SerialBeggar

I guess it changed. I haven't had to abandon a mission in a while.

As I recall it, your Contact's relationship bar has 2 marks. After doing 2-4 missions, depending on if any were multi-part missions, you will reach the first mark. This unlocks the Contact's Insp and the Power-10 set of enhancencemant store, so he can start gouging you. After doing 1 long story arc or a lot of filler or street hunt missions, you will reach the 2nd mark which is usually 2/3rds along the relationship bar for most Contacts (not half way). At this point the Contact will give you their cell number and open the rest of his enhancements store, so buffer and debuffers can finally buy their DOs and SOs 5 levels after the DPS characters upgraded their slots. If you didn't want to be gouged, you can wait 10 levels before the brick and mortar stores would stock the non-Power-10 enhancements.

That's similar to my feelings about the Tunnel Portals. However, I see it as a systematic problem along the lines of how the Arachnos Helicopter pads were laid out in the red side zones, especially back when they were originally only transporting you to a single destination. That is, except for the Cap<-->Mercy one, the Helicopters were in the same vicinity as a Ferry, so what value was there in using them? And now that they've been upgraded to transport you to all the same places as the Ferries? Big Whoop! Although the new one 2/3rds of the way up the Nerva map is nice--if I remember to use it!

With these new Tunnel Portals, they could have made them more useful by placing them where they'd make travel more convenient when you're at the other side of the zone from a Train station or Ferry. As it is, all the non-mission activities that have been added to game of late seem to be clustering together which is a disservice to the efforts of the original zone designers to make all corners of the zone interesting. The Devs should have spread out the travel options to encourage players to go to these less beaten paths of the zone. I'm sure even long time Vets still have some uncleared Fog of War on their maps on their old characters (assuming you didn't use Reveal).

Yeah, one of my Bases has a bugged Insp storage bin with a phantom item in it. When I try to fill it up, it maxes out at 99. When I "empty" it out, I can't delete it.

All 3 tiers of henchmen will be raised to just -1 of me?

I haz loot!

Well, I'm surprised this is getting fixed. It's been around forever.

Have you made your own personal SG? If not, make one and add the Base too. Ask someone to help you invite some of your alts to this personal SG so you can get the Prestige Bonuses. Put in a Workshop room and add an enhancement storage bin. As you continue to play, craft the IOs that you pick up and put them away in your bin. It doesn't matter what they are, you're doing this so you can get some familiarity with handling the IO enhancements in a relaxed environment. You can see their stats and set bonuses and compare between Sets. If you have the time and don't mind the tedium, you can hang out at the Market and put in low ball bids on every IO in the ranges you're interested in and you might get very lucky to snag several IOs that someone was dumping.

Edit:
If you have an enhancement storage bin now, what is your global name? I've got a bunch of Set IO pieces that I have no need for and doesn't sell for crap that I'll be glad to pass on to you to play with.

I don't turn them off because I learned from a post by Samuel_Tow that even if they don't display, the invisible window they're in still exists and will annoying come to the fore front and block other things you might have placed in that area.

See this post.

And Posi's remarks on it later in the thread.

Really? The first 2 punches sound like I'm whiffing. Even now, I still need to check for orange numbers to tell if I'm landing hits.