Roderick

Assuming that it works like every other proc in a pet: It will attempt to fire on you when you summon the pet, and it will attempt to fire on the pet every time the pet attacks.

/chatload will load whatever your default chat settings are. If you have a character with a chat box that you're happy with, load that character and type /chatsave and then load the settings on the messed up character.

If the team was willing to wait, I'd have /petitioned to see if the GM were able to grant a copy of the temp to someone else.

Sadly, there's not much you can do about the player.

Have you TRAINED to 20 or higher?

I personally have no intentions of slotting Health and Stamina right away. I'll get slots in Stamina around 12, when I get DOs, and in Health once I've got the Uniques to slot in it, or when I have slots that I don't need right away for powers. In other words, I'll be slotting Stamina about when I would have slotted Health before, and Health about when I would have been slotting Stamina.

Even on min/max builds, there should be several powers worth grabbing without any additional slotting needed. Off the top of my head: Combat Jumping (Def SO/IO if you want to stack def), Assault (EndRed, can't take anything else), the various auto powers in resist-based melee armors (since most are near the cap off their toggles, the autos are better for their secondary effects than their resists.), Recall Friend, travel powers, the Medicine pool (Better with slots, but good enough without), Aim or Build Up (For blasters that only had room in their build for one. Again, slots are good, but not needed), Self-rez and godmode powers, the Concealment Pool, Taunts (tank/brute/scrapper versions as well as Presence Pool). These are all powers that I would take and use with nothing but the base slot in them. You could also take the Teir 2 attack as a Defender, Dominator or Tank, move the slots from the T1 attack to the T2, and ignore the T1, if you're one of the players that really hates the T1 attacks.

I couldn't tell you, but both of my computers (both running Vista) do that on occasion, but usually start "normally", like you describe on your XP machine.

Are you running CoH in Administrator mode on the Win7 machine, or from an Administrator account? Are there any processes running in the background that might interfere with it (such as a virus scanner)?

If it's not related to either of those, I have no idea.

Every one of those is a trainer, except Woodsman, who is a Trial contact. Like the villain patrons, hero patrons (Mentors? I like that!) should be contacts for their own set of arcs, and not TF/Trial/Trainer type NPCs.

I'd like to suggest Spark Blade as one. He could grant pistol attacks to melee characters, sword attacks to ranged characters, and both to support types, along with some electric-themed powers.

Other possibilities could include Martin Henri, founder of the Luddites, Max Action or one of the other members of the Civic Squad, Kadabra Kill and/or Sigil, Lady Jane leader of Dawn Patrol (Dual Pistol epics for Melee!).

Also, a Vanguard Patron, and a Cimeroran Patron, each unlocked individually, and separately from any other Patrons, that offers their missions to any character that has the appropriate badge (Member of Vanguard or Midnight Squad, respectively), regardless of their alignment.

Join one or more of the following channels: "Victory Badges", "Victory Forum", "Victory Global". Do NOT just post "LFT" in the channels, that rarely gets you anywhere, judging from how often I see the same person post that over and over all day. Either wait for an announcement that someone is forming a team, or form your own. If you form your own, mention what you're running, not just "Team LFM", but rather "Blueside tip team, level 15, room for 6 more". If people know that you're doing something they want to do, they're more likely to be interested; I find a lot of people are fairly goal-oriented, meaning that they don't want to join a team if it doesn't help progress them towards those goals.

According to OLD dev posts, he's so big that his bounding box prevents melee characters from getting close enough to attack him. We've had a few larger creatures since that was said (ex, the Jade Spider), and for a short while, there was an enormous MekMan in the AE on the Test Server (Castle said it wasn't supposed to even get that far - it was for personal use testing large enemies). It's possible that they intend to eventually use him, once the technical aspects are overcome.

Until then, no, he's not in the game. The closest you can come are the run-ins with various aspects in the Shard TFs and CoP trial.

First thing I thought of when I read the OP was "Door to Fort Cerberus" in Mercy, "Freight Elevator D" in Faultline, etc. Yeah, the tech is already there to mark in-zone transition points, so it shouldn't be too hard to add, and it would be a good QoL addition, especially for new players. The only reason I found my way out was because I had heard about the difficulty getting out, and created a waypoint on the map at my feet right after going in.

TL; DR version: /signed

*Clicks "Sell All" button*

OH ****!! I had a purple in there!

Sorry to perpetuate the threadjack, but...

I mostly play brutes, scrappers, and blasters. In all cases, the song is the same:

Weapon of Choice

I'm one of the people who made the "30 minutes a day" claim. I don't have the patience to run 5 tips or 5 tips+morality on 4 characters a day, but I have been doing it on two. I run at +0x1 and -1x1, both with no bosses, the hero in Talos, the villain in Shark. I street hunt until I get a tip. If any tip I get is outside the zone I'm in, I dismiss it. Once I get a tip, I street hunt to the mission, speed the objectives, and then if I haven't picked up a tip yet, clear the map until I get one. Again, I dismiss any out of zone tips, and street hunt to the next mission. I time myself from the first kill I make when street hunting until completion of the last mission for the day. My best time so far was yesterday - 5 tips+morality in 26 minutes. My worst time involved an objective hidden in an unusual spot in the morality mission that took me over 10 minutes to find. That run totaled 43 minutes, again for 5 tips+morality. Every other run has been 30-35 minutes on the level 50 scrapper, and 35-40 minutes on the level 25 brute. This has been consistent for about 10 days.