This needs to be fixed.

She had a box of regular old preCoV auto included City of Heroes I bought on sale months ago when I wasn't sure if I had that type of code and wanted to see if I could get 30 days for less then $15.

Well in fairness to her friend...

I am going to get a friend of mine to play once Freedom is live. She has never played a video game, let alone an MMO. Unless you count the games on iphone.

Because it is going to be a real learning curve for her, I'm opting to spend $15 right off the bat, to turn her into Premium, just so we can communicate without trouble.

She wouldn't even understand if I told her the game used QWE controls for movement. So, she'll be Premium level, but so will anyone that spends $5 or more in the store, regardless of past familiarity with the game.

Premium (for now) can be seen as someone with at least 'some' prior experience with the game. This will cease to be the case once the Freebers get here though.

She should have paid attention to the bit in the new Tutorial mission where door-clicking was explained.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

I always just went with I was shaking the guys hand on my way out. As hands meet in the general vicinity that my blue hand would appear (over his crotch most often) in real life.

Honestly, I wish they'd fix the need to foot massage the riot cops at the hazard zone gates for my benefit. That wasn't always like that - years ago you could click on their torsos or heads and it worked fine. Then after some release or other it shifted down, and has been that way ever since.

There are a lot of "click on door" things in this game that irritate me. For example, why are so many doors such that I must only click on closed doors to pass through them? Why are only some doors like this? Why do I have to wait for a train to arrive to chose my destination, forcing me to stand there staring at the train door, waiting for it to arrive? (I realize that this is a special case of not being able to click on an "open door". The fact that this "door" has a long open period and a short closed period attached to opening a pick list makes it particularly obnoxious.)

I would like to see all these things made simpler and more user friendly. I imagine a new player encountering these things and wondering, "if this is how doors work, what on earth is the meat of the game like?"

I don't think it would be too much to have the Security Guards say something as you approach them. The Vanguard guy says stuff everytime I run by and he doesn't even do anything!

Personally, I've found I *always* have to click on the band on the shield to get in or out of the Hollows. Once upon a time it indeed used to be you could simply click on any part of them. Not for a long time it hasn't been, though. And it's another of the minor bugs that has gone for years, ever annoying and never fixed.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I find that clicking the riot shield does the trick. I don't believe that I've ever had to crotch click, though I seldom visit hazard zones any more so I suppose it's possible that one of them requires it.

Those first 2 screenshots are standing toe to toe with the hazard contact using first person view.

Looking straight down is my solution to this problem since it first started. I've seen this problem come and go with mission doors (science map) and with Salvage racks. To solve the problem look straight down from the top and wiggle your mouse. Newbs don't know to do this which is way Lisa started the thread in the first place.