Regular introductions... Wait, what?

You know, I have a tendency to whine about City of Heroes giving me the runaround, visiting PvP liaison officers, Security Chiefs, contacts and the like. So when I started levelling up my new Slime Girl, the first thing I did at level 50 was to pop into the Hollows and flip Wincott a birdie. I mean, who wants to be set AAALL the way there from the butt end of Kings Row, right? Little by little, the game started giving me the the runaround, like every couple of missions it'll be the Boomtown Security Chief or or Hero Corps Representative or the Skyway City Security Chief, all the while I'm thinking "Ugh, when are they gonna' send me across creation to talk to Temblor even though I don't want to do his missions?"

Thing is, I never was. I expected to be sent to him as soon as I hit 15, but no. Didn't happen. Didn't happen when I hit 16, either, and eventually I kind of forgot about it. Easy to get used to a good thing, you know? But then suddenly I get Fareed Abdulah's phone number, and he offers to introduce me to a bunch of new contacts. "Sure" I think "Gimme, though I doubt I can do them." Except... One of the contacts he offers to introduce me to is Jim Temblor. Whaaat? Since when?

Let me get this straight - I am no longer sent on a mission to speak with Jim Temblor, but rather other contacts introduce me to him like he's any other contact?

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Sweet! When did that happen? It wasn't there as recently as a month ago, I don't think. But this literally is one MAJOR hassle down the drain. No more pointless running around speaking with contacts I do not intend to do missions for. That is, provided this actually means what I think it means and provided all contacts like Jim underwent the same treatment. But MAN! This is sweet!

That's not to say all the annoyances are gone, of course. I still got swamped by Security Chief missions and, as if to spite my enthusiasm, the next mission I got after being introduced to Jim the BETTER way was to speak with the Bloody Bay bloody Liaison. The more things change... Still, if those STUPID forced introductions to contacts have been removed, I will do a happy dance!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Not sure about the change but I feel your pain.

Lately I've discovered the joy that is end of arc bonuses so I've started trying to get arcs as much as I can.
The other night I made a huge mistake though.

At level 14 on my new scrapper, I went and talked to Athena Currie and started her arc.

Oops...


Good gravy! This lady wants to send me all over creation just for some stupid clockwork nests... Between all the hunt missions and being sent from Steel to Perez to all points between I just gave up and went back to radios. I'll drop a mission from her every 3 days until her book is gone.
Really makes me wish the entire contact tree on Blueside would be reworked.

It was with one of the more recent issues. i16, I think, though possibly i15 (although, come to think of it, i15 was a year ago...not all that recent, really).

Agreed. I can understand why this was done years ago when PvP was introduced but it's kind of a moot point by now. I think it would be great if instead of having to seek them out, just to click and ignore, why not change it to be a pop up like we have when a new contact is unlocked?
You could have all the needed info in one little box.

They made a lot of small changes to improve lowbie life.
Last week I discovered the "Defeat the Infected" mission on Mercy no longer sends you to the other side of the Island! Let me tell you there was much rejoicing about that!

Oh, yeah, they restructured both sides lowbie stuff to not have your level three running all over Bum&^$% to get to the missions. Excellent move!

Although a part of me gets nostalgic about the old days when the Hollows taught us to run!

LEGION OF VALOR - Be a part of the Legend!

Ah yeah, none of that fancy jetpack/jump pack stuff back our day! Just an excercise in Parkour!