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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.

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.