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Just kidding!

I thought there were only 666 and that the other 333 were justifiable reasons to spend influence.

I agree wholeheartedly. You go, Stan Lee!

I thought that they already did that once you had achieved things in the zone? Maybe I'm confused again or is that blonde moment? I don't know.

You will see everyone with your graphics settings so they are on an equal playing field as far as that goes. It would be based on your judgement, so you would bring your own bias too it as well. Everyone does that hosts a contest. You aren't being judgemental of anyone. You are just picking what you think to be great costumes regardless of what makes you think a costume is cool. I've been in costume contests and won. I've been in more where I lost. Sometimes the person running the contest give some influence to everyone that participates. Some do top 3 or 5. Some do the top 7 and invite winners to their team and transfer loot that way to make it easy. People like to participate in costume contests even when they lose ... well, at least I do. Some people are color blind. I game with someone in another game that is color blind. As you see by my post, I'm against it. You opened yourself up for it. You appeared to be a player that was fixated on the end-game and didn't want to have to grind to be L337. Just between you and me, I hate end-game stuff in all games. End-game stuff is stuff that is tact onto the end of a game to retain players that have completed the game. The stuff before the end-game is the actual game.

I didn't take a break from CoH back then. I terminated my sub and quit playing in protest. Scrubbed ally my bios. Changed all my character costumes into a Praetorian Clockwork. Took my characters to under that Atlas Statue and self destructed. Logged out of that character and never logged back into it. With all of my 150+ characters. I loved City of Heroes, but I was becoming increasingly angry at the direction of the that the game was going in. It was an ever increasing downhill slide from the release of AE on when the DEVs didn't stick to their 40-ton Ban-Hammer over abuse of the AE. Homecoming is what the game should have been come to subscribers instead of the money grab on top of a subscription that it was. And I still do hate the Incarnate system and farmers so much, but I can avoid both. It was hard to avoid the P2W and the goldfarmers before the sunset. Atlas Park is no longer completely overrun with AE babies that couldn't find their way out of Altas Park once they hit level 50 in the AE. I love Homecoming. I'm so glad that the brought City of Heroes back for us. /e bow

Hide somewhere in a zone, broadcast for people to find you, offer a prize, and make people find you. If you wanted to be generous, give out clues to your location until someone finds you. It becomes a scavenger hunt when you give away IO set enhances when someone finds you. You could always stand on an exploration badge marker as well.

Hosts costume contests. Host bio contests. Hosts task forces that you aren't burned out on and give everyone that joins and stays until the end 10 mil. Give away some to random sub-level 10's. Get all the Vanity Pets. Buy lots of temp powers from the P2W vendor. Buy card packs and sell everything you can on the market. The agony! (throws up arm in front of my head to show how forlorn I am with despair because of end-gamer woes). Must be horrible to have 6 incarnate slots to fill, and it's too grindy to do end-gamer stuff. You know why all that grindy time consuming stuff is there? It's to give you something to do since you if you don't want to alt out and explore the rest of the game. I hate the Incarnate system, but it's for those that want a L337 feeling and you have to grind for that. Leave the L337 grind for the L337 and don't dummy-down the L337 down with P2L337. --- Enjoy the game. Enjoy it your way. But, f you really need to be maxed out to enjoy City of Heroes, I really truly feel bad for you deep-down in the core of my non-conformist heart. Variety is the spice of life. Alt out. Don't rush it. No x2 XP. Explore the City. Fly between missions. Just run around saving hapless heroes on the street. Join that DFB, POSI 1, POSI 2, random PUG, etc! Check out other servers!

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Doctor Ditko caving to THE MAN. Say it isn't so. Throw your wooden shoes into the gears of Technocratic change! Honestly, I was just thinking that Discord is really just that. Discord. It is honestly more for someone that wants to jump from game-to-game rather to have any kind of loyalty to any one (or just a couple) gaming platforms. It tracks players, so you can track down anyone in their multiverse if you want to (easier if you friend them first). I am actively watching it destroy a gaming community that was great for well over a decade. The old school caved in to wanting to attract new gamers that didn't want to bother with joining a gaming forum and using TeamSpeak3. Both have far more versatility than Discord and both have their uses. Discord is just cobbled together mess in my opinion. Enjoy the candy that is Discord if that's your sweet tooth.

Get 7 other controllers on your team with 3 ACCs,1 or 2 recharge, and 1 or 2 hold duration in one or more hold powers with Lockdown +2 Mag Procs in each Hold, Leadership Tactics with 3 To-Hit's, some other sets with ACC bonuses, some global recharge from sets, Hasten (wouldn't hurt), good timing from everyone, good hit rolls, and good luck in general. Powers that defense debuff to make it easier to hit them is always a bonus. Same goes powers for debuffing the AV's to-hit. If you can get a stormy to pin them to a ceiling with hurricane, that does pretty good to help keep them debuffed from hitting you and can keep them getting knocked down over and over again even if they are pinned to the ceiling.

I would suggest not going to the Furry Bar, but that's just me. I'm not going to judge.

It goes down periodically.

... well ... maybe the undead are all staked out in the sun at this point ...

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The Homecoming Launcher is awesome. Automatically updates the clients that you use (live and/or beta). Copies the files from your current install while installing itself. So pretty hassle free on install and use. From my understanding, it is more secure.

It's because you keep cursing your ISP, and they are out for revenge. I told you about mixing the dark arts and the internet!

... maybe this one ....

"The greatest teacher, failure is" - Yoda

I don't know if there is a guide. I know this : your more likely to get on a team if you lead one versus looking for one to join. People are scared of leading; people will pretty much always join a team that you are recruiting for - especially if you continue to recruit over time. There is no minimum level for general mission teams! If it isn't a task force, you can join any level team. You will be more likely to survive one that you are near the same level. You will be more helpful to others if the team is below your level. The higher the level the team is above your characters level, the faster you will level (power-leveling can occur). Most people that recruit will say what level they are willing to have join their team. There are so many abbreviations that people use that it is hard to keep track of them all to be honest. TF - taskforce LFG - a player that is looking for a group LF#M - looking for # more members DFB - Death From Below - a level 1 and up trial good to about level 20. SBB - Summer Blockbuster - two part mini trail - A Bank Heist and a Gladiatorial event. Lots of badges and you get a pick of somethings at the end - the best of which is a universal damage enhancement from the Overwhelming Force Set Radio missions - Missions given to heroes by the Radio scanner that can be picked up at a detective in any city area. Newspaper missions - Missions given to villains by the newspaper Bank or Safeguard mission - a mission which heroes get every 4 scanner missions. Your team stops a bank robbery in a zone with side missions. Bank or Mayhem mission - a mission which villians get every 4 newspaper missions. Your team robs a bank in a zone with side missions including destroying as much of the City as you feel like it - lots of destructibles! XP team - goal of the taskforce is to gain XP Speed run - goal is to do whatever to gain the merits for completion WST - weekly strike target - x2 merits upon completion Farm - A mission that is run over and over again to gain influence (cash!) or levels (aka power-leveling) Often called Task Force Name Contact Min Size Level Range Merits Notes Posi 1 The Rule of the Three (Posi 1) Positron 3 8 to 15 11 Posi 2 Dam Heroes (Posi 2) Positron 3 11 to 16 15 Synapse The Fall of the Clockwork King Synapse 4 15 to 20 58 Long Yin Clamor and Destruction Penelope Yin 5 20 to 25 20 Short Moonfire *The Kheldian War Moonfire 6 23 to 28 32 Citadel Citadel's Children Citadel 6 25 to 30 40 Hess *The MegaMech Cometh Ernesto Hess 6 25 to 30 19 ? Smoke and Mirrors Twilight's Son 1 25 to 34 4 Katie Hannon A Tangled Plot Katie Hannon 6 30 to 34 9 Mantiore Following Countess Crey Manticore 7 30 to 35 32 Lazarus The 5th Column Overthrow Mender Lazarus 1 30 to 39 6 Numina Soul of the Woodsman Numina 4 35 to 40 36 Imperious *Time's Arrow Imperious 6 35 to 50 26 Takes place in Cimerora. Quaterfield *Explorers and Exploiters Dr. Quaterfield 8 40 to 44 122 Majority of TF takes place in the Shadow Shard. ? *The Legend of Ruladak Sara Moore 8 40 to 50 64 Majority of TF takes place in the Shadow Shard. ? *The Saga of Faathim Justin Augustine 8 44 to 50 42 Majority of TF takes place in the Shadow Shard. ? *The Saga of Lanaru Faathim the Kind 8 44 to 50 73 Majority of TF takes place in the Shadow Shard. ? Ms. Liberty Task Force Ms. Liberty (Independence Port) 8 45 to 50 37+2+2 Reward table ? The Lady Grey Task Force The Lady Grey 8 45 to 50 37 Takes place in Rikti War Zone. ? Trading Places Mender Silos 1 46 to 50 14 Minor TF with no recipe reward option. The LFG queue system can work to join think like the Summer Blockbuster. Otherwise, it is for the team leader to start something up once a group is assembled. I know some people use it to teleport to the contact for a LFG event. The LFG will only show things that are level appropriate to the character you are currently playing. Trials unlock as you level up Incarnate is level 50+ end-game stuff Taskforce options increase as you level up - check out the above for level ranges. you can always run a taskforce that is a lower level, but you can not join one unless you meet the minimum level requirement. These are given by characters standing at certain places in the city. They are generally for 8 player teams, but many can be accomplished with less than that. when you complete a taskforce you gain merits. Story Arcs are given by contacts out of your contact menu. Once you complete a story arc you gain merits. There are options in the contact menu to find other contacts that are level appropriate. Tips - there are various types of tips. Tips for alignment changing missions. Tips for finding exploration badges. Tips for holiday events. check the Tip tab in your contacts tab! I can go on for days, but I should have gone to sleep 1 1/2 hours ago. Good luck! Oh, I'll add there is no reason for a hero to say they are recruiting for a hero team because there are generally 4-5 (or more) times as many heroes as their are villians on any given server most of the time.

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