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I can't say for certain as I've not tested it, but Tanker's Gauntlet increases the range on their AoE's with a few exceptions as part of the homecoming changes to Tankers. I don't know if that extends to power pools, but if it did, that would be why you're getting a longer range.

I mean, did you even get the "Entrusted With The Secret" badge? Have you even been to Ouroboros yet? 😄

Is there a prize for the youngest? Because out of the people who have posted so far, I win, being only 27. 😛 I remember playing this game at the beginning of High School, so even still this game has been with me a while. 😄

The physical numbers that you see are all shown after the calculations for stat modifiers. There is no invisible stat modifier that isn't shown. Scrappers and Brutes have lower modifiers for their armor powers. This is true and nobody is disputing that. A Brute or a Scrapper will get less out of their armor powers than Tankers because of base stat modifiers. This is also true and nobody is disputing that. This is why the end-result numbers for each archetype are different. For instance, a Scrapper/Brute will only get 22.5% Smashing/Lethal resistance from Fire Armor, whereas a Tanker will get 30% on the same power. Those numbers are the result of the calculations including the archetype's stat modifiers with the individual power's effects. There are no invisible numbers in play here. There isn't some secret or trick that the game isn't telling you. The numbers you see for each power are the final result of all the calculations the game does for each power. You are factually, objectively in the wrong here and you've provided no evidence whatsoever to back up your claims. Anecdotes are not evidence. We're sitting here trying to give you the actual, real numbers and you don't want to listen.

The point of scrappers is the same as every other archetype: to have fun. If you aren't having fun, play a different archetype.

I can only assume that, for tactical reasons, since the phantasm is an illusion meant to help you fight enemies, you'd purposefully make it really big and imposing, both to instill fear in foes and to draw their attention away from you and to the much bigger, scarier ghost man attacking them. 😛

When I was a teenager I was hired by a fast food restaurant to come in on the weekend (when they were closed) and use a pressure hose to clean the parking lot. I'm fairly certain that the strength of that water jet could slice your fingers off if you were dumb enough to stick your hand in it. That thing tore up concrete if you sprayed it in the cracks, and I had to be really careful if I didn't want to ruin the parking lot further with it. It's like that scene in The Last Airbender cartoon where Aang and Katara slice through metal beams with their water bending. Water can be extremely dangerous at high pressures and could probably cut through bone if pressurized enough.

So long as you change the topic title, you can post whatever you'd like and ask whatever questions you have. This is the general board after all, so pretty much anything goes topic-wise, so long as it's related to CoH.

Yeah, story arcs still give out a random enhancement upon completion, equal to your level. It's a remnant of the days when enhancements were the only real "gear" you could get, and back in the day they were a lot harder to come by.

That is seriously one hell of a base you've put together! I absolutely love the idea, and I am seriously considering making myself a pirate-themed character just so I can play around in there. 😄

Already been answered, but I can also confirm that content and teams exist for all levels on Excelsior. The only issue is finding teams for villains, since redside has a much smaller population in comparison. It's not impossible, and I've ran a few redside teams myself, but it's not nearly as prevalent. And also, welcome back, hero (or villain 😉 )!

As far as I'm aware, the costume files should still work. AE content you have saved locally should still be usable as well.

I can't speak to the other shards, as I've not played on them much at all. I tend to stick around Excelsior, if only because my SG is on there and it gives me folks who will tolerate my presence to hang out with. 😛 That being said, Excelsior is pretty busy most days, and as some have said here, is probably the highest population server. There's no shortage of teams for just about any kind of content, so if you're looking for a more "busy" server with team advertisements every few seconds, it's a good place to go. Excelsior also has nightly Hami raids (every night at 10pm EST).

Said by an Arachnos Crab Spider to his recruits in St. Martial: "Treat those weapons as loaded, men. I'd prefer if you keep your toes. It's not mandatory, but I'd prefer it."

From random Goldbrickers in Cap. [NPC] Bombardier: The next person to say "I can see my house from here" loses jetpack privileges.

My co-worker and I quote this movie far too often at work, glad to know I'm not the only one. Favorite words? I mean, honestly, I swear like a sailor, and my favorite words or phrases are probably not appropriate to string together in a forum post. 😛 Not an uncommon word, but I do like the word "colloquially." I just think it's fun to say out loud. Colloquially!

The shoulder pieces for the Ascension costume set are oddly misaligned, and it only seems to happen during idle animations, specifically when your character put their hands on their hips. I first noticed this on my Brute who uses the piece, and again on my Stalker who also uses it. No other shoulder piece does this as far as I'm aware. This one specific piece, and only the left shoulder (your character's left), seems to have been put on wrong.

Things I find odd Trolls explaining to other Trolls on the street the effects of superadine. I constantly see Trolls in Skyway saying things like "Me have body by superadine!" to a guy whose skin is literally green because he's already hooked on the stuff. Also seeing Outcast lieutenants and bosses struggling with a civilian while trying to steal their purse. Dude, you have super powers! Just give them a quick zap and they'll drop it!

To be the killjoy know-it-all, the official reason given is that after the Rikti War, with all but 8 super heroes left in the whole world, crime ran rampant since there was nobody around to stop them. But really, it's because the Skulls have great dental plans.😉 I mentioned this in another thread before, but the office designs in Paragon City are actually a really ingenious security measure. In a city where super villains are constantly trying to kidnap people and take over the world, you have to be creative. Hiring security guards and installing cameras just won't cut it. Instead, you make the layout of your office so ridiculously nonsensical and complicated that any would-be evil-doers get lost in the labyrinthine layout of the place, giving the heroes more time to show up and save the day. I mean, do you ever wonder why virtually every single time you show up to save the office, you get there just in time to save the day? Unorthodox problems require unorthodox solutions. 😄

Yes it does. Any views you get on your channel at all will make money for Youtube. Even one single view will make them some tiny bit of pocket change. That's making money off of NCSoft's property, which is illegal.

No, I'm not talking about fear and paranoia. I am talking about US Copyright and Intellectual Property laws, which you clearly do not seem to understand. To put it as bluntly as I can: It is 100% illegal for Homecoming, or anybody at all, to make any profit whatsoever from this property. This is not fear or paranoia. This is basic understanding of how copyright and intellectual property laws work. Homecoming does not own City of Heroes. It is straight-up 100% illegal to make money off of this. Period. It's not paranoia, it's the law. No means no.

No, that's not what they're saying. Amazon owns Twitch. Twitch makes money both by ad revenue, and by viewers donating to their favorite streamers, which Twitch takes a portion of for income. If people stream City of Heroes on Twitch, Twitch makes money off of it by proxy. Twitch doesn't care about City of Heroes, but NCSoft clearly does, and unfortunately for the rest of us, making money, even inadvertantly, from someone else's property is considered theft, and is illegal. Homecoming doesn't want to deal with NCSoft having any excuse to shut down the servers. So no, you're not allowed to stream. EDIT: Furthermore, the constant droning of "can we get some news please??" is pointless. Legal talks almost always come with an NDA; a Non-Disclosure Agreement. An NDA is a legally-binding contract that forbids any of the involved parties from telling anybody about the talks in question. Even mentioning that you signed an NDA can be a violation of the NDA, and can get you in deep legal trouble. Stop asking for news. You're not going to get it, and as far as I'm concerned, no news is good news.

Oh come on. If I can't even play City of Heroes on my Commodore 64, then what's the point? 😛

In all cases, TF = Task Force, or SF if it's redside, which means Strike Force. The letters before TF/SF relate to the Task/Strike Force contact's name, not the name of the actual arc. Nobody ever calls it "A clamor for the people," they'll just say "Yin TF." Some of the frequent ones I see: ITF = Imperious Task Force LRSF = Lord Recluse Strike Force MLTF = Ms. Liberty Task Force (formerly known as the STF, Statesman Task Force, and some folks still use that name.) LGTF = Lady Grey Task Force All the others will just state the name of the contact. Posi = Positron, Yin = Penelope Yin, Manti = Manticore, etc... In the case of trials and other raids, it's different since they aren't task forces. Common examples: BAF = Behavioral Adjustment Facility LAM = Lambda Sector MoM = Minds of Mayhem DFB = Death From Below trial DIB = Drowning In Blood trial MSR = Mother Ship Raid Hami = Hamidon Raid Those are the ones off the top of my head. If you're ever confused, just send a PM to the group leader asking which one it is again. Most folks are happy to help if you're unsure. Hope this helps!

As I'm running through Redside as usual, Kelly Uqua sends me to go deal with a bunch of Freakshow who have gotten their hands on some Rikti weapons. There's two amusing bits of dialogue in there. First is some random chatter from freakshow. Rikti Freak Gunner 1: "Man, this new tech feels weird." Rikti Freak Gunner 2: "New Tech: t3h ph@t L3wt!" Rikti Freak Gunner 1: "Dude, don't do that." And then at the end, you meet a familiar face who I'm pretty sure has been mentioned in this very thread! t3h R1k70-Fr34k: "0nc3 m0r3 1 r3tRuN, Cr34t3d 4n3w 4s: t3h R1K70-Fr34K!!1!LOLOMGWTFBBQ!" "1t's n0t1hng Pw3rs0nn4l, but I c4n'7 w4yT t0 t3s7 0u7 t3h p0w4r 0f m n3w b0di!" (Translation: "Once more I return, created anew as: the Rikti-Freak!! It's nothing personal, but I can't wait to test out the power of my new body!")