[increase the enhancement slots]

I feel that the game is already quite forgiving with regards to enhancement slotting.  Giving us even more enhancement slots would, IMO, further reduce the weight of having to decide which powers to slot and when.

[Assassination has a better chance to crit than scrapper inherent?]

So in looking at this page on AT inherents, am I correct in reading that stalkers actually have a better chance, (except vs EBs or AVs while solo), to land a crit than scrappers?  Can anyone please shed some light on this.  Thank you very much!

[Help with color]

4 minutes ago, Smoke Ring said:

Yours Icon window looks so much different then mine?

That's just an old image I pulled off the Internet.  The color window is the relevant part, and it should still be the same, though.

[Help, new player, never played before.]

On 6/22/2019 at 3:14 AM, Niizzy said:

 

But I'm playing a "Paladin Knight" type of character. I didn't found anything that would look good on her, so she just runs around on the streets haha. She came from another dimension, so she isn't really used to how things works on Paragon City, but she was rewarded with a strange aparatus that let you fly around when helping a detective stop a bank heist though, and she is learning how to pilot it by trial and error. He called it a "jet pack". While she has a little of divine protection (fire armor), she can't use powerful magic to fly around or teleport.

 

Thats her:

 

Also, thanks again for everyone welcoming and trying to help! You guys are awesome!

But I bet those boots with the nifty little wings on them could house a minor enchantment, which allows her to run around a super-human speeds!  You could also just slot up swift, hurdle, and perhaps combat jumping, to simulate a "natural" travel power.  Maybe her home dimension has higher gravity, so here on earth's lower relative gravity, she could super jump.

[Help with color]

In the upper or lower right of the color window, there's a circle that's practically like the one in your pictures, (I'd say either rightmost column, 2nd from the top or last column, 1st or 2nd to last row)...

 

For reference:

[Archery/Arrow?]

So I've been trying out many new builds when I noticed that there's an archery secondary for blasters.  Has anyone tried this?  It seems to be a modified version of trick arrow, with some fairly interesting buffs/toggles added.  I'd love to hear what someone more experienced has to say.  Thank you!

[How to earn Inf for your lvl 15 DOs and 25 common IOs]

I just want to thank you for posting this guide.  I'm a semi-experienced returning player, and this method will not only allow me to quickly try out various builds, but also fund them.  Thanks!

[Questions on setting up pet command macros (No, I don't want to use keybinds).]

Perhaps my playstyle is atypical, but I basically only use 3 binds/combinations of commands:

 

1. follow defensive

2. attack aggressive

3. goto passive

 

I could see having follow passive included in the list, if you're traveling fairly long distance across a zone and don't want your pets to attack anything, but that's about it.  I suppose a lot depends upon just how finely you want to control your pets and/or if you want to divide them up for some reason, but in normal play I just use the "attack aggressive" to sic them on one target at a time... 

[I can no longer alt-tab to other programs....]

On 7/30/2019 at 9:33 AM, Thorazine said:

...unsure what happened, any suggestions or thoughts?  Help is appreciated!

Are you able to window key + D to drop to the desktop?

[Bolero for men and Occult collar & cape for women]

9 hours ago, Sniktch said:

The problem with the bolero at least is it isn't just the 'jacket, cape, ruff' - it's the entire torso.  The back of the jacket is the back of the character model; whatever chest you pick actually doesn't have a rear-piece, so the female torso geometry is baked into the piece.  To port to males would require scratch-building a male Bolero torso, and as far as I know, they haven't quite got 'entirely new piece' things sorted.  I'd LOVE to see it - that sweeping robe just SCREAMS Ric Flair - but I think at current it's out of reach, as are most gender port-across parts.

Gotcha.  I wonder if they could take the cape/tail part of the bolero and offer it as an attachment to a jacket or something, for male characters, then...

[Share your Puns/amusing Character Names]

Here are a few of mine:

 

Over Reactor - Claws/Rad Scrapper

Control Rod - Staff/Rad Scrapper

PillarOfTheCommunity - Thugs/Pain

Isotope Rope a Dope - Rad/Rad Brute

Cooke D. Animals - Beast/Thermal Mastermind

Sword 'n Board Broad - BS/SD Scrapper

 

[Darkness control, pets, and melee questions...]

So I've kind of fallen in love with dominators lately, and have been trying out a bunch of different power combinations and builds.  I'm also a big fan of pets.  One combination I've been pondering is darkness control and earth assault.  The former offers plenty of soft and hard controls, not to mention several tohit debuffs.  The latter seems to have some great close-in powers and soft control in the form of knockdowns and knockups.  With that in mind, can anyone tell how these two sets work together, and are pets summoned from "haunt" permanent?  If not, how difficult is it to make them permanent?  Thank you all so much!

[Bolero for men and Occult collar & cape for women]

As the thread title suggests, would it be possible for male characters to gain access to the bolero jacket/sleeves, and for females to get the occult jacket/cape with collar?  Also, a plain version of the occult cape, with just the quilting inside, would be awesome, (heck, maybe even make it available as just a regular cape)!  Thank you for reading.  :-)

[Psi melee/energy aura character doesn't make sense]

A super doesn't necessarily have innate protection from their own powers, it's just something we've become accustomed to.  In Agents of Shield, Daisy/Skye/Quake, got injured from her own vibration powers.  Wolverine injures himself every time he snikts his claws.  Prolonged or repeated teleportation jumps can fatigue or disorient Nightcrawler.  Perhaps your charcter's psionic abilities are so focused on affecting material/physical things that they basically ignore other psionic ones.  Maybe the exertion in manifesting your psionic power actually creates a "hole" in your mental defenses...

[Remembered one of the things I hate about CoH... its RNG.]

5 minutes ago, WumpusRat said:

You only need a large sample size if you're trying to prove that, on average, it works out that way. This is simply pointing out a rare outlier. Not saying "it's broken because X happened", but simply noticing a rare occurrence. Same as noticing you crit five times in a row as a scrapper. "Wow, lucky rng."

If, as you stated, all you're doing is pointing out a lucky or unlucky streak, with no implication that something is wrong/broken, then go for it!

[Remembered one of the things I hate about CoH... its RNG.]

3 minutes ago, WumpusRat said:

Except you don't need 10000 attempts to work out the odds of an event occurring. 

If you have a 50% chance to hit, then the odds are 50/50 that you hit or miss.

Getting the same result twice in a row (hit or miss) is 25%.

Getting the same result three times in a row is 12.5%

And so on.

 

Is it statistically possible to miss 10 times in a row with a 75% to hit? Of course. The odds of it happening, however, is .0000953674%

 

That's why people notice extreme outliers.

Indeed, which is why you need as large a sample as possible, so as to rule out any anecdotal feelings you may have or just happening to hit a bad/miss streak.  Low probability != impossibility, so we need a large sample to make sure.

[Question regarding character traits/bio vs gameplay reality]

Let's say, for instance, I created a mercenary mastermind who is supposed to be the leader of an "elite" squad of covert ops soldiers.  Especially in the early levels, it won't really appear as though my character and her soldiers are "elite" at anything.  Besides handwaving the poor performance away as her being "new", how do you handle such discrepancies?  Maybe she's having a bad day, or is being forced to work under a series of constraining conditions, due to having to keep up appearances or abide by some agreement between her PMC and the Paragon City agency dealing with superheroes?  I'd love to hear your thoughts.  Thanks!

[Remembered one of the things I hate about CoH... its RNG.]

The problem, IMO, is that people interpret things like a 75% chance to hit as "I WILL hit 3 out of every 4 attacks", not "over the span of 10000 trials things will work out to a 75% hit/25% miss ratio".

[Way of having multiple shortcuts to start the game in different ways?]

On 7/28/2019 at 1:16 AM, JadeFalcon said:

You don't need to use tequila to launch the game, just to update it.

 

Create a shortcut to homecoming.exe and add this to the command line:
-patchdir homecoming -patchversion 2019.06.05 -auth 51.79.19.146

 

Don't forget to add a space after the path to the binary.

 

For example:
"C:\Games\City of Heroes\homecoming.exe" -patchdir homecoming -patchversion 2019.06.05 -auth 51.79.19.146

 

Then create another shortcut to homecoming.exe and add this to the command line:
-patchdir homecoming -patchversion 2019.06.05 -auth 51.79.19.146 -usetexenvcombine

 

If there's an update, you'll receive a version error in the login screen and will need to exit and run tequila. The updated command line arguments in the manifest will then need to be edited in the shortcuts.

 

The game hasn't been updated since June 5th, so I haven't launched the game with tequila in about 7 weeks. :)

I shall try this.  Thanks!

[I miss snipers]

If a guy opening up on you at nearly point blank range with a shotgun or SMG/AR isn't that threatening, why should a sniper be all the more lethal?  Making snipers super dangerous would only serve to punish those who don't have some form of stealth...

[Need help on deciding new PC]

You certainly won't have any issues playing CoH with that machine, even if you're running 2 instances of the game.  Frankly, I'm surprised it doesn't come with an SSD for that price, though...

[Way of having multiple shortcuts to start the game in different ways?]

So I ended up just saving a text file with the -usetexenvcombine command line switch, then pasting it back into tequila whenever I need performance over appearance.  I don't suppose anyone has a better way of achieving this?  Can I create a shortcut to launch the game with that switch directly?  Trying to launch the exe by itself results in an error to use the launcher...

[Way of having multiple shortcuts to start the game in different ways?]

This kind of relates to a thread a posted before;  Is there any way to create a shortcut to start the game with the simpler rendering path for normal play, and another to use higher settings when I'm just creating a costume or such?  I know I can have tequila save the client commands, but every time I try to launch the coh.exe itself, it basically errors out.   Any suggestions?  Thank you! 

[Just for Fun: Shotgun Powerset Concept]

Slug, Buckshot, and arguably beanbag, are already shotgun-esque attacks.  What could be interesting, as a powerset gimmick, would be to have a power that changes your attacks from using slugs (longer range, heavier single target damage), to shot, (shorter range, lower overall damage, but all your attacks become cone powers).  Then you could have the regular attacks include things like white phosphorous incendiary rounds, talon/flechettes that cause a bleed/DoT, etc.

[please help with binds]

I don't know about you, but I don't use the s key to move backwards all that much in regular play - what if you just bound the command to that?