ShardWarrior

You can eliminate the walls by building outside/on top of your base plot. See Darcy's video guides on how to achieve this.

I'd love to see smaller scale versions of these kinds of items as well. It would be really great if we could select what item(s) we want to use for certain functions, like door objectss as transports instead of portals or bookshelves as storage instead of the inspiration racks.

Yes, they are. I was talking more about the old argument of "shorter travel time is unbalanced". Some people here have suggested that these kinds of quick teleports shouldn't be allowed because they "break the game".

I kind of like the idea of making the Pocket D and Base teleporter opening a portal that everyone around can use. I don't think a 5 minute recharge is needed. It's too long IMO. In my experience, most teams running TFs are tag-teaming use of the team teleporter and just porting directly to the mission door. Travel as a means to slow progression is a relic. Either bases are meant to provide some utility/QoL improvements or not.

"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting." Everlasting Community Base now open! Everlasting Cave - passcode EVERLASTING-8756 Full gallery here

"As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting." Hello all, First, a quick bit of info - since the game has been back, I had been wanting to do something for the community as a thank you to all the wonderful players I have encountered while running about in Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. Costume contests are fun, but I wanted to do something more tangible and in a sense, more permanent - something functional and fun. With that, I am happy to announce the Everlasting Community Base is now open! Here you can find all the features needed - teleport points to all locations, costuming, crafting, leveling and enhancement store contacts, hangar bay and submarine port for stealthy missions by sea. Feel free to explore the caverns - you may find an exploration badge or two or five ... or more 🙂 This is for all of you, so please enjoy it and help pass the word around. Feel free to use it for getting around the city, hanging out, RPing, crafting or plotting your heroic deeds! A big thank you to all who have made the return of City of Heroes a truly special experience. I hope you all enjoy playing around in this base as much as I have had building it. View more photos in the full gallery here. Everlasting Cave - passcode EVERLASTING-8756 Some quick notes: Cave exit at the end of the bridge exits to all Hero Zones. Take the hangar for speedy access to all Hazard Zones. Use the Submarine to visit all Rouge Isle locations, along with Croatoa, First Ward and Night Ward. Second level elevator takes you to Pocket D and Echo Locations.

FUD This proceeds from the very false assumption that making homages is disrespectful. There are also many circumstances as discussed in this thread that where this is permitted by law.

I would have gone with Howard the Duck?

Only speaking for myself - I believe there is a distinction between trying to scare others into submission with fear of the game shutting down and just asking others to leave people doing things they don't like alone.

I agree. Then again, I'm not the one trying to preach morality to everyone. 😉

OMG Yes. You should be locked up for the unimaginative bad person you are!

No AT is "needed".

NCSoft still owns the property (which was taken without their permission) and as of this moment in time, there is no legal agreement for it.

^ Same here.

Thanks for these! 🙂

Well put. If in the event that some rule is put in place, I'll happily follow along as well. As of right now, there is none. Thing is this - the very same excuses of HC being "ok" because (even though the code was stolen) the game code being in the wild and "they can't stop everyone" applies squarely to the creation of homages/cosplays as well. I will near guarantee most every single one of the IP holders discussed here without question knows full well there are people copying or using their property in some way, but don't act on it. They are not that ignorant. They cannot stop everyone and more importantly, they don't want to. They don't want the negative press. THAT is going to cost them more money than going after some artist who charges someone $10 for a picture of Iron Man or someone making a free skin available for Minecraft. Case after case after case presented here bears this out - try and profit from a property or use it in a way that damages the image of a property and owners will act. Otherwise they don't say a word. To try and claim these companies don't know about cosplays/skins/pirates software/illegal commissions/whatever is complete and utter stupidity. A very simple web scraping program could be written to automate finding offenders and sending C&D emails to them. It's also utterly hilarious (and sad) that it's perfectly, 100% without question OK for NCSoft to have their rights infringed upon, their property stolen, altered and used without their consent - but others shouldn't do it. The very definition of hypocrisy. Pirating software, making illegal copies to profit off of, taking unauthorized commissions, selling mods/skins of another parties property are all illegal and wrong. No question. We are all guilty for playing this game and no one is the moral leader here.

If I could up vote this a thousand times, I would. Hit the nail squarely on the head. Agreed. And for people to try and make the imbecilic claim that Disney/Marvel or WB/DC or whatever IP holder don't know about the prevalence of free skins/mods for games or fan art sites (where artists are taking money for commissions on copyrighted characters) and such on the internet is completely and utterly stupid - especially while saying it's perfectly ok to play a stolen game on a pirate server because "the owner didn't say stop" - yet. This is exactly what @Dr. Gemini said it is.

I had both of these back when the game was live and can attest that DM/SD and DM/SR are fantastic combos.

Shame that they can't reach a deal with Sony though. 🙁

A quick consult to the oracle of the Google shows that cosplay mods are still very much alive and well for the SIMS too.

And by "too closely" they meant "trying to make money off of it." And if the people trying to sell the stuff tried to use that as an argument, they should be called out for it.

That quote from Oscar Wilde brings up a good point about intent which is important. To be clear there is nothing wrong with feeling cosplay/homages are tacky and not liking them. Everyone is different and has different tastes. With that said, it's one thing to simply not like cosplays/homages and another to try and use the FUD of the game getting shut down because of them as a means to prevent others from making them. Was looking for this particular video and wanted to add it here as it is on point with regard to infringement and trademarks. This is a video of Vic Mignogna talking about CBS, Trek fan films and what happened with Axanar. Won't go into enormous detail as it is a rather lengthy story, however Vic Mignogna wrote/produced/directed etc. the Star Trek Continues fan film series - he has been in the trenches and knows what he is talking about. In the video, he talks about CBS (who owns the rights to Star Trek) had encouraged and supported fan films for decades. CBS never blinked an eye about fan films until the moment some idiot came along and tried to make a profit from it. That is where CBS drew the line and forced them into legal action. You can consult the oracle of Google for the specifics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbjgYZ1kzE8 I'm of the opinion most IP owners are like CBS - they don't mind people making fan films or cosplays so long as people aren't trying to make a profit from it. They realize people putting their time, effort and personal money into making these films or costumes or mods/skins for games show the great affection people have for their work. It's a sign they did something right and that people like it. They aren't treating it as some call to arms to protect their property. That is not to say all IP owners are like this. I'm sure there are the more litigious types out there. However, I personally don't see this as a problem to be concerned about. P.S. If you haven't yet seen Star Trek Continues, give it a shot. They are on YouTube. 😀

This one really cracked me up! Poor gal must get a terrible shiver in winter. 🤣

Especially if we could do this!

Disney didn't sue the family. They just told them they cannot put an image of Spider-Man on their dead child's grave because of the express wishes of Walt Disney himself.