DoctorDitko

This seems eminently reasonable, and reflects reality -- there are only so many bullets in a spray, and if your buddy takes one, that's one fewer for you. * But I don't think it would add fun to the game. * Unless you're fighting Deadpool, mister "I only have 12 bullets, so you're gonna hafta share!"

I think I like the idea, but of course the numbers will matter. Controllers might be more welcome on teams, but might find it tougher to solo. I'd say it's worth dropping in the suggestion box to see if the Devs are interested.

Ideally, I'd like to see alternate power animations that include instruments. But backpacks would be a great start! (And doubtless easier to implement.) ;thumbsup

The icon for Mighty Jump Takeoff, even while greyed out, has a circling orbital thingy as if it were an active toggle.

Thumbs-up to Inspired Mole Rats!

Since parody and homage depend on the doctrine of "Fair Use," they really can't be codified. Fair Use itself cannot be codified. It's literally an "I'll know it when I see it" standard in copyright law. The EFF has an introduction to the subject. The Wikipedia article goes into more detail. DMCA takedowns, which are rampant on Youtube, are often wielded without the due diligence specified in the law, which requires claimants to carefully consider the Fair Use exemption before filing. Unfortunately, the default seems to be to take the video down, and rely on the creator to defend it before it can be restored. If some IP owner files against Homecoming, we might be in a similar situation. Unlikely, yes, but that's why they have to be careful (not to mention the walking-on-eggshells complication of being an unauthorized server). So, we should probably be more vigilant than we were on Live, since NCsoft's reaction to a DMCA takedown would be to destroy the offending server. The number of eyes on us is undoubtedly fewer, fortunately. But I'm working on a new profile pic, just in case. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I am not a doctor. I am not a cheese sandwich.

Is there no way to make this more... voluntary? I imagine logging in and getting a message, "Another player would like to use the name Jelly Baby, whom you haven't played in two years. Would you like to give up the name? You will receive a free respec if you do." Or something along those lines.

I have a Doctor Ditko on every server, including Brainstorm. I mainly play on Torchbearer, though, so many of them are mid-teens, mainly used for base tours and such. I flatter myself that I might have a microversal "brand" in the world of CoH, and I would hate it if someone grabbed the name on another server and behaved in a way that might be described by a term the profanity filter would flag.* (I like to make my own mistakes, thanks!) So, it would be great if there were a dispensation for names that are: a) Across all servers or b) Related to the global name In the "I win the lottery and donate all to the Homecoming devs" department, how hard would it be to link in a public domain synonymicon?** Finally, I'd like to suggest that some small reward be granted for anyone who gives up a name. Not big enough to encourage players to camp names, but some token to acknowledge the sacrifice. How about a badge that reads "I used to be Dingleberry" or some such? Probably overthinking this, but... it's what I do. * Which, by the way, I keep active because it's more fun to call someone an "ectoparasitic feather-feeding louse" than an "#$%%^&". ** Synonym for Thesaurus. Ironically, there are not many of those!

Noticed while trying to use the Freebies Menu and P2W vendor, I picked Nemesis Staff as my Prestige Attack, decided to change to Blackwand (Natural origin toon, so oshould work for either) I can't revoke the lollypop OR take Origin/Not Origin Blackwand. It tells me I'm revoking Nem staff, over and over, but nothing takes. Probably Beta-only, but thought it was worth mentioning Problem persists over client restart. (NB: I had grabbed all the other Prestige Attack Powers, if that's relevant.)

Oh, if I could type, I'd be so dangerous. So, seconding the typos. (I spell great, I just can't type.) In my case, I also have a thing where I post something, then remember my sources, then go back and add in links.* * And citations. And footnotes, which, BTW, rock!

They'd have to be a Universalish set (a la Overwhelming Force) but I'd kill for an Erase Visual FX enhancement and a Mute Sound FX one. Maybe even a No Animation one, too. Null the Gull could offer to ignore both, for folks that want to see/hear everything. (So no unfairness to PVPers, or people with impaired senses.) Then I could finally port the Human Bystander from TT Champions to CoH. (Dressed as a civilian, he stands around on the periphery of battles and doesn't seem to do anything but root for his team.)

There's also: HTH

Welcome Home!

Pssshaw! Triops are THE freeze-dried pets for the discerning superhero.

Good on you for confronting your fears! It's as though Superman went Kryptonite-hunting. More power to you!

Lol, literally! That's the side of cats I prefer to see, I'm hideously allergic to them. And I seem to remember the late, great Don Martin pulling that Rushmore gag back in MAD Magazine. Nicely done, though!

Okay, this has made me really want to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th). Any ideas?

An excellent point! Frying the motherboard when you connected a proper power supply was an engineer's way to keep you from descending into Dell Hell. OTOH, their Enterprise support a decade ago was very good. All I had to say was the magic word "Linux" and I would be connected to someone who knew what they were doing. (Otherwise it was "Go to the Start Menu and..." And I would be all, "Do you want to wait while I install Windows?") True story: We used to buy HP machines for our cluster, because they had better hardware. But the customer service was really bad. (Our record was two months to fix a blade with expensive "Next Business Day" support.) So our new cluster will be Dell. Fingers crossed!

It used to be the way to hide from your global friends, but it appears these days it brings up the same hide dialog that /hide does. Good to know. (Insert "get off my lawn" meme here.)

Sorry, my best advice would be to install Brew and use it to add wine. My 2017 Mac Book Pro self-destructed in 2021, so I can't test it, but it worked for me at the time. Good luck!

One of the reasons I hate Dell so much. Work bought me a workstation from them that I added one USB3 card to and it started to get flaky. Tech support refused to acknowledge that their power supply was a POS. IIRC, 250 watts on a workstation? In the 21st century? And of course, a stealth proprietary connector, so you'd fry everything if you tried to sub in a 3rd party power supply.

I'm in the "Oh, does my auto-hit AOE disorient also rez you guys? How lucky!" camp. It doesn't need Accuracy, save a slot. Or devote it to recharge or disorient.

In college, taking Psych classes means you get a lot of chances to participate in Psych studies. (Almost every paper should have "Survey of age 18-24-year-olds" replaced with "Psych college students 18-24," but I digress.) One was Introvert/Extrovert scales and I was at the 99th percentile Extrovert, 100% percentile Introvert. When I'm feeling social, I love me some teaming. (I have one character who is sworn to accept all invites. A blast when I play him!) I find the most fun in the 4-6 teams. There's a reason for the Fantastic Four, not the Incredible Eight. When I'm feeling shy? I may make use of /hide, sometimes even /ghide. That can be fun, too. (As far as Dr. Q, on live I played it out over two days, with the whole bunch of loonies staying to the finish. On HC, a certain RTM would form up in Pocket D and buy ATT and TT for anyone who didn't have it, then run the whole TF in two hours of merry mayhem.)

It seems very unlikely that this is related to player actions. I'd guess a problem with hosting: shared server overwhelmed by another client's traffic, databse hitting hard limits, RAID resilvering after a drive failure, or (most likely) Windows Server eating its own head. That's where I'd put down my nickel, anyway.

I'd definitely go with Asus over Acer, if all else is similar. Better QA, for one thing, and better construction. (If it wasn't for gaming, I'd pick a Framework. Amazing company, great ethics, but they don't offer a discrete GPU. I really enjoyed putting mine together, though. It's the last release of the older model, so it's an 11th-gen Intel CPU, but still good enough for CoH.)