Ironblade

Sands of Mu taking up prime power tray real estate??? *IF* I have it in my tray, it's in alt-5 maybe.

My best suggestion: get the Blackwand and Nemesis Staff out of there. Put them in a keybind. I take one *OR* the other on every toon and use the following keybind:
alt+f "powexecname Nemesis Staff$$powexecname Blackwand"
The bind tries to fire off both, but the character only has one so it fires that one and the rest of the bind does nothing, not even an error message. If you have both powers on every toon, set up two keybinds. Keybinds are ideal for something that is the same ACROSS EVERY CHARACTER.

In the same vein, I have a bind for Recall Friend on every character. If I accidentally hit the bind on a character that doesn't have the power, nothing happens - no error, no animation, nothing at all.

Overkill, if you're running Tactics (which the OP is).

Salvage, yes. Currency, no, since you can't trade or sell them.

Minimal effort? It's not a question of effort. They intentionally, deliberately changed the capacity of the storage racks. Changing it back would be virtually effortless, since the higher capability was already implemented.

They CHOOSE not to make that change.

Actually, I have, and did several incarnate trials with her.

That's just in your case. Overall, they were working fine until CoH:Freedom launched, then they got borked. If you only had 3 at that time, you're stuck at 3. If you had 5, you still do.

Wait, you consider Issue 4 as "new"?

<shrug> When the devs write the mission so that I have a freakin' army of NPC's, how is that an exploit? Even if my character is a tornado of death, they're probably doing more damage simply because there are... five? of them.

Never mind the mission from Bane Spider Ruben where you get probably 15 NPC's to do the fighting.

Marketeers farming niches don't try to control anything. They take advantage of existing volatility.

Not to mention finally 'solving' Rubik's Cube.

Unless you can buff him up. My plant/cold controller has the unkillable (almost) combat buff pet. Slap on some ice shields and use Frostworks to give it an extra 550 or so hit points. Bam!

The HERO contact.
The villain contact is called Spy Master or Master Spy or something like that.

Well..... the problem with that is that it suggests accuracy affects a single power while to hit affects all of them. In fact, you can have global accuracy (as well as global to hit).

Invite a VIP. Leave them at the lowest rank and set all your storage so the lowest rank can't access it. Or, if you're paranoid, ask them to go to the SG registrar, invite them, they pay the rent, then kick them. You only need to pay the rent once per six weeks - after they cut the power.

If you think it will hard to find someone who will put up with that nonsense, I volunteer. I have unaffiliated toons on every server and I go around helping other SG's get the healing badges.

You're right; it doesn't matter why you can't run the trials.
Should you be denied the ability to advance your characters AT ALL? No, and you are not. Should you be denied the ability to advance as fast as people doing the trials? Now we look at the word "should". Pushing people to team is one of the most basic design decisions of this development team and game. Should it be that way? Everyone can have a different opinion on that. But it's been that way from day one. So, from the point of view of the original dev team and the current team, should solo advance more slowly than team? Yes.

Now, it looks like it was set a bit TOO slow. However, we have seen, and the devs have publicly stated, they prefer to introduce things conservatively and upgrade them after seeing how it goes, rather than starting off bold and nerfing later. We can be absolutely certain they are evaluating the rate of solo incarnate progress. Having said that, they may be perfectly happy with the way it is right now. Or not. We'll have an answer if they improve the iSolo experience.

and people would still be nerdraging. Wait, that wasn't where you were going with that?

I know, right? I mean, let's not imply there's something going on or that the delay is whimsical in nature or something.....

Where did you get that idea? Threads drop like rain compared to Shards. It takes 4 Shards to make a common component and 20 Threads to do the same.