Ironblade

This is exactly backwards. By reducing inflation, and therefore the prices of goods, this is the one group that has PURELY benefited. This is the group where the so-called 'casual player' resides. Unless, of course, I'm misunderstanding your use of "non-marketers". I take that to mean someone who does not use the market to generate funds for themselves. I do not take it to mean someone who never uses the market in any way. If that was your meaning, then the whole farming nerf is invisible to this group of people and has no impact on them, positive or negative. Okay, in a later post you clarified, "I did say non-marketer. I think that as different from non-Marketeer. " In which case, as I noted, this change had no impact on them. If they're not using the market at all, then market prices have no bearing on their play. They are getting their goods from vendors using either inf or merits.

Thank you for perfectly proving my point about the difference between theory and practice and people being oblivious to the concept of privilege. My point was not that someone might not be able to type /ah. Yeah, it meets the literal definition of accessible. That doesn't mean that it is, in fact, accessible for them to use it. If someone simply can't understand it or learn it, then it is not accessible in practice.

I see this comment, or variations on it, quite often. Not every power needs all six pieces from a set. Many sets don't have six good pieces. Also, depending on your goal for your slotting, frankenslotting can be a much superior tactic. I have an invuln tank with +360% regen from slotting just two pieces from many different sets. As for the original question, my rad/rad tank isn't high enough to have this power, so I'm reading the thread with interest.

I'll defend it. I've taken 1-3 powers from it on various characters and never regretted it. I built an invuln tank who had Aid Self slotted for interrupt reduction. Even with multiple enemies around me, I could CONSISTENTLY use it without being interrupted. And he obviously had to take Aid Other to get Aid Self. One power has 5 slots and the other has 6, not for the power itself, but to mule set IO's for +regen. I have Aid Other on Ironblade due to my long-term goal of completing all the missions. Too many have stupid/squishy escorts that I have to keep alive. Since he's /regen, he obviously doesn't need Aid Self. I have a sonic/sonic defender with Aid Other, Aid Self and Field Medic. He also has 3 powers (Assault, Tactics, Vengeance) from Leadership so there's no either/or dichotomy on those two pools. As a defender, he supports the team. Often, he's the only person with any healing whatsoever. Since he doesn't have high damage output, he's usually not the main target of enemies so he can use the heals in combat without much concern about being interrupted. And, of course, Field Medic makes Aid Other uninterruptible and that's the heal I use the most. I also have a dual pistols/devices blaster with Aid Other and Aid Self. Frankly, they seemed like a good choice since I solo him a lot and both his primary and secondary had powers that I felt sucked so I had extra power picks available. He also has Recall Friend, Assault and Grant Invisibility. So, do I have the Medicine Pool on most, or even a lot, of my characters? No. But it definitely serves a purpose. P.S. As an aside, is there any pool I have on most characters? Yes. All but two of my characters have the Leadership pool. I think it's the best power pool available.

Not so much a 'peeve' as a decision based on the limitations of the format. I've played pen & paper RPG's..... yikes, since 1979. When I'm playing an RPG in person, I role play my characters. Almost every word is in character. Any OOC comment is prefaced by that to make it clear. Playing online - I don't role play. Being restricted to text is so limiting and annoying (to me) that I just don't do it. My characters have back stories and their backgrounds inform their choices regarding powers, costumes, mission decisions, etc. But that's the extent of it.

And one step would be to actually get it working correctly. Example: I had a bid in for a recipe. My bid was 315,000 and had been in for two days. Upon checking, the market listed the last five transactions, all today, as follows: 1,100,000 1,050,000 5,000 1,150,000 1,100,000 Well, there's a problem. If my bid was 315,000, there can't be a purchase at 5,000 unless either the bidding or reporting system is broken. Hardly destroying my quality of life (gaming), but it is annoying.

I am reminded of a quote attributed to Yogi Berra: "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't." Yes, technically, everyone has the same access to the market. So, IN THEORY, it's equally accessible to everyone. In practice, there are plenty of people who just aren't able to marketeer their way to big bucks. Maybe they don't have the patience or attention span to learn it. And maybe this is due to medical reasons and not simply characters flaws. Maybe they don't have the intelligence or education to get it to work for them. Frankly, when I hear someone saying that the market is equally accessible to everyone and there's no reason they can't learn it - that smacks of privilege. Hey, I have a good education, I'm computer literate, I kick butt with Excel - this market stuff is easy. Well, it's easy for SOME people, entirely doable for MOST, but not for everyone.

Hell yeah. It's not often I need to do this on my scrapper (Ironblade). But I was doing some Ouro badges, exemped to level 14 in The Hollows with 'enemies buffed' and me having 'constant debuff'. That's a tough combo at level 14.

Yep. I think even 2-3 toggles is too many. I have the void skiff / rocket board / magic carpet on exactly ZERO characters even though I have several where they fit the background perfectly.

And now I've started a long-term project: a better corrupter for this iTrial. My current corr is fire/thermal which is great in general, but not 'top tier' for the Magisterium. I have now created a beam rifle/kinetics corr.

But how many 'top tier Incarnate powers'? My main has like NINE tier 4 powers because I wanted Clarion AND Rebirth AND two different Barriers all at tier 4. 🙂

You actually can't be 'over-leveled'. The Citadel TF, for example, is listed as level 25-30. Anyone above level 30 will be exemplared down to 30 (thus losing a number of powers, including all your Incarnate stuff). The older task forces are EASY to solo. I would guess that any character could do it with some temp powers. If you build specifically for soloing AV's, you won't need temp powers for most of them. The newer TF's are much harder to solo (Dr Kahn, Ms Liberty, Lady Grey). Fortunately, the 'newer and harder' ones tend to cap at level 50 so you can have your incarnate powers.

PCSAR was actually founded on Infinity, then expanded to some other servers. We are now on Everlasting.

Well, got the badge on my badger on the first run. And then we succeeded again on the second run. I got a rare and a very rare on the second run so that got my corr a T4 power. Should be all T4's by the time of the next run.

Yep. Send me a friend request. My global is @Ironblade.

Well, a still shot is not video so you could use screenshots.

No it can't and never will. Having said that, yes, you should find that CD-ROM because there is an online tool to extract the costume data and save it in the file format that CoH uses. And the 'costume' data includes the character's height, build, face, etc so you can perfectly reproduce what they originally looked like. So far, I have recreated a number of my old characters and four of them are level 50 so far. I have only created one completely new character and made changes to the builds of a couple others. One more thing: Hi there! A lot of people from Infinity are on Indomitable but a lot are on other servers. Most of my characters are on Everlasting. Drop by. 🙂

I guess I'm more nerd than I thought. My corr is 50 and incarnate powers all tier 3. Working on getting a couple of those to tier 4 so, once I get the badge on Ironblade, I can bring the corr for any future runs. Just like the good old days. I did the Magisterium dozens of times back on live.

I'll start off by saying that, for me, this computer is old. I normally build a new one every 3-4 years and my current system is from August 2014. Probably because I haven't started playing any really high-end games that would require a newer system. I blame Steam's summer sale last year. My brother and I picked out eight games to buy, many of them a few years old, so those have kept us busy. CPU: Core i7 4790K at 4GHz GPU: Asus R9 290 w/ 4GB RAM Memory: 16GB G.Skill DDR3 Drives: Two SSD's with a standard HD for back-ups. My case is an Antec 900. I love it because it's tall and wide. I used to run SETI@home so my CPU was at 100% utilization 24/7 so I had a massive Zalman heatsink. The Antec case has two 120MM intake fans on the front, the usual exhaust fan at the back and a 220MM fan in the roof of the case. That's almost the size of a 9" dinner plate. When I build a new system, I keep my previous system as a back-up. My previous build was also in an Antec 900 case, which I will use for my next build. I like having a spare monitor, too. I had a Samsung 22" die with 2 months remaining on the 3 year warranty. I shipped it back for repair (free shipping and repair - they absolutely honored their warranty) but I couldn't be without a monitor for two weeks. Conveniently, Samsung had just released their first monitor with LED backlight so I got that and am using it right now. I'd post a photo, but my case is on the floor between my desk and the wall with about 6" clearance on the window/grill side for ventilation, so the photo would be mostly desk and wall. So here's a photo from a review.

No.... how does RHW stand for The Hard Way? RHW refers to the Really Hard Way badge. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/The_Really_Hard_Way_Badge

Or maybe they should name it whatever they damn well please. Especially if the name is perfectly descriptive of the channel's purpose.

Yes and no. Yes, it is in Homecoming's best interest to let the talks drag out. No, let's not shut it down now just because you're having a snit.

No. Because, literally, we have nothing. If the negotiations fail, it is extremely likely that NCSoft will shut this server down - as well as the other well-known ones. Ignore the people who are going to say that NCSoft isn't going to spend millions playing C&D Letter whack-a-mole. They only need to whack about 5 moles and that's it. Can a thousand people run rogue servers out of their basement? Sure and no one cares. Their only concern would be a big server (like this one, which costs $4800 per month to operate).

There are multiple answers here. DFB is easy mode for new players. 1. It gets more difficult when you make it more difficult. To the right of the chat window where you type, there is a little speech bubble symbol to access the emotes menu. There is also an option there "Set Notoriety" (or something like that - that might be the villain phrasing). You can adjust your difficulty by setting the enemy levels from -1 to +4 (relative to your level) and you can set the team size up to 8 even if you are alone. 2. The old content is much easier (and often not as well written) compared to the newer content. For example there are two story arcs 'Who Will Die?' and 'Pandora's Box'. Some of those missions are really hard. An old task force would be Synapse or Citadel - not too hard, kind of grindy and boring. New task forces would be Lady Grey, Ms Liberty, etc which are much better. 3. Once you hit 50, you have access to Incarnate Trials which are harder than the regular content. To look up details on a lot of the things I've mentioned, I would suggest visiting (and bookmarking) the wiki. The original is at: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page which describes the status of the game at the time it was shut down. Also, there is a new one that includes all of the above and is gradually (and slowly) being updated with the newer content. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Main_Page

Completely forgot today was the money day. At least we were able to put $50 in last month.