Widower

Before Canada Day.

Hello everyone! It’s been a rather exciting couple of weeks, hasn’t it? 😀 There’s been a lot of talk, questions, and speculations as to what this means for Homecoming and City of Heroes™, both now and in the future, so we wanted to take a moment to talk about where we’re at and where we’re going. But first… how did we get here? The Journey Here Let’s look all the way back to May 2019, a month after Homecoming launched. We wrote an open letter to the community explaining our goals and motivations for everything that we’ve been doing. This statement still holds true: Of course, after the events of 2019, City of Heroes can never truly go away again. But the game simply existing wasn’t good enough, in our books; it was already sunset once, and we didn't want to risk that happening again - potentially over and over. The community deserves a safe and stable long-term home - not uncertainty, division, and a lack of continuity. That’s why we began our talks to acquire a license in 2019 - to secure that future for everyone. It’s been a long road, and we know some of our decisions have seemed questionable or frustrating at times. We know we’ve made some mistakes and missteps along the way, but our motive has never changed. Everything we’ve done has been in service of that original goal. And it worked. Nearly five years later, the talks succeeded and Homecoming is now officially licensed to host City of Heroes. We’re back for real now - and it’s still a bit surreal! This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our entire team - the Game Masters (including those no longer with us), the development team, and the admin team - as well as you, the community. Without everyone's unwavering support, none of this would’ve been possible. Thank you. Victory + Paragon + Homecoming As we mentioned in the announcement FAQ, we are working towards merging in some friendly servers - Victory and Paragon. Victory will be joining us as our 6th live shard alongside Torchbearer, Excelsior, Everlasting, Reunion and Indomitable. This will likely not take place for at least a couple of months as it’s a fairly complicated process, but we wanted to give you all a heads up so you aren’t surprised when it pops up! For those of you involved in Closed Beta testing, this will all be moving to take place inside Homecoming’s infrastructure, instead of being hosted by Paragon. As part of this, we will be setting up a new, straightforward path to join the Closed Beta process. As a fully volunteer organization, we obviously don’t have an in-house QA team. Our Closed Beta process is therefore vital for ensuring updates go smoothly. We hope to see many of you join in and help out once we’ve moved it over to Homecoming! And, speaking of updates… Issue 27: Page 7 - Coming Soon! The next major update, Issue 27: Page 7, will be coming to Open Beta very soon™. This update is huge - new power sets, new story arcs (including the finale of Piecemeal’s story), zone updates, new customization options, enemy group updates, and our next Advanced Difficulty Task Force: Lady Grey. We hope you like reading, as the patch notes are nearly 70 pages long when pasted into a document. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek: And there’s so much more to come in Issue 28 and beyond, including 🌊 & 🐮. Homecoming is Recruiting! Our team is growing! Not only are the fine folks from Paragon and Victory joining us, but we’ve also recently brought on a new group of Game Masters and developers - and we’re not stopping there! If you’re interested in joining the team, we'd love to hear from you! Developer application form Game Master application form That’s all for today. Once again, thank you for all the support you’ve shown us. We hope you’re all as excited as we are for what the future holds! - Homecoming

Hello everyone! We're really pleased to see so many new and returning faces in the City! However, we're noticing that some of our servers are getting much more love than the others! As such, we're going to be temporarily enabling 🏆 Double XP and 👽 Rikti Invasions on Torchbearer, Reunion and Indomitable (yes, we remembered Indom) until further notice. You might also find our GMs awarding temporary titles to any Heroes and Villains who help defend against the Rikti invaders! (As a reminder, you can transfer characters between shards from the character select screen - 5 tokens every 3 days.) Enjoy! PS: Open zones may not have the bonus active if they've been online for a long time - if you're not getting the bonus, try rezoning.

We're all smiling. ... on the inside, anyway.

Circle of Twelve has a nice ring to it, I guess.

Will be resolved shortly; hang tight.

Four months after the most recent Canada Day.

If the temperature in this thread could be taken down a notch, that would be swell. (Actually, since the problem has been solved, I don't necessarily see the point in continuing, but I'll leave that one up to you all.)

Just wait until Six breaks out the love hotel emote; then it'll really be over for you!

Sorry, busy day. Whichever one of you said that the appropriate response is to report them is correct. To the best of our ability, we do try to shut down political conversations in general chat, and LFG, and Help, and so on if need be. With that being said, it should not surprise anyone that I am locking this thread. Ceterum censeo, Snarky esse eligendum.

Right, so I'm not totally sure what happened here, but whatever it was: don't. Thanks.

While Homecoming has an official discord, there is no requirement of its use to enjoy the game. I'm locking this thread since feedback about Discord itself would be better suited for Discord's support page found here - https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us

If everyone could chill, that would be (to use a technical term) swell.

It's live!

quietly sneaks out from under Luminara's bed

So, uh, anybody need a travel agent? We're not called Homecoming for nothing, after all.

Please chill out.

Please keep your pants on; I have enough problems when you're wearing them that the scale of the difficulties here without your pants would be too horrible to contemplate.

Could we (to use a technical term) not?

Ah, here we go again. All I'm going to say is that the best solution to toxicity oft lies in oneself.

Well, I think all that could be said here has been said.

Confirmation bias, mostly.

While I cannot endorse the rest of Luminara's post, I do think this is an important point to consider. When your post gets hidden (especially in Focused Feedback, but anywhere) - it's not a personal insult! It's not any sort of warning! We're not out to get anyone*! And yes, as I think you've all seen, sometimes we do make mistakes. Some of the pruning was overaggressive, and for that we apologize. But we're not trying to censor anyone or whatever, we're just trying to enforce the Code of Conduct and (in the beta forum) the Focused Feedback guidelines. (Which, for the record, are guidelines. I have tried to err on the side of caution and let discussion happen when it is not disruptive, but if it is disruptive, well, what do you think happens?) * okay, I will admit we are out to get people who are consistently massive jerks on the forums - because that's our job! Really, if you don't want your posts hidden, just don't A) be a jerk or B) quote people who are jerks. It's that simple!

Don't worry, we also have no idea what the Council of Thirteen is.

I don't think there's much need to air this in public.