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Survival and damage. On Hamidon raids and the LGTF, henchmen can much more easily reach and damage the mitos. On mothership raids, if you don't use Group Fly, during the pylon phase your henchmen are being essentially dragged through all of the level 54 mobs on the ground and are being massacred as a result. Meaning that if you want your HPs back (bodyguard mode), and to do damage, you are repeatedly summoning, equipping, and upgrading your henchmen over and over and over again for ten minutes. If they're flying, you have more health, and you do much more damage to the pylons. In addition, Group Fly is needed for henchmen to hit the Rikti drop ship at all. For the third and fourth missions of the Imperious TF, it's the same as the pylon phase of the MSR essentially. Survival and damage. Telling a Mastermind to turn off Group Fly during these scenarios is essentially telling a Scrapper to turn off half of his or her toggles and stop using half of his or her attacks. That would be silly wouldn't it?

It's usually not new players complaining. It's usually people who know that the Null the Gull option exists, but feel that they shouldn't have to use it anyway.

Time or Electrical Manipulation. Three words: Permanent. Gang. War.

The four North American shards all use the same hardware, so there'd be no cost savings by merging any of them. It'd just result in headaches and players leaving. While Reunion is on its own in Germany, the server it uses is also used as a backup for Homecoming's operations, so they have a vested interest in keeping the server hardware online. I.e., there won't be any shards shutting down anytime soon.

Affirmative.

1. Not that I'm aware of. 2. On live, it would have shown 101 badges. On Homecoming, 100.

To be frank, if you're PUGing, yeah, you're going to get grief over skipping Ice Shield and Glacial Shield. Not so much Frostwork. If you do plan to PUG, I'd advise making a second build with those powers if you don't want that grief. That said, it's your character.

Sonic/Sonic is much like Dark/Dark, thematic but anathema to each other. The primary wants you at range with all of its cone attacks, while the secondary very much wants you in melee. That's why you won't see a build for it. If you want a Sonic Attack Blaster, I'd recommend /Devices, /Energy, or /Tactical Arrow instead.

It's still available on the OuroDev Git (which requires an account), and on the OuroDev Discord server, pinned in its #piglet-development channel.

It's a fairly in-depth article that you can find here. I find it interesting that one of the reasons attributed to NC deciding to sunset CoH is that the player base became split between CoH, Champions Online, and DC Universe Online.

New trailer is up!

Bluesky feeds capture posts with specific trigger words or hashtags, regardless of poster. So if you skeet "paragon city" or "#cityofheroes," the City of Heroes feed will automatically capture it. Bluesky lists are what is limited to specific people that have to be added to the list.

All things City of Heroes, regardless of server. It's mostly for City of Heroes players that are already on Bluesky (which there are quite a few). Discord is siloed. Reddit specifically sells your content to OpenAI, Google, and probably others to be scraped by, and fed to, LLMs. I only saw one openly political-related post there from the past three days. And no, there's really nothing to keep discussion on target unless I set it so I have to manually approve every single post - which, yeah, not happening . The feed automatically captures any post with the keywords in the original message. If you or anyone else mentions in a Bluesky post/skeet "city of heroes," it will show up in the feed, with or without the hashtag. Again, people are already discussing City of Heroes on Bluesky. They have been for over a year, and it's just occurring more and more frequently as more and more people use Bluesky. I just made it easier to find those discussions.

It doesn't have to be. I have nothing personal posted on Bluesky. It's all discussion about comic books, video games, announcements for the Internet radio station I'm affiliated with, sharing news articles, and sharing memes... It's all about how you decide to use it.

I can also promise that at this very moment, AI is being trained using the data found on these forums, unless you think all 200+ guests currently viewing the forums are human beings... Spoiler: They're not.

Yeah, there's been quite a bit of CoH discussion there lately, which is why I thought a feed collecting it all to make it easier for people to find is a good idea. Thirteen million users now IIRC, half of which joined in the past two months. Almost all of tech Twitter has moved over, as has the Internet radio station that I am involved with.

I've led a kill most/steamroll ITF where I was the only 50 on the team... on a Controller... and two people rage quit the team because I refused to set it at +4 difficulty. They were trained by AE farms and/or PI radio mission farms to think that a single level 50 character can carry a full team of lowbies.

Victory has been around for over five years (just like Homecoming), but due to the tiny size of the player base there, you're mostly (if not entirely), soloing. Masterminds are one of the best ATs to solo play with, so Robotics being the top power set isn't surprising.

Nope. No advertising whatsoever. They do plan to launch an optional subscription, but that's it. In addition, if you really want to get into the technical nitty gritty, Bluesky is more of a protocol where people can eventually run their own servers (like Mastodon, but much more seamlessly). But no, it doesn't sell your information nor do advertisements. Again, they plan to offer an optional subscription because they need to fund the thing somehow, but that's it.

For those unaware, Bluesky is a fairly new microblogging social media platform, like Twitter/X, Mastodon, and Threads. Bluesky has really picked up in traffic as of late as more and more people move over to it. For City of Heroes players, I created a Bluesky feed. It's just an alternate medium to follow the game and its players. Essentially, all Bluesky posts (or skeets), that have the following will show up in one central City of Heroes feed: city of heroes, city of villains, paragon city, paragon studios, rogue isles, #cityofheroes, #cityofvillains, #coh, #cohhomecoming, #cohnewdawn, #cohrebirth, #cohthunderspy, #cov Yeah, yeah, I know. Social media icky. I hear you. But Bluesky is, IMO, the best of a bad lot, and I do see City of Heroes-related posts/skeets there. I just made it easier to find them. You can find the feed here if you are interested.

You forgot the third option - rate the team leader one star, and then politely leave the team.

This is website feedback, not a bug. Regardless, check your attachment quota here. We are only given roughly 97.5 megabytes of storage space. Odds are you reached yours. If you want to use images, you'll have to find an alternative image host.

By level ten at the absolute latest on every character (and usually by level seven), I go to Pocket D to talk with Null the Gull to disable Speed Boost, Group Fly, Team Teleport, the pop-up travel power tray, Mystic Fortune, and to change my character's alignment to Rogue. I mean, I could complain about someone using Speed Boost on me. But that would be asinine, wouldn't it, as it would be on me for not disabling it. So I just make sure to go to Pocket D to turn it off, in all of two minutes. It's an amazing concept.

Until the developers change the situation (which I very much hope that they do), it ultimately comes down to this: "People don't go to Pocket D to disable Group Fly because it's so rare! You're only one person, you should disable Group Fly for the benefit of the seven other people on the team." No. Group Fly is rare because A. it wasn't even very good for Mastermind henchmen until 2021, and B. people immediately lose their crap and bully the Group Fly user to turn it off. So of course it's rare. Although it doesn't seem to be all that rare anymore considering all of the complaints on the forums, in-game, and on the various Discord servers over the past several months... Also, if people keep turning Group Fly off because people won't bother to take the two minutes to do so on their own, then I'd pretty much never get to use it on a team. So no, I won't turn it off. Consider it a public service... people will know to disable it for the next time. I agree. I consider knockback to be as bad as Fold Space, but nope, I never kick anyone off of a team or league for using either. I just grumble under my breath a little, rate the player one star, make a note, and move on. They're playing how they like, and even though it negatively impacts me I just deal with it for the moment and one star the person with a note so I know for next time.

Everyone can turn off others' Group Fly. Not everyone can turn off others' knockback.