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This rule exists because copyright law says it has to. If you'd like to dispute its validity or necessity, feel free to contact all of the governments in the world and take it up with them. You'll find no ground given here, the HC team has made their position very clear: they follow the law. @GM Impervium, you know what to do.

Has any of the content been revised to increase the difficulty in response to SO availability at level 1? Has any new content been added with higher than standard difficulty at beginner levels? The answer to both questions is, "No." The difficulty of existing beginner content hasn't changed, no new beginner content has been added since before the original servers were shut down. Is there, then, any content which precludes the participation of exemplared characters due to enhancement devaluation? The answer to that question is also, "No." So really, the only justification for this is "'cuz lowbies get SOs", and that justification only works if we ignore that an exemplared 50 has more slots, more powers, access to enhancements which can only be slotted at level 50 (whether or not the player uses those enhancements, they still exist and the system was designed to account for their use), and the complete and utter lack of any actual need for this change, since exemplared characters have proven to perform more than adequately. Yeah, no.

Don't look at me. I'd be chewing my way through the bars to get to the tiger. BELLY RUBS!

Including the default slots in Rest, Brawl, Sprint, Swift, Hurdle, Health and Stamina, the level 9 character has 21 possibilities for slotting enhancements. Your level 50 character has 98. It's fine.

As long as all of the Defense and Resistance suppress, and that suppression includes when the character buffs teammates in addition to attacking. Also, we have a Suggestions & Feedback forum. Help & Support isn't it.

Alphas make it possible to shuffle slots around without sacrificing attribs in powers, consequently permitting different slotting strategies which can lead to more set bonuses. You can't retain maxed out everything plus better bonuses when you exemplar below 45, but that's intentional. Alphas were the answer to requests for more slots since the game launched. HC isn't going to change that answer simply because more people ask, because Alphas are controlled. Raw slots would not be.

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Flashback

The most disappointing thing about hitting 50 IRL is that Kheldians are still locked.

@Veracor

T2 and higher Alphas improve multiple attributes. You're correct, they do apply those boosts only to applicable powers, but the fact that they're improving three or more attributes and doing so globally means we gain the equivalent of many extra slots. If I slot Agility Core Paragon on my Illusion/TA controller, I get a free Defense SO in Combat Jumping, Hover, Evasive Maneuvers and Superior Invisibility, and a free EndMod SO in Stamina, and free Recharge Reduction SOs in Blind, PA, OSA, EMP Arrow, Spectra Wounds, Poisonous Ray, Hasten... You're trying to make the case that Alphas can't be considered the equivalent of extra slots because they don't necessarily always boost what we want boosted, that it "doesn't count" if you can't slot ten different things in ten different powers, but that's not relevant because Alphas aren't binary and we don't treat them as such. That SO's worth of +Whatever, +Stuff and +AnotherThing is the equivalent of one or more extra slots in every relevant power, and since we can choose among a wide variety of +Whatever/+Stuff/+AnotherThing options to gain the most benefit to the widest range of powers, we can tailor those slot equivalents to a significant degree. You'd have a point if Alphas never progressed beyond T1... but they do. Or if players slotted Alphas which only buffed one attribute for a single power in an entire build... but they can't.

The Alpha slot already does the equivalent of this.

https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=redirects.pool_teleportation.teleport_lowend&at=none Teleport again within 15 seconds and the cost is reduced to 7.8. If you want it to use less endurance than that, I'm pretty sure the answer that you'll receive from the HC team is "Slot it".

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Range is a schedule B (20% +0 SO value) attrib. It's working as intended.

/e sniff Ew. Old farts.

Cool nipple rings, brah.

I didn't say that. I didn't insinuate that. Not a single line of any of my posts has made any reference to teammates quitting. You need to find the person who made that statement and argue with him/her.

You're backing the "whole team chases the string" hyperbole? You're actually saying that the only person on the team who makes conscious choices, who has free will, is the person using KB? Bitch, please.

If you're seeing multiple teammates drop what they're doing and chase things that move, the problem isn't KB, it's that you're teamed with cats. Humans will generally ignore the enemy which has been knocked back, leaving it for the KB-user to deal with. Don't team with cats. Problem solved. You're welcome.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Scientific_Method/Independent_and_Dependent_Variables

You can't do the side missions first. If you do, this is what happens. Complete the main mission (rob the bank/stop the bank robbers), then you can hit the side missions. Why? Because Cryptic and Paragon didn't want players farming the side missions for things like temporary powers or badge progress by resetting the bank mission over and over again.

Summation of the objections to a KB->KD toggle from other threads. Not a debate. Not an invitation to a debate. A list for readers to peruse and consider. Trust me, peaches, you do not want me involved in this. The train will be on fire and out of control before it's fully exited the platform.

I prefer to play with myself, and I'm usually not comfortable when people watch.

Yes, it does. Psi Tornado has always done KU. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=epic.psionic_mastery.psionic_tornado&at=controller <- bottom entry Neither Winter enhancements nor Overwhelming Force enhancements are crafted. They only exist as attuned enhancements. There aren't even any recipes for them in the database.