, TPing Storm Sorcerers, and your friendly neighborhood Shaman (accompanied by those gun-toting zombies). Clean writing, uses a in-game contact (Kung Bao of Skyway), with a couple of those huge, open graveyard maps. Great for mowing down mobs, if that’s your jam. A solid seal of approval from a speed-cratered Crane, whose fire tank sometimes ran at the speed of light (if light were an iceberg…who had taken an entire bottle of melatonin…washed down with an 4 bottles of gin). PLAY IF: You’re looking for a no frills scrap with a bit of mystery. (extra points for not-quite-your-typical finale). Solid, well-put together arc.

     

     

    That's me. That's also an old, old, old arc... as in, I made that when AE launched on live. (Yes, I have a *lot* of old AE stuff archived.) There were no frills to put in 😄 Glad you enjoyed.

  10. I'm not sure if that's intended or not. I certainly didn't check until now - you are SK'd up to 25, but as a level 1 that's not much help.

     

    My first inclination was "oh, wait, no, you're seeing that the helicopter/transport also goes to some other zones," but ... nope. Took a level 6 into BB.

     

    And yeah, while a level 1 just *isn't* getting a Shivan or Nuke on their own (.... watch someone temp-power it up and do so,) it doesn't stop them being on a team with someone who can take stuff out. Waiting for a set of Warburg nukes on an at-level Posi 1 now. Or DFB...

     

    ... yes, I'm now chuckling and plotting about getting nukes and shivans for a DFB and level-locking someone at 1 to do it.

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  11. I generally don't care about builds. *shrug* I slot as I level, or as I find something interesting. I may have a plan for something when I start, but it's more a theme than a build (like running an elec/elec blaster with that chance to stun in everything I can fit it in.)

     

    Others would probably look at my characters and say they're not "proper" or "optimized" or whatever, but.... *shrug* I don't care, as long as they do what I want and I'm having fun.

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  12. Well, it's not Win11 specific (in general,) as I've got it installed on multiple Win11 systems - both fresh and upgraded from 10.

     

    I know they have the safe-this-and-that... been a while since I told those to beat feet, though.

     

    Since you're sure you're not in S mode, go to Windows Settings > Apps > Advanced App Settings > Choose Where to get apps > Anywhere. (Make sure it's set to anywhere.)  That *might* be it.

     

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  13. I RP. Content's always fresh.

     

    As far as dealing strictly with what's in game? I have a variety of characters, so I try to take a variety of paths. About the only common thing I'll try to do is run magic-themed (not necessarily origin) characters through Croatoa. (Also part of why I don't do redside much. Always going to the same place in the same order, even if you're trying to skip around different contacts.)

     

    Once in a while I'll hit a bunch of MSRs and/or Hami raids, but that usually runs in streaks.

  14. On 1/21/2024 at 9:37 PM, lemming said:

    1) I said the exact issue with date.  Note that the code that came from SCORE only was what was at sunset.   Now that NCSoft is ok with HC existing, maybe they can release the old code. (If it even exists)

     

     

    There's zero reason for NC to have held on to the old code. I *believe* we were even told on live that some reversions to "how X was a few years/issues ago" wasn't possible because of this (not to mention everything else dependent on whatever changed at that point.)

     

    Besides, the code as it was was *probably* more under the care of Cryptic/Paragon than NCSoft. NC was just the distributor (basically,) taking care of billing, not advertising and hosting (in essence.) They'd have no reason to have the game code. (As opposed to, say, Blizzard and WOW, which both owns and develops the game and is its own "publisher.") If NC had control of it, we probably *wouldn't* have what we have right now.

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  15. On 1/21/2024 at 6:55 PM, Wise Anarchy said:

    1) My SG specifically wants to be a static that focuses on content up through the release of Issue 11 and not using anything from the P2W, allowing Ouroboros, and while I'm not sure when Fitness was made Inherent, I'm sure some people might like to go even further back.

     

    We had an SG a while back that was emulating, as close as possible, release/early issues. Including taking (but not using) pool powers to simulate using power picks to take the fitness pool and sticking to the old leveling restrictions (no travel power before 14, for instance.)  It's doable as is. Yes, you still get some boost from it, but nothing's making you slot/enhance it right away. You could, I suppose, even take a toggle power of some sort to burn some of that extra END.

     

    But it's doable "enough" right now, given all the other changes that have been implemented, both live and here. Rolling back or modifying for such a niche reason (and I say that as someone who played in that SG under those rules) ... just isn't realistic. Besides, how far back would you want to go? For instance, I *can't* play my electric/electric blaster like I did back in issue 3. Caps have changed, powers have changed - even ignoring the levels you can get them at now, Defiance exists (after multiple changes on live,) and I can't "toggle off" its effects, etc.

     

     

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