UltraAlt

I'm assuming you don't think your post is whining. One's person's post for change is seen by some as whining about what that don't like. With this in your post, it seems self-defeating to me.

You gain farming tickets for farming or do you get ticketed for farming?

Per base You can have all the bases you want up to one per character on your account. I would suggest having at least one more character than bases so that they can move from sg to sg to transport whatever you need to transport from sg base to sg base.

I don't mind fighting them, but then I don't avoid fighting Malta either.

There is no need to build a character that you don't want to play. What is your character conception? What are their aspects? Where or how did they train to fight? All set work and combinations work, it's more about understanding what the character can do and adapting your playstyle to fit what the character can do.

I'm not sure what this is all about. Yeah. The packs are going to be stuck at 25M year round. I think that originally they were only on sale during the Winter Event and not year around. I'm certainly not complaining about making a profit on market sales. I just never flipped Winter Card packs. I have a base full of Winter Pack enhancements. Hopefully, it will be enough to handle my need for Winter IOs, but I get enough merits from card packs that merits aren't really an issue when purchasing enhancements from a merit vendor. Gotta run.

There is one.

I'm just glad that we finally have some weapon customization on it, but I would still like to have the Council and/or 5th Column rocket launcher/bazooka as customization option.

Oh, I had one that was a beast mastermind, but I found out you can get the bird and insect powers with a dominator as well (savage assault). It wasn't horrible to be a pet-less beast mastermind, but I was running with empathy secondary. It was a bit end heavy, and I was often soloing. Next attempt was Demons mastermind, because of the whip. I have 3 of these at this point. I wouldn't suggest using a pet-less mastermind for soloing or for much over the mid 30's. It can be a serious challenge to solo. I think the secondary really makes a huge difference. I think electric works really well as you need to treat a the team you are on as your minions as you have no pets. Focus on keeping the team up and functioning and attack through someone on the team. The whip is mostly melee, so you can be up in the fight with the melee members of your team and shield them as well as healing and buffing them. You have to watch out for Tanks that do not taunt and jumping up into a battle if the enemies all purples. When the enemy level is high and/or there is no taunting going on, then stay with the rear/ranged unit and shield/buff/heal them and attack any strays that try to move toward the backfield. I don't know what level you are playing. But I've been doing fine with my whip masterminds and been a benefit to the teams below level 40 that I have been on.

Simple solution to that is here. Plus you can buy training enhancements and DO. Training supposedly goes to 20. Another trick is to run DFB. It drops SOs that match the character. This works at any level, and it helps fill DFB teams for the characters that are using them to level. I'm not a grinder, so I would not push this to be done over and over again for any reason. But it is a way to get SO's without spending influence on them. If you don't want to out-level content, then simply lock your xp and run it just for the enhancements. You can play the content on flat with training enhancements until you can't buy them any more, You can do this sucessfully. Power-level to 50, and, yeah, you are putting yourself in a bad position. But power-leveling to 50 really isn't the intent of the game. It is just what some people do. I agree that we are getting new players We are also still getting returning players that haven't played since before the sunset. Well, the tutorials are in there, but they are before you get to Atlas, the Isles, or that other place that some don't speak of. Twinshot's arc is just lame. It is definitely not a tutorial. Players really need to be directed to the origin contacts. Specifically to their origin contact. A character should have the origin contact when they zone into THE CITY and be directed to speak to them in the Hud. I don't like Matt-whoevers starting arc either. Both of these seem to have been added as funneling arcs to try to get new characters all going through the same contacts for the merit rewards. The origin arcs in Atlas appear to have been created as solo missions. Teaming doesn't really seem to be intended until you leave Atlas. Hazard Zones are supposed to push you into teaming. I think the basics of influence are in the tutorial. Someone could make an AE arc that explains all the different types of currency ... if they really wanted to. Pretty much anything can be explained in the AE while it behaving as a mission as well. it could be the mission contact giving information. Things encountered in the mission could give information. The DEVs don't have to do all the work if someone in the community really wanted to help out with this or someone that thought this was necessary took the time to add it. Of course, this all comes back to players being directed to information instead being told to go look for it. I mean -- how many people these days actually go and run the IO arc in the University? i don't think players are even directed to go do it at this point. There is a guy in City Hall that you can talk to about day jobs, but how many people just run past him? Agreed. In my experience, you end up getting more than that. You can upgrade now. So I went to the Beta server to check somethings out before posting. I'm assuming the enhances are still working as they do on live. I can't buy Training enhancements from the Freedom Corp Rep near Miss Liberty. it starts with DO. It looks like you can buy DO's until around level 29. You could upgrade these to 50. I was interested in testing to see if I was able to upgrade training enhances all the way to 50 with the upgrade feature. I don't see any reason that you shouldn't be able to. I guess I missed when they remove Training enhances.

2 DFB runs will get you to 8 or street sweep for a bit for the last bit to get to level 8.

You don't. Use the Auction House to buy it. Incorrect, in the first sentence. I would much rather the DEVs to other things than spend the massive amount of time on this that it would take to provide what you are asking for. The damage is moving the DEVs time to do this than having them do things that they want to do to improve the a game. Insulting other players is no way to get people to agree with you.

Sounds more like an AE mission than a base. I think there was a Holiday AE Mission contest last year ... or maybe the year before ... or maybe I dream to much about CoH.

I'm sure that someone has already said it, but I have to get into game quickly The Winter Packs will no longer drop in price during the Winter Event. Last Winter Event was the last time it it would drop in price. I don't have time to do the forum searches to pull up the post in regard to this. Last year there was a huge run on Winter Packs. I'm not sure who would do that. Just for disclosure, I never bought any Winter Packs to resell them for a higher price once the Winter Event sale price was over.

Most things, but not AFK farming or farming in general for me.

Sometimes I spend too much time in the forms because it's easier to converse in the forums than during combat as I have to take my hands of my game controller. Well, I think the SO's are a better deal until 45. Non-set IO's don't lose potency as you level up, but you can't upgrade them either. Like I said in another post, sometimes spreading a little wealth helps out everyone all around. I'm wondering that server you are on that you are seeing so much of this. (or at least running into players that will admit to it. I or my team have called out people on it a couple of times - and I offered to give them loot to help. Honestly, it happens more often than not that they refuse it and say that they will email themselves loot from an alt later on) I really see very little of it, but I have been running a lot of side project lately and not leading team as much as I should. I'm even getting distracted when /lfgs go out, but if they they filled before I get in, I'm just glad that they were able to fill the team to do what they wanted to do.

I think you missed this part .... It seems like you really think that they need to full enhanced out with fresh SOs at least. Would you be willing help out others on your team do at least that? (honestly, it usually one player in my experience - and few and far between - but I don't play on Excelsior much) I don't farm for loot. I don't play my 50's very often. Usually only to help fight level 40+ AVs or when my friends want to play 50's (they know I really don't like doing it, so it is rare). But I do have some influence to spread around, and I don't mind doing it to help the community ... especially my teammates. Again, that's me. I don't expect you to do it. But I know others that have and still do. Yomo is a good example

And that's the reason I have multiple characters on every server.