DoctorDitko

There are also NPCs that will give missions forever (usually tagged Repeatable in the wiki).

The one use case for KD->KD enh is in Storm's Tornado pseudo-pet. It turns it from a chaos-causing ADD pet to one which latches onto a single target and grinds them down to nothing.

Love me some Meteor. Makes me laugh like a loon every time. But the sheer amazingness of a well-timed Howling Twilight, turning a near-team-wipe into a rousing* victory? It drinks deeply of the awesome! * Literally

I've had good success with something like: "World's slowest ITF now forming. Yep, we're gonna stop and smell the Silphium!"

Ah, ya beat me to it! Only by about 2 and a half years, though! I miss the days when the Internet was not allowed to be used for direct profit! The beginning of the end: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/business/attention-shoppers-internet-is-open.html

There should be a goddamn law that says any company discontinuing a game -- especially one that needs to be online to play -- should have to open-source both the game and the server code. Unfortunately, the chances of this happening are an order of magnitude less than those of Doctor Who returning after being cancelled in the 80s.

I believe the first was the Cambridge Coffee Cam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot. (Disclaimer: I used to work on the Internet in ancient days, but I never spent work time and bandwidth watching coffee or Jenni. Nuh uh.)

Even back in the old (per-inherent fitness) days, a level 1 unslotted hero could leap over a 2-lane road from a standing start. Even civilians can ignore being hit by cars and fight tirelessly to hold onto their purses. You have always been doomed to be exceptional in this game. After playing games where my character couldn't step over a ground-level log border onto the grass, this was refreshing. Embrace the super!

Not my cuppa, but I love the idea, and hope we get to hear about the fun! (And don't forget to spay and neuter your pets!)

Echoing much of the above advice, but adding my favorite defense against Sappers (and I am known to seek out Malta, Carnies, and other oft-avoided baddies) -- Teleport Target, slotted for accuracy. "Yep, spotted a Sapper. Incoming..." (Team beats the crap out of the sapper(s)) "OK, room is ready to clear!"

Wonderful tool, many thanks! It works brilliantly under Windows, (and I can use it there and sneakernet it to my linux box, my current workaround), but I thought I'd post this in case anyone has advice. CoH and Mid's both run fine in the same wine instance, but CoHModdingTool crashes immediately after launch. Running it from the command line at least gives this information: (apologies for the graphic, I couldn't get a copy of the text as text) My ignorance of VisualBasic is vast and comprehensive, so please forgive me if this is some obvious noob problem. Anyone have any advice?

It's worth noting that they can be used in situations where the 2x XP freebie cannot. They are also an absorber of debt.

"Leaving is good. Never coming back is better." - a different Doctor I assume other folks, like myself, mainly remember the amazing people we met on Live. What we forget is that there were toxic players even way back then. Far fewer than most MMOs, but they existed and could really wreck your night. You just may have found one of those. Sorry, and Non Carborundum Illegitimatus! And, now that it's stuck in my head: "What I need is a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show!" - ibid.

I like to use them before 50, when I'm hitting a plateau. The plateaus are a lot less steep these days, though.

Do you at least do the Peewee Herman dance?

I tried HC launcher in beta, and never, ever missed the others.

Case-Hardened Karl Directed-Energy Man

Well, we have a profanity filter (which I leave on, as I consider it a challenge: Silence, thou poxy whoreson!) so maybe they could give us a built-in thesaurus? Not that there aren't plenty free ones online. ALso, see above. Two pages back or so someone gave some very good suggestions for naming variety for the Seven Deadly Sins.

Nope, 1 too many letters. Go for The (comes free!) Obtuse Dark Angle!

Absolutely! The Fair Use doctrine also covers things like review, commentary, and critical analysis. Though making a character out of the last ones could be challenging. (Not a lawyer, but I used to have to keep up with copyright stuff for work.) Unfortunately, most famous comics characters are also trademarked. Trademarks are a whole separate kettle of fish, and, unlike copyright, must be defended or you can lose them (c.f. Kleenex, Aspirin, Heroin). This I am no expert on, but one of the biggies is "Could a (really stupid) consumer confuse your product with mine?" Awwww! I still think that revelation was a turning point, but I guess we'll never know for certain. I hate that settlements usually stipulate secrecy. There are some nifty card tricks you can do with the blank one. And, yes, the ad one is good to practice throwing!

I agree. For some reason, I find myself drawn to the Shards. Especially this time of year, the eyeballs should just be reaching peak bloodshot. But if I can't have that, give me monkeypool!

I love that the Marvel lawsuit really fell apart when Marvel's lawyers confessed that they themselves had made the infringing characters they presented as evidence. You know they would have had the generic-bat applied had they actually played them!

Roll back? The 0XP/2xInf tradeoff. It grates against my sense of symmetry. Just say it only works outside of AE and call it a day. Best QoL improvement? By far -- by lightyears -- it's the shift from profit-driven to fun-driven game design choices! The original game had plenty of time-wasters, things you needed to check back on in a few days, and things designed to keep you subscribed. Want more characters? Pay for another account! And keep paying, or they're gone! Then, when it went "free" to "play" (note irony quotes) even more clocksuckers appeared -- but now, for a low, low fee you could skip to the stuff you really wanted to do. Honorable mention goes to: seeding and pooling stuff on the AH, streamlining travel options, ditching arbitrary level barriers, adding the Notoriety menu, /ah and /respec commands, easy server jumping... Let's just say I'm a fan.

There is a nice version of this as part of a medley on "Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits!" Worth getting just for the Ramones' version of Spider-Man, but has many other faves. And, OK, I guess it was a duck. A pigeon is funnier though!

That's good to know. This guy was a leaper, so no transloc, and as I said he's fairly non-biodegradable, so I wasn't worried. Just wish I'd gotten a picture!