GM Crumpet

I think it's amazing!! I'm so happy to see so many new and returning players. Just remember, when you make your new characters please don't use other peoples IP. It's always sad when we have to generic a name, bio or costume (or all three). Especially when it's clear someone has spent a long time in the costume creator getting it exactly right. We want you to enjoy your experience and not get upset/angry/annoyed because you suddenly find yourself nameless and in your underwear. Be creative and be brilliant, just be original 🙂

Hardly embarrassing. I don't do macros as I find them confusing, and much cleverer people than me have looked at it and said it's fine for now so that's good enough for me. We can't all be good at everything. I'm good at what I do though. And I didn't say the Homecoming team don't have a clue, please don't put words in my mouth or quote me out of context. I said I didn't have a clue. there is a massive difference.

I have no idea what people mean when they say changeling. Laucianna sent me a video of it in action and I'm still none the wiser. If people use something that makes them happy then go for it. I have my forms bound to keys and swap between them as required. I think personally some people are so caught up in the idea they forget the majority of us who play khelds don't do it and have no idea what to do even if we tried. I feel powerful. In a team I feel OP due to the inherent bonus. I swap forms with gay abandon and use the powers as needed. I'm maybe not as fast as someone above who has the manually dexterity and coordination I lack to click and double click in a rhythm, but I solo +4/4 very happily. As a GM I often see complaints when something is changed from people who have built their character around a particular power or exploit. I'm sure you saw all the stuff when fire powers were altered and it filtered into fire farming. That was a shock to my system too when I logged into my favourite map and died instantly. But the devs don't do anything out of malice. They make changes to streamline AT's and power sets so they aren't OP compared to others, or worse, underperform with comparable power sets. I am not privy to any of their conversations about khelds so don't know what they think, not do I know enough to contribute properly to that conversation if I was asked. I do know that they will extensively test any changes internally, then throw it out to the closed beta. If that time comes I'll see about getting the leaders of the kheld community access to the closed beta (it's not hard to join) and your voices can be heard.

I generally do the low level content. Sometimes I'll do a couple of DFB's, but most times I do it the old fashioned way

I'm not a dev, but from what I can understand CoX uses a very bespoke engine that's not compatible with anything

It depends on what you are saving I suppose. It's tempting to save all your salvage and enhancements of any colour, but you need to prioritise. I save IO's and sets, and sell all the DO's and SO's. I save 100 catalysts, boosters, unslotters and converters. The rest are all filled with event salvage and PaPs. Salvage I don't bother saving as I don't craft very often, but orange salvage might be useful to store a few of each type.

Retired due to real life commitments preventing them from being able to spend the time needed on the game. We are all volunteers and sadly real life has to take priority.

I had that, rebooting my router really helped, but to solve it I ended up having to plug my PC into the router direct. Not had a problem since. Did take a very long cable though as it's in the other room.

I'm not privy to anything the devs are working on, but I know they are always doing new things and looking at areas that need some love. It's more a case of "How long" rather than "what" as far as I can tell.

Please stay on topic and give focused feedback. A like or dislike of a particular feature is fine as a statement, arguing with the dev who created it isn't.

I play masterminds a lot, and they are my favourite AT. They are just as good as other AT's. I don't actually like cold. I'd go as far as to say I hate it. I like thermal, time and kinetics. The other secondaries are decent too, despite me not liking cold. Slotting your pets as early as possible is the trick. I put all my slots into the pets first, then get the ATO's and a pet set, plus the pet upgrade powers. They are versatile for solo, and great in teams. I love beasts, mercs, undead and bots. Demons is OK and I've never had a lot of luck with ninja or thugs. Play what you want because it's fun for you. Teams aren't going to go "Demons/empathy MM? N00B" and kick you out unless the team leader is a bit odd.

Empathy gets a bad rep these days. It has some nice buffs, and those heals come in real handy at lower levels. Yes pure healing is less important at high levels, but try doing a MSR with no clouds of green numbers flying about. It's painful. Where I would agree with people is that calling yourself a healer isn't the instant team invite it is in other games. Just being you and available is generally enough. Teams in this game are more interested in numbers and contribution rather than power sets. As long as you don't hang back by the door and take part in the fights nobody cares that much if you are an empathy defender or a broadsword brute.

please don't argue and take the thread into off topic areas. I have a corruptor I'm trying to level and this takes up time I'd be better off using in a Penny Yin!! 😛 Thread locked due to unpleasantness.

locking the thread as it got wildly off topic by the second post 🙂

I can't talk about the licence, only how it was explained by Number Six when he rolled it out. Tequila has zero security and it's very easy to create a manifest riddles with nasties. Viruses, malware etc and you'd never know. If you got the manifest from us (or the actual Rebirth/new dawn/Thunderspy etc site) you are most likely fine, but some people don't realise and google "city of heroes manifest" and get all kinds of hits, not all of which are legitimate manifest re-uploaders. To combat that we came up with the launcher which can't download anything except our designated up to date manifest. It's got a lot of tools behind the scenes to fix loading issues before they appear to the player, plus a few utilities that are very useful. So even if it is (or isn't) a condition of the licence (I don't know myself to be honest, just what's been said in the announcement) for player security the launcher is the best way to download and play the game.

Finally I can actually confirm we have an update coming!! People keep asking me and I'm like "eventually, at some point" 🙂

Seems kind of unproductive so locking this thread

you know me so well 😛

Necro thread

I did a quick google and I think you might be misremembering. The gender swap was at icon and facemaker https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Super_Booster_III:_Superscience

I'm mildly sceptical as I've tried to put saved male costumes on female characters and vice versa and it's always refused to let me. It's actually a great idea, but on my multi-gender characters I've had to make separate costumes and use a cc emote to simulate the gender swap. I'm not categorically saying with my GM hat on that it's not possible, but I'd be surprised (and delighted) if it could happen.

Illusion controllers and dominators can use their existing costume slots to make their illusory pets look like themselves, but masterminds have no facility to change the character model.

That feature doesn't exist on Homecoming I'm afraid.

Necro thread. Locked.

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