Greycat

I don't. About the only thing that "manages" it for me is the other people I RP with, because I want certain characters on for certain things. On the other hand, it also tends to lead to *other* characters being built. When I don't have something I'm making time to be somewhere for, I'll sometimes just pull a random character and get another level to several levels on them, or work on an AE or something.

Get into RP and doing what the character needs to be instead of being what the numbers demand. Play with other RPers. Also you don't have to run at max settings if you're trying to tell a *story* with the character, with what you pick, who you choose to (or not to) fight - even if you're not optimized for those groups. Yes, it means you might be throwing yourself (meta-intentionally) into situations where you're going to go down... which just makes it that much better when you walk out the other side and go "... woah. I survived that." Don't worry about "but someone else will have to carry the group." Nobody's "carrying" anything, and the people who worry so much about "who did the most damage" ... meh. Not into that, I'll second giving yourself other challenges that force you out of that comfort zone. On live, I'd done things like "one of every control set to 50," and they can play differently (even without major power changes) between a dom an 'troller. Or make yourself - say - "The Electricians" (not sure if they exist as a SG) and do a mix of everything that has electric powers. Be an electric blaster, sentinel, corrupter, dom, controller, tank, stalker, mastermind etc. To keep it going, have only one melee or one ranged be elec/elec and everything else needs to be paired with something else. Aside from just "keeping it fresh," it forces you into ATs you might not consider otherwise because they weren't "optimal" ... but you'll have fun with them, and learn the ins and outs of *that* part of the game.

Steel. Skyway has the troll raves.

It would be "no, more characters have more stories to tell, and that's the whole point of playing this for me." No way I could limit myself like that. If I had that limit, I'd have a hundred accounts with one character each to get around it.

The actual feature itself would have to be fixed first.

1. No, given how we're run. 2. No, they did that on live and not only was it reviled by the playerbase but it didn't go particularly well - I think we had a total of three ads (which were *everywhere,* it was obnoxious) and was eventually quietly dropped.

Yeah, but you get them through the "summer blockbuster" event... which is running year round (so should also really be renamed.) And there is only one there. Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing all four seasons represented. Heck, idea for a new, shifting contact. Do the "support" set, with regeneration and the like, as a (more fitting!) spring set or two, a set or two that help sustain (in some sense) as a summer set, a set or two that are probably control heavy (slowing things down/DoT/probably fire procs) for an autumn set or two...

I know, right? 😄

From tastesbetterfromscratch.com: How to make Chicken Cordon Bleu: Ingredients ▢ 8 thin slices ham ▢ 8 oz Swiss cheeses sliced or shredded ▢ 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts , about 2 pounds ▢ salt and pepper ▢ 3 cups corn flakes cereal , crushed (or substitute breadcrumbs) ▢ 6 Tablespoons butter , melted For the sauce: ▢ 1 cup mayonnaise ▢ 1-2 teaspoons yellow mustard , to taste Instructions Pat the chicken dry with paper towels. Use a sharp knife to cut each chicken breast in half horizontally to create two chicken breast halves. Place the chicken breast halves between two sheets of plastic wrap and use a meat mallet or rolling pin to pound them into thin and evenly (be careful not to pound so hard that the meat tears.). Top each pieces of chicken with a slice of ham and a ham handful of shredded cheese. Roll tightly, tucking the sides a little, and place on a new piece of plastic wrap. Wrap the chicken tightly in the plastic wrap, pinching the excess plastic on the sides to create a tootsie-roll shape and twisting them to create a firm chicken roll. Refrigerate the wrapped chicken bundles for at least 30-minutes or up to one day in advance. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Remove chicken from fridge, unwrap and season with salt and pepper. Add cornflakes to a food processor and pulse into fine crumbs. Add crumbs to a shallow dish or pie plate. Melt butter in a separate shallow dish. Dip the chicken bundles in melted butter, and then into the cornflake crumbs, pressing lightly to help the crumbs stick to the chicken. Transfer to a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake on the center oven rack for about 30 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through (160 degrees on a thermometer inserted into the chicken, not the filling.) Make the sauce by stirring the mayo and mustard together. Taste and add more mustard, as needed, to taste. There. Now there's something worth reading in this thread. Might even feed the troll!

Which, instead of necroing a four and a half (ish) year old post post, he could have done by ... logging in and seeing what activity's like, instead of causing the obvious "what are you talking about?" response from a years old post that's irrelevant now. Part of why posts should be *locked* after - say - several months to a year with no activity.

"Hire?" You're aware this is ... *volunteer,* right? And they're not making money to "hire" anyone? Frankly I'd rather they take time with development instead of throwing crap at the wall, seeing what sticks whether it looks good or works well or not, and having to roll back far more often when it breaks things.

You missed that this was first posted in 2019.

Congrats! This is awesome!

I just sort of associate that with some variants of the OS X UI....

1 - no. Renames are free, as are costumes before 10. 2 - depends on the character, but it's rare for me to completely give up on a character. 3 - Even on live, I kept the character. Powers get changed all the time, and sometimes it's just a character not "clicking" right away. 4 - I tend to go back unless their story's completely told... and even then I'll revisit on occasion.

Or just go to the Vault Reserve, which is in... pretty sure every non-hazard, non-pvp zone, or close to it.

Yep, sorting's been asked for. That said, you can always save your playerslot.txt file (under your homecoming folder/accounts/account name) and have them refer to that for sorting. Can also set it to read only, and since it's just text, you could manually rearrange them even offline. It is, granted, a bit of a hassle.

That's the "jousting" mentioned earlier, or at least one form of it. Like dealing with... blah, whatsisface, moment? in Jenny Adair's TF. Queue attack, run, jump past him, never gets a shot off, never gets to use his big AOE heal.

Nope. It was a COH thing.

I want to say "no, it's picked by some algorithm that looks at your name and assigns a value based on what's in there," but that's going off of semi rusty memory.

Actually.... at one point it was possible to be in one with basically a full team. HOWEVER. XP earned by one character *would be split 8 ways* in that scenario. No, I'm not sure how any of them having 2xp running would affect it (and would likely just break things further.) The devs were fully aware of "oh, one person can PL with another benefitting."

Leveling pacts were pretty much always buggy, randomly broke and were generally problematic. I don't recall sidekicking having anything to do with it.

Just knock them down, up, or back or get a control on them. Knocking back is nice - takes them longer to get back to where they are standing up and activating it (during which they can have that sliver of life that makes them MOG taken away.)

At: A desk in the living room Music: Typically only if (A) I'm DJing for friends or (B) it's the Cape's thursday night show w/One Hit Wonder (which I've also been covering for friends when she's sick. Thursday night is sort of our group chill.) Game sounds: Speakers. With others: Live alone, wife's been dead a few years so if someone else were physically here it'd be weird for me to just start playing. Time: Varies. Sometimes just hop in for a bit, sometimes it'll be a few hours. As for where? ... (in COH, yes, shifts between red and blue, the RAM has red, ,blue and gold... sorta visible.)

This would by why /altinvite exists. Don't even need two accounts for convenience any more.