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By "other environments" I meant servers other than HC. Putting Sally in traffic on roads was a deliberate joke.

I don't have the haxx skills to join an ITF at lvl 30. I'm ok with the max 5 minutes I spend doing this on MI. If AE takes 4, well, that's a minute I'll just have to do without. Edit just to clarify - the Monster Island I'm referring to is the vill zone, not the PI neighborhood.

The "how I roll" for this is, at level 30, when I can actually attain HPT, if I have little to no patrol xp, which is usual for a toon I'm actively playing, I'll draw down an Experienced charge, go Monster Island, do the shuffle from the monkeys to the hosp. Pay off 200k debt (as I mentioned, I may never actually see a number on my debt amount). ???. Profit.

No! Any debt paid in AE will not count. You were on the right track. I do my debt farming on Monster Island. You should pay attention to the progress on the achievement badge, not your debt amount. With enough patrol xp you can get a debt badge w/o incurring 1 xp worth of debt.

The 4 Croatoa arcs have always been a stop for at least 3/4 of my toons. I noticed this for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago. In other environments for this game, I've seen Sally be traffic in other zones so I'm guessing that whatever constraint that she had to stay on the lake had been lifted. Whether inadvertently or intentionally only the devs know.

I'm +1ing doing SOMETHING for this. What a waste of everyone's time. This is one mission I drop to -1, clear out any nearby potential adds and just put an attack on auto and eventually it gets destroyed. I'll also bring in a MM from another account for its AFK damage.

I bolded "Threads, Shards" when I quoted because I'm hoping you could elaborate a little bit about the suppression of those 2 items. I know catalysts are a 1 per fixed time drop. I haven't heard of anything for threads and shards though so I'm hoping to get edumacated about that if you get a spare moment.

It has been looked at:

I've been doing old school contacts a lot recently. The devs clearly learned a lot about making story arcs more fun and engaging as the game wore on. Starting from, let's say, Faultline revamp on, new arcs have mostly been self contained in a zone with few, if any hunts. Since I mentioned Faultline, Penny, I do believe, is the only contact that has one and that's for a small number of Lost. This in contrast to The Hollows, Croatoa and Striga, three zones I tend to do all the story arcs for while leveling. They're all loaded with hunts all of which disrupt the momentum I'm enjoying when they come up. Croatoa is especially annoying with hunts that have mobs on neighborhood borders that you darn well better be on the right side of or you wasted your effort. These are just some examples. I've been tending to do old, old school contacts lately as well and they inevitably have hunts that, to me, disrupt the flow of the arc. I'm not talking about the one-off hunts. If people are choosing those they must be enjoying them (or not knowing they're optional). Hunts in arcs though, I do think deserve a look to see what can be streamlined. If it means lowering merits, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

I've never had a "reasonable" bid go unfilled for 24 hours. Supply is fine.

See on the front page where it says "City of Heroes: Homecoming Discord Server"? That.

To that I'll put on a hat I shouldn't and have no right to - the "manager of dev resources" hat. For them to make a change means someone will have to do something and I don't like for someone to do something when there's literally no benefit to it.

My 2 inf for why not to make the change - it would change nothing at all. The ticking clock is by and large irrelevant. If a team is so inclined to farm ambrosia or go spelunking in general, they're free to, they have 4 hours, more than enough time. I've done this before on a team that fought their way through and I remember that being 45 minutes, so I bring this up as the edge case for how long an Eden takes. I've been on plenty others using the more common "Speeden" techniques and those can be as few as 10ish minutes, more commonly in the 15 minute range. Again giving ample opportunity to savor the locale should they choose after it's over.

I had something similar happen recently as well. I think once you introduce yourself to the Ouro contacts then they "know" you and get added to your contact list when they're in your level range. They're not tf contacts, but rather regular contacts. If you do the content while you're in the level range, you can invite others to team as you go along. When you complete their content they go into your inactive contact list. Once you've either outleveled or completed their content then you can find them in the pillar THEN they're like tf contacts, just anyone done via flashback.

I hate that data analysis will show I'm primarily blue. Almost all of my "retired" characters (and there are many) are vig for meta-gaming convenience, not a preference for blue over red. While leveling up I could, at any point in time, be rogue or vig, depending on what content in that level range I want to run.

Not a quote, but if the dev that did this is reading this message, just wanted to let you know you're a-ok in my book. Pictured - Nick Rivers, Dr. Flammond and The Torch, all from one my top 10 movies - "Top Secret"

Yeah what the heck, I'll do this. I willl never ever ever stream, but this is the sort of oddball thing I need about now.

I have an answer! We started the mission at +4 with me leading with a 50. Hami (and Mitos) spawned at 54.

With all the hubbub about Hami spawning at 50 regardless of the tf leader being a lower level, it got me wondering, is Hami just hard coded at 50 even if a level 50 starts LGTF with difficulty at +4? Or will Hami and the mitos spawn as 54s? This may sound jerk-ish and apologies in advance, but I'm not looking for answers couched with "I think" or "I believe", but if you do know for sure, I'd much appreciate an answer.

Super poe-tah-toe

Let me clarify, which it appears I need to do. Typical Rune slotting was a level 50 Titanium Coating Resist/Recharge boosted 5 times + a level 50 Aegis Resist/Recharge boosted 5 times + Unbreakable Guard Resist/Recharge boosted 5 times. As far as I know, resist IOs can't be slotted into Hasten. Some of y'all may know something I don't. My post was in jest by the way. Just lamenting losing the uptime I had with Rune. And now, for this thread... I'm out!

Anyone want to buy some 50+5 Res/Rch IOs? 3 of those became my standard slotting for rune and if I sell these on AH, they'll lose the ++. Once I get around to respeccing my old Rune toons, they'll need a good home .

Some things are better left unknown...

There was never any unlocking of LGTF.

My recollection, and I'm not going to put in the work to verify via old patch notes, is that it was released as 35+ erroneously and was changed to be 45+. SCORE changed it back to 35.