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City of Heroes 20th Anniversary Q&A Question Submission Thread Hi everyone! We're so excited to be teaming up with some members of the Original City of Heroes Team to host this Q&A! Please use this thread to post any questions you may have. Answers will not be posted in this thread - we'll be collecting the questions and then compiling the answers for a post towards the end of May. The following members of the original team will be participating: Melissa "War Witch" Bianco - Lead Development Producer Christopher "Back Alley Brawler" Bruce - Senior Animator/VFX Artist Floyd "Castle" Grubb - Powers Team Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney - Powers Team Hosun "Black Pebble" Lee - Brand Manager Keetsie "Tunnel Rat" Braz da Cunha - VFX Artist Kevin "Freitag" Callanan - Community Team John "Protean" Hegner - Designer / Writer Phil "Synapse" Zeleski - Powers Team Stephen "Rockjaw" Reid- EU Community Team Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann - Designer / Writer "GhostRaptor" - EU Community Team C.W. "Pohsyb" Bennett - Programmer "TheOcho" - Community Team "JLove" - Senior Artist "Fireman" (aka Bass_Ackwards) - QA "Hero 1" - Designer / Writer "Manticore" Designer / Writer "Dark Watcher" - Senior Programmer If there's a question you'd like to ask, please reply to this thread with the question and who it's for (it could be everyone, a specific department, or a specific individual). Please note that we can't guarantee every question will get an answer - but if you see a question you'd like to see answered, be sure to emoji react to it so we can prioritise the most popular questions! Only questions are permitted in this thread - anything that isn't a question will be promptly hidden (please use the main Anniversary thread to discuss this event). We will be accepting questions until 11:59PM EDT on Wednesday, May 1st (at which point this thread will automatically be locked).

City of Heroes 20th Anniversary! Today (April 24th, 2024) marks the 5 Year Anniversary Homecoming's first shard (Torchbearer) coming online. It's been an incredible year so far, not the least of which was Homecoming being granted an official license to host City of Heroes™ earlier this year. While that alone is cause for celebration, this year also marks the 20th Anniversary of City of Heroes (which is officially observed on April 28th). As such, we have numerous festivities planned! New Annual Event: Anniversary Time Capsules May is the month in which we celebrate City of Heroes' Anniversary. This mainly involved a new annual anniversary badge, but we wanted to go the extra mile this year. We are introducing a brand new annual event: Anniversary Time Capsules. Starting on Tuesday, April 30th, these time capsules will begin appearing all over Paragon City, The Rogue Isles and Praetoria. Within them you'll find a range of goodies including some brand new vanity pets, new temporary powers, new badges, new temporary costume powers, Anniversary Tokens (which can be used to acquire most of these rewards from Luna in Ouroboros and Echo Plaza), as well as some additional surprises from the past. Of course, a new anniversary badge will also be available this year: Reunited Be sure to check out the patch notes on Tuesday, April 30th for full details! City of Heroes 20th Anniversary Q&A Next up, we've invited the original City of Heroes team back for a special Anniversary Q&A. These members of the original team will be participating: Melissa "War Witch" Bianco - Lead Development Producer Christopher "Back Alley Brawler" Bruce - Senior Animator/VFX Artist Floyd "Castle" Grubb - Powers Team Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney - Powers Team Hosun "Black Pebble" Lee - Brand Manager Keetsie "Tunnel Rat" Braz da Cunha - VFX Artist Kevin "Freitag" Callanan - Community Team John "Protean" Hegner - Designer / Writer Phil "Synapse" Zeleski - Powers Team Stephen "Rockjaw" Reid- EU Community Team Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann - Designer / Writer "GhostRaptor" - EU Community Team C.W. "Pohsyb" Bennett - Programmer "TheOcho" - Community Team "JLove" - Senior Artist "Fireman" (aka Bass_Ackwards) - QA "Hero 1" - Designer / Writer "Manticore" Designer / Writer "Dark Watcher" - Senior Programmer Head on over to this thread to submit your questions before 11:59PM EDT on Wednesday, May 1st. After that we'll begin gathering the answers to post up later in May. City of Heroes 20th Anniversary Costume Contest! Finally - what would an official Homecoming Event be without a costume contest? Well, we'll be hosting two contests (one on Torchbearer, one on Reunion) towards the end of May, with several members of the original City of Heroes team joining us as guest judges! This will be an anything-goes (within the confines of our Code of Conduct) costume contest with no specific theme. Bring your best costumes! When? Torchbearer: Sunday, May 19th @ 10:00PM UTC (click to see 10pm UTC in your timezone - the contest will take approx. 1 hour) 3:00PM Pacific time 6:00PM Eastern time 11:00PM UK time 12:00AM Central European time Reunion: Sunday, May 26th @ 10:00PM UTC (click to see 10pm UTC in your timezone - the contest will take approx. 1 hour) 3:00PM Pacific time 6:00PM Eastern time 11:00PM UK time 12:00AM Central European time Where? Echo Plaza. Heroes and Villains can reach Echo Plaza via TUNNEL Teleporter, Long Range Teleporter, or Pocket D (Truck near AE section). Prizes! Due to event taking place on a limited number of shards, the permanent golden title will be applied to a character of player's choosing on any shard. The overall best costume will win: A permanent golden title: 20th Anniversary Costume Contest Winner The Fashion Victim Badge 1500 Prismatic Aethers 50 Anniversary Tokens The runner-up best costume will win: A permanent golden title: 20th Anniversary Costume Contest Finalist The Fashion Victim Badge 250 Prismatic Aethers 50 Anniversary Tokens The 4 runner-up costumes on each shard will win: A permanent golden title: 20th Anniversary Costume Contest Runner-Up The Fashion Victim Badge 100 Prismatic Aethers 50 Anniversary Tokens Please note that multiboxing during these costume contests is strictly prohibited and will result in disqualification and prizes being revoked. Finally, we'd like to extend a special thank you to the community - celebrating 20 years wouldn't be possible if it weren't for each and every one of you! See you in the city!

Ooooh, I can't wait to tease Cipher for this thread later lol.

Hi everyone! Just as an update, the event has been extended to end with the maintenance next week!

That "Pets" option has always been available in the settings, as a feature to enable. With the release of Issue 27, Page 7 - it was adjusted to ALWAYS be enabled as quality of life change.

There is a link to join on the Getting Started tab! https://forums.homecomingservers.com/getting-started/ You should just be able to click the Discord link in there to join the server.

Hey guys! 😄 For those of you don't know me, I'm Arcanum, I've been with the project since October 2019 - I tend to wear a lot of hats, which include a lot of the administrative stuff for the team, including trainings for the GMs and the Developers. So I wanted to chime in real quick with some comments. First is, I think there's a lot of valuable feedback in here - and (just like with the Focused Feedback threads 😉) the team is already reading and internally reviewing what's being discussed here! I'm chiming in because I want to make sure that everyone knows that these feedback threads ARE being read and discussed - almost every comment and opinion 😄. Having said that, I don't want to deceive you with false expectations. There are times where the feedback is reviewed by the team and ultimately deemed invalid or not currently possible. As much as we'd like to reply to everyone's feedback, we are (at the end of the day) just a bunch of volunteers hoping to make a fun game for everyone - which means time is limited and it just isn't feasible. As always though, we appreciate the feedback - we're taking it, reviewing it, and hoping to learn & improve! As I think that's all any of us can do!

Update - February 1st, 2024 Torchbearer has +50% XP. Reunion and Indomitable will remain at +100% XP. Everlasting has re-joined Excelsior to a standard +0% XP boost. In addition, the Spring Fling Event is now live!

Hello everyone - The Spring Fling event is now live! Special missions are available from Ganymede, Scratch, DJ Zero, Jessica Megan Duncan and Arbiter Hawk in Pocket D Special Valentines tip missions will drop from any non-Incarnate enemies above level 20 Chilly and Dram are open for business in Pocket D In total: 7 badges and 7 temporary powers are up for grabs! You can use this Homecoming Wiki Link to see what's on offer. The event will last until the end of February - which is 29 days long this year, woohoo! The event has been extended until 3/12/24.

Developers really ARE responsible for a bit of everything. If you have any experience in Art, Coding, Story-writing, etc - you can fill out an application here. Really any talents you think that may support the creative team feel free to fill out an app and let us know! Additionally, we are also recruiting for Game Masters who are responsible for Game/Forum/Discord Moderations, ticket support, etc. (Game Masters also run the in-game events like Costume Contests) - if that's more your speed, same link and click the game master app instead! Both are a greatly appreciated use of your volunteered time!

You wouldn't believe the number of times I've asked for this too. The mesh was quite problematic, though. Luckily, we've picked up some talented artists along the way! 😁

We sure do! I have a whole folder of images dedicated to Jimmy dying on various missions if we need proof! 😄

Results uploaded 😉 Check them out here!

Hi everyone! Here are the results from the January 2024 Costume Contest! Thanks to everyone who made it out and joined us, we loved seeing everyone's creative costumes! You guys really made it a challenge, bringing us your best costumes! Open the spoilers for some shard specific photos. Did you guys take any good ones? Feel free to post them on the thread below! 😄 Please note that costume contest judging is subjective and everyone's tastes are different. Please be kind to our GMs who volunteer their time to keep these servers running as smooth as possible. 🏅Contest Winner 🏅 The Giant Cicada Torchbearer Reunion Winner: Mr. Rabbit Lord Indomitable Winner: Liberty Reigns General Photos: 📷 Reunion: Indomitable: Tochbearer: Thank you again to everyone that came out and joined us! We hope to see you all again soon!

I'll be uploading them soontm

First of all, I'm so glad you were able to join us! Although I'm sorry you found things confusing! Were you following along the admin map prompts? We try and keep everyone up to date of our judging each step of the way. There was a BIG turnout (particularly on Torchbearer) resulting in two zone maps, so things were certainly hectic and the chats were flying. Typically all you have to do is show-up and stand in line with the other players, and the GMs will walk around examining them all! We then add the Finalists & Shard Winner onto our GM Team/League, and notify them on the steps of receiving their prizes. However, we also take each shard winner and compete them against one another for one ultimate contest winner. So those final results will be posted later today! We share the winners of each shard internally to the whole Homecoming Team (even the ones that couldn't make it) and we give everyone 24 hours to vote on their overall favorite. I'll be doing a follow-up post later tonight with the results! 😄

Have you ever actually seen them together, though!? She just has premiere access to global teleporting and beats you to IP each time you get to her contact!

I personally always take Fly. Usually for the convenience of being able to access anywhere on any map without any difficulties, or the need for extra temp powers (i.e. Jetpack).

She's known to move around a bit; if a mob gets too close, she'll engage! It's fine, eventually she'll realize she's off centered and will shuffle back into place. You might shift around a bit too if you were standing in the same spot 24/7!

Just avoid using powers that impact other players costumes (i.e. Steam Mist, Shadow Fall, etc) Yes! Echo Plaza is accessible via Pocket D or the TUNNEL Teleporter. You can attend both, but only one prize per player will be given. Do not use costume editing options not available/found in the game. Aether Prismatic Costume modifications ARE allowed. Using emotes or powers to disrupt the event (and other players costumes) will likely cause you to go to prison (IYKYK).

Costume Contest! Torchbearer, Indomitable & Reunion Sunday, January 14th To help kick-off 2024, in addition to some fun in-game events currently happening, we'd like to start the year off with a Costume Contest! This is a general, anything-goes Costume Contest! Meaning, bring your best costume (within the bounds of the Code of Conduct) and join in the fun! Due to event taking place on a limited number of shards, please only bring one character per player. Multiboxing during this event may result in disqualification or the revocation of prizes. When? Reunion: Sunday, January 14th @ 8pm UTC (click to see 8pm UTC in your timezone) 11am Pacific time 3pm Eastern time 8pm UK time 9pm Central European time Torchbearer & Indomitable: Sunday, January 14th @ 10pm UTC (click to see 10pm UTC in your timezone) 2pm Pacific time 5pm Eastern time 10pm UK time 11pm Central European time Where? Echo Plaza on 3 shards (Torchbearer, Reunion, Indomitable). Heroes and Villains can reach Echo Plaza via TUNNEL Teleporter, Long Range Teleporter, or Pocket D (Truck near AE section). Prizes! Due to event taking place on a limited number of shards, the permanent golden title will be applied to a character of player's choosing on any shard. The single best overall costume will win: A permanent golden title: January 2024 Costume Contest Winner The Fashion Victim Badge 1500 Prismatic Aether Particle The best costume on each shard will win: A permanent golden title: January 2024 Costume Contest Finalist The Fashion Victim Badge 250 Prismatic Aether Particle The 4 runner-up costumes on each shard will win: A permanent golden title: January 2024 Costume Contest Runner-Up The Fashion Victim Badge 100 Prismatic Aether Particle Costume manipulation wont be considered legitimate in costume contests. Costume manipulation is not permitted and will result in disqualification. Please note that costume contest judging is subjective and everyone's tastes are different. Please be kind to our GMs who volunteer their time to keep these servers running as smooth as possible. If you have any issues, please contact a Lead Game Master here on the forums or on our discord!

Poor Indom

Hey there! I'll send you a DM with some options ^_^

We can either replace your current permanent title or place the new title on a different character instead. If you win a contest, this information just needs to be communicated to the GM on your shard.

Huh - it DOES look like it'd be useful for that, doesn't it? 😏 It's also a debt free zone (so we can kill players to our heart's content) - for whatever reason that may be. Gosh, it sure does...you'd best check back soon™️ - perhaps a doorway will appear.