Mission Computer

[Display Name]

What's wrong with the Mission Computer?  Why doesn't it perform to the same level of functionality as the Ice & Flame?  I can use the Ice & Flame but would like something more tech-looking.

[Redlynne]

The (so called) Mission Computer was pretty much obsolete as soon as it was pushed live back in the "old days" of City of Heroes.  It basically unlocked the Cathedral of Pain Trial ... and nothing else ... for obtaining Items of Power to use in your SG Base, that never worked right (because SG Base PvP never worked right).  It was a sandcastle built on vacuum(!) in orbit around an unfriendly star that didn't care if the sandcastle stayed together or not.  Small wonder then that the Mission Computer "failed" to deliver as spectacularly as it did.  Ever since then, people have been trying to formulate a ... use ... for the darn thing, and it just never happens.

[Display Name]

Well...  It's a nice piece of furniture in a tech lab.

[Eva Destruction]

It also used to be the only way to start the Silver Mantis Strike Force, before they put her in Sharkhead.

[WumpusRat]

There is actually a use for it, if you want to just do tip missions. You can purchase a tip mission from the computer for 1 merit, so you could buy a couple, run some tip missions, and if you get more tips, run those. Then repeat until you get your 10th tip mission done. At that point you'll get a morality mission, which is worth 40 merits. So you spend maybe 5-6 merits and get 40. It's more efficient to do other stuff, and given that Null the Gull exists, fast-tracking morality missions to swap sides isn't necessary, but if you like tip missions (some of them are pretty fun), it's at least there for that.

 

The other advantage of it is that you can run tip missions in any zone, and they're your level. So you can sit in, say, Atlas Park (which is a small zone) and do 40th level missions, allowing you to zip around to the mission doors quickly.

Edited August 28, 2019 by WumpusRat

[insome]

Only thing Ive found useful was to turn em upside down and throw some letters on em.

[Nericus]

On 8/28/2019 at 6:39 PM, insome said:

Only thing Ive found useful was to turn em upside down and throw some letters on em.

That looks cool, but how do you flip things upside down?
 

[Obsidius]

On 8/31/2019 at 2:03 PM, Nericus said:

That looks cool, but how do you flip things upside down?
 

Carefully 😄

 

Or just hit F5 while you're manipulating it to change the attach type to surface or ceiling 😉 

[insome]

On 8/31/2019 at 2:03 PM, Nericus said:

That looks cool, but how do you flip things upside down?
 

You can use shift and alt to rotate and raise/lower items in base editor. But since the letters are wall items, from my experience, it's best to place a brick wall down and use that as a temporary wall.

[PeterDutcher]

Holding down Alt-Shift or CNTRL-Shift and dragging. One rotates the object north to south, the other east to west.