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It seems lately that when I have been exiting Cimerora via the Crystal, I will get stuck in the Crystal inside the Midnighters Club for about 10 seconds or so. I know if you type /stuck that it will sometimes pop you out of glitched situations. I normally would just wait for the 10 seconds before I can move. Anyone else experience this?

This morning I was on for a short while before I had to go to work. While in Grandville, I noticed another MM who had their three Battle Drones named Larry, Curly and Moe, the exact same as mine. This got me thinking, how many other MM out there are using these three names?

To be honest, I kind of felt weird when I saw it then after further review, I realized that because the Battle Drones are based on a group of "3", and sometimes act like clowns, constantly bumping into each other, that the law of averages says that others most likely will come up with the same threesome. You know, like Stooges..hehe. I named them that way based on their personalities and acting like clowns. My 2 Protector Bots are named Doc Brown (Back to the Future Movie) and Dr. Roboto (From the song Mr. Roboto) with my big guy Assault Bot named T-1000 (From the Terminator Movie).

So, just curious, what other names have you guys given your MM Bots?

Since the collision issue was somewhat fixed awhile ago with the Bots constantly getting stuck behind those Battle Drones, I really don't have too much of an issue with these guys. The majority of the time I will keep them on "Defensive Follow". This allows me and them to share some of the damage proportionately. I rarely use the "Aggressive Attack" mode unless I want to clear an area that I don't want to be in.

With that being said, yes, I do find that sometimes my Bots will run off on their own and start aggroing other groups. This sucks when you're going +1/+8 on solo, then you're getting double the dose on your behind! This only really is a problem when some groups are close together and you have no choice but to fight your way through them. I kind of look at it like owning dogs. Let's say you have five dogs. You decide to bring them to the park and throw a Frisbee around. When you get to the park you read a sign that says "keep all dogs on a leash". So, that's what you do, you put all of them on "Defensive Follow" and hope that none of them try to run off...hehee.

I originally had a post in the Market & Inventions section titled "My First Purple". Ahem,...well, after about a month plus of playing my level 50 MM Bots/Traps at -1/+8 off and on, I was able to get my "second" purple as of this morning. Normally, when I play my MM, I usually maybe run about 4 or 5 mish'es before I get bored with her and switch to another Toon that I may be working on developing. Needless to say, when I opened up my Inventions tab and saw that nice shiny shade of purple, it was almost like the feeling you get when you were younger, opening up Christmas Presents under the tree and you get that certain kind of rush of excitement.

Maybe that's why the dev's make them so rare. So we will appreciate them more when we get them...hehe.

I thought about this one this morning before I got out of bed. Being that it seems the "Check to see if name is already used" button doesn't seem to work (at least it never works for me when I am building a new Toon), I thought about maybe having some kind of access to a "scrolling" type view, like in the Markets, to see what names are already in use.

For example: let's say I wanted to name my Hero or Villain Pyrotechnic as they are Fire based on their primary power sets. I would then go to the search tab to see if that name is taken under the "P's" and then immediately see that it is taken before I hit the "enter" button to go into the training zone or active new Toon zone. I know there are some of you how would say this would take up way too much processing power to do this. Well, what about in game when you do a search for others by their Archetypes or Level. This would be based on a similar function but bigger since it would have to do a system wide search for "all" Toons.

Now, if the dev's ever fix that button that says "check to see if name in use" then we could probably rule out this option. But, it seems since I've been a member (15 months) and from what others have said, that button has not worked for a long time. Maybe they will fix it on the big upgrades through GR or others, who knows?

So the past few weeks as I am working on getting purples with my level 50 MM Bots/Traps running mish'es at -1/+8. I have been noticing that last couple of times when I am doing Newspaper Mish'es in Grandville and then get the invite from Wiggy the Brit to do a bank robbery, that when I complete the mish (meaning I got the money) I normally will either wait next to the safe for the Hero to come or maybe even venture down the elevator to bottom floor and wait their but mostly, I will always wait next to the safe.

Well, the past few times I've ran this mish, it seems the Hero never showed up. I would eventually head to the lower floor and still no Hero. It seems weird that I have to go out and "find" this Hero versus them coming to me. So on the last Bank Heist I did, I did all the other task as I couldn't find the Hero nor did they come to meet me. My time was running out and I had about 30 seconds left then the Hero showed up. Needless to say, it was too late to take him out in 15 seconds so I failed that mish.

So, has anyone else ran into this issue? For giggles I did run this at the normal levels +4/+1 to see if maybe it had something to do with me going solo at -1/+8. Nope, the Hero still never showed up near the safe after I stole the cash. I really don't mind doing those bank mish'es but if that Hero never shows up, what are we supposed to do? Anyone else experience this?

It is funny to see how much use the dev's can actually get from one office layout. Some mish'es you enter from another door, but it's the same layout. They may have you start out on the 5th floor instead of the 1st floor to change things up a bit, but it's still the same layout. I would have to agree that if I ever did get bored with this game, it would be the monotony of the environment. Maybe i17 Dark Mirror will add a tiny bit of shine to what we already see. Then of course, like most things in life, I think people become bored very quickly if you don't give them some kind of variety within the game.

I've always wondered about this one. Currently, my level 32 Dual/Elec Blaster has a "Cowboy" type theme to them. Thus, she is wearing a cowboy hat to fit her gunslinger mentality. With that cowboy hat, I think you only get the one style for women, the ponytail type hairdo.

It would seem that certain hats are linked/tied to only certain hairdos. Now, I do know that some hairdos can be too outrageous to fit a hat on right, but because hats and hair are considered "stationary" objects, which means they cannot move, why not have the ability to have more styles with hats? Is it because no other hairdos will work with certain hats and thus the dev's wanted to make it simpler on the coding and decided to only go with one style of hairdo for each hat?

I need some help on this one for anyone who can tell me why this might be the case? If no one can give me a logical reason for this, then I would say lets make this a future option down the road.

I thought about this one when I picked up Lightning Field for my Dual/Elec Blaster. I have never really noticed how annoying that "crackling" sound can be when my Lightning Field is activated. I normally run my Volume at max 100% on all my powers to get the full effect of the game. When you go to the "Options" menu, you only have the ability to turn down volume on "all" your powers Special Effects at once, which I don't want to do.

You can see the dilemma here. I pretty much can tolerate 99% of the Sound Effects for my powers but for the one that can be annoying such as Lightning Field, why not have a slide bar that allows you to adjust each powers Special Effect Volume "individually" instead of all of them turned down (which would suck) or just leave them all maxed out at 100% and suffer with just that one annoying power that gnaws at your inner ear canal..lol.

If this is not an option, then I would suggest to just change or modify that Sound Effect for Lightning Field altogether. As annoying as it is, I cannot believe someone in development hasn't made that suggestion prior. I know I cannot be the only one who finds this sound annoying. What do you guys think about this idea?

So, out of my 10 Toons, I probably have 7 of them with Combat Jumping. The ones with stealth either have that as a primary or I decided to stick with stealth and invis. To be honest, I keep trying to justify taking stealth or invis "over" combat jumping. This is only if you "had" to pick one or the other. This does not pertain to having both power sets. I find there are some good benefits with having stealth, invis or superior invis like being able to sneak to the blinky at the end of a mish or go right to the big baddie without having to slug your way through trenches of mobs. I also find that having Combat Jumping with the bonus to defense it gives you can also be very helpful and beneficial.

In the end, I normally always lean towards Combat Jumping because it seems to give me more overall defense versus having some stealth which makes it harder for enemies to make good contact with you but I am not sure or convinced that it is better on the defensive side. I need someone out there to prove me wrong and say, take stealth, invis and/or superior invis and fully slot out and it will be much better than a fully slotted Combat Jumping. Show me the raw numbers on what defense it will give me to help me understand why I should take Stealth, Invis or Superior Invis "over" Combat Jumping. Then maybe I can see the errors of my way of thinking.

Well, ahem....I'm still working on my "second" purple. Now I have not been playing my MM since the last post religiously as the past few weeks I've been working on my Dual/Elec Blaster, but I have been playing my MM now and then. Last night, I was running a bunch of mish'es with Borea in the RWZ. You know, those "prove yourself" mish'es that she has you run over and over again. I have been running these mish'es at -1/+8 on the diff setting. As stated earlier in these posts, it shouldn't really matter if I am doing +0/+8 or -1/+8 right?

I know, I know, call me impatient because we all know this is pretty much a random event. Of course you would think the odd's will eventually fall in my favor after fighting all these +8 groups. So, just to clarify once again as I am not doubting those who say -1/+8 or +0/+8 will make no difference in how fast or having better odds in getting rare purples? I really don't think the higher the foe the greater chance of them dropping purples right? I just need some extra confirmation on this. I know it can be hard to predict since this is a "random" event but still there has to be a way to stack the odds in our favor more?

So I'm just minding my own business as I was in the Mutant Store in Talos buying some enhancements when "BAM" all of a sudden, two Tuatha de Dannan snuck up behind me and dropped me dead. Needless to say, this completely caught me off guard as I was all relaxed and had my enhancement screen up so I never saw them coming.

I did have a mish up that was in Croatoa to defeat 10 Tuatha de Dannan's. I know that normally when you get a "Defeat 10 or more So and So" type mish, you might get some immediate spawned ambushes regardless of what zone you are in. But, ahemm,..this is the first time I was ever ambushed "inside" a store...hehee. I was able to get a snap shot before this last one fell to the ground, thanks to the other hero standing next to me as my dead carcass lay strewn across the floor..lol. Anyone else ever have this happen to them? I'm thinking it was some kind of glitch on the spawn but who knows, I've never had a foe spawn inside a store before.

I have been experiencing some issues with my Wentworth's Day Trader Teleport. Sometimes when I click on it and my Toon goes through all the necessary special effects, my pop-up comes up to give me the locations to teleport to then disappears immediately before I can even click on anything. This doesn't happen all the time but more so than lately. The frustrating thing is when this happens, I have to wait until my Teleport comes back up to use it again. Thus, I either have to use my Ouroboros or the old fashioned train method to get where I need to.

Anyone else notice this issue? As I mentioned above, since I've been on CoX as of Jan. 09' I have not had any issues with this before so I am not sure if it's from a recent upgrade or patch that may be causing this?

I'm still working on this one. I did have one of my ten toons get a rare purple and sell it for $400 Million in influence at the market which left them with over $500 Million. I then proceeded to spend influence like a drunken sailor and buy some nice enhancements.

With that being said, people mention this "cap" thing. What exactly is the cap? Is it a certain amount that each toon is allowed to have at one time,.e.g. $2 Billion for example? And if this is the case, why is there a cap and why is it set at a certain number? I really cannot see anything negative as to why the dev's wouldn't make the cap size larger or maybe even unlimited.

So I just rolled another new toon about a week ago. A Dual/Elec Blaster. Having some fun so far with her and watching the new effects with the Dual Pistols. Anyways, normally when I start with a new Toon, I don't really pay attention to my difficulty settings until I get in the higher levels, maybe after level 22 when you are able to get the beefier enhancements.

I ended up getting a mish that had me go against an EB. I knew I couldn't take him solo so I was going to drop my diff settings for better results. To my surprise (and I have never noticed this before) my difficulty settings where +0/+0. I had to scratch my head as I know there is not a +0 for number of heros or villains you are equal to. Normally it will show +0/+1 since the drop down won't give you a +0.

With that being said, does the diff settings automatically default you on +0/+0 for number of heros or villains you are equal to since your Toon would be too weak in the get-go?