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Cryptic? Code? I think you may have just blown this investigation wide open! Clearly that's not ramen, it's spaghetti. It's meant to indicate "your suggestion, while not without its merits, is probably impossible due to City of Heroes' underlying programming being a chaotic, badly-documented Gordian Knot of interwoven code strings from multiple development teams, all of whom were making this up as they went along and were, frankly, lucky anything they did worked at all, never mind the way they intended it to." It's all so obvious now.

90% is too much. I'd like to avoid some of the time, but if I could avoid less than 90% of it; that would be ideal. In my experience, avoiding 60% of the time, works every time.

I thought there might be a monster in this post. But the only monster here is lovable, furry old me.

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I turn them off too, but I keep a dozen or so stored in my email (not the auction house, you can't access that from inside a map like you can with mail) at any given time so I always have one available. Since they're not something I need in the heat of the moment it's no problem to navigate through my inbox manually to grab one.

I naturally tend to hoard inspirations (and consumables like healing potions in other games) for when I "really need them" -- it's a habit I have to actively tell myself to change in COH since they drop so often. When I'm thinking about it, I'm sucking down an insp any time my tray is full just because the tray is full... but I'm usually not thinking about it.

No talk. Only zerg.

It's also possible to create one that uses the "button" for any other power already in the game, as well as several other icons: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Macro_image_(Slash_Command)

Not to brag, but a reply I made earlier today got two ramens and an accordion. Ladies.

This is clearly bait meant to start "my server is better than your server" drama. Besides, everybody knows Excelsior is the best server, because I play on it.

It's a consideration, absolutely, but the meta goes both ways. If slower-moving powersets like Storm Blast or Traps become more popular, that could shift the meta away from the current Zerg-rush, "no play, only kill" mentality.

It's almost as if the whole point of having different powersets is for them to be good at different things. What a strange design philosophy.

Pretty much the main reason one of the first things I do an any new character is to kill General chat. I'd rather not rely on /ignore because then I'll miss potential teaming opportunities later; just because someone is having a political discussion or is really upset about something silly and meaningless (see: puking guy thread) today doesn't mean I won't want to beat up bad guys with them two weeks from now. I save /ignore for the truly deserving, the people I'm certain I'll never want any association with whatsoever.

Honestly, I'd be thrilled if it just held my existing settings when I changed my title instead of defaulting back to a "dark black" and a "slightly darker black" every time.

I was just saying the other day in a different thread: It was purposely designed not to automatically be the best choice in every situation, to prevent power creep. It's a blast (zing!) to play, but definitely not something you can use on autopilot; it does require actively positioning yourself and choosing the right powers at the right times instead of just rote cycling through an attack chain. I know it has "blast" in the name, but that doesn't mean it can't offer something besides just the same thing as all the others but with a different debuff attached. And you know what? I hope we see more like it in the future.

We're... We're still talking about this. Somehow there are actually multiple sides, a pro camp and an anti camp, regarding this of all things. At least one person seems to still, months after the fact, be actively, legitimately upset at people taking the opposite position on the -- and I can't believe I have to call it this -- controversy. Oh, internet.

Not to deviate too far from the original purpose of the thread (irony? Irony!), but I think "how we form and join teams now" is the problem it solves. Because even when nobody is having non-team-forming conversations in it, the LFG channel... isn't. If anything, it's the LFM channel. You don't post in that channel if you're an individual looking for a group. Not with any reasonable expectation of success, anyway. There was a time, back on live, when that strategy worked, and was even the norm -- even before the dedicated LFG channel existed when we'd do it in zone Broadcast: Doctor Ducklips: Level 25 defender LFG <<Captain Snazzypants has invited you to join a team>> Or xxUnoriginal Namexx: Level 20 blaster LFT Tell from Leader-420: We're doing radio missions in Talos, want in? Sometimes it wouldn't work on the first try like that, but you knew that leaders looking to fill gaps in their team would, eventually, look at it. It doesn't work like that anymore. It never has on HC. What happens now is: McTankerSmith: Level 35 tank LFT or TF Then a few minutes later McTankerSmith: Level 35 tank LFT Then a few minutes later McTankerSmith: Level 35 tank LF anything Then literally, and I mean literally-literally not figuratively-literally, two seconds later RandomLetters69LOL: Level 54 PI radios any level welcome, 3 spots PST -- completely ignoring the person who asked for a team just seconds ago so don't pretend you didn't see it it's the line immediately above yours buddy McTankerSmith clicks on RandomLetters69LOL's name in a panic and sends a tell that just says "me" as quickly as possible because they know that even the tiniest delay will mean not getting that coveted spot on a team Then as they're pressing Enter RandomLetters69LOL: full And the person who already let the whole server know three times that they're LFG is still LFG. They let out an exasperated sigh and type Level 35 tank LFT a fourth time. That's how we form and join teams now -- it's just a race to send a tell as fast as possible. Nobody with an open spot on their team actually checks the LFG channel to see who's LFG. Trying to find a team by posting to it is pointless. If you want to join a team, you'll just have to sit and monitor the chat like an air traffic controller, finger poised over your mouse button to fire off a tell instantly when a leader posts that a spot you can fill has opened up. And you can't do anything else during that time -- shopping? Run a mission solo? Tweaking your costume? Crafting or converting? Even if you're checking back every few seconds, just the time it took to move your mouse from wherever it was back over to the chat window is going to cost you that spot. The team tab drop-down and search comment solve all of that. You're a player that's LFT? Cool, set your status and comment and then go busy yourself doing something else while you wait. You're a leader who's LFM? Great, check there first and see if someone of the AT and/or level your team could most benefit from is out there. It's not that the method we use now is better (because it isn't), it's just what everybody has come to expect.

It's like how Gotham City is both a 1930s noir setting with police blimps and everyone dressed like they're headed to a speakeasy, and a modern metropolis (not that one) with maglev trains and 5G cell coverage.

Crazy idea: Instead of a whole separate "Looking for Farm" channel, what if they just added a "Looking for Farm" option to the drop-down menu in the Teams tab? "The what?" I hear you ask. This thing. The one most players either aren't aware of, or have only a dim, half-remembered recollection of from sometime in the distant past, as if from another life, or perhaps a dream. The thing that would eliminate like 90% of the issues brought up in this thread if people would take the ten seconds or so to (re-)learn how it works. Just a thought.

This is brilliant. Absolutely Tsooperb.

Are the Tsoo puns irritating you? I'm Tsoo Tsoorry about that.

Yes, just like that! Good example.

No, they're just maintaining the status quo; acting as guardians, caretakers... Tsooperintendants, if you will.

Too Tsoon?