ShardWarrior

Why not just have it update all characters as active on all shards upon login? There has to be some tie between account and characters on a shard.

Look bad to whom? Again, friends who know you already know your global handle and would easily see it was not you. Your global handle cannot be used by another player.

Well, many are advertised on the forums here and there are people who do advertise them in-game as well. Was not looking to start an argument over it. Just asking a question.

This may get cumbersome to keep track of having to scroll through several pages of characters on the character select screen. Since it seems technically "impossible" to link account activity here, would it be possible to have a button on the character select to flag all characters as active? This would save the effort of logging in and out of multiple characters.

City of Heroes is not Facebook (thank God), so the analogy does not work. Duplicate naming exists in other games I play like STO and I personally have never seen this problem. As you pointed out, the get global name command exists and most people will just ignore said person and see the global name getting added to their ignore list in the chat window. As far as someone spoofing the character of another person, I really do not see the issue here. Only speaking for myself here, but everyone I team with regularly already know me in real life and/or my global handles, so if someone were to be spoofing me my friends would know it was not really me. Add to that, the other account would be the one getting reported and moderated, not mine.

This is now offering a disincentive for new players to experience and use any of the wonderfully crafted bases built by players that are open to the public. Was that the goal?

Which begs the questions, why was this change needed in the first place and why is farming this better than just doing the same thing only in AE? Same activity, just a different venue.

If your goal was farming Vet levels in AE then yes. For those people, all this change is going to do is shift them back to portal mission farming in PI. With that said, I personally do not see the necessity for this change and I feel it was a complete and utter waste of time to do.

Could not agree more. This should be based on account inactivity, not character. "Because it is more difficult to code" is not really an acceptable answer in my opinion. This is a detriment/annoyance for role players and is just going to encourage people to rush to 50 to preserve a name.

I did read your post and everything there is self inflicted. You can politely ask people to wait for you to get into a zone before entering the mission. Not at all difficult to communicate with those on the team. Just set the ground rules before you start and make sure everyone on the team is ok with them.

Why not start your own TFs and set it to whatever difficulty you like? So long as you make the rest of the team aware and they are all ok with the settings, I fail to see what the problem is here. This seems to be a self inflicted problem.

I have a friend trying to install the game on a Mac and she is receiving the following errors. I am not at all familiar with Macs so any help is appreciated. She followed the OSX instructions on the Installation Guide and also troubleshooting steps here and here. Anyone familiar with Mac that can shed some light on this? Is there some additional troubleshooting she can try? Thank you.

Ok so it is very clear you are unable to have a rational, civil discussion, so I will just add this final piece and be done with you. I never said I am owed or entitled to anything. Yes, Amazon paid a large sum for the rights and they can do with it whatever they like. I am only pointing out that I can understand and agree with the point of view and frustration of the fans who contributed to making Tolkien's works such a huge international success. Were you to have actually read or listened to what the "writers" of this new series have said about the fanbase who do not embrace their narrative choices, you would understand my comment. Again, please do your research. It is all available online for you to easily find. Lastly, please learn to read. I already posted above that I will be tuning out. Good day to you.

Well no, if you were to actually do your due diligence and research what the "writers" and "producers" behind the new series have written, spoken and posted on social media about fans who disagree with their creative choices, you would very clearly see the facts here. Authors who are writing the puff pieces for the show and trying to push a narrative on how "fandom needs to change" and are equating fans who speak up against the new series to fascists also paints a very clear picture. The thing is, when the source material and the lore is treated as if it does not matter, fans are going to let you know about it. When those fans are put down as trolls, haters or whatever negative isms you want to ascribe to them, it does not make the people distorting the property into the victims. Quite honestly, this is just plain silly.

They both may say it, however it is more than abundantly clear to anyone with more than two brain cells only one means it. Peter Jackson's quote is spot on and entirely relevant. Arwen is the love interest for Aragorn and is part of the lore through the appendices. Clearly her story with Aragorn is crucial to his character, however Tolkien never found a good way to bring her into the main story. She is not some brand new character. I will not disagree that the Hobbitt films were disappointing and too far a departure from the source. That is my subjective opinion though. Also, keep in mind Jackson was not the original director for the films. Not every fan who questions the bastardization of their favorite IPs are part of some social media group. They just do not want to see their favorite stories and worlds altered to cater to modern political sensibilities. Not everything has to. Those who want to berate anyone questioning the direction of the new show should understand not everything has to be for everyone, and there is nothing wrong with Tolkien lore as it is. This is why it stands the test of time. Those people need to take a page from Brie Larson's playbook and understand that Tolkien was "not made for them" and move along.

There is a rather important distinction to be made here between changes that Jackson and company made versus what Amazon is doing. One is trying to remain faithful to the theme and spirit of the source material while the other is not. "We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. ... In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves." - Peter Jackson The changes Jackson and the writers of his LoTR trilogy can be analyzed and discussed at length as to whether they are improvements or detriments. I would argue most were improvements. Arwen is a good example IMO. Yes, she was barely in the book proper, appearing in the appendices. With that said, she is absolutely essential to how Aragorn behaves, so yes, in that respect she is an important character to the overall story. Another good example is giving Faramir an actual character journey with the ring. Some examples of the absurd are the army of the dead helping to win the battle of Pelennor Fields. These are all of course subjective. Can the new series be enjoyed on its own merits? Sure, I imagine there are a few people out there who will like it. For me personally, I will be tuning out. I have read enough about the writers and their utterly toxic reaction and disdain toward fans of the IP who questioned their changes.

No, you are definitely not alone there. I do the same as do the friends I team with. It is infinitely more fun to play fully decked out characters, even exemplaring. They just perform so much better than characters struggling on SOs and leveling up the old fashioned way.

This has to be some sort of bug then. Precision dropping of multiple Kronos Titans on a specific location outside of where the zone in points are is the suspicious part. It is a long weekend. I am going to set up some spawns on a few characters to see whether or not I can trigger more than one at a time on single character. Can anyone say what zone this generally happens in more than others? I ask in case it is some sort of zone specific bug.

Interesting. Could very well be a bug I suppose. If so, I hope it never gets fixed because that is just awesome! 😁

I was not there, so I cannot say for certain what happened. It very well could be someone from Homecoming playing on their non-admin account triggering something. There is simply not enough information. All I am doing is confirming it is possible to do a multiple Kronos spawn at the same spot.

That I am not sure about. I can tell you for sure that it is possible to spawn multiple Titans in a zone at the same place at once. It just depends on the method to get there (Oro/Base/LRT) although I think most of those all share the same zone in point now. It also could be that the Kronos does not spawn instantly when you zone in. It might take it a minute, so the player could have moved to your location before the Kronos spawned.

Depending on where Babbage spawns, he can be at the zone in point from either Oro portal or base portal or zone teleport.

Very simple. You have 10 people finishing the Wildflower mission at once and teleporting to the same zone at the same time. Not at all difficult to do. I have dual boxed two of my own doing this on occasion.

Yup. Definitely other players spawning it. We used to do this all the time back in the day. Friends and I used to spawn multiple Kronos Titans in a zone at once. Sadly, since the HC staff here stupidly moved all the zone in points, this is not really feasible in most all zones since the Titan gets droned before anyone can enjoy the festivities. Talos seems to be the best spot to do this. Very sad. This used to be a lot of fun to do a mass Titan spawn.

Yes, I do disagree with the comment. In my opinion, this game simply is not that difficult to master, regardless of AT.