Apparition

As you've said, successfully forming a red side DFB isn't impossible, but extremely unlikely and not worth the time nor the effort, IMO. Also, forming one in a co-op zone like Echo Plaza, Ouroboros, or Pocket D won't work. I tried. If you try, it will tell you that heroes and vigilantes on your team are ineligible, and won't let you queue. Sorry. If you want to do DFB or DiB, you're going to have to go to a blue side zone. It sucks, but that's the reality. Personally, as a 100% exclusive red side player, I just power level myself up a character to level 50 in a few hours, and then run red side mission arcs via Ouroboros Flashback. I just no longer see the point in leveling "naturally," but to each his or her own. As for DFB and DiB, I solo them at level 50 for the badges. It sucks. I hear you. But too many people are scared of red side and refuse to start a character there. Only increasing reward merits for everything red side will change that IMO.

Uhh… Entangling Arrow does a healthy dose of -res. It’s no longer a skippable power, IMO. Also, Captain Powerhouse tried letting Tankers choose between tier one and tier two secondary powers a couple of years ago, and it blew up spectacularly. Not going to happen, sadly.

Water/Temporal Blaster. Water is really strong out of the gate, with a lot of mitigation in knockdowns and a self-heal. Temporal is sturdy, with a good PBAoE attack and one of the best sustain powers, not to mention stun protection.

I will just say that Gerald R. Ford was President when I was born.

Heh, I have done that on a MLTF. All of my characters are Rogues. A Scrapper on the MLTF tried to tank Lord Recluse and quickly died as a result, so I pulled out my Lord Recluse signature summon. Recluse on Recluse action ensued.

IIRC, in one of the AMAs over the years, Synapse said that he was about two days away from scrapping the PPM system entirely and trying something different before NCSoft axed Paragon Studios. It’s a pity that he didn’t get the chance.

Yep. I've seen some clamor for an Issue 4 server. That sounds about the definition of unfun to me. No red side, no Brutes, no Masterminds, no Corruptors, no Stalkers, no IO enhancements, no Faultline revamp, half of the power sets would be gone, no Croatoa, no Rikti War Zone revamp, no Rikti mothership raids, and Hamidon raids now require 200 people again with dive bombing Illusion Controllers? No thanks.

Yeah. Going to an actual tram or using Team Transporter? Perish the thought! We’ll just make the Rogue change alignment. Blue side privilege at work.

Yeah, going to Ouroboros for board transit missions will break for co-op teams. Your best bet is to use Team Transporter for board transit missions instead. It works just fine for co-op teams now as long as everyone is in the same zone when used, and it's a good reason for everyone to buy it when they can afford it even if they don't want to use it just to get to missions quickly. I hear you. I very, very rarely team for story arcs as I prefer to solo them, but when I do, I'm not about to change my character's alignment for the team. The only exception would be running a blue side story arc via Ouroboros Flashback. Have to try to keep the red side numbers up in the server status, after all.

Will never happen. The only source code available is for the Issue 24 beta. The developers would have to spend so much time and effort rolling everything back that they could spend on other things, like new endgame content that is desperately needed. Then you have the issue that no one will agree on what the “best” issue was. Plus it would further fragment what is left of the CoH population.

Anything that lets me punch Statesman in the face has my support.

Cubicle Seven announced earlier this week that a second edition of the Doctor Who RPG is in the pipeline. No announcement of when it will be released nor pricing, however. I am definitely interested.

@Apparition on Torchbearer I generally don't team for story arcs, but I'm more than willing to team for any Strike Force.

I did. :P Fun mechanics, challenging mobs, giant robots, and you get to be at sea. What’s not to love? To each his or her own. :D

Admiral Sutter TF Mortimer Kal SF Lady Grey Task Force

It happened to me on Homecoming back around August 2019. I reported it in the Bug Reports forum back then. I was on a Blaster running missions in Night Ward when I somehow ended up in a team's mission in Talos. IIRC, my character was level 34 and the mission was set at level 21. I joined the team to malefactor down so I wouldn't ruin their XP. :P

Some of us find the speed buff in Musculature Radial and Agility Radial helpful. Most of my characters take Agility Radial Alpha instead of Agility Core Alpha for it.

Time for me to make a Kinetic Melee Brute and play with some Tankers...

Agreed. Why play a boring hero when I can play a rogue or villain? To be fair to Homecoming, the dynamic split between hero and villain became weak with Going Rogue in late 2010, and then died when the game went free-to-play in late 2011. It's just much more noticeable on Homecoming as none of us have any old characters to play.

I know a whole host of people that don't like Rikti mothership raids, but did a ton of them when the Vanguard merits to reward merits ratio was still ten to one. As soon as it was bumped up to thirty to one, they stopped as they no longer deemed it worthwhile and haven't done one since. Rewards and incentives matter. If you really want to increase red side population, the only thing that will work (IMO), is to double the reward merits for everything red side (including the red side WSTs, effectively quadrupling them).

Look at his alignment (villain), and then look at what zone he's in on the map, (Skyway City).

You'll always be forced to rename if you move a character to another shard with a naming conflict. Just the way it is.

Good luck. Even on Excelsior, out of over two dozen attempts to form red side DFBs during the first year of Homecoming, I only ever managed to get about four rolling. I eventually gave up. Now I either do them blue side or solo them at level 50 for the badges. It stinks, but it is what it is.

Percentage wise, the shard with the highest red side population is Everlasting. Second highest is Torchbearer. Numbers wise, the shard with the highest red side population is Everlasting. Second highest is Excelsior. A good friend of mine and I (both red siders), both recently mostly left Excelsior for Torchbearer, and I haven’t had greater difficulty getting a team for red side content on Torchbearer than I had with Excelsior. You should be fine with any of those three shards.