Ironblade

*her Her full name is Wilhelmina Marlena Dietrich.

(shrug) I think that's completely wrong. I play a lot of games and every single one has features I don't like. You boldly showed them they don't like the game as much as they claim to? And yet, here they are (myself included), playing many hours per week and being active on the forums. If we didn't like the game, we wouldn't be here arguing about it WHILE ALSO playing it.

"Nearly every player is encouraging them to"? That seems like a gross exaggeration to me. I buy the double XP booster, do 2-3 runs of Death From Below and then delete it and never buy another. I actively discourage people from using double XP because we already level so fast. As for characterizing this game as having a an "xp grind to max level", that seems laughable when there are constantly new threads complaining about how it's too easy to level in this game and it's all 'easy mode'. I think the different tiers of XP boost were a good idea and, if there should be any change, the top booster (double xp) should just be removed.

No, this is wrong. In fact, you directly contradicted it in a later part of your quote (below) where it says a booster works "without changing the base level of the enhancement." Furthermore, you can't make level 53 enhancements by using boosters. Boosting it 3 times does NOT make it level 53. It makes it level 50+3 as shown in this screenshot.

Let's not forget getting to missions in The Hollows when you didn't get your travel power until level 14 and there were no temp power jet packs.

Firstly, last time I checked, people played games to have "fun". Second, the original state of the game is not some idealized state - it had serious problems (and still does). But being a "valid facsimile of the original" is, in my opinion, NOT something to strive for. Would I rather play a vanilla server or this one? Definitely this one. While the Homecoming team has made a number of changes I do not like, I feel this is outweighed by the quality of life and other improvements that make the overall experience more enjoyable.

An amusing story about the 'confusion' aspect. The Beatles founded Apple Records. When Apple Computers came along, Apple Records sued over the similarity in the name. They lost and the court pointed out that people were unlikely to confuse a computer company with a record company. Fast forward to when Apple became the largest seller of digital music.

Yeah, he's one of the aspects of Rularuu. Without looking it up, the only ones I recall are him, Ruladak, Faathim, Lanaru and Chularn. We meet three of them in Shard task forces.

And when they brought The Tick to television, they changed the character to a Hispanic hero named Batmanuel.

No points awarded for that line. I mentioned my Pocket D VIP Pass on voice last week so you already knew I had it. 😛

Thank goodness you're here, Darth Gokuverine!

That vague description makes me think of the 'Connected' badge. The first part of the badge description on the Wiki notes: "After accepting the very first mission of Vincent Ross' story arc but before entering the mission door, you will need to talk to one of Vince Dubrowski, Lorenz Ansaldo or Diviner Maros. Two will tell you that you have a more important task to attend to, but one of them will add a special side mission to the current mission. " So, WHILE DOING Vincent Ross's arc, you have to go talk to another contact and do some optional side work for them DURING the main arc. This one is actually a bit complicated and I screwed it up on the first try.

My set-up would probably be annoying to many people. The Global tab includes all global channels I'm on, plus Broadcast, Help and Rewards. Help also gets a separate tab in case of an extended conversation or if I want to check back on something. Rewards is the same story. Combat is just combat rolls. Tells tab is in case I miss a tell or want to look back. PCSAR stands for Paragon City Search And Rescue. The lower Chat tab includes: Local, Team, League, Supergroup, Tells and Hero/Villain/Praetorian zone alerts. So, yeah, some busy chat windows.

Yes. You can use /chat_save to save a default set-up and /chat_load to load it on every new character. Alternatively, if you want multiple options, you can use /chat_save_file "filename" and then /chat_load_file "filename"

Given that my main can teleport, and just how much BS goes on in Paragon City, I would live well outside the city.

Sure, you laugh. But Combo Man isn't laughing about it.

Well, your first mistake was not soloing it. I did Posi 1 eleven times last week. Ten were solo and one was led by someone I know. Whenever Posi comes up in the rotation, I solo it on every character that 1) needs XP, or 2) needs a Notice of the Well. So that's every character who is not yet 50, plus my 50's that are not tier 4 on the Alpha slot.

I have two comments: 1. On the iTrial my girlfriend was running last night, three people mapserved - all playing dark armor. Knowing your affinity for dark armor, I wonder if that's what you were playing? 2. A number of people have speculated that the increased player levels during the holidays, combined with the lack of a maintenance shutdown last Tuesday, is having a negative effect. If so, the restart this morning should clear it up.

I would like to point out that anyone can get these for FREE. They do not occur as random drops *BY DEFAULT*. All you have to do is go to the Pay To Win vendor and turn on team inspiration drops. Then you will get them as random drops and also from the Inner Inspiration power. I always turn on the team inspiration drops for all my tanks. Besides, the game is supposed to be easy. As they guy says in one of those parody videos: "But casual friendly doesn't mean easy mode." "BULL****! I should be able to face-roll my keyboard and STILL win!"

Perhaps traveling to New Orleans by train. Oh, you mean in CoH? I dunno.

The reason someone suggested a plaque is because there's not dozens of others doing it day in and day out.

I know, right?

Hard pass. No. For one simple reason. As a 100% volunteer team, the devs already have very limited resources. Maintaining two sets of code is right out.

I don't think those words mean what you think they mean. 😛

Hmm.... My Sentinel is 50 and fully tier 4 incarnate (with 3 Destiny powers). By "epic powers", do you mean the Ancillary Pools (which many call epic pools) or the tier 9 power? If you mean the Ancillary Pools, nothing there impressed me so I didn't take any of them. If you mean the tier 9 in the primary, I DID take that.