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When I first bought CoH, my computer ran it horribly, but my friend insisted that I play it so that we could team up and form a Supergroup. I spent many a day soloing, teaming, running TFs at an absolutely blazing FOUR FRAMES PER SECOND (and I raise a gleeful middle finger to all those wussies who call 15FPS "unplayable").

Since then, I've tried a few other MMOs here and there (all of which ran a bit faster on my Little Tan Box That Could), but I keep coming back to this one. I'm not even gonna bother going into all of the reasons. I just liked City of Heroes better than anything else.

Now, I have a much faster machine - certainly not uber in any way, but at least my framerate is comparable to that of a TV broadcast. My friend quit playing a few months after he convinced me to join, but I'll be grabbing my Permanent Nemesis staff next month. Probably because I'm still having fun playing it.
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If you dont think lvl 50s are canceling in mass then your just not paying attention.
All you carebears think your good because you can kill computer AI that I mastered 10 minutes after starting my first character, in comic books heros fought all the time. Give us a pvp server atleast where we can transfer and escape carebear land.

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1) Buy City of Villains. As they announced PvP upon its release long, long ago.
2) Shut..the [guess]...up. >_<

Not so much a "collection," but I've done a couple SS manips:

First thing I did after not having poked around in Photoshop for almost a year: City of Ro

Started this one last night, finished it this afternoon: Junko & Ro: Waiting Patiently

If you save a citizen from a gang (unless it's for a mission), wait for them to come back and thank you, they give you the same per-enemy number of influence points, and even that little extra bit can help out in the long run.

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[ QUOTE ][*]Having more than the minimum but less than the recommended system requirements, doesn't necessarily mean the game will run all that great. *koffkoff15FPSkoffkoff*[/LIST]
And the most important thing I've learned:

MAKE USE OF THE FORUMS.

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Amen to BOTH of those last two!

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Oh yeah, dude...Perez Park...kills it every time. lol

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Any more specific directions to this store? I haven't been able to find it ...

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The Freedom Corp "store" is in the park with Mynx the trainer and ... Positron? One of the Task Force heroes. Basically, go down the tram ramp and follow a walkway immediately to your right out to the street. Just ahead and a little to the right is a stone-walled-in park. Head in there, Mynx is off ahead and to the right (I think), and the FC person is around behind the TF hero. Just stay inside the walls and you'll find them eventually (they're dressed in the flashy red/white outfits, so they should stand out). There may be an actual FC store building somewhere, but the guy in the park should give the same prices and is very convenient.

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Better still, open up your map and find her there. She's a trainer rather than a contact, so she's on it, even if you've never heard of her. Then you can just click on her and follow the waypoint.

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Travel powers get faster as you level on their own...so slotting hover is a waste of time.

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I dunno, I noticed a bit of a difference after slotting some speed into hover and fly, not a huge difference, but I could move faster. Granted, as new as I am, I don't really know if slotting early affects things later. Although it probably doesn't.

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I also use the method of running up stairs by strafing and ascending the next flight backwards.

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I prefer strafing up the stairs themselves, moving forward or backward when I get to the top of the flight, to position myself fore the next one. Dunno if it's faster or slower, but it works better for me.

As for things I wish I'd known when I first started:
<ul type="square">[*]The camera is both your best friend and your worst enemy. Learn how to position it if all you can do is run. I almost got sick the first time I strafed with my back facing the tram track supports, with the camera zoomed all the way out so I could spot enemies more easily.

However, you can use it to look around corners and con enemies without haveing to actually go around said corner.[*]Go AFK inside a safe place rather than next to a safe place. I thought my (at the time) lvl 11 scrapper was ok on the sidewalk, until I heard a loud "THWAKK!!" when I reached for my cigarettes. Our little 3-person, low-level team got spanked by 2 lvl 30 Devouring Earth. The 6 was dead, my 11 and the 10 were stunned. And while I stood there frantically typing "&lt;bleep&gt;!!! RUN!!! RUN NOW!!!" the 10 got hit again. Apparently when I said I was going AFK, they decided to do the same. So let that be a lesson kiddies...smoking kills. *koffhack*[*]That thing about phase shifting enemies.[*]Everybody loves to hate the healer. (/e thumbsup)[*]Having more than the minimum but less than the recommended system requirements, doesn't necessarily mean the game will run all that great. *koffkoff15FPSkoffkoff*[/list]
And the most important thing I've learned:

MAKE USE OF THE FORUMS.