High_Beam

Farming and powerleveling is far more tolerated and accepted on Homecoming than it ever was on live. There were going to be changes to AE that would have severely hindered the farmers. I think you don't realize how good farmers have it on Homecoming. As for powerleveling being a crime. Well, The Babes of War, back on live on Freedom had three hard and fast rules. 1. Must play a female characters. 2. Don't be Creepy. 3. No Powerleveling. We straight up kicked out members who we discovered doing it. You may not like that idea, a lot didn't, and that it fine. But that was our decision and it worked out pretty well for us. What we didn't do was go around trying to push an anti-PL agenda nor did we engage in hyperbole using falsely applied words like toxic. Player please.

I loved that game. Played for Umpteen hours. Thanks for the good memory bump there.

Wretched map. The overclutter diminishes the dread the place is supposed to inspire.

Contrary to HGTV's insistence, the Tiny House trend is not sweeping the nation.

Oh that one is wretched.

I have mellowed I guess. The Layer cake room still bugs me a little but I am over Oranbegan maps because I do tend to marvel at their design and in my head remind myself that this was once part of a city. The two maps I despise are the aforementioned Arachnos room of massiveness. And Grandville.

I am not a market trader. I would likely be considered the kind of market user those who make giant sums on depend upon. I have never won a costume contest, and the influence donations I have received are small numbers. I started on Homecoming in January 2020. I don't Farm and don't PL. I have just shy of a billion influence. And that is after the fact that every character I have created that is above level 27 is fully kitted out with IO Sets. I know I am not doing it optimally but my process is simple. First is that I sell all purples. Period. I am not that OCD min-maxy so the Ragnadoodles and other are immediately put up on the market and I put them up for 5 influence. I have never tried to play the guess what the going rate is. All purples sell. I have builds planned (via mids) and yes I have a spreadsheet so I know what recipes each toon, even the lowbies, will need in time. That recipe or one in the same family drops, I keep and mail it to my badger and crafter. This is doubly true with the more expensive special ones (LotG, Panacea, Gladiator's Armor, etc). I keep all Enhancement Converters (again mailed to crafter) both types. Then as leveling falls in range I craft that enhancement. I do play recipe roulette but not for sale, rather for slotting (again those expensives ones). The end result is that the majority of the crafted (and attuned) enhancements I am buying I am getting smaller cost. Early on I sold all orange salvage, getting 400-500K per sell adds up when you play. Later as I had a nest egg I adopted a policy of saving Orange Salvage until I had 5 of each in the bins (for the aforementioned crafting). From there I sell them all except ones I know I use all the time (Deific Weapon, Mu Vestment). I use the orange converters to attune stuff I craft. I sell most medium inspirations for 5 inf, again I don't even pay attention to what it is making because. Others in this post have given good advice, they are likely better at market. The tip about comparing orange recipe sale value on market compared to vendor is excellent once you are badges up (if you are a Badge Hunter). I do that, same goes is there are zero bidders for a recipe at the time I am unloading. To some, the market is a mini game and good on them. It isnt to me, its just where I shop yet I dont struggle to equip my characters, with whatever, nor am I unable to be charitable. I am the Middle Class of CoH. Thankfully, the obscenely rich in this game are also obscenely charitable. It is something that desperately needs emulation in RL.

I am an American and I detest Friends and found Seinfeld as funny as a laser colonoscopy, in fact most of the "comedies" on TV (then and now) blow chunks. Its hard to make me laugh, not because I am some jaded, humorless person but rather I've had to live through all of the tropes repeated over and over again, a child of the seventies it was reruns of the really old where the tropes were created then the seventies and eighties where they were recycled under the pretense of different colors and costumes and on into the nineties. There is/was so little that was actually original or creative and then if they achieved that, it wasn't often funny. Yet they get the ratings, they get the eyes on boxes so clearly its funny to someone. And there is the crux, if its funny and its not hurting anyone then groovy, you do you. You can enjoy reruns of Seinfeld or the Office while I watch reruns of Community or My Name is Earl. Pax

Me llamo es High Beam ... I barely passed Spanish I in HS; its one of four regrets I have in life, two of which involve language.

A Beam can dream.

I would prefer the ability to filter any chat in game that has the word farm, sitter or hitter in it. But hey, everyone finds their fun one way or another.

Well that specific outfit was vary popular; I mean its a Donna Karen. And ever since that one actress wore that hair style is the romantic comedy Accidental Boyfriend, a lot of women have been getting the look. Very flattering on your cheekbones. But all kidding aside, I have seen this a lot in Kallisti with other mobs. 8 Warriors all having the same (dumb) torn tuxedo costume. Something may be wrong with the skin randomizer. Or maybe there is only a single Khols for everyone to shop from.

You lost most Americans at Grams.

These clips don't look like the Babylon 5 I remember and why is Castle in them? 🙂

I just came out of the Wine Gums rabbit hole; Jelly Babies, Screamin Jelly Babies, other candy science experiments and ended on a guy doing a redo of the crash VFX from the movie Air Force One.

Just . . . wow! Not gonna unsee that. Is there wine in them?

Grown-assed adults likely in their 50's for the most part playing superheroes, primarily female superheroes on a computer . . . for fun . . . maturity really isn't required. But in these times a sense of humor really really is. Personally I save my maturity for real life, work generally so that I have a really nice retirement when I am fully tired of being mature.

I run forward and steer by right-click-holding the mouse.

Really? Interesting.

Okay so I took a look and of my 50 built characters (most of them level 50), 32 has Hasten and 18 did not so that's roughly 66% has Hasten. Masterminds without exception did not have it and most of my melee toons didn't either except for my kick fighter who I love fast fighting with. All Doms, Controllers and Defenders had it as did all but 1 Blaster. I don't make "teh ubar" builds to take on AVs or EBs solo so I have more room for "fluff" powers, ones that are truly necessary but make things flow better. Characters that are team oriented (heal, buff, debuff) definitely need it in my opinion because the more you are doing that thing, the more you are helping, even if the team may or may not need it.

Remember that old LucasArts Game? That's how I imagine Symphonic Control sounding.

Sir or madame, how might one subscribe to your newslettter as I agree with your position in this matter.

It used to be a non-negotiable option for me on live, I took it regardless. On Homecoming, It is on a lot of toons but its not mandatory any more. Its definitely still a lock on trollers and Doms (as others have said). Because its easier to achieve Endurance stability (or overage) on Homecoming I can sling more pain out so there are times when I and wanting the attacks up faster and Hasten helps.