Now it is.
Prior to the player fast travel improvements in 2012, MAYBE it was solo-able.
It was just too much kick in the balls to bother. As the time investment was just out of whack.
Also, the cleanup of the mission text has SERIOUSLY streamlined the game for those going after badges and reward-bearing mission chains.
So you aren't stuck having to do EVERY LAST MISSION the contact could provide you to make sure you get the rewards.
Anything in a badge/reward mission has the header in blue.
Sorry, but I'm going to continue to disagree here.
We still have TOs, and DOs. And the game is still, primarily balanced around SOs.
As such, IMNSHO, excising the median from the game would be...well...DUMB.
Can I AFFORD nicer build loadouts?
Sure!
Do I want to twink EVERY LAST BUILD in my roster?
Sure!
Is it SMART for me to do that? HECK THE FRAK NO!
If someone takes your kid and shows them pictures of dead puppies, is that okay?
There are certain protocols for doing social/psych experiments on real humans
Twixt basically violated pretty much ALL those protocols. https://www.nola.com/news/city-of-heroes-character-twixt-becomes-games-most-hated-outcast-courtesy-of-loyola-professor/article_9c0d36ba-107a-53ba-aee9-579cf7b71fb4.html
Some of these things are, likely, because this is a kinda-sorta-almost-but-not-quite-actually-released Bethesda title.
So a lot of the behavior from this game are highly anomalous.
And we're likely to see better, more dependable performance and image quality metrics down the road as CPU and GPU optimizations work their way into the pipeline...
Through snow, uphill, BOTH WAYS!
And if you complained about it, someone would trot out and tell you about how they once killed Hamidon, solo, with nothing but a loose leaf notebook!
It's not really in a genre I care about.
Also, it's built in such a way that it's more "technology testbed". I've never really been about games that could make a $4000 system feel like a half-dead P3 800 and an overheated Voodoo1.
If you enjoy this sort of thing?
Knock yourself out!