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If that's what it is, that's what I'm referring to. I don't really ever bother with it as I'm never in that situation. I'm a Franken-slotter when it comes down to it.

Okay. Just went to Stephane Peebles in Striga with another player. We both went to Stephanie Pebbles who gave us her first mission to hunt down 5 council. We completed the 5 arrests and went back to Stephanie. And .... contact goes inactive. Didn't even level. I would call that an open arc that closed due to outleveling. Usually this happens to me during an arc, and I will continue to post about it I guess, because it happens to me all the time. However, I will note that none of the Inactive contacts on the character I'm currently playing are showing the open arc icon.

okay, so how do you open that story arc book?

It's a matter of perspective, experience, power choices, enhancement slotting, and game-style preferences. They are all meant to be balanced. The balance becomes increasingly obvious as you fill a team to 8. Solo, there are obvious differences especially if you are rating archetypes based on damage per second (aka DPS). In this case, there is even DPS variations within an archetype based on the powers picked and how they are enhanced to the extent that it may change their standing in regard to DPS versus other archetypes based on their powers picked and how they are enhanced. I'm a character conception player so I avoid the cookie-cutter. Overpowered or underpowered isn't really an issue to me. I just like exploring the game and the power sets and figuring out things that I can do with the powers that we have access to. We each play the game the way that we - hopefully - enjoy it the most.

If I remember correctly, 6 of the same kind is the max that will function on a character. But I would say if your END is staying up above 25% all of the time, you probably have enough Performance Shifters slotted * *Disclaimer :: you may need additional END recovery methods if you are fighting Sappers, Shockers, or those with other electrical attacks.

Not my experience. Any contact will cut you off if you outlevel them, and you can't get any more missions from them when that happens (unless it's one of those two-parter ones that you immediately get the next mission without going to the contact first). You can go to the Ouroboros and get the arc and do it all over again from scratch. The Ouro locks you to the appropriate level so that you won't out-level the arc while running it. If you run on +0, 1 settings with no XP boosters and you start a contacts arc as soon as you get it, you will be unlikely to outlevel the contact before you complete their arc. The other solution is to xp lock your character so you don't gain XP once you start an arc. I'm thinking most people won't want to do that, but it's an option. Everyone else on the team can still get XP if they want. The pretty obvious solution these days is to wait to do arcs by doing the Ouroboros version once you outlevel them. Especially, if your initial goal is to gain merits by completing arcs. But you have to take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I'm not worried about leveling other than to keep up some someone that I might have made some kind of outside of game leveling pact. I'm really not worried about merits either. I just like playing City of Heroes. As I often get in leveling pacts with a person or persons that want to use x2 XP all the time and usually running with higher difficulty settings, I'm quite frequently outleveling arcs. Like all the time.

A cheap trick! ... but ...

I don't know if it will play on Shield TV, but my big screen TV IS my computer monitor.

Sorry about the breaks, but glad to have you back in the city. Welcome home.

looks like a /jranger to me. Explain yourself. The level 1-50 content IS THE GAME. The content AFTER level 50 is the end-game. It is the stuff stuck onto the end of the game because you have completed playing THE GAME. This isn't DCUO where you have to level to 30 (playing some great old school missions from the old days of comics) before you can get into the grinding end-game of new comics that get retconned every 15-days at this point. In fact, a large amount of level 50 content is in the Ouroboros which levels you down so you can run the GAME content that was skipped over either by power-leveling past it or leveling past it by simply running parallel content. The level 1-50 content IS NOT A TUTORIAL. The game has tutorials and you already can bypass them. The tutorials happen before you actually enter THE CITY. It isn't a "mini" tutorial. Those ARE the tutorials. I tell you what. I have played this City of Heroes since Episode 1. I don't think I might have one character with a veteran level .... might. I don't have to have some flag on my character that says I'm a veteran player to be a veteran player. I am a veteran player. I know it. I have played this City of Heroes since Episode 1. Anyone can log on, get power-level in a farm and have a character that says it is a veteran in less than a day. Are they L337 or a veteran? I think the answer is obvious. AE babies. AE BABIES. AE BABIES ARE NOT VETERAN PLAYERS! They certainly aren't veteran characters. And, yeah, a got a button pushed on this. I admit it. I'm guessing a new thread to discuss it every couple of months at this rate. Obviously, this. I guess the ultimate answer is really - if this is what you want, then there are other City of Heroes servers that already offer this. So, not to be rude, but just go play on another server if you don't like Homecoming. You can also go to the beta server and level yourself up there to 50 and enhance your character for free. And I apologize for being a bit miffed about this, but I actually like to have people to game with that don't think they are "too good" to play the actual game.

It's a general thing to search the forums before you post about something, but I don't always do it. I'm against this. I guess my view of this may evolve so I'll go with where I'm at now. There are some people that like to farm and apparently like to have doorsitters. I say let the system stay the way that it is so that it doesn't ruin the way Farmers like to play the game. I'm not a farmer. I don't "hate" farmers like I used to. Who really cares at this point? But I think even in the farming experience there is probably SOME discussion about powers. What you are essentially doing is making it free because :: So why make Yomo foot the bill? Make it free if something like this MUST happen. I don't think it is necessary or any advantage to game play. In fact, I think it avoids that game entirely and puts the player directly into the end-game. I don't play end-game. I don't think it is a good idea to put new players into a position where they feel like they have to level to 50 from the get go to enjoy the game, because they don't. Leveling to 50 actually bypasses the joy of leveling with a team. I know that there are those that are jaded and don't want play the game and want to go directly to "win". At least, I'm assuming what "insta50" is to them. And, yeah, I do think that's jaded. Does it make you better than other players somehow because you bypassed playing the game? The answer from me is obviously it does not. You may just want to play the City of Heroes a different way.

Did they try /stuck?