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MP, you seem to be in the period of your life where everything is all fun/positive. That is a great period in your life. Enjoy it for as long as you can :-)

This is official definition of Grinding so we can all be on the same page:

Grinding is a term used in video gaming to describe the process of engaging in repetitive and/or non-entertaining gameplay in order to gain access to other features within the game, or to allow the player to "grind" better/faster.[1][2] The most common usage is in the context of MMORPGs, such as Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft and Dragon Quest IX[3] in which it is often necessary for a character to repeatedly kill AI-controlled monsters, using basically the same strategy over and over again, in order to advance their character level to be able to access newer content. MUDs, generally sharing much of the same gameplay as MMORPGs, encounter the same syndrome. Grinding can also appear in other games in which features can be unlocked.

Silver Gale, casual means with limited time, ok?

Turg,

I'm not fact checking you, we're having an important discussion here. I play this game a lot and I'm always searching for members. I get the same lists all the time. People send hate chat to me saying I just telled them 30 secs ago. I know this firsthand. I was just exploring to see if I was doing something wrong. I have done this on NA and EU servers.

Next, the globalids and friends list, this can't be more than 8-15 for each. Are you hiding yourself based on this small listing? I just don't understand why people would hide on servers unless everyone knows them(original, original vet). I know lately, because of the WST/WTF we have less time to socialize but if someone says hello to you they're not asking for your life story, right?

MajorPrankster likes to Grind :-)

maybe I haven't read this correctly. I did the first 12 and I think there is another layer but they only require notices and some incarnate components. Are you talking about the new slots(Gravitic, Judgement, etc?) I'm halfway through the tier 2 alphas now playing weekly with 1 weekend a month dedicated to CoH. I have changed my strategy though, I'm not trying to get all the slots because you can shortcut and get to the top with less steps on tier two. Frankly because of the notices, I can't really see past the tier 2 right now. I think by the end of May I'll have enough shards but the notices I won't have until July/Aug. The notices and favors are my bottleneck right now. The shards I could brute force if I had to.

Sometimes you have to abort a mission and move on. I helped a guy once do an incarnate mish. In the final fight with the Rikti and the Honoree, we had over 300 Rikti spawn in the final chamber. It was ridiculous. We slugged it out over an afternoon but the original user said this was why he finally requested teammates :-) He tried it solo for the previous 30 days with no success. Every time we died and hospitaled or ran down the hallway to recharge, 20 were added. I had record holds that day 25-50 every grab.

The GM's told me to contact the chat admins and ask them if they are managing inactive users. he's getting the list for Freedom now.

the GM's say that won't work. I've tried that too. They said you have to change search criteria.

GM LLOYD

You'll have to add more search criteria and narrow your search. Currently there is no option to continue displaying all the characters that fit broad search criteria after the display limit is reached.

you just said it. Level 19. After a certain level the mobs are enormous. I did that mish recently with no problems with a team and we didn't face 30-50 vanessa's

If your going to DCUO, you'll be back :-)

the system has a limit on the friends, it's not very many at all. Is there another way to add them? Is the global friend and friend list different?

Interesting. I tried to use the boards but so many of the players don't consult or plan their gaming that I have to PUG during the game. Sadly, because of the search tools, I get the same people when I do a search. Is there a way to have the next set of results come up?

Are you soloing content? I did prae content with teams and it was challenging in the underground but above I had no problems with it.
Also, is the AI different for Prae. I thought I read something about Prae having new dev engineering/features.

This is the reply from the helpdesk:

Enlarging the limit for global chat channels is not a current feature in City of Heroes. Game Support would not be able to perform this function.
As you are aware, the Development Team is in charge of planning and implementing the design of the game. If you would like to alert them to your ideas about this issue, we would encourage you to express them on the forums, where they can view your feedback first hand. The Development Team does read the forums regularly and many changes to the game have come directly from feedback of the players.

I did read this but are they going to "create" a theme song for the show? I will not watch Wonder Woman kicking off to "One Way or Another!" Frack!!

This is interesting hearing this. I never get spam. I used to get it when I first joined the game but now I never get it. I do get the broadcast spam that everyone else gets. I wonder if your "friends" or SG members are spamming you?

Thanks Turg, I was thinking about this and last week I had players on my team telling me to add people I just couldn't find. The hidden status must of been the cause.

Do people tell you asking you to give recommendations for builds and paragon stuff during the game? I just alt tab and look it up. That's weird.

Why would people hid their status? Why not just change your flag to NLFT?

I think your senses are right on....how can you be a "Wonder Woman" if you have a team behind you?

Thanks for the post, TrueGentleman. I'm posting the details for the benefit of our readers:

Speaking of inviting scrutiny: Wonder Woman. Why did you decide to take this on?
Well I first said no, for all the obvious reasons. It’s not really what I do; it’s not a genre that’s in my wheelhouse. But then I started thinking about, What if there were such a person in today’s world and what must it be like to be her? And I was imagining the sense of social isolation that she must feel, that she indeed would probably be a rather complicated beast. When I started thinking about all the complications and potential layers to this superhero, I just got more and more intrigued. It was also something I was a little bit afraid of. That’s good, too. Any writer should get out of his or her comfort zone, and this was way outside of mine.
So I took a deep breath and decided to go for it. I did not truthfully commit to doing it until I wrote the script. I was going to try writing it, and if I failed on my own terms, I would say no. If I thought, Yeah, this is something I believe in, then I’d turn it in. And it was something I ultimately did get behind. It was hard, but I had a good time writing it. And Warner Bros. and DC both responded very positively — and off we went.

Then you had to find your Wonder Woman.
It was not an easy search, but it went far quicker than I ever imagined. After writing this script, I remember looking at several people and going, "Yeah, now good luck trying to find her." She’s got to be strong, smart, emotionally accessible — and oh yeah, an Amazon! Good luck. I remember speaking to DC, and saying, "We may have to compromise on the physicality. We need to go with the best actress. And if the best actress is five-foot-five, we have to be open to that, because there’s too many layers for this character to also demand that she be nearly six feet tall." And then lo and behold, in comes this girl named Adrianne Palicki.
I had seen her on Friday Night Lights and I always liked her work, but I didn’t get a sense of her stature. I guess he was sitting down in a lot of the scenes. So she stood up, and we met — eyeball to eyeball — she smiled ... and I knew during the course of the conversation that this was Wonder Woman. I just knew it. I had an instinctive feeling that this was her. So then she read. And she was. And she is.