Roderick

The devs recently said that the amount of data stored in a character file is surprisingly huge, so if this is supposed to be stored server-side, I don't think it would be a good idea.

However, if the information is stored client-side in a text file on your computer (like the file that re-orders your list), or is just the character description already saved in your character file, then sure, it sounds good.

Hm... Never thought of transferring the funds in advance. I always just make the payment, then make sure I have enough for it to clear, so that it never has to go to the credit card.

If you're a hero or vigilante, the best place for BP masks is in one of Unai Kemen's missions. If you're planning ahead, you can grab the Banished Pantheon Earth mission at level 45, and then ignore it until you hit 50. Then, set it to x8 and go nuts on a bunch of grey bosses. If you don't pick up the mission until 50 (or do it by flashback), setting yourself to -1 will make the enemies a bit weaker. You'll have to set your difficulty at x3-4 minimum to get masks to start spawning. Remember that you can set yourself to "Bosses downgrade to Lts when solo", and they will still count for the badge.

If you have redside access, the Mortimer Kal Strike Force is a great place for badges. You can get Succubi for Weed Whacker and Mages by the boatload, and if you run it on a lower level team (20-25, IIRC), you'll get Hellfrosts and Hordelings too. The mission where you go talk to Oddyseus involves a fight against a number of Warriors (all bosses), and in the mission where you fight Oddyseus, there are several more bosses in the ambushes. Numina counts towards Hero Slayer (but ONLY if you kill her - using the Soul Catcher temp doesn't count), as does Infernal. I haven't tested to see if his summoned demons count as Heroes (previous versions are inconsistant as to whether or not the pets count). I'm pretty sure at least one of Montague, Mercedes and Exorcist counts as a Hero as well, but I haven't tested. Positron counts for Hero slayer as well.

I knew that procs and Vet powers still worked during a Rage crash, but I never even thought about Judgements and Reactive Interface, even thy should have been obvious. I think my level 31 SS/Inv brute just became my prime leveling task during Double XP!

Kheld shapeshifts might be an exception. You can NOT turn off regular toggles while mezzed.

I've just one little nit to pick with the OP: Most Temporary powers most definitely DO benefit from Fury (and other forms of +damage, such as inspirations). I personally LOVE Plasmatic Taser and the various Grenades on my mid-level brutes, because the temp powers deal the same base damage for all ATs, so I usually get double damage or more "for free" just by maintaining my Fury. Some temps are flagged to ignore buffs and enhancements (like the Vet Reward temps) - this kind are the only ones that ignore Fury/inspirations.

However, I'm not sure that buying and crafting these would be worth the time expenditure. If you're making over 2 million Inf and 750 tickets/minute, running from AE to the university, base or Crafter's Cafe and then back (assuming you keep a stack of recipes and salvage on hand. Increase the time if you have to stop by the market to buy them) will cost you 8-10 million Inf and ~3000 tickets, and I'm not convinced that any temp will increase your efficiency sufficently to offset that. And the crafting table temp doesn't alleviate the delays - you can easily burn through the charges on several temps long before the table recharges.

One other thing for people to consider: While Inf earning scales with level, neither Ticket nor Prestige earning do. I run a Claws/Fire brute level-locked at 10, mostly to produce level 10 uniques and -KB IOs for myself. He caps tickets in about 3 minutes, and could probably push it to 2 minutes if I wanted to. The one benefit he has over a level 50 is that his enhancements aren't diminished to uselessness - I have all 5 of my Going Rogue preorder enhancements in Spin, which gives me about 2 SOs worth of recharge, even after scaling, plus the same in damage (for when I'm not damage capped), and the procs (which stop working at 21, were leveling up).

The problem is caused by how Hover's flyspeed is calculated. It uses a mix of flyspeed buffs and debuffs to make sure that you your speed starts slow, but can be increased a reasonable amount via enhancements (old hover got less benefit fron flyspeed enhancements than sprint does from runspeed).

Your Inertia (a hidden stat that's based on your flyspeed; it's what causes you to drift when you stop moving during flight, and to continue forward during a jump) is based off the flyspeed buffs, not the total flyspeed; that's why you shoot off so fast. The same thing happens with fly. For some reason, Inertia doesn't degrade while mezzed, so instead of slowing and then stopping, you keep going.

The best workaround is to keep an Inertia-reducing effect on you while Hovering. Any power that lets you control your movement mid jump counts. The obvious ones are Combat Jumping, Super Jump, Ninja Run and Beast Run. In addition, the phase/superjump power Warshades get, and the PBAoE +Jump power in Kinetics (sorry, I forget the names) will accomplish the same thing. There's likely a few others that will help as well.

Open the Launcher, right-click City of Heroes, choose Properties, check the box beside "Launch in Safe Mode" at the bottom of the window.