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I concur. Your classical vampire is a criminal, but only on a very small scale, and doesn't come pre-packaged with a vastly greater threat. He may have one, but so could anyone else, it's not intrinsic to his condition.

I don't know that they are, in this setting. Both are tightly tied up with space aliens; and as I read it, their motivations aren't well aligned with mere human ideology any more. In contrast, Arachnos is more clearly a human ideology to me (And still a very bad one).

For me it comes down to means and ends. What is the group trying to accomplish, and how bad is it? How broadly does it apply? To one person, or a city, to the world? The universe? Just for now, or for all of time? Then, what means are they willing to use to achieve it? I mean, if they want to enslave everyone in the world, but only hold up signs and hand out pamphlets, that's less villainous than another group with less ambitious ends, say, for personal profit, but who're willing to resort to widespread deadly force to get it.

If you are still alive, then there is still the possibility of hope. Those are fair responses, and I'm not saying they're wrong. Are there other groups that rise to similar heights of what you consider to be the worst? Banished? Rikti? Devouring?

I'd put Circle of Thorns above the various fascist themed groups (council, arachnos, fifth-column). CoT actually obliterate souls.

I've been thinking about the various villainous groups we encounter, and it's struck me that some of them seem a much worse than others. I'm not talking about which groups are the most annoying to fight, but rather which ones in game lore seem to have the most evil goals and cause the most suffering. We've got a wide variety of bad actors to choose from. Some seem primarily motivated by personal gain, like the Family or the Outcasts, while others, like the Circle of Thorns, seem driven by a desire to corrupt or pervert good, often through pacts with demons or forbidden magic. Still others, like Nemesis, engage in complex schemes that involve deception and manipulation. And of course, there are groups like the Rikti, whose invasions cause widespread destruction. Then there are groups like the Devouring Earth or the Banished Pantheon that seem to have a kind of alien and horrifying motivation. Clearly, it's more than just actions, but also motivations and wider collateral harms. I'm curious to hear: Which villainous groups do you personally consider to be the most evil, and why? What specific actions or motivations make them stand out as particularly heinous in your mind? Do you think some villainous acts are inherently worse than others, and if so, why? I'm really interested to hear your perspectives and understand how you all interpret the different shades of evil within the game. Let's keep it to game lore evil and not real-world. I look forward to reading your thoughts.

It's time to upgrade to "Snarkier".

This really is why our community distinguishes itself above from a lot of the other ones I've been in. I wish I could remember names to praise, but I see people helping newbies out in Atlas Park or in /help or even /general all the time. Sometimes I see people spend extended periods doing nothing but hanging out around Ms. Liberty giving out free advice, costume help, joining DFB's on their 50s, dropping prizes and Inf on new characters, and so on. I really don't see that much elsewhere -- in fact, it is not only better than the community on Live was, I feel it may be unique among MMORPG's of any kind.

Same, I really don't do that much. I think this shows that people who contribute to the community as a whole, in whatever ways, make a difference.

One thing you can do it run a few pick-up-group radio missions. Even if you don't have a lot of time, you could advertise a "quick-couple-missions radio team" and fill almost any time of day. Advertise them as "RP" or "RP-friendly" and you'll get get some lite RP chatter too. You'll have some fun, get some drops, vet/incarnate xp, meet people, put villains in the lockup, etc.,

Got you covered, here's Bopper's post:

I recognize most all these people, and easily, so they're probably not well described as 'unrecognized'.

5% chance the zombies will make you dance to thriller while they chomp on your arm.

I like the events, I just wish they were shorter.

I asked an AI to review this thread and distill/suggest "Simple, Low-Effort/High-Gain" solutions from it.

You can simulate this by dropping a Reward Merit into the attachment field of a blank email. Since those can ONLY be sent to yourself, it auto-populates the recipient field with your correctly spelled global. After that, just drag the Merit back out.

OMG No!!! Read Rudra's reply about Lord Schweinzer and Agent Hassell! It might be nice if those two contacts also offered random radio missions in any zone, too. Maybe their bank missions could be prefaced with a couple radios to be made into short arcs, although I could see why people would hate that.

The differences between players playing contending builds from each role far exceeds the differences between the builds.

I sometimes take long breaks from HC CoH but will never leave it. My multiplayer batteries wear down, and then I have to go into seclusion to recharge them.

And in lots of powers simultaneously.

Alpha does a lot more than the OP's concept, imo. Imagine if this was a new kind of Alpha, or a counterfactual Alpha that had been designed as a single seventh slot instead of what we actually have.

Well, yes. But we can dream. :D

Personally, I think it'd make a good candidate for a new incarnate power.

One sneaky thing that happens is that Windows by default scales 4K monitors which should be 3840x2160 to 2560x1440. You'll find a "Scale" setting in the display control somewhere defaulted to 150%. I set that back to 100%. Then, I go inside City of Heroes and change the UI scale to 150%. City of Heroes does a better job of making windows and text sharp and readable this way, and lets the rendered graphics use the full glory of 4K.