[Au Revoir My Friend, you were faithful for many years]

Same here, but changing over to the Homecoming launcher was totally painless and took about 10 minutes including my gormless wandering around.

 

I for one welcome our new Homecoming Launcher overlords.

[Is Borea in RWZ broken?]

The mission arc contacts in RWZ are Levantera, Serpent Drummer, Guassian and The Dark Watcher.

[Madness…not even a PUG]

Is your friend's name Leroy?

[ArcanaTime]

The game has always worked like that.

The term exists to describe how all the game engine mechanics combine to produce the time that you see it taking for powers to activate, particularly when you are activating them one after another.

[Guide: Peregrine Island Radio Missions aka PI radios]

On 3/18/2024 at 2:47 PM, KITANYA said:

Why do people choose Peregrine Radio Missions over the other lvl 50 areas?

 

As other have said only Peregrine Island and Grandville have Radio/Newspaper missions at level 50.

 

However the Rikti War Zone has a repeatable mission contact who gives missions from level 35 to level 50 with Rikti exclusively as opponents and no narrow cave maps.

 

Also because it is a coop zone you can have all player alignments in your team.

 

regards, Screwloose.

"I am not young enough to know everything."

 

[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #69: Do you use discord with or about CoH?]

One of my friends has a private Discord server that we use for lots of online games and some of what use to be table top games and we use that for voice coordination during CoH play.

 

I am also subscribed to the Homecoming Discord server, but have never joined a voice channel or posted text there, that I can remember.

[Seeking Grand Finale]

Thanks everyone for all the great suggestions.  I'll let you know how it goes.

[Seeking Grand Finale]

I have a regular Sunday night group who get together and level a team of characters from 1 to 50.

This week we finished the Mendar Silos Arc which was epic, but left us at about level 49.5.

Whatever mission we take next is likely to get us to 50 so I would like it to be a bit epic.

Any suggestions for anything including Ouroboros and EA that a team of 49.5s could do that would be a good Finale for this team.

Thanks, Screwloose.

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

[PUG Life: I was the problem]

On 2/25/2024 at 4:47 AM, DougGraves said:

  It's hard to tell that the enemies do 30% less damage, recharge 30% less, that my AOE heal + regen is doing some healing to my team, my aoe's are doing a bit of damage, etc.

 

 

Back on Live my main character was a Spines Dark Armour Scrapper.  Several friends that I teamed with regularly commented without prompting that bosses and LTs were attacking noticeably less often when I was teaming with them.

So things like Recharge Debuffs can be hard to notice, especially when what you see all the time is the debuffed critters, but they definitely have an impact.

regards, Screwloose.

"I am not young enough to know everything."

[Which one of you jokers dumped a bunch of cheap LotG on the Market?]

What do you mean by cheap?

The demand is high enough that I would expect any amount of low priced Enh to get snapped up pretty quickly.

[Converting Inventions]

I have only recently gone back to some IO converting, just to have a look at it again.

 

It certainly seems like some Enhancements just don't want to turn into anything high value.  And as you convert IOs over and over It always seems like you get odd streaks of returns to the same Set or even the same Io in a single set.

 

But I think it is all observer effect and it is more likely that conversions are pretty much totally random and it is due to the massive pattern finding capability of the human brain that we see odd things happening.

 

regards, Screwloose.

"I am not young enough to know everything."

[Assemble the Team temp power?]

The Steel Canyon Safeguard mission (level 20-25) gives a ATT like temporary power with a much shorter recharge.  The power is temporary, but duration is based on active play time, so it can last you quite a while on a level basis.

 

It is one that I always try to do.

[Yellow Salvage, what's up with that?]

I had a couple of pieces of Yellow salvage I put up sell for 2000 so the supply seems to be eating up the queue of Buy orders.

 

Also I'd note that the reliable price of Orange salvage seems to have fallen.  For ages I could get 500,000 within a day 95% of the time, recently it seems to have come down to 450,000 and all my Sales set for 500,000 aren't moving at all.

[How much should damage type factor into your decision regarding power choices?]

Personally, not at all.

I am more of a style than substance person when it comes to powerset selection and power selection.

I read the number crunchers threads and can do my own back of an envelope engineers thumb assessments which make me reasonably happy that taking all things into account most things are pretty much balanced.

regards, Screwloose.

"I am not young enough to know everything."

[Best way to help lower-level players in-game?]

Ask them what kind of help they want.

 

I think joining them to do content at their own level and giving them information when it come up naturally in play is the best way to nurture a fun understanding of the game.

 

But trying to give people help they don't want generally is more likely to deflate any interest they have.

[Unpopular opinion]

7 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

The best PvP in City of Heroes!

 

 

I often say this to people and they misunderstand me.  When I say I am playing against other players as a Seller it is not the Buyers I am playing against, it is the other Sellers.

[Unpopular opinion]

3 minutes ago, raven9864 said:

When I look for a recipe and every single listing of every level of it all have the same history, I feel like somebody somewhere is just working the market in an exploitative way.

 

 

That is because all the different levels of Recipes (and Enhancements) are combined into a single market.  So whatever level of recipe you put in any player can buy it at whatever level they want and all levels of recipes end up selling with the same history, because there are no different levels of recipe as far as the market is concerned.

 

Introducing a next to free store for lots of resources isn't necessarily a bad idea, particularly given the non commercial basis of the current playable versions of the game.  But it would remove a game play loop that some players enjoy.

[Searching for Lost story arc]

Lost and Found is the most direct reveal of the connection between the Lost and the Rikti, but i think there are other single missions earlier missions that have the NPC's going, "Well that was odd, oh well nothing to see here" and leaving players with hints that if they are at all interested they should pick up. 

 

 

 

[Consignment House Rant]

There is a whole forum section on the Consignment House.

 

One thread from the Guides forum which gathers together a bunch of threads with information on how to get benefit out of the Consignment house is

 

 

[Mastermind minion question]

Yep, just upgrade one and all active minions get upgraded.

[No rep makes me sad.]

17 minutes ago, Snarky said:

personally i was quite gratified to see all the people who felt so strongly one way or another about my posts.  it is only when you get the reaction that you are making art!

 

Heh I don't know if you know the BBC show The Goodies, but in one of their episodes they have some dialog which goes something like.

 

Characters dressed as punk rock musicians stagger into room

Character 1: "What a reaction, What a reaction, What a reaction."

Character 2: "They hated us."

Character 1:"Yeah, but what a reaction."

 

[I found a combo I like but have to take a power I don't want to take]

 

Can't you take Shriek at level 1 another Plant Control power at level 2 and then Scream at level 4 and bypass Strident Echo?

[Share your Puns/amusing Character Names]

Recently made a Fire Melee Stone Armor scrapper using the gemlike graphics in a dark red.

 

Ruby Con

 

 

[Could it be? The long awaited run on common salvage?!?]

Stock on hand has definitely been on the way down.

 

I had been buying up 2000 or so per day at under 20 each and dumping them on the NPC vendors, but stopped when the stock on hand went below 180,000.

 

I suspect someone is having some fun poking the market to see what it does.

[Great work by the Homecoming team and staff to keep things running smoothly over the holidays and beyond. Absolutely professional team whose goal of long term viability continuing to be an example that other modern video game studios should strive to copy]

In before the Snar....

 

Darn too late.