Memphis_Bill

... which, IIRC, since he has GPU-Z, he should be able to log. (One of the options.)

Oh? Link please. Especially given the recent base changes (such as costs and pathing.)

And "no one really uses bases?" You sure you're looking at City of Heroes?

Thought 1: Absolutely NOT. That's an exceptionally useful power. You can take wormhole over my cold, dead hands.

Thought 2: Cottage rule. The devs *will not* replace a power with one that does something completely different. (They've done so exactly once, just after game release - in Gravity, as it happens to be, getting rid of Fold Space (a team recall power) and, IIRC, shuffling things to add Singularity.... yes, 5/11/2004, "Changed Gravity Control/Fold Space to Singularity (and moved it to the end as the last power in the set): "You can create a very powerful Gravitational Singularity. The Singularity will engage your foes, assaulting them with various gravity powers. Any foes that attempt to approach the Singularity will be violently hurls away. The Singularity cannot be healed, but is highly resistant to all forms of damage and nearly impervious to Controlling type powers.")

Wormhole's exceptionally effective - not to mention fun. *launches enemy across the map.* Plus, "heavy gravity?" Have you read the description of "Crushing field" and "Gravity Distortion?" If that's not enough, roll a Grav/Kin and use Siphon Speed liberally.

I've got the 690 in mine. Very nice case to work with. Roomy, too. (The Version II has the external ports arranged slightly differently - and a SATA port up top, IIRC, that you can plug another drive into - kind of a gimmick, but interesting nontheless.)

*points up at the tech issues and bugs forum*

Might want to take a visit up there, then. It's players, still, but there's a tool or two you'll want to run first (just grab COH Helper, there should be a link to it) and post the info it comes up with. Maybe they can see something that's causing the problem.

Yeah, there are exceptions to a few things - like buying enhancements. Most contacts lock you out if you're on a TF, but you can still go to the arena, AE, or Pocket D bartenders and get them. (I'm thinking I'm forgetting one, and not the consignment house.)

You mean the old "Stand around while the tank herds the map, a blaster nukes, and everyone walks off?" Probably because, off the top of my head:
1. it'd be boring as hell (as someone who started when that was standard, yes, I can say that, and that if it had kept going like that, I wouldn't be here now,)
2. you wouldn't have level 40-50 content,
3. you wouldn't have a ton of powersets,
4. you wouldn't have quite a bit of content,
5. no epics,
6. multiple missing zones,
7. only one costume (and *tons* of options missing,)
8. no bases,
9. no PVP (issue 4, two issues before COV came out,)
10. no villains,
11. no IOs,
12. no store markers on the map, so when you DO want to get your shiny DOs and SOs, you've really got to search again,
13. you can trade far less INF than you can now,
14. Double the debt cap, debt starting earlier, and actually mattering,
15. Running out of content at 37-38 and learning what grind REALLY means,
16. Old SK rules mean you'd better hope your exemplar doesn't lose connection or you get booted from a TF,
17. No inherents,
18. Limit of 8 characters per server, ever,

.... hmm, getting to be quite a list already. And I can keep going quite easily. Yeah, gee, I can see just *everyone* swarming to that. Then again, from the "read un-nerfed" comment, I didn't really expect any better.

Imperious task force, Cimerora.
Similarly, since they'll probably come up:
LRSF = Lord Recluse strike force
STF = Statesman task force
LGTF = Lady Grey task force (currently, IIRC, having issues with one of the enemies in it.)

rgh... that's one of the things I can't stand with Illusion, especially during the stretches of the game where everything's *not* slotted up fully. I hate the "illusory damage" nonsense.

Going to stop before I get into an Illusion rant. I'll just note that it's one of my least liked sets.

*points down to PVEers PVP guide 3.0 in sig*

You don't need any number of people to do the Shiva Strike (collect meteor shards, turn in) or Warburg (missile launch) missions. You can also destroy/capture the bunkers in Recluse's Victory solo and switch the zone over - if nobody's around - BUT you're not going to be able to solo the "reinforcements" (some of the freedom phalanx or Recluse and friends) that get sent in. It's been a wihle, not sure you'll get the temporal points for a 'heavy' before the zone shifts again without beating them.

Siren's call is built around zone control and bounty. Bounty = defeat other players, mostly. "Winning" hotspots (really, you just have to be there when the NPCs finish) nets you 100 bounty. Bounty's useful for... well, not much. SOs and inspirations, as I recall.

All of these are PVP zones. All have missions (that can be done solo) that will affect buffs/debuffs on either side. no TFs. (Edit: All but RV. RV has no in-zone missions, just the takeovers.)

Nope. And none of my natural characters do, either. Or science, or mutant. They're also not bothered by jet boot costume pieces, zero-G packs, anti-grav belts, winged boots, or jump boots.

Yes, they do. Just took my Elec/Elec blaster into BB to double check. Spawned sparky, regen rate dropped (just like an attack from or on you does to you) and I couldn't teleport for several seconds.

Heh. Might work better, but since you'd be doing it "safely" out of range, it might get the damage lowered from normal. Just assuming there, though.

Think you misunderstand me, though.

Shield charge, lightning rod, etc. you pick your spot and tp/attack there. It's pretty straightforward - arrive and the attack goes off.

Going the other way? You're doing an awful lot - as you say, running in (or SJing, SSing, teleporting,) firing off the pet and then - hopefully - teleporting out. I'm not sure of any power that does anything similar (yeah, I know, part of the point) or if the mechanics of that work (much less you having time to put down that reticle and TP out - itself with mroe of a delay. Plus, try to use it in any PVP zone and the TP out won't work, suppressed after attacking or being attacked. No, I doubt anyone would use it as a PVP attack, but dealing with the mobs in a zone, perhaps.)

Which is part of why I brought up the random TP. That *might* be doable (thoughthe PVP issue remains,) and removes the need (and time needed) for the player to figure out where to TP to.

If "The Longbow at this location are in charge of such and such," why would hunting the longbow in a completely different zone have the information you're trying to find? It'd be like interrogating the secretarial pool to find out what the guys in top-secret R&D are up to. Or - as some missions go - "Defeat X many of this group over here to focus their attention on you." If the (story) point is to distract a group's attention from a different zone, it makes complete sense to limit the fight to that one zone.

Now, some of the neighborhood specific stuff inside a zone? Yeah. That's rarely clear, and some of the times it is, the neighborhood "boundaries" are just wrong (see also Croatoa.) Not to mention you can just barely step over a boundary and have stuff that was counting start not counting, with no visible reason why.

As far as the OP? Haven't had it happen, but between that (and Techbot's example of the longbow in Agincourt,) how about a different solution - make them train missions. Create an instance of a section of the zone. That way, you're still going "to the zone," but external events won't affect you and the mobs will be level appropriate. (Won't work with all, I suppose, but there would be a greater chance.)

It'd backfire right away. It wouldn't help those who aren't rolling in it right now, and those who have stashes of INF and "storage characters" won't care. *shrug*

As stated elsewhere -
Disable it? No thanks.
Put in an option to disable it? Absolutely.