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Slow. Ice is about slow. You slow down your opponents so they can't hit you as often. Ice patch is essential. You slow down your opponents so they can't regen as fast. Ice is about slow. Slow.

Thanks for reposting the OP. Yeah. I read that post. Yeah, he doesn't talk about making it free. I DID. I was seeking clarification if it was just to 50 or to max level as that is not clear in the OP's post.

I like a backstory for a Supergroup. I like to create characters and not just an avatar. I guess it's all the comics and books I have read. Probably my love for writing is part of it; as to write a good story, your characters really need a backstory to say where they are coming from and have an idea of how they would react in situations based on the back story. I might start with a power set, but I tend to start with a concept and pick a powerset to fit the concept and design the costume from that. Yes. Always. Every character - all 100+ of them. I write the character bio during character creation - so it's there when the character goes into the game for the first time. To me the character concept, costume, power customization, and bio are part of investing myself into the character and their approach on the City. My love for the City isn't just for the game. It is also for how the game allows me to explore the superhero genre that I loves, and some other genres that it allows us all to access as well; Sci-Fi, fantasy, western, Pulp, etc.

Why would it need to be on Steam? There is nothing to purchase in the game - including the game itself.

Maybe I overlooked something here. Do you mean level 50 or like level 200(or whatever) Veteran? I'm okay with the level 50 version ... and for free. I am against a token that takes you to like level 200(or whatever) Veteran ... aka max possible level.

And, yet, you missed my point (like another poster did) that they wouldn't be sending tells looking for an AE farm team be able to door-sit to 50, if they could pick up the option to go to level 50 at the P2W for free. Sure there would still be people looking for farms because farms are farms, but they wouldn't need to farm to get to level 50 any more. The OPs post isn't about stomping out farming. My post in is thread is not about stomping out farming. This thread is about a token that could be purchased (I say it should be free) that would automatically make your character level 50.

Homecoming is not the creator of City of Heroes. If you want to game here, you also need to abide by the Code of Conduct if you don't want to face the penalties for breaking those rules. If Twitch is the issue, then Twich's rules and consequences apply.

The advantage is that you don't have to put interrupt enhancers in the snipe if that is an issue for you .... but .... It really isn't so much of an issue any more as the snipe automatically turns into a fast snipe at this point once you are in combat ... which wasn't the case on live. Now it more-or-less is just there to fill the set because something else hasn't been created to fill the slot. "Chance of doing Snipe damage in Fast Snipe mode"? That might be a good substitute for it in the set.

Standard is to send tells for invites. You should expect it is going to happen and deal with it instead of getting frustrated about it.

I actually misworded this. Should have been - "I run level 50+ content probably 1% of the time. I'm saying 1% because I have no idea what the fraction of a it would be but I wouldn't be shocked if it was less than 0.1% of the time." I'm guessing that I haven't even logged into a 50 to run a mission (no AE farms for me) since at least June, and it was probably farther back than that. I think I have 2 50's out of my 100+ characters.

Because high-end players don't want to play with noobs, but high-end players are the ones that are already power-leveling noobs in the AE Farms. Makes sense to someone I guess.

... like this wasn't created to be an anti-farming thread. I am anti-power-leveling and farming, but that isn't the point of this thread, and I try to stay out of the way of farmers (I do think they lead to the shutdown .. they lead me to stop playing a year before the shutdown among other "what I consider to be" bad decisions by the DEVs possibly forced on them by NCSoft) here on Homecoming. Like I indicated in the other posts, I say give the people that want to powerlevel to 50 a token to do so for free. They don't want to play the game; they want to bypass it to play the end-game. I say let them do it without having to sit in a Farm to get there, because that is what they do to get there at this point. I'm not for setting it up like the Beta server where you can level up any 10 levels you want. Just a button that puts you at level 50. Play the leveling content to get to the end-game or just play the end-game if you want. It will cut down on the farming tells for door sitters. I imagine, any level 50 will be expected to participate in a farm mission or to run their own. All it would do to farming is to cut out the door-sitters (unless players let level 50's sit around doing nothing soaking up xp and what not). Farming will continue to be what it is otherwise.

I think it would cut-out a lot of the farming tells that door-sitters send because they wouldn't need to door-sit to power-level to 50. That was my point.

I run level 50+ content probably 1% of the time. I'm saying 1% because I have no idea what the fraction of a it would be but I would be shocked if it was less than 0.1% of the time. I haven't heard this for a very long time ... and it was only from one person. If people don't understand that knocking someone down/back is stopping them from attacking until they get back up, they don't understand the game very well. If you have knockback, just do what you should do with practically everything in life - "use it responsibly". If someone is getting-your-goat/pushing-your-hot-buttons or if someone else is generally just going off, put them on ignore. Just put them on ignore or leave the group if you feel you need to. There are other people to game with. Find some cool ones to game with and try to hang out with them when they are on.

I have over 100 characters here. I play the game. I honestly don't like the end-game content. Too many flashing lights. I can't see what I'm fighting. The Incarnate system is garbage. I like running with new players that are leveling up and learning to play the game. Homecoming is the place for me. I might not always agree with some of the gamers in the Community, but this still seems to be a great Community with some of the core people from live. I'm not even going to bother to check out any other server. This is THE CITY. Could add an (xp per level) per hour formula that matches whatever the desired leveling rate should be. Once you have reached that cap, you don't gain any more level until the next hour starts. But I don't think people want to get rid of power-leveling in the AE or otherwise. 2XP wouldn't be free/available if there was that much concern. I'm against powerleveling myself (always have been), but, if one form of power-leveling is okay, why shouldn't another one be okay? I dip into the 2XP to keep up with other players that I'm trying to level with that insist on using it. Otherwise, I don't alway use it. Using the 2XP levels you so quickly that you have to level lock yourself to avoid outleveling arcs. You could even outlevel arcs without it if you aren't careful. Honestly, I feel a bit guilty about using the 2XP, but I still do it to "fit in". Peer-pressure is everywhere.

Isn't this exactly what happened when the AE was released and the DEVs caved to the Powerleveling crowd? The AE babies couldn't even figure out how to get out of Atlas back then.

I say give it to people for free at the P2W vender. Cut the farm out of it and let them play like they want to play. People are constantly looking for AE farms to get power-leveled. If all they are going to do is sit in the AE until they are power-leveled to 50, what difference does it make? The people that want to play the lower levels can play the lower levels (the game) can still play the game, and whoever wants to start playing at 50/the End-game can start playing at the end of the game/level 50. I find the game more fun myself. I won't be using it, but it will cut down on the people looking for farms in the LFG channel.

"Out of the thirty-six ways to get out of a bad situation, the best one is to leave." - Lu Da - "Outlaws of the Marsh"

Check your email. I think I recall they sent you an email response to all tickets.

The DEVs/GM are taking the higher path. (Do I need to say that's my opinion? Shouldn't have to, but it seems appropriate in this case) You are in your rights to disagree. They are well within their rights to take the stance they decide to take as well. They are the ones that will be making the final decision. I'm going back in to add this. You don't seem to be too knowledgeable about the City of Heroes. You can rename your characters at any time. Renaming your global? haven't tried, but a support ticket would probably make that happen in the worse case. No need so much to do either in most cases. If you put the offending character on ignore you are invisible their searches and you don't get their message. If someone isn't on your global friend list, then you aren't on theirs. Also. There are RPG groups and clubs that have meetings. Check Clubs - there is a Roleplay-A-Day club. Some RPG groups have meetings in bases or in locations like you indicate. We really don't need the specifics of what went on. Harassment is harassment regardless of where it is going on in THE CITY or otherwise. (On person's kidding around can be harassment and that is where the line can get blurry. Sexual innuendos and what not are pretty clearly harassment.) Oh, the DEVs here are tech and ethics savvy. They can deal with offenders on multiple levels as they feel it is necessary.

I'm sure you have done at least some of this Use Menu>Support>Harassment and Conduct - to report the character(s) by name and server Get screen shots or recorded footage and send it in when you get the email from support. Put the offensive characters on /ignore I'm not part of the intense roleplay community here, but I have had one of my characters sent suggestive tells and followed from zone to zone by another character. I reported it. I put them on ignore. I have never seen that offensive character again ... but I server and character jump a lot. If you are in an rp-community that shows up in given places than that makes you an easy target. I'm sure there are other members of the rp-community that you know that would back you up. They can get screenshots or footage of whatever is going on as well and send in their own tickets to back you up.

You don't have to run a 300 or 500 point game. Try running original Champions (first three books or the first combined hardback) with only 100 or 150 point characters. Fewer dice. Fewer hp. Makes things go a lot quicker. I loved playing Champions. But the first game that I ran with Super-heroes was Traveller ... because Champions didn't exist at that point. I looked at the Marvel and DC superhero games at that time and the systems really sucked as far as I was concerned. I didn't like the rules for Villains and Vigilantes either. Champions allowed you to make what you want no matter how barebones or complicated you wanted to make it. The Champions rules they made up for the MMORPG and then were used to replace REAL Champions rules - those suck. SUCK! If you are going to play Champions, then play it like it was meant to be played - and it wasn't meant to be played like the MMORPG!!!!!!!!!!!! Original Champions is very number crunchy, but it is so balanced. Incredibly balanced. Used to love just sitting around making characters - whole teams of characters. Themed hero teams, themed villain teams. But I like making characters! Super-heroes or otherwise.

Would it be possible to use the quicksand animation for a power customization option for Mud Pots? I know one is static and the other moves. Seems like this might be fairly easy to implement if the animation moving with the character isn't an issue. But I know it's all based on time constraints of the DEVs and what they have interest in doing since they are volunteering their time.

Yep, exactly. Give you a second to go through your tray for respites or what not, if you don't have a marco built for that yet. /macro Heal "inspexec_name respite$$inspexec_name dramatic_improvement$$inspexec_name resurgence" is my basic one.

Secrets of the the Ancients ... and possibly some secrets of Ebil Marketing as well .... oh, and liberal use of bases.