Techwright

The music here? That's nothing compared to Planet Coaster, my latest alternate game choice. They manage to work their catchy tune into multiple music types and post it everywhere. Everywhere! I awake with this song buzzing in my head these days. It's worse than Mark Twain's Punch Brothers Punch railroad jingle and that was designed to torture.

Thanks for the clarification!

With "foil-enhanced covers"?

Welcome Home! Just to be clear: is this your first time in CoH: Homecoming, and you only played the original game? Or are you returning to Homecoming after a long absence? Assuming this is your first time in the Homecoming version, CoH has not been a static game and there are many changes. Some are obvious, like new powersets. Some are not so obvious, but beneficial. I'll point one of those out: travel. Travel has become much easier than in the Original Game (OG). The Homecoming Development team aided players by creating the Fast Travel "button", a type of accolade that you can drop into one of your powers trays. It acts as a pop-up menu, allowing you to access a variety of travel abilities that would normally take up several spaces in your powers trays. To acquire the Fast Travel, you have to tag all the exploration badge spots in the beginner's zone, Atlas Park. You'll find the subsequent reward Fast Travel under "Accolades" in your powers listings. It is dark green. Simply drag it to a spot on your powers trays, and click it to access the menu. (Actually, I've never investigated it in regards to the red side or gold side, so the experience might be different there. Perhaps someone else reading this can fill us in.) Opening the Fast Travel, you'll find "Long Range TP Zone Check" at the bottom, which, when moused over, highlights other menus. Everytime you find an initial exploration marker in a different zone, it will highlight in these menus, and that zone will unlock for you to fast travel to via a teleportation. Be aware that there is a recharge time. Access to the time zone, Ouroboros is no longer restricted to level 14 and up. Ask in Atlas Park for someone to drop an "O-Portal" to allow you to get in, and get your own power tray access to Ouroboros, which is another way people travel quickly through the game, popping into the O, and exiting to one of several destinations. (Be sure to grab the badge while there. The marker is at the top of the structure.) Other features under the Fast Travel may be grayed out, and will unlock either through something earned, such as Day Job badge rewards, or by acquisition from the P2W vendors. There's one in Atlas Park to the side of the Atlas Statue, by the fountain. Another is in Pocket D. While you're visiting the P2W vendor, you'll likely want to grab everything free from them under the category "Prestige Powers". Some are "either this one or that one" so be sure to read the descriptions. There's some nice fighting powers there to help a novice character. You may also wish to grab the free Prestige Enhancements, which, though not as powerful as the Single Origin enhancements sold at standard vendors, do provide some nice procs up until level 22. Lastly, you'll likely want to look at the Temporary Powers at the P2W vendor. There's many useful things, like jetpacks, that cost the game currency INF, but there's also free experience boosters under Temp Powers/Buffs/Experience Boosters. One hour each, and you can requisition up to eight at a time. Although jetpacks cost something, I like to keep one as an emergency travel spare, just in case my travel powers are ever interrupted.

Sounds like the climactic moment in Captain America: The First Avenger. which How It Should Have Ended picked up on and mercilessly skewered.

I'll have you know I didn't click on the post. I deliberately bypassed it and went into people's posting lists to click on the responses. 😛

Welcome to the home Home @Fire Gambit!

From the description given, that does sound like the ticket.

*Clicks ruby sneakers together* There's no DC hero like The Question, there's no DC hero like The Question, there's no... Eh, I'm between contracts, but I might fork over a few greenbacks to see this. The Flash was my favorite DC hero growing up, and was one of my inspirations for my winning, but brief, high school track days. Miller (controversies aside) never really hit the right note for me as the character, not like John Wesley Ship did, or even Grant Gustin, but hey, it's The Flash. So yes, it is non-essential, but interesting.

I've heard that SWG received a similar treatment to Homecoming. I presume it is from a version before the perversion of the game?

Next topic: How to avoid "90% of the time" posters 90% of the time.

Nicely done. Two sticks up.

Though inaccessible in instance play, including bases. I do find though that buying the large or team inspirations for low cost well in advance, perhaps days in advance, will keep a supply handy for replacements when visiting the "real" world between instances. Just "/ah" it (minus quotes) in your chat to open the auction window outside the instances (This is, of course, assuming a new player didn't know that).

I was thinking of using the accordion for "The British are coming!" Somehow it makes the warning seem more festive. TV could probably stand in for "Gone to the Americans"

I actually attended a cricket game once. The Commonwealth engineers the company had moved to town put together a Saturday game. After 3 hours viewing, and learning that some games go for days, I decided that cricket is just what I needed...for an insomnia cure. 😉 Sorry golf, but you've competition. The cricket bat, however, is a stroke of genius. I'd rather have that than a baseball bat as a defensive weapon. That thing is practically a Maori war club. I'll make sure the police are waiting for the attacker when he lands next Tuesday.

"How to avoid stapling form 8937c to your inner thigh 90% of the time" Come on..Did my last post on such things not make the point? The 10%! I want to know about the 10%! It's important! Real money! (Yes, I said "real money" @Yomo Kimyata) Pony up!

Had this happen just last night. no tank, brute, scrapper, or Keld on the team. I'd just modified gust to do KD instead of KB, so I sent my grav/storm to tank. Took some near fatal alpha hits, but kept going. After a bit I noticed player confidence growing and blasters started leading on a few groups. I did feel this situation was where a team lead should have spoken up to either designate or ask for volunteers. As to tanks standing around, I usually get the feeling this is due to no confidence in their own ability or defense design. I suspect some of those are farm babies, stepping out for the first time. As to the no confidence I can relate. When I first started the OG, I didn't understand concepts, and desperately tried to keep my tank alive at all costs, which meant hesitation. It was my first MMO, and I'd come from the arcade background where it was 3 strikes, you're out. They say you have to break eggs to make an omelette and it's true here. The tank, or any character for that matter, must push past the fear of failure and just do. Eventually, after a few KOs, you lose that fear of breaking your character, and you begin to enjoy the game a bit more recklessly.

It's going to be a few days before I can go, but I've already been hearing statements like "greatest Spider-Man movie ever" and even "greatest superhero movie ever". (I tend to think the latter is a lot more subjective, but we'll see...) For me, if the story is solid, if the ending lands well, if the writing provides impactful characters, then they can use stick figures in crayon on flip pages, and I'd watch it. That it is also "gorgeous", is delicious icing on the foundation of a great cake. I don't know why Hollywood so often doesn't get this: solid writing is the foundation of everything in movie making. I would have thought the contrast between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan would have made them realize this, but here we are, 40+ years later... I'm glad the reports are so positive, though. The first movie was a treasure. It deserved a solid follow-up, and it sounds like they not only matched it, but possibly exceeded it.

Newest alt... His name comes from "Full Thunder Moon" an alternate name for the July full moon, so named because of the storms from around it's date. Thundermoon is a tech gravity/storm controller hero, using a discovered alien tech belt powered by two luminescent tech spheres he's taken to calling "moon pearls". The belt allows him to focus the natural gravitational pull of the moon or any similar gravitational source to a localized area, causing gravitational anomalies and storms.

😶 Have you... have you a shrink on your contacts list? I hear they have comfy couches they let you relax on. Verrry comfy. Just a thought.

"How to avoid dying 90% of the time" Why does no one ever give out the secret for not dying the other 10% of the time? That's where the real money is.

Those who naturally can...do. Those who can't...buy team inspirations. 😛

I've been in the game since early 2005, and I've just started taking a polar opposite approach. With most of my characters now 50 and earning a decent living, I'm buying inspirations...from the AH. Specifically Team Large inspirations. I didn't previously know about those who didn't use them, but now those suckers are going to be inspired whether they like it or not.