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Alright, so you'd need to go into the folder where you have City of Heroes Homecoming installed. In that location there should be a folder called "Settings", and in there a folder called "live". In this folder, you need to create two new .txt files, we'll call them Boy.txt and Girl.txt. Now let's say you want to swap your Night Widow's gender when you press the U key. Put the following lines of text in each file and save them: In Boy.txt: u "powexectoggleoff Costume: Arachnos Night Widow $$cc 0$$bindloadfile Girl.txt" In Girl.txt: u "cc 1$$powexectoggleon Costume: Arachnos Night Widow$$bindloadfile Boy.txt" With those files in place, type "/bindloadfile Boy.txt" into the chat window in-game, and you should be set up to swap whenever you press the U key. Just replace the u at the beginning of each line in the .txt files with whichever key you want to have the swap on.

In that case, you can do what you want with two macros, not one. If your uniform costume slot is set to the male body type and you'll be using the costume to change to the female body type, with the costume in your second slot: /macro Boy powexectoggleoff Costume: Arachnos Night Widow $$cc 0 /macro Girl cc 1$$powexectoggleon Costume: Arachnos Night Widow If you want both options to be on the same button, you have to do that with a bind, it can't be done with macros.

When you have an aether costume that changes based on your character's body type, it depends on the body type of your current costume. So all you'd have to do is have your uniform costume be one gender, and then have another costume slot be a different gender, and switch to that latter slot before you turn on the aether costume power. No need for a macro, unless you want to do the swap very frequently.

I can't help but wonder if OP is the same guy on the CoH subreddit literally paying people to play on ThunderSpy.

Rainbows are awesome. Maybe you’re just not awesome enough to appreciate that.

I don't think anyone uses Spirit Tree. Even when CoV launched and we weren't overpowered deathballs, the buff was just not that good, the recharge too long. It's also a really weird power. It's a pure buff power, but it's in a Control set. It's theming seems totally at odds with the rest of the set, being some kind of mystical, ethereal ghost plant. And it makes the same sound effect as Blazing Aura, a fire-themed damage power. Just top-to-bottom, a bizarre power.

+End is far more important to shoot for than +Recovery, but a lot of that is because +Recovery set bonuses are atrociously weak.

Phantasm has two major issues that hinder its effectiveness: 1. Energy Torrent. This cone power has a range of 40 feet. NPCs are programmed to use ranged cone attacks at half the max range, to increase the odds that it'll hit more than one target. Apparently 20 feet is close enough that the Phantasm will decide it might as well close to melee range. Replace Energy Torrent with Explosive Blast and this issue goes away. 2. Decoy Phantasm dies immediately if the target the Phantasm summoned it against dies. Since Decoy Phantasm is a huge portion of Phantasm's total damage output, the pet's total effectiveness can vary wildly depending on what it chooses to summon the decoy against. If the Decoy were made to not die with its target, Phantasm would have much more consistent damage output. Also, its powers should really be changed to do knockdown instead of knockback. AoE knockback is bad enough, but AoE knockback in the hands of an NPC that is completely incapable of using it judiciously? No thank you.

What you've come up with here is an entirely new set. If you put this on Scrappers and Stalkers, you've basically satisfied no one, because the players who want Super Strength on Scrappers and Stalkers still wouldn't have Super Strength, and the players who'd want this set on Brutes and Tankers are also left out in the cold. If Super Strength gets ported to Scrappers and Stalkers, it won't have Rage, but otherwise it'll still be Super Strength.

Is the bug that it should be spelled "Crystallize?"

Mini Mode has no effect on any actual gameplay or combat numbers.

/hide in the chat box should bring up a window with a list of all the things you can hide from. I think the only thing you can't hide from is running into people in the city zones. For that, perhaps try playing on Torchbearer or Indomitable?

I think it's the opposite. When a set has a self-revive, being defeated is no longer a fail-state, but just a natural part of combat. Think of it this way: if a set has a self-heal, does that mean the set doesn't provide enough defense or resistance to keep you alive? No, of course not. A self-revive is just the logical conclusion of that method of mitigation.

I made a mission like that in AE back before shutdown. IIRC the concept was the Clockwork were attacking in order to steal cosplayers' costumes to make stronger clockwork, apparently not realizing that most costumes are made out of things like foam and light plastics, as opposed to the cutting-edge alloys and metamaterials used in proper superhero attire. It was mostly an excuse to put in a bunch of hostages dressed like characters from other media. The arena lobby would've been a great map to set it on. I had to settle for a typical warehouse, and claim that the main convention hall had emptied out by the time of your arrival and everyone left was in the back hallways.

The game is absolutely suffused with FREEM these days. Ever gotten hit by a Rikti Pylon during a Hard Mode Lady Grey TF? The best way to kill a joke is to overuse it, and I'm sad to say Homecoming has done so to FREEM, imo

A badge for not killing civilians? Do you want any other prizes for basic decency, while we’re at it? https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency

This is the data on the version of War Witch that appears in Night Ward after being resurrected in Sorceress Serene's body: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=talonsofvengeance_sorceress_serene_boss_warwitch

Stocks

Okay, so basically there'd be an NPC or game window or something that's like The Stock Market, and it'd say "Would you like to play the Stock Market" or something to that effect and when you click the option to do so a portion of your inf is deducted from your total

You sit in a prison of your own design, trapped by toggles you didn't need

I didn’t say anything about that

I think it might be kinda neat if there was an in-game stock market where players could drop a bunch of inf, just for fun.

Oh you might be surprised how often changing nothing is very much an option.

You can, every Halloween costume is available from vendors in Vault Reserves for Prismatic Aether.