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It's kind of funny - powers like granite armor kind of give an insight into the minds of the devs while the game was in development; "Players won't mind if we completely override the appearances that they've worked so hard on crafting, because this fits our vision of how the ultimate power should work"...

IIRC, Windows XP was an outgrowth/evolution of Windows 95/98, while Windows 2000 was more based upon Windows NT.

Hence the "if" portion of the statement "If you were running around in a populated zone, spouting sacrilegious stuff". So what we have, then, is some people say you did some stuff? You said yourself "for a change, i made a sacrilegious and sexually active character as my main on everlasting" - so how, exactly, would anyone know said character was sacrilegious? Was it just in your bio, or were you saying stuff in local/broadcast/etc? You put yourself out there, so can you give some substance to your claims one way or the other?

Awesome! One thing I recommend against is to not use any of the rikti rifle models - I find the pulsing animation to be a bit uncomfortable during longer play sessions. Some other ones have glowing bits that can look a bit off. Some also don't quite scale in size with your character. Still, it is a very good set. Just take care to keep the recharge time of disintegrate into account, when it comes to creating an attack chain.

I wonder if they could kind of scale the granite armor model to your character's height, then just kind of superimpose it onto your character - have parts show through or not - it could represent your (partial) transformation...

This sounds a bit hyperbolic. Is it at all possible that you conducted yourself in a way specifically to get a rise out of others? If you were running around in a populated zone, spouting sacrilegious stuff, especially if it is of a religion that many players are likely to practice IRL, then it doesn't surprise me that you'd get some heat for it. I also find it odd that you have no problem doing this kind of stuff, but then call others bigots for opposing you? How do you know they weren't rp-ing as well? Frankly, I think the best course of action would be to keep real life politics/religion/etc out of the game, and just work within the framework of the existing villain groups...

Understood. Consider beam rifle, sonic attack, or dual pistols. Sonic attack has some great additional control in siren's song and screech. Dual pistols is a mixed bag, IMO - it's a decently solid set, but I find some of the animations to be too "showie" for my tastes, though I do like the ability to change ammo types to suit my needs. Beam rifle is a solid choice, but so much relies upon disintegrate that I feel it shoehorns you into that power. Even ice blast and dark blast bring something substantial to the table, (slows & holds, tohit debuffs and fear/hold, respectively).

My Archery/Tactical Arrow blaster is around level 25 now. Got her kitted out with level 25 IOs and a couple pool powers, (arcane flight, aid self, stealth), and she's quite good. That eagle eye toggle is very good, and I can't wait for gymnastics at 38. The flash arrow allows me to easily setup some devastating AoEs. I skipped fistful of arrows, but may take it later on. I actually prefer the lack of melee attacks in the /TA secondary...

One thing I love and hate about CoH is how character origins have very little to do with your powers. I love this, because people can make whatever they want, instead of being shoehorned into "powerset A always goes with origin X", but at the same time, it seems hard to reconcile summoning demons using "natural" means. I know that there are some very creative people out there, who can craft the perfect narrative to explain why their character can "naturally summon demons", but sometimes it just bugs me. I'd love to hear your folks' input on the matter. Thanks in advance! Some examples of blurred lines for me: A serum that gave you superpowers seems like science, but what if you were implanted with a device that administers said serum whenever it's needed? Does that become technology? Let's say your character is a demon from a demonic realm? Their ability to summon lesser demons may be inherent to their race/species, so would that make them natural? What if a character utilizes advanced weapons and armor, but it is only because of their mutations, (improved strength & durability), that they can even wield that equipment properly? Do you folks just take an "in the eye of the beholder" kind of approach?

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I can sort of understand why Paragonwiki wouldn't want to include the Homecoming stuff - unless it became an official/legitimate version of the game, then Homecoming is basically a "fan mod" of sorts. I'm not saying that to belittle what the HC devs are doing - it's a tremendous undertaking and I am very grateful for it... it's just not official. Perhaps a HC wiki could simply reference the main Paragonwiki articles and just say "The available info matches what PW states, except in the following areas ______".

Paragonwiki has a full breakdown of ED here.

If I had my 'drothers, (and any say in how MMs were implemented), I'd have the devs create them as "templates", where what you're selecting are their powersets, with their appearances being completely customizable. If there were any concerns over how players would make their minions appear and/or treat them, well that would be covered under the code of conduct/EULA/ToS...

You have to come up with another character/concept that you really like and want to see become a reality. A simple starting concept would be to imagine what your MA/SR scrapper might be like if they grew up in an alternate dimension, under different circumstances. Maybe, in another world, they suffered an injury early in life, which caused them to have to slow down and change their tactics; Instead of being an agile martial artist, they donned heavy armor and focused on raw physical strength instead of quick and precise strikes. What if, in another universe, said character's mentor was a brilliant cyberneticist instead of a martial arts master, and augmented them with powerful synthetic limbs and implants? Take what you already love and reimagine it...

I concur. There are also a lot of tops with skin and face textures that just look, well, "off"; They're either blurry, don't match up properly between the front and back halves, or have other oddities, like the color being off from other pieces using the exact same color selection(s)...

Here's Energy Melee and Electric Armor...

Once upon a dark and stormy night... lived happily ever after?

Well, if it's anything like a bind that allows you to teleport with just a point and click, then it'd probably look something like this: /bind shift+lbutton "powexecname burst of speed"

CoH runs quite well on Windows 10. As others have pointed out, just copy the entire install directory and paste it into a generic folder on one of your hard drives. Depending upon your computer's specs, you should be able to upgrade to Windows 10 without much issue. Cheers!

Interesting powerset proposal, Lazarillo. Personally, I like the idea of having all your tiers of pets look similar. If they used the same models as phantom army, I wonder if they could also have them be tintable...

I'm currently leveling up an archery/tactical arrow blaster, and she's really fun to play. The /TA powers feel "weightier" than the trick arrow ones, and many also do some damage, which is a nice plus.

If you select the "no redraw" option from the power customization menu, (accessible during character creation or at a tailor/trailer), then the redraw issue is basically nonexistent.

I can kind of you your point in regard to the first thing you mentioned - but you do get your AoE hold pretty early on. I suppose domination wouldn't really do anything for the invisibility powers or pets, though. As for a mastermind primary set - that could be interesting. What if you got the phantom army as your T1 and T2 pets, only the T1s have weaker attacks and the T2s have some control abilities, and the T3 was the phantasm? You could have a weak spectral wounds, a strong spectral wounds, and maybe a more damage-oriented version of flash as the 3rd attack, and possibly group invisibility or spectral terror as the "special power" that all MMs get.

I'd love to see this, but I fear that illusion may be *too good* on dominators...

I'm so sorry! For some reason, I thought this was about tankers. *facepalms* Ice armor is a good overall set, but I can only really speak about it in regards to tankers. My apologies...