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I wouldn't be against the spawn in point be the on the steps on the other side of the pond. With all the 50's running around, it does seem to be the most crowded spawn-in point in THE CITY.

I'm still pro-clinging, but I like the decoy idea. I do like the sub-power idea though. Short range teleport seems over used. How about superleap for 5-10 seconds? Make it a pet that is invulnerable with taunt and no attacks that wanders away from it's spawn point in a direction directly away from you from that point. Give it like a 15-30 second duration. Throws down a smoke bomb at the end of its time and vanishes. Would be nice if could mirror like a phantom pet, but a generic mastermind Ninja would be fine with me. superspeed and phasing for 5-10 seconds? or is that just way to powerful?

Other people are bidding for the item at the same price.

A majority of City of Heroes surfaces are flat and most buildings don't have the kind of overhangs that are see in DCUO building architecture.

Invest some of it in stock. (takes money to make money) Set-up monthly donations to probably multiple food banks at a sustainable rate for the next 20-40 years. Covering the area that I live in now and expanding outwards as sustainably able. Find some way to donate to public education especially to reading, mathematics, and science education at the K-6th grade level. The foundation of a child's learning is critical to the rest of their life. Most likely have to move someplace else as your name and the city you live in often announced when you win. So I guess I would make that my new lair. Most likely have to quit my job for the same reason as above and put on the mask. Probably donate some to cancer research. And quite possibly use funds to investigate and properly out corrupt politicians and political machinations of such criminals ... using methods as stealthy as possible. Possibly build some sort of low income housing for those that are truly in need. Though I think that this would be a money losing proposition if done properly. Game when I wanted to and get busy on the writing that I never have time to do because of a full time job and my gaming habits. Might have time to build a giant robot suit in my spare time. Space tourism is still too expensive or I might be attracted to that.

Not the same thing at all. Combat jumping climbs skyscrapers by jumping from window sill to window sill. you can do that with Ninja Run. I have done it with Ninja Run. I can climb to all the areas to get the badges for Atlas Tour Guide with Ninja run except the top of the Atlas Globe. yeah. I can get on top of City Hall with Ninja run; I've done that lots of times. The point is to give infiltration something that the other powers don't have that make it worth taking because players have been indicating that it isn't worth taking as it is. I took it on a character to check it out. It appears to have been put in as the travel power version of Stealth. You lose the defense as soon as you are hit when using infiltration; run stealth and you keep that defense. This shows that infiltration is the power meant to be used as a travel power. It doesn't have the height to jump over things. You don't move all that fast. There is nothing that makes it stand out to make it worth taking as a power. Really, infiltration could have used the double jump mechanic more than leaping. Doesn't make sense to take that back from the leaping pool now. Actual clinging meets what is missing out of a ninja/espionage travel power. Doesn't make any difference if it is actual do-able in game or not. Clinging seems to be what is missing from Infiltration.

Yes. Hence, trying to have clinging added to infiltration versus to superspeed. Also like ninja climbing from walls or hiding in the rafters. I had a Champions character that was encased in forcefield that surrounded their body like sheath. He didn't walk or climb. The force field clinged to any surface he was in contract with and the force field rotated around his body moving him forward. Incidentally, he had chance of going berserk whenever he saw bananas, because an alien race had invaded his planet that looked like bananas that would attach themselves to the back people's neck at the brainstem and take control of their bodies. Along with his other alien abilities - which were crafted to battle against the alien race that looked like earthly bananas - came the ability to see through objects ... as long as they weren't made out of glass. The Lizard of Five Deadly Venoms fame can climb walls. The Creeper from DC can climb walls. We have seen Batman and Robin climb walls even in the tv series. Even Daredevil has to get up on top of those buildings somehow so he can brood in peace. As you can see, in these kind of situations, the wall climbing isn't some kind of super speed thing. They are working their way up a surface ... sometimes to hang out on it in order to look around to see what is going on in the streets below them or to look into windows. And, in pretty much all cases, waiting for a time when they can pounce on those below them. My point being to add something to infiltration that other powers don't have that would make it stand out. I think climbing up on walls is very much in line with sneaking around.

When Windows 10 was launched, Microsoft said it was intended to be the final version of the operating system. But from 14 October 2025, there will be no new updates or security fixes for either the Home or Pro versions.Jun 15, 2021 Somehow standard Microsoft behavior that should have been seen as a lie from the get go. I'm in no rush to change operating systems. It's going to be a year or more before they figure it out. When windows 10 was released Microsoft said my computer was compatible. Toshiba said it was compatible. 3-5 crashes and total reinstalls from windows 8 up, Microsoft and Toshiba say my computer isn't compatible with windows 10. So one would think that everything was okay back at Windows 8.1 ... everything but my graphics card which could no longer play the games that I had been able to play previously. Heck ... recently I tried to load CoH on it. It loaded up and ran for about 5-10 minutes then bailed out and won't run it. The Windows 10 upgraded damaged that computer. I would be in no rush to install Windows 11. That's my advice. They might have it fully stabilized 2 years from now.

There are some big problems with the DCUO superspeed. Too easy to get stuck running loops on lamp posts and overhangs are an issue. I could see it being utilized for superspeed as well, but I think if a super-speedster went below a certain directional progress that it would turn-off (and they would fall from the surface) versus infiltration which would retaining it's clinging until the character turned the power off or left the surface. [Edit :: wording - "...versus infiltration which would retain the character's clinging to a wall or ceiling until the power is turned off or the character has left the surface (ie jumping off of the surface or moving to another surface type; floor, wall, or ceiling)."

I don't know how the maps were created. I know that base items can be set to cling to floors, walls, and ceilings in addition to their default placement mode. Perhaps that system could somehow be utilized.

😉 cling! Not to be confused with Klingon technology.

Maybe you aren't the team lead? Maybe they don't want to chase the tank? The good thing about City of Heroes is that they don't have to chase the tank. Teams can survive without a tank. Teams can survive without any melee. Maybe when you see the rest of the team doing something else you should join them instead of thinking that they don't know what they are doing if they aren't chasing you. When I'm tanking, I try to stay with the team lead and taunt the mobs that they are targeting. If the team lead tells me to herd, I herd. I try to work with the team. That is to say, I don't join a team as a tank with the preconceived notion that everyone on the team is supposed to chase me. I don't judge the other players for what they are doing (unless they are mindless running off and doing their own thing instead of sticking with the team). I see what I can do to help the team win.

Unless there is some way to have the power see all surfaces as ground.

I think that infiltration was made to be at travel power with stealth being the defense power (ie combat jumping, hover, ..) I think that what Infiltration is missing is the ability to cling to all surfaces. This would allow wall climbing and hanging from ceilings. I'm sure that this may be difficult to implement, but it would make infiltrate have its own niche as a travel power. Honestly, clinging to surfaces is one of the obvious superpowers that City of Heroes is lacking.

I think you are looking for "does anyone play the game at less than breakneck speeds"? If you are looking for old-school-teaming, it is mostly in sub level 35 door missions and more likely to occur on a team you are running. Why a team you are running? Because then you can ask others that are running around berserk to leave the team or give them the boot if you have to. If you see a level 50, you can pretty much bet that they are rapidly on their way to or already at the point that they are on Bull-in-the-china-shop mode all the time. The end-gamers aren't looking for group synergy. You aren't the only one that runs regular missions. It is common in City of Heroes that everyone wants to be on a team but no one wants to recruit. So lead team. Recruit for the kind of player you want. - it's no different than what the other players are doing with the end-game stuff. Depending on the server population level and what is going on, you are very likely to get a team together if you recruit, run missions with who you have, and keep on recruiting until the team is full, recruiting again when it thins out, and repeat until you are ready to call it.

The only people you are bothering with posts are the people that you should be putting on ignore. (Honestly, they are intentionally bothering you versus the other way around) There are only really a couple of hands full of people that you should put on ignore to make the forums a much more enjoyable place. Seriously, it works wonders. A majority of the community is more than willing to answer questions in the forums, but using /help in-game, searching the forums, and using https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Main_Page can go a long way.

I would have to consider giving up playing City of Heroes. But I don't have to worry. Homecoming would never "require" us to join a villain group.

I found this old save. It is relevant to your topic.

It wasn't in the comics. It was written into the HBO show. "As revealed in the episode (co-written by Lindelof and Cord Jefferson), Hooded Justice — always assumed to be white given a bit of flesh visible beneath his eyes — was a black man, with a costume inspired by his own experience as a near-victim of a lynching, rather than a simply a sinister echo of those crimes.Nov 25, 2019" - Rolling Stone

They are complaining about there being more heroes than villains, and they can't find a big ToT league to join on the villain-side. And so, like a villain, they want everyone else to cater to them because heroes gaming in a hero zone is somehow "privileged".

So if you go into options>graphics and audio>screen,/UI resolution, what settings do you see? Well was going to post a screenshot the size of the option window but it says I can only post one that is 11.67 KB which is too small to see clearly. Can't even make the drop down part small enough to post legibly. I'm on 1920 x 1080 and I can pull a non-fullscreen window up in front of City of Heroes and still see City of Heroes behind it. I can do screen and video captures of the game with my Nvidia card.