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I'm assuming that's 5 Billion Inf rather than Dollars? Because if not then that's awesome

One thing I completely forgot to suggest; Global Channels.

Have a look in the "Servers" section of the forums for whichever server you're playing on and have a look around for the server-specific global channels on offer as they're an excellent way to find teams/events and also ask for advice - they also allow you to start characters on one server without losing touch with what's happening on others (As the global channels are always available, whichever server or character you're logged into).

There are two tabs in the LFG window now, one for "regular" trials and one for "incarnate" trials.

I have to agree about the tiered unlocking; they need something explicit in game that says "When you complete this tier you unlock access to X, Y & Z". I can't even find any official documentation that explains it anywhere, all I've found outside of random forum threads is this: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Rewards_Program

Just one other thing I thought of:

Never believe anything anyone tells you in game about how CoH works, because most of the time it's wrong

Or, more specifically, double-check anything anyone tells you in game about how CoH works because as with any game there's a huge amount of misinformation and misunderstanding out there. The old classic being "Don't click the glowies on the Respec trial, it makes the final room harder", which of course it doesn't, but it persisted as "fact" for years (and probably still does).

Oh, those people exist, they're just not a prevalent in this game as some others You do sometimes get build or powerset zealots who'll refuse to let you join their team because they want an "X" Defender instead of a "Y" Defender for example, but it's pretty rare.

Honestly though, I would give Mids a play even at this point in your career if for no other reason than to get an idea of what powersets are available to you and to help avoid making the kinds of silly mistakes that we all made when we started playing (Though it's a lot better these days now that you can actually see what powers *do* before you take them).

For some idea of how Mids is viewed around here, take a look at today's thread announcing the release of an updated version with all the Issue 21 changes in it: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=273029 - we really do love it that much

There is no "required" team makeup; you can have an All Blaster team, an All Tanker team, a 7 Storm Defenders and a Scrapper Team (If you hate the scrapper ).

Just about any combination of powersets and archetypes can complete just about any challenge in the game (with a few extreme exceptions) as long as the players know what they're doing and have reasonable builds.

Also, Mids, Mids, a thousand times Mids.

First up, you don't have to go anything too drastic about the IO builds, just use the 2nd or 3rd Build options to recreate your build with SOs (so that you don't "lose" your IO build if you choose to re-sub/pay/unlock through Vet rewards later).

Secondly, Salvage/Recipe drops and AH access don't kick in until the end of T4, I believe (the problem being that it doesn't tell you in the interface *or* on the summary on the Freedom site, which is dumb and needs changing ASAP), so you won't have been getting drops because you wouldn't have been able to do anything with them unless you'd unlocked AH access.

Edit: As per, Paragonwiki has the details: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Rewards_Program - I was right, it is the end of T4 that you get AH access.

Hallelujah!

What upset? They're getting everything else *FOR FREE*.

If they're upset then they're fundamentally misunderstanding the premise of the game model.

I've said it before and everyone's ignored me, but I'll say it again anyway:

Prior to Freedom if you stopped paying a subscription you lost access to *EVERYTHING* you'd previously purchased.

Post Freedom if you stop paying a subscription, you lose access to *SOME* things you've previously purchased.

One of these is clearly an improvement over the other yet people seem convinced that they've somehow been stiffed. I'm not sure there's anything that can be done to convince them otherwise.

Right, I'm out, the comprehension fail is far more than I can cope with.

Rundll32.exe is a generic process for executing code so it could be "hosting" just about anything.

Give http://live.sysinternals.com/autoruns.exe a run and it should help you identify what is loading the rundll32 processes at startup.

You could also use http://live.sysinternals.com/procexp.exe to check live.

It sounds like either Malware or buggy drivers/browser plugins offhand.