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I certainly hope they will at some point!

How about several badges? 100 Frostlings defeated - Coal in my Stocking? 250 Frostlings defeated - Naughty can be Ice 500 Frostlings defeated - Snow Cones for Everyone! 1000 Frostlings defeated - Snowplow of Justice

Not so much as they stand at this point. I think you can write these into AE missions. If so, that's the only time I'm reading them ... and generally only when I'm writing them. Link them to a base item that you an put in your base as a trophy. When you click on them, it gives you the souvenir's text description the way that monuments and placards around THE CITY do. I can't say that I have any favorite souvenirs.

Welcome home. I played on all the servers, but I can't say that I played on Protector all that much ...well, I can say that I played on it more than I play on Indomitable these days.

Then possibly there needs to be a "curse" related to the mob until the mob is arrested. A slow effect that is generated on the character that opened the present until all members of the mob are defeated. There should be some way to mitigate the behavior.

I'll take your word for it. At the very least, it delays the presents from re-spawning. The rewards people are looking for come from the presents and not fighting the snowmen. Maybe it needs to be changed so that the reward isn't given until the mob is defeated.

They always freak me out. Does that count?

yep. I was doing it last night.

I think this situation is similar to the afk-ing on leagues and masterminds AKF-ing at Motel 666 during the Halloween event. When the spawn is left behind, the present can't respawn. If you cause the mess, you should be responsible for cleaning it up. And it is not just lazy but unethical (to me at least) to just open presents, dash off without fighting the foes, and leaving it behind for other people to deal with. And, of course, unethical behavior is always a matter of personal choice.

I'm wondering if we need to start separate Winter Event Ethics thread. People are popping presents and leaving the spawns behind.

I played Marvel Alliance on the PS2 ... and way too much Dynasty Warrior (various ones) ... I probably played a bunch more PS2 games during the "downtime" but I can't remember which ones during that time period. I tried Champions Online, but didn't like it enough to get past the tutorial. I'm still logging in to DCUO. I don't spend all that much there. first 30 levels are more old school stuff (Marv Wolfman and Jim Lee were working on DCUO when it was first being designed) - storylines from before the bad changes brought in by Dan Didio and Geoff Johns. Unfortunately, a lot of the DCUO stuff apparently tries to be "current" so most of it isn't much to my liking ... but, you know, I built characters over there. So I play some. I tried Everquest 2, but that game appears to be mostly still around for end gamers. I started playing Planetside 2 as well as it was part of the Sony/Daybreak "All Access" package, and I played a whole lot of Planetside 2 between the year before the Sunset and joining up in Homecoming. Also played Card Hunter and checked out Legendary Marvel.

On December 31, 1973, Kiss officially debuted for music industry professionals by opened for Blue Öyster Cult at the New York Academy of Music. Gene Simmons, for the first but certainly not last time, accidentally wrapped up his fire-breathing stunt by setting his hair ablaze.

If you mean from the Lords of Winter card packs, no. If I remember correctly, you can buy all the Lords of Winter card pack enhancements through the merit vendors. There are a few "winter" enhancements that you can buy recipes(?) for through the candy cane vendor. I think that's only the universal travel power ones though.

Meanwhile, in Rhode Island home of Paragon City ... https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=41.48871294000003&lon=-71.45431946699995 Tonight 12/4 A slight chance of showers before 1am. Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 32. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Tuesday Increasing clouds, with a high near 43. North wind 6 to 10 mph. Tuesday Night A chance of snow, mainly after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. North wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. Wednesday A chance of snow before 11am, then a chance of rain between 11am and 3pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. North wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. Wednesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 23. North wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. But I guess it is still "little to no snow accumulation," but brrrrrr

yep. I do a bunch of chatting. But no so much when in combat and/or when a team has gelled. /lfg - for looking for group stuff - mainly if I'm recruiting /broadcast - for recruiting only /help - for helping people more than getting help /team - for chatting with people on the team /tell - getting a team together, trying to get on a team, and sometimes like a private chat ("brilliant bio", "cool costume", etc.) /coalition - when characters are in multiple sgs need to communicate with one another when not on a team /league - when in a league /sg - rarely /general - for stuff that shouldn't be in the other channels

I don't think that there are any missions in this contact chain that has a failure option. That's why I was asking about the getting the Vazh Disease. Possibly bypassing that could have counted it as a mission failure. As I indicated, my Mutant Origin character had the Dr Vazh mission at level 16. Usually, when a contact goes dormant before their final level, they will reactivate a level or two later, at the last level, or, in some really rare cases, the level after they stop giving out missions (I think I documented these when they happened in the Origin Quest thread). My Mutant character's contact for the Dr Vazh mission was Julianna Nehring. I had thought the Dr Vazh was going to be encountered through the Science Origin path. If I remember correctly, someone else posted that they had a character that had the Dr Vazh mission through Olivia Chung. Your Mutation characters Mutation contact shows the same missions as the two of these, so, yeah, I haven't encountered a break in the contacts mission flow like this yet myself, so I'm curious to what caused it.

I'm thankful to be able to play the Homecoming version of City of Heroes. I loved City of Heroes for years. Then came the F2P and massive monetization ... even for the subscribers. I'm so glad that City of Heroes is back as it was when I loved playing it. ... and I'm thankful to the Homecoming DEVs for running the game and making all the cool news stuff for it over the years since I started playing here on Homecoming.

Do you remember doing any of these? 6.3 Go to Faultline and stop the Vahzilok raids (14-19) 6.4 Rescue the auction house workers (15-16) 6.5 Hit the streets and cull the numbers of the Vahzilok (15-19) 6.6 Recover the Talisman of Jiang Li (15-19) 6.7 Defeat Outcasts in Steel Canyon (15-20) 6.8 Recover the tome from the Vahzilok (15-20) And, I guess I should ask, did you character catch https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Vahzilok_Wasting_Disease ?

I don't see a reason either, but it can help narrow down the possible causes. Do you remember what the last mission he gave you was? https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Pavel_Garnier

I checked my notes on: "15-19 contacts ... Mutant in a surprise twist (see Science above), the Vazh become the target of the Mutation origin arc. Julianna Nehring has the same story arcs at Olivia Chung, so this character should get the Dr Vazh mission at the end of the arc. The mutation character contracted the Vahzilok Wasting Disease https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Vahzilok_Wasting_Disease and is definitely going to be facing Dr Vahzilok within the next mission or two. Character has the mission to defeat Dr Vazh at level 16." Some of the Origin stuff seem to have been broken when they were in the process of funneling content. It looks like Pavel Garnier has the same missions as the other Mutation Origin contacts in that level range per wiki. Is your character Mutation origin?

"Find Contact" was added during the later days of CoH before the sunset. It was designed as a funneling mechanism to try to limit contacts so that characters in the same level range were more likely to have the same contact as other in a group or could pull the same contact (not that that helps much if you are on a team and they are already past where you are in an arc. It was an intentional move away from the Origin arcs. If you want to do the Origin arcs now, you have to be careful about using double xp and will quite often have to turn off xp in order to complete arcs. Here's my experience working on the Origin contacts so far. Once you get up a rung or two on your character's origin contacts, there are 3 different contacts for each level range for your character's origin that will give you the same missions. I have no idea what triggers which new "your origin" contact you get. Sometimes the new "your origin" contact isn't offered to your character until a level or 2 after you outlevel a contact. I guess if your contact list a is full, the "your origin" contact won't pop-up again until there is enough from for them to fit in your contact roster.