DoctorDitko

Can't you leave a comment marker on empty lines for the best of both worlds? ; or # Or am I thinking of another game? (Forgive me if so. I'm getting old. I knew I was older than Star Trek, but I recently realized I'm also older than Doctor Who. >sigh<)

I made an Arsenal/Traps controller and just for grins went with a GI Joe theme, slightly customized Soldier costume set. When I changed the pants from Tucked In to regular pants with a camo texture, I lost any way to customize my Boots. I don't know if this exists on Live, or is new or what, but figured I'd share.

Any word on last night's revisions? Seemed large to me on my Verizon Wireless Dial-up Emulator.

Will diffing the two files narrow things down, or just add noise?

Oh, absolutely! Between Mr. Mind and "I, Arthur" he almost never met a mental challenge he couldn't fail. Arthur was the brains of the team, for sure!

I'll play my usual one-string harp, and bring up Mayhem Missions... again! Nothing makes my villains' black hearts soar like blowing up cop cars! Oh, so many cop cars!

Agreed, except insofar as we aren't sure he's wearing anything. He could be running around naked as far as we know! (In fact the Amazon series played into this, showing him molting parts off. And also had the fun bit where most of the first episode he seems to be Arthur's imaginary friend!) Also, as someone said, he doesn't need Rage! I figure his only travel power is Combat Jumping, with the Crumble travel aura. And he clearly skipped all the Psi-hole mitigation options!

Some very nice ones, guys! Grats!

Didn't have enough characters for "Mad Scientist's Daughter". So I gender-swapped 'em both, and nabbed "Mad Scientist's Son" on Torch! "Mom! Stop with the shrink-ray! You're embarrassing me in front of my team!"

Don't forget about your private Vault for salvage, which can hang on the SG wall, but doesn't count against the 18 table limit. The Vault can be accessed any time by clicking the Vault item which is at the bottom of your Salvage window. The Auction House is also a great place to store stuff for that character only. (You can't use /ah in a mission to pull it up, but you can run to the entrance if it's important.) Ourobouros portals, Supergroup Portals, and Rapid Response portals can all be summoned up in mishes, too. Best to have the Mission Transporter P2W power to get back to the mish. Speaking of P2W, you can get a self-destruction power there that blows you up, and you can choose to go to the Hospital, where the /ah command works fine. (Warn your teammates first, though.) HTH, and welcome Home!

I tried to echo this sentiment... But I kept having acid reflux.

Random suggestions occurred to me while perusing this thread. Would any of these help, do you think? Make names able to be traded on the Auction House? Give out once-a-week tokens that would message the owning player? ("Another player has expressed interest in this name. Reply to contact them anonymously.") Lengthen the character name field from 20 to 30 letters? Reward a badge for players who surrender a name? Make the optional definite article count as part of the name. (That way "Doctor" could coexist with "The Doctor" on the same server.)

Ya beat me to it! Seconded!

A few months back, when I had a character in dire need of a Patron Pool power. While redside, you might as well grab the Invader Badge accolade (+5% HP, equivalent to the more onerous heroic Task Force Commander) by sucking up to Lord Schnauser* and doing all the Mayhems! That said, I'm no fan of running into the Mayhems, grabbing the explore badge, and bailing. Blow some stuff up, dammit! Kids these days... But, always glad to team up with Torch residents who want to join, send me a global tell (you can guess my handle). * OK, Schweitzer. Spoilsport!

I think if more people knew about the sheer, destructive joy that is Mayhem missions, there might be more folks Redside. It's a lot more fun than clicking on/attacking a glowie, which is about all the damage you're allowed to do on Blueside!

I think you can get everything on your list -- just not in one character! I like Grav+Storm, Illusion+Storm, Storm+Storm, heck, I like Stormies! Fold Space can be a real force multiplier, too. And don't overlook Defenders. If you're soloing, I had a Bots/Traps Mastermind that was amazing at controlling the map, but on teams he didn't have time to set things up. MM tip: make yourself an "everybody kill THIS guy" macro. It's a "Nuke them from orbit" button. UltraAlt's advice about turtling with def mode is spot on, too. MMs should be in that mode by default. Anyway, good on ya for giving the ol' game a workout! GL!

I thought of an analogy I like, that I'll just throw out there: Doing all your missions in AE is like being an X-man and never leaving the Danger Room.

I don't think so... But try it and see!

Also, Vidiotmaps is your friend:

Quite right! My apologies if I seemed to be dictating "play my way" to new players. But I seem to remember a Dev sharing a summary of their number-crunching that found new players who zoom to 50 tend to get quickly bored and wander off. I understand the impulse. Modern MMOs tend to have the fun stuff gated at the top level. CoH doesn't make you wait till 50 to have fun. If you play your way through, you are more likely to engage with the game, meet friends, and stick around for a bit.

Oh, good lord, how could I forget: STAY THE HELL OUT OF AE UNTIL YOU'VE LEVELED YOUR FIRST CHARACTER! You can stick your head in the Matrix AFTER you've tried the "Real World!"

My most shameless homage was a Zatanna-esque magic user named Anna Taz. Her origin was as a small-time stage magician who was mistakenly kidnapped by the Circle for use in one of their spells. Her exposure to the mighty magical forces filled her up, rather than emptying her out. Her battle cry was: Ydorap emoceb tnemgnirfni! or was it: Tnemgnirfni emoceb ydorap! (I can't remember whether Zatanna's spells were reversed word-by-word, or by whole sentence.) I seldom play her, but so far she's survived!

One point that may not see enough emphasis: Enjoy the journey! This is not one of those games where "life begins at max level!" Most of the fun content happens along the way.

Several places, and different times. NPR has a quick summary: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution It was a slow erosion of personhood, and slow growth of corporate power.

And the exercise of vast corporate power and resources to extend copyright far beyond its original purpose: to motivate creators to create, by letting them profit from their creations before they go into the public domain!