Tacitus

Happy Anniversary to the Sisterhood! You're a class SG with great players. Good to see you're still going strong.

Keres
Canteen Warriors

Had dinner with you last night, Fowl. Liberty was down to one table. Last year we had two. Next year we'll be at the dreaded "all servers" table if we don't get a better Liberty turnout. Hero Con was a blast though.

Keres

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My suggestion is that you become a head of the IT department for pure unaldulterated fun. As the head of the IT department, you will have no problem installing anything on your computer and are in a key position to get your company to purchase the latest video cards and upgrades to have a decent gaming machine at work. My only advice is don't get one of those computers with the funky colors, transparent paneling and neon lights. Bosses tend to get kind of suspicious if you do that.

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This is a spot on guide. I'm the Controller and MIS Manager at my company and I was able to build a nice game machine and I play several hours a day. Best of all, my boss, the CFO, is in another office 200 miles away. I still play without sound, no point being overly obvious with the troops, but I've been known to turn the speakers on to find that last glowie.

I'm sure all my staff knows I play but they all politely pretend not to notice if they walk in when I'm in the middle of a big battle.

By the same token, if I walk up to the desk of one of my accountants and see Tetris, my only reaction is to suggest a play they might have missed. Once I walked up behind one of my accountants to see her IM'ing away. I saw she was messaging an employee at another of our offices so I asked her to stand, sat in her chair, and proceeded to denounce the other employee (a good friend of mine) for the chowderhead that she was. Without identifying myself. After a few insulting exchanges, I told my employee that my work there was done and went whistling back to my office. I figure fair is fair, I goof off, they goof off. Everyone gets their work done on time so it's all good.

"I've observed that there seems to be a 6th way that a mob can become aware of your presence that has not been mentioned: if you arrest a member of a crew (i.e. drop it to zero health), that mob sends out a big alert as it goes down."
Posted by SteveG

I've noticed this too. I had a kill "35 Sky Raiders" mission in Terra Volta. The groups in TV tend to be very tight and very large. I learned I could pull singles just fine if I turned on Super Speed and Cloaking device to achieve total invisibility and stood at my maximum snipe range. I could snipe one, even if he was in the middle of the group, without alerting the others. This was true even if they were all Lts. The one I sniped would run a short distance towards me, stop and fire a ranged attack. I ignored this attack and did not return fire. He would then charge the rest of the way towards me and as he got close, I fired again killing him.
However, if I hit aim first and then sniped, the target would die outright while still in the group and the whole group would aggro. It's better to leave them a sliver of health and let them run out of the group before killing them.

I wish I'd known to choose powers out of my secondary. I am brand new to online gaming and to COH. My first toon, may he rest in peace, was a katana/regen scrapper. I picked all my powers for their "cool" factor. None of my secondary powers sounded cool. Fast healing? What kind of power is that? How am I supposed to use that to arrest people? "You better come along peacefully, hellion, because I'm a fast healer." Not only that, some of them didn't even give me a button on my power bar!
So I took my attacks and picked up cool things like recall friend, flurry, hover and fly. I took nothing from my secondary except my level 1 power.
I actually managed to get him to lvl 15 without his utter gimpness becoming too apparent. At lvl 15 I went into the sewers on a Vazh door mission with a full group of 8. I think I died 10 times that mission. It was ugly. You really have to build for offense and defense.

If you get a door mission inside Perez Park as a lvl 8 or 9, put it off. The first time I tried to do one at low level, I died 3 times trying to get to the door and again after the mission when I tried to leave the park.
On a similar note, you can run across the tops of the trees in Perez Park. Finding myself alone deep in the park and faced with hovering as fast as a crippled snail to get safely out, I found I could hover up to the tree tops, drop, and sprint all the way across on the trees.

1. Maintain tactical awareness at all times and know what you're up against. It really matters if there is a Bone Daddy stuck in the middle of that group of Skulls.
2. Don't chase runners. They'll come back. It's way too easy to aggro a second group or do as I did yesterday and run into a trio of lvl 35 Nemesis just hanging out in Steel Canyon while chasing a runner.
3. Ignore the jerks. They can't ruin your fun unless you let them.
4. If you get in a bad group, quit! It's not likely to get any better.