Coyotedancer

I was going to say "popularity contest"...

I'm far from an /Ice expert, only having used it on a few characters... But just as general impressions, it seems fine on my unicorn Dark/Ice Stalker. 'Not the most attractive set in the game, but I tend to go for Minimal FX any time I can anyway, so practically ANY of the more "in your face" effects are going to get that reaction from me. /Ice on Sents has already been addressed. I'll just add my +1 to what's already been said. My Fire/Ice is, by a pretty noticeable margin, the least durable of my collection of Sentinels. If I run her like an "unarmored" blaster, she's fine... But there's no way she can get away with some of the things my tougher Sents do.

The OP may think that the way to make PvP more popular in this game is to make it harder to avoid... "Hey, if people *HAVE* to go into PvP zones for Thing X then surely they'll come to love and embrace being stabbed by other players!" I'm not sure that's ever worked, but hope seems to spring eternal. XD

A "pause" option for Ouro arcs would be useful. I'd argue that it wouldn't be completely out of place to have it available for "regular" TFs, too. Being able to do half of something like Doc Q on one day and half the next, while taking a break to do other things in the middle, would be nice.

So what this comes down to is wanting to provide PvPers with more soft targets, using things like the Echo zone badges and tram/Ouro access as bait... There's more than enough of that in the existing PvP zones. /jranger

It's not a matter of levels... It's a matter of not wanting to be blasted/stabbed/encased in stone/or what-the-hell-ever by some opportunistic PvPer looking for easy kills while you're just bouncing through Echo Galaxy to get to the tram station to exit to Ouro. (And yes. People do that before level 15. You can get the badge from level 1, though the portal power won't be active-) You know as well as I do that it would only be a matter of time before someone started scouting ambush positions next to that tram station or the base teleport drop-point for EXACTLY that reason.

My bird-things likewise. Although... I'm having a hard time imagining Harry perching on a powerline. XD

PvP isn't a particularly popular passtime on the Homecoming servers, so I doubt there'll be much widespread support for "adding" any more zones devoted to it. Especially not when those zones already contain things that PvE players may want to access. (Yes, there are already badges in the other, already-existing PvP zones, too... But not everyone is exactly thrilled about that as it is-) You would also kill off one of the things that keeps Atlas Park's local/broadcast chat from being over-run with "Can somebody drop me an Ouro portal?!" requests. 😝

Grinding the same iTrials over and over and over and over and over and over and over again was never fun. Locking costume parts behind level-gated tasks in a game that's so largely ALL ABOUT its character customization possibilities was a pants-on-head level stupid idea. If you want to wait multiple levels and have to do a pair of pretty uninteresting older missions before you use a cape or aura... You can do that. All it takes is a little self-imposed self-discipline. Likewise, waiting until 14 to get a travel power, not using the Roman costume parts until after you've done and ITF and any number of other "old school limitations". If you WANT that to be 'the way it is', you can make that choice for your own characters right now. No one is stopping you. Just because YOU love the idea of a long and difficult struggle to play the game doesn't mean the rest of us should have to. Also... If you want a classic "grinder"-style MMO with an absolutely predatory in-game market, an RNG that hates its players and more "locked-behind-X" gear/costume options than you can shakes a stick at? Aion is that'a way -----> City is not that game. Nor should it ever be,

Illusion/Nature Controller on Torch with my other "assorted magic-things"... She's hanging out with Snickerdoodles the cat-girl. XD If I keep her, I'm definitely not done with the costume yet. ETA: It also gave me X-ray Occult Lady, which I find hilarious for some reason.

*laughing out loud* One of the names it gave me on the very first try? Coyote Incarnate

I highly suggest looking at the public base codes thread... Just to give yourself an idea of what's possible these days. You'll see why so many of us love not having to scrape for Prestige to buy every box and candlestick.

I don't think I ever met Aaru myself, but condolences to all of his friends. It's always rough losing someone.

The old devs and mission writers DID get better about that as time went on... But, yeah. Those early arcs really do send you half-way around the world sometimes. o_0

They aren't the only "reference characters" in there... Check out the bar-keep in that section of the club. He might remind you of someone, too. XD

It sounds like the OP is doing it in a way that, while technically still within the formal "rules" of the game, is a little more asshole-ish than average. .... And they're unhappy about now being called out on that behavior. ... And feel wronged because one of the devs is apparently encouraging others to treat them like... well... someone who's being a toxic jerk. I'm afraid I'm not sympathetic. And I'm saying that as someone whose "other MMO" is Aion, where being an absolute ass in PvP is a way of life. XD 'Thing is... if you're going to play like a jerk, you have to expect that behavior to eventually come back to bite you. That's not an issue of legality. That's just Life.

I've made three so far... a KM/Fire Stalker, a Claws/Fire Stalker and a Dark/Ice Stalker. I don't use MIDS or Pine's though, so exporting their builds would be, to put it mildly, a royal pain in the rear.

None of the above. I can't stand apple pies. XP

Yes... I know when the data was pulled. It showed that as-of March there were 267 at level 50. One of those was mine. I'm positive that there were even more that, like yours, hadn't made it to 50 yet. Just like there are bound to be others now that have been made and leveled since those statistics were posted. What was odd to me was that it was one of the more popular Stalker combinations, but my own was the only one I'd actually seen in-game.

Peanut butter, bananas and mayo is a combination I've actually had. It wasn't bad. It's just the pickle I'm having trouble with... Are we talking standard kosher dills here, or sweet pickles of some kind?

I can't even imagine....

I tend to keep things tidy... And almost always Egyptian... Which probably doesn't surprise anybody...

I'd love to see an update, too. I want to see how many of us took the low numbers on some combination as a challenge and in response built Unicorns of our own. XD

*nods* Calculating the aerodynamic properties of level 1 Hellions....

Funny that one should come up... I was on a team night-before-last with a Grav/Time character on Everlasting. She was a terror. XD