Roderick

An 8' radius PBAoE has an area of (pi*r^2) approximately 201 sqare feet. If you're allotting 9 square feet (1 per 3' square box), that's room for 22 1/3 in the area, not "only 7".

It looks like you're merely squaring the radius, which gives you a little over a quarter of the actual area a PBAoE covers.

I usually refer to a pair of d10s, one marked 0-9, the other marked 00-90, as a d100, though I do own a Zocchihedron. I somehow doubt that a matched pair of d10s would be displasing to the gods.

5:30pm - 8:00am is 14.5 hours, by my count.

Just sayin'.

I think you typo'd this one. If AVs are set to downgrade, and there are only three on the team, you will not get AVs.

Minor nitpick/clarification: After you defeat a player, there's a five minute timer where you can't get a drop from that player, regardless if you got a drop or not. If you turn around and defeat a different player, it checks for a drop, and then puts a five minute timer on them as well.

Once you get a drop, a ten minute timer is put on you, and you can't get a drop from any kill until it wears off.

Note that the five minute timers can be refreshed during the ten minute "no drops" interval. If you kill a player and get a drop, then kill him 9:59 later, you get no drop (because you're still in the ten minute window), and you can't get a drop from him in the next five minutes (until the 14:59 mark). This is possible because the two timers are completely separate.

I'm not sure if there's a free program that does PDFs, but GIMP is free, and isn't just for Linux systems, and would work for the image-only option.

I think I'd rather see an off-site version that allowed full HTML functionality, if the forums can't be made to work. JPGs and PDFs would seem unnecessarily clunky to me.

That build would not be softcapped on a brute. While brutes and tanks have the same caps, brutes and scrapper have the same base numbers.

I think you may have messed up your quotes there, Westley.

I didn't mean to imply that you were taking credit for it; I'm just complaining that nobody ever GIVES credit for it, and then people like you find it, and have no clue where it came from.

And since the thread where it was originally posted got eaten in the error last year, that ate every post made withing the 2 weeks previous, nobody seems to know where it originated from. :/

Father Xmas - his Forum name, Global name, and Main toon are all Father Xmas. He frequents the Technical Help and Player Questions forums, doling out help by the sackfull.

On the rare occasion that I've bumped into him in-game - we have the same home server - it's more of the same. In fact, on the first TF or Trial I ever ran, he stuck with us through a failed trial run, then gathered up those that wanted to try again, and once we had formed, switched to his main and led us through the tunnels, then switched back to his character in the group and led us to a hassle-free success.

No offense to your friend, but if there were an official CoH Santa, my vote would be with Father Xmas.

That picture really should only be found here or here.

I'm flattered that it was so well received, but (my mistake) I didn't put my name on it, and nobody who spreads it around ever gives credit. *sigh*

That's funny. Father Xmas' explanation made perfect sense to me. Yours made none at all. Further proof that not everyone's mind is wired the same way.

It's good to have both; more likely that people will find something that they understand.

Last time I made a new character, less than a week ago, I ran the missions from the starting contact, and outlevelled them before I finished them all. I then went to KR, and talked to my first contact. He gave me one mission, then sent me to talk to David Wincott.

The Outcast and Troll hunts were tricky, because they were +1 to me, but there was constant traffic around the trainer, store and hospital at the entrance to the Hollows; I'm sure I could have easily formed a team had I wanted to.

By the time I was doing Flux's street hunt, all the Outcasts I had to deal with were grey. No problem there. I entered Frostfire's mission at level 9. I was 11 by the time I reached him, so the fight wasn't that difficult. I didn't feel like doing Julius' missions, so I ignored what the game was telling me to do, and forced it to give me a different contact.

As it stands, a new player who does what the game tells them to, is led through the Hollows, Faultline, Striga and Croatoa, because - even though the vetran players complain about it - the original contacts stop giving out their crappy old missions and go into "Talk to Wincott/Temblor/Peebles/Bower" mode until you do. And as soon as you talk to one of those people, they offer their missions, deflecting you from the "worst content in the game."

This is the most laughable part of your claim. Yes, you listed other things, fine. But to claim that a new player has to go through the Positron TF to get to level 15? When I started over 2 years ago, I ate up ll the content thrown at me - including many of the missions that I now roll my eyes at because of how bad they are. I was level 20-30 on at least three characters before I joined any global channels, and it was only then that I learned that Task Forces even existed.

There is a LOT for newbies to do, and the repetitive old missions aren't repetitive (yet) for people who haven't done them yet, so they aren't that bad. And they don't get repetitive that quickly either; especially with the greatly increased levelling speed, it's easy to take a totally different route to 25 on multiple different characters.

Agreed. Just have them unlock with the top tier "Complete X Flashbacks" badge, which, if I recall correctly, is "Mender".