Arcanum

We actually made some adjustments to the GMOTD today (mostly to just remove the shard XP Bonus that is no longer functioning). However, anytime it's updated, it'll automatically pop up when a character zones (or logins) after the update.

Hello everyone! As always with these posts, I’d like to drop a quick reminder that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. Homecoming operates in a non-profit capacity* and accepts donations from the community each month to cover its operating expenses. These donation windows typically open on the last Saturday of each month, around 13:00 EST, and are automatically closed once the goal for the month has been reached. Any funds remaining at the end of each month are put towards our expenses for the following month. In the event that our expenses exceed our estimated costs for the month, the difference will be included in the donation goal for the following month. If you wish to donate, you may do so here. The donation window for next month is open as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal is met. Thank you for your continued support! * Homecoming is a Delaware registered Limited Liability Company, not a non-profit organization, and donations made to Homecoming are not tax deductible. **A detailed account from last month's donations will be provided at a future date (following Hurricane Helene finishing her rampage). This Month: October 2024 The donation target for October 2024 is $5,096.31. Recurring Expenses Total: $5,096.31 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,836.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $229.57 Google Workspace Voice, Business (15 seats) $19.25 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Donations will be open at https://cohhc.gg/donate as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal has been met. As always, thank you for your continued support. - The Homecoming Team

Hi everyone! The Q&A responses have been posted here. Thanks everyone for your patience, as well as joining us in our events all month! We hope you enjoyed celebrating as much as we did! 😄

Hi everyone! One final post in this thread, the Q&A responses have been posted here. Thanks everyone for your patience, as well as joining us in our events all month! We hope you enjoyed celebrating as much as we did! 😄

Hi everyone! Here are all of the original team's responses from our Q&A at the beginning of the month! We hope you enjoyed the anniversary celebration(s), and look forward to many more years! Thank you to all of the Original City of Heroes Team Members for taking the time to join us for our in-game events, and provide answers to your questions! There were a LOT of great questions and not all of them could get answered, but we appreciate everyone who participated! The most important question, first: 🏆 Pepperoni or Pineapple (Pizza)? 🍕 Pepperoni - Kevin "Freitag" Callanan - Pepperoni. Please, let's not be barbarians. C.W. 'Pohsyb" Bennett - My children enjoy pineapple, I think I may need a paternity test. Melissa "War Witch" Bianco - Pepperoni Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann - Pepperoni. "Dark Watcher" - Pepperoni. Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney - Pepperoni. No cute addendum here. Pineapple Nellie Hughes - Pineapple John "Protean" Hegner - I will happily eat both, but if both are present I'll usually take the pineapple because I know more people will eat the pepperoni and I want to make sure everyone gets to enjoy their 'za. Christopher "Back Alley Brawler" Bruce - I like 'Hawaiian' pizza. But my favorite is thin/crispy crush with as many toppings as I can get. Both: Stephen "Rockjaw" Reid - Why not both?!? Floyd "Castle" Grubb - Philistines. The proper answer is "Both" but only in the correct context. If you have a good spicy sauce and spicy Pepperoni, then and only then does Pineapple get added to the pizza. The contrast of sweet and spice makes for a wonderful taste experience. If you have mild sauce or bland meats (Canadian Bacon? Ugh) then Pineapple being added is just a travesty. "Fireman" (aka Bass_Ackwards) - Pepperoni pineapple pizza. Sweet and savory. Yum! Phil "Synapse" Zeleski - YES. Put stuff on pizza and I will eat it. There is no OR here. Hosun "Black Pebble" Lee - Yes Okay, here are the rest! Melissa "War Witch" Bianco: Christopher "Back Alley Brawler" Bruce: Floyd "Castle" Grubb: Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Hosun "Black Pebble" Lee: Kevin "Freitag" Callanan: John "Protean" Hegner: Phil "Synapse" Zeleski: Stephen "Rockjaw" Reid - Sean "Dr. Aeon" McCann - C.W. "pohsyb" Bennett: "TheOcho": "Fireman" (aka Bass_Ackwards): Nellie Hughes: "Dark Watcher"

Hi guys! Just wanted to point out an edit I made to this. I had a slight delay in getting the Q&A Responses posted. Barring any complications, I'm hoping to post them on Tuesday! Apologies for the delay, but wanted to alert everyone as I know they're anxiously awaiting! 😄

Hi everybody! Apologies, there's been a slight delay in getting the Q&A Responses posted. Barring any complications, I'm hoping to get them posted on Tuesday! My apologies, but wanted to let everyone know!

Hey Herotu - it sort of depends. I think a lot of the team would love for these to be a regular thing. However, it typically requires a handful of team members being available to run properly - and as you know, given the nature of the team being entirely made of volunteers, it's a hard thing to determine or commit to it's frequency. However, whenever we're able to - we do!

Hey everyone! Check out the results of the 20th Anniversary Costume Contest here! 😄 Thanks for everyone who came out to join us!

Hi everyone! Here are the results from the 20th Anniversary 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! Did you guys take any good ones? Feel free to post them on the thread below! 😄 The answers to the 20th Anniversary Q&A will be posted later this week! on Tuesday! 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 🏅 Alien Spore Queen Torchbearer Finalists: Build A Beast Torchbearer Cosmoskull Reunion Elvish Impersonator Reunion General Photos: 📷 Thank you again to everyone that came out and joined us! We hope to see you all again soon!

Same.

Still coming up. You can expect them towards the end of the month!

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.