Ulysses Dare

My issue isn't that I can't run the new 32-bit client, its that the new 32-bit client is unstable and frequently crashes. Which is to say, I'm a guaranteed to crash once a night if I play for more than an hour. By contrast the old version of CoH (and current Safe Mode) crashed less than once a month. Given that it's only been four months since the 64-bit update—a short window even for a professional development studio—yanking Safe Mode seems remarkably premature.

Have you tried using your Origin Power (Apprentice Charm, throwing Knives, etc)?

I found a bug in the chat channels the other day. I usually run as a vigilante to maintain easy access to both red and blue sides. I also have a chat tab set up to display event notices from all three sides (Hero, Villain, Praetorian). A couple of days ago when I swapped to rogue alignment to work on my red-side badges, I noticed that the hero events channel had vanished from my tab. I re-added it an went about my business. Then yesterday, when I switched back to vigilante, I noticed that this time the villain events channel had vanished from my tab. I tested this out by swapping sides a couple of more times and each time I swapped sides the side I left's event notifications were pulled from my chat tab.

So a little from column A and a little from column B then. Thanks Arcanaville.

That brings to mind a question: why did the scrapper forums in particular draw this kind of scrutiny? Was it just random chance or was there something about scrappers in particular that drew in the players most prone to being analytical?

Ah, yes I found it: " Gift Giver: give the duplicating gift to another player if they don't already have it." That info is wrong. The badge for giving the duplicating gift to another player is Gift Which Keeps Giving, which you said you already have. I would guess Voltor was typing their list up from memory and simply made a mistake about the name. Since you said this is your first badger, let me recommend that you make use of either the badge tracker or badge checklist made by KeyboardKitsune. Having a list of badges that you can chaeck of as you earn them is quite helpful.

If I'm parsing MetaVileTerror's post correctly, they did a .pigg dive and didn't find any badge by that name. I'd say that's definitive evidence that no such badge exists. Do you recall where you heard about it?

I'm pretty sure it's just Crey and Nemesis, yeah. And I rarely encounter Crey snipers on indoor maps. Those Nemesis $#@*&s on the other hand...

If I considered Paragon Wiki an absolute source, why would I have also cited Badger? Or used the qualifier "probably"? The answer, of course, is that I don't consider Paragon Wiki infallible. Nevertheless, infallible or not, Paragon Wiki remains a very accurate picture of the state of the game a shutdown. So, unless you have a specific, articulable reason to doubt the information you find there, that information should be treated as presumptuously correct. Particularly, as in this case, when it's verified by a second source. Since your "clarification" failed to cite any reason to doubt the Wiki's information it's really nothing more than a restatement of the basic truism that nothing is 100% accurate. Which, as I said, is always worth keeping in mind but, at the same time, shouting it whenever someone cites an authority just clutters the discussion with needless qualifiers—it obfuscates instead of illuminating. Which is why I labelled it unhelpful. If you regard that as trash talk, so be it.

Paragon Wiki isn't entirely unreliable either. Personally, I'd judge it to be upwards of 90% accurate. So while it's good to remember there have been changes, unless you know specifically that something was changed, mentioning this isn't particularly helpful.

I just checked Paragon Wiki and Badger, there isn't a badge called "Gift Giver" listed in either place. So that's probably why.

I remember the Pingus though I wasn't one myself. Like Gameboy, I primarily hung out on BMT. In any case, welcome back.

As far as I know, no such badge exists.

Like Snarky said the Rebirth Destiny incarnate will let you pick up the healing badges so you don't really need any particular archetype to collect all the badges. (Joining MSRs and spamming Rebirth got me the first three heal badges in just a couple of months. It can certainly be done faster if you're really active.) That said, obviously having healing powers as you level up makes for a nice head start on getting the badges, Aside from that, stealth and flight will help you get exploration badges more easily. Stealth also lets you speed through a number of badge missions. If you don't want to spend a pool pick on flight, just grab a jetpack from P2W or by Firebase Zulu. Good AoE damage is very helpful when it comes to the various defeat X badges though, again, the Judgement Incarnate lets any AT have a strong AoE attack.

Why on earth would you limit yourself to creating a new alt only when an old one reaches 50?

Is it? My mistake. Carry on then.

Get well soon, Apparition!

Atlas Park sometimes spawns a single contaminated between the warwall and the warehouse in the southwest corner. I've run across that one about half the time I pass through there.

The trouble here is: who gets to define "honestly"? Different people are going to have different standards. If I spam my healing Judgement while sitting in the bowl during a Mothership Raid is that honest? Is using VidotMaps to locate the explore badges honest? Some people would say both are fine, some would say both are cheating, and some folks would be fine with one but not the other. At then end of the day, no one else is going to know how much or how little effort you put into getting a particular badge. It's up to you to decide how "honest" you want to be in your badge collecting.

Afterburner helps a lot. It also doesn't hurt that the game runs much more smoothly on my current PC.

So very much this. CoH predates World of Warcraft. At the time it came out Everquest and how it did things was the benchmark. Expectations about MMORPGs were very different back then.

Good luck with your surgery, Witty.

You do not. You only get the badge for whichever time you completed. If you don't have one of the slower time badges, for example, you won't receive it if you complete a gold run. I confirmed this today when I got gold on the advanced course my first try* and didn't receive the silver and bronze badges as well. *Don't be too impressed, I spend many hours learning that course back when the game was live.

Over half the TF's I see starting up don't usually request any specific archetypes. Of those that do, Defenders and Tanks are the two I most often see requested.

Paragon Wiki is open source. Titian Network is on record that anyone who wants to make a copy and launch their own server-specific wiki is free to do so. So far as I know, no one's taken them up on that yet. Which leads me to suspect that project's not as easy as a lot of folks assume it would be.