Ironblade

Sadly, I have not sold any of these lately. I've only been a buyer. 😞

Back on live, one of my friends regularly ran all-defender Statesman task forces. They were a walk in the park. Conversely, I did an all-melee Kahn TF on Homecoming and it was absolute torture.

That would be my first thought.

The numbers fluctuate a lot.

Yeah, I hardly ever farm. And I don't ever PL any character that I actually intend to play. But then why would I PL at all? Oh, look. Dr Q is coming up in the rotation. (Or was. I thought of this a couple months ago.) I should PL an extra character to doorsit while I solo the TF on my main. That's an extra 244 merits at the end. Or more - I log in my main, my 2nd account, my 3rd account and my girlfriend logs in hers. Then I solo to the final mission on my main and everyone logs back in. Took me several hours (team size is set to 4 even if everyone is logged out) but that was 732 merits for me and 244 for my girlfriend for playing one mission. 🙂

Unless I'm mistaken, the current server architecture is entirely virtual so it doesn't need X hardware per shard. So there's no reason to merge shards. People who like busy shards play on the busy ones and people who like quiet shards play on the quiet ones. Please who like busy some of the time and quiet some of the time can play on both. Personally, I have at least one character on every shard. I do task forces on all shards and only do 'big content' (iTrials, Hami raids, MSR's, etc) on the busy shards.

When you are resting, you have the flag 'Only Affecting Self' and it puts this in big red letters on your screen. So, no.

No, but there's a way to simulate that (although it's probably not helpful to your situation). You can raise the floor and lower the ceiling to make that square completely solid. This would let you make odd shaped rooms or a corridor with alcoves, etc. Yep. Unless it's been changed, the limit is 18 storage items.

It would be easy enough to determine. Just monitor your PvE stealth radius in the combat monitor and test it as you described.

1) My computer that was able to run three accounts back on live was absolutely NOT a "pretty great computer". I did not play any high-end games and therefore did not have a powerful 'gaming system'. 2) I never said that all computers could handle multiple accounts. But is it definitely 'most'. Evidence? Okay, according to the Steam Hardware and Software Survey, here's what people with Steam accounts are using: 92% have Windows 10 or 11 93% have 8GB or more of RAM 95% have a CPU running at 2GHz or faster 89% have discrete video cards (i.e. not using graphics on the CPU) Obviously this isn't all gamers and I excluded Mac hardware but it's definitely representative of computer hardware currently in use by gamers.

Just updated the Homecoming Wiki. It now has the correct coordinates for anyone else who is looking for her. 🙂

Another good reason to have multiple accounts. In equipping a character on another shard, I needed to move about 25 enhancements that I crafted on my main. Emailing that many single items is way too tedious, so I have a character who was made purely to ferry items across shards.

Disagree strongly. Not sure why you're making an issue of this but most computers can absolutely run multiple accounts "with no problems". As I pointed out, the computer I used to play CoH fifteen years ago could run THREE accounts with *NO* problems.

At the top of the forum screen is a button called 'Server Status' which gives the exact current population on each shard (and also breaks it down between red and blue).

That's an understatement. The computer I was using to play CoH FIFTEEN YEARS AGO could run three accounts. The key sections are as follows: - If there are less than 1500 people logged in to a shard you may play with up to three accounts at once. - If there are more than 1500 people logged into a shard you may only play with a single account. Also, the Hamidon raid zones (The Hive and The Abyss) NEVER allow multi-boxing.

No, that looks right. I just logged in and checked. It looks like 54 accolades related to getting all exploration badges in a single zone, plus 1 for completing Atlas and Echo:Atlas and then 1 more for completing all of Praetoria.

Well, since a well-known marketeer is asking, I guess the context is clear and the answer is something like: Hordes of people start hitting the market wanting to equip their characters NAO!!!! I had noticed something was up but hadn't made the connection to the Mapserver Event. I have Ironblade on every shard and the one on Reunion is self-funding his build by buying garbage IO's, converting to something valuable and selling them.

It's a pretty big gap between having to plan how you spend your inf and having more than you can ever spend. And while it may not be a difficult transition to make in terms of funds if you apply yourself, it can be a huge step in terms of mindset. Back in the day, on Infinity, I was duoing with a friend because they wanted to hit 50 that night. It was going to be their first 50 on Infinity and the first 50 in their SG. We played, they dinged 50, then started talking about their inf situation. They explained that most of their characters (and money) were on Virtue so they planned to move about half their available funds to this character for their final build. I asked them how much that was going to be and they said they had about 100 million on Virtue so they would move about 50 million over for this character. I opened a trade window and offered them 100 million inf. They hesitated and asked, "Are you sure?" I explained that 100 million was 5% of what I had just on that character. From my viewpoint, that was an excellent use of that inf. The recipient was excited to be able to do a better build then they had expected and would have some left over for their next character. If I had kept it, it would just have been gathering dust in the Scrooge McDuck vault.

Nah. We have cars, trams, helicopters, electronic devices and a wide variety of food choices. These things require a civilization to produce.

I would also recommend Cosmic Council. I'm on multiple servers so I'm just a 'casual' on Excelsior but they're very friendly and I take part in regularly scheduled events at least once each week.

Actually, the most annoying to get is Among Friends, just because you need to get a full team. (Although as Jacktar pointed out, only the mission creator has to enter the mission and everyone gets the badge. I can confirm this.) That one wasn't the most time-consuming for me as I chose to write a full-length arc to get most of the badges. I came up with the idea back on live, but never got around to writing it. Doing a full arc and writing all the dialog is really tedious. I wrote an origin story for Mark IV (the tech contact in Founders Falls). If you need help with any of these badges, I have them all and I have 3 accounts.

Well, Paragon City is supposedly in Rhode Island. Connecticut is expensive, so I'd probably move to Massachusetts. I sure as hell would not stay in Paragon unless I had superpowers.

Eh, no reason to get it done in a day. My Ironblade on Reunion is using the market to self-fund his build. I've bought all the low level stuff and his purples and HO's will cost about 330 million. I've been buying trash recipes, crafting them and then converting in category to anything that will sell for 1 million or better. I log in every few days and make about 20 million each time. He's only level 33 and he's at about 160 million inf now. He will easily hit the 330 million mark long before level 47 so . . . good enough. 🙂

Ironblade was the first character I made, because /regen seemed like a good set to keep me alive while I learned the game. He's broadsword/regen and I have Ironblade on every server. So far, three of them are level 50, one is 42 and one is 33. So, wherever you may run into Ironblade, it's me. 🙂

88% so far.