Aggelakis

This would work so much better if it was a backgroundless PNG. Seeing it against the red villain background makes the joke pretty worthless. It's a good joke for the blue boards, though.

That won't take long - at level 10, you'll have 7 powers chosen. At 12, you have 8. Plus slots... at level 10, that's 8 extra slots. At 12, that's 10 slots. For a total of 15 slots at 10, or 18 slots at 12. Plus your inherent powers, which I don't know what game editions or add-ons you've purchased, or vet powers you've got, so I'm not guessing there. Minimum of 3 (sprint, brawl, rest). Still pitifully few slots, so you'll need relatively few merits/tickets overall.

A generic IO at level 15 or less (or a single-aspect set IO) will not scale down when exemplaring. Their enhancement bonus is 19.2%.
Dual-aspect IOs at level 25 or less will not scale down when exemplaring. Their enhancement bonus is 20%/20%.
Triple aspect IOs at level 43 or less will not scale down when exemplaring. Their enhancement bonus is 19.9%/19.9%/19.9%.
Quad aspect IOs at any level will not scale down when exemplaring. Their enhancement bonus is 18.6%/18.6%/18.6%/18.6%.

Utilizing multi-aspect IOs means you can *VASTLY* outperform SOs. You level up the character, so you have up to six slots to play with, and those numbers can look like standard SO numbers, with far more than six slots worth of enhancement.
At permanently level 8, you have the base slot in each power, plus the option of slotting six more slots only. Which means that's ridiculously, pitifully little enhancement to be gotten from SOs.

Set your lowbie buddy as star holder, and when they level up, you can keep up with their progress.

...irony...

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, really. Defeat alls can be very good story movers. Heck, my scrapper's origin arc (which I haven't updated since the latest round of AE tweaks, so are probably broken) has two of them - but you'd throw them out immediately, just based on the item in the list, without knowing that they're on two ridiculously small maps, which means in defeating all mobs, you're typically defeating fewer mobs than on most standard missions in the dev-created game.

Here is why I like Devian's feed so much:

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See the left side? That's separate, live-updated feeds of each dev I'm particularly interested in (Castle, BackAlleyBrawler, Positron, War Witch, and JLove). I can go straight to their posts from my toolbar. With City's feed, that's impossible. Instead, I have to look up that dev, view their profile, select their statistics tab, and select their most recent posts. Or favorite that page, and have to load all the extraneous forum junk instead of getting a succinct list of their posts.

The right side? It's got their names in! I don't care to read what David Nakayama says most days, so I can easily skip his. If I put City's two feeds on my toolbar, I don't get that option. I have to click through to see who's posting.

That's why I want Devian to update the feed... or hand it over to someone else who will update it. Hell, if it were easy enough, I volunteer to do that! It's not like I'm going anywhere anytime soon!

Note for the curious (cos someone always asks): titles with the Statesman Star are posts I've viewed through the feed; titles with the generic "RSS Feed" symbol are posts I haven't.

He means everyone's crabbing about one of the few crappy months, but no one mentioned the many awesome months.

Okay. Try this. Delete every shortcut on your desktop related to City of Heroes.

Once that is done, right click on your desktop and go to New... and select Shortcut. Browse to your City installation folder, and select CohUpdater.exe. Select OK or next (I forget what it says), name it, and select OK or finish (I forget again).

Run that shortcut. Does it work?

No... origin in this game means "where or how you have powers". If a character was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained super powers from it, he is science (he could be argued for mutation, depending on your view of the origin, but in *CITY'S* distinct flavors of origin, he is science). Just because he uses gadgets doesn't mean he's tech.

You are born to normal human parents. Except you can trow ice. Due to a MUTATION of your genes, you have super powers. If you pick up a flying disc to get around, that doesn't mean that the source of your powers - your ORIGIN - has changed. It just means you have a flying disc.

You are a normal being from Planet Bubar. Normal beings from Planet Bubar can jump long distances on Earth because their planet has a heavier gravity, meaning Earth's lighter gravity lends itself to longer and higher jumps. Normal beings from Planet Bubar can manipulate others mental state. You are a natural origin, because every one of your race/species can do this. As another example, a demon could be considered natural origin.

You are a normal being, but utilize gadgets and other items as almost the SOLE REASON you can be considered a super hero. Iron Man, for example. You are technology origin, because if you took away those gadgets, you wouldn't be a super hero. Note that weapons can count as technology or natural, depending on level of skill or what kind of weapon it is.

Your power comes from a magic sword, an amulet that grants magic powers, or you utilize spells and scrolls to do your job. You are, obviously, magic origin. If you take away those things, you no longer can be a super hero.

The Joker does not have any super powers. He fell into the chemicals, but that only altered his appearance. It didn't give him any powers. He uses guns and explosives and sheer ingenue. He's a flippin' psychopath. He is natural origin or tech, depending on your take on the character.

Are you running the shortcut that you should have deleted? Or are you running the shortcut that you're supposed to, the one that is pointing to your install folder?

Starting up the gaming giving you extra icons on your desktop sounds like you're running the game from the shortcut that you should have deleted during the transfer process.