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Aye, thanks! I guess I must have had shadows turned way down back in 2011/12 so that I wasn't even seeing this. It's something I definitely would have noticed back then.

Yup, for several alts now I've just skipped Habashy/Twinshot and gone right to City Hall to see what I get.

Has the day/night cycle in-game been speeded way up? I know it was always faster than a normal 24-hour cycle, but now I'm seeing shadows visibly moving at a walking pace. I don't remember seeing that before. Then again, the older computer I used to play on was much inferior to the one I have now, so I may have simply had shadows disabled or turned way down previously.

Thanks :) In my origin story for this group, she was going to call herself "Plutonium", but just before the team went public the announcement came out that Pluto was no longer classified as a planet. So she decided to be snarky. Mother Sun is a scientist who developed a method of "awaking" superpowers in suitable individuals, so the whole team is the product of that method and they all have the "science" origin. Well, except Ms. Mars, who is an actual Martian. She's of "natural" origin.

Yeah, I knew that Habashy et al were added with Galaxy City. I actually never got to see the Outbreak/Breakout tutorials until this time around, as they'd been replaced by GC when I was playing previously, so I always got sent straight to Habashy. I think that, by the time I discovered the folks in City Hall, I had always already done Habashy/Twinshot, so I'd outleveled the origin people and they weren't offering anything. But this time around, I decided to try Outbreak since it was being offered again, and I got sent to Ms. Liberty and then into City Hall. So I'm sure the arcs I mentioned are actually "old", but they're new to me.

I keep finding relatively long mission arcs, mostly in Kings Row so far, that I somehow don't remember ever encountering before. Given the huge number of alts I created back in the day, I spent an inordinate amount of time in Kings Row, so I'm surprised to be coming across these missions. In particular, I've now completed the arc about shutting down the Skulls' superadine trafficking in KR, and another related arc that got into Skulls assassinating city council members and The Family getting involved. The only reason I can think of for missing them in the past is that maybe I fell into a rut with regard to the missions I ran in Atlas Park. For pretty much every character, I ran Matthew Habashy's stuff, and the stuff from Twinshot, and all the stuff that directly branched off from those arcs. So I always got the same Kings Row contacts from those arcs. This time around, it occurred to me to go talk to the origin-related NPCs in the basement of City Hall (M.A.G.I., S.E.R.A.P.H., etc.), and clearly they're introducing me to different contacts. Anyway, it's cool finding new stuff!

For the curious, here is the super team in question as they appeared in 2012, when I created them:

Yeah, I decided that one of my new characters in a blue & red costume, after playing him for a couple levels, could too easily look like Superman, or be accused of such. So I got rid of his red cape, and selected Super Jumping for his travel power rather than Flight when the time came.

Is there any way you can hack the "Planet" chest symbols to allow the Venus and Mars symbols to be used by either gender? For some baffling reason, the original designers disallowed "Venus" for male characters and "Mars" for female characters. I have a "team" of characters that are all based on planets. They all wear their respective planet symbols on their chests, except for my character "Ms. Mars". Can't use the symbol because she's "she".

Do some contacts (and missions) disappear if you out-level them before getting to them? I'm pretty sure I've been sent to talk to Aaron Thiery on multiple characters, but I've only done his arc on one of them - the only character who went and talked to him immediately after being referred - because he disappeared from my contact list on the others. His green dot also disappears from his spot in Argosy. I hope this is just a glitch, because I actually really enjoy that particular arc and I'm not getting to do it on some characters.

I got that as well, and it didn't even add the contact to my list.

Nor did I. It's in the "Options", and I typically leave new software on default settings until I've been using it for a while, so I hadn't opened the options.

When I couldn't get in, I ended up quitting the Tequila client, which I had left open during the move. Upon relaunching the client, it started downloading an update. Once that I was done, I tried again and got right in. So yeah, something changed client-side along with the server move

Any new PC should run this just fine. I originally played on a 2008 iMac.

I thought up this villain today while at work. All the costume creator needs now is a proper chef hat to perfect this costume, but the surgeon's cap will suffice. This guy is a master chef who specializes in improper food safety practices. I present, "Recipe for Disaster"! Dinner is served! (Radiation/Poison dominator)

The only complaint I ever had about AE farms was the fact that it was difficult to identify them. I was never interested in farming, I just wanted to play interesting story arcs, and it was super irritating to start an arc that sounded like a story, only to have my poor blaster pounded into a pulp by a gigantic crowd of mobs the instant she zoned in.

Here's a few more recreations of old characters. The biggest problem I'm having reassembling the old costumes and overall looks is getting the colors (skin and hair colors in particular) just right. I think the issue is that I originally played the game on a Mac, which uses different default gamma and RGB color space than Windows, which I use now. All of my old screenshots were taken on the Mac, and now I'm looking at them in Windows, and some things just don't match up no matter what I do. Anyway, here's Teardrop. She's a super-strong, invulnerable goth fairy brute. Parabella is an assault rifle/devices blaster. I gave up trying to get the exact same colors on the camo. Finally, here's Chill Kill, an archery/ice manipulation blaster. For her, I decided her old costume looked a bit outdated, and I found some new pieces I really liked, so I completely overhauled her look.

Since pressing PrintScreen by itself in-game is consistently crashing my client, I've resorted to using the key combo listed in Windows 10's Settings -> Gaming I press Win+Alt+PrintScreen The screenshot gets saved, by default, to This PC -> Videos -> Captures.

Newly created character, Rad Bull. Super Strength/Radiation Armor brute.

Posted this in another thread, and figured I should post here as well: Looking through my Windows 10 (latest update, as far as I know) settings, under Settings -> Gaming, it shows that Win+Alt+PrtScrn will take a screenshot. It gets saved automatically to This PC > Videos > Captures. This is working for me.

Looking through my Windows 10 (latest update, as far as I know) settings, under Settings -> Gaming, it shows that Win+Alt+PrtScrn will take a screenshot. It gets saved automatically to This PC > Videos > Captures. This is working for me.

Hmm, I'll try that. I've just been using Print Screen by itself. Normal for most MMO I have ever seen. Depending on how you were logged out or exited. Yeah, it's because of that 10-second delay when you log out the normal way. If you crash, the server still requires that 10-second delay, plus there may be some additional time before the server realizes you're "logged out". Just have to wait it out a bit. When I got the "already logged in" error, I just immediately tried again and got in on the second attempt.

Well, as I said in an earlier post, attempting to take a screenshot is currently crashing my client. But since I'm using old screenshots to recreate my old characters, I guess I can just use those old screenshots to show what I've recreated so far. EDIT: Got screenshots working, so I've replaced my original images of Flaminatrix and Goldbar with their slightly modified new versions. Flaminatrix, my old main. Fire/fire blaster. Steffi McAllister started out as a character in a story I wrote, and one day I decided to see if I could recreate how she appeared in my head. I managed to recreate this "costume" exactly, but it took quite a bit of fiddling with the costume creator to get her top correct. Dual Blades scrapper. Bruised Violet was my main villain character. I nailed this one during recreation. Dark Melee brute. White Orchid is Bruised Violet's older sister, but she's a hero (it's all explained in their backstories). I managed to nail this costume as well. Energy Melee brute. And finally Goldbar. Kinetic Melee scrapper.

I actually jumped in and helped somebody fight a mob (we were clearly on the same mission), entirely because in WoW they implemented shared mob tagging so that everybody gets quest credit, and that's just what I'm used to. Then I suddenly thought, "wait, maybe it doesn't work that way in this game" and I moved on to a different enemy. I'm also not a speed-leveler, so I'm never thinking about how much XP everybody is getting. And in this game, getting to max level as fast as possible always seemed kind of counterproductive to me anyway.

Always? I must have forgotten!