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A concept I've used a few times, which you're welcome to use, is a corps of heroes, called Earth Ire, recruited by Mother Earth (or whatever name the person might be familiar with) to protect and save the good creatures and people of Earth from the evil, destructive ones. All the heroes have powers drawn from the Earth. Water fits right in.

I love that you came up with a bio that actually explains why she does that TF over and over, and only that. I makes me imagine a whole underground community of people who, as you say, clean up the place in between their real life.

The Kent Police Museum in the U.K.:

"Today the image of the blue police box is a trademark of the BBC as it is widely associated with the science fiction television programme Doctor Who?, in which the protagonist's time machine, a TARDIS, is in the shape of a police box."

(Quote is in the text just below the pic of the red police box.)

Tyger42 is right. I think the real problem is that the tank was created for a specific role that has never really been much needed in CoX. Aggro-gathering ability is the only special talent a tank has, and that's only worth having on a large team. I leveled my first tank during the first year of the game, and even then defenders and controllers quickly made a tanker pointless on large teams as well. Once melee shielding was reduced, that became even more true.

There was the farming-a-whole-zone thing, but almost nobody ever thought that was a good idea, including me. Really boring.

I'm quite against having previously earned badges renamed. My character doesn't even like Stateman, but he did rescue him and that's what the badge should say. The "Pal" is ironic.

I really, really find it a stretch to see this as Matt Miller becoming like Jack Emmert, though. This is nowhere near Mr. Emmert's league in in arrogance even if it were an actual decision by Matt.

Paragon Studios has been good about doing things players have wanted for years, but sometimes just misses the boat on things. I don't see any malicious intent here.

Just because a hero has to have his legal name publicly connected to his superhero name doesn't mean he can't have a secret identity anyway.

There are always ways around things like that. The alter-ego just probably wouldn't be under his legal name.

I had a story plotted out in which my hero did just that. He conveniently ran into a full-bearded fellow about his size who wanted to get out of town, so he helped him go and assumed that identity.

I'm sure there are many other ways to create a secret identity. And the hero in civvies could just flat out deny being the hero: "Oh no -- that's not me. We just happen to have the same name. I mean, Mark Johnson is hardly an unusual name, is it?" Heroes can have masks, after all.

It's not like law enforcement in Paragon City has time on its hands to investigate heroes for suspicion of secret identity. They might even prefer that they have secret identities -- it makes fewer people (heroes' families, friends etc.) obvious targets who have to be watched.

I always feel sorry for folks who are embedded, though less so for people outside war zones.

I sounds so uncomfortable at least, if not actually painful.

OK, I'll play ...

I'm a heterosexual woman who's happily not married right now with a grown daughter. We have between us three VIP accounts, two of which are more than 7 years old. We love CoH so much they have never lapsed despite many months when we had little or no time to play, just because we wanted them there, just in case.

We buy expansion packs, not all, but most of them, including the lacy, frilly and women-must-be-half-undressed-to-be-seen ones.

Many of my characters are male, because I prefer dressing my Ken dolls over my Barbies nowadays. I get frustrated sometimes by the lack of options. My female characters put on little bits of nothing sometimes just to laugh at how distracted and easy-to-defeat some males get in their presence. But I often like to see them as extensions of myself, only with much better figures, and when I think about how I would dress as superheroine (heroine? really? we still use that word), well, one or two bustiers do it all, but you can never have enough good jackets and coats.

My daughter is, well, solidly beyond the legal drinking age now and thankfully mature, smart and sensible. She uses all the various options for her female characters, from metallic armor to lacey bustiers. I don't worry (much) about her self-image or what she might be "saying" to all the adolescent-minded males in game.

If she were a young teen, this whole costume debate would be of much more significance to me. As it is, I'd like more female options that are cool clothes rather than just skimpy and cold, but it's not as big an issue for me as say, a good solo incarnate path. But if my daughter were 14, it would matter a lot.

The point being: I'm a woman. I'm a mom. I pay to support this game too. I LOVE RESPECTABLE OPTIONS FOR WOMEN and MORE GOOD JACKETS FOR EVERYBODY.

Towel cape. With optional 42.
Skeleton body option.
Cook's apron
Mismatched shoes (and other I-was-in-a-hurry options)
Robot/armor set cobbled together from pieces of cars, appliances, computers and other machines.
Computer-monitor head -- flat and CRT -- with optional webcam on top
Invisible headless-look head, and cameras and eyes on body

Dark Anything. The Dark sets seem to offer more variety in abilities per set, which keeps it interesting.

I really don't think there's any risk of soloable content producing rewards-per-minute equal to running the trials. That's fine. Most, if not all, of the game has reward rates that increase with the number of teammates. I play solo most of the time, and that doesn't trouble me.

I don't think, however, that the reward rate on a soloable incarnate path should somehow be artificially low just to push people toward the trials. I just don't get the fear that people will prefer to play solo unless it's made really unattractive.

Most people tend to be social. They generally want to do things with other people, even though they have times when they just want to be left alone or desire to play through content solo one time to enjoy the story. If there's resistant to taking part in group content, it's more likely to be a problem with the content. And overall, I really don't believe the developers want to balance unfun content with greater rewards. The current team strikes me as wanting to provide a truly appealing product.

So I'm expecting a solo incarnate path that gives i-rewards at a rate that's slower than the i-trial rate in a way that's comparable to the reward ratio of soloing vs. teaming in the rest of the game, given that the rest of the game doesn't have league content.

Or, my personal evaluation: How long does it take to take get from just-50 to fully incarnated via trials? Take that number of hours of playtime and multiply it by four, and that's what I'd consider a reasonable amount of solo play time to get there.

EDIT: On thinking more about it, I realize the solo rate is probably much longer than x4, particularly on some characters.

It is annoying, but I did have success saving the setup as default, and it seemed to be reloadable. I don't have time right now to try logging on and off multiple times to see how long it works. You have to stay logged out a bit for a fair test.

(The default-saving and -reloading buttons I'm referring to are at the very bottom of the "General" page of the options window.)

This is slightly off-topic, but why do people ToT in a league rather than in regular teams? I think I missed something somewhere.

There's a building in Atlas Park with a rooftop park under a dome that you can get into by clicking on the stairway door on the building's west side.

The building is along the south wall, about half way between the sewer entrance and the southeast corner. Location is -963.0 12.9 749.1

Is it for a mission?

I wish there were a lot more places like this, where we can go into the buildings, aside from missions.




edit: Changed location because I realized that the "inside" probably didn't really have the same location as the building.