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Try working retail around the holidays - all the xmas music on repeat will make you wanna gouge out your own ears! Seriously, though - maybe only have the events pop off once, at the top of the hour, instead...

Bio/Elec Tanker. That particular outfit is her offensive adaptation. I haven't done her defensive yet. I haven't even decided on a costume for her efficient adaptation, yet, either...

A few more of Eeleanor that I think turned out rather nicely:

I just told Gemini to create an 80s action figure with packaging, and provided it a screenshot of my character...

Eeleanor in a few different art styles...

I think this one turned out a lot better - Eeleanor as an early 2000s premium figure:

As did I, but I went for a more vintage look:

I went in a slightly different direction, but I hope it's something you can use... water girl01.costume

If that's one of the Resistance hairstyles, the second color does nothing, IIRC.

Yes, there is! At the character select screen, in the upper right, there's an icon that looks like a a pencil touching paper. It should say "Rename this character", (see below). Hope that help!

I picked up a used Ryzen 7 laptop on eBay for under $250, and it runs CoH quite nicely. If you're good with computers, and know what to look for or to look out for, then that's a solid choice, (check that seller has good reputation/ratings, etc). I could even run it semi-decently on my previous Ryzen 3 one, but I had to make a lot of compromises on graphical quality in that case. This is just an example. Please make sure to do your own due diligence: https://tinyurl.com/Ryzen-7-laptop-example Another note: You can add the -usetexenvcombine command line parameter to the Homecoming launcher to use a simpler rendering method for the game, to extend the life or up the performance a bit with your current laptop.

A few designs I've been tinkering with: "Absolute Bastion", "Scorch Lizard", and "Radium Roach"

Awesome! Still, it doesn't seem to be catching on, so keep up the good work!

If 1 boss is too squishy and 1 EB is too tough, why not just tweak things to have a boss and another boss who is their right-hand person, or maybe incorporate some sort of self rez or maybe the boss gets' tp'd away and you have to fight them a 2nd time...

OK, so start doing that and see how well it catches on; Put your proposal into action...

The problem isn't the sentiment, it's the enforcement, which turns what should be leisure time into another job or further drudgery. It isn't about whether we are OK with AFKers or not, it's to what extent you or I are willing to watch, call out, and take action against other players. As I stated previously in this thread, I am primarily concerned with my own enjoyment, and that of my in-game or RL friends, not whether generic faceless player X is contributing equally. If you want to start and run a league where you monitor all members for unequal participation, then that's on you...

I guess that also means bye-bye to any concept of offline play...

I suppose that's really what it comes down to. I have basically stuck with the same handful of games over the last few years, so for me, there'd be no point in subscribing to game pass, and since I also have no problem with waiting for a game to go on sale, or for them to release a "game of the year" or other such collected version with all the DLC, it's doubly a non-started, IMHO...

It stinks when a lot of people go afk, but if and when it gets to the point of bothering me too much, I'll just excuse myself and go elsewhere...

It's also possible they are the prestige enhancements, which afaik can only be discarded or replaced...

I would like to see the equipping, creation, and conversion sections viewable in their own windows so we don't have to constantly jump back & forth. Unless I missed it, how about being able to convert shards to threads as well? Maybe a list or tracker of the mats at the bottom of the conversion/creation windows/tabs?

If anything, CoH shows that gameplay is far more important than graphics, (not that CoH's graphics are bad - I quite like them - they're just not "next gen"), and, frankly, many recent games have come up short in that regard. Unless they can start pumping out some truly top-flight games, what's the point? I'm not holding Epic up as some epitome of games publishers, but they offer free games every week through their App, and you don't need any subscription or special hardware...

I wonder how difficult it would be to simply implement a strictly out of combat or only-affect-self power that creates a completely intangible, yet visible duplicate of your character at the moment it was used - so you pose yourself how you want, use the power, the duplicate is placed at your location, and you are then free to move about and take any pictures you want. The mirror tech already exists for illusion's phantom army, so it need only be applied to this temp power, and locked into the pose/emote you had applied when it was used, (which we also know NPCs can be directed to do via AE)...

Let me quote myself... Now stop tilting at windmills of your own imagining...