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DC Comics as we know it, and the DC Universe streaming service were both effectively killed yesterday by AT&T. There's a lot of rumors and articles floating around, but: Much of the DC Comics editorial staff is gone. DC Direct (their statue and toys line), is dead. Word is that they've been ordered to effectively phase out of comic book shops entirely and focus on digital (Comixology, etc.), and bookstores. It's extremely ugly. From Hollywood Reporter: From Bleeding Cool: From Comics Beat:

No. Some powers have different activation times across ATs, some power sets have different powers across ATs, and then there is Scourge. Some power sets are better with Scourge (Fire and Water Blasts for example), than others.

Welcome back, Black Thought/Shiroe! Yes, Champion emigrated to the Excelsior server. There is also a Champion Server Discord if you're into that sort of thing, with hundreds of Champions. Go here.

Because content was originally designed for certain level ranges. Mothership raids were designed for level 35+. Since the level gate restriction was removed from the RWZ, you see a bunch of people bringing low level toons, some as low as level one, and use it as nothing other than a farm. What exactly is a level two, or even level 15, Scrapper going to bring to a mothership raid? Very little to nothing. That is why I always restricted my MSRs to level 35+, even after the level restriction from the RWZ was removed in Issue 16. With the lowering of the level restriction for the LGTF to level 35, teams are running into the brick wall that is the weakened Hamidon. Hamidon was designed for level 50. I have heard of teams in the lower 40s that didn’t know any better being repeatedly annihilated.

I am actually in favor of level gating. Just about every level gate removal or lowering (RWZ, lowering the level requirement to 35 for the Lady Grey TF), has proven to be a big mistake IMO.

Honestly, I'd probably quit the game if I had to play blue side. It's just so dull and boring compared to red side.

I mostly read old DC and Marvel comics from the '60s through the early 2000s, and then independents (Boom!, IDW, crowdfunded, etc.), for recent stuff.

Matt Miller said on one of the AMAs that they did have ideas for more red side zones, but they were scrapped as CoV was not nearly as popular as they had hoped.

I ran an Apex Task Force this evening. About half the team died from blue patches. When we defeated Battle Maiden, a friend of mine was in the RWZ hospital on her way back. She stated that she didn't receive any reward when we completed the TF, and no reward table appeared. I remember this happening to me before some time last year.

That reminds me of the one mission from Vanessa DeVore in First Ward, where you can encounter a level 40 Marauder in your 20s.

I had completely forgotten about this option and wouldn't think this would be necessary on a brand new character with no prior wdw.txt file, but it worked! I used the /window_resetall command on the brand new character, and it reset the windows to the defaults. I then made another new character (still with no wdw.txt file saved), and the window positions were correct from the get-go. Strange, but it worked. Thank you!

I have no idea how difficult this would be, but I'd like to be able to combine dual inspirations for another dual inspiration, like single inspirations. I keep getting the blue/green dual inspirations which I usually have little use for. It'd be nice to be able to combine them to equal level yellow/red or purple/orange inspirations.

Is there a way to completely reset the game's UI like it was a brand new, fresh install with a fresh new account? For some reason, starting a few months ago, when making new characters, the compass, shop window, costume change window, and others are all tilted to the extreme right of the monitor. I tried closing down CoH, deleting the wdw.txt file (well, renaming the file actually, just in case), and starting a new character from scratch, but the various windows are still on the right side of the screen compared to where they were and should be.

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Personally, I think it was a big mistake to remove the level gates from the hazard zones back in Issue 16, especially the RWZ. So I can't support this.

The problem with using League for instructions is that people can (and do), routinely miss instructions due to all of the league chit-chatter. That's why I use the Request channel instead, and ask before hand to please make sure that they have the Request channel in one of their chat tabs, (which all players do by default, but just in case).

Not even Bentley deserves having to play a Peacebringer.

Not to mention you can get Charged Armor from Mu Mastery on defense-based Defenders and Corruptors for either capped S/L resistance, or near it.

Many of my friends couldn’t stand the cartoony look of Champions Online. The few that did left after the launch day nerf patch.

As a fellow league leader... Just use the Request channel. Adding custom chat channels and inviting leagues to it would backfire. A. It is yet another channel that would have to be added to the person’s chat tabs. B. People would not use it. C. Request channel fulfills the same purpose and is already on people’s chat tabs.

Out of curiosity, did you take the Hail of Bullets bug into consideration?

No thank you. That exploit needed to go a year ago. I was never a big teamer on live, and I team even less on Homecoming with the base teleport exploit being one of the major reasons why. When everyone is in the mission up to several minutes ahead of you because they all use the base teleport exploit and you don’t, and you can possibly lose out on temporary powers or badges as a result, or even have the mission finished before you get there, it’s just no fun.

FWIW, I waited around the full hour and did the event again. This time, no one else showed up during and I managed to obtain the badge. Lesson learned. If you're soloing one of the Praetorian zone events and someone else comes in, just move on.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I'll put it here anyway. In Nova Praetoria, there's the "Protest" event. I came upon it on my level 50 Corruptor. It had not started yet, and had the option to either take out the protestors or the Seers. I was the only one there. I started taking out the protestors. It went on to the second phase, where you take out more protestors. I did that. Then the third phase started where you have to take out some Destroyers. About half way through this phase, a level 40-something Controller joined in. We completed that. Then the final phase started, where you take out 20 Protestor leaders. The Controller did some sort of nuke that killed 18 of the Protestor leaders. I got the last two. Then the reward table: As you can see, no badge, no temporary power, and no reward merit. It appears that by the Controller joining in the last minute or so of the event and then nuking the Protestor leaders, I got essentially griefed, although I'm sure unintentionally.

This is sadly no longer available, it seems.