Ulysses Dare

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.

I always liked the Matrix room, good to know you can go there now without all the shenanigans—even if those shenanigans were half the fun.

Thank you for perfectly illustrating the assumption that you just said no one in I.T. makes.

It always amuses me how people who are deeply involved in the I.T field, as I assume any Island Run developer must be, always blithely assume that replacing an old PC is a trivial exercise for users who aren't. It also amuses me when the people who broke a program that was working fine insist the problem is my computer and not their code work.

On one hand I agree that infrastructure—while not particularly sexy—is much more important than creating new content. But, on the other hand, the two tasks aren't mutually exclusive. Untangling code and writing missions are two different skill sets and not everyone who's qualified to do one is qualified to do the other.

Windows 10 Pro, 32-bit

Well, I can tell you that prior to the 64-bit update I played for four months and had maybe three crashes. Post update, even though I'm using the 32-bit client, I crash every night. Safe mode is what lets me join trials and TFs.

I hope this is just a rumor, because I crash far too often in anything other than Safe Mode.

Sadly, is not. You always come out of the base portal—or the rez tubes—facing south. Plan their placement accordingly.

Oh good, I was hoping you'd be able to salvage the videos you'd already made.

Here you are: New badge tracker

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend hunting bosses in ToT without a team. I didn't recall the WWD arc, thanks.

The leakers, some of whom were still active in SCoRE until after Homecoming (Bree) was up, have stated they were unaware of any such plans. So if those plans did exist they certainly weren't part of a widespread effort among the SCoRE membership.

The Trial of Transcendence is a great place to hunt Igneous bosses.

I've picked up a little progress on this one by using the Health Imbuement team inspirations. It's not much compared to what Rebirth gives, but you can do it before hitting 50.

This is question would probably be better asked in the Help & Support forum.

Why? As you just pointed out the biggest copyright threat to the game isn't Marvel, DC, or Disney—it's NCSoft. If Marvel gets their panties in a bunch over all of the Wolverine clones they send a DCMA complaint to Homecoming and, in accordance with copyright law, Homecoming zaps the offending character. As long as they do so promptly Marvel et al have no legal claim against them. NCSoft does. Every single NPC in the game, all the powers, the maps, etc. all of that is NCSoft's intellectual property. And they could, at any moment, waltz in and shut the whole thing down. Anyone who spends their time fretting about Marvel, DC, and the rest is basically rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Not a great idea. Because far too many people believe that Marvel owns names like Wolverine and Black Widow—which they absolutely do not. Yes, Marvel owns the copyright on Wolverine: the cigar-smoking mutant with pointy claws. But they do not own the copyright on Wolverine: the Canadian flag-wearing dude with a magic hockey stick. A human being can glance at those two and immediately see there's no copyright infringement. A computer database can't.