srmalloy

I can't say for sure, but I suspect that the problem may be with the amount of Unicode outside of the subset that City of Heroes supports, and the way it handles glyphs that aren't in the chat font.

No, going to the forums is not a requirement. But deliberately ignoring information that is pointed out to you in a window you are required to see and then expecting the other players to supply you with the information you already decided you didn't care about, at least to me, smacks of self-entitlement -- "I can't be bothered looking for myself; tell me what I want to know."

What will be most confusing about a max-level build that gets posted is an artifact of an old change to respecification (re-picking and re-slotting your powers). Originally, you did it the same way you did while you were leveling up -- at each step, you got a power pick or slots, and assigned them to what you had available at that level. This was changed so that you picked all your powers, then allocated all the slots, so that the 'slot levels' (which the game doesn't actually track) are irrelevant -- you can put the slots you received at levels 5 and 7 into the power you picked at 49, and Mids lets you do this, too. Which makes following a build as you level really difficult if you don't already have a good grasp of distributing slots as you level. Sovera's correct, though; if you see a build you like, but don't understand how it would be slotted as you level, ask the person who posted it for help.

I don't want to suggest it because of the inevitable fewmet-storm it would produce on both sides of the argument, but I have to wonder what the effect would be if the AE buildings had 'chat blocker technology' installed -- chat inside an AE building would not be heard outside, and vice versa. Someone wanting to advertise a farm could leave the building -- going out onto one of the balconies is easy enough -- but if you wanted to beg for a slot on a farm from the people running them, you'd have to go into the building, at which point your 'LF farm' messages wouldn't be heard in the rest of the zone (or outside the building for requests in LFG). I can think of good arguments both ways, but I think the counterargument that it would be complicated to do, and the HC staff has more important things to fix is probably the strongest, no matter how attractive having the farm traffic mostly disappear inside the AE buildings would be.

Pocket D -- getting to the truck just ENE of City Hall is easier than taking the tram to KR and then running the couple of blocks to the AE building there.

It's not the confusion per se, it's the ongoing stream of people asking the same "Where did the AE building go?" over and over and over again until it becomes more obnoxious than the "sitter LF farm" spam was.

This has always griped me about ambushes; they should be dispatched to the character's location, not targeted at the character. They should still have normal perception, so if you don't move far enough away (or they run past you) they should aggro, but if you're stealthed, they shouldn't have a target lock on you. And if they reach their target position and don't find anything, they should go on a random walk to see if they can find you nearby, not just stand there like idiots.

I'm getting noticeably lower volume when my nova-form PB uses Scatter; previously it was stacking the 'gzang' hit sound for each target

Having the human-form toggles suppress rather than turn off is a big improvement, but seeing the effects of switching in mid-air, I wonder whether it would be possible to get the same 'air time' for switching forms that you currently get from teleportation if you arrive in mid-air, so that if you had a flight power toggled on in human form, you don't drop five or ten feet before the toggles finish unsuppressing. Or just let the Nova-form flight carry over for a second or so when transforming away from it, which would have the same effect.

It's 'Quantum Maneuvers' in my Mids, but still doesn't have a default slot. Something to toss into the Mids forum to be addressed in a future update.

And don't even get me started on how long Paragon City has been laughing at all the ADA lawsuits over buildings with no alternate routes for mobility-impaired individuals (similar suits were filed in the Rogue Isles, but Lord Recluse just dismissed them all out of hand).

The top pinned thread mentions, on page 37, the presence of 'Quantum Acceleration' that can't be moved in Peacebringer builds, throwing the power selection off. With 3.2.17, that appears to be partially handled -- it now shows as 'Quantum Maneuvers' to match the power list in the game -- but when selected, it appears in the power list as a naked power selection. It has no default slot, and you can't add slots to it, neither of which are true in game.

A flag and an effectiveness factor, to account for powers having a greater or lesser effect on a fire than their base damage, so you can have a power that does a lot of damage in combat, but is only marginally effective at putting out a fire. And you're right, it's more work than the increase in 'realism' would be worth.

Unfortunately, it seems to be a 'neutron meteor', that takes out living things (admittedly, with some stretching of the definition) but leaves structures untouched.

Ignoring the incongruity of having it toggled on while flying, Mud Pots should be effective against fires, as would Quicksand, because of the water content of the effects, but special-casing two powers from different sets, particularly since neither one does damage, is reaching a bit too far. And then you'd start to get into things like what happens if someone drops Quicksand on a burning oil patch and things like that, and it just gets too fiddly.

Wormhole does have an intermittent Wile E. Coyote bug. I have a popmenu for it with several options -- normal (place the destination by mouse), 'here' (fetches the target(s) to you), 'away' (moves them to max distance in front of you, which can be used to move groups out of your way by adjusting how you face when using it), 'back' (moves them to max distance behind you -- a pulling tool, since the lack of aggro lets me move up and slice out part of a conjoined pair of spawns), and 'up' (sends them to max distance straight up; unfortunately, they don't take fall damage). When I use the 'up' option, sometimes one or more of the mobs grabbed by the wormhole don't notice that they've been teleported up into the sky, and fail to fall back to the ground, standing unconcernedly in mid-air.

The character is 25 now, and seems to be going well; I note that there's an oddity in your build -- Quantum Acceleration doesn't have even the default slot; I've temporarily dropped a LotG:Def/+Rech there until I see whether that will push me over five, and if so, I may sack Combat Jumping for something else. Perhaps move all the subsequent powers down one choice and decide the 49 power later. I was surprised at how useful skating up to a spawn with Stealth on, popping Hasten, Inner Light, switching to Nova, then Scatter and Detonation was as as an opener. I expect that I'll get a lot more familiar with form dancing as I continue.

...if you were hurling loose dirt instead of rocks. You'd need to throw a rock big enough to cover the fire completely to put it out -- if I stand near a fire and toss one-pound rocks into it, it's going to take a lot of rocks to do anything to the fire.

And the point I was making is that both water and ice draw heat from the fire, reducing the ignition source, with both ending up as steam, but with ice absorbing more heat due to the 80 cal/gm heat of fusion that is required to melt the ice.

That would necessitate a power-by-power assessment of which powers deliver more water/ice than their raw damage would indicate, some of which is already factored into AoE attacks being able to hit more fires. Lots of complexity for little benefit, particularly with the limited coding resources.

I'm not sure why, but it seems that all the Supa Trolls are hard-coded to find their way up to the area between the tram and the park Synapse is in; if no one thins the herd when they're raving, all of them will become Supa Trolls and head for the park. At the height of the AE powerlevel craze back on Live, the number of heroes spending time in Skyway was much smaller, and fewer people came back to the newbie zones for things that didn't get them XP, so you saw more Supa Troll swarms.

The problem I have with this build is that it's a build you respec into at 50, not something you can level with, unless you twist the hell out of it. Five slots, at 5, 7, and 9, put into White Dwarf Flare, a power you don't get until 20, for example. I like the concept, but I'm going to have to fiddle slot order quite a bit. That said, winging the slot additions, two Rikti invasions and one Nemesis invasion took me from 13 to 21; Scatter and Detonation are amazing for target coverage.

Both work by draining heat from the fire to reduce it below the ignition point of its fuel. If you spray room-temperature water, the fire will expend energy raising it to 100°C, then on turning it into steam. If you cover the fire with ice, the fire must expend energy to melt the ice, then to raise its temperature from 0°C to room temperature, then the same amount of energy as for water. For the same mass applied to the fire, ice removes more heat (i.e., does more 'damage' to the fire) than water. However, water/ice is not a good choice for all fires; look up the different types of fire extinguishers. For frame buildings, like we have in the fire events, though, both are workable, although neither will work as well as, say, retardant foam.

Proper vitriol takes time to simmer before it reaches full potency; we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

I remember, back on Live, the common slotting of attacks for characters that didn't have a good sustain power being three Damage, one Accuracy, and one Endurance Reduction, with an optional sixth slot being whichever of those three needed more help. Prior to ED, a good sustain power meant that you could skip the EndRdx for more damage or accuracy, and a character with Focused Accuracy could skip Acc in all their attacks, so that with both you could six-slot your attacks for damage. But this 'burden' of having to account for endurance use and slotting to manage it has been around since the game rolled out. And you perceive it as such a crushing burden that you want to effectively hand out a 'free' EndRdx enhancement for every EndRdx enhancement slotted in a power, so you can get free slots to use elsewhere. I'm sorry, but this feels to me like a whine about how unfair it is that you have to work within the game's limits when building your combat monsters, so the game should be changed to let you make your characters more powerful.