Kitsune Knight

How 'not related' are we talking? There's various subforms for things tangentally related (such as comics, or hardware, etc), but not just anything is allowed. Often, though, they'll let a lot of stuff slide as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

RadioFreedom has long since been abandoned, it's spawned into RF2009, and a few of the more actives also in Freedom Elite (don't remember if there's an 's' there). If you're in either, you should see TF/SFs being formed pretty much constantly.

Global Channels are BY FAR THE BEST way to find a team. If you're on a channel that's dead (I've, personally, never cared for Freedom Badges), of course it's useless! Join a real channel!

You can form them for any purpose- that does not mean you can violate the normal in-game rules. Remember: a league is not a team!

Try downloading Malwarebytes or another antispyware utility (such as Spyboy Search & Destroy or Adaware), run a scan, and remove any nasties they find (most antivirus software won't detect that sort of malware).


Also, any reason you're still running IE7? IE 8 was released quite a while ago, and IE9 was released several days ago- each one has drastically improved security (something IE is not known for), and increased compatibility with web standards (something web designers around the world rejoice). Personally, I wouldn't touch Internet Explorer with a 10 foot pole, I just hate it... but if you like it, you can keep using it. Popular alternatives to IE include: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera. I personally use Opera and Google Chrome (Chrome has by far the best auto-updater of any software out there).

Touch more so at the heart of your question: You can get everywhere you need to entirely on foot- you'll never have to have fly/hover/super jump/teleport. I've, personally, stopped getting travel powers on my characters... although all of them have Ninja Run for free (part of one of the booster packs, you can use it lvl 4+ if you've bought the pack).


I'd suggest avoiding using any guide that you find on a third party website, it's very likely to be WOEFULLY out of date. I would only trust what you see on these boards (but watch the date for the post of any guides here still, CoH has changed a lot over the years), ParagonWiki (not the wikia version!), and the rest of the TitanNetwork.

Mids' Hero Design is great for roughly planning out your characters power selections & slotting (altough since you're new, I'd recommend against following any preset build too closely... feel free to explore and make mistakes... this is a forgiving game).

When starting it, did you get the UAC elevation prompt? If not, when starting it, right click and select 'Run as Administrator'.

Most of the things listed by Seldom are covered in great lengths by ParagonWiki. If you're not already familiar with it... bookmark it now.

If this is really a DNS issue, and you don't like OpenDNS (I don't), Google's Public DNS is a good alternative: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html (8.8.8.8 for the primary, 8.8.4.4 for the secondary).

So... anyone ever gonna try the whole tracert thing?

It depends. Basically, if it's a non-defense based character, and one of the PPPs give me access to Shadow Meld... I'm totally going with that one (meaning it's useless for my /SR, and would be for my /Nin if I ever get around to slotting her ).

Some of the Patron powers are now fairly decent, although it's still annoying that you have to unlock them, but not too annoying. I've not leveled any characters up since then (yet), but I wouldn't be surprised if I took the APPs at 41, then eventually get around to respecing into the PPPs on some for new characters.

Can you hear any sounds from your computer? Most likely issue is you just accidentally plugged the speakers into the wrong port on the back.

It's fine. Dynamic IPs are pretty damn common (unfortunately... one day we'll have IPv6 and none of that jackassery). Probably 50-99.9% of the people on this forum are behind a dynamic IP address (especially anyone on dial up). I'm probably one of the few that aren't atm... but that's because I'm behind a giant sucky NAT, with an ISP that likes to redirect half my pages to their site (read: they're giant jackasses).

I would assume that it's just due to the history of the powers, that the original ones included an actual stealth component (since they were given as part of a mission and you were 'under cover'), and somewhere down the line that was removed, but the flags associated with it weren't in an oversight.

I don't have any of the permanent powers, but I do think it'd be a good idea to fix that... I can't really imagine it's intentional... unless there's somehow some special difference between personal stealth and granted stealth... and now that I think about it, I thought I was able to use Cloaking Device with the Knives costume power during a Halloween event a good while back... but I could be totally wrong.

Based on what I know, it's the generic Hamidon destruction... but it's one of the cities that Praetoria is trying to help rebuild and recover. It's a bit confusing whether they're independent of Praetoria or not... I think, at least publicly, they appear as if they aren't ruled by Cole.

IIRC, the costumes includes a stealth component already... and Shadow Fall conflicts with most all other stealth powers in the game, thus that end result.

At least used to, you could summon the Ouroboros portal prior to level 25, you just couldn't enter it yourself.