Red_Raccoon

Yeah, I've often used names of characters I created for roleplaying games as passwords. They're easy to remember (especially for a much beloved character) but aren't even real words and are completely unknown to anyone outside my group of gaming buddies.



I had a feeling it might have something to do with that, I did see the prompt to install the NCLauncher but didn't do it. I believe the NCLauncher has been around for a while already, but someone mentioned that you don't get the CoH announcements that appear with the CoH launcher if you use it. Is that still the case I wonder?

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with contacts and standard missions?

Understanding why you don't like that type of content will make it easier for us to suggest content that you might like.

I have a polar bear character named Professor Ursine who uses one of the montrous heads. With small ears, I think it looks fairly bear-like. But I assume you've seen that head, and its probably the one you think is ugly, so no help there.

I don't have the animal pack yet, but I sort of expected it to come with a bear head. I'm surpised to hear it doesn't. Guess when I get the pack I won't need to bother reworking Professor Ursinie's look.

I was thinking the same thing, but then I reread the first post and saw that the OP said he was playing a Dom who is still a villain. Unless he switched sides to hero, picked up some arcs, then switched back to villain, it doesn't seem like side-switching is the problem here.

I would say check inactive contacts for open arcs, but I don't think outleveled contacts go to the inactive list if they have open arcs, do they?

Whoa, there's a big difference between not wanting to "team almost all the time" and being a "primarily solo player." There are also the players who like to team most of the time (just not "almost all the time") and players who like an even mix of soloing and teaming.

I primarily solo myself, and I know there's quite a few of us, but I doubt anywhere even remotely near 95%.

I earned 8 shards after soloing 17 missions, so the drop rates weren't too bad for me. Don't know if my experience is typical or not, though. According to Paragon Wiki, the drop rate is 1/1000 per minion, 1/150 per Lt. and 1/50 per boss. Based on that, if you play a 2-3 hours a day, I would think you could probably average more than 1 per day.

The article did list healing, buffing, debuffing, and dropping foes as all means to earning the rewards:
admittedly they don't explain exactly how buffing etc is scaled vs defeating enemies, but I assume there is an intent to be fair.

If that is indeed what you were saying, I don't think there's any room for argument. At this point, I beleive everyone including the OP is now aware that he overlooked a crucial step.

However, this is the comment I was responding to:
I don't know how to interpret that other than to think it was meant to imply that the OP gave inaccuracte information, either in regards what he did or the order in which he did it. In fact, as far as we know, the OP was inaccurate on neither account. Rather, he left out additional information which we know was important, but which I'm sure he was not aware was relevant at the time. I hope you can appreciate that difference.

And without knowing the specific game mechanics before hand, I don't think the omission was really all that ridiculous. As far as the OP knew, the only flag that triggered the NoTW reward was whether or not that specific reward had been earned that week by that character. I imagine I might have thought the same thing had I not read this thread first.

It sounds to me like that's exactly what he did, in that order.

What he left out of his original post was that he had also run the same TF this week prior to taking those three steps. I don't think he was deliberately hiding anything, I just don't think it occured to him that anything he did prior to unlocking his alpha should have affected his qualifications for the NoTW after unlocking it. Were I in his situation, I don't know if it would have occurred to me, either.

Sometimes it feels that way, but I think it's our imaginations. It may be the whole annoyance of "how could I miss that guy? He's completely stunned and unable to defend himself!" that makes these instances stand out in our minds. The same way that missing after popping a yellow inspiration causes a "how could I miss!?" moments that makes if feel like yellow inspirations sometimes actually debuff accuracy.

Yeah, but a lot of badges require grinding. You can't be a serious badger without signing up for some grinding. I'm not really into grinding, that's why I only care about getting badges on two characters (one hero and one villain), and I'm not obsessed with collecting anywhere near the max number of badges.

Wait, didn't you read the latest patch notes?

I don't know, I think the login screen is pretty fun too.

Here are some names that I consider pretty good:

Death Warrant
Doctor Mischief
Doctor Arboreal
Professor Ursine
Pale Tiger
Sir Brimstone
Father Wicked
Steel Locust
Neon Flash

These are all names I've found available over the last two years. I think I could realistically see any of them appearing in a comic as a superhero/villain name.

Finding the mission door is usually very easy, but there are a small number of cases where it can be tricky due to the geography. I have generally found that a few minutes of searching around is sufficient to locate most hard-to-find mission doors. The one exception for me was Faultline, where there really is a secret tunnel to the mission door. I asked about it on these forums and received an answer in lerss than 5 minutes. I tend to not like asking for help, but I've found that this community is friendly and makes doing so rather easy.

Its rare that the mission objective is incorrect. However, "kill the boss" almost always means "Kill the boss and also every enemy in the same room as him." Often (but not always) this is aluded to in the statedobjective (i.e, "defeat boss and his crew", "defeat boss and her guards," etc). Also, on some maps, it's not always immediately clear what constitutes the "same room" as the boss. Kill Alls have always meant exactly that for me, but sometimes there are ambushes which appear at the end of the mission, and they aren't always required for the Kill All.

Sorry to hear this game wasn't for you. For the record, I don't agree that this game is necessarily problematic for new players. I started two years ago and while I had two friends who played, they only started a couple of weeks before me and did not play very often, so by level 20 I was already ahead of them in the game. I mostly soloed and did not use any in-game chat, but was still able to figure out most things for myself. The few things I couldn't, I learned by coming to these forums or by looking it up on the Wiki. But different players have different playstyles, and it looks like this game just doens't fit with yours. Hope you find one that does.

Also popular as an end date for the Silver Age is Jack Kirby's departure from Marvel Comics. In fact that's the one I hear mentioned the most. Although I always found that a bit odd because 1) Jack Kirby continued to work in comics for a long time (it's the Silver Age of Comics, not the Silver Age of Marvel Comics), and 2) Kirby came back and continued to do quite a bit of work for Marvel for the next decade.

My favorite is the Hungry Dragon. My MA scrapper loves their Kung POW! Chicken.