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Quite correct. I admit I was tired at the time.

I was looking up some stuff after I found out about Keith Giffen's death and found this: "DC's introduction of Jaime Reyes in 2006 retconned and expanded upon the Blue Beetle mythos. Revealed to be alien in origin, the scarab bonds with Reyes and provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor shortly after Kord's death." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Jaime_Reyes) I'll give you that it was a new character like Jason Todd taking over as Robin. But Jaime Reyes was also part of a retconning at the same time. The Blue Beetle mythos was retconned to fit him in. But really this is to point out to fans of the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle that one the three co-creators of the character died recently.

I really figured more people would respond to this with all the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Beetle_(Jaime_Reyes) hype going on.

You can only get to a hero zone if you are in a hero-side access alignment: hero, vigilante, or rogue. So why are you getting the choice of Mistress Eva at level 22? Wiki says "The Resistance is a faction in the alignment of Praetoria: a Praetorian character who supports the The Resistance. At level 20, regardless of whether a character supports the Loyalists or The Resistance, they get to choose whether to become a hero or villain when they move to Primal Earth." I'm assuming that the game thinks you are going to give up being a member of the Resistance and become hero or villain automatically when you reach level 20 in order to escape Praetoria.

Welcome, home! Yes, embrace that altoholism! 5 servers and 1000 characters per server ... and it isn't like you are limited to one account! That's a good start. Enjoy the game your way. I'm sure you will end up making more characters ... before too long ... /e plot

Electric. Shock those dead corpses back to undead life. Turtle up in defense mode. Target through your strongest pet. Heal through them and heal yourself and the other pets nearby (which they should be in defensive mode). Buff them, and the same thing happens. Shield where you are, and you shield yourself and all your minions. Of course, as always, it depends if you are playing the game or the end-game and if you want to play to the strength of the set or not. I'm really loving electric on masterminds.

Honestly, I thought it was 40 minutes of day and 20 minutes of night before I looked it up.

... but, seriously, sometimes the market is crazy busy and it's trying to do its shell game to manipulate where stuff is going. Some people bid on something than then rapidly put in a higher bid, etc. until they get what they want. Each time they do the the market has to calculate they them placing the bid and removing the bid which add more time in the delay. Then the market gets less busy for a moment and suddenly the sale goes through.

I guess I didn't express myself clearly as usual. So a rewording: Options for maps in the AE to be for the standard day/night cycle, day only, or night only would be an interesting addition. Players would select the option they wanted during mission creation. It would certainly make the graveyards more spooky if you could set them so it was always night. If I understand it correctly: Daytime: Real time: :08 to :25 and :38 to :55 Night time: Real time: :26 to :38 and :56 to :08 -https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Time

I guess I didn't read the earlier part of the thread completely or something... or I'm really tired...that too... I thought that they were talking about AE missions. Circle of Thorns come out at night as well in the zone that they are in. If there are some around during the day, they won't reappear until night. Sometimes they even get replaced by a mob of another group and you have to clear that other group out at night before the COT will spawn there. But I guess I agree, if you could create AE critters that only came out during the night cycle (or day cycle) that would be kind of cool as well. ... or maybe not ... ...or at least it strayed that way ... .... but the thread title is "AE: We need NIGHT maps/zones" I think I'm really tired.

A cycle/day/night option would be an interesting addition. It would certainly make the grave yards more spooky if you could set them so it was always night.

Always. I guess it is best put ... I solo roleplay I roleplay all my characters. I'm a character conception player. Most of the time I get an idea for a character and then make that character. Sometimes I pick some powers and make character conception around a character having those powers. I try to play all my characters related to their conception. Sometimes that means trying to restrict the character to fighting certain villain groups or only doing certain types of scanner or newspaper missions. Sometimes it is more about the character's outlook and how that character would work with a team. The variation of playstyles to me is ... well .... how do they say "variety is the spice of life" I don't go out of my way to chat in character with other players. If someone starts it up with me, I'm fine to roll with it, but I'm not going out of my way to meet up with people at a set time to stand around and roleplay. I play on all the servers, but I've been spending more and more time it seems on Everlasting. Sometimes you run into the players that use the RPG convention of indicating that they are talking OOC, but, then, that is all they are doing, so why bother? So welcoming that no one has bothered to invite me to roleplay. I do my roleplay and, if someone interacts, that's fine with me. I have no intent to join a RP supergroup, nor have I been asked, nor have I seen posts recruiting for one in /LFG during the hours that I play. Not sure what you are asking for here. I know that some of us here have played RPGs since they were called RPGs, played games with others while each taking on roles of characters before there were RPGs, and some of us have even worked for role-playing game companies. There are clubs: There is a RP section of the forums: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/48-roleplaying/ Some people even roleplay posts there. There is a slash command to turn on an in-game RPG flag: /roleplaying https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Roleplaying_(Slash_Command) (I haven't bothered to see if anyone actually uses it.) Some people apparently post their character(s) and supergroup(s) stuff on the wiki https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Main_Page (not sure how you would find it unless you were specifically looking for it. No links for it if you search for roleplay) There is an Events calendar and sometimes RP stuff is listed on there: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/events/ I haven't gone to the CoH Discord (I like to keep my mask on), but I'm assuming that there is probably a RP channel or channels And I know from various posts that some RPG groups have their own discord channels. There have been bases setup for roleplaying on some of the servers. Lists of base that are open-access on the servers: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Everlasting_Base_List https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Excelsior_Base_List https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Torchbearer_Base_List https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Reunion_Base_List https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Indomitable_Base_List Some of them might not even be listed as RPG bases, but you can tell by the title if they might have RP potential or not. There is always standing around in the Pocket D talking in local to see if anyone chimes in or asked you to join something. Not like the dance floor is hopping in there like it used to be on Virtue some nights with the area around the DJ crowded with dancing PCs. And, of course, there is the writing of bios on characters. Some more in depth than others. Some people will take time to read them. Some even my bother with sending a tell after reading a bio. Most of the time, that's pretty much what you are going to get. Reading someone's bio and commenting on it. There just isn't that much in character interaction going on, especially once the missions start rolling. What ever interactions I find in game content since I don't play the end-game. Made 3 or 4 new characters over the last month or so. Working to play within their character conceptions. Continuing on with my Origin arc project slowly but surely. I figure that is role-playing the Origins. I'm always against drama in MMORPG role-playing. It just isn't enjoyable to me. In my experience, many people that lead online roleplaying like instigating drama, so I don't go out my way to track it down. Throw the RP conventions out the window. Chat how you want to chat. if you are recruiting for a team, of course, that's going to be out of character if you are going to relay the information in a way that someone this is new to the game is going to be able to figure out what you are talking about. If you want to talk like your character in text, go for it. If someone has RP bait in their bio, see what happens if you mention something about it. RP interaction for me will almost always be limited to the time standing around while teams are being recruited, so I can only really find time for it when I'm not the recruiter.

Meanwhile, in Japan ... https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2776/ article sections: Profits in peripherals Gaming furniture Apartments wired for gaming Innovation in the ecosystem The section on "Apartments wired for gaming" was the most interesting to me.