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I am probably the weird guy here because I use a comic book time scale. IMO, Issue 23 opened so many problems. (Incarnates, Praetoria destruction, its tech transfer, the incoming Battalion, etc.) Therefore, something had to happen in the next few months. My suspension of disbelief can't accept Paragon City (and Rogue Isles) went into stasis post-Issue 23 for a decade. IMO, the First Rikti War happened only a few years ago. (The lore said 2002, but it wouldn't make any difference if it happened in 2012 or 2022.) The small timeframe explains why most of Paragon City areas look like slums with homeless people everywhere. There were too many disasters in such a short time. Also, xenophobia is rampant cause the Second Rikti War is still ongoing. Speaking about multiverse, I consider CoH and CoH: HC as different but identical universes. In the COH universe, most of my old toons have retired and moved on at the end of Issue 23. Yes, I lost contact as soon as NCSoft pulled the plug. Although I can no longer interact with them, they are still there, minding their business as ordinary citizens. As their story had concluded when the sunset came, I don't see any merit to recreate my old toons from CoH.

Goldside. I love it so much that I kept playing its contents and story arcs over and over again. Also, I was very lucky. When I started playing my Praetorian toon back in 2020, I met with Darmian. Playing as a team (even with only two members) is much better than playing alone. It was a great journey. Problems: Most of its contents are in the low-level bracket and they are harder than its Primal counterpart. Starting a new gold toon is more challenging than red or blue. Some people feel the morality system isn't quite adequate. I used to lurk at nearby hospitals (or First Ward's field hospital). Offered to team up with people and finish their mission. Or just helping them survive First/Night Ward. Wasn't quite successful. Pretoria is more or less a single player map and people often returned back to Primal after a few rounds of First/Night Ward.

Not sure what this has to do with anything, but it was too good not to quote. One quick google search:

IMO, it works both ways. My somehow vigilante felled a huge swath of Nerva Spectral Daemons with mere normal bullets. Good old kinetic bullets powered by Newton's law of motion. Edit He also did it in a single night. Alone. One should wonder how many bullets he brought (and fired) on that fateful night.

Even better, on the first mission, if you play through the map quickly enough, you'll have TWO Twinshots. Double the loon double the fun! edit

IMO, this is an example where "just wait until the price stabilizes" doesn't make sense. Because the item in question is a Common Salvage, how long is the reasonable waiting time? An hour? Fifteen minutes? Everyone can go to Ouro, select a mission with arcane enemies, set its difficulty to -1x8, and run it. For example, when I ran Defeat Goddess Hequat Mission, I got two spirit thorns from the 98th and 109th Mu critter. In Catch Dr. Aeon, I got three from the 37th, 48th, and 59th Arachnos critter. In Get Void Hunter rifles for Abyss, I got four from the 111th, 135th, 233rd, and 263rd Council critter. None of these mobs are arcane type. I will get the correct common salvages after defeating around 100 critters, so I won't wait since I can get them in less than an hour. Or, from another perspective, paying thousands of Inf* to skip killing 100 critters doesn't quite make sense. Low-level toons would take longer to kill 100 critters, but I am sure it's quicker to run a few missions than waiting for the price drops. council.csv mu.csv arachnos.csv mu.txt arachnos.txt council.txt

That's an interesting point. Praetoria sits only a few meters above the river. Yet, it has tunnels with waterways (Lethe) and barges beneath it. The underground river should flood the tunnels, IMO. I can assume Lethe is an isolated artificial river, and Praetorians waterproof the whole islands. The assumption creates more questions than answers, though. Nice catch!

IMO, this is City of Heroes:

Is coding a bot script considered a skill? If it is, I'm quite skillful at that. Movement skills - 3 The bots will go wherever I want them to go, albeit they walk like lobotomized patients. Leading task forces/raids - 5 Nobody (my bots) ever complained about my leadership skills. We still walk like lobotomized patients. Character builds - Irrelevant. Some bugs allow me to kill NPCs regardless of their difficulty. Badging - Irrelevant, thanks to the wiki. Key binds - Irrelevant because they are bots. Their attack patterns are hard-coded. In-game knowledge - Irrelevant, thanks to the wiki and search engine.

Like this? Usually, I use table and then set the border to 0..

I had to do a clean install on my notebook a few months ago (June?). I haven't restored COH HC from my backup disk ever since. They will return when the HC team continues COH's major story arcs. As far as my headcanon goes, they are still dealing with multiple failed Rikti invasions, the meteor strike, the aftermath of the Praetorian War, etc. Two Loyalists are unaccounted for because they'd rather die fighting than flee to Primal Earth. One Blue sider is so disillusioned with the carnage he decides to retire and focus on his day job. One Red sider and a full-fledged Incarnate stole enough Praetorian tech from the Arachnos to get all the money she wanted and fled to a friendly country. She is currently living her dream there.

Bots are good at repetitive tasks, like executing attack chains or calculating things(for example, which available power has the most DPS). They can't get tired, angry, or scared, but they are stupid. My bots would often run into walls while desperately trying to attack a Tsoo Sorcerer, who had teleported away into a nearby room. Other times, they got stuck on a small overturned chair, a broken concrete pillar, or a flimsy wooden door that was slightly ajar. My bots also made too many suicidal charges to a nearby mob at the other side of the map because one of its members, according to their POV, is the closest to them. In short, if you see someone constantly mimicking their teammates, it is probably a newbie with a confidence issue or a multiboxer. If you see someone acting like a lobotomized patient, it is probably a bot. I've rarely encountered the latter. I once tried to sync my bots. I couldn't do it. Not for long. Usually, one of their attacks would miss, and the bot would use a different power than its teammate. Another factor is the distance to the target. One bot would often be closer to the enemies, which made it attack sooner than its teammate.

I think the lore holds up quite well. Paragon City is a fertile ground for street gangs. Its economy is perpetually in shambles, its infrastructure is failing, and it is home to many marginalized people (e.g., refugees, mutants, poor and homeless). Last but not least, its law enforcement is stretched to a breaking point thanks to frequent super-related disasters. Even Supers can't change the status quo. For every Hellion or Outcast arrested, another one replaces him. The game depicts this problem by spawning a gang member in the same spot where the player defeated him less than five minutes ago. It's beautiful. Because they often succeed. Think about it. Dr. Vahzilok constructs his Abominations out of the best ingredients he can find: the organs of fallen heroes. How does he get a steady supply of body parts? The gangs. They have killed so many fledgling superheroes that our good doctor has enough spare parts to build an army. Most players don't get this because their toon survived. It's survivor bias, more or less.

Rammstein did a music video with a similar premise. Go for it! edit Found it on YouTube:

Oh, dang! How did I miss that one? Or, what was I reading back then? ToS? It was early 2020, right before lockdown. So, I had a tank and two scrappers/blasters. The tank draws the fire while the rest kill the mob. A coordinated attack is a beautiful thing. They also didn't need enhancements. They were good as a team. Then they reach their 40s. Bot-assisted farming! Sweet loot! Incarnate unlocking! Et cetera! I even kept mentioning them to my teammates for a year and a half. "Look at these toons! They are all my bots! Cool, huh?" (paraphrasing) No one complained. I was lucky, I guess. Then I found out my bots weren't playing nice with my laptop. My code was inefficient, so I stopped using those bots. I made a promise to myself to clean up the code next week. Dang, I am going to miss my bots.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't there back in 2020. Well, sucks.

So do I. By the way, can you code? I had the same problem, so I turned 2 of my toons into farm bots. I highly recommend AutoIt. Its BASIC-like language is easy to learn. Many other languages like Python also support automation. Just run the bots, go doing errands or real-life jobs, and return a few hours later to collect the loot and play the game. Repeat until you get the stuff you need (or have sold enough items to buy items from AH).

The devs planned those cosmic entities according to the 2014 Lore AMA. They wouldn't be a factor until issue 32 or after. Sadly (or luckily?), NCSoft shuttered City of Heroes long before it could go there. Even the name (Primordials) was still a placeholder.

YouTube algorithm blessed me with this: I didn't search for it; I haven't googled Vespa, AT rifles, or anything related since I visited this forum thread. How did they know?

Really agree with that. Dr. Vahzilok reminds me of Dr. Robert Koch, a bacteriologist from German Empire known for identifying the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis. He also made a cure, which would be the pinnacle of his life's work. Spoiler: it didn't work, and the early result should have alerted him. Yet, he brushed it off, persisted in his endeavor, and pushed it to the general public. God knows how many were duped by his empty promise. IMO, one underlying problem with Dr. Vahz and Dr. Koch is that they believe a scientific breakthrough is a solo effort. A genius cures the whole world! Nothing can be further from the truth. Dr. Vahzilok's work is art imitating real life. And I guess I've disparaged Dr. Vahz for a while. I should stop now. Thanks for reading.

After reading the options, my knee-jerk reaction was something like this: Dr. Vahzilok shared his research on underground websites long before his incarceration. Many like-minded people have imitated and improved his design. Destroying it is no longer possible at this point. I am not sure about this. More on this later. Law enforcement has condemned Dr. Vahz and his followers. I don't think this is a good idea because Dr. Vahz's and his followers' work are already well known. Give credit where credit is due. They killed a bunch of them. Which one? To elaborate about Dr. Vahz's work: Vahzilok tried to defeat death. He failed. Eidolons, the most evolved of his creatures, require regular replacements for their constantly decaying skin and organs. If anything, Eidolons are more vulnerable than average human beings. Keep them from replacing their organs for a while, and they are dead. Dr. Pierce and Doc Buzzaw use his research to make an army of Freakloks. These creatures, while improved, still need constant maintenance. They are worse than the Protector program from Crey or Praetoria's clockwork technology. Facemaker builds a beauty parlor based on Dr. Vahz's work. Arguably, she is the most successful one. However, Icon exists as a (better?) alternative. In short: Viable? Yes. Needed by living? Not sure. My hunch is that Agent Watkins exaggerates Dr. Vahz's accomplishment. He is a NetOps agent, not a scientist with credible experience. IMO, whatever Dr. Vahz and his followers have come up with, it is pale compared to what the scientific community and the RnDs from many corporations already have. Is it OK to use their work? I read an article about this topic. The researcher argued that it is OK as long as it doesn't make one complicit and doesn't legitimize/encourage wrongdoing. So, I guess it's OK (assuming the work is worthy), as long as the ones using it are not butchering people and do not encourage people to do so.

I don't think the OP was trying to push something. To their credit, they pointed me in the right direction. So, like a metahuman thirsty for The Source (and more power!), I went there. 😆 However, there were some discrepancies in their post, so I copy pasted the AMA from the wiki as a reference. I hope this helps others looking for info about Incarnates and the Well.

People living in an authoritarian regime always serve their leader in all capacities. Or else. Also, I think someone should get their mind out of the gutter. Or, maybe check their prejudice against other less democratic political systems.

Regarding the dimensionless: After the Battalion, what was the next "big idea" that was going to come down the road, if you had thought that far ahead? MM: The Dimensionless are a race of beings superior to the Wells. Dealing with them once you became a well unto yourself was the next logical step. Q) Curious, what were we gonna fight after the True Rikti? A) Just like in the tv show 24, right before you take down the final Rikti, we’d have him make a cell phone call to his boss to show you that even the ultimate bad guy answers to someone. No idea who that would have been, but probably some rogue Dimensionless (beings that exist outside of time and space and created the Wells). (Matt) Relationship between the Furies and the Well: Q) Who or what are the Furies? Would we have ever seen them in-game? Are they the same in both dimensions, or is it just the one set in charge of every single alternate Earth well? (Felderburg) A) Chris Behrens (Baryonyx) - Like Prometheus is a watcher and agent of the Dimensionless, the Furies were watchers and agents of the Well. They work to see its interests preserved, but like Prometheus notes, they haven’t evolved with their master, who has changed with “humanity” through the millennia. Their ideals are ancient and somewhat out of sync with the current mindset of the Well. However, they also still serve his interests, particularly in loosing the Talons on Praetoria to test Tyrant’s mettle, so there’s not much pulling of the leash. There was only one set for all dimensions; they were made immortal by the Well’s power. I like to think they were drawn from three different dimensions, but that wasn’t official at all. Neither was their appearance. I tended to think that they would have multiple forms, and this dichotomy in form was reflected in the beautiful Sirens and the monstrous Keres. Q) One thing I never really got an answer to was, what was going on with Primal Earth’s Furies while Praetoria’s (insane) Furies were running rampant in our world? Why did they not intervene? (@Lycantropus) A) Chris Behrens (Baryonyx) - There’s only one set of Furies. They unleash the Talons of Vengeance, their army of the Well’s will, on Praetoria because of Emperor Cole’s actions when claiming his power. Primal Earth originally did nothing to offend the Well or the Furies, so the Talons had no business there, until Diabolique fled there and Mot started waking up. Relationship between non-Terrans and the Well Q) Kheldian players successfully defeated Arakhn, Requiem and the world take over plot. Given that this is a multi-stellar war fought across vast distances and multiple races, what incentive was there for joined Peacebringers to stay joined and on Earth? (@Ardua) A) In the Incarnate speculation talk we proposed that “beings who were contributing to the Well’s gestalt” - ie a way to include non-humans, artificials, mystic entities etc who called Earth “home” in some way would find themselves being drawn to it. This was the lore figleaf for why players would stay in areas around Earth, for one. (Tim) Relationship between the Battalion and the Well Q) What Lore was behind the appearance of the Battalion? I’d ask about actual details of their appearance, but...I don’t know if I’m allowed to! (@Treees/Taimatsu-maru) A) In a nutshell. Battalion started off as a powerful race of beings who eventually conquered all their neighboring star systems and then discovered the power contained within “Wells” (of the Furies). They soon found out that multiple wells exist in the universe, and they had the capability of conquering races who had wells and adding that power to their own. This went on for millennia. They conquered half the galaxy, and eventually started scouting for new Wells and came across “Earth”. Earth was unique. It had a powerful Well, so powerful it would bestow powers to the citizens of the planet. No other Well had done this before. It made Earth a very tempting target, but also one of the most difficult they ever would attempt to conquer. They sent agents to undermine the Earth’s defenses, many of which have been on the Earth for decades, planting themselves into positions of power. For a while they thought the Rikti were going to do their job for them, but that only proved how resilient of a species mankind actually was.