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Great information with some really good news there. Thanks VK!

Death as a plot point is a core part of comics mythology, if it is often done badly it is only because comic stories broadly are often badly done. I have no problem with death as plot point, it is how well the plot point moves the story that matters. If the SSA is well done the death will an interesting story, if it is badly written it won't be the death that makes it badly written.

As for the original question, the only one I would hate to see go down is Back Alley Brawler. As a hero I like his back story, as a villain there is no one I like to beat more, as he has beaten me down in many fights.

As for the dislike of the surviving eight and other named heroes, I think a lot of that comes from the fact that they detract from our stories in the game. That is a big part of why I haven't tried the DC game, no character I make will ever surpass any of the named DC heroes, why should I try? In COH they do a better job of keeping the focus on the players, but too often the focus shifts us to secondary roles. We need 24 heroes to keep Desdemona alive in the underground trial, shouldn't that at least be one of the league? Statesman gets most of the hate because he sucks up most of the sunlight that we want to shine on our PCs.

Well done! Cheers to our winners.

It is my honest suspicion that this is one of those 'legacy code' issues. No one really knows how it is all held together and they don't want to break it. That said, it is a needed part of the game, it is frequently a Weekly Task Force and thus is a really poor place to highlight bad design. Rather than rework it, a new one is fine, but if not how about

• Enable PVP while in the reactor, folks can farm for pvp ios during the hours we wait for the next wave to attack.
• Let us run the Dr. Quarterfield task force during the hours we wait for the next wave to attack.
• Move all costume contests from Atlas Park to the reactor core so we can judge during the hours we wait for the next wave to attack.
• Give us the option of speeding up the next wave in the Paragon store say 100pp a wave. It would be blackmail most foul, but I would pay it...
• Praetorian raids, rikti raids, zombie invasions all could help pass the time during the hours we wait for the next wave to attack.

Things to make the reactor section of the hero respec trial more interesting.

• An in game ebook we can read War And Peace on during the hours we wait for the next wave to attack.
  
• A floor show. Carnival can-can dancers circle the room while you wait hours for the next wave to attack.
  
• Computer terminals so that our charcters can play MMOs while we wait for hours for the next wave to attack.
  
• A trainer, Icon Outlet and Wentworths so we can do chores while we wait for hours for the next wave to attack.
  
• A wacky candid camera monitor so we can watch the wacky hijinks of the next wave as they take hours to assemble for the next attack.
  
• Online gambling for Paragon Points guessing which door the attack we are waiting hours to attack will will come from.
  
• Mystery guests we can fight during the hours we are waiting for the next wave to attack.
  
• AE Terminals so we can run missions during the hours we are waiting for the next wave to attack.
  
• Ken Burns documentaries we can watch from end to end during the hours we are waiting for the next wave to attack.
  
• The enemies to attack with shorter pauses between attacks.

Yep. Also in the City Info Tracker site they have a low hanging fruit report that I find to be a great help on my badge hunting characters. It list the most common badges available that your character does not have yet.

Yes you can, I assume you are using the Titan Sentinel, while in City of Heroes you call up your character information from the options menu while playing. I always click on the badge tab after I have it up, but I have been told I don't have to do that. This is all done within City of Heroes itself, by bringing up the character info you give the Sentinel client what it needs to know.

Once you have done that Titan Sentinel should update automatically next time you check in, but you can ask it do under the options menu in the Titan Sentinel client.

No plans to move. Hoping some old friends come back to the server as well.

Flambeaux: It isn't easy being awesome and hot! I said hot because I have these great fire powers in case you missed that part, anyway I really like my mirrors to be shiny and all that so I have some lady clean them with Windex. Thanks to Windex I get to see how awesome I am really clear. Well until the windows get all sooty and junk.

Nice. My graphics are set to banana republic, yours are much nicer.

As an emergency back up for tough AVs I always carry the Envenomed Dagger temp power as well and will mix it into my attack chain to slow the AVs regen. Don't normally need it, but solo or on small groups it has saved my bacon several times, once on a team that was struggling with Primal Duray.

Thanks to everyone that came out. The next person that complains that there is nothing to do but trials gets no sympathy from me. We slapped around the Vahz, the Clocks and the Hellions and filled the zig up. Many a purse made it home safely thanks to the efforts of the heroes tonight. I had a great time and I hope everyone else did as well.

Just a reminder that this is tonight. Come out and help, we will need everyone we can lay our paws on to pull this off.

Idea wasn't mine, it was Guy_5's, I am just banging on the drum trying to get people out. Hopefully he will turn out and help us bash stuff. I am more of an Atlas guy myself, but hopefully this will be a fun send off and give us a cool Galaxy story to tell later.

Earthquake today, possible Hurricane Sunday. Locusts are due next Tuesday.