Starry Night

I heartily endorse this. And if we can't do it with all time, I'd like to try it with a mix of our alumni.

I'm open to all these things. I don't play melee much, or at least not much to high level, which I know I'd get to with this group. And there are a lot of new melee sets to play with.

I'd be tempted to do that as well. LET THE HOWLING BEGIN!

You can book us for weddings and children's birthday parties, too!

Probably LRSF on Friday, Apex on Sunday? Since I recall 10joy can't make it on Sundays? Actually, Apex is pretty short, isn't it? Maybe we have time for both.

I haven't done an Apex since the old alpha+1 days. I hope it's a lot easier than I remember with +3 shifts.

We are efficient but disorganized. That must be why we aren't ruling the world already.


That's what I remember. Too bad melee doesn't stack the way support does. There are a lot of new melee sets that might be fun to try, but it's tough to work them into a synergistic team without casting a really wide theme.

Someday after Nature Affinity hits, we could do Nature/Plant. That could be overpowered.

Forgot to reply to this earlier. I'll pitch in, but probably in a limited way.

I can help out if you're too busy or not interested. My creative skills are lacking, though. I can handle the functional stuff but not the decorative stuff.


Interesting observation: by virtue of our having been doing Dark Astoria stuff, I came close to unlocking Judgement/Interface before slotting Alpha. OK, not really close, and part of that was due to incoherent choice of component rewards, but still. In the past I've usually hit T3 Alpha before getting any significant progress toward the other slots.

The DA arcs have been an interesting challenge level. At times, the snake ladies were hitting us pretty hard at +3. But because the bosses are all EBs and not AVs (*), the final battles weren't disproportionately hard.

(*) Intentionally, it has been stated, to keep the arcs viable for solo/small-teams. Although they are brainstorming on ways to up the challenge for big groups without AVs.

That's about where Zeleia is, too. Your plan sounds good. Just trying to throw out ideas so we aren't all staring at each other come Friday.


As for damage, I noticed our slow speed vs. hard targets, too. It's tempting to ascribe it to the fact we are mostly defenders and controllers (even though we have a lot of -res and -regen). As much as I have enjoyed playing Illusion Control, I do miss blasting things. My ice/time corruptor is still level 22, though.

We learned that Slag Golems move really fast regardless of how many time manipulators you have on your team.

A trifle! We're already spread out from low teens to low twenties after only two sessions. Still a good time to join us!

It's always this way. We have a casual attitude, but the greyhounds on the team run at a relentless pace, and they reach fifty pretty quickly (3 months or so). The rest of us mutts trickle in in the following 4-6 weeks. But the whole pack plays together the whole way.

We're starting to get scary. The buffs and debuffs are stacking, and we haven't even gotten to the good ones yet. Nothing like standing in a sea of 6 or 8 Time's Junctures!

Musical chairs. Most of the time, it's juggle-able. If we're just doing missions, we'll split into four and five. Same thing for TFs, as long as we're only one or two missions into it. We'll restart with smaller teams, as long as we can meet the minimum number to start. Sometimes we will switch to something else entirely if we can't.

Most of the time we don't get really rolling for a half hour or so. If you're here at 8-ish, you're going to get on a team. I'd say it's less than one evening in two months that someone logs in late-ish and we're locked into long TFs already. Maybe even less frequently. (Anyone from the West Coast with a later schedule want to comment on that? Do you find that late logins get you locked out that often?)

We really, really try to get everyone on a team. There have been times we've juggled people and teams for ten minutes until we got everyone not only on a team, but doing the missions/TFs they wanted!

Wait, what? Has this been stated clearly somewhere? As far as I know, 10.6 is still supported. It was 10.5 support that was ended recently (see sticky at top of this forum, dated Sept. 2011).

Am I wrong on this?

(I'm running 10.6.8 and not having any problems; actually, with recent memory leaks being plugged, it's more stable than ever.)

Edit: found an official link on the support set. Minimum requirements as of Jan. 30, 2012 is 10.6: https://support.cityofheroes.com/app...etail/a_id/462

Edit 2: and they really don't make it easy to find that information. The main site, as far as I can tell, has zero information on system requirements.

Click on the Apple menu in the upper-left corner and select "About this Mac".

The upgrade is not free, though it is pretty cheap. I believe it's $30 to upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7). From Leopard (10.5), you may need to upgrade in sequence to 10.6 then 10.7, for more $$, but you'd better check that independently from my leaky memory.

To the OP: thanks for the note. I've been planning to upgrade but I wasn't in a hurry. This gives me a good reason.