ThugOne

A thread in the "Suggestions" forum would work better for that.

The "Grid" thing is a Vertical Launch System cell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_Launching_System

Each little square is a separate launcher. The whole cell can throw out an amazing amount of firepower. The gun is a little utility tool by comparison.

Actually, I've been annoyed that the first three weeks were all level 50's; they're overdue for some lower-level WTF's.

That's not always a good measure. For example- a very well frankenslotted character often won't have much in the way of set bonuses.

Sigh. You've hit a pet peeve of mine that I'm not allowed to address very well. So I'll be vague. That expensive "Toilet Seat" story is pretty much blown out of proportion. At work, on my desk, I've got the parts-list book with that particular item in it; it's still manufactured. The cost these days is considerably higher than $800; a better term for it would be "Lavatory Subassembly". There are some folks in the office who were there when the rumor was new. Yes, the US military did indeed pay that price at that time. Which was a discounted price for buying in bulk; commercial airlines were paying rather more than the military price. They still do.
There's a similar story behind the so-called $400 hammer.

All the booster packs will apply to all your characters on the account, both new and pre-existing. For costumes, you just have to visit a tailor and edit the costume; the newly purchased pieces will be added to the menus.

And I can do one better- I'm in a group that's running a bunch of corruptors that only took Assault Rifle as their primary; aka the "Gunbunnies". Secondaries vary all over the place. There's about a dozen players involved; most of them are currently lvl 25 to 31. Seem to pretty much blow through everything.

I think that makes him a member of the Kids Next Door.

The Status page still shows all servers as down at the moment:
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...er_status.html

Another source of help are the empowerment stations that can be had at bases. Most aren't particularly powerful, but every little bit helps. The Knockback Protection one can be *very* useful on some toons.

Ah yes, I recall those:
The Mystery Man finds himself up against some rats in a factory firing backpack-mounted gyroc pistol rounds at him.
"I wound one with a shot from my grappel gun."
"Two more wearing white outfits with red crosses on the back leap from underneath a workbench and drag it to safety."
"Medics?? They have MEDICS????"

They lampshaded it. The mom *attempted* to explain how that had worked, but the kid didn't want to know and did the fingers-in-ears-I-CAN'T-HEAR-YOU bit and cut her off.

There's a filk group (http://www.plectrum.net/) with a song that's all about such issues, "The Ballad of the Lady and the Dragon". The chorus line is "Yay Goo!".

What' the criteria for "4x as large"? 4x the diameter? 4x the surface area? 4x the landmass?

That would be ThugTwo's wife. It's a long story:
http://www.galtham.org/whoman.html

So, what's a solution? Join in a farm and roll all your tickets for salvage?

Nah. It was knocked into a different orbit by the explosive recoil of a big laser hitting it a few years ago. That same laser spun it around such that it's tide-locked the other way. If we ever get our Moonbase, we'll find a huge"CH" carved on the far side.