Memphis_Bill

Masterminds.

Some PVP tactics.

Or, one a group of friends and I were having fun with - group of sapper-type characters (all elec/elec blasters in our case,) all show up, and almost immediately everything else is twitching and/or nearly out of END, of not outright dead. Why? .... Team teleport.

Because although YOU may not use it or find it "practical," others do.
Big difference between that and "Get rid of it."

/this, though I tend to retrofit with common IOs. Plus, of course, they drop "ready to use."

Personally, if I "need" sets to "work right," something's broken AFAIC. (I don't mean as in "an optional way to do something," like KB IO vs Acrobatics with that, either.) I tend to want to know how something works with SOs/commons (I have recent 50s that are mostly SOs still, TBH) versus what a mix of sets will do.

(Somewhat related to me not bothering with most forum builds - don't care what a few hundred million or whatever will do @50 when I'm trying to improve something at 22-35.)

(DA wise - DA/SS brute, SS/DA tank, DM/DA scrapper, Spine/DA scrapper... I really have to get them out of the mid-late 20s, though of the four, so far the DM/DA doesn't seem to need END at all.)

You forgot "Make armors exclusive - only one at a time for you!"

Always a good reason!

(And I'm doing the day-after, mostly for the same reason as the OP - I have time to burn before I lose it.)

See... those, to me, weren't the "glory days." It was amusing at first, but got *really* boring, *really* quickly. I remember the missions all to well.

Tank: "OK. Wait here."
Everyone else stands around for a few minutes. Blasters decide which one of them gets to nuke. Does so.
Go to next level, rinse, repeat.

"Glory days?" Hardly. "Boring days" is far more like it.

I'm not sure what you're babbling about. No, you do not have to do some systemic install of every OS that came in between. Vista does not come into play, nor does XP 64.

Any install from XP to 7 of any flavor requires a clean install. Even using an upgrade disk. I've done this multiple times.

Any change from 32 to 64 bit (Vista or 7) requires a clean install.

In any case, the OP's doing a clean install and wants to avoid as many reinstalls as possible.

Now, some apps (like COH) this isn't a big deal - they just don't do much in the registry. Copy the COH directory to an external drive, and follow BillZBubba's guide to installing test or moving COH (in player guides.) It's basically "barely start the install, copy data over," as I recall. You *might* get away with the same thing with other apps (start the install, point it to the directory on the other drive, let it see it's installed already, watch "install" finish in seconds) but others are going to write all over it. They'll have registry entries and misc. files to drop in the WIndows directory, for instance.

Basically - expect to have to reinstall the others, but pointing them to the same directory on the secondary drive may speed things up.

They're obviously doing something right, then.

Also, look at announcements.

So you know nothing about those servers, but since you don't think they're useful, you want them to go away or be merged.

How about a two word answer. Hint: It's not an agreement.

Haven't had to do so for COH, though. (Edit: And seriously, "all the 25 digit codes applied to your account?" Really?)

170+ alts, two accounts.

No, no way of linking two accounts together. You can, however, always start up an "old folks home" with some of your friends (or some other combination - redside vs blueside, though with GR that means less) and start transferring characters. If they transfer with you, you've got the core of a SG there.

Admittedly it costs money to do so, but it's an option.

Are you psychic now? Precognitive ability being announced to the world?

No, Kat, you can't say that with any certainty. To be quite honest, your actions in this thread have made me generally more irritated with you and your butting in (and now apparently trying to claim some sort of credit, which I find highly offensive) than I *ever* was with the OP.

Resolution? I have no issue with the OP. I was irritated, it wore off. I believe I stated that had happened anyway - not "would have," but already had. If anything, your continual harping on it *lengthened* the general irritation by bringing it back to mind. That sort of behaviour does nothing but get my Irish up. And you say you're like this with your personal friends? How do you keep from getting decked?

Ahh. See, I think we touched on this in the PMs (how something's read, etc.) That read, to me, as more of a "social nicety" opening (like saying "I'm sorry, what did you call me?") than an apology. (As opposed to what you said in the other thread that prompted me to PM you when I finally read it. Of course, I wasn't irritated when I read the second one, too.) It colored the entire tone of the post, for me, into one of "making excuses" rather than an apology - which didn't, quite obviously, go over well with me.

So I'll offer you an apology of my own for completely misreading both what you wrote and the intent behind it (as I think we've handled everything else in PMs) - though I have to add, without certain parties dragging this out, the issue would have been long dead and buried IMHO. Any irritation at you is long gone.

Irrelevant.
Incorrect. The cottage rule is that any change to a power will not alter that power's fundamental purpose, whether you think there's "nothing wrong" with the power or not. For instance, Energy Aura formerly had just a power sink that drained END. EA could use a heal. Did they replace power sink? No. They added a healing component to it. They did the same thing with Electric armor (Energize.) The power's initial purpose remains.

Yes, and they're not going to screw over the "handful of people" (myself included) who take the power. My post isn't misplaced, your understanding of the cottage rule is lacking. Thus my pointing out of the APP/PPP changes - that was the last time they tried breaking the cottage rule and replacing "powers nobody takes" with "more useful" ones (their own words.)

For instance, Dominators mace mastery. They wanted to replace the "nobody takes/less useful" targeted AOE with Personal Force Field. Guess what my 50 Dom has as a PPP... and what power (wanting more damage) I was using. PFF is many orders of magnitude less useful to me. They ran into that with *every single change.*

They will not outright replace a power with one that's completely different. So, looking at the OP (emphasis mine: )
the answer would be "no." Reason? The cottage rule.