The_Alt_oholic

By-and-large, there is not etiquette in regards to completing missions. And I never ask if it is okay for me to complete a mission.
If someone is farming a mission, they should be polite enough to tell me before I accept an invite to join the team.

As far as glowies go, most of the time all you get is some small amount of xp. It isn't really that much, and it doesn't make that much of a difference in the long run or in my enjoyment of the game if someone else clicks a glowie.
If I was on a certain mission where I knew that I have the potential to get a temp power and it was my mission (and I really cared enough), I would make it clear to the team that it is my mission and there is a temp power in one of the glowies, so don't click them and to let me know where they are so I can click them.
I have never done that. I really don't care if the rest of the team clicks the glowies and/or gets the temp power.

If you are on a PuG, it is going to tend to be a bit wild.
Players tend to be a bit disorganized initially, and they may have preconceived notions about the way teams behave in general instead of figuring out what the other players can do and working to use their powers to augment the rest of the team.

In general, I tend to run "No Tanker/No Scrapper" PuGs. We do pretty good generally if people work together. The time that things tend to go wrong is when someone decides that they are a Tank (and don't have powers to cover that illusion) or automatically think there is a Tank on the team (apparently don't have their team window open), and race into a group of foes when they don't have the protection of Taunt (not that many Tanks seem to have Taunt anyway...) or their own defenses to deal with the agro.

Remember that the leader of the team has the star and they may very well have a good plan of how to get through missions with the kind of team that they have built.
Most PuGs end up just being a group of people running around until something gels -- when couple of players or the whole team start working together. When that happens, the enemies don't stand a chance.

I'd say that a good PuG team etiquette point is that you do not become the leader of a team simply because you were invited to a team....regardless if you are a tank/"can tank" or not.
The Tanker-centric team is not the only kind of team. It is not the only kind of team dynamic or team tactic that will work and/or be efficient in this game.
Tankers certainly don't become the team leader simply because they were invited to a team.

You don't need a "H3A70R" in order to defeat the enemy. H3A70Rs tend to do very little damage. You have to do damage to defeat the enemy.
There isn't always one to recruit. No reason to stand around all day looking for one or to keep complaining that there isn't a "healer" on the team.
Heals are nice, but buffs and debuffs are very powerful as well and can often compensate for not having a character with the ability to heal other players on the team.

Team tactics win out over almost any foe regardless of which ATs are on the team.
It is unfortunate that I have to be picky about the ATs that I select for a mission in order to vary my play experience by changing team dynamics. Some players are picky feeling that they have to have a tank and a "healer" on their team; many PuGs are like this.

Keeping all the enemy bunched up is not always the way to defeat them.
Stringing them out means that fewer of them are attacking your group at one time and you can defeat several as the rest are running up to catch up. Sure you can't pile on AoEs if they are stretched out and a Tank would have to Taunt a couple of times to group them once the enemy arrives (having been whittled down a bit), but I think that's better than eating floor.
Other AT's using tactics work just as well as a Tanker herding or pulling.
The point of this game is the variety of powers that are given to us. It is a shame to think that there is only one right way to play the game. You don't need to min-max in order to make a successful character or run a successful team.

I PuG pretty much all the time because I'm alt/side/server jumper. I'm a 60+ month vet and I try to play some almost every day.
I have only been on a small handful of teams where the leader wanted to click their own glowies - and they did make that clear in advance. The majority of PuGs that I have been on the motto is "If you see a glowie, click it - but help us fight any enemies that were are in combat with first".

The only teams that I have ever been on that don't complete missions were farm teams - that's the only reason to reset a mission and run it again. These team leaders tended to wait to announce that they were going to reset the mission until the mission is almost over ... and the mission tends to be a very long mission that has a very good end mission reward.
I have a right to that very good end mission reward, if I helped to complete that mission. The rude behavior at that point is on the side of the person running the team that is suddenly telling me that they are behaving in a non-standard manner once it is time to collect the reward - aka the last minute reveal that they are farmers and that they are going to reset the mission.
It is also rude to form a team, wait for players to cross zones to get to a mission, expect them to stand around while everyone assembles before going into a mission, and then, right before clicking on the door or right after going into a mission, saying that they are farming the mission and not to click the glowies or complete the mission. That's wasted my time.
If they knew they were going to be farming, they could have said so during the invite or as soon as I joined the team.
If I knew it was a farming team, I wouldn't have joined in the first place. If they said it was a farm once I had joined, I would have quit the team.
Of course, once farmers are out of the equation, I usually don't have to bother about the glowie clicking or missions ending questions; the team is trying to click glowies and complete the missions!

Hello. I'm not a superhero. But if you are in trouble, leave your name, the time, your gps location, the type of problem you are having, and try to remain calm while doing so. Oh, and please call back and leave a message if you have already been rescued or no longer need to be rescued. *beep*

Cool. I'm not that late to this one. No time to read the whole thread now so I'll jump in spastic for a bit of ranting

The writer is apparently just trying to bait CoH players. We have a pretty strong and active community. Having a lot of posts on their article makes it look like it is a good article to some. I think it was pretty uninformed and opinionated. There are lots of other games that don't get the kind of DEV love that this one does.

When anyone says "They need to make a Coh 2", I just have to laugh at the writer. What was CoV? It was CoH2, and it is now combined into the game. CoH:GR is going to be in beta soon. That will be CoH3. These writers are behind the curve. It seems to me that they don't even know that we get FREE Issue updates a couple of times a year that are often of the caliber of paid Expansion on other games.

Apparently the article writer doesn't understand that players post great ideas for this game in the forums every day and that the DEVs do get around to implementing some (if not many) of the suggestions that we post in the forums.

double post. check your other post. Players have replied on that one.

I'm a little old fashioned. So mine aren't as pretty as all that, but here are some shots.
I'll post some of the other stacked rooms later.

After the patch, I couldn't log in.
I verified files, I still could not log in.
I shutdown completely (powerdown). Then restarted my system and I was able to get into the City the first try.

I'm assuming that you restarted your computer after you updated the video drivers. You usually have to do that.
If you haven't restarted your computer, I would do that. Let it get completely up.
Then shut it down completely (powerdown), give it a minute or two and then power it back up.
Then try to get into the City again.

I'm answering your post name question "How early is too early for IO's?"

The obvious (but what some people will automatically give me flack about) is level 6.

I have slotted level 10 IO's on characters at level 7. Not fully, but some IO's here and there.

Is it worth it?
Yes, if you want them, if you have the influence for them, and/or if you don't want enhances that will expire. - or if you have them sitting around the base because you made some for a crafting badge.

I have tended to try to slot out my characters completely with level 20 IO's (so starting at level 17).

However, now that the leveling speed increase effects characters past level 20, I may be rethinking when I slot IO's.
It is very likely that some players will level up 5 or more levels on a good team before they have a chance to take a break and get more enhances. So having IO's means that you will at least get some benefit from enhances.
At the same time, is it worth waiting until you are a higher level instead of running around with IO enhances that are 5+ levels old?

I have a feeling that I will still be trying to slot with level 20 IO's and throw some in there at random at lower levels.

If I don't have the time, inf, salvage, etc to build IO, then I may or may not run to a store to buy some to slot until I get around to making or getting IO's from my base to slot them.

Since you are on Villain side I would get the TP's later. You can get Raptor Packs for parking in Grandville or paying 10k for 2 hrs in Granville. You can get BM TPs at any BM for 10k or parking there.

You don't need power for storage (other than a vault), and you didn't mention medbays. If you are going to get multiple, tp'rs you will need to get more than the basic combo power supply (it only has enough power to cover one tp, a med bay, and a vault. - if you have the second sized tp room you can put one tp'r in there and two beacons).

So I would look at storage first. The entry room is free. Put in the second sized warehouse room - the square one. Put in an enhancement storage or two and a salvage rack or two.

If you really want at least one tp'r fast, then go for the oversight room and the combo power/control generator.

However, if your goal is multi-zone teleportation, you will need a full on power room with power supply and a separate control room with control unit. Don't try to scrimp and buy the small tp room if you can help it, put in the one that is 3x3 (fits 3 tp'rs). that way you won't have to juggle stuff later.

I'm pretty sure that one of my sg's juggled all this into a small plot. If you have more than one storage room going, you will need to get the next larger sized plot, but there is no real problem with increasing the size or moving rooms around later (you can move rooms with all the stuff in it.)

Oh, I also agree with trying to get a coalition going. Don't now what server you are on.