Katie V

I don't think this is possible. Issue 14 didn't just give us the Mission Architect, it also gave the developers a new mission-creating tool. As I understand it, prior to I14, they used an ungodly mess of spreadsheets and hacked-together scripts to create missions and arcs, and there's a good chance that if they touch anything in those missions (with the possible exception of fixing typos in the text), the entire mission, arc, or even everything from several contacts will break. The only reliable way to modify one of the old missions is to re-create it from scratch using the new tool, and they'd rather put that effort into creating new content.

The DPS threshold is high enough that you can't reach it without lore pets, and I don't think lore pets last long enough to take down a GM on straight DPS. My fastest time for a Clockwork Paladin (the easiest GM) on my Bots/Traps was just under four minutes, and that's with Poison Trap to shut down regen.

I'm fairly sure that's not it.

A large part of server load is simply keeping each client informed of what every other client is doing, and that load increases with the square of the number of people in the zone. For example, if there are 100 people in a zone, there are potentially 4,950 pairs of players the server needs to keep track of. If you reduce the zone cap to 50, there are only 2,450 pairs (two zone instances of 1,225 pairs each), and you've increased your server capacity without needing to add any hardware. Since pets are handled by the server, they don't add much to this load: the server doesn't need to tell pets about each other, it just needs to tell the players what the pets are doing.

I suspect that a large part of the problem is that just about everyone has lore pets now, just about everyone has Destiny buffs, and (depending on when "this summer" was), formerly single-target and team-only buffs are now league AoE. That's a lot of status information being sent out, and it's quite possible that it's overwhelming people with slower computers or internet connections.

Saturday blueside raids take place around 3PM Pacific Time, if they take place at all.

Which is odd, because Group Fly no longer has a debuff.

Yes, but since it summons a pet that runs a toggle, it follows the normal rule for powerboosting toggles: you only get the higher defense values until Power Boost wears off.

About every seven years, a new group of computer visionaries discover the touchscreen, and about six months later, they discover gorilla arm syndrome.

Caleb is a player-triggered GM, so he should spawn just fine. It's only timer-triggered GMs (and timer-triggered zone events) that don't spawn when a Winter Lord is around.

Windows 8 was designed around the assumption that all computers are either tablets or cell phones.

Depending on what the market is like and how much "additional information" you're providing, credit card numbers with associated personal information can go for between $1 and $10 each. Given the estimates for the size of the playerbase, the billing database is probably worth around a half-million dollars on the black market; potentially a few million if the attacker has a rapid method of cashing out the card information himself.

There isn't much of a market for CoH accounts or gear, email addresses are valued in dollars per million, and username/password pairs are trivial to get from most people, so the login database isn't worth much. An attacker familiar with the game might be able to get a few thousand dollars out of it, if they go undetected for long enough.

Control of the hardware itself has value (reasonably powerful servers connected to a high-bandwidth pipe), but any attacker who tries to make full use of it is likely to be detected and stopped in a matter of minutes.

The proper term for them is "Deceleron".

Somebody needs to introduce the two of them to the concept of "pants", or maybe the concept of "underwear".

I've never seen a turret walk around, but it only takes one immobilize protection buff to get them to jump.

Paladin is the weakest of the Giant Monsters. I've defeated him with a Bots/Traps (Poison Trap floors regen) and a Bots/Storm (Freezing Rain gives me the DPS edge I need to defeat him).

The first GM I've defeated was Babbage. I spent a good 45 minutes chasing him all over Boomtown: he refused to stay in my -regen cloud, so his health kept bouncing between about 10% and 20%. I finally got him pinned against a building so he couldn't run out of the Poison Trap -regen cloud and took off those last few hitpoints.

That will cost you, on average, $87. You might be one of the one in a hundred who get it on your first Super Pack, but then again, you might be one of the one in a hundred who needs to spend more than $575 to get it.

Do you feel lucky?

Back in the 1940s in the United States, "Nip" was a derogatory term for a person from Japan (deriving from "Nippon", one of the transliterations of 日本).

I don't see this as a good thing. If they keep with the current trend of making successive trials harder, people will want to bring their low-level incarnates on these high-payout trials, but without enough incarnate powers and level shifts, they won't be able to contribute much. There's only so much dead weight a league can carry, and I expect PUG runs will have a high failure rate, while non-PUG leagues will have fairly strict requirements for joining.

Best attacks under current game mechanics:
1 - Fulcrum-Shifted Critical Crushing Uppercut as a combo finisher: 2,230 damage.
2 - Fulcrum-Shifted Assassin's Strike: 1,945 damage.
3 - Double-FS Energy Transfer (fury is irrelevant once you stack enough FS boosts): 1,472 damage.
4 - Fulcrum-Shifted Total Focus: 990 damage.
5 - Fulcrum-Shifted Total Focus: 904 damage (Dominators don't get Containment).
6 - Fulcrum-Shifted Energy Transfer: 812 damage.

1 - Fulcrum-Shifted Inferno: 2,360 damage to each of 16 targets.
2 - Fulcrum-Shifted Blizzard with 50% Scourge rate: 3,000 damage to each of 16 targets.
3 - Fulcrum-Shifted Blizzard: 2,000 damage to each of 16 targets.

There are three numbers that need to be considered when looking at how damaging a power is: the damage done, the power's recharge time, and the power's animation time. When considering a power in isolation, the recharge time and damage done dominate, but when considering a group of powers, the animation time becomes more important than the recharge time. By limiting the maximum damage that single attacks can do, your restrictions will impact slow-animating, heavy damage powers (such as Energy Melee) much harder than fast-animating, low-damage powers (such as Katana or Claws).

It seems to me that you should probably re-visit your idea after you've gotten a good idea of how the current game mechanics work.