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"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.

I have a ton of alts and multiple accounts (RP reasons.) I have no idea. 😄

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.

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.

Bobcat is. Studio 54. Praetor Duncan being in a bar? That was part of the comic books.

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.

No, you can't make me.

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.

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.

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.

You're already getting an extra reward - extra INF (assuming you're not running a 2xp booster, which gives XP instead of INF,) extra XP, extra salvage and other drops, and if the mobs are ones with defeat progress, more progress towards those badges. And even more "no" towards "n33d my l337 sh1n3y" restrictions.

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.

Yes.

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.

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.

No. GMs are just boring bags of hitpoints people take down in a minute for some merits. Sometimes they wait for a team. There's nothing interesting about them.

Prestige can go die in a fire. Any and all references to it should be removed.

There's nothing left of that horse to beat. Even the ground it was on has long since filled in with water and become a nice little lake.

Swear people don't know how to use sleeps with all the "worst in the game" talk. They're damn useful. Yes, even if damage breaks a sleep right away, when the sleep htis (the current issue, with it not taking effect) knocks off some otherwise problematic powers/armors. And they do *not* get to turn them back on right away. Sleep is often a notable weakness for enemies, even before it was autohiit. Though, yes, I can see the argument for swapping with the hold as the T2 for early containment setup for controllers. I don't think it particularly needs "more" added to it - I mean, it's autohit. Took a level 1 dom in to Brickstown and... 100% hit rate on stuff 30+ levels over me. Granted, it had little to no effect (especially with the sleep not taking hold - which it looks like is known, after all,) but - autohit, knocks off armors/-tohit powers/toggles with a momentary sleep (once fixed,) takes ranged and sleep sets... even a non-"build" user like me is thinking "... so what procs can this take, and how many, and how silly abusable will this be?"

Was working fine the other night on Everlasting. Which server are you on? Though you shouldn't have to go to a central point. Go anywhere that isn't sheltered (IE, not under a building eave, overpass, etc.) and they should start teleporting right by you. Sometimes slowly, but they'll do it.

By default, no thanks As an option at character creation? Sure.

See "Why would SuperGuy just ignore Villaindude running around?" Some of us *do* care about that sort of thing.

I don't think this would really do anything other than turn redside into farmside. Especially for those of us who just don't find it enjoyable for all the reasons listed. AE's farming is more a question... yes, of rewards, since inf/drops/optimized builds and farms... but of people having seen all the content and/or coming from places that have the "the game begins at max level" mentality, or just wanting to handle everything at max power versus "i have two slots in this power and one SO." Doing some sort of "redside XP boost" doesn't mean people will be playing redside, or enjoy redside. They'll see the gull in Pocket D and get farmed up, just like they do when they want the patron pool powers - hop over, get what they need, hop back. Those are tourists, not redsiders.

And? If you're playing a single character, that's it, then you can run every TF - on hard mode - and have *all* the rewards concentrated on *one* character. MSRs? Every V-merit (and thus Reward merit) gets concentrated on ONE character. TFs? Concentrated. Every GM kill? One character gets the merits. Sounds like it's already being "rewarded" to me... one event being potentially farmed doesn't really offset the rest of the year, content, etc.