Techwright

I can only quote recent experience, but I got a badge two weeks back when flying in at the last minute and landing two hits on a Kronos unit before the others wiped it out. I was not on a team. So at least in that case, it was tagging the Giant Monster. By inference, this should mean the OP's scenario should count towards the badge. But that's just observation, not an authoritative look behind the curtain.

I was unaware leagues were options for task forces. If that's accurate, I'd very much like to run leagues for all of them. If the result is an increased number of opponents based on number of players, that could be a lot of fun.

Referencing Sesame Street at the start and the internet at the end. This is such a Gen X statement. 😁 (I realize by your own admission elsewhere that you're very slightly older than the commonly held start date for Gen-X, but close enough.)

The start and near-end of an Adamastor fight in the middle of a zombie apocalypse in Echo Dark Astoria, September 12, 2024. Best "Ada" fight I've ever experienced. Because of this, I'd encourage the dev's to look into ramping up a zombie sapper unit to join Adamastor, rather than a low level, after-the-fight response from the undead in the area.

Aged of Aquarius would like to comment.

It may be my opinion only, but I feel CoH has done a reasonably good job with this by allowing higher level characters to team with lower level characters at a security rank comparable to that lower character's one. I say "reasonably good", not "completely good", because I'm not overly fond of having my abilities earned at higher levels blocked. This marginalizes them, which is especially frustrating because many of them can only be acquired at higher levels. I'd much prefer that they be present but at a proportional fraction of their power. In regards to the main topic, I loved playing WoW without rushing up the ladder of rank. There was so much to see and do in an open world. (CoH has always been somewhat different due to most of the action being instanced, and lacking a PvP flag and a few other details. ) However, I have to wonder how a game with an ever-increasing number of levels deals with a new player trying to catch up. At some point I'd think it would take so long to reach the final rank (at least for the latest expansion) that the player with a full-time job would be hammering away for two or more years to reach cap level, and woe to the alt-holic who must do the same for each new character. There's one other thing an MMO with no sidesteps to leveling should address: those zones, events, and rewards which were endgame material for previous caps to leveling on earlier expansions. WoW has traditionally been terrible about these, more or less abandoning them. Ahn'Qiraj is a good example of this. I came to the game before the first expansion, Burning Crusade, but too late to level to a point to experience Ahn'Qiraj before it was completely outdated by the expansion, including all of its rewards. As a result, I never did more then peek into the entry area, which is sad because I'd heard it and other end game areas were a lot of fun. A game with the full leveling experience on the mind should make a best effort to adapt and incorporate the former endgame into the expansion's heirarchy, including making the rewards matter.

Okay, so how about now?

As a side note, people love to team for these contacts. Recruitment is usually comparable to recruiting for a task force, so you might consider a team if you've been soloing so far. "DBZ"? I admit I'm drawing a blank. DBZ to me means a certain anime show. Did you mean FBZ: Firebase Zulu? It certainly qualifies as a "change in scenery".

As GM Crumpet notes it comes and goes in appearance depending upon the need. Look for the box framework towards the top right of the homepage. It should say "Donating". The Paypal option will appear in there when there's a need.

It would have been faster to check with Mr. Owl.

I must be living under a heap of small stones at least, as I'd no idea Roblox was so popular, and I've never heard of Valorant. I'm also surprised Starfield made the X-box list given how much hate is out there for it. I'm wondering if part of that might be a decline in population in younger generations. I grew up at a university. Two years back I had a great chat with the current C.I.O. of the university who stated they, along with most other universities, were about to experience a slump in freshman population for at least a handful of years, as the newborn population had dropped 18 years before for the first time in a long time. While his comments were regarding colleges, I'm wondering if that population slump would have a noticeable effect on new player growth as well.

Getting an MCU Odin vibe from that.

Peter's Evil Overlord List #34: I will not turn into a snake. It never helps.

It's a group like that which makes me want to completely clear the city hall plaza as well as the inside of city hall. It probably wouldn't take long.

This was a gut punch, the second this year. Bob Newhart was the first. I hope Dick Van Dyke will not make a third. While Darth Vader will always be his signature role, and Mufasa probably his second one, I'm much more fond of his appearances in two baseball films, Field of Dreams and The Sandlot, as well as his Admiral Greer character in the Tom Clancy movies. In fact, I just re-watched The Hunt For Red October a few days back. Looking over his achievements, it seems he narrated a documentary about Lincoln back in 1992. I shall have to find this.

While I see your point, that kind of falls back on the late person themselves when setting up their estate. While admittedly someone who died before the advent of CGI and AI would have no idea how technology might bring them back so vividly, they likely still would know/understand that their photo likeness and possibly voice recordings could be used for marketing purposes long after they're gone. It would make sense to pick executors of the estate who will hold to that person's vision regardless of personal feelings. The trickier part is to prepare the estate to carry on for multiple generations of executors making sure that none act in their own interests, but in the interests of the deceased. JRR Tolkien is such an example, I think, though not as an actor. His son, Christopher, tightly guarded his father's estate, and was angered when New Line Cinema took the films in a path he felt did not adhere to his father's wishes. He even stated that it would not happen again. However, with Christopher's death, the new generation clearly has wealth on their minds and has opened his iconic writings up to all those wishing to slap an official "Middle Earth" label on anything, whether it measures up or not. I've not read JRR's will and testament, but I suspect it didn't tightly regulate his intentions. While it could be reasonably said that someone past could not have planned their estate for CGI and AI, they would have had the chance for stating how their image and voice were to be used. After all, those sorts of things were in use for printed and radio advertisements back to the 1920s.

Usually start anew due to a combination of sudden concept inspiration and funding availability. That generally gives me one or two characters to work with, and I'll stay with them until they've unlocked Incarnate/Hybrid and all incarnate slots have at least one Tier 4 created for them. Meanwhile, my banking mule has been crafting and selling to fund the next character(s). I'm actually at an unusual spot at the moment as I had several inspirational concepts in short order, and stretched funding to get them into the game. So I've been juggling 6 or 7 somewhat underfunded, and recently decided to focus on one of them to give time for INF recovery. That one just hit 50 an hour ago, so I'll be maxing out his Incarnate stuff and may play him longer or switch to one or more of my 50s to help in the INF recovery before tackling the rest of those in process.

Very similar, but not identical, to costume items I suggested back in July:

Narcissus finds the Mirror of Shallot?

They're trying to solo it, but this is clearly league material.

I'll have to give this some thought but one possibility that springs to mind is the ultimate carnivore, Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation, shopping in the hunting department of the Outdoor Man sporting goods store in Last Man Standing. This feels like a natural comedic moment though I have no idea how it would play out.

Hear, hear! This is as good a moment as any to remind players that if they can't get to donate for the game's maintenance, they can still do a great thing by donating to the Wiki's costs of operation.

Are you on one of the lower population servers? Because that has definitely not been my experience on Excelsior. I'm constantly hampered by one or more chuckleheads who come in guns blazing, unwilling to team, and just continually wipe out trolls regardless of their potential for Supa Trolls. I've even deliberately logged in during the late, late hours when the North American population is largely asleep, thinking that will give me freedom, but nope, goofballs still show to play wild west gunslingers. That's interesting. I never realized there was a different effect between locations. Though not exactly a bug, this sounds like a problem needing reporting. By any chance have you done so, or are aware of such from others?

Don't forget to look at yourself in the mirror and say "You rock!" Oh...wait...

I find it interesting to see Tudyk in such an unrepentantly evil mode. As to the insurance biz, and Tudyk's character, I got a powerful vibe as a real-life event over at the Mouse House a few days back sounded a lot like what happened to poor Joe in the script. (Disney backed down when public pressure hit a boiling point. I'm just pointing out the similarity. Let us not get into the politics of it.) As to our game, let me just clarify by saying I wasn't necessarily looking to install an insurance company in the game so much as I was wondering if we could somehow incorporate the non-powered experience into the game at some points. We have, for example, an Atlas Park mission where we take over a reporter and guide her to a meeting with a member of the Skulls. That mission, despite the dialog has absolutely no threat, but I'm wondering if we might have the occasional mission where we have to take control of a citizen and guide them to safety with the building collapsing around them. That sort of thing.