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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.
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Completely forgot today was the money day. At least we were able to put $50 in last month.
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On the bright side, I am leveling a corrupter specifically for these runs with the same build I had back in the live game.
Unfortunately, my corr won't be 50 and fully incarnate by July 11th.
Soon™
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2 hours ago, Peacemoon said:
I’ve seen you using these macros in game and did wonder how you did it! With the little boxes that get filled as your team fills? It looks very slick.
Oh yeah! I recall seeing those. That is pretty neat. I didn't remember who did it, though.
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1 hour ago, Redlynne said:
As long as it takes, Ed Gruberman!
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Just recently I was on a Synapse TF with one of my tanks. We get to the end of it and the team leader sends me a tell, "Thanks for joining. You were really the linchpin of this team." Yes, he actually used the word 'linchpin'. My goodness. 🙂
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On 6/15/2020 at 1:44 PM, RageusQuitus2 said:
3. Also where are the macros stored in COH files? Ie like I looked at keybinds.txt and dont see my macros. Wondering if I can load custom macros easier than one at a time.
You can store them wherever you want. I recommend storing them where it's convenient for you to find and back up, rather than the default.
I store them in c:\data\text\coh\binds.txt
And one of the binds in the file is: F12 "bindloadfile c:\data\text\coh\binds.txt"
So I just have to type the line to load the bind file ONCE on a character. After that, if I edit the bind file, I just hit the button to reload the file. And I have Alt-F12 set to load my standard chat settings file so I don't need to do that manually.
And you can get pretty meta with this. I have one keybind that loads an entire file of binds with text for the mothership raid, and a set for the Abandoned Sewer Trial, etc. When I'm done running it, I have a bind that ERASES those binds so I can't hit them by accident later on. And here's the command to erase, for example, the F12 key: F12 nop (In computerese, that stands for either No Operation or Null Operation - I forget which.)
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14 hours ago, Fortuneteller said:
Couldn't this be summed up easier by just saying ''If you ain't talking about TF's in a TF channel then shut ur trap.''
To be fair, in the absence of other specialized channels, this has become a 'group content' channel. It's used to announce mothership raids, giant monster groups, etc.
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23 hours ago, JMPFXJ said:
I swear I remember an Ironblade
Wouldn't surprise me. Aside from running my own group of SG's I also ran task forces and trials on Saturday afternoons with open sign-up on the forums.
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On 6/12/2020 at 5:52 PM, Machariel said:
edit: useful resource: https://cityofheroes.fandom.com/wiki/The_Incomplete_and_Unofficial_Guide_to_/bind
I strongly suggest instead using: https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/The_Incomplete_and_Unofficial_Guide_to_/bind
ParagonWiki is the site where the information originally came from and was compiled and maintained by fans.
Fandom.com is a commercial site that simply takes content from other sites and has been infected with malware more than once.
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On 6/11/2020 at 3:48 PM, killigraphy said:
Lowest bidder, trust me.
Can't trust you because you're wrong and smug about it. That's always the worst - someone who is wrong and full of themselves.
Absolutely guaranteed that each sale goes to the highest outstanding bit. Trust *ME* because I worked with a group who did extensive testing of the market. We even analyzed how the sales are filled if there are a bunch of identical bids when someone posts an item for sale.
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On 6/6/2020 at 7:51 PM, JnEricsonx said:
My comp is running fine playing the game, I'm just more curious as to if those who are more tech-savvy can tell me if a graphics card hitting the high 60s-to 70 C is something I don't have to worry too much about is all. I'm on a tower PC, not a laptop.
That kind of temperature is no problem for a graphics card.
I'd freak out if that was my CPU temperature.
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On 6/9/2020 at 4:10 PM, FrauleinMental said:
Alpha T3+ is described as granting a Level Shift, which applies to all content.
Lore and Destiny T3+ are described as granting Incarnate Shifts, which apply only to Incarnate content.
I haven't tried it without the Alpha, but I imagine slotting Lore and Destiny but not Alpha would make me 50+2 for Incarnate content but 50 for everything else.
Right.
And note that the level shift for "all content" only applies when you're normally 50. If you're doing a task force that exemps you to 30, you're still 30, not 31.
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On 6/5/2020 at 7:48 PM, srmalloy said:
I didn't know about the teleport hack; the way I was shown to get there was to fly to the southeastern corner of the PI zone and move up the east barrier wall until you found the gap there that would let you out of the zone limits, then fly out to where the water stopped and duck under the map, then fly back to the arena. I know that method still worked at shutdown, because I parked a character in the Matrix room on the last day.
There's another way, also. Go to one of the half-buried buildings on 'monkey island' and log out next to a door that's buried in the ground. When you log back in, you will come out of the door and be under the map. Then fly to the matrix room under the map and type /stuck. That will move you into the matrix room. That's how I used to do it. Then you can Recall your friends in.
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On 6/10/2020 at 11:17 AM, killigraphy said:
Posting something on the AH for 1 influence, will have it sold to the lowest bidder...keep that in mind.
That is exactly BACKWARDS. All sales on the auction house go to the current HIGHEST bidder.
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17 hours ago, Apparition said:
There is a monthly donation window the last Saturday of every month. So the next one would be Saturday, June 27th. It usually opens up around 2 P.M. ET/11 A.M. PT.
I thought that time was off by an hour so I checked to be sure.
Per the donation and finances FAQ post https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/14674-donations-finances-faq/
the donation window typically starts at 19:00 UTC. That is actually 3PM in the Eastern time zone, noon Pacific time. Of course, this will shift in November.
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On 6/8/2020 at 9:38 AM, tidge said:
On Tanks, I will occasionally have 2 sprints: The default slotted with a Stealth piece, and a prestige slotted with simple Run IO.
On 6/8/2020 at 2:41 PM, Heraclea said:On a stealther, I always put a stealth IO, either Celebrity or Unbounded Leap, into Sprint. I use the prestige sprint when I don't want it on, which isn't very often.
Fascinating. I do the exact opposite. On any character that is getting a stealth IO, I put it into one of the prestige sprints rather than regular sprint.
And my reason is . . .
Every character has a default keybind to control the sprint power so it doesn't take up space in my trays. I only have a handful of characters using a stealth IO so they have a prestige sprint in the tray since they're the exceptions.
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5 hours ago, Heraclea said:
Wondering if anyone else had a character like that.
Not a single one. I have MANY characters where I took 9 powers from the primary *OR* 9 from the secondary, but not a single one that took all nine from both.
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4 hours ago, Bentley Berkeley said:
So in the scheme of primates, humans really are very very weird, And a whole lot of that has to do with how we walk, and how from an oh natural in the wild perspective our shape just does not make a whole lot of sense, and makes one have to ask how the frell we even evolved into this shape.
Actually, it makes perfect sense. By adopting an upright position with bipedal locomotion, we freed up our forelimbs from being used in movement.
This allowed them to specialize for fine manipulation and to engage in tool use while moving - hunting, for example.
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On 6/3/2020 at 3:34 PM, Patti said:
Don't you also cap stuff out at a point if the whole team is leader toggling?
Well, the damage cap is high enough that 8 Assault toggles won't reach it.
I don't believe there is a hard cap on defense or to-hit - just anything beyond a certain point is wasted.
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17 hours ago, Six Six said:
sorry, any "vegetable" that starts off as a flower is a fruit. any other part of the plant (i.e. roots, bark, leaves, etc...) is a vegetable.
Yep. And I believe a tomato is technically a berry.
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16 hours ago, Natti said:
If multiple Team members all have maneuvers does it stack?
Not only does Maneuvers (and all the leadership toggles) stack, the team toggles that Arachnos Soldiers get also stack. So they can have those toggles PLUS the Leadership toggles.
10 hours ago, Riverdusk said:Except for Vengeance, unless you're nemesis and get to cheat.
It's possible to stack Vengeance, but not reliably. You need to be on voice chat to synchronize and be accurate enough to land both between 'server ticks'.
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11 hours ago, Ukase said:
Hmm....I wonder if I could worm hole some npcs into my SG base....
Nope. And I know you've been around long enough to know why, but I'll explain for anyone who doesn't know how this works.
The SG bases are instanced maps, just like a mission map. As such, they are effectively a different world - there is no measurable distance from the zone you left to the interior of the base.
However, map features like City Hall, stores, the arena are actually on the same map but hidden far below ground level. This is why you can target a teammate who is in a store - they're somewhere on the same map. This is also why you can access the auction house from City Hall or a store but NOT from a supergroup base or a mission map.
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2 hours ago, Herotu said:
- I love the idea of THEMED SuperGroups, and doing things together whilst wearing the SuperGroup uniform. That kind of stuff always looks cool, it's like when you see 2 people doing the same dance moves - it validates the thing they're doing exponentially, regardless of how ridiculous. I can't overstate that I'm an ENORMOUS fan of this stuff, so please absorb what comes next with that in mind.
- The shared resource and friendship of a SuperGroup are a great idea and supported by in-game resources (bases).
- The SuperGroups are CHARACTER, not ACCOUNT based. This makes the above contradict one another. How much can I play my 1970s Cop character before I get bored and switch to my Arachnos Spider - and suddenly I'm talking to a completely different set of people - it's weird.
I mostly agree on all of these points.
One of my friends told me that her best memory from CoH was when she was on a Synapse TF. They were in the mission right before Babbage shows up and she sent me a tell asking if I could come help with Babbage. I gathered the people in the SG and, when the team exited the mission, there were seven of us from the SG, in uniform, waiting outside the door. I don't think it's a big deal if the SG is THEMED. Some are and work well, some are not also work well.
I agree the SG's being character based is an issue (and always has been). Back when the game was live, my SG was big enough that I had to limit how many characters people could have in the main SG. We had two coalition SG's that I ran for additional characters.
Overall, I think there is definitely a point to SG's. Originally, there were THREE reasons (in my opinion) that they were useful:
1. As a social organization.
2. As a transport hub.
3. As a storage location.
Item 2 no longer matters with the base passcode function but the other two reasons are as valid as ever.
Talks with NCSoft take over a year?
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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).