Chad Gulzow-Man

You have to do one of the patron arcs in Grandville in order to unlock the Patron Power Pools.

Start off by talking to the arbiter standing right outside the tower; he'll have you read the plaques inside by the statues of each patron, and afterwards will introduce you to one of them as a contact.

As a bonus, once you unlock your Patron Pools, you get an additional respec.

I just found something that made me laugh pretty hard...

Remember those videos that Rooster Teeth did to promote the Mission Architect? Check out the first one, 1:32 in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yff3jH8NECs#t=1m32s

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

They can't remove XP from the AE due to having printed on the City of Heroes: Architect Edition boxes that you can level from 1 to 50 doing nothing but AE missions. It would be inviting a lawsuit.

That doesn't mean that it has to be as fast (or as the case often is these days, faster) as the dev-created content, though. They could reduce XP in architect missions, as long as it's still feasible to get to level 50 by doing missions there.

Yours also isn't a new idea, as Wrong_Number implied. Use the search function next time, and post in one of the dozen or so threads that already exist.

... unless you've already got all of that, or simply don't want the things you don't already have.

That said, I spent $5 on the Wedding Pack.

Is there some reason you can't just O Portal out of there?

This thread totally makes up for me having to be at work today...

This is certainly one of the more interesting ideas for a new MM primary that I've heard. I can't say that I'm all that keen to play the set, but, as others have said, it sounds a helluvalot better than Clown Summoning.

It's probably my #3 pick, for what that's worth, behind Animals and Illusions.

If you use PayPal, you can buy multiple things from the NCSoft store per day. At least I can, anyway... I think I bought 5 Boosters/Packs for my secondary account in one day when my girlfriend at the time said she wanted to start playing CoH with me.

I've found that if I use my credit card for a single purchase on the NCSoft store, though, I'm locked out any further purchases for 24 hours.

It's usually pretty straight-forward; just pop in the CD and follow the prompts (as long as you know how to set your system to boot to a CD, anyway).

The biggest piece of advice I can give you is that, if you don't have the original driver CD anymore, make sure you download at least your network adapter's driver from the manufacturer's website, test it before reformatting, and save it to your external drive. It's a helluvalot easier to find drivers for everything else when you've at least got your network connection up and running.

(Personally, I keep a copy of all the drivers handy on a secondary internal drive, just in case a reinstallation becomes necessary due to a virus or failed primary drive.)

You also probably want to take inventory of every piece of software that you use regularly and have installed on your system currently.

And if you copy your entire CoH install directory to your external drive, the program can be quickly reinstalled by a) running the CoHupdater.exe application from the external drive and giving it an install location (usually C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\), b) cancelling the download, c) deleting the info from the install folder on the C: drive, and d) copying everything from your existing CoH installation on your external drive to that location on the C: drive.

Edit:
An afterthought... If your current hard drive is over 3 years old, and you've got the budget for it, I'd suggest replacing it. You can find 500GB drives for under $50 these days.

Pulling the old hard drive out guarantees that you don't accidentally lose any of the files on it, as you can open up the system, plug it in and transfer data directly to the new drive whenever you need to.

I wish people would stop quoting Championess' posts... I have her on ignore for a reason.

MoBSF is the last Master badge I need on Chad. I gotta catch 'em all!

Let me know when you'd like to do a MSTF, Necro. I'll bring my Grav/Kin Controller. Or, if it's after i19 and I get a chance to respec him, my Fire/Rad Controller.