I'm a bit confused about contacts and missions in the game.  Can I
only get missions from someone if they are my official contact, or
should I be trying to talk to all the NPCs to see if any have
missions?

Having taken all your advice, I respec'ed Spectrum last night and feel
pretty good about the changes.  Made one gaffe in that I had intended
to move all my IO's to my energy bolts, and leave my torrent slots
open to craft a positron's blast set.  D'oah!  Well that was my last

Took a peek at some of my older characters on some of the other servers.
In particular my mind/kin controller (Mindcry) on virtue - who at 22 has
mostly DOs and just a few Sos (from the faultline arc.)
Thinking that these days with the invention salvage it's much easier to

I'm new to CoH and have some probably obvious questions.
I'm not finding lots of good info on the net, at least not well
localized.
First is, what good guides are there out there?  By good,

Oh, thank GOD I finally was able to respec my squishy elec/elec blaster
Rose Arise (VIRTUE).  She's my oldest character and I have a lot of love
for her, but leveling her has been really painful, because she dies too
easily.

I'm trying to create a key bind that puts a power on auto (simular to
holding the CTRL key while you click the power (puts a green circle
around it)) but it's baffaling me.  I'm sure it's a simple thing that
I'm missing but I've been up for 36+hrs so far trying to get our

I wrote a ost a while back giving Super-Strength "runner-up" status to
Energy when teamed with the electric armor set in Brutes.
Boy was I wrong.
Super-Strength is easily the equal of Energy.  what I underestimated was the

I play CoH, rarely CoV, and my system is last generation  (high end
AGP -- Ati X850).
Whom out there has this physics card and does it help with lag issues
when you have a large group of people?

This is for my lvl42 MM Bots/Dark Tech based, I always had this in my
head as it's back story but it's only been now that I've finally
banged out a first draft.  I'm no writer, but you'all are a creative
bunch that might have a different take or angle that will help flesh

Now as for an event, how about an invention salvage party?  Set up a
time/date for the SG to gather at Talos Monorail, and enter the base
there.  (Lowbies can safely get there by way of a Base Teleporter to
Steel canyon, which has a quick jog to the monorail.) Then everyone

Have any of you had problems with someone in your SG looting the
place? I've been lucky so far...
I have a pretty liberal policy.  I only have two requirements for
joining up, and that is:

Okay, so, anyone planning to pony up $9.99 rename their characters or
move them?
I can understand why they won't allow moving characters from one
account to another, since that seems to be a surefire abuse-magnet for

I guess when you hit 37 months you get a summon-pet power no one knew
about... I summoned a Great Dane puppy! It's really persistent, too, as I
can't make it go away and it's biting my toes right now.
My play style may be a lit

Shenanigunner, thank you for pulling all that information together.
I have played mainly my empathy healer / energy blaster defender
(Spectrum) on Freedom, and just recently started with a Martial
Artist / Regen scrapper, and I am running the character on exclusively

I was chuckling with a friend the other day who commented on how there
were no fat people in Paragon City.
I pointed out that there are no fast food joints, and everyone walks
(runs in panic), everywhere.