Astralock

Yes, I have done 4* hard modes without any Cold Domination characters on the team. In fact, I've led them. I don't care about best runs, as that's meaningless. Is the job accomplished? If yes, that's all that matters. The OP wasn't even asking about "best" 4* ITF teams with the fastest times. Believe it or not, not everyone cares about the fastest times. Really all you (being yourself and others that insist that every hard mode team needs multiple Cold Domination characters), are doing is crying for Cold to be nerfed at some point.

Rad is fine on 4* ITFs. You only need four to five Colds on the team if most of your team is bad. Honestly, you don't need any Colds on a 4* ITF, although I won't deny that it's helpful. But it's certainly doable without. And the OP didn't say a word about hard modes, let alone 4*.

Minions and lieutenants are at 100% for level 49 in both (my slider only goes to level 49 for some reason). Boss in 51577 is at 75% because it doesn’t have Cremate. Boss in 51579 is at 95% though.

That would be a bit of an understatement. Castle ignored just about all feedback, insisted he was right, rammed the PvP changes through, and decimated the CoH PvP community as a result.

51577 and 51579.

There's a new Hero 1 pet that can be purchased for 9,999 Vanguard merits. I imagine that's why.

51577 51579

Considering that Page 5 is going live in a couple of hours, this is all really moot.

No you don’t. You can be straight up Villain and invite a straight up Hero, no problem. Try it.

Have you ever played on Everlasting? 😛

It no longer exists. See here. -

There's an option for global channel operators to "invite global friends." Sounds nice, doesn't it? But what a lot of people don't realize is that when you click that, it invites all of your global friends to the global channel, instead of letting you pick. I've seen one global channel completely destroyed and abandoned as a result of that a couple of years ago, and I just witnessed it happening again yesterday. IMO, it's a good idea to just remove the option. Too many people don't realize what it actually does and can do a lot of damage.

I'm not a fan of speed hard modes either, especially the ones that skip AVs. Have you tried forming your own?

That still doesn't address the second and third bullet points in the original post. Yeah, the Neutropolis residential zone is probably the best bet.

I think this is the real answer. -

Not in any particular order: Robotics/Electrical Affinity Mastermind Robotics/Force Field Mastermind Robotics/Trick Arrow Mastermind Thugs/Time Manipulation Mastermind Beam Rifle/Force Field Corruptor Dual Pistols/Force Field Corruptor Water Blast/Force Field Corruptor Ice Blast/Trick Arrow Corruptor Water Blast/Trick Arrow Corruptor Battle Axe/Bio Armor Brute Battle Axe/? Brute (haven't decided on secondary for second one yet) Beam Rifle/? Sentinel (haven't decided on secondary yet... was going to go Stone Armor until I saw that you need to be near the ground. Homey don't play that.) Dual Pistols/? Sentinel (haven't decided on secondary yet... was going to go Stone Armor until I saw that you need to be near the ground. Homey don't play that.) Water Blast/? Sentinel (haven't decided on secondary yet... was going to go Stone Armor until I saw that you need to be near the ground. Homey don't play that.) I'm going to have so much grinding for the four passive accolades and Incarnate abilities ahead of me. I look forward to it.

That certainly wouldn’t cause any issues. /s Just break off and start a new league.

IIRC, it was disabled back in Issue 21 for the same reason it was disabled here. It grinds the server to a complete halt if it is large and active.

They literally broke Torchbearer the day Homecoming launched and were quickly disabled. It doesn’t work on large, active shards.

Looks that way. I can't say that I understand it. As far as I can recall, Super Speed has always stacked with other stealth powers. C'est la vie.

Do you have cel shading enabled? If you do, turn it off while doing anything in a SG base.

Not entirely true. Some contacts in Nova Praetoria will stop talking to you at level 8, Imperial City at level 15, and Neutropolis at level 19. It's funky that way. So you're much better off turning XP off at levels 7, 13/14, and 18 just to be on the safe side. 13/14 is a little funky in that once you ding level 14, you may start to get offered Neutropolis story arcs, so there's risk that if you ding level 14 and aren't careful, you may start going down the Neutropolis path before you finish Imperial City, but you'll still get missions from Imperial City contacts. Just need to be really careful.

The simple answer is (although I know you don't want to hear it), that you need to turn off XP. There's no other way, save for running story arcs via Ouroboros Flashback. Specifically, turn off XP at levels seven, thirteen, and eighteen. Seriously, those are your two only options. Definitely be sure that you are not using any XP boosts.

There's a Halloween costume we need... IRS agent. It would be the scariest one of them all.