Hube02

I'm new to the game and thought I would try my hand at building a small base but I'm having difficulty.

When I get my new base the base portal room, the only room I have is in one corner. Is it possible to move this room to the middle of the map? I've tried moving it and it won't let me. Am I doing something wrong or is it stuck in that position?

According to what I've read, if I want to rotate an item that I'm trying to place I'm suppose to hold the right mouse button, all this does is rotate the view on the map and not the item itself. Can someone ex[plain how to do this.

I've seen lots of great stuff here about what makes a good base but I haven't seen much in the way of "how the base editor works" and frankly the information in the players guide is quite lacking. Are there any guides to simply using the base editor that I've miss? I've been searching with little luck.

Still appreciating the comments. Since starting this thread I have had some good experiences with teams. And yes, in teams I, as the Tank, go first, get their attention, and then the rest of the team joins in, then I do my best to make sure I keep their attention. There is a large difference between what I do when I'm solo and when in a team. It does help when the other team members cooperate and allow me to lead the way.

On the other hand, in between fights, I'd still like to get a good look around. Which is tough to do when the other members of the team run off in 2 or 3 or as many directions as there are other team members. Sometimes this leaves me with my jaw hanging.

NTR makes the most sense. That looks like a combination of fingers on the wrong keys an dyslexia from typing in a hurry. I would not have guessed that, but it does make sense in the context of why it was said.

Still new and trying to learn my way around. I find some of the Jargon quite confusing. For instance, had someone send me "mrc" and I haven't a clue what this might mean. The person helped me out, I said thanks, they said "mrc". I can't even find this in the guides about jargon.

I sent back "mrc?" wanting to know what it meant but got no reply at all. Can someone clue me in?

I guess for me it is definitely more about the journey than the destination, as others have said.

Also, I am finding that part of the problem with running in is my inexperience. I'm now making different choices about powers and enhancements and it has made a marked improvement in my ability to just run in and start bashing. Suggestions posted here that have led me down this path. For instance, I thought that it would be more important to decrease the recharge time than to increase accuracy on attacks, however, as someone pointed out and I have learned, it don't do know good to swing a lot if you never hit what you're aiming for. However, I like finding these things out through trial and error, I learn more when I make the mistakes myself. I'm also, in the current hero I'm getting to like to forgo power pool powers entirely in the early stages. Rather than take one of these as soon as they became available I'm focusing more on the primary and secondary powers that come with the class. With this change I've found a marked improvement in what the hero can survive. Drawback is that it's slow getting around.... but then again, that's all part of the Journey. I guess, unlike most, I'm not really in a hurry to get to the destination and more interested in taking in the scenery along the way (something else someone posted here).

As far as what server I'm using, currently Virtue, I tried Triumph, but found it quite dead. I felt like I was the only here on and I actually did a search late one night to find out that I was indeed the only person on the server. I just found the idea of that disturbing. The reason for Virtue is the person that introduced me to CoH, who was my daughter. We've done some stuff together, but she's on to play with her friends and doesn't want to hang out with me unless they're not around.

@Bill Ramey, How would I go about finding you or your group?

What I'm really interested in is getting in some teams that see things a little like I do (I don't expect anyone to see things exactly the way I do) to get a bit of experience of what it's like to be on a team that takes a more tactical approach.... not to fast, not to slow. I wouldn't even mind a bit of RPing thrown in as well. I've been RPing since... Uhm... Herhm... quite possibly before some of the people here were born. Just haven't had any experience with MMORPG before now.

Thanks all, I do appreciate the comments, even the pointers about how to build the hero. I'll figure that out as I go and figure out what's best for me. I'm mostly concerned with the tactics though and understanding the logic behind something that, from my experience so far, doesn't work.

As far as my experience goes with teams so far they have not been successful in the "run and gun" tactics as you call them. From my other RPing I would call this "dash and bash". What I've seen is, I get invited to a team. The person that did the invite says "Follow Me". Not much else in the way of communication, even when I try to initiate it. We enter the building (or a cave or whatever), the others run off without telling me what direction they want to go so my Tank is left following behind rather than in the front where I should be. The "Squishies" (as I've learned to call them from reading these forums) run into the fray, I try my best to take the heat off them. Usually they die (because they're squishy) or we all die. Next I know I'm either standing there by myself being pounded on by 10 baddies or I'm waking up in the hospital and the "Team" has disbanded without so much as a "bye".

I have tried to voice my concerns to these others and the general response is "We know what to do" or "Just follow us an kill the spawn".

This is at low levels, I've been experimenting with different types of builds so I haven't gotten any of them above... I think the one at the highest level is about 16.

So, my experience thus far with teams and the "run and gun" mentality has been not been pleasurable. Not to mention the fact that I just get kicked from said team without a word and when I try to send tells to the others, 9 times out of 10 I get no response whatsoever and the other time I get something like "I gotta log, see you later." which I never do. I get the strange feeling I'm being blamed for the failure even when there was really nothing I could have done. If you're playing a squishy and you run into a mob you've gotta expect they're going to beet you senseless.

I've done mostly solo so far as a Tank and I've found that if I don't take the time to pull one or two at a time I end up at hospital or needing to take extended periods of resting and waiting before I more on or end up at hospital.

Maybe it's me, I'm new and just trying to figure things out. I've also only been on small teams, 2 or 3 and have not had any experience with larger teams.

Relatively new to the whole MMORP thing and I'm curious. I did a search but did not find anything covering this.

I've accepted a few invites to teams now and so far what I've gotten into was ... everyone running around head first into every thing, not really taking the time to look around. Just run in, bash the baddies and run out.

I personally like a more structured approach, a little caution, a plan. I like to do a thorough search of the place, see all parts of the map, do a bit of peaking around corners to see what I'm up against before I go storming in. Try to pull 1 or 2 of the baddies out of the main group so that I can take them on one at a time or in smaller groups.

Is what I've seen so far the general rule of what I will find, or can I also find others that think the way that I do?

This is one of the things that has kept me from accepting more invites to teams. I really don't like the "Storm in and hope for the best" Approach.