Ironblade

The reward for Dr Q is 122 merits. I think it was 144 at some point, but it isn't now. It would seem that what you consider "a reasonable time" is where the issue lies. Since the devs and most of the players see it differently, you probably shouldn't ever expect this to get changed back.

Okay, turned out to be an amusing problem. She also noted that her video was not performing as well as she expected it to. She asked, "Could I have plugged the monitor in the wrong place?" Sure enough. She had the monitor plugged into the motherboard's video and not the graphics card. Shut down, plug the monitor into the graphics card, and the game works fine. It gave an error message about being unable to load a library. Apparently the motherboard video drivers aren't sophisticated enough to handle this antique game. Our graphics cards handle it fine.

Same for me and my brother's family. His wife made Particle Woman in CoH.

Morale improved to the point where we put the beatings on hold.

50/50 here. Just built two new computers and my game works fine after moving to the new system. My girlfriend's game won't run. What's weird is that our systems are IDENTICAL - all the same hardware, same video drivers, same anti-virus, etc. I have a few things to try. I'll post here for assistance if I can't get it to work.

I just logged in and out, while watching the directory structure, to test this. It looks like the data for all maps for that character is written to the new directory when you log out of the character. I'm showing file sizes as follows: 61K for Ironblade, who has every exploration badge 28K for a fully incarnate tank that has done a good chunk of content 2K for a mid level blaster who has mostly done TF content 0K for a new character that has not moved from the start point in Atlas Park I did not observe any delays in loading or exiting each character. As I currently back up the visited map files nightly, it looks like I need to log in and out of every character to update them to the new file system so I can change my back-up. Overall, looks like a good change and it seems to be working smoothy.

A glitch maybe? Or it got posted too early? At any rate, the thread is not locked and I just posted in it.

Overall, I like it a lot. Ironblade is broadsword/regen and he was the first character I made when I started playing just before the 1st anniversary. He has remained my favorite and most-played character. My only gripe would be that Resilience has such low numbers that it's basically useless. So much so that I have never even considered taking the power - on Ironblade. I DID take it on another scrapper to see if it was as useless as I thought and I decided it was.

Oh sure, NOW you fix this. I've been putting up with that delay since day 1 and I just moved CoH to my new computer 3 days ago. 😛

Another classic: "No one goes there any more. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra

Or just quoted flat-out wrong. "Music hath charms to sooth the savage beast." "Money is the root of all evil."

This. Let me tell a story from back on 'live'. For background, I ran an entire coalition of SG's, I was an officer in a top 10 SG, co-leader in several other SG's, member of Paragon City Search And Rescue and I ran public TF's and trials on Saturdays with open sign-up on the forums. I ran gladiator heal farms, PvP farms, etc. I did A LOT. There was a person, let's call him or her 'Player X'. Player X ran a big SG, ran trials, raids, etc. And, for reasons I could not fathom, Player X was disliked by a great many people. When I ran some of activities, Player X would sometimes join, sometimes with a group of their friends and SG members. And people would ask me, "Why are you letting them join?" And the answer was because I did not have a problem with that person and I did not give a rat's ass if someone else did. If someone found their presence intolerable, they could damn well leave but I wasn't going to tailor my invitations on the basis of who liked what other people.

Exactly. It's remarkable how many people do not know the full quote and use it as precisely the opposite of what it originally meant. So many people simply say, "Jack of all trades and master of none." This suggests that being a jack of all trades is a bad thing. The original quote is "Jack of all trades and master of none. But better than a master of one." i.e. Being a jack of all trades is BETTER than mastering a single trade.

There is a limit on both lists but, IIRC, they work differently. When you hit the limit on global friends and try to add another, it tells you your list is full. I believe that when you hit the limit on global ignores, it automatically drops the oldest entry and adds the new one. I'm not sure about this as I only have two people on gignore.

Characters I don't have on my main server because the name was taken: 1. I was originally planning to play on Excelsior and made my invuln/EM tank Alloy on that server. A bit later I decided to move to Everlasting and the name was not available there. So he's stuck on Excelsior.

Yes, I am retired. Thanks. 🙂 As for the numbers, I'll only be working on a handful of characters at once and not create a new one until someone hits 50. And I play my 50's a lot. So, out of 17 characters, I have 7 at level 50: scrapper, controller, defender, brute, corruptor and 2 tanks. Most of these are fully tier 4 incarnates. The remaining 10 characters are as follows: corruptor, blaster, scrapper, stalker, 2 defenders and 4 tanks. All but two of these characters are recreations of characters from back on 'live'. Back on 'live', I took every AT to 50 at least once, as well as taking every tank primary set to 50 (invuln 3 times). One of the tanks I'm currently leveling is radiation armor. I've already come up with a name and concept (and reserved the name) for a bio armor tank. The above figures do not include six stalkers that I PL'ed to get red side content for my badger. They have XP turned off and are levels 9, 14, 19, 24, 29 and 34.

I have never heard this, now or back on 'live'. I used to run my dark defender all the time because Shadowfall gives AoE defense and resistance. Maybe this is a Homecoming thing? My dark defender is only up to level 34 (I think), so I have not yet done any mothership raids with her. If anyone told me that, I would simply ignore them since they obviously don't understand the game mechanics well enough for their comments to have any value. I do recall people claiming that stealth powers affected Rikti zone invasions - which was debunked by the devs.

and a Notice of the Well while it's the weekly.

Well, it's new system time. I figured I'd post my new system details while I'm sitting here waiting for my Steam folder to get copied over to my new computer. Even on 1GB Ethernet it's a long wait. CPU: Core i5 10600K at 4.1GHz with a Pure Rock 2 HSF from be quiet! GPU: Gigabyte RX 5600XT with 6GB RAM Mobo: Asus Prime Z490-P Memory: 32GB G.Skill DDR4 Drives: WD Blue 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD for Windows 10 Pro and all my apps, data, music, photos, etc - except games. WD Blue 2TB SATA SSD for the games All the peripherals are ones I had already: Logitech keyboard, mouse and headset and a Samsung 24" widescreen monitor. I ask you, though, what is the fascination with LEDs? The memory sticks do a rainbow effect. The word GIGABYTE cycles through colors and the PSU fan has an LED. Sheesh.

Exactly. Like they say in poker, "If you've been in a game for five minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, it's you."

From seeing it in use and glancing over the power list, War Mace seems a lot like Battle Axe - which I have taken to 50 previously. So, if it is at all like Battle Axe, it should be pretty good. I'm thinking my guy will be a tank, bio armor / war mace, wielding a baseball bat.

1. I approve of any adult who admits they like the Powerpuff Girls. Blossom is my favorite. 2. I was meeting your requirements, especially the friends and family (actual friends and family) in SG until I got to the RP item. I wouldn't say I'm 'disdainful' of it, but I don't RP and pretty sure no one in my SG does either. Anyway, you mention an interest in TF's and that you just got here, so make sure you join the channel Everlasting TFs I'm on a lot and do a lot of task forces and trials. (I think it's a lot: 433 TFs and trials year-to-date. Yes, I keep track.)

You can't type something like this and expect us not to ask. Alabama Slammer is my guess. By the way, after typing that, I decided that was a cool name and it was available on Everlasting. It is no longer available. 🙂

I think the Katie Hannon TF would be quite challenging solo since Mary McComber comes back at higher and higher levels. You fight her 3 times at even level, 3 times at +1, 3 times at +2 and then one last fight at +3.

My PrtScr button takes a shot with no UI. And, so that I don't have to remember whether to use Alt- or Ctrl-, I have both Alt-PrtScr and Ctrl-PrtScr set up to take a shot WITH the UI.