Lady Arete

Sure thing Markus. Just send the questions (good way to see if im online or not... or simply see if I am on those channels)

1. Toxic_Shia (Cause the image is too true)
2. Christopher Robin (Nice drawing of the vanitydroid)
3. Bubbawheat (Ingame truth and ... Sister Flame )

I would so have wanted to give more votes, cause there where several others that struck me.

Also... do remember that CoX is a instance game. Missions takes place inside missions, not like other games...
Do the /sea to get the search window.
There are alot of activity on the evenings (as people come back from work/school).
As Newty said, join those three channels to meet a lot of players.
Union chat for the ability to speak about everything and anything (as long as it is not Eula prohibitable).
Union Taskforce for Taskforces and events and
Sals badgehunters for Badgehunting and taskforces.

oh..
Welcome back to the game, you have a lot of content that is new to you
If you got a few questions, do ask me here or ingame /t @lady arete,

The only thing I dislike with the spam button is that it automatically removes the e-mail in question. The pluss side is that through it I get the global name of the offender.
Bad side is that I do no... (memo to self... take a screenie before clicking) not have something to show to the GM when they answer the petition.

Indeed. Well done Union, we defeated the big blob after around 4 hours. I hope that we can cut down that time a bit with having more players in the zone at start... Not the time for analyzing!

I could not have done it without my team leaders who led their teams at the task. So thank you Sarge, Hana Li, Sexy Kane, Seph, Fire of the Phoenix, Nightshade and Soul Storm. And thank you who attended, this raid would not have been possible if you had not joined in.

Next up is to find a new date for another raid and adding things to the guide.
Well done Union

Nice work.
Well Shia did hit it on the nail with that one.

I agree. I am very impressed with the quality of the story and all the things you could do in the villain arc.
As said elsewhere... in this arc I felt like the big villain. I was immersed in the story, I was not another mook on the street that other contacts discard when you are no longer useful to them.
I would so love to get the possibility of Deans briefing (male/female text), the possibilities of "Army of 8" - badge mission in the AE (hint hint), as well as the Spawn AMBUSH on Player -feature.

If GR missions has this quality of writing... then I got good vibes for GR

Welcome Skippy.
Yes please do tell us more about what you do.

And I did like your first post Skippy. "Lvl 1 forum..."

Welcome back to the game and I hope your time will be pleasant and long.
Some times the city can be a bit lonely so we got a few channels to help out.
Union Chat (to talk to fellow players about almost anything)
Sals badgehunters (To join/start Badgehunts, tfs)
Union Taskforce (To start/join Taskforces and events.

Hope to see you around and if you got a few questions, do give me a tell /t @lady arete

A few thoughts that hit me:

Not exactly buildings, but since they are vital to the city.
I'm talking about the superclass of NPC's that have the ability to push any superpowered being, no matter even if they are all stone aside.
Could they if walking towards me, move to the side, not pushing me away?

Right.
Buildings.
One word has been mentioned already "continuity" with Recluses victory as an example. Please update the zone maps which have been added new buildings... like the AE building.

Another idea:
How about a new zone when players first come (they could unlock the zone or something) it is maybe a barren world (or any kind you decide), but the heroes have a reason to stay there. They need a base of operations so they work together to assemble resourcers, help longbow or any other group with missions etc.
Depending upon the missions they do or resources they let be allocated to, the needed buildings take shape.
What I basically say, can we get a zone where we feel we are bringing Paragon City (Earth) to. While feeling like the explorers that made the bases in the Shadow Shard?

Zone events:
Though Rikti or Zombies attack en-mass the city will stay unchanged and undamaged after each attack. The Rikti are dropping bombs that go off and nothing is damaged...?
How about a little zone damage, but with around 5 min or an ingame day period the damage to structures, cars etc gets cleaned up.
To make such a thing a little important, how about (ok might be screams now) if a zone is hit with enough damage the players must chip in and do fixing of the city. Lifting stones, saving citizens, mending buildings etc, since maybe important structures like Trains, UNI, Market (sigh..) AE could be shut down during this. Thus heroes... fix it.
We could even get badges for this.

Not sure how that would apply for villains though, but even villains would need to rebuild stuff, attack rival villains, accidently freeing civilians when they search for loot, getting paid by various individuals to help fix the zone.
Sort of a long time zone Reversal? That way we could see bombs do damage to the sorroundings and well the city would be fixed again shortly after?

Also I do hope we get a reskin of various building models to that of GR

Croatoa is a normal city zone that is being dragged into the spirit world. That is how I see it anyway (and which the conversation with the Major of Salamanca do reveal).

Glad to hear the main reason Damz for your decision.
I'm now a little angry on the [censored by myself] peeps that gave you those messages. I hope you petitioned for harrasment and put them on your ignore button.
And yes... global name changes, even if they are on your global ignore... will show up for those that can see those channels.
F.ex I do have a few influence/RTM spammers on my global list (only people I got really) and when they did change... I did see their new name.
Thus somewhere out there, I do know that there is one player who may not know or expect that he is on the global ignore list from many players. Since he allowed RTM'ers to mostlikely PL his account... or he bought an account. *shrugs*

In any event, I do hope you will enjoy yourself on the US servers, Eu will be a little emptier without you that is for sure. (So Devs.. merge the serverlist already! Please.. with sugar on top)

@fatal well if that is how you both treat each other, then who am I to say no. Since it is done in good spirit between the both of you with a smile. (Although its not quite my cup of tea... oh well)

Now now... that is very harsh fatal...
We all are entitled to what we want as fun, allthough that Damz changed his name on EU was a little shock. *sniff*
We will just see Damz less then before as the US stole another player from us, but I do wish him alot of fun over there.
Try to pursuade them Devs that its time to merge the server lists Damz. Remember you are one of our 5'th Column now
Is that not so Agent 005 Damz?

The idea has come up from time to time and we are divided on this.

Myself, I have no problem that future Anniversary badges gets to be account wise. However making old badges like the 1 and 2'nd anniversary global, means that you will have characters like a Soldier of Arachnos with this badge and that Archtype was not around when those badges were awarded (well as player controlled AT anyway).

Attempted a (Mo)Lady Grey last night. I got several good players that I've teamed with before and we began our attempt.
1 tank, 1 scrapper, 2 blasters, 2 defenders and 2 trollers. Sadly one of the trollers had to leave due to unforseen buisness. This can happen *shrug*
However we had as much chance against the mitos (green mitos and Hamidon left) as a snowball has a certain hot place.
Now many of the characters where favoured characters by the players so they where buildt well and we could not out damage the green nor Hamidon's regen.

So looking eagerly for the test build to be launched on Live server. If not we will need pure out damage team or 3-4 trollers/dom... and making that a requirment cannot be true?

*blinks looks again*
*Blinks.. again*
umm Golden Girl...?
/em whisper "whispers hurry you might edit your post in time. You addressed not the OP, but someone else"

Welcome to the game Scrumtrelescent, may your stay be a long and happy one

Have not had much of the negative experiences that others have had. Maybe EU has it less or... I have been lucky to avoid those attempts. (I will not exclude the latter as mostlikely the correct solution. )
I've been the cause of a failed attempt myself, and sometimes is another. Those I do the attempts with have one mindset "accidents happen". Yes it is bitter if it happens on the last mission, but it could have happened to anyone. Last attempt was this night with a Mo Lady Grey attempt. Our Tank got unlucky and got killed, but in the end...
It did not really matter. We had some experience with lag, RL took one of our trollers and we did not have enough strength to bypass the mag hold of the green mitos. (many deaths and at this point we simply experimented and in the end disbanded as we had no hope of success)
Oh well, we will try again for we will not let that big jello defeat us, however I do hope for a little help from Castle in that we will not need a minimum of 3 dominators/trollers to succeed on this TF.
That would remove the spot for 1 maybe two other AT's (even stalkers... yes, i'm one of them that takes any AT with me).

Took me some time Smurfy, but here is one for you to test.
Title: Mythical Invasion
Arc ID: 405080
Lvl range: 30-54
5 Missions with no aiding npc's.
Opponents are, Rikti, various magical units from various groups and custom bosses.

Story is set right when the Rikti invades for the second time. This day will be a little different then the rest of the city of heroes, for they are the right people at the right place at the right time. They will simply have to stop another invasion before it begins.
I'm still a little unsure on the last mission though, but awaiting your comments.

I noticed the word "Euros".
The European server list has 4 servers. Union and Defiant are the two english speaking and then there is Zukunft (German) and Vigilance (French).
Union has been the most populated server, however it is possible that Defiant has gotten an increase in population.

If you choose Union or any of the European servers, do not be afraid of saying hello in the European boards or server boards.

In any event, City of heroes is a game where you play a hero or a villain (or both... lots of both aka Altitis = Making many characters). The game is all about the journey towards 50 and not getting quickly to 50. Those who believe this are those who fall in the trap of words like "super xp", MA/AE missions, powerlevelling etc.

Now you will not start off being able to fly (like Superman), however at lvl 6 you can choose amongst pool powers and at lvl 14 a good travel power (choosing hover at lvl 6 means that at lvl 14 you can choose "flight" and FLY).
At lvl 5 though you can start with papermission/radio mission (just get to the broker/police station) and you can do missions and then stopping a bank heist or ... do the heist (if your a villain). If successful you get a temporary power (it is not permanent, but it will last some time, atleast until you get to lvl 14) who happen to be a travel power (like fly or jumping)

Thought I'd give that little tip.
Now if you are on the European servers, you can type this /t @lady arete, ThethingIwanttoask/tellanotherplayer and I'll try to answer as best as i can
If you are on the US server... then I cannot reach you, but I'm sure the other players on the other side of the pond (well for me) will be more then happy to help you

I wish you a great experience in this massive multiplayer online game.
Oh age-wise the community is a very mature (... exceptions DO exists sadly).... thus generally a very mature community of various age, from teenagers and young adults, parents that play with or without their kids to those that are grandfathers/mothers.
After all we all like superheroes/villains... anything that are Super!

Gratulations on the badge Beef Cake

Well I certainly shall get a team ready and get that badge myself. A badge it is possible to get... yeay.

Yes, I do collect temp powers aswell. Not as much as badges, but I do collect any temp power I can get that will stay in the inventory until used up.

...
I'm not sure if to weep or cry of joy.
Weep, cause there was one more badge in my collection that I now must make attempts to and get... and it is another MO badge.
or
Cry of joy due to the same reason; there is a badge I do not have that I can get (besides vet badges).

In any event, its a badge I must get! So thank you for the confirmation of the existance of this badge

My experiences with Hami raids have mostly been as the tank team leader with Sarge in control. I've attempted to host a few myself, however at a few times we where simply too few (for a big event kinda thing) or a few people just did not listen... so no, not 100% successful. However successful in that the attempts did cut the teeth of a few players and made them want for more. (Well that is what I hope anyway...)
I will call myself a vet of Hamidon raids though.
For me it will be important that we do not only have one Hamidon Leader, but several that knows how to coordinate and lead the rest of the group to victory.
This is mostly to keep the main leader (Sarge) from burning out, but also to get other players active and hopefully have more raids on a frequent basis.
Thus in the long term build on the community/server spirit.

Yes, input from the Hamidon General (Sarge) is always welcome, he is the one with the most experience of Hami-raids (and has several successful raids on his merit board), he will be a team leader this time and watch me closely... so no pressure on me right?