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lol at this rate I'm never gonna make it to 200 much less my goal. such weaksauce.

@Captain Powerhouse thanks for the update.

Yeah, I disagree with your assessment. (edit: I went back to check and we were barely the first page of comments so I'm not sure where you're getting 'inundated') Regardless, thanks for stopping by to thank a fellow contributor..

Without explanation it doesn't seem to make sense as is the case with a number of the proposed changes. 250% decrease in availability of a defensive power is baffling. In exchange for making it a meh offensive power with no additional knocks, no additional defense, no additional damage? A corruptor is a getting single target -15% res.. IOs can provide better debuffing at a 3.5ppm rate to multiple targets. Its a quick control 'get off me' & 'get off my friend' power. If something was added without taking away more than is given who could complain. This just isn't the case. Here's an old quote on Force Bolt "Force Bolt: The first 6-slotted power, and from 1-25, easily the most used power. Through enhancement, it becomes the chain-gun. Juggle bosses out of the fight, blast melee opponents off your friends, or just plain unload to cause some chaos and knockback damage mitigation. The use tappers off a bit after repulsion field comes into play, but it remains one of the core powers from 1-50."

When I saw changes to Force Fields in beta, Philotic Knight was the name that popped in my head first, thinking "I hope PK is participating in this". His feedback to Force Field changes was dismissed and hidden quite disrespectfully. [edit]: (Mostly due to the fact that reasons just aren't given for hiding posts (which is understandable and also frustrating), regardless of the detail or effort. After the fact, some posts have been restored though not theirs) They deserved better than that and a thank you from many who have benefited from PK's efforts. They are not likely coming back. His website was a great resource now appears as shown below. (I had it bookmarked) note: I don't think it was the changes as much as the treatment he and others received. PK's site had nice stuff collected in one spot .

Billz will be giving their Ted Talk "Days Won, 73 and counting" next week if hell freezes over.

yeah Bridget Fonda... he was great.

cause we gotz feelins -and- my energy melee/regeneration soul suffers nerfin shell shock

@Darmian did I put this in the wrong place or are crickets par for the course?

I totally read this incorrectly by missing one word. "I feel that an official 'unfocused feedback' thread is the same as a thread titled 'devs, y'all can ignore this one'. Any points made there would be more likely to get their attention than the Suggestions and Feedback forum. " mic drop.. 😬

Is it relevant what other sets can do? Like what Time can do in 8 slots or Traps can do in 4 slots? (Maybe these are outdated) There have been mentions of Faraday Cage, Cold Domination, etc which are just better.. Time with 8 slots (credit @oedipus_tex) Traps with just 4 slots (credit @Frostweaver)

It's interesting to see his story regardless of any edits he'd make since that early 2019 post.

Superfuse "City of Heroes meets Diablo" hmm..

Thank you Philotic Knight. You have helped a lot of folks over the years and impacted many players game experience. I have your site bookmarked. Philotic Knight Just a Bubbler Husband, Father, Problem Solver, Creator, Builder, Dreamer of Dreams, Full of Hope For the Future Joined Homecoming April 24, 2019 2,527 posts Credits might include: COH Modder (21 pages Link) http://www.cityofplayers.com/ The Force Fielder's Bible (Link) An Open Letter To The Homecoming Team CoH: Homecoming BBCoder PK's Tools, PK's Dev Tracker, etc. Jerk Hackers (Dupin Rares) (HC club with 55 members) Paragonunleashed.com and on & on (lots on their own dime) My City of Heroes Story (by Philotic Knight April 2019, linked below) I won’t go through my whole history, but I’ll sum up. I was a Navy brat that never had a real home, who was raised as a latchkey kid. My parents weren’t a father and mother (one I never knew, and the other was largely absent), but rather Mr. Rogers and Lady Aberlin. I learned what was right and wrong from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sailor Moon, the Toxic Crusaders, and many, many others. From those “weird” shows, I learned that this “weird” kid wasn’t so weird, and indeed, could become something extraordinary. The amazing powers were cool, but the things that stuck with me (even though these weren’t traditional “superheroes”) were the concepts of compassion, justice, bushido, honor. I learned that the strong should care for the weak, that those with power to do good, MUST. I learned from my media morality messengers that people can still do great things in the world, even when they are “weird” or unacceptable to the masses. I learned that I was not alone. Now, with that out of the way, how does this relate to City of Heroes? Well, through some miracle of life, I managed to get through college and graduated with a degree. In Computer Information Systems. Immediately after Y2K, when thousands of developers were laid off since their work was no longer necessary. In a tri-college town where dozens of students were graduating each year with degrees in my same field. I had also screwed myself by not specializing, instead taking a little bit of networking, a little bit of programming, a little bit of electronic engineering. I had made myself a “jack of all trades, master of none”, and had screwed myself to every job because there was always someone else that was more of an expert in that area than I was. So, I delivered pizzas and worked in the Geek Squad in a Best Buy (with a BACHELOR’S in CIS). It went this way for over a year with no hope in sight of jumping into the tech career that I wanted. A life with no meaning. I got depressed. I got bored and lonely, as I was no longer surrounded by fellow students that were forced to interact with me. I got dark and considered ending my failure of a life. Then, like a ray of sunshine into the darkness, came City of Heroes. It was an escape. It was a purpose. It gave me the chance to be a HERO! To emulate (at least virtually), all those weirdo fictional heroes that I had looked up to when I was a kid. I took me away from my depressing life and gave me hope of better things to come. But it wasn’t just the game. This world was filled with an entire COMMUNITY of people who, just like me, were inspired by many of the same media stories that I was. They, too, learned the same lessons of right and wrong, justice and compassion, that I had learned from books, movies, and TV shows. And they weren’t afraid to live out those fantasies, those morality plays, in a digital world where they could be the heroes that they always wanted to be. I had found, not just an escape from the drudgery of a depressing life, but a HOME. A place where I could be myself and be the best me that I could be. The me that I couldn’t be in the real world. The City of Heroes community, and especially forum, helped me navigate a rough real-life road. When I got prematurely married, divorced, moved away from everyone and everything that I knew, and started a new life hundreds of miles away from it all. When I got to my new physical home and discovered that I didn’t KNOW how to relate to people outside of preconceived roles and forced situations, the City of Heroes community was there for me, offering comfort and support. When I went to counseling to try to determine the cause of my “issues”, and was diagnosed with high functioning autism, the City of Heroes community was still there for me, showing me that what matters isn’t who you ARE, but who you choose to BE. I’ve spent the better part of the last decade working through my issues, learning how to pass for “normal” amongst neurotypicals, but I always relied on the City of Heroes community as my crutch, my way to get through the rough times. Their support helped me to finally get my first job in the tech industry a decade after my graduation, find the love of my life who accepts me for who I am, and start my own family. And then, after all the community had given me, it then disappeared, evaporated into the wind. The community was taken from me, from us, unceremoniously. Thankfully, at the time, I had largely moved on into the “real world”, but a part of me always yearned for a return back to a world of heroes and villains, where I had a chance to be something greater than I am, and where there were old names and “faces” that I knew as friends. I got by my loss a bit with a small subset of the greater CoH Community, the Paragon Unleashed forums that I had started years ago, but it was a pale echo of the previous, vibrant, community. Good people there, by the way. And then… this happened. Leandro’s “secret server” got revealed. But that was just the spark that re-ignited the fire. With his generous and brave release of the source code, the community seemingly came back from the dead, and with full force. I had my digital home back again. And, more importantly, I now have another chance to give back to the community, to the people, that had already given me so much. So, here I am, force fields in one hand and lightning in the other, ready to step up and provide whatever I can, so that the other “weird” kids like I used to be, have a chance to find their own purpose, their own meaning, and their own home. It was taken from us once before. Never again. And that’s why whenever I see either a new, or old face, appear on these forums, my answer will always be the same: “Welcome Home”. So, thank you. Thank you to the amazing and fantastic community of heroes that helped me through my young adult life and saved me time and time again from both myself and the harsh, cruel world. Thank you to the dozens of volunteers, the coders and GMs, community reps and good old regular forum posters that fill this reinvigorated community with a sense of life, a sense of hope, and a sense of purpose. To everyone here, I say thank you all. And, once again… Welcome Home. Their Story https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/341-say-a-thanks-share-a-memory/?do=findComment&comment=4223 An Open Letter To The Homecoming Team https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/2980-an-open-letter-to-the-homecoming-team/

yes.

I had to reinstall it.. but I'm much lazier than you are.

I am going to thank @Ukase and others here for looking out for a fellow forumite. Their concern was not misplaced. I have had five or six posts harshly moderated in less than a week. We are also now down one long time contributor due in part to over moderation in the same time period. (this will be a different topic I'll share later this week when I work up the energy and past the outrage) My contribution has been minuscule compared to theirs. Sorry Ukase and thanks. You've been taking the brunt of a lot off stuff lately. It has to be exhausting. My bad in this case.

and just for @Luminara

you're right, it is subjective.

That's not a bad idea either.

lol, that's what you got out of that diatribe?! mission accomplished.

If it was called Beta Bug Testing, even then, non-bug concerns and issues would be brought up. Changing the name might remove the expectation that any and all feedback goes here and is then debated. 'Focused' is just as subjective and/or ambiguous as 'Feedback'.

I'd swear I posted here but can't find it.. 😈 Not sure if others dislike them but I enjoy the mini-games inside the game. Battle for Siren's Call being a favorite. If the pinball machines, slot machines or gambling tables worked that would be amazing.

Ooo... good word.