Doc_Scorpion

Look at the top of every forum page, there's a Server Status link which gives tells you how many players are currently online.

Exactly why, when I want mindless fun, I take out my rad/rad defender or fire/fire blaster.

Rad/Rad defender... Set your heal on auto fire and blast away (applying -DEF to the target) with your secondary.

Pretty much this... hard to discern if it's actually a hidden request for MOAR POWAH or not.

Did a quick run with my fire/fire tank, and there were no untoward sounds... (And the mobs stuck like glue during Burn.)

How many are so incredibly desperate for a half hour of double XP that they can't wait until the end of the trial? Learn to plan ahead and keep track. The information you need is only a couple of clicks away.

No. The vast majority of Magical Girls have two forms, their normal human form and their Mahou Shoujo form. (Which is also basically true of Cutie Honey.) It's not unusual for a Magical Girl to receive a powered-up form, but it's generally either a replacement for the original Magical Girl form or requires an additional henshin or Power Up sequence to attain from the base or previous form. Few Magical Girls can simply transform into or between multiple forms on a whim.

Help channel, Paragon Wiki (though it's slightly incorrect in spots), these forums, Discord. There's plenty of help available for basic stuff, we just need to get the word out and people to actually get off their lazy [censored] and actually use them.

Fire/Fire brute, zoned in with all toggles on - and the mobs stuck to me like they were superglued.

Yup. None of the people complaining are among the three people who have tested the latest patch and reported their results. (And before you ask, yes, I am one of those three.)

That's a PEBKAC class problem, and nothing any changes to the game will ever fix. I build my tanks around a mix of melee damage and holding aggro, I do just fine no matter how many other tankers there are on the team.

Took my fire/fire brute into a MA mission with all toggles on. Had about a quarter to a third or less runners than currently on Live. Unlike Live, they all came back in short order. (10-20 seconds max? Some less than that. My time sense goes wonky in combat.) At the end, the map was essentially clear - I only had to chase down one straggler. (I was impatient and didn't wait to see if he would come back.) Took him street sweeping in Bricks and PI, same result. A small number of runners, if they could find a path back to me they came back pretty quickly.

IIRC, the splash screen art actually predates the full design of CoH and in particular the final designs of many of the characters. Just to the right of the early version Statesman (no cape as he wears, or wore, ingame) is an early version of or either Miss Liberty or Ms Liberty. IIRC, the gentleman just to the right of her is an early version of Synapse. The character with the dreadlocks is an early version of Back Alley Brawler.

The first question to ask is whether or not the HC dev team even has the original LRSF code.

My own Miss character - Miss Mechanism, a re-roll of my old villain: Mistress Mechanism. Pictured here with her "boys".

This is a logically inconsistent position to hold because the second point flows inexorably from the first. A position that's impossible to hold while claiming to agree with my first point. (Which is that you have to do something to try and attract new players. "More of the same, only better" is the antithesis of this.) Basically, you're just trying to springboard off of what I said into a rant about I13. Folks, I13 was a long time ago. It happened, and that can't be changed. It's not going to be reverted. The current dev team isn't responsible for it. Let it rest already. You're never going to fix or improve PvP in the future if you can't let go of the past.

The nature of games (incl minigames/games within games, such as PvP) is that they lose players over time... (There's a million reasons not involving the game itself that players move on. New jobs, new IRL partners, all the way up to death.) Unless you have a way of attracting and keeping new players, the game and/or minigame will invariably die. No, there's no guarantee that new players will come - but you have to try. That's why, back in the OG days, the dev team tried to find a way to attract new players to PVP. If they didn't, there were absolutely inevitable consequences. To a thoughtful dev team (which the current one certainly is), these considerations still apply. The surest way to kill something is to tailor it to the unavoidably narrow and short term interests of the current players. (Plus the more general principle as articulated back in the day by BABs: "The best thing a dev can do is listen to their players, the worst thing a dev can do is listen to their players".) Players rarely think like Devs and almost never keep the larger picture in mind or remember to take the longer view into account. Even in cases like I13, the devs did take the input of players into account - but the players need to realize that "taking their input" and "giving the players what they ask for" are not equivalent statements.

Aw crap, never mind then.

I'm on my first cup of coffee, but derned if those big wings don't remind me of Master Asia from G Gundam...

It went live months ago.

Or use the instanced version.

It's not the anime title, it's the title of the light novel the anime is based off of. They've practically become one (long) line descriptions of the contents. Bofuri's title is on the *short* side by current standards.

Shiruo Momoji - a shield/fire tanker inspired by Maple in the currently airing anime BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense. "Shirudo" means shield, and "Momoji" (on top of being a girls name) refers to the flaming red color of autumn leave in general and those of the maple in specific. What other anime inspired toons are out there?

In other words, you do so deliberately and knowingly. That's not a good look. Once again, you miss the purpose of the Suggestions & Feedback forums. People don't want your "advice". We're here to discuss things that can be added to the game and the potential future for the game. That's the whole purpose of this forum.

That's the hard held belief of many. It's even partially true. What people forget, willingly so because it undercuts their memeified version of reality, is the rest of the story... It's well known that people value things they have earned as opposed to simply being given. (That's why so many people value badges and levels - they're visible markers of accomplishment and status.) That being said however... I'll take a soft pass. I ground for years with my small, personal, SG to get even the most minimally functional base. And even then, a good part of the prestige I spent came from the free Prestige the Dev's handed out. Build a system where the prestige costs are markedly less, and you get refunds when you delete an item, and it might be worth considering. (The devil is as always in the details.)