GM Impervium

Welcome to the forums and the game itself, @SmallBrainEnergy! @Lunar Ronin pretty much answered your questions, but I'll just expand on some of them a bit! 1) What Lunar said above, though, I probably wouldn't put "Masterminds" as a newbie-friendly class. But yes, you can go all the way to level 50 without teaming once. There are some mission arcs called "Task/Strike Forces" which are designed to be played while on a team, and will lock you out of accepting any other missions until you either complete them or quit. These quests often have a high powered Archvillain/Hero (or several) at the end who you probably won't be able to beat solo, so be aware of who you're accepting quests from (most TFs/SFs are given by NPC Heroes/Villains instead of random civilians, so you probably won't run into too many on accident). 2) Irreversibly? No. While it IS possible to make a character that's barely playable, so long as you've selected an even number of attack & armor/utility powers, and keep them enhanced (this game's version of gear), you should do fine. You'd probably have to go out of your way to make a bad character by selecting random powers you can't use (like buff powers that only affect other players if you never team, or every single travel power), and never enhancing your abilities. Anything short of that, and you should be fine! And like LR said, there are ways to earn or buy more repsecs in game. And of course, if you're ever stuck on anything else, you can always ask around; the community is generally pretty willing to help! (And for what it's worth, your English is pretty good, so, no worries there, either!)

PI is not a "raid zone" for the purpose of multiboxing rules/restrictions. All other rules/restrictions still apply (no more than 3, or none at all on a shard when it's population is at or over 1,000/thee red dots, though this rule would mainly only affect Excelsior, maaaybe Ever & Torch at peak times). As Widower said, we'll be monitoring things, so if we end up having to treat PI like a "raid zone", or make any other changes, we'll let people know as best we can.

This is a bit of a tricky situation, as afk farmers generally aren't doing anything that the base game doesn't allow them to do. However, if someone seems to be multiboxing more than three accounts, or multiboxing at ALL when the server is at three red dots, we would definitely appreciate a ticket detailing the names and globals of all involved so that we can double check, and take action if needed. As for addressing the lag, that's also a population issue. Even without the AFKers, ToT tends to attract over 100 people at a time to the Murder Motel, all activating powers and killing hundreds of entities at once all in the same place. We've aware of the issue and have been discussing methods to reduce the strain/lag.

Just a friendly reminder folks: Provide feedback to the DEVS, don't argue with each other, please. I've hidden several (but not sure if I got all) such posts. Thank you.

Just a reminder to everyone to point your feedback at the DEVS, and try not to argue amongst each other. I'll be hiding some of the argumentative posts.

All prizes and titles* should now be handed out! Anyone who was mentioned in the OP as a winner, but has not received your aether or gold title, please PM me, either here or via discord. *: except the one person who hasn't logged in in a few weeks, but we're attempting to contact them! Apologies that it took so long to dole out the prizes. We hope that everyone had fun, and that those who didn't place will be more motivated to up their game and try again next time around!

Just a note/reminder to all our winners: You have to log in after a maintenance day to be eligible to be granted your prizes! This isn't a policy thing, it's an "evil spaghetti code won't let us" thing. Thanks... and again, Congratulations!

Hey @Turnabout, sent you a message. You can view it either in your e-mail that you signed up with, or in the Support page here on the forums. tl;dr, it's either a hardware or settings issue, and hopefully we can suss out which.

We've been made aware of the situation, and hope he's able to find some help. Unfortunately, we don't/can't allow people to post their real life contact info (for safety and privacy reasons), so we've had to moderate the posts where he did so. It may seem callous to respond to a cry for help in that manner, but we've advised him to seek medical assistance if he's having an emergency. We ask that everyone respect this player's privacy. However, I'll leave this thread open so that people can offer words of encouragement and support. Hyperstrike, if you read this, we're pulling for you. If you need some real-time assistance with matters pertaining to the game, I recommend DMing/calling a trusted friend through Discord.

I'm 95% sure that image of Ouro was from the map for the Sister Psyche/Manticore wedding mission, so I don't think that constitutes a "teaser" anymore =P Other than that, there's a lot of stuff being worked on, a lot of stuff being changed, a lot of wrinkles to iron out, some things that are deeply experimental and might be reverted... I wouldn't expect any big teasers for a while.

So, this leads to a frustrating bug: If you log out in the back corner of certain tech or science stores, when you log back in, you'll end up in the BACK ROOM of the store, which is supposed to be impassable, and you'll get stuck! All because someone felt like placing decorative doors where no one could get to them. Though I haven't seen this in a while, so, maybe this got fixed?

You left out a very important line in the section you quoted, probably because it dismantles your entire argument Correction, please heed the following in the section you quoted: "(Yes, we know City of Villains exists)". That's to prevent this exact (bad faith) argument from being made. The game content is held to a different standard, because it's made by a team of people writing missions, and it all had to go through a vetting and editorial process. But a single player making the decision to be edgy has no such guardrails. I know you were encouraged to re-make the thread after removing the parts we initially found problematic, however, this thread is straying further and further from the stated objective of tackling objectionable content, so...

For the record, in case anyone else comes across this sort of thing in the future, all I had Healix do was delete their HC directory (after backing up all their personal stuff like screenshots, setting, binds, etc) and reinstall. I wasn't 100% sure that would work, but clearly, it did 😃

I thought you were a cartoon catapillar... thing? (Don't feel bad, I'm a chunk of made-up metal... not sure how I'm typing, tbh)

Hi. Give it a rest for now, please and thank you.

Between the AI-generated OP and the nitpicking cat-fight that erupted from it, I'm shutting this down.

The system doesn't look at accounts, only the last time each character logged in. So an active player with a forgotten level 4 alt on page 32 of their character list has the same chance of losing that specific character's name as the player who logged in once five years ago. Edit: this was meant as a reply to @WindDemon21

Okay, looks like this thread has run its course.

This sounds more like a thread for suggestions and feedback, so, moved there =)

Easy there, J. Jonah Jameson! Just a reminder to everyone that we don't allow copies of existing characters. There's a fine line between an acceptable homage/parody, and a copyright violation. So people might want to think twice before they tell on themselves here, is all I'm saying.

Maybe the download was bad or corrupt? Have you tried re-downloading HC Launcher?

Shh, don't give the devs April Fools day ideas!

Moved to suggestions and feedback.

Pretty much what @Hedgefund said; sent OP a message on the matter for privacy.

Split this off from the topic it was in, gave it its own thread in the Help and Support section (sorry to make you sound silly now, @Rudra!)