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I don't know how old your computer is or what version of windows you may be running (if you are running windows at all) Have you run all your Windows updates? if you are using the hard drive launcher click on the ... in the window for the server you are launching and click on verify. Have you done a full hard drive scan for viruses? If you virus checker can do it, I would have it run a registry cleaner. Clear all the cookies from your browsers. Gave you run a check on your hard drive to check for damage sectors? Right click on the number in one of the extra trays. Click on close tray. Continue doing this until all the extra trays are closed. Are you viewing the game on a television? if so, you may have to go in and change the frame size, because it looks like to me that you are not seeing the whole screen image. It looks like the Hit Point bar is off the top of the screen on the right. Try typing /menu to get into the option and set everything to default and see if that helps.

I remember an episode where a Cobra submarine gets blown out of the water and the Cobra agents jump out wearing parachutes! They are constantly doing with repeated threads because they don't have enough villains to team with on the "red" side. And if that is insulting to someone, then the OP should be considered insulting for posting what they posted to start this thread.

When they did it on DCUO, if I recall correctly, they gave you a rename token to rename your character. If you were the first person in to pick the name again, it was yours and the other character with that name had to pick a new one. But, yeah, "Superman atTurric" seems to be a valid name in CoH. Causes issues with the rest of the game mechanics if you try to link the global to the name. So many Superman characters running around on DCUO, you get your 5uperman, xxxSupermanxxx, Superman tm, Original Superman, 52 Superman, CW Superman, blah, blah, blah... Original Superman, Real Superman, Superman Original, blah, blah... I'm still going with "don't poke the bear" by making the game easier to access Asia.

Have you tried DC Universe Online? Run by Jack, has DC characters, higher-end graphics. Nowhere as good as City of Heroes, but better graphics and DC Characters ...and they don't apparently give a Comics Authority about you making Marvel Characters because they are all over the place including Marvel supergroups.

Well, Reunion is in Europe....so....

Well, that would take out the only European server, so I don't think that is happening. And Torchbearer was the original server, so unless Indomitable was merged into it, I don't think that happening. Indomitable has been working so hard to up it's numbers, that doesn't see to be fair either. I also kind of think if the reach extend the ability to easily play it into Asia that is really going to cause an case of NCSoft issues that I would rather not see happening.

Looks like a Mastermind Primary appears to be Mercenaries. But she would take none of the assault rifle powers, just the pet and pet related powers for the primary. Time Manipulation because she has a ranged attack that works as a hold. Time is also the closest to reality warping powers I think. (She definitely doesn't appear to have cold powers.) If she has lost her power to control others and make them her minions, then... Some kind of Dominator, Corrupter ... maybe a blaster or controller? I didn't see her use an melee attacks, so maybe it's down to a Corruptor or Controller. I'd lean toward Corruptor without knowing anything more than this video. Looks like she is turning people to stone, but there isn't a stone hold for Seismic Blast. For Corruptor version :: I know people tend to think Psychic Blast is weak because it's sleeps, but It seems to fit. Secondary, I would go with Time Manipulation - which does have a hold. For Controller version :: Earth Control or Mind Control. Earth control because of the stone hold. Mind Control as she apparently is manipulation reality which we don't have powers for. I'm back to Time Manipulation because of the hold again. [somewhat edited but I'm running out of time, so may be a bit garbled in places ... .sorry.... gotta run .. THE CITY is calling my name.]

I've been using a Logitech F310 to play City of Heroes since I joined up just before issue 2 dropped. Works great. The controller gives me full access to movement (including 2 travel powers [generally sprint/hover and a fast travel power fly/superleap/etc), auto run, target nearest, target next, select the blue hand/left mouse click, a heal insp macro, and all of tray 1 and tray 2 (through the use of tray flip macros) [I even have one version that I don't suggest others use in order to flip to a third tray when running Kheldians.] Things that I use the mouse and keyboard for - targeting powers with the blue hand/cursor (I usually park it on the back of my character so I can even avoid taking my hand off the controller to go through doors and click on glowies), using the mouse to select another player, and chatting. On rare occasions use the mouse to select a specific target in a mob versus toggling through a mob. My hands are like 90%+ on the controller.

Oh, for the love of Vulcan, don't do that! First you need to create a game profile with your commands. Logitech Profiler>Profile>New Then go though naming and setting up command for each button. Then you need to make the controller look like a keyboard to the computer. Logitech Profiler>Options>Global Profiler Settings>Type of Profile to apply - apply persistent profile (and almost most importantly) make sure to clear all the buttons under general behavior - this will stop the controller from being recognized automatically when you start your computer. That's the streamlined version, but see the full instructions for the Logitech F310 here ::

I think you keep on misconstruing what I'm saying to be honest. I never said that the Ouroboros doesn't treat the arcs it gives like a task force/strike force, and, honestly, I can't see where I even implied that. I agree that you can get the old style task forces through the Ouoboros in addition to arcs that you may not have done while leveling. As I indicated, I probably should not be posting about what "I" was talking about here as there is apparent confusion that it is somehow related to dismissing contacts that weren't completed during leveling .... as it has nothing to do with that ... it is ENTIRELY related to following Origin arc contacts and to a lesser extent the Origin arcs that may remain in the Ouroboros. I agree that it was a method for Badge hunters to do content from outleveled contacts instead of trying to exemplar down to run missed arcs with lower level characters. which again, has nothing to do with my quest to try to follow the Origin arcs from contact to contact from level 1 and then track down those contacts in the Ouroboros and see which ones are still both in normal play and/or in the Ouroboros.

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Agreed. That being agreed upon, I think that there are Origin Arcs in the Ouroboros. It should even be fairly obvious which Origin the Arc is related to if it is an Origin Arc. I thinks part of the confusion is that I shouldn't be posting about what I'm doing/thinking about this in this thread as my goal isn't removing contacts from my outlevelled contact list. Agreed. Hence, my reason to start new characters and to try to track the arcs/contacts as I level ... currently working with a Magic and a Science character. I think Magic merges with Natural first and then Mutation ... if I remember correctly. Science with Tech and then Natural(?) (or maybe Mutation?). Task forces/Strike forces are outside of the Origin Arcs but in some ways run parallel to them. Dr Vaz (Posi 2) being linked to Circle of Thorns (which is a weird one as I always thought Dr Vaz was science origin based on the Origin arcs). Old school clockwork (Posi 1) being linked to Circle of Thorns (so I guess that's the same weirdness).

There is no mastermind pet customization.

Just logged into Excelsior, picked up all the loot from the stuff I had on sale, bought a H/V and a V/R card pack, opened them, and retrieved a card pack item from email. I'm wondering what might be causing it your end?

Not before I get my nature blast powers, customizable mastermind pets, color-customizable acoustic guitar backpack, costume slot linked fly poses ... and, yeah ... other stuff! The DEVs are great. They will do what they can as they can. How about some lists of what you think the powers should be for those sets you are suggesting? And why no Scrapper primary Temporal set?! (Sounds like a speedster set to me!)

This is pretty negative from the get go. Honestly, I'm not sitting at my computer doing nothing if I'm waiting to see something drop in LFG that I want to join. And if I am recruiting, I have already done a search to see if I think there are enough players online that might want to join whatever content that I'm looking to recruit for. I get the feeling that you don't understand or know how to use the recruiting tools in the game so you seem to be the one that is "close minded" to me. I have a good friend that I have been gaming with for over ... damn ... 35 years at this point that lives out in the sticks and has the equivalent of two tin cans connected by some string for an internet connection so he can't use Discord. Honestly, I think TS3 (teamspeak) is a superior communication product when paired with a website ... huh, we HAVE a Homecoming website ... you posted to it! (another tool for recruiting, that you may be ignoring! Not to imply you are close-minded!) There is a City of Heroes Homecoming Discord and you are more than willing to go over there to use it, but it's rude to call other people Luddites for not using it. We are not throwing wooden shoes into the Discord source code! "A common misconception relates to the etymology of "sabotage" and how it relates to clogs (or sabatage). A popular misunderstanding is Luddites threw their wooden shoes (or sabots) into the machines to break them up. Hence. they sabotaged the machinery. However, Sabot in French not only refers to wooden clogs but also railway sleepers and in all probability disgruntled French workers in 1912 cut the railway tracks and used the sabots (sleepers) to destroy industrial equipment." -http://historyofwoodenshoes.blogspot.com/2009/05/attraction-of-wooden-shoes.html

The starting character arcs are not in Ouroboros. Except for the post-fall of Galaxy City arcs. So if you want to do those, you will need to hit up the contacts while still in their level range. Later arcs are accessible, to the best of my knowledge, just not the starter get-used-to-the-game stuff in City Hall. uh, the arcs for fighting Dr Vazh and the Clockwork King aren't through the "starting character arcs". They are through other contacts down the line and I don't even think it was the 2nd or even the 3rd contact in the origin contact strings if I remember correctly. Thanks. It's more of a "task" than anything I will really have fun doing, because I'll have to be careful not to outlevel stuff as I go (I generally like a challenge but I know that would yield too much xp for what I'm trying to accomplish) It will be something I'm doing when I'm not .... up to no good ..., feel like start a group, or see some group that I want to join trying to recruit from more. I have plenty of other characters to jump to for all of that.

Exactly. I'm going to work on following those original paths and see if I can map out the contacts. I might have to go dig through the Ouroboros arc stuff to make sure I'm not going off path. But I think the origin contacts might still send you to the next origin contact so I'm going see what I can find. As I recall, they origin contact lines started merging as you leveled ..... like I said in a previous post in this thread. I think there was and still may be an arc about the origin of the origins. I don't know if it was removed or if it's just hidden back there so far away from the popular stuff these days that it's just not as easily accessible as it once was.

Okay, so what is the problem with them being in your inactive contact list?

I don't know when the change happened, but I remember different origin paths. I was sent on mission arcs to fight Dr Vazh and the Clockwork King based on my Origin. I think both those arcs are out there and accessible in the Ouroboros if not by following the origin contacts any longer. At this point, honestly mostly do a couple of DFBs and then hit Posi 1 and 2 and Penelope Yin and then random from there. I guess I'll have to go back and not use any 2xp and see what I can find for myself. I'll make a science and a magic and see what contact paths are the options. I'm not doubting you, but I know they used to be there.

At least the starter contacts do. I have the feeling that there are still legacy origin contacts if you follow the origin contacts trail from other origin contacts instead of using the find contacts menu None of the Praetorian ones that get littered into the content in the 20's or so ever had any origin relation nor hero/villian relation for that matter and you only get sent to these to start if you use the "find contact" button unless you are Praetorian and are sent to them by prior contacts, but even these may have some origin relation based on what kind of contact they are. Some are definitely more mystically based. But one thing to point out, the villain group you fight against drops enhancement based on their origin, so if you are trying to save influence, you need to be running content from contacts that are related to your origin who will send you to fight villains that are related to your origin that drop related origin enhances. If you get the book icon on the contact, you can't out level the contact - is that correct? You can out level the missions, but the book keeps the contact open so that you can complete the arc, get the merits, and get the next contact (even if they immediately blow you off because you outleveled them.) are you saying you want to delete them from the active or inactive contacts list? I'm assuming you are trying to delete them from the active contacts list, if so you should still be able to do these missions even if they are held open by the book icon and the enemies are grey. Are you talking about leaving Ouroboros arcs? Okay, so not stuck open with the book? I think you can go back and talk to them and they tell you to take a hike.

This is incorrect. I can't find evidence quickly to back this up, but I believe that the origins arcs start to merge together as you advance. I can't remember at what level this starts happening, but, if I recall correctly through all my alting ... Starts off with just your own origin for origin related contacts. Then there are two origin contacts. Then there are three origin contacts. Then there are four origin contacts. and heading on 50 all the origins merge together. But that is just for origin related contacts. As the game progressed ... merits were added for completing arcs. If I want to get credit for an arc I'm playing at that point, I would have to have the same contact and follow it through to the end. How many players are going to be able start the arc together? Sometimes someone would join a team that had the arc that was several missions behind and we would go back and run their missions until they caught up to the rest of the team. If it was an origin mission, there might be people from other origins that couldn't even get the arc. So more generic contacts were added to the game which were not origin related. I have the feeling that some of the original origin arc paths may have even have been removed due to the size of the game. (I don't believe this was a heavy handed as they have had to be with DCUO which is constantly whittling away at their older content to reduce the side of the game). if you followed the origin missions it is a long convoluted story with *** spoilers**** about each of the origins and their interactions with one another.

Logged into my secondary account. Bought a H/V and V/R card pack. Opened them. And pulled card pack items out of email. I have never purchased cardpacks with this secondary account before and so had no card pack items in email before I opened those 2 packs. It seems to be working for me at this point regardless of account.