Doc_Scorpion

I'd say that such changes need to preserve the historical context (which is consistent with what we inherited)... So, copy the existing information to a "history page" (which would only be pointed to by the "main page") and edit the "main page" to reflect the current situation.

Yep. And those "big" powers often aren't all that useful without at least of a couple of slots, and Stamina, and your (often low(er) level) bread-and-butter powers to fill in around them. Hard pass.

AFAIK/AIUI, the Dev team intends to balance the game around SO's. So they're not likely to make regen scrappers into native pseudo-tanks just because they can be IOed pseudo-tanks.

With it being experimental, I can see three possible states: 1) It's been shelved entirely for whatever reason. (That could be permanent, or temporary for any number of reasons). 2) Like the Dark Melee changes in the Page 5 beta, it might have turned out not be low hanging fruit and has been set on the back burner for the moment. 3) Since it's part of a larger effort to revitalize low level play, it might be delayed while the rest of that effort is worked out.

I added the Homecoming Wiki to my sig, help to spread the word. Would help for more folks to do so.

That's me too. I enjoy how Regen is a constant dance on the high wire - can you kill arrest faster than you can be sent to the hospital? If you can't take that tension, then Regen may not be the set for you.

Bots/FF is a classic choice, and definitely not boring. Though after testing Electric Affinity on Beta and having an EA defender, I'm tempted to try a Bots/EA MM.

I'm on Excelsior, so that's definitely going to skew things too.

I'd agree with you with one exception: The Weekly Strike Target. You see a lot of those advertised as speedruns. You see Task Forces in general advertised as speedruns more often than other content... Because folks are doing those for the Merits rather than for XP.

You can find the costume files as AVT described... the question is whether or not they're compatible between servers.

It's an experimental system and may or may not ever go live.

I think that map comes from the system, not VidiotMaps... Either way, that room is a copy of one in the Midnight Club and that badge marker is for the Midnighter Club Member Badge.

Not surprised to to find the usual rhetoric deployed to defend being an offensive jerk.

Honestly, I find Kallisti Wharf kinda depressing... Praetorian styled architecture is so soulless. When people kept asking for more City zones to be revamped along Praetorian lines, I was always screaming "NOOOOOooooooo" internally.

Former UO player here... Siege Perilous is an example of precisely why "hard mode" shards aren't a great idea. They absorb developer time all out of proportion to their extremely small userbase. Code tends to get released to them without full testing because there aren't enough dev and player resources to run a proper beta. They develop odd bugs because the developers aren't as familiar with the unique code. (And new features don't always play well with the unique rules.) Etc... etc... And that's with a full blown, full time dev team - and a total playerbase orders of magnitude larger than HC has. The base of hard(est) core players is (or at least was at it's peak) probably larger than HC currently is.

Don't think they could use it straight up though... Current NPC code will glom onto whoever is available, while the pet code is fixed on the summoner.

I'm curious as to what you monitor and why...

That is correct. Reunion is a shard, Excelsior is a shard, etc...

My fire/fire blaster would disagree.

What powerset(s) are you using? Stealth auras in particular can cause all kinds of problems.

That is an opinion, not a fact - and there is a vast difference between the two. Personally, I find both my fire/fire and fire/shield tanks loads of fun to play and neither are farmers.

Keep in mind that Croatoa is (in theory) a three hour train ride away. It's not actually directly adjacent to the City. "Croatoa is a three hour train ride upstate from Paragon City , and was once the favorite lakeside vacation spot for city dwellers. For the past three years, the train service has been closed due to the Rikti Invasion, but due to recent events the government have reopened the line." - Issue 5 patch notes.

Thank you!

You wouldn't happen to remember what shoulder pieces and gloves those are would you?

Originally you could only do that in Steel Canyon. The Skyway City Green Line station was added in... Issue 10 or 11 I think.