Marine X

Lot's of badges to be had AGAIN, already got the first 2 costume ones, all but the Terror Badge from Deadly Apocalypse ( not sure how I missed it ), now need go visit Dr Kane and finish up my ToT Defeats, then tomorrow.........

I have a Stone / Fire Melee Tank ( Livingston ) and remember well all the changes that kept elevating some and tearing down others. I always used TP to get me around but understand what you mean. Maybe if it went from "no run, no fly" to "slow run, slow fly", that would make sense after all, a pile of rocks, no matter how magical, is still a pile of rocks and is not going to be winning any races. It would fit the overall theme of stone also.

Had this happen a lot on Live with my Illusion Kinetic Controller ( Goldfever ), If I new it was coming it was usually manageable, If I wasn't paying attention, it got very grim, really quick.

Irradiated Ground ( Radiation Melee )

Silence is Golden. Duct Tape is Silver. Bullets are Lead.

I think you need to reread the OP content, and remove the hyperlink. I feel my Psychic Abilities beginning to tingle........

Independence Port is a trudge if you are at the far end away from Hospital, any Hazard Zones before the Mini-Hospitals were put in, but I think the all time champs are Firebase Zulu or the Cascade Archipelago. Talk about Frequent Flyer miles racking up.

About time I managed to get in again, Donating is more of a competition than the game, sheesh...

Geez, I forgot all about that, that was a pain, we have it so much easier now in lots of ways.

Been sitting back as this topic kept growing bigger and bigger, and really wasn't sure what i could add. Then I remembered this. That's 9936 Brutes with Fiery Aura versus 6232 with any other Defense/Damage Resistance Type. It has never been considered the best Set for mission play but is perfect for Fire Farms. That's almost 2/3 of all Brutes have Fiery Aura and I think that pretty much tells you how most people in game feel about Power leveling and Farming. You will have those that prefer doing Regular Content, I'm one of them. But I still PL some Characters and Prefer to Play Content with Others. For me if I am playing a new set I like to see how things work slowly, see where I need to shore things up as I level, and rarely Respec. The Person you encountered had his Opinion formed long before he spoke to you, but his responses, and yours show you are from 2 different points of view. Even though it escalated to a place, on both sides, I think he needs to look around and realize that the Game was never quite like he believes it was. There was always Power Leveling, used to be Fire Controllers and the Dreck Mission, before AE, that people used to Power Level, and something else before that. This has always gone on. We wanted our Game back, We got it back, warts and all so to speak. Just keep in mind that if Even Half of the 9936 are Farmers, there may be more of them than Us. Anyway, Have a Great Day.

In General the amount of Bandwidth of the average internet package has increased a lot over the past 5 or 6 Years It was them, they did it, all hail Homecoming, Dilly Dilly! They also did the 64 Bit thing too, that sped a lot of things up, Dilly Dilly!

I think that is probably because The Zone you are in is actually not a zone so much as a Mission Map, so you are already in a mission. I think if you log out you would return to Pocket D.

I play mostly Solo, and usually don't get great rewards, but I get punched in the face a lot with no long term repercussions, SWEET!

Exactly what I was thinking. TonyV's exit Post asked us ALL to step up. The only way to keep us all interested long term and expand the community is if there was an easy way to add new content, and I believe there is. AE Created missions ported into Canon. With 6 Years SCoRE created 1 task force, P2W and half finished Kallisti Wharf. I'm grateful for all that they have done but We're going to need to step it up a bit if we want to grow this for the future. They simply do not have the staff that Paragon Studios had, to say the least, this could be a viable alternative since no coding experience is required, just some Imagination.

Maybe I'm just Dense, which is possible considering the amount of blows to the Head I've taken in Real Life as well as here, but is there any reason we can't use the existing Mission Architect to create New Canon User Content. I am only asking because all the Developer's Corner Future Recruitment Categories seem a bit out of reach for most People here that are willing to Contribute. I had an Partial Art Scholarship when I graduated from High School, but elected to pursue an Engineering Degree, But I could Create an Awesome Custom Villain Group in AE for submittal, or even create Sketches and then Tweak from there, but I don't know a bunch about 3D Art. Had Fuse but it fizzled out, have been using Gimp for years since Corel kept getting more and more expensive. I guess I don't understand why we aren't working with some of the talented AE People to Create content that could bring Kallisti Wharf to life. I took TonyV's request for us to step up very much to heart and feel this is a way we can ALL have a chance to contribute something to the story that is City of Heroes. It does not have to be new zones or a Moon Base. We could create content to fill under Utilized Zones. The Echo Zones ( galaxy, atlas and faultline ), kind of the Echo Universe, could be used to create a lower level version of Portal Corp with all missions being door missions and Content being created at AE, but commissioned to follow a Master Storyboard and Progression so it all ties together. It would have it's own contacts and would be much more simple than starting from Pixels to accomplish the same job. I have seen some amazing work at AE and just thought I would throw this out there, because Honestly, I think everyone would be surprised how Good it would be. Thank you for being Patient with my Rambling.......

Would it be possible to create some additional sub-topics? Information on Incarnates for example, can end up popping up in many different places, making for redundant posting of Q and A posts. It would be nice to have them in their own heading so someone looking for info can see a comprehensive list of previous topics to explore. Another would be Trials and Task Forces. People looking to Plan Hamidon Raids, Rikti Raids and Other Task forces could post a schedule with Shard Info and others could also post questions about strategy and Tactics. I know the Schedule Portion is done on some of the Server Pages and guides are in Guides, but it would help when looking at WST for example, if the schedule was pinned at the top of a T/TF Column along with information.

Has anyone ever done a WireShark Snip of the Network Activity while CoH is running? I have often suspected that some of the issues with CoH lag may come from the fact that although it launched in 2004 ( MMOs can take 4 to 5 Years to be ready for just Alpha ) Gigabit networking was Brand New in 1998. With a game that had to be engineered to deal with a Network Protocol that people may not really be fluent in yet. People often think the equipment will compensate for issues, it doesn't always work. If you connect a Gigabit Switch to a Gigabit Network Card in a PC using Cat 5E Cable you would say it should work. I have link lights and Activity. Many on the Internet ( where everything's true ) will tell you Cat 5 E will work fine for Gigabit. Wrong. When the Card sees the switch, on what would be considered an short cable run, it will ramp the card up to Gig Speeds which the cable is not designed for, and you will suddenly have so much Packet loss that it will actually SLOW down your connection as the PC has to keep re-requesting packets before it can move on. Cat 6 Cable will work better, and 6+ even better. The Point being, maybe why this game has more Lag issues than any I have ever played is more related to how it's translated over the Internet/Network and that's why they were never able to fix it. The recent conversion to 64 bit should have had virtually no noticeable effects, yet it has, making Zone Transitions much Quicker. Just got me thinking maybe the issue is somewhere we are not looking, or i could be full of .............

I went Musculature on my Inv/SS mostly because there was not very much more, before cap that could be added to his Resists/Defense, but a chance to get the tier 4 damage increase was irresistible. Tier 4 Musculature has sped me up a bit in getting thru Mobs.,I also went with Support in the Hybrid and Barrier in the Destiny, both work good with groups and affect pets. The Lore slot got the IDF, and am really liking them, ( am at Tier 3 ). Interface I went with Paralytic for the Debuff Proc and Judgement I took Vorpal, that finally gives me another AoE Attack to warm up a crowd ( Literally about wipe them out actually ).

Best Explanation I have seen recently for what a COH Tankers Role actually is, and that's the Job I want when I Tank. I don't want to be a big DPS Machine, I want the team to be safe while dealing with the Mission. I guess maybe that fact has gotten lost somehow.

I"ve had another VISION................... congxiad013 ............ is so getting banned...........Damn.....I'M GOOD! I need to get an Agent, yeah.....

Check this out in Tools & Utilities, about half way down page are High Viz Mouse Pointers and a link to Download. is out

Or simply exit Supergroup Mode and the SG Costume Overrides will not be apparent. You may not want to undo the settings for others who may have set it for a reason. You earn no Prestige in SG Mode here anyway, so no advantage to be in SG Mode except the Supergroup Costume Mod.

It's been a while so I could be Mixing Paragon Chat and the Live Game, but I don't think so. It was in the sky in Croatoa on Paragon Chat when they ran the Halloween Event. I suppose it could have been a Codewalker Creation, but that would have been a bunch of work on top of getting Trick or Treat working ( Never been so Happy to go to the Hospital, but Mouths of Mott, The Falling Sword and the Orbital Laser Platform were Deadly if you got them ). Guess we'll find out soon enough.

I believe he is referring to the Tunnel System, it is accessible next to the Train Station on Talos Island and in Most zones somewhere, if you are in a Super Group, TP may be an option. Ouroborus is a great place to visit to get that Transportation Option, just have someone Portal you there, then get the badge on the top of the spire which will then let you open your own Ouro-Portal.

Well sure it can, and I think sometimes it is that being a little of both that makes it troubling. A Child can very easily use the Character Creator here to make a Copy of their Favorite Character, if they were in school their Teacher would probably Praise them and give them a gold star if they did a good job, we should understand that it takes a different kind of skill to create a Good Copy than it does to start from scratch, but both can be notably well done. Others here have made Copies, Homages and Parodies, if this is what they want to play as, let them do their thing. If the rules change I'm sure the GMs and Devs will let us know. One of the Funnier things I have seen playing on Reunion, was Doctor Who references. I played on a team with Matt Smith and David Tennant, They kicked XXX! They both definitely moved up off the Sonic Screwdriver to something else, good likenesses too. Almost forgot about the all French team I joined for Paladin, that was a TRIP, loads of fun. Had seen a lot a clones on Virtue back in the Day, but they usually got NERFed no time flat, especially the Michael Jackson Clone in Atlas Park asking where all the children are ? ( creepy, but a good question ). I wanted to draw Comic Books for a living when I was in High School and did a few then. So in COH I let those Creative Juices Flow, try to come up with something interesting, and always come up with a BIO to explain it. I've been told that Marine X is a play on Weapon X / Wolverine / Weapon XI from X-men Origins: Wolverine. Um, No...He looks like a bigger Version of me ( 6'4", 240lbs ), has no claws, no sword, no similar powers at all and he was Created on Virtue in 2004, the movie came out in 2009. People will say what they say.