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Probably the reason that he didn't go after Silk Spectre even though she apparently was attracted to him. How would she have reacted if she found out? The noose motif? Maybe a lynching event was what triggered him to become a superhero! "The Black Dragon" Ron Van Clief - “I was lynched in Kinston in 1963,” Van Clief said. “I spent seven months in a hospital, broke my jaw and my front teeth out, eight ribs broken, broke my leg. So I haven’t been back since.“ - https://www.jdnews.com/sports/20160716/martial-art-legends-the-black-dragon-steve-muhammad-in-town-for-tournament

It's not in the i25 patch notes.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cLJiSYlfueJheOumRywG8Evip2Mjmu_30Y6ePaetqY/edit# :: "Events: Halloween: A new vanity pet is available in P2W: a Tarantula Spider. The Halloween Salvage traders now have additional rewards: the Tarantula Spider, a Respec Recipe, and all the NPC costume change powers (non-permanent, 2 week duration). Tailors are preparing for Halloween with the following new pieces: Mummified tights pattern: available for face, chest, gloves, pants, and boots (under Flat). Mummified capes. Floating head category. Includes the following options with or without a metal base: Headless Sphere (glass or metal) Human Skull (multiple eyeball and jaw options) Human Skull face detail option Jawbones face detail options Tombstone backpack, with optional chains Wicker Basket backpack Low-level zones now have a 1/9 chance to spawn Jack in Irons instead of Eochai; high-level zones now have a 1/3 chance, up from 1/9." Not seeing anywhere in here that the there is a level trigger for zombie spawns.

Ah, I see the post from Posted June 18, 2019 ... referring to i25 that Homcoming dropped in 2013 (https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Issue_25#:~:text=Issue 25 launched in May,patchers%2C Tequila and Island Rum.) ... City of Heroes sunset August 31, 2012. Kind of hard to read those patch notes....unless you do a search for issue 25 because patch notes on the current forums only go back to May 2019. Didn't notice it last year. Must not have been playing a charter under level 25 outside of a League in Peregrine island.

Must have been in the some old patch notes, because I'm not see it in the patch notes from yesterday. Not listed on the https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Zombie_Apocalypse as far as I can see. Why have Zombie Event in Talos or Steel ... or even Perez?! If there has to be someone at least level 25 for the zombies to spawn?! Sounds like a Bug to me. Either on level equivalency for zone or having the events go off at all in zones that are too low for active zone characters to spawn them. At the very least no reason for Zombie events to go off in Altas, Kings Row ,The Hollows, Perez Park, or Steel Canyon. I don't think that they go off in Altas, Kings Row or the Hollows at this point ... and, if there is a level lock for spawning, that was probably one of the reasons. If the level was increased then Perez and Steel Canyons shouldn't be spawning the events either. Even if they are spawning around a 50, they still con to a level below 25. So it doesn't appear to be related to how difficult it is to defeat the zombies. Seen banners appear and they critters spawn when those below level 25 are near them! Just saying.

makes sense to me. I don't know if this thread is including the mystery men, but where plenty of capes and face covering going on for them as well. Of course it could have been that Superman was originally to simply have been wearing boots, shorts, and a cape and that was seen as being too risque for something targeted at boys, so that rest of the costume was added to cover up flesh. Can't have young boys running around dressed as John Carter or Tarzan all the time.

Very weird to day. Was playing on a level 23 team. We travelled to two zone with a zombie invasion going on - red sky and all that. No zombies spawning out of the grond. Move to a third zone zone (all of these were separate times that the events happened), running around and a level 50 comes over to the area ... the zombies spawnned. Are zombies only getting spawned to attack people at a certain level at this point?

Well, if you don't want to craft, then you don't want to get involved in the incarnate system. The invention system is pretty up-and-up; the incarnate system is a quano-slog fest that should be avoided at all costs. What do I do when my character hits 50? I put them on the shelf until they really need to be called upon for something that I feel like doing/helping.

I started a week or two before issue 2 dropped. I have been a comic book fan since I was little. I ran a Traveller game that was set "5 years from now" in the Marvel Comics Universe. Champions came out so I started running Champions games and playing in other people's Champions games. As time progressed, we started talking about how cool it would be to have a computer game that played like the Champions RPG did. I don't really remember how I heard about City of Heroes. I don't know if I ran into some trailer for it somewhere or it was the comic book ads. I saving up to by a computer that was powerful enough to play it before it came out. I bought the game as soon as I saw it on the shelf. I didn't even have enough to buy the parts for my computer yet. By the time I had a computer assembled, the little City of Heroes' book was already dog-eared, and I already had 10 or more characters planned out. Yes. As I was playing before Episode 2, I definitely was playing before the shutdown. I felt that the sunset was coming. Between goldfarm spammers, AE farming, F2P, the incarnate system, the gray caused by alignment changes, and end-gamer elitism, I stopped subscribing almost exactly a year before the shutdown. I went through and erased my costumes, deleted all my bios, and made all my characters look like a Praetorian Clockwork. Took them out into at Atlas Park near his statue and used self-destruct to blow each of them up and logged out - all 150+ of them. I was pretty angry at the DEVs and the whole direction of City of Heroes. It was annoying for me to play the game any more. I had loved City of Heroes and the experience had been ruined for me. So when the game came to an end, a friend invited me over to his house to be there when the servers went down. I was really there for him more than anything else because I knew he was sad that it was getting shut down. It was kind of a release for me I guess. I didn't have to worry about the game being ruined for me any more because it wasn't around any more. I was like "damn. those sneaky b**ds have been playing City of Heroes the whole time without having to worry about F2P riffraff, goldfarmers, or microtransactions!" I was hesitant to download a client as I am very security paranoid. A friend of mine talked me into downloading the Homecoming client. Yeah, it was kind of like coming home .... coming home to the game before it had been ruined for me. Sure there are still AE farmers, the incarnate system, and those that want to be elite, but ... I can easily avoid the incarnate system, there simply aren't as man AE farmers, and the elite mostly are too busy to do their flex emotes with each other. The main thing was microtransactions were gone and there was no goldfarmer spam. Same thing I did when I first started playing, logged out and back in again to make several more characters. The first thing I did before playing the Homecoming after installing it was to install all my costume, villaingroup, critter, and AEmission files from my saved version of the game from before the sunset. That made it easier to start rebuilding characters from before the sunset. I was hesitant. First because of the possible security issues. Second because of what I might find when I logged in. Like I said above, that's something that I did even before logging into the game. I had costumes loaded so I could immediately make those characters over (loadouts were all new) I had my stuff for the AE, so I was pretty much able to drop 3 missions immediately when I got around to going to the AE. No. I'm an alt-jumper. I have over 100 characters but I haven't reached 150 yet I don't think. On live I had some characters which had duplicates (more like variations) on all the servers. This time around I think I have 2 characters that have duplicates at this point, but they are just on one other server. I don't see how anyone that is a comic book fan can only make one character. Jack "the King" Kirby wouldn't condone creating only one character and sticking with it!!

I find buff/heal spamming annoying out of combat RP'ing or not. Honestly, I find it annoying in combat if it isn't needed at the time. Heck. If someone is spamming buff/heals non-combat, I move far enough away from them so I'm not getting hit by them. if they ask why I keep moving away from them, I tell them it is because they are spamming buff/heals in a non-combat situation. Well, I wouldn't think that they would complain about you RP'ing on Everlasting as it is the unofficial PVP server ... and the RP'r are usually the ones complaining about the non-RP'rs versus the other way around. It could be new players that don't know what Roleplaying is. They may have no idea what emotes are. It's a matter of how you approach the subject without making the player that isn't in-the-know feel like they are being attacked. I have had multiple occasions where other players felt there was some globally known convention that they were using and that I was highly offensive by ignoring that global convention - that I have never heard of since I started playing just before the drop of episode 2 of City of Heroes (I did not play the last year before the Sunset because I felt the game was going downhill in multiple ways) and I've been playing on Homecoming for almost 2 years. These people with a complaint jumped on me about it. Just a random person out-of-the-blue. Not multiple people - no one else complaining. Just being told by that one person how rude I was for breaking their unspoken rule(s). So if you see this happen, try to be more understanding that they may just not know what is going on. Ask them if they know what roleplaying is and if they would like to join in the game play. You can explain that you use emotes while RPing and how to use them. Then let them know that autofire buffs disrupt the use of emotes.

I installed these folders from before the sunset when I first started playing on the Homecoming servers, so I think these would be the most useful to back-up. Folders :: Costumes Custom_Critter CustomVillianGroup Missions PowerCust Screenshots Also note that these files are in different places on the Homecoming version Custom_Critterm CustomVillianGroup and Missions are in the architect folder I don't know if other people back up other files, but those are the ones that I'm mainly concerned to backup. All of these files can be copied and pasted into these folders if you should ever have to reinstall, entirely for some reason. I was able to do this with my saves from before the sunset. You install the game first and then copy the old player created files into the new game folder, but you don't have to do this when you install Homecoming and have an existing Tequila install on your computer. Never copy the actual downloaded game files.

Rather than downloading most of the files, it copies/duplicate the files in the tequila install to the new Homecoming launcher game files. It's most of the files and everything that I had saved - costumes, AE stuff, etc. I had no problem with the transition. It is nothing to fear and it leaves your tequila install intact. The actual new download time was minimal. The Homecoming Launcher is great and I have had no problem with it. It auto installs updates. You can have it auto install updates on the beta server as well if you like. I think it is superior to tequila. I'm very pleased with it. I never turned back once I had it installed.

I think you just proved my point that it does lead to elitism. You apparently don't understand where I'm coming from on this. That's okay. You don't have to. A belittling statement that you use to prove (to yourself) your "Elite" status. A point cap isn't a limit. A player would still gain more points over time as you spend them to gain Elite rewards based on what you have stated. It is a waste of Development time. As I said, you apparently don't understand where I'm coming from on this. That's okay. You don't have to. You have made your point and I have made mine. I have no need to further discuss this. You won't change my mind.

This does not exist nor does it need to exist. This sort of thing was intentionally removed by Homecoming. It is not something that is needed to improve the player experience. DEVs have plans that they are focusing on. The majority of players do not need things added to the game that grant a few players what they would consider to be an Elite status. A good bit of what would lead players to take an Elitist stance have been removed on the Homecoming Servers. I think that was a good decision.

So I guess your point is that you should make it clear that you are going to run around on your own when you join a teams so that you won't be disappointed when the leader kicks you before you get a chance to run around berserk and not work with team. Well said. Most of the time people know full well what they are getting involved with when the join one of my teams. I warn them if they are off course. I make it clear that we are working as a team as necessary - in one way or another. A majority conform. The very small minority can't understand why I could be bold enough to kick them for being a disruption on my teams. This has rarely happens, but at no time when this has occurred has anyone else on the team said it was unfounded.

I'm telling Eris that you said that.

Two asked for it. Another lurked around protesting but wasn't brave enough, so I took matters into my own hands and put them on ignore without being asked to do so. Anyone else that may have tried to step up was already on ignore. It's as I suspected. The number of people that want to behave badly on a team or are willing to defend others behaving badly on a team are a very small minority. And they are the same people that I felt behaved badly enough in the forums that I didn't want to bother with seeing their posts. So it's a win-win for me to use ignore. i don't have to see content that I know I will find annoying. I get to go directly to posts that I know will have viewpoints that I will enjoy reading. It's kind of the way that we all pick the kind of media we watch/listen to/etc. We look for new content that we will enjoy. We ignore/avoid content that we don't enjoy. I like to team and I like to figure out how to mesh with a team to do my part and make the team better. Having teammates work together is what makes teaming fun to me. Watching the synergy come together. Watching the team gel. Someone joining a team and then running off is just annoying to me. It isn't a major annoyance, but I now see how much it maybe disruptive for the other players that I recruited. So, what this thread has taught me is 1) to just go ahead and kick those that don't want to be part of the team, because they aren't being part of the team if they just to run off and do their own thing. 2) the players that disagree with 1 are the ones that join a team someone else is leading just to run off and do their own thing (ie they don't think a leader that recruited for a team has a right to kick them if they aren't going to behave like a teammate)

Thanks.

The people that find this offensive are the culprits of like thinking. They aren't joining teams to be part of team. They are joining a team to show-off or be a disruption. They aren't recruiting for team and then trying to run away from their teammates. They are joining a team to show-off or be a disruption. Any more like villains that want to step forward and be put on ignore? Because that is what you are to me. You are villains that are trying to disrupt teams that other people have assembled. I don't have time for your obnoxious behavior. Step up, vile ones. You know you don't want to game with me either. Let us be done with this so we can all move on. (I bet a majority of those who do are already on ignore. There are far more cool people in THE CITY that want to game with each other rather than to be obnoxious to other players).

Sure thing. Sound like you are the kind of player that I like to avoid interacting with.

If your leading the team, that is exactly why you should have said something in /team. If you are leading, it your team. Let them know when you have an issue with something. Most people will respect the team leader because they hate to recruit themselves and are just glad to be on a team. That doesn't mean you should be a power-hungry dictator, but, if someone on YOUR team is offending you, you certainly have a right to say something in /team so the rest of the teammates know what is going on. I put what would be considered a lot of people on ignore, but I rarely kick people from teams. I probably have only kicked 2 since in Homecoming and for sure less than 5 (I can only remember 2). And, honestly, I have probably only driven a couple from a team. I have quit more teams because I didn't like what was going on than I have kicked or driven people from my teams - I would say probably twice as often at least. If you joined someone else team, why do they need to state that they expect you to stay with the group? it's not your team. They are recruiting teammates to run with. They aren't recruiting other players to just run around solo. Why should the follow you if they recruited for the team? You aren't the leader. Yes. The leader should realize that they can get someone else to join the team what will act like a teammate and kick you. You apparently are fine on your own. Because it is theirs and it isn't yours. You seriously can't understand that? And, of course, your opinion supersedes the opinions of all the other players on the team. Is that your point? The same goes for you. If you aren't leading, you should respect the leader. They are the ones spending time recruiting to have teammates. If you want to lead, lead it however you like. But you don't sound like much of a leader to me. You seem to be some kind of berserker that joins teams just to run amuck and do whatever you like, Separate by a floor you are no longer sharing xp with the team. If you get too far away from each other you probably aren't sharing xp with your teammates anymore either. There is definitely a cut off distance in the open world. Did you join someone recruiting for a team or looking for more (to join their team)? What the heck did you think they were recruiting for? Some jack Elitist that is just going to run around soloing because he thinks he's the big guano? No. They were recruiting for people to game with not people to go run off berserk and do whatever the hell they wanted to do. If you don't want to be part of a team, quit joining teams. You have made it clear to me that I need to start kicking people like you on teams that I recruit for. Not even going to warn. I'm just going to kick them. They can cry to me in chat outside of /team so I can put them on ignore. Teaming is for teaming. The chat for teams is /team for a reason But I guess that is too obvious to some that feel they are superior to other players.

Ran into this on a task force I was running recently. one or two that would purposefully try to run away from the rest of us to do whatever they were doing. They seemed to be fighting stuff so I didn't kick. I figure they are 50's trying to show how big of a phallus they can be. I guess they really intend to show how Elite or cool they are, but they are really just coming off as jerks to the rest of the team. At one of point two of them running around solo were bragging to each other about how cool they were. Very disrespectful to the rest of the players. It's kind of like that one 50 on a XP task force that decides it's their job to turn the it into a speed task force. In those cases, I have no mercy for the fools. They get the boot. If you want to run a speed task force look for one inviting as a speed task for and not one inviting as a XP taskforce. Don't be a guano head.

I almost always end up getting leadership. I tend the team. The bigger the team, the more of a benefit leadership becomes. If multiple characters on the team have leadership, they stack. +to-hit and + global defense go a long way. Assault doesn't even need to be slotted. If you primarily solo, there is no need to take leadership. You could always make multiple builds if you are into that kind of thing.

I use hurricane and gale. both are passive holds (They can't attack when they are knocked down/back). Hurricane is a AoE debuff so why use it. I did put the KB to KD in the hurricane, but it still will repel enemies. The character is very fun to play, but I have so many characters that are fun to play that it becomes a bi random when I get around to playing them. I guess there is still a little bit of Hurricane Season left, so I should bring at least one of them out for some playtime. Won't be too long before I get to break my spooky characters out for some Halloween fun!

The ignore cap is amazingly low, and it doesn't stop you from adding someone; it simply kicks the player longest on the ignore list off the list when adding a new one when full ... so you have to be watching for it to see it happen. But, even with all the ignoring I have done, I don't think I have every had to put anyone on ignore twice. Never been power-leveled to 50 before AE. Never been power-levelvel to 50 in an AE farm. Never intentionally didn't complete a mission order to farm it. Never door-sat. Never enjoyed the Praetorian content. Never been an elitist. Never enjoyed the end-game. Never enjoyed the incarnate system. Never completed a "full circle" through alignments through Tip missions (other than through Nul the Gull, i think I did it once out of prompting from a teammate) Never understood why players enjoy a team where the effects are so busy that you can't see anything that you are fighting. Never enjoyed a Hami or Mothership raid. Never passed up helping someone that needed help if I thought I could be helpful ... especially if no one else was offering help. Never gave some player that I didn't know more than 10 million inf. Never made a VEAT. Never used Mids Planner. Never asked for build advice in the /help channel. Never installed the VidiotMaps. Never created a character without a bio. Never understood why the Dr Quarterfield Task force needed to be so long. .... wait ... I think everyone knows that the Dr Quarterfield task force is too long .... 🙄