Hyperstrike

January 16

17 minutes ago, Abraxus said:

By all means, stand by your convictions. But, ask yourself "What if the game is still around in 5 years, and I missed out on all of that game play because NCSoft's involvement?" If you consider that potential outcome worthwhile, then by all means, withdraw on your own terms. But, it could be that you are being just a tad pessimistic.

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Pretty much this.

January 16

16 minutes ago, Geodyne said:

Out of curiosity, Hyperstrike. What with the relatively recent change in levels that powers become available, does it change whether a /SS should start with Jab, or does Punch work well enough or better?

It's basically a mathematical "meh" either way.

The reason you see it in my builds is basically because they were mostly generated using an older version of Mids. As the build sharing function in newer versions IS ALL BROKE TO SHIIZZLE.

January 15

12 minutes ago, luxlorica said:

See, now I want to know what is the toughest thing available?

Mo' Durable

Mo Durable 4 Psi - Tanker (Invulnerability).mxd Mo Durable 4 Psi FLYING - Tanker (Invulnerability).mxd

January 15

38 minutes ago, Oubliette_Red said:

At first, with all the influx of returning/new players I was surprised that no one chimed in on the Protector thread, then I realized that we're all probably already here. 😄

I solo'ed that witch! (not PRECISELY what was said...)

January 15

4 hours ago, Murcielago said:

This thread is in kindergarten now and SS still hasn't been ported to Scrappers.

And probably never will be.

January 14

5 hours ago, hoopahnan said:

Thank you both for your replies! Flight is a little harder to control then I'd like...can I trouble the hive mind for a "Golden Age" Superman, just for funsies? Inv/SS/Speed/Leaping. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...but no lasers or flying?
I have a thing for old school comics.

Actually it's not that bad.
Remember that you can now stack Fly and Hover. Going for a "speed hover" that retains your Defense.

January 12

You want Inv/SS with flight?

This is a build based on my Framework design.

Has blank Foot Stomp and Fire Blast 6 slotted.
Simply drop in Winter-Os. PBAOE (Superior Avalanche) and Ranged (Superior Winter's Bite) respectively.
It's already Alpha'ed.
But hasn't been set up with Accolades.

The Hyperstrike Actual build is mainly set up the way you want it.

Not the ABSOLUTE TOUGHEST thing available.
But tough for 99.9% of content.

Inv-SS-Flight - Tanker (Invulnerability).mxd Hyperstrike Actual - 080521 - Tanker (Invulnerability).mxd

January 12

2 hours ago, retiarius said:

Right. Except for the one stretch of six or so years post-shutdown where NCSoft wasn't even aware that City of Heroes was still covertly active.

Don't kid yourself.
NCSoft STILL had the leash. That six year period was an elaborate, EXPENSIVE game of "keep away".

January 12

4 hours ago, Azari said:

My toons on live suuuucked. 😛 they can stay dead.

Knowing what we know NOW, your 2.0 character(s) are simply on a different level than your originals. Even if your originals were awesomessauce with a side of deep fried aswesomesauce ice cream.

January 11

43 minutes ago, SmEgGy said:

Awww Shame I would loved to of got my hands on all those lvl 50s I use to have 😛

That data was scrubbed (for various reasons) as part of the INITIAL agreement with NCSoft.

January 11

50 minutes ago, Dr. Strangequirk said:

1)- Will some of the old features be reborn? Such as the drinking of a potion to change a characters gender whilst still keeping all of their design & gear?

Why would anyone do this?

You can get into the costume creator and change EVERYTHING. Including gender.

January 9

48 minutes ago, starro said:

I want to get this in before the thread gets locked..... The single greatest development in all of this is ...... pineapple on pizza.

Yeah. No.

January 9

Just now, Perky said:

Will this license allow us to reclaim our old live server accounts?

No. Those are, unfortunately, gone.

January 9

47 minutes ago, Bodai said:

Is this not enough to be worth it? I think it is.

On this, at least, we can agree.

😁

January 9

2 hours ago, Derek Icelord said:

At the risk of a warning for repeating my question in a previous post:

What does Homecoming gain from this, besides the hope that NCSoft demanding a shutdown is less likely and possibly more hosting options?

Jimmy answered the other 2 questions I had, but I consider this one to be the more important one.

Basically this gives them legal standing to continue the game.
Sure, the resources and technical expertise are 90% of it.

But the permission from the rights-holder is what'll stop them from just getting summarily take offline on a random whim.

As I'm not privy to the actual agreement, I can't tell if it's just an open ended permission, or if it's time limited "You have X years to do a thing".
Fairly certain it's more of an open-ended "So long as you're not trying to grift, you can keep it going."

January 9

6 hours ago, Jimmy said:

This was getting a bit personal. I've had to hide some posts.

I think we'll all be better off if we stop trying to explain to each-other how software licensing and privacy laws work 🙂

Very well. Just about reached the end of productive discussion anyhow.

Wasn't looking forward to bouts of "NUH UH!"

January 9

3 hours ago, Bodai said:

If NCSOFT were to give permission to use the data, it would magically reappear. Oooooh, you mean this data?

No they cannot.

There are data privacy and data protection laws involved.

Read through COPPA, GDPR and CCPA.

If you want to know why these would affect us, please ask the devs.

January 8

4 hours ago, Grey-Ghost said:

Aw man, 3/4 of the people in that poster are dead.

LOL

January 8

3 hours ago, Bodai said:

I don't believe this for a second, the data exists, someone has it, or a copy could be found. (and how would you know? Or is this just "what you heard"?)

More likely there is some BS legalese reason it can't be used, or indeed even acknowledged that it exists.

I think I remember something along those lines in the original conversations, maybe something like they were worried about privacy of the data.

I don't see a problem (especially if you now have a license). If you still have the original e-mail address or whatever identifying information, get your character data back and imported into your account, same way it was done on the original "underground" server (the guy who ran that was uber paranoid the SWAT team was going to bust down his door at any second).

This is probably the biggest hesitation I have about coming back. I really enjoyed playing all those characters, and they took a long time to build. I do not have nearly as much disposable time now as I did then, so it is impractical to rebuild them. As I mentioned previously, I only rebuilt the one character and that took a long time. I might build some new characters and play with my kids a bit, but I probably won't get into the 20B INF super-incarnate builds that are tweaked to the N^th degree. Who knows, maybe you don't even need that as much, even with the higher level content. My playstyle was more play a handful of really well-built characters vs. building dozens of mediocre one's.

All that being said, I am not holding out any hope that we will get the original character data back. This is great news with the license, but the universe is never so kind that we would get everything back like that, nothing I know of is ever that good. But it never hurts to ask in any case.

-Bodai

You're free to believe what you wish.

Ask the people running HC. They will tell you the same thing..

There are multiple reasons (some logistical, some legal) why this data was purged.
If the devs wish to answer the question, take it up with them.

January 7

1 hour ago, Jordan_Lee said:

What about from that underground server? I remember someone had a copy of accounts and toons, and if you had access to that server you could get them back. I've remade most of my favorite toons but I would still love to see all those old characters again.

That stuff was purged back in 2019 as a goodwill measure for NCSoft. To set the stage for HC's existence.

It doesn't exist anymore.

Sorry.

January 6

8 minutes ago, Coyotedancer said:

As if our lives aren't already filled with enough adverts to choke a proverbial brontosaurus...

More likely the nearest instance of Unicron...

January 6

And for all of you contributing. Whether via money, dev time/active community support or simply being part of the community, THANK YOU!

ALL OF YOU GUYS ROCK!

January 5

4 minutes ago, chopnstabn said:

I noticed there are billboards in the game. Would it be possible to actually sell that space to companies for in game advertisement? Instead of a billboard for "Up and Away Burger" it would be for "In and Out burger". That could help pay for servers and now license fees. Thoughts?

The advertisement space never really took off.

It was repurposed on live years ago for the in-game ads for things like Clanket, etc.

Unsure if the controls for this system are even functional at this point, or if they're hard-coded effects.

January 5

19 minutes ago, nyhm said:

Wait, I'm currently running the Island Rum launcher for MAC. Is this the third party version or Tequila? I know nothing about these sort of things...

No. IR has nothing to do with Tequila or HC Launcher.

IR was designed, initially, as a multi-platform game launcher, as Tequila and (later) HC Launcher, were primarily Windows-only.

January 5

2 hours ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

Does anyone other than me actually read those monthly financial statements?

STOP PESTERING US WITH THAT CRAP!

GIVE US FREE GAME!

😁

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