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For a while now, I've been running with teams that run mission arcs together. We are very careful to turn of earning XP to make sure that we don't outlevel contacts.

I was watching this German documentary on AI chat bot and, yeah, the idea of "robots" without mechanical bodies kind of fits into this thread so I thought I would post it here, even though the thread is primarily focused on mechanical robots. It really doesn't seem to me to be leaning into "Virtual Love" as much as to use that as a "hook". I do a good bit of listening to youtube while gaming and this was interesting "different" content about how people get lost in the fantasy of chatbots, and I can't say that it is all that much different than getting "hooked" on gaming. There seems to be a P2W factor in both environments which kind of fits in with the "hooking" aspect. Which makes me like Homecoming all that much more for not exhibiting that behavior.

Welcome to THE CITY!

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.... and now, back to our unscheduled secret event ...

The Halloween salvage is going for like 10-15k per due to the Motel 666 rampages of the last several years. So paying 10-60 infl isn't really that much or maybe I just market enough that it doesn't seem like much.

NO! My eyes! Argh!

CoH was created for teaming. It has been made easier to solo over the years. End Arc Bosses like Veles are meant for teams of at less 3 or 4. I'm assuming you are set to "Elite Bosses when solo" versus "Arch Villains when solo". At least I think "Elite Bosses when solo is the default" If you are really having a hard time with a mission, then do something else to level up and the go back and try it again. Police scanner missions are good for this and so are the origin arc missions; talk to a detective to get access to the police scanner. If you bypassed talking to an origin contact in the basement of City Hall in Atlas Park, you can still go back and talk to them. they won't give you missions, but they will give you access to the next contact in the chain until you reach a origin contact that is your level and they will start giving you mission. Missions from Origin Contacts that match your character's origin always drop enhancements that can slot for your origin.

Yeah. I'm seeing the treasure chests around. I know @DoctorDitko is going to go crazy over this one.

Every 10 levels you can go to a different Icon rep for an additional costume slot : level 20 steel, level 30 IP, level 40 founders You can get another costume slot with the four parts of halloween salvage by turning them into a vendor in Croatoa This macro format is for a costume change without a costume change emote /macro name "cc #" slot # first slot is 0, second is 1, third is 2, etc These are examples of costume change macros with a costume change emote /macro name "cce # ccemote" /macro IB "cce # ccemote$$goto_tray 9" /macro Super "cce # ccemote$$goto_tray 1" name = name of your macro cce # = slot # first slot is 0, second is 1, third is 2, etc ccemote = one of these below ccbackflip cchowl ccevillaugh ccspin ccnuke cclightning ccprestochango ccdrinkformula ccsmokebomb ccninjaleap CCDimensionShift ccfurburst ccsalute ccvanguardsigil cccast ccsuperserum ccenergymorph ccrapidboil ccfeatherburst ccfurspin ccoilstrike ccpressurerelease cciceblock ccstoneblock ccfireworks ccpureenergy ccnuke ccmurderofcrows ccconfettithrow ccgiftburst ccinnerwill cclightmagic ccrainbow

Are you running away when you need to? (you can run back and string them out once you are a decent way into mission. Wait until they turn to head back to their spawn point and then jump the last guy in line) are you trying to pull, or just rushing in? What is your notoriety set at? (if you need to you can lower it.) Do you have any enhancement slotted? (need SO's? run DFB's they drop SO's) How are you slotting your attacks? (I tend to make the first 2 slots accuracies. IF the power cost more than 10 end, then I slot an end reducer next. Otherwise I will slot an effect enhancement or damage enhancement next. Lower damage powers, use effect for the third slot. high damage powers, use damage for the third slot) I figure if you can't hit them, then you are just wasting endurance. Don't feel weird about using the /help channel in-game or to use the /LFG channel to look for back-up. If you are trying to learn the game, then work to learn it by experimenting with it rather than using mids. The leveling structure is set up so that the enemies should be giving you a hard time when you first run into them and then within 5-10 levels you can start kicking their butts. As you level up, think "what have I been lacking in" and then looks for ways to correct for that either in power picks or slotting. Don't forget to look at the power pools as they can be very helpful as well. And honestly, "builds" and Mids are for level 50's and not leveling characters.

I don't have time to monkey with it right now, but looking at https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Conprint_(Slash_Command), it looks like you would at least need to put <color red><color red>Hello There! in quotes inside of the other quotes for the macro/keybind which I would think could cause issues once the second " is reached in the macro. To me, it appears that it isn't a slash command intended to be used in a macro based on the structure used. I'm assuming this slash command is mean to work as a standalone entry or, alternately, in a popmenu or custom window as indicated on the Wiki page.

Yeah, well, I guess that is why Buttstroke has disorient rather than knock up.

I slot mine with 2 acc, recharge, kb, and Blistering Cold: Recharge/Chance for Hold (and I can't remember what else off the top of my head I haven't played any of my ice/ma blasters for a while.) Knock them up into the air and into a corner or wall, blast them until they try to stand up, and ki push them again (well mine ki push is on auto-fire at any rate) .. well except for those times that they turn into a block of ice and then I keep blasting them until they thaw out. I want to make sure it hits, but it sounds like fun to try to "knock them out of the ballpark"

I like the idea, but agree that it probably would be a pain to program into the game and re-balancing would be an issue. Re-balancing is always a nightmare, so, even though I like the idea, it is probably best to leave well enough alone.

when you have a respec available type /respec I generally do mine in bases. Some people have issues doing them in bases, but that may be due to traffic. Seems like it is best to do them where there will not be a lot of player character activity around you. When you set off the respec, it will dump all your enhancements into a temporary storage bin. (I'm a bit foggy on how this actually goes through as I think I have only 1-3 respecs since playing on Homecoming definitely less than 5) you then pick your powers. once you pick all your power, you then pick slots. Then you slot enhancements. Any enhancements that you don't slot or move to your normal storage trays will be loss when you complete a repec. So make sure to leave space in your enhancement storage trays before doing a respec if you plan not to reslot all your enhancements. If you aren't an avid (some would say Ebil) Marketer then you should have plenty of room to move 70 enhances to the /AH for storage; you don't have to post them for sale in order to use the /ah for additional enhancement (or anything else that you can move to the /ah) for storage purposes. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Power_Respecification You might also want to think about creating alternate "builds", but that requires supplying the build with its own set of enhancements. You can use that this to make single-target, multi-target, main-tank, archetype-primary heavy, high-damage, etc. builds that you can swap into. (I'm not sure how often you can change builds. I don't use them). https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Multiple_Builds

From your post, there is no telling what information you have provided to others. Well, Number Six is on the Council. Hopefully, they answered your questions. Even though you didn't respond to them in helpful manner. I'm not understanding why you would post your reply inside their quote. Good luck.

What operating system are you using? Can you post the crash logs here? Are you having issues with any other programs crashing?

I haven't done many sewer runs since back. If you go into a sewer network entrance point, turn right, and go into the door there. That door will take you into the Abandoned Sewer Network (https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Abandoned_Sewer_Network) which is level 36-40. I guess the question is why not run the DFBs instead of running around in the Sewers (other than the badges down there) It is easier for a team member to get back to the team if they fall in combat in at DFB. As low level characters in the sewers, characters may not have awakens and, if a character has to go to the hospitals in the sewers, it is often almost impossible for that character to regroup with the team. Also DFB's drop SOs. Plus you will tend to level quicker with DFBs than you would with running with a group in the sewers.

As stated, Everlasting would be the way to go for RP. It wasn't entirely clear in another post; the highest population servers are (from highest to lowest) Excelsior, Everlasting, and Torchbearer. The first two tend to have much higer populations that Torchbearer. If you want to farm, I would go to Excelsior as it has the highest population and you will be most likely to find a Farm that will accept doorsitters there. [I don't condone farming. I think it is a bane to the CoH community in general. My own opinion.] There is a small but active group that make non-Farming missions arcs for the AE - that is to say, using for what the AE was intended to be ... players creating mission arcs that they would enjoy playing and providing the for other players to enjoy as well. And, obviously, these "story" missions are buried by Farming missions. The most PvP that goes on in Homecoming happens in the /ah. Otherwise, PvP appears to be pretty rare at this point and mostly on the weekends. After all this is said, I would suggest to playing the game before going to stay in the end-game. It depends on what "as much as you want" means to you. There is a limit on how often you can transfer characters. Every time you switch characters to another server, there is a chance that your character will have to be renamed. The higher the population of the server that you transfer to, the more likely that the name will already be taken on that server.

Have you tried to use these? /macro fx0 "noparticles 1" /macro fx1 "noparticles 0" The first one turns particles off. The second one turns particles back on, but it doesn't restore all graphics until after zoning.

@Tactic21 I am doing this as well. It seems to be the best solution at this point.