DoctorDitko

Well, the Great Defense Nerf, followed by the Erectile Dysfunction Delivery (EDD) system and the Purple Triangles o'Doom, sure didn't help. But, yeah, this game had legs, if they hadn't been cut off at the knees by suits, it might've survived. Especially give the Superhero Renaissance Hollywood has discovered. tl;dr: Ignore Random Guy and laugh all the way to the bank (Mayhem mishes, LFG!).

Yeah, it would be great if we could use the mechanic they've introduced for Super Speed in Beta, to let us ignore citizens. Getting shoved out into the road by a little old lady -- then driven away by a truck -- is funny the first few times, but it gets old. Speaking of ignoring NPCs, I wonder if it would be hard to let us have an NPC ignore list? That Vanguard jerk would be my first!

Astrophobia is a real thing, usually interpreted as a fear of outer space, but can include a Lovecraftian fear of stars and the spaces between them! (Maybe didn't waste ALL the money I spent on a Psych degree!) And yeah, there are people who max out the scales for Introvert and Extrovert. I'm one. When I'm in an Extrovert mood, I love leading teams, despite my constant typos (the human capacity to understand despite typos is amazing!). In an Introvert mood? I'd rather join & pitch in. That said, there's a difference between organizing an ITF "for fun" and having a player say, "I'm 50, would you like me to take the star?" and "lol! You are 47! Gimme star or I'm out!" I believe OP is referring to the latter. And some players are gracious enough to "have" the star without "being" the star, if someone else has gone to the trouble to organize, recruit, and welcome the team. These folks tend to get friended!

The late, great RoboTechMaster ran Dr. Q teams that were an absolute BLAST! I thought it was insanity when someone advertised "Dr. Q TF forming, ~2 hours, WTF so 244 merits. Head to the D." What the hell. When I get to the D, RTM is buying ATT and MTP for everyone who doesn't have them. Proceeds to run the thing like a magic trick, all "Doc, you have Limo duty when we exit," and "I'll be using Incandescence once I'm in position." Still in awe. So, yeah, crazy, but in a good way, can be done! I'd personally track down each Dev and give them a dollar if my Bots MM could combine his pets into a Voltron. Make it tricky to do -- along the lines of getting a Shivan? -- fine by me. I'd just love to pull the Malta trick on the Malta JUST ONCE!

All I know is I tried a Regen Scrapper and was extremely underwhelmed. Could use a buff, IMO.

I must have the worst business sense. Every time I get near 1 billion, I blow half of it on stuff like Heroes & Villains Super Packs. Which are usually worth it, but I keep the loot rather than selling it on. (One of my plethora of alts can always use it!)

"Yes sir, the check is in the mail!"

Ow! Manglement would love it, but can you imagine trying to take a... sit... with that sound going constantly?

Any advice on installing Mids or CoH modder and getting them to open with your WINE installation?

An excellent meta-analysis of the many TP options! Would you be interested in adding the Incarnate power Destiny: Incandescence?

Wow, I guess I'm just the opposite re: Task Force Commander versus Invader*. I love Mayhem Missions! You get to blow stuff up! You get a cool temp power! Progress toward the Accolade! And you get to blow stuff up! But you don't even have to finish the missions. With VidiotMaps and Reveal pointing the way you can just grab the Explore badges and leave. (Might want to have another mish in your queue, so you can exit, select the other mission, say yes to abandoning your progress, and go see Lord Sweitzer for another. I forget if you need to let the timer expire. (Because I'm in there blowing stuff up!) I concur with your other advice, though. *In the Battle of the Century! 'Nuff said.

True! The first time I fell into the maw of Mot, with all the tentacles, I thought I had wandered in to a Call of Cthulhu game! And the random words appearing in dialog, and then in mid-air! Creepy stuff!

My buddy refers to the last sliver of health as his "favorite hit point!" But you buried the "lede,"* Oubliette! Did your Mom make it out okay? Yeah, excellent point! (The whole "surviving jumping off a building" thing is another unique feature!) * Still a neologism as far as I'm concerned, but it's a useful discernment, and the AP Handbook concurs, so I'm trying to go with it! Edited to add: I just realized standing next to you spamming Radiant Aura after this would earn at least 2 healing badges! Wow!

'Way back when i had a decent internet connection, I tried DCUO. (Always been a fan of DC, Marvel mostly came later.) Wow! The costumes, the characters, and some of the voices I remembered! Neat! It's always night in Gotham and always day in Metropolis! Cool! Then Flash told me I could have his cool yellow boots, but only if I proved myself. And paid him real money, though he was having a special this month... I felt so heroic. CoH always had the hero part down pat. It definitely strayed toward the end there. Now? With the paywalls gone, its gotten pretty damn wonderful! I mean, in how many games does your character have the ability to jump over a two-lane road, straight out of the box? (Of course, there are few games where a random NPC can walk past you and shove you into the road to be hit by a truck. Fortunately, it doesn't hurt!)

Pragmatically, I've always had a fondness for Talos (now called Talos Central Station in my head-canon). Many easy travel options. All the stores are fairly close. The trainer is handy. It has the requisite giant statue. And some seriously oddball arcs. But I never lost my love for Steel Canyon. It was the zone that brought a tear to my eye as I approached Blyde Square the first time since Live. The music played, and I just lost it. It has another giant statue, and speaking of oddball arcs: It blew my mind the first time my contact got killed in the middle of my mission!

Ah! But you got your revenge. They'd be fighting cysts until they logged out! Sometimes, bugs really are features!

I forget his name, but there was a comics hero -- I'm thinking the Badger? -- who was a member of, guest-starred in, or fought every single damn supergroup there was.* And another guy -- he might have been a more serious take on Die Fleidermaus? -- who founded 3 or 4 Supergroups, and whose protege made a few of his own. So how about a way to have Guest Stars? More intimate than a coalition, more permanent than a league. Or, maybe, something groups can do like the old annual -- dammit, I just can't remember names -- Liberty League and Golden Age Liberty Society team-ups. I used to love those. (At least I think I did.) Anyway, I would love to have a way for groups to affiliate more closely than Coalitions. "Why, yes, sir, I even trust your team with our storage bins!" And those animal-inspired guys were definitely members of multiple groups simultaneously. * Or at least, those the publisher thought needed a boost in circulation.

Darn it, I missed the chance to do more than echo others' excellent responses. So I will: 1. Mini-events: Summer Blockbuster (Torch players may have noticed I kinda like it). 2. Story Arcs: The Dark Astoria/Mot arc. Wow! 3. TF: The ITF is great, I just wish we could for once fight the Giant Robot. 3a. Speaking of which, Ernesto Hess has some great stuff, including a very 007-esque ending! 4. Tips missions! I love how they often spin the game's conventions. 5. Actually, all the missions that break the rules to one degree or another. Get through the RIkti without attacking them. Avenge your contact, who just got murdered. Go back in time and save your contact! Also, I would love to see a way for the most excellent of AE missions to be promoted to reality, as the best art often is.

I'm dealing with fscking* Verizon Wireless, so I don't have the bandwidth for Discord. If this game hadn't been designed to accommodate dialup, I wouldn't be able to play at all. So I hear ya! (Speaking of which, everyone should be aware there are non-hearing players, who greatly enjoy participating with the same facility as J. Random Hero.) Back on topic, my worst day was on Live, featuring my namesake, originally a Radiation/Illusion Defender. I got him up to his teens solo, then shyly decided to take the plunge and joined J. Random Hero on a pickup team. I'm in there spamming Accelerate Metabolism, dropping debuffs on the bad guys, confusing the mezzers, and hitting the Radiant Aura whenever it comes up. Conversation ensues: Leader: "Stop that!" Me: "What do you mean?" (I'm doing a LOT of things, the way I see it.) Leader: "Stop that stuff. Just Heal!" Me: "Rad heals aren't great, my other stuff is more helpful." Leader: "You're a Defender, just Heal, or you're gone!" Me: ... Long story short, I got kicked. Even shorter, that's why I'm an now an Illusion/Radiation Controller. (That might or might not have been responsible for the glee with which I play my Storm/Ice Defender, using O2 Boost only as a de-mezzing power, as the Storm Gods intended. And kicking ass, thank you very much!) * they really need to repair their filesystems

At least for me (on Verizon Wireless with a 15 GB/month cap -- the only show in town), I was delighted to have the new launcher copy from my old installation, rather than downloading everything again. It asks you first. The newer, more rational directory layout will throw modders off for a while, but once you are used to it, it's preferable. 5 stars from this curmudgeon! McAffe, OTOH, is one of the worst-behaved rootkits I've run across. No stars for you! (I've stopped try to eliminate Defender, and only want to run MWB on command, so the free version is preferable to me. I also use TinyWall and eliminate everything but tcp/ip v4 from my network adapters.)

OK, related to my previous complaints re: respec, but distinct issues. Accidentally hitting the scroll arrows next to the numbers on the tray. Suddenly I'm clicking on my travel powers instead my attacks... Also, Accidentally dragging trays rather than clicking them. May we please have a "lock trays" option in addition to the "lock powers in tray" one? And yes, I know clicking the powers is inefficient. Sometimes I use key commands, but when I'm already watching the tray for power recharges, I might as well use the things!

Yeah, but at least they are annoying by design!

This was Strange. I emailed myself a [Power:Overwhelming Force: Damage/Chance for Knockdown/Knockback to Knockdown.1], logged out, and when I logged back in, it was still in my tray. But also in my email! a) Yay! Bank error in your favor! (I'm wanting keep it, after the SBB bugs mentioned previously) b) Why does this never happen with purples? c) Is this character just buggy? Are there characters that are just buggy? Regards, "The Real Doctor Ditko"

So much this! Please just leave the unchanged powers where they are! Also, Auction House bugs are a pain in the proverbial. Thought of another one: Dialog that pops up under my upper-left-corner map! "Thanks for the vital clue, but I was looking at my phone. Could you repeat that?" "Hello?"

OK, I really, really like running the SBB. I think it's an excellent example of the newer TF style. Two nights ago, I encountered a weird bug. I've run this event dozens of time and never saw it before, so I just blamed Verizon ("Mine ancient foe!") and moved on. In fact I repeated the run with the same character, chose the same role, and all was normal. But it happened again tonight. Same character, different role. So I'm posting: In the Heist mission, twice now, the leader has been left in the warehouse instead of being teleported to the room where the mission is. First time was the Hacker, second time the Hitter. Both times the rest of the team managed to deal with the extra obstacles, but I was left feeling like an idiot whose agent sent him to the studio when they were actually filming on location. This was on Torch, 3/18 and 3/19 around 9pm. Character was the Real Doctor Ditko, an Ill/Rad controller. If you have any insights, please provide them. If a player has had this happen to you, please share. Thanks for everything, and thanks to my teammates who cheerfully put up with a partly absent lead!