Katie V

I went with the endurance-drain branch on my /Elec scrapper. Power Sink sucks their endurance dry, then Lightning Field with Interface keeps it there. It's almost as good for survival as a PBAoE hold.

Invalidating your session if your IP address changes is a standard technique to prevent session-stealing attacks. Unlike the repeat-login nonsense, it's a real solution to a real problem.

"Remember me" is deliberately broken. Apparently, someone has decided that forcing people to enter their passwords every few hours increases security.

"Rule 37: There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'."

No wonder my mastermind has never been on one of the "easy" runs people have been reporting. I count for most of the 16-target cap just standing there, and my pets never last long enough to benefit from the buffs. Now, could you fix the bug where my mastermind has never gotten anything but the 10 threads reward table?

Black Scorpion's always had it. It just hasn't done anything until now.

I just use "grep".

Mary-Sue

Those guys are fun. The last time I got one of those calls, I opened up a virtual machine running Windows 95. Tied him up for half an hour as he tried to figure out why his instructions weren't working. (I never told him what version of Windows I was running. He just assumed Vista, and was quite puzzled when I kept saying "I don't see anything like that" or "I got an error message".) The one before that demonstrated a fluent command of vulgar English, when I slipped up and started giggling after giving a bizarre-but-possible response to a question.

No, that's the second rule.

Have you ever played a plant/storm? You get lots and lots and lots and lots of little attacks, so it doesn't take very long for the procs to build up. And since almost everything you're throwing out is an AoE, you're busy stacking it up on an entire group or even an entire room. "The target should already be dead" only applies if you're generating big orange numbers. Plant/Storm doesn't -- instead, it generates floods of little orange numbers.

40% recharge debuff isn't much by itself -- IIRC, it works out to about a 20% increase in survivability. The /storm has plenty to stack it with, though, and with recharge debuffs, the more you have, the more effective each additional little bit is.

If by "monster" you mean Giant Monsters, they've got 100 feet of perception.

The extra damage is a percentage, not an absolute amount. Twice very little is still very little, but twice a large amount is huge.

You forgot about the intermediate stage in "fixing" the bug where the mitos' resistance *didn't* drop when held: you could come with a team of eight permadoms and you still would have a hard time dealing with the mitos.

It should. After all, Mark's unofficial Linux launcher manages to do it.

If you don't have holds, you can defeat the green mitos with overwhelming short-term DPS: you need to be able to take a mito from full health to dead in less than the recharge time of the greens' heal. I was on a team that did this using a tray of red inspirations per mito; a solo player might be able to do it by hitting the mito with every temp pet they can get their hands on.

If you've got ATI graphics, try either a) turning the "shader quality" setting in CoH's graphics preferences down to "medium", or b) downgrading the ATI drivers (the 11.3 drivers work best for me, but downgrading that far will take work, since the 11.3 drivers are incompatible with both newer kernels and newer versions of X).

Another thing you can try is using the "-UseTexEnvCombine" command-line parameter. This disables all the fancy graphics options at once, and puts the game in a rendering mode that's compatible with almost everything out there.

Regen needs it more, because staff has horrible damage output.

Don't worry about it, yet. You've almost certainly already got either Wget or cURL (or both) installed as part of the base installation of Ubuntu. If you don't have either, the launcher will let you know. Post here, and someone who has more experience with Ubuntu than I do will tell you how to install it through the package manager.

Yes, it should. If it's not, Perl should give you a nicely incomprehensible error message about XML::Simple.

It looks like you've spliced two commands together here, and made a common mistake in the process. What you're telling your computer to do is run the program "home/david/.wine/drive_c/Program" with the parameters "Files/City", "of", "Heroes$", "perl", "cohlaunch.pl", "-renderthread", and "0". What you probably want to do is (note the quotes: they tell the shell the path is a single unit, and shouldn't be broken apart at the spaces):
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This assumes that cohlaunch.pl is in "/home/david/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/City of Heroes". If it's not, the easiest solution is to copy it there.

Having multiple alternate-universe versions of Statesman went out of style when he-who-shall-not-be-named left. Instead, we're going to get an entire race of Mary-Sue Yin.