Coyotedancer

Same, typically... Although I've also seen it happen on one who didn't even have the proc yet. That one was running on plain old DOs at the time, iirc.

I've seen Steamroll used most often to mean "We're bringing the smash to everything in our path". Not a speed run that skips to the end or a thorough kill-'em-all... Just fighting through to the objective like a team-shaped wrecking ball.

G'day, Mister 0D1N. ^_^ (<- Is Brightfires hiding behind the coyote mask)

Even as awful as this whole virus situation is, it seems like generic-hammering every character name that includes the word "corona", no matter the context, is an over-reaction... But it's absolutely an understandable one under the circumstances. I suspect that no one on the GM/Dev crew has time to "tone police" all of us players the way they would need to in order to enforce that kind of rule fairly with any kind of nuance. And there would, no doubt, be line-dancers who would push to see just HOW close they could come to being offensive while still getting away with it. That's just the nature of the "public access" beast. Given that... I don't blame them for the ban, even though it's probably too broad.

I owe Zombie SO MANY nachos for burning down his clones… So, so very many.

That we may well be. XD But, like Bill, I enjoy throwing my characters into big messes outside of farming, too, so I suspect it's all related. Enjoying one side of it is a reflection of enjoying the other.

Word. Hate to break it to you, Borderline... But some of us REALLY DO enjoy farming. No joke. We have fun doing it.

My main (Kaikara) is a KinMelee/Bio Stalker... Tough enough to handle just about anything I throw her into, fast, solos or teams equally well and hits like an absolute sack of bricks. She's one of my most versatile characters. My favorite Defender (Graceful Ivory Mask) is a Time/Dark... I can afford to be fearless with her. She lives her life on the front lines, jumping into groups right beside her brute and scrapper friends. It's a crazy way to play a support character, but she's good at it and it's great fun. My favorite blasty/ranged-type (Tavaris) is a Dark/Bio Sentinel... He's not a high-damage character by any means, but as I've said many times here and elsewhere, being in his way is like being in the path of a glacier. He's slow, but there's just not a thing the goons can do to stop him. I typically off-tank with him. My favorite "front-line heavy-hitter" (Semnai) is a Bio/Broadsword Brute... She was my farm-runner before I actually built a dedicated farmer. She's another nearly-unstoppable character who can make a mess of almost anything. She ends up playing Tank most of the time when she's teamed, but does enough damage that she also solos really well. … and then there's my favorite farmer (Haroeris… "Harry" to his friends), a Fire/Claws buzzsaw of a Brute… I'm one of those weirdos who actually enjoys plowing through farm maps, so when I made a dedicated farmer, I made an active-only proc-monster who traded some security for sheer, destructive speed. Think "Tasmanian Devil". On fire. I just have a great time with him, even though all he typically does is tear through fire-flinging cosplayers. ETA: I'm also going to include a pair of "honorable mention" characters, just because they're favorites on the roleplay side of things... Dorian (Gentleman Spectre) Stanton, the Psi/WP Scrap, and my "manifested thorn-blade" Katana/WP Scrap (Xhelethe). Neither of them are quite the powerhouses some of my other characters are, but as roleplayed toons they make up what they lack in mechanical superiority by sheer force of personality.

Library or archive... Indoor garden... Sauna...

Yep... Pick "Bright" and then the darkest grey in the top-most left corner. That makes the effects about as subtle as they can be.

I'm biased... a total WP fan-girl... So that would be my own choice, of course. Having actually taken a number of WP characters through those arcs (My very first Praetorian back-in-the-day was a KinMelee/WP Stalker. My first one here was a Fire/WP Sentinel.), though, they really do handle pretty well there. I didn't have any trouble running that content with either of them.

This thread made me grin... About three days ago, I happened to notice that my now-50 and fully Incarnated WP/Street Tank still had Kestrel's 'Envoy of Shadows' arc open. Now, the thing to know here is that the Envoy and I have kind-of a *history*. Almost all of my blue-siders end up doing that arc, typically as solos. For some of the gang, he's nothing special. A big, murky, demon-shaped speed-bump that they plow through without issues. For other members of my crew, though? He's been total hell. An absolute royal pain in the rump that's taken multiple, painful, eat-my-whole-tray-of-inspies attempts to get past. For those characters, the Envoy is their nemesis. A name to be cursed, and towards which tiny fists are to be shaken. I sort-of consider what Khalil did to the big jerk when I went back and finished that arc to be a measure of revenge for those characters. Justice rendered in their names. It was great fun. XD

Yeeeah… Sometimes the goons are just complete and total cowards. This is Psychic Rusty. Running from Xhelethe, my Katana/WP Scrap. Before she even got a chance to attack him. The fliers are the ones that really annoy me the most though. That's mostly a matter of relative movement speed. They get to jet off like bats out of proverbial hell... And we can't effectively chase them because some nutball thought that MOVEMENT SPEED SUPPRESSION while we were in combat was a Good Idea. <_< I hate that. A lot.

I'm very much one of those "farms for fun" types... My fire farmer is a strictly active-farming-only Fire Armor and Claws guy, built for clearing speed rather than safety. (I couldn't AFK farm with Harry even if I wanted to, and that was an intentional design choice. AFK farming has always felt a little cheaty to me.) I honestly really do enjoy just tossing my farmer-bird into a huge pile of colorful goons and making a complete mess of them. I enjoy doing that with my non-farming brute and a few other characters out in the "regular game" as well, so that's not *just* a fire farm thing by any means, either. Farm maps just make it an easier, all-in-one-place sort of experience. I don't have to bounce all over a zone, trusting to the luck of the scanner or my memory of what each contact's arcs contain just to have fun bashing a horde if I'm playing City of Farmville. As for the rewards... I put them in "nice side-effect" territory. Having enough INF and assorted purple or PvP recipe drops to equip my alts the way I want to really IS a nice bonus. Especially since I don't enjoy marketeering at all, and that's basically the only other real alternative when you're looking at a list of 30 characters who've all needed equipping at some point, and you're the kind of player who wants at least reasonably sound set-builds for all of them. Without my farmer, I'd have had a heck of a time kitting the rest of the gang. Also, Harry has been useful as a burn-out dodge. After 29 other characters here, plus the small tribe I had in the Old Days, I've run the game's low-level content so many times that I'd rather never see any of it again. o_0 Having my farmer on a secondary account means I can toss newbies into a farm map with him and short-cut them straight to mid-levels. That's been a nice thing. I'd MUCH rather play through the 32-50+ game than face 1-31 again.

That would be all kinds of cool.

I've really fallen down on my farming time here... Poor Harry. He hasn't gotten to beat up those cosplayers in a week. He's going to mope the next time I log on to him. XD Are some of the yellows still selling like hotcakes for conversion fodder?

For what it's worth, I'm pretty well-versed at this point in making lady Circle mage costumes. I'd gladly volunteer to help out with a few if we had a way to add "female alternates" to the pool of casters and magi. Of course, there are still a few costume bits that need to be ported from the male to the female base... The Death Mage bits, for instance... Bits that the guy-toons were given access to along the way, but the lady-toons weren't… But once that's done? Easy peasy.

Having my salvage glutted with commons is something I run into all the time when I'm farming... Just deleting a few stacks to make some space really isn't all that much of a pain. Options are always nice to have, yes, but when dev time and resources are as limited as Homecoming's seem to be? You have to think about the practicality of adding those potential options. Especially when there's already a quick and easy solution to the supposed problem that's already available.

I have a solution for you, OP... Open Salvage window (takes about one second) Right Click salvage you want to get rid of (another second, at most) Select "Delete Salvage Stack" from the menu that appears (again, about a second) So... three seconds there, per stack. You might have ten stacks to do at the end of a mission, but at about three seconds each, that's still not a huge time investment. Of course, I suspect you'll still argue that that "takes too long" and is too much of a pain because... you know... it still requires some minimal amount of effort. <_<

While you can't get rid of the sphere entirely, you can make Barrier very low-key with the right color selection. Pick the "Bright" option, and then the farthest left, darkest grey on the top row of the color chart. The resulting FX are pretty subtle.

The Family, like Nemesis, might get a "traditional biases" pass there... I really think there ought to be some women Warriors and Outcasts, though. Street gangs or not, they seem like groups where a few really tough, really determined women (adding a female version of the LTs, for instance-) might fit well. Skyraiders, likewise.

Yeah. You kind-of can, actually... The current re-designed, armored outfits don't really leave any room for ambiguity. And any of those hostage women we DON'T manage to rescue apparently go on to become... minions. 'Talking about "glass ceilings"... Sheesh. <_< Having spent a fairly ridiculous amount of time looking at those models (My own Oranbegans all tend to have at least one costume that's based on the canon mage or caster type they're supposed to be, so I end up doing a lot of checking to get colors and costume pieces as close as I can-), the mages and casters are all pretty obviously male. Even gals with naturally not-curvey body types who absolutely live in the gym don't have that kind of shape and build. That said, I DO have a sort-of "head canon" way around the all-magi-are-dudes thing... Those bodies the Oranbegans are cruising around in aren't their own. They're all camping out in someone else's corpus. Given that? Maybe not all of those "mage dudes" are actually men. Sure… the BODY may be male... But the ghost driving it? Who knows. If magically-inclined male bodies are just easier to come by (Thank you, all-male Mu Mystics for being easy to spot targets-), who's to say it's not just a matter of making use of available resources, personal gender aside? I would still like to see lady mages and thorns in the game, though. It just irks me that they aren't there, even after the faction's re-design.

You do run into regular, uniformed-type female PPD officers as hostages in missions occasionally (I remember seeing quite a few of them in the Hollows arcs-), so the models exist, but... yeah. The Psi division and the Awakened are all dudes. Thinking about it, I don't remember seeing many gals in the RIP, either… There are a *lot* of factions that have that issue, though, when you think about it. Ever seen a female member of the Lost? A lady Goldbricker? Any would-be Amazons among the Warriors? There aren't even any female Outcasts. Legacy Chain sorceresses? Nope. None of those, either. Nemesis? Okay... Victorian biases being what they were, that clanky old crank and his army might get a pass. I can imagine him having a hard time "getting with the times" in that respect, but the Skyraiders? They don't get to use that excuse. So... If we had a way to add mob models, I'd suggest at some point going through and giving all of those groups an update like the Skulls got late in the Live days. (Personally, I'd also like to see some Circle women who WEREN'T all low-ranked minions or succubi… Akarist specifically mentions that Oranbegans were ALL magicians, after all... There's no good reason why there shouldn't be lady mages and thorn casters. I'll admit that I'm pretty biased about that point, though. I have quite a few lady Circle mages as PCS. XD)

I'm still a little grumpy that States got TWO clix figures while poor Scir got left out completely. >_< (And I still have G-Dub hanging around on the bookshelf right behind me. The rest of the gang are packed up with my small collection of Marvel clix. XD)

I've had great fun with my Bio/Broadsword broot, Semnai. She makes quite a mess of things, even though Broadsword is a very slow, rather "old school" attack set. Back in the Live days, my hands-down favorite was a guy named Anigan. He was Willpower/Street... Not the toughest guy ever, but Street is just gloriously punchy/crunchy/stompy on a Brute.