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I'll direct you towards @BadMinotaur 's earlier post:

I'm not sure how HC intends on implementing the name release, but on Legacy when the devs ran the script to release names (all of twice), it did not generic any character name that fell withing the given parameters. A released name only genericed when someone else created a character (or renamed an existing character) and chose the released name. So, the released name could sit there unclaimed and the owner could log in a year later and the released name would still be on their character and would once again be claimed. If I recall correctly, one of the Legacy devs mentioned that of all the names released when they ran the script, the amount of names claimed from that pool was a single digit percent.

^^ This. You can solo all Praetorian content an any combination, the difference will be on how fast you can dispatch mobs and whether you can just jump in a faceroll fight or have to fight smart, using pulling techniques, sniping, etc. My currently most played Praetorian is an ex-Shredder Destroyer Savage/Dark Brute that had no issues in the 1-20 content. She's currently 20 so I've not dropped her into any First Ward missions yet.

I only have 30-40 across all the servers, so less that a 3rd that I had on Legacy. I only have three 50's because getting to max level is just not that important to me. Sometimes I just roll up a character because I came up with a name, like last night I made a Dual Pistols/Kin named 'Doubleshot Espresso'.

I figured folks would work it out... and you did. 🙂

It has two 'r's. It's not 'lieberry'.

I believe the policy you speak of is for character levels 1-5. 6-20 it's 90 days, and 21-49 is a full year. But I also believe that policy has not been initiated yet. I'm not sure how the HC devs' version will work, but on Legacy it was a script that had to be run and they only did it twice during the life of the game. It wasn't something they just turned on and stayed active.

After reading through the thread, this was pretty much my thoughts as well. The OP's post of the GM's response to their ticket had me thinking about a story I got from one of the Legacy devs regarding a player's in-game "bug" report. Some of you may recall the in-game bug report popup. This would create a ticket in their tracking systems and when they had migrated over to Jira the very first ticket generated by a player contained the player's verbose description of the issue as "Shit's broke. Fix it."

Everyone's opinion on what is a "cool" or "imaginative" name is subjective.

I'm just remembering back in the day when I had to hoof it across Steel Canyon to change tram lines. Locating exploration points is easy when you have the Vidiots map pack installed and gathering them is the absolutely easiest way to nab Merits. Thanks Devs for all you do.

If you outlevel your Praetorian contact, they will no longer give you any more of their missions even if you've already started their story arc. So you routinely have to turn off XP to avoid outleveling your contacts if you wish to finish their arcs.

I think I found out why you haven't gotten your pizza yet.

Tips for PRAETORIANS? I'd rather see the 'outleveling Praetorian contacts makes you dead to them' issue fixed.

My Savage/Dark Brute managed well soloing through main Praetoria, the ex-Shredder is siting at 20 in First Ward at the moment. One thing you have to remember it to NOT get the 2XP bonus from the P2W vendor if you want to enjoy the faction arcs. This run was strictly Loyalists Powers division and I found that sometimes I didn't have to turn off XP very often to avoid out-leveling a contact.

@Wolffe359 If you left the launcher up and running, be sure to close and re-launch it otherwise the updates from Tuesday's morning maintenance cycle may not update.

Here are the ones @Crater Kate mentioned, + one more.

'19th Legion Corvid' fits in the naming field. I suppose if you gave it the bird head, coloured black it would help separate it from the pandemic.

When some MM's Bots run by and I hear a flock of rubber ducky squeaks.

The thing regarding the limitation on invention salvage is that it applies to base items, one of the reasons lighting flickers every time you remove/add items to storage, it's updating the base items listing. And base items also have a limitation, or at least it used to, something like 20k items as the more items that have to be loaded every time you enter your base the longer the load times and bigger impact it has on your system. I still keep White/Yellow invention salvage in storage, but I do limit the quantity to 5-10 per piece. I recommend going through your storage and cleaning regularly, drops stacks in the AH on the cheap.

I try to gather badge titles that fit my characters, the one I worked hardest for was for a character I do not drag out much at the moment, for reasons that will be obvious. He... it... is the second character I created when I discovered a year and a half ago that CoH was back, so prior to our current... situation. It's been a great villain to play but I wouldn't want people to assume that I created it to make light of what's currently going on in the world.