Fleeting Whisper

Justice is usually 3rd or 4th highest load, and population is the biggest contributor to load. Theoretically, someone could find a bad bug in the game that could send Infinity into the red, with higher load even than Freedom, but load is generally an indicator of population.

Also, I believe Justice has a fairly high Australian/New Zealand population, so the population may be increased during the late hours of the evening/wee hours of the morning in the US.

Trials have restrictions: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Trial_Account

Justice is one of the higher population servers (on the server selection list, the topmost server will be the last one you looked at, and the rest will be listed from lowest server load to highest)

However, most missions take place in instances, so you'll often not see other players. The most often place to see other players is on your team, around the market (Wentworth's Fine Consignments, or the Black Market), and in Atlas Park. Sometimes, you'll also see people in Architect Entertainment, but again, that's subject to instanced missions.

Edit: Finding other players is a different story entirely. While trial accounts can't send tells or join supergroups or global channels, these are the best way to find people on a full account. /search will let you find people who are online (and not hidden), whether they're out in the world or in a mission (gray names are people on a team, blue names are people not on a team). Joining an active supergroup will let you almost always have a pool of people to team with. Joining a global channel will let you chat with other players even across servers.

For example, I've joined the Repeat Offenders Network. RO has 30-some supergroups coalitioned across Freedom, Virtue, and Justice. We've always got something going on in the Repeat Offenders global channel, and almost always we'll run with whoever's on the team, without worrying about team composition: we'll make it work, whatever "it" is. (Occasionally we'll put together a themed team, trying to get for example 8 Empaths together for one team). Just yesterday I led a team of villains on the "'Invite' the Center" mission set for +4/x8 difficulty, and one of our members was a level 7 Dominator. Rooms full of level 54 enemies, plus 6 level 54 Archvillains was tough, but we were trying to challenge ourselves. Even the level 7 player was able to contribute, because we had multiple copies of Assault and Tactics running (several Arachnos Soldiers on the team, and the Leadership pool is often a favorite among RO members).

Since you've already got a forum account, I recommend looking at your server forum to find people and things going on there

This is probably an issue with your computer. I recommend posting your specs in the technical help forum to get the great tech-heads there to help you.

Golden Girl is weird. She refuses to play the better half of the game

I can get you some

The main issue is that nobody aside from Dominators have a straight mix of ranged and melee attacks in one set. Sure, a melee set will have one or two attacks which can be used at long(er) range (Hurl, Focus, etc.), and some ranged sets have powers which hit closer to home, or have PBAoEs requring them to get into melee to use. But it's really the Dominators which get a full-on mix of ranged and melee. (Okay, EATs can get a pretty good mix, too, but Spark Blade isn't a Peacebringer)

How about a gun that shoots lightning and shurikens?

No, the OP is asking for a set which uses a katana. And a gun. Which is certainly doable: restrict the gun to a single hand (eg, gun always in left hand, which I believe is how Spark Blade does it in the video) and the katana to the other hand. Then, any ranged animations for the set use only the gun hand, and any melee animations use only the katana hand.

But if you're really hardcore within the CoX lore, then Doctor Brainstorm invented the "Experience Bar", a device used to measure a hero's increase in power

Heh. I've got a character named "Luminary?" (En/En Blaster)

('twas a whole group of automatons; most of their character bios started with "Perhaps it's the careful precision of every movement, or the way she/he performs the same tasks over and over, but something about Character doesn't look quite right. In fact, she/he seems almost mechanical.", and most included the description from the actual character when met in-game, and then some added some extra flair.)

We actually got the group up to Atlas?, Auroa Borealis?, Back Alley Brawler?, Blast Furnace?, Blue Steel?, Coyote?, Crimson?, DJ Zero?, Doc Delilah?, Dr Advance?, Dr Psychotron?, Foreshadow?, Fusionette?, Glacia?, Holo Man?, Indigo?, Iron Widow?, Lady Jane?, Longbow Ballista?, Luminary?, Mantiore?, Mechannie?, Mynx?, Professor Echo?, Sea Witch?, Serafina?, Sister Psyche?, Sky Dragon?, Spark Blade?, Statesman ?, Spinnerette?, Sunstorm ?, Synapse?, Swan?, Valkyrie?, War Witch?, Waylon McCrane?, and Woodsman? before the thing kinda broke up.

Also, for people with poor hygiene, circumcision reduces the risk of several (non-sexual) infections

It's a fantastical short story, lighten up

Also, IIRC from Gaiman's comments in Smoke & Mirrors, he wrote it at the request of PETA (though he wears a leather jacket and loves steak).

And only 1 exploration badge, at that.

Even before I16, when Born in Battle required 3 PvP-related badges, it was the exploration badge that's still required, "Win a gladiator match", which is really ******* easy if you can just get a buddy to join you for a couple minutes (you select one or more gladiators, they select none: you win), and "spend 5 hours in Siren's Call", which you can do in the Siren's Call base, with no actual PvP interaction at all (though the other faction might get annoyed if you tie up the bounty system in the zone).

A one-use temporary power which summons a pet which is a small version of your faction's heavy from RV.

Enemies need to be green or better to drop recipes. You can get inspirations/enhancements/salvage from -3 greys, but not recipes. Yes, a level 47 critter can drop purple recipes, but you need that lv47 critter to be green-con to you in order to generate the recipe drop (so, a lv47 lieutenant when you're 50 could get you a purple, but a lv47 minion wouldn't)

If you're fighting at level 50 trying to farm purples, it would be better to have lv48 enemies than to have lv47, since you'd get more chances at the drop.

Myself, I generally just solo level 50 missions set for -1/x8 and don't worry about resetting. I'm not killing quite as fast, sure, but it's less hassle. With just blowing through -1/x8 level 50 missions, (without actually taking down any statistics) I've averaged about 1 purple per play session. And, lv49 set recipes don't do quite so terribly on the market as lv48 ones do.

A few years back all the animals went away. We woke up one morning and they just weren't there anymore. They didn't even leave us a note, or say good-bye. We never figured out quite where they'd gone.

We missed them.

Some of us thought that the world had ended. But it hadn't. There just weren't any more animals. No cats or rabbits. No dogs or whales. No fish in the seas. No birds in the skies. We were all alone. We didn't know what to do.

We wandered around lost, for a time. And then someone pointed out that just because we didn't have animals anymore, that was no reason to change our lives. No reason to change our diets or to cease testing products that might cause us harm.

After all, there were still babies.

Babies can't talk. They can hardly move. A baby is not a rational, thinking creature.

We made babies. And we used them.

Some of them we ate. Baby flesh is tender and succulent.

We flayed their skin and decorated ourselves in it. Baby leather is soft and comfortable.

Some of them we tested. We taped open their eyes, dripped detergents and shampoos in, a drop at a time. We scarred and scalded them. We burned them. We clamped them and planted electrodes in their brains. We grafted, and we froze, and we irradiated.

The babies breathed our smoke, and the babies' veins flowed with our medicines and drugs, until they stopped breathing or until their blood ceased to flow.

It was hard, of course, but it was necessary. No one could deny that. With the animals gone, what else could we do?

Some people complained, of course. But then, they always do.

And everything went back to normal. Only...

Yesterday, all the babies were gone. We didn't even see them go. We don't know what we're going to do without them. But we'll think of something. Humans are smart. It's what makes us superior to the animals and the babies.

We'll figure something out.



--Neil Gaiman, Babycakes
Now a comic!

No, those are the hotblooded killers.

The coldblooded killers have been in Paragon City from the start

Absolutely this. I don't PvP, at all. But I do go for badges in the PvP zones, and if someone engages me, I'll certainly fight back. I probably won't win, but I don't intend to be a practice dummy.

Feel free to go grab stuff from a PvP zone. But be aware that by entering the zone, you have given everyone in the other faction (or everyone, if you're in Warburg) every right and reason to attack you. You can accept it and fight back when they attack, or you can whine about it.

In RV, the minigame of the zone is to fight over the pillboxes. It's not "let me grab all the pillboxes because I don't want to PvP in a PvP zone." And besides that, if you can remotely hold your own in PvP, someone fighting with you over the pillbox makes the badges easier to get. The faction-specific turrets are easier to destroy, and if you're repeatedly taking control of the same pillbox over and over, you don't have to wait for the zone reset countdown.

The "argument from ignorance" fallacy is claiming that something is true simply because it hasn't been proven false. The only time this isn't a fallacy is in court, because you're innocent until proven guilty.

There's a difference between an unprovable statement and proving a negative. Unprovable statements, as the designation might suggest, cannot be proven. Negatives can often be proven quite easily: "The world is not flat".

However, Psyte's "fun opposite" is still an attempt at argument from ignorance. Or, possibly, one could interpret Psyte's post as an example of shifting the burden of proof from the ontologically positive side which has yet to present evidence ("there is absolute good, and there is absolute evil") to the ontologically negative side which has no need to present evidence until there's something to contradict. Without the asymmetrical burden of proof, the debate can't be much more than "yuh huh!" "nuh uh!".

But then, that's generally how a conversation with Golden Girl goes, anyway.

This is actually a good starting point for a counterargument to whatever Golden Girl could come up with. This supports the idea that there is no absolute good nor evil far more than the opposite.