Council Jannissey Heights mission

[Mr Norg-Arlik]

I remember completing this mission back in the day and it being pretty frustrating. Last night, I got it for the first time on Homecoming and I couldn't find all seven aides, the Congressman or Archon Chaney. (I did remember the group on the top level of the parking garage.) I ended up spending all 90s minutes in the map and ungreyed as much of the map that was possible.

 

So I was wondering if there's a guide out there for this mission that could help me when one of my alts encounter that mission. So far, my google-fu hasn't been successful.

 

[uninventive]

There's a reason for that.  Jannissey Heights is a "tram location" used in numerous missions.  Anybody could issue it.

 

But the mission title is something else.  Do you mean Laurie Pennington by chance? https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Laurie_Pennington

[Mr Norg-Arlik]

That looks like the mission, tho I don't have Laurie Pennington in my contacts, active or inactive.

 

Yeah, that's the title of the mission, IIRC, where you're supposed to save 7 aides and one Congressman (Mills? I forgot to take note until it was too late.)

[GM Tock]

The mission is timed, alas, so it doesn't appear in Ouroboros.  You'd have to be Level 25-30 to do it (if Laurie isn't a contact in that range and you're not terribly close to 30, completing a Safeguard mission would grant her as a contact after doing some radio missions.)

[Mr Norg-Arlik]

IIRC, at the time my character was lvl 27 and, looking at my contacts, I probably got it from Ashwin Lannister.

[GM Tock]

Judging from either contact, it appears to be a typical instance mission.

 

There is not a lot of guides covering every mission in City of Heroes because save for specific missions in Task Forces, major story arcs, or in trials, the map is procedural-generation, so there's an excellent chance the map layout is scrambled with every visit.  It's not exactly "No Man's Sky" complex, but rather, like a pen-and-paper map with tiles to shuffle and draw from a stack forming a map for the "next" encounter.

 

Even if it's not (Shooting Stars/Hearts of Darkness Story lines), the mob/glowie placement and difficulty can vary with every load.  The Homecoming Wiki info is likely all there is to know in advance.