Ad Astra

Yep, that's about the same for me. If I manage to get everything but the History badge (for one example) just going thru the game, then I *might* take the time to tour the zones for the badges to pick up Atlas Medallion - but that's really only if I remember to check on the status of the accolade.

Maybe they should mean something more, but I'm not sure what that might be - it's not like you get an actual Medallion to hang around your neck...

This X 1000. I learned a lot about the other ATs by standing in the back blasting. It made them more fun for me because I had an idea what each AT was "supposed" to be doing when I rolled my first <fill in the blank>.

This is also a good tip. I have only about 60 alt characters, there are some who have literally hundreds.

And to Radu - come visit us on Infinity, or at least try some other server - it's always good to have other options when your fave server goes down.

Actually, you didn't, really, beyond a rather nebulous "more post 50 content".

Perhaps there's also a suggestion to make more early level content (for making more alts, since you can only do the "Skulls/Hellions thing" so many times.)

You also talk about "missing your 50s", but I'm not clear why you are missing them? Did you delete them? You remade them on another server - well, good news, you can move them to that new server without remaking them until the end of January 2010.

Generally I can feel that you are bored in City of Heroes, and diecnchanted with the look of the Rogue Isles, but I don't really see anything concrete that you want in your lengthy post.

Thanks, Cat!

That had been bothering me since I first read the OP.

OK - I haven't really kept up totally on this issue - but isn't the difficulty slider disabled for all TFs, SFs & Trials right now?

Or has it always been disabled for respecs? I thought I remembered something (perhaps an urban rumor) where you were supposed to be "careful" that the team leader of a Respec needed to have his/her difficulty set to "heroic"?

And I'm with some of the others who think the current respec is basically fine as is. And, yes, there are still "gimpy" characters who need it to be not uber difficult in order to get thru it - we (most players of City) aren't all denizens of the boards with Mids loaded up to prevent "horrendous" mistakes.

This.

If you have been playing a blaster for a while (i.e., since before the change to HP or at least the changes to Defiance), then you should already be aware that Blasters are not all that squishy compared to where they were.

OTOH, if playing one for a while means that you have finally gotten one up above the mid-30s, then you have now run into the paradigm shift that comes with levelling up a Blaster - ungodly amounts of pure damage need to be used with at least a modicum of strategy once you start against foes with mezzes that are no longer "one shottable".

Note that you cannot move a storage item into a room not designed to hold one, so you may need to sell the storage item back - you will get full Prestige back.

You cannot sell a storage item that has stuff in it, so take anything you put in there back out to sell the storage item.

The cap on Storage items is 18, not 19. I wish it were higher myself.

Hmm - I think you mean that you bought the 1 X 2 Workshop - which is extremely limited in what it will hold.

Yes, you can sell that back to get the 2 X 2 Workshop (which I think you are calling 4 X 4, but there isn't any workshop in that configuration). You will get all the prestige you spent on the first one back. The 2 X 2 will hold 9 storage items in any combination (Insp, Enh, Vault, Salvage). To make that work, you will probably need to stack them as the items are rather large.

To stack storage items - I have found that an Enh Table (Tech) is the same height as 2 Floor Safes stacked. Place one safe on top of the other then, place the Enh Table on top of the stack of safes. Once you have the table "floated", sell back the safes and slide another table underneath it. Twice as much storage in the same floor space. Doing that you can place 9 Enh table in half of the 2 X 2 Room ( a 1 X 2 floor space). Salvage Racks can also be stacked, but I don't have that proportion memorized.

A second 2 X 2 Workshop will get you another 9 Storage - which is the max for any base.

You can also place a single storage item in an Oversight Room and/or one of the Medical Rooms (I forget which one) if you have either of those. IIRC, you will need at least the Oversight Room to hold the Combo Energy/Control Item to power your Personal Storage Vault (if you want one, not as necessary in a 2 person SG, but it accesses the same storage space as the vault reserves, so can be handy to stash your stuff before a TF).

Main Wiki Article on Bases - good reference to have bookmarked:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Base

And I apologize to you for missing the addendum.

Sheesh, Like a Chin & Dale cartoon in this thread, LOL.

He's on an EU account, Forbin - telling him about Freedom & Virtue on the NA servers won't help him, and if some EU posters on these boards are to be used as an example, it will actually tick him off that he can't get to them.

OP - EU servers are generally much less populated than the NA ones, but there is a thriving EU community out there. Slide on down to the European Lounge and/or the Union server forum below to find people who will just love to introduce you to the game!

(I can confidently predict this, because that's just how awesome our community is!)

The rest of the info Forbin presented regarding the instanced missions and the Winter Event pulling people into a single zone is great stuff to keep in mind, though.

Ironblade - did you grow up on Dagobah?

No problem!

I was searching for it on the quiz because it's one of the few I know - I think I scored about a 14 on it

I'm glad (in a very creeped out kinda way) that I'm not the only one distracted by the thread title. Every time I scroll thru the threads here, I misread the word "Tittles" assomething very similar in spelling but with a very different meaning.

Get out of my head, Forbin!

Yep - looks like triple residency to me.