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This is still a bug for Issue 27 Page 1. Attuned Air Burst IOs cannot be converted as Catagory: Ranged AoE. They also make it near impossible to reasonably convert any Attuned Ranged AoE IO to another Ranged AoE IO set as in the process if they convert to Air Burst, can then only convert as Rarity: Uncommon.

This is still a bug for Issue 27 Page 1. Attuned Exploit Weakness IOs cannot be converted as Catagory: Sniper. They also make it near impossible to reasonably convert any Attuned Sniper IO to another Sniper IO set as in the process if they convert to Exploit Weakness, can then only convert as Rarity: Uncommon.

I ran Jacke Shadowclaw around Steel Canyon today (several times with hospital visits) and took him to Level 12. Now all his Inf has been spent on DOs. 🙂

I propose we get a number of Launch Re-creator Heroes together and run the old original Positron Task Force, as would have been present during Issue 0. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Old_Positron_Task_Force It's still possible to launch this Task Force from an Ouroboros Pillar of Ice and Flame, such as many of us have in our Bases. Do take note of this. After starting the Task Force in a Base, the team can take the Base Teleporter to Steel Canyon, which will deliver them to beside the Base Portal there, very close to Positron. The first mission in the Task Force will be set and the Team Leader will be able to call Positron by cell phone from the start. The team can then run the Task Force much as it was in Issue 0. One of my strong memories of my early days in City of Heroes was this Task Force. In Issue 9 or 10, I ran this on a PUG with my main, AR/Devices Blaster Jack Dark. Got to the last mission with just 2 other team members remaining. But they soon gave up and quit, leaving me with the mission spawned with mobs for 3 players. It was damn hard, with a lot of defeats and runs back from the hospital, slowing clearing the map. But the Old Positron Task Force doesn't have an AV at the end, so even though hard, it was doable. I persevered and completed it. Jack Dark got as a reward a Level 15 Celerity Stealth IO recipe, which I soon crafted and put to good use.

Yesterday, December 26, I was on for several hours on my Claws/Dark Armor Scrapper Jacke Shadowclaw. Started at Level 6, took him through Kings Row and Perez Park missions to Level 10. Here he is exiting a Kings Row warehouse after completing Juan Jimenez's mission to shut down a Skulls drug lab. He's Level 10 as his mez power, Obsidian Shield, is glowing prominently around his head, while Death Shroud's mottled grey effects cover the ground. Just after this he ran a mission for contact Haley Philips in Skyway to rescue a Mystic from the Circle of Thorns in Perez Park. Lucked out as the door wasn't in one of the twisty little forest passages all different, but on the edge of a copse of trees in the south of the zone.

Nothing so easy to lose as a game one thinks is won. 2020 is not yet gone. Please do not taunt it. 2021 is still as through a glass darkly. It could turn to 2020 and say, "Huh. Here, hold my beer and let me show you...."

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I was doing a build for an Illusion Control / Darkness Affinity Controller. And in the build, Superior Invisibility and Shadow Fall won't run at the same time. Is this true in game as well? Do Superior invisibility and Shadow Fall exclude each other from running?

In the Friends display off of the Chat window, all Global Chat Channels joined also have an entry in its drop down selection, so you can see who's on that's a member of the Global Chat Channel as well.

Indeed. .... Clown food ?!? .... Could this be the source...of KILLER CLOWNS !?!?! So, reactionary archer, how many arrows you put down range...TODAY! Maybe too busy fletching because arrows all lost all their feathers! Or maybe goofing off! Maybe you should take a cue...from IGOR! Am authorized to use all glorious content of Comrade Balboa! Including the ultimate training montage!

It's got a few more. And each mixes with the ones before and after. Several stone tool schools. Copper tools. Bronze tools. Iron tools. Steel tools. Woodwinds. Pizza. Bongos. Flight. Salsa. Digital Watches. Peak over-priced twaddle. Warp speed. Overindulgence in convoluted time-travel plots without any attention to the latest in Physics research indicating time travel is always forward at some rate. I just recently tried again the two leader "burgers" from McDonald's: the Big Mac (usually bug-free) and the Quarter Pounder. I'm amazed that a restaurant chain with many good offerings (like on their breakfast menu) can produce something that looks like a burger but in consumption is almost inverse Aristotelian in being not a burger at all, but some vague cooked compressed meat thingie. And has two ways of making this not-really-a-burger. I also have note that despite being the Right Choice, Pineapple is barely holding ground against the Forces of Fruitlessness. 20 votes but only 5 Correct Ones. You know what that means. Training montage! Here we have Comrade Balboa showing us how to prepare! Does Comrade Balboa not epitomise a true Champion of the Workers and Peasants? 🙂 You know what that means. Salsa montage!

Everyone forgets about Galaxy City was also on the Yellow Line. (Get a ton of 2nd gen Shivans dropped on you and it's like the MiB did the cleanup.) Skyway South and Founders Falls Green Line Stations were added in Issue 9. And the Yellow Line and the Green Line were merged in Issue 19.

@Knock!'s post from Dec 4 has the Issue 0 ATs and Powersets. For Defenders, it's: Primaries Dark Miasma, Empathy, Force Field, Kinetics, Radiation Emission, and Storm Summoning. Secondaries Dark Blast, Electrical Blast, Energy Blast, Psychic Blast, and Radiation Blast.

I don't think you mean do the run without enhancements 'cause that would turn this from a fun challenge to crazy stupid hard. I think no-enhancements is only done to get some Flashback Badges for doing arcs with enhancements disabled, but for that there are other tools to compensate that a Classic Hero can't use. If you mean no TOs, with i27p1, you can only get TOs from Base Quartermasters. Bases weren't present in Issue 0 but using Base Quartermasters only to buy TOs is an appropriate compensation. I think most taking this challenge do this: Before level 12 sell all drops, maybe buying a few Accuracy and perhaps Endurance Reduction TOs from Base Quartermasters. Get to Level 12, slot and buy some DOs and sell the rest. Get to Level 22, slot and buy some SOs and sell the rest. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Stores_Inventory Best places to sell (this is still likely true) is the matching Origin Store for DOs and SOs, Freedom Corps Stores for TOs. As @Greycat points out, now all stores buy enhancements for the same price. In Issue 0, the Stores in Steel Canyon and Skyway City sold L15 and L20 DOs (and same-Levels TOs). Freedom Corps Stores sold only same-Levels TOs. In Issue 0, the Stores in Talos Island and IP sold L25 and L30 SOs (and same-Levels similar-Origin DOs and TOs). Freedom Corp Stores sold only same-Levels DOs and TOs. Get to level 30, do the unlock missions for the SO vendors in Brickstown and Founders Falls, the only source of L35 and L40 SOs in Issue 0 (they also sold L30 SOs and same-Levels similar-Origin DOs).

Hit Level 7 and you soon discover that Perez Park is so bad that even the original The Hollows with its crazy runs across the zone was easier. The forest paths. Without Vidiot Maps. You've got a door in there somewhere. Or maybe you're lucky and the door is not in the middle of a big blot of green on your minimap. It's 3/4's of the way across a zone filled with mobs that barely have enough space between them to sneak. Mobs that are higher level than you and your mission. Or worse, your mission is to "arrest" a number of those mobs. And all the ones you can find are Level 10. And up. Circle of Thorns, Clockwork, Hydra, The Lost, Vahzilok. The Hellions and Skulls around the outside are almost a relief. There's a wall around most of the zone, too high to jump over, with only 2 ways in and out near the entrances from Atlas Park and Galaxy City. You've got to get to that door. Do the mission. Then get out. And "going to the Hospital" in Issue 0 means going to the Hospital in the zone you entered Perez Park from, likely Atlas Park. You can get out with the "suicide express" but you can't get in or get back that way. If you on a team, congratulations! You either going to recreate the experience of the Ten Thousand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Thousand But more likely recreate the experience of the Teutoburger Wald. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest Have a nice day too. Just thinking about Perez Park makes me think that I made a mistake going with Dark Armor. 'Cause Cloak of Darkness is only available at Level 20. I'f I'd gone with Invulnerability, Regeneration, or Super Reflexes, I would take Concealment's Stealth and I could have that at Level 6. Now Bases weren't present in Issue 0, so no Base Buff Grant Invisibility to layer on top of that. And no IOs so no Celerity: Stealth at Level 12. But at least with that much stealth in the past I have run past groups where some see me for a bit but I often don't take aggro or can survive the hits. Without it, well.... Have a nice day. Perez Park appreciates careful Heroes!

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Who destroyed South Galaxy? [ Rant about the Destruction of Galaxy City - that video clip is really fun, but it mentioning the "...destruction of South Galaxy...." touched a nerve. ] We return you now to your regularly scheduled shenanigans.

You're welcome! Try it out! The graph is larger vertically, to the height of the screen. Easier to see the details. I've added screenshots of 'netgraph 1' and 'netgraph 2' to the main post. Which is why I went into the details on where to install, as well as doing the guide on finding the City Install Root. It's easy to make mistakes, information helps us find and fix them. 🙂

Red Tomax used repeated max Debt to slow down levelling while gathering information for all the mission arcs in his old website. Even worse.... In 2006 (Issues 6 and 7), I was so..."focused" on doing the early levels "right" with my main AR/Dev Blaster Jack Dark that I ended up deleting and rerolling him--exactly the same, I kept careful costume notes--so many times that the oldest toon. from information in my old pre-Shutdown spreadsheet, was actually my Rad/Rad Defender Jack Rad. Even though at least by concept, Jack Dark was older. Prior to Jack Dark (now recreated as Jacke Dark), I'd made some melee toons on a friend's account, the one who introduced me to City of Heroes back in 2005 Summer, but I didn't keep records and my memory's vague. Those are who some of my toons are homages to, the 5 Dark Melee/Invulnerability Scrapper "Jacke"'s and 1 "Jacke2" who are my Shard and 2nd account anchor toons, the Katana/Regeneration Scrapper Jacke Incessant, and now Claws/Dark Armor Scrapper Jacke Shadowclaw.

I just took Jacke Shadowclaw from Level 4 to 6. Finished Azuria's missions and working with Paco Sanchez. Who sent me to Kings Row to talk to the Security Chief. Where near the Pocket D entrance truck when passing by I had to dodge Level 10 Skulls ?!? But it was some Clockwork that finally defeated me. So I street swept. Then talked to the Security Chief. Who sent me back out to street sweep some more. I'm not getting any Bosses, despite having it set in my Notoriety. Not even Azuria's last mission to take down Hellion Char.

...and Classic Melee toons don't have any ranged powers to pull.... There's always kiting, depending on how much map is cleared behind you. I did that so much in my AR/Dev Blaster when street sweeping. Also fondly remember from a more recent year dealing with a brutal Skulls ambush in Kings Row on a Dark/EnM Tanker like a scene out of Benny Hill, running to find any contacts I'd unlocked to reload on Inspirations. 🙂

Sorry you fell in the line of duty, @ineffablebob. Our toons shouldn't be any more fragile. Without the use of the P2W tools, they may have less attacks and movement choices. But even in the first 4 levels, I've felt that Lts aren't just a little bag of hit points to chew through but a threat. I only survived those 5 Hellions and 3 Frostlings because only one was a Lt without melee attacks, my toon was melee, and had the two big Inspirations from the Tutorial. Could have been only one or two usual hits away from being as facedown as a trigger happy Blaster. Later I used a number of Lts in Prometheus Park to level, but they've got no melee attacks of their own. And I've yet to go up against Bosses. Anyhoo, as can be seen from my new signature, I've finally finished the projects I was working on. So I'll have more time for playing City rather than crawling through the plumbing. Any idea what time you'll be on tonight?

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, @Chaos Ex Machina, I was in the middle of a major project. What you're after is my Commands Popmenu. Just follow the middle link in my signature to find its topic and the file to download.

EDIT: New topic for my Commands Popmenu including the latest version located here: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/52170-commands-popmenu-including-long-range-teleport-available-zones-version-20240607a/ To access common commands shared by most or all my toon alts without having them take up slots in Powers Trays, I've brought them together into a Commands Popmenu. Issue 27 Page 1 added Popmenu features to show icons and recharge state in Popmenus. Version 20211018a release for Homecoming i27p1, i27p2 to 2021 Oct 05 patch Download the Popmenu file here. Commands.20211018a.mnu The popmenu file has its version in its name. New version releases will just require replacing the file without any need to change binds or macros. CHANGELOG INSTALLATION USAGE To select powers with the mouse, hover your mouse in the upper left of your screen, then press the key to trigger the bind. You'll then see the main menu with each entry cascading to a submenu or a power. If a power is available, its name is bright aqua. If not available, either not owned, not recharged, or disabled (as are self-rez powers if the toon isn't defeated), its name is greyed out. The White Letters are the menu entries' Hotkeys, allowing quick entry of commands. For example, to invoke the Ouroboros Portal Power, I press "P T O". To invoke Rest, I press "P R R", then after recovered, press "P R R" again to turn it off. Other power menus in the spoiler. At the bottom are extra entries and menus to show by being bright aqua whether the Long Range Teleport Power is unlocked ("LRT Available Zones") as well as what Zones are currently unlocked for LRT access.

Don't be too hard on yourself, dude. I've not coded a lot recently but I've done it for a long time. And I'm currently a sysadmin. Between them I've had many a time where I though I had all the details right but then discovered I missed something or a not-so-rare corner case. Just from using it today, I see Modder is well designed and polished and I know what has to be done to get a tool that way. You check and test based upon the risks, else nothing would ever release. A bad "<root>/data/" tree can at most crash the City client and with Modder being a mature tool, it's a quick workaround to just pull the last mod(s) added or changed and report the bug. Ran Modder and saw the updated "VidiotMaps I26 (v5)". Someone else will have to test it as I'm outta hours delving into the plumbing as opposed to playing in City. 🙂