Lunar Ronin

I heard about this yesterday. My condolences on your loss.

I strongly dislike the medieval fantasy genre. I just find it dull and boring. I know, I'm an outlier. :P But what SOE/Daybreak Games had planned for EverQuest Next as a sandbox captured my interest, and I was actually going to play it if it ever released. It took another ten years, but now we may see quite a bit of that in a science-fantasy MMORPG but on steroids, which is a win-win for me.

I've been following this for four years now (it's true), and I'm very excited. Stars Reach is a mix of Star Wars Galaxies, No Man's Sky, and what would have been EverQuest Next. They have two active and growing Discord servers, and I may or may not be building an unofficial web forum for the game as I type. Raph Koster was a top man on EverQuest II as well. Yep, EverQuest Next is a definite influence. So much so that the lead developer of EverQuest Next (Dave Georgeson), is one of the developers on Stars Reach. :) Characters will be able to fly on planets with some type of technology (not yet stated), and be able to freely fly in outer space.

You got it exactly right, Domination keeps Mind Control up. Darkness Affinity is great because it has a myriad of debuffs, including -damage, -regen, -resistance, -to-hit, and -speed, with huge +defense, +resistance, +regen, and +recovery buffs. No, it's not the same as Darkness Control (that's the CC power set), but that's good as well. Yep, understandable. City of Heroes is a 20 year-old MMORPG, and designed before World of Warcraft so it's pretty unique in some ways. Welcome aboard.

Dominator CCs are stronger thanks to Domination. The difference is that Dominators are all CC + damage with little protection (kill or be killed), while Controllers offer support and have a little more protection due to said support. However, Controllers kill slower since they don't do as much damage as Dominators. Both are not great for soloing at low levels, but they both get better for soloing at later levels, if that matters to you. Mind Control is much better on Dominators than Controllers. Illusion is good on both, just different as Phantom Army generates threat (taunt) on Controllers, but doesn't on Dominators. Both are very good for soloing at end game, again if that matters to you. Mind Control Dominators and Illusion Controllers and Illusion Dominators can solo just about every non-advanced mode TF/SF in the game, it just takes a bit of time. Generally, Dominators are seen as more useful in end game (because damage is the only thing that really matters at end game), with the possible exception of Darkness Affinity Controllers. Darkness Affinity is just so good, and it's a support power set that is limited to Controllers only. If you want to try Darkness Affinity, I'd personally pair it with Fire Control, Illusion Control, or Symphony on Controller. Those are the higher damage control power sets.

The former. Warner Bros. decided that they could make more money by selling the series to Amazon than to air it themselves.

I'm not talking about the OP. I'm talking about the post that was directly above the post I replied to, which has been deleted already by a GM.

You're replying to a bot. I have already reported it.

I led a PUG SF on a Stalker a few weeks ago, and a Defender with Fold Space joined. The Defender on the team kept repeatedly Fold Spacing mobs after the fight had already started, porting mobs away from me, forcing me to move. I had half a mind to kick him after the fourth or fifth time. I just mentally prepare myself for the possibility of a bad time whenever a PUG with Fold Space joins the team.

You need to use an Ultimate inspiration in order to use Fold Space or Wormhole on level 54 mobs. But I hear you. I can't stand Fold Space, mostly because way too many people use it indiscriminately and without care, causing time to defeat to actually go up instead of down.

As someone who has donated a substantial amount of money to Homecoming... No thank you. I got what I paid for, just by Homecoming continuing to exist.

On red side, you have newspapers. You have The Radio. You have Slot Machine. Finally, you have Television. Back in 2006 when Issue 7 launched, television was still the king of home entertainment. To the point that Television sends you out on a mission to destroy The Radio, an archenemy. It's eighteen years later, and television isn't looking so hot these days. We need a new inanimate red side contact for the 2020s. We need a red side contact based on social media. Name it TwitTok or something. It is the big new hit in the Rogue Isles, and sends you out on missions to get likes and subscribes, ultimately to defeat an ailing Television.

You necroed a five year old thread just to try to win an argument over IP law that is now completely redundant since Homecoming is now officially licensed? Really?

When The Last Jedi assassinated the character of Luke Skywalker and killed off Admiral Ackbar off screen, I was pretty much done with Star Wars.

I'm thinking of purchasing this Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 notebook computer. AMD processor, 32 GBs of RAM, and a discrete Nvidia graphics card seem like good stuff. I know that there are issues playing City of Heroes on Dell and Alienware desktop and notebook computers. Has anyone had any issues playing on a Lenovo Legion notebook computer? I just want to double check before I pull the trigger and spend $,$$$.

Your easiest time would be on some sort of Brute or Scrapper. Primary power set wouldn't really matter. For secondary, you'd want something with good energy and psionic damages defense and/or resistance like Electric Armor or Radiation Armor, or good melee and ranged defense like Ninjitsu or Shield. Another option if you don't want to play melee would be a Dual Pistols (using cryo rounds), or Ice Blast/Time Manipulation Corruptor. Dual Pistols' cryo rounds or Ice Blast to slow all of the ambushes.

My condolences on your and your family's loss.

Not without a mechanical reason, no. Obviously the red side ATs were incentive enough to want to play red side.

I was perusing the archive of the old blue boards tonight (thank you @Michiyo ), when I came across an old post of mine quoting some game statistics Paragon Studios released in April 2011. Unfortunately, the game statistics Paragon Studios released appear to be lost in the sands of time. However, according to my post from thirteen years ago, City of Heroes had a roughly 60% hero/40% villain population, per the statistics Paragon Studios released. Granted, I'm biased, but I think I'm a pretty reliable second hand source. According to a Reddit AMA, when the game sunset a year and a half later, the game's population was roughly 80% hero/20% villain. That's a pretty big drop in villain population. Why would that be? That's easy. Side switching (which became available a few months before the statistics were released), and the ability to create all ATs blue side several months after. So it's pretty clear that the red side ATs were a big part of the draw that red side once had. I'm not sure, what, if anything, can be done to make up for that. That was a mechanical game advantage or draw that red side had, not a flavor one.

What alignment is your character?

Last I checked, you can't form co-op teams while in a SG base, so more than inconvenient.

What's your global name?

Seeing as multiple servers have started up to play particular ways, yes. I find the "find your own particular group to play your own way" argument a bit fallacious, when something is as pervasive in the game's culture as P2W temps or Incarnates, or the old base macro. When something is that pervasive, the only way to avoid it is to either start another server, or play something else entirely.

Very. It means that you can only go to PvP zones and Pocket D. You can forget about doing any PvE content. I've seen multiple new people check that off thinking that it meant that they'd get a free level 50 character for PvE. Nope.

Also doesn't help that Metalios said a while ago that he stopped playing City of Heroes years ago. It just is what it is. Everyone wishes that there was some sort of web app, but no one is willing to put in the work and effort to make one. IIRC, there have been so far seven attempts made since 2019 between Homecoming and Rebirth players. All fizzled out within a month or two, tops. So we just have to make do with what we have.