Memphis_Bill

Few more things (and welcome!)

Buying guides for pretty much any MMO - don't do it. I mean, the old Prima guide (non-binder-bound paperback) is good for giggles, you can read what things were like in beta (such as the never-implemented Faultline trial, or Gravity controllers having Fold Space,) but it's roughly as out of touch with the current game as the graffiti the workers put on some ancient Egyptian monuments when they were built. Even the newer one - "designed to be updated continually!" - isn't. Guides have pretty much been dropped.

For guides, come here, or wander to Paragon Wiki (NOT the Wikia version! If you see Wikia, you're in the wrong place.)

Supergroup membership/leadership doesn't cut you out of running teams. You're not limited to running teams with just your supergroup or anything - so feel free to completely ignore your supergroup (well, other than running in supegroup *mode* so you get prestige built up for when you DO want to build that base.)

Also... don't advertise yourself as a magic tanker. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, but your origin (magic/science/natural/tech/mutant) has just slightly more impact on the game than what color hat you're wearing, if any. Normally just saying you're a tanker is fine. If anyone's curious, add your level, primary and secondary powerset. (for instance, my forum-namesake comes in multiple versions. Depending on where I am, as a tanker, I'd say I'm a 50 Fire/Super strength (SS,) 50 Fire/Energy Melee, or 26 Dark Armor/SS tanker... then again, I could be playing a non-tanker version!)

Just trying to help you sort out what info people are going to want when getting a team together. Then again, if you start the team... *shrug*

Yeah, as mentioned - there's no different version of COH for win7. What you're planning should work just fine. You may want to check the guides section, though, for a guide from Bill Z Bubba about moving/reinstalling COH.... this one.

I tend to back up my COH directory anyway with new issues, etc. and went through a similar process - first with upgrading my old machine to win7, then building the new one. It's painless.

(Oh... yeah, agree 100% with both grabbing the 64 bit version, and with making sure you have the current drivers for everything, but especially the video card, ready before you do the upgrade.)

*SIX YEARS* worth of already created characters. You want to tie these to one of the FEW things we can't change. ED? Changed slotting, later dealt with IOs. IOs? Easily retrofitted (or ignored.) Power changes? Change slotting or power changes with a respec. Tie something to origin? Stuck with a choice you could have made years ago and can't change.

Let me reiterate that last part so that maybe you get it.

You can't change origin in response. You would affect literally millions of characters for something they picked when it had no real affect, when it was a "flavor" option.

Do you get what the big issue you're not addressing is yet? And no, "Just ignore it then" is not addressing it.

Your idea will:
- Annoy casual players who will suddenly have some drawback someone else does.
- Annoy RPers who are getting penalized.
- Annoy those who like to min/max their builds for best efficiency for a choice they can't change.

1. If they were just "all the same," why not just call them inherents instead of "origin-something?"

2. Again, can't respec origins. While *new* characters could decide on their drawbacks, etc. by picking an origin at creation, old ones (well over a million - I don't recall the exact number mentioned a few anniversaries ago on created characters) would be stuck. Using your original example, my mutant /regen scrapper would be getting penalized for being mutant if they wanted to use the extra damage - for an option they could have picked *years* ago. No, saying "don't pick one then" does not "keep classic players happy," as you're now telling them "don't use the system that just got added." It'd be like restricting the upcoming Incarnate system to newly made characters only.

No. Just no.

No need to remember, just go to Paragon Wiki and look here!

Um, Melissa? War Witch, dear? Sure you weren't thinking of something like, say, the Fear powers in Presence?

"Something loose in cockpit" isn't helpful, unless you want replies varying from "Something tightened in cockpit" to "And then the copilot left."

Besides, if that's "fair enough," then so's "I think it's perfectly fine as is."

The OP makes a comment that seems to imply his issue is with the animation ("Looks like you're flinging monkey poo") and says all the other origins have "cool" powers:

Animation for Mutagen:
You reach toward your hip, and throw a tiny something cross-body (left arm/right hip.)

Animation for one of the "cool" powers (Science - tranq dart) :
You reach toward your hip, and throw a tiny something cross-body (left arm/right hip.)

Animation for another "cool" power (Magic - Apprentice charm) :
You reach toward your hip, and throw a tiny something cross-body (left arm/right hip.)

Animation for another "cool" power (Tech - Taser dart) :
You reach toward your hip, and throw something cross-body (left arm/right hip,( having wires appear in midair a few inches from your hand.

So if the OP is talking about wanting a "cool" animation to match the other "cool" powers, he doesn't have a leg to stand on because he already has one.

And as a side effect of having characters asked to team pretty regularly...

I read this as "I'm Please Send Tell," which made no sense whatsoever. Actually took a minute to realize "oh. pacific."

If you've filled up all 36 slots, how are 5 more going to help you? That's what I mean by maxed out. And yes, I've seen several posts like that since the forum merge, a situation brought about by having so few servers.

I'd believe it.

/this.

Though - and I haven't paid attention to the price of these things, tbh - what I had in mind were KB resist recipes. They start at... oh, 10 or 15, one of the two. So, get someone to that base level, AE to death and just keep rolling. Cheap random rolls? Who cares if I get 30 Fear recipes in that case? It's not as big a risk.

Intent - ok. Execution = abusable.

The mistress will (tactics,) I don't think the drone does - but once it gets aggro, the rest of the group will pick up on whatever it's attacking.

And, quite honestly, those that were "purged" the first time (35 and below) are still "purged" if people want to pick them up. They wouldn't have gotten relocked.

I wonder how many "freed" names from that are still showing as available versus used....

And a totally different one of the same title by Queensryche. Popular title, it seems.

Young, beautiful and learned Jane, intent
On knowledge, fount it peace; her vast acquirement
Of goodness was her fall; she was content
With dulcet pleasures, such as calm retirement
Yields to the wise alone; -- her only vice
Was virtue: in obedience to her sire
And lord she died, with them a sacrifice
To their ambition: her own mild desire
Was rather to be happy than be great;
For though at their request, she claimed the crown,
That they through her might rise to rule the state,
Yet the bright diadem and gorgeous throne
She viewed as cares, dimming the dignity
Of her unsullied mind and pur benignity.

by William Hone (1780 -1842)
Inscribed beneath a portrait of Lady Jane Grey

I wondered, actually, if they intentionally used both Lady Jane and Lady Grey for some reason, or if it happened to be coincidence.

Let me reiterate:

Tentacles!