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Sounds like it worked out for the best then. Gratz!

Task forces have always been like this. I have never seen a large number of players drop out from at task force. I don't remember a task force I've been on since gaming with Homecoming server for over 5 years where a task force I have been on has lost more than 2 players from a full team by the end of the taskforce. Sure you can. You just can't do it with the character running that is in the task force. I'm assuming you have more than one character. The whole point of task forces originally was to always run them with a full 8 character team. Being able to run them with fewer characters is already relaxing the taskforce rules. If putting your settings at -1, x0 isn't enough for the end boss maybe you should try to get at least 4 on your task force. I'm glad you posted, but I disagree with you. I think the task force system should stay the way that it is now.

Seems dystopian ... oh, wait .. that was the whole point of Praetoria.

I'm confused. It is a heal/buff/debuff set like the other Corruptor secondaries. Which other Corruptor secondary has powers that cause damage?

Well, I do have several characters that would use this one.

Off topic, but the one stuck in my head at this point is

"Pulse bolts" are also "repulsor ray" technology ... with higher damage ..., so I figure they would do even more knockback than a "repulsor rays". So, yeah, energy blast just like normal "repulsor rays"

Well, "[looking to roleplay - talk to me in /local or send me a tell]" would probably go a long way. I don't know if the rper flag helps or not. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Roleplaying_(Slash_Command) It looks like you already have those bases covered. There is really no way to know if you are trying to ERP with a minor or not, so unless you actually know the person, I would suggest avoiding ERP in game.

Wow. What Shard are you paying on? I can't say that I have seen bios on every Shard, and they are few and far between sometimes, but I know I have seen other players with bios on Reunion, Torchbearer, Everlasting, and Excelsior ... and I only usually have time to look for them when standing around waiting for a DFB or task force to start. Try going to the bars upstairs in the Pocket D on Everlasting and you will run into RP's just /emote'ing or just standing there without an emote even and most ... if not all of them ... have bios. Heck, even characters just standing around in the main room of the Pocket D often have bios. I guess if you are on Excelsior, you get what comes with being on the most populated server. I have been lucky this time around and only run into two stalkers that were following my characters around or trying to go on "quiet walks" with them or what not. Server jumping has always been good for me. I still do it all the time. My homage characters costumes always look different from the character they are a homages to, but with the same basic flavor often with color palette changes. Kind of the way I do with my bios. I don't recall ever having even one of my characters' names or customs being genericized. ...well, except for when I genericized all my character bios, changes their costumes to Praetorian androids, paraded them all out to the statue in front of City Hall in Altas, and then blew them up with https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Inherent_Powers#Self_Destruction when I cancelled my subscription almost a year exactly before the Sunset... ... but the DEVs didn't do that directly to my characters ... the DEVs only prompted me to do it through the changes to the game and NCSoft trying to squeeze as much money out of F2Prs and subscribers alike.

Before the Sunset, I was experimenting with auction house. I was able to get millions on level 1 characters (more than one) through nothing but trade in the auction house. I can't remember if I level locked them or not, I'm sure I would have if it was an option back then (we must have been able to, because you would get more influence if you did .. if my mind is remembering correctly) I would fight for some salvage and then start flipping salvage until I had enough to start flipping enhancements. I kind of think I even had some level ones with enough loot saved up that I was able to start crafting (I think they were limited to holding and auctioning 3 at a time) ... probably 35 and 40 recharge IO enhances as crafted a lot of those back then before it became ludicrously cheaper buy them and flip them than to craft them even with the crafting discount due to memorization. I also had level ones that would travel to zones/area of the map that they shouldn't be able to survive getting to. The market was way worse before the Sunset. It was especially worse on the Villian and Praetorian side with the currency hadn't been combine yet. There is salvage seeding on Homecoming so there is very little manipulation of the salvage market which makes crafting less expensive. Someone gifted me 30 million when they found out that I as a returning player. I started trading with that and have given way-way more than that to other players directly or indirectly. If you do your costume changes below level 10, they don't cost anything. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Fashion_Designer_Badge can help with the price after that Oh, there was plenty of stuff that cost millions before the Sunset. There are plenty of level 50 enhances selling for more than 10 million. Heck one of the reasons in addition to the pay-to-advance incarnate system (even if you were a subscriber) and all the micro-transactions (even if you were a subscriber) was how ridiculous the market was getting. Remember those level 35-40 recharge enhances I was talking about earlier? There was so much influence flying around from AE farmers and gold-farmers that players were throwing money at the AI like it was nothing. I was crafting for probably something like 75k and selling for 150k or something but then people started selling them and buying them at 4 million for some reason. I stopped running between the Wentworths to the University in Steel Canyon to craft and rebuild my stock to just buying them at 100-200k and selling them back for 4 million each ... on pretty much all of my 100+ characters. It just go to the point that it was "what's the point?" I didn't start it. I just followed along with the flow of the market. ... which is the same thing I do here. The /AH is the most balanced PvP in the City of Heroes. And when it comes down to it, if you yell out for some help with infl in the /help channel, you are probably going to get some help ... unless you get known for trying to exploit other people's heroic nature.

or maybe just make a goblin supergroup and see who wants to join up. Let me know what server it is going to be on and I might show up ... I play at weird times and my schedule is not always the same.

Well, you can make a cell phone a mobile hotspot. I'm assuming that flying drones could be set up the same way - without a password (or simply 911 as password). One drone flies out the extent of the ability its ability to receive a signal by trying to stay with range (perhaps somehow tethering itself to the top of a tree or outcropping) then another flying drone that is connected through the first drone's hotspot flies out to do the same thing related to the first), etc. Of course, it would need to be setup for emergency use only due to the probably bandwidth and probably follow the same laws and regulations as any other 911 call. I don't know if that would work in actuality or the cost factor that may be incurred, but it seems like it could possibly for areas without cell phone towers. Another option would be drones large enough to carry and power an uplink to Starlink or one of its upcoming competitors (preferably) with the ability to work as hotspot as well. (which I'm assuming would still be cheaper than using a human-piloted helicopter to do the same thing) The video reminds me of a couple of Hawkwind songs.

There is that thin line between making robot or android humanoid without creating something that can fool humans into believing that it is a human ... even if only the upper part of the body is showing and people are seeing it on television or in a video broadcast ... like ... if I remember correctly ... in Philip K. Dick's The Penultimate Truth

Switch the bow attacks to shuriken (like in https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Martial_Assault) Yeah, switching blinding powder in for https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Ninjas#Smoke_Flash would help with survivability in general. I have https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Concealment#Grant_Invisibility on all my ninja masterminds I try to stay close to them and use 2 of 3 of these: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Mark_of_Supremacy:_Endurance/Pet_%2BResist(All)_and_%2BRegen_Aura https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Command_of_the_Mastermind:_Recharge/Pet_%2BAoE_Defense_Aura https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Expedient_Reinforcement:_Resist_Bonus_Aura_for_Pets Of course, slot up Train Ninja with defense and Kuji In Zen with heal. I'm usually alway in defensive/tank mode and targeting through my highest level henchman. Well, you can keep summoning them all day. How does that saying go? Something like one ninja is very dangerous, but a bunch of ninja are easily defeated while one pirate is not a threat, but a bunch of pirates are dangerous.