Doc_Scorpion

That's mostly down to the fundamental weirdness that emerges when you make a MMO that tells a story/plays like a video game... You end up with a situation where time passes for the player (character) but time doesn't (and can't) pass in the setting. Both Dev teams (OG and HC) have repeatedly tried to square that circle, but essentially it's impossible to do so more than cosmetically.

Agreed. I like the idea, but have to wonder how many runs would end in tears because bugs in the game.

And of course, The Hollows was infamously difficult to traverse because at the typical levels you played it - you didn't have any travel powers and were frequently outleveled by hostile mobs. I've never made a speeder, but plenty of jumpers - and traveling around some zones is practically a mini-game in it's own right.

Dance Gun or one of SamuraiKo's videos... I can't recall where I heard of CoX's return. Maybe a random news item on Twitter or on my browser on my tablet? I avoided diving in because... well, I thought it would vanish again and I just couldn't take that. Then, two deaths in my family in short order (one of them my mom dying unexpectedly) and the City gave me just the escape I needed. I'm more of a casual player nowadays (and I've always been something of a serial monogamist when it comes to games) and I come and go, but so long as the City is here and I can sit at my keyboard, I'll probably never entirely leave again.

Popped up in my FB memories... in 2016, I expected I'd never soar through the skies of Paragon City again. But hoped to soon be playing in one of the CoX's spiritual successors. In 2025, I'm once again soaring through the skies of the City, and (though one is close)... Those successors have yet to launch.

Guess who just got back today Them wild-eyed Snark that had been away Haven't changed, had much to say But man, I still think that cat is crazy They were askin' if you were around How you was, where you could be found Told them you were livin' downtown Drivin' all the old men crazy

My one homage traces almost every detail back to the original character - but it's very non obvious (deliberately so, she's my character, not theirs). @ZacKing has it right though. Whether something is a rip or a homage can get complicated. There's way too much HWFO every time this topic comes up.

Yup. I knew that, but decided I'd derailed the thread enough. 🙂

Wouldn't this be best posted over in the Defender forum?

Wars over salt, taxes on salt, a barrier built right across a heckin' continent to control access to salt. And the salt fish trade in the Baltic and across the Atlantic a couple of centuries later. Sitting 'above the salt' and 'below the salt'. The Union's targeting of Confederate salt works during the Civil War... And no Roman soldiers were not paid in salt. That's an urban legend. (Can you tell I recently write a short paper for a presentation on the history of salted meats and ended up going down all sorts of rabbit holes in the process?)

Nit: MM pets do not have Super Jump (A forward moving jump that inherits the player's horizontal velocity), they have Super Leap (a vertical jump with no significant horizontal velocity).

You can already do that to a large extent. And you left out the countering disadvantage. The more granular your storage (the more SG's you have) the more complex and time consuming it becomes to manage. And the more complex it is to manage, the fewer and fewer people that will actually do it. Only the most dedicated basement dwelling neckbeard is really going to have the time, energy, and attention span to totally detach themselves from the economy. Let alone the interest in doing so.

It would probably help to use the /whereami command and a screenshot to correctly ID the map in question.

The Tool, Utilities, and Downloads subforum might also prove helpful: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/60-tools-utilities-amp-downloads/

There's no current open Beta, so I suspect it's not a high priority task. I mean, they leave it up as a courtesy, it's not something they owe us or anything. (Plus it's Saturday fer goshsakes.)

No, it makes less than zero sense - because the message I'm quoting is the very first mention of any sort regarding urgency. It also misses the point that allowing griefers to talk to Posi can mess up teams of people, more than one of which might want the badge.

I've seen it happen a couple of times, and I have a very hard time believing that something that takes two clicks is an accident.

On the flip side, my Controllers, Defenders, and Masterminds (who are all support/pet support focused) have been having a blast. If you can keep your allies alive, the mission is almost trivial.

I find my EA toons, with it's combination of ranged group buffs and heals, solo the mish surprisingly easily.

Gold won't work because that color is associated with Goldside. Otherwise sounds good.

Yeah, I ended up buying a new computer (that could just barely run CoH) because the one I had was a .2FPS slideshow during combat. When I came back to Homecoming I set everything to max just out of curiosity... and, wow. Though I am finding the start of the wedding mission or a Rikti invasion sometimes turns into a bit of a slideshow, but that much going on in that small a space is something of an anomaly.

She is very obviously a Defender. 🙂 🙂

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Though I wish the game hadn't died... I'm very glad we were spared that nightmare coming to life.