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    Go. Fold. Kill Coronavirus. Join the Homecoming Folding@home Team Today!

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    Congrats everybody.

    So a little remark for the election of the winners for next month (this will not change my folding habits, just putting it out there): there are a lot of people folding and well for most the top 10 is out of there league, having just 1 computer or so. So I would suggest not rewarding the same people every month. What i'm suggesting is selecting the top 10 not yet rewarded winners (because we are all winners for folding). And the 20 random winners also be not yet selected people.

     

    Thanks for listening

     

    Greetings

    Sealdy

     

     

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    Go. Fold. Kill Coronavirus. Join the Homecoming Folding@home Team Today!

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    Posted · Edited by Sealdy

    40 minutes ago, sescheraun said:

    I have looked a few times and cannot see my name as a doner or see what my stats are for the number of WU's I have completed.  Is there a way for the GMs to look me up?

     

    @Do_not_use_this

    When did you start folding? At the webcontrol you can see a more updated version of your points, but the look up info is lagging behind by a day or 2.

     

    edit: I just checked and you are on the list with 18627 points and 6 wu.

    Go. Fold. Kill Coronavirus. Join the Homecoming Folding@home Team Today!

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    6 hours ago, Jackanapesink said:

    OK, so count me as an old guy what doesn't QUITE get it.  Sounds like we're setting up our systems to help with  larger calculations over a broad network?  Not sure, as I don't know what "fold" means.  Complete guess, after reading this topic.

    So, do our systems need to be on all the time?  What are the requirements? 

     

    While I appreciate the thought behind this, there's too many questions yet to be answered for me.  Feel free to tell me that squares aren't welcome, I won't be offended, but would definitely want to help, if I understood how...

    (And I'm no dummy, I built this machine, just don't necessarily follow every new online tech...)

    I'll try to explain it. First a little biology: proteins (aka the key) can take certain shapes depending on the components they have. The covid-19 virus also has a shape (aka the lock). What they are trying to do is find a protein that binds the covid-19 (aka a key for the lock). When the lock is opened it is not working anymore (so effective treatment for covid-19). Now to stimulate protein folding (what shape will they become after a component is changed) costs a lot of  computational power. And that is where the folders come in. The universities that do this kind of research don't have enough computer systems to fold fast. So every person who does folding for them at their computer(s) speed up the research.

     

    The program only works when your computer is on. But rebooting your computer or putting it off for the night does not remove the work you done. The next log in you just continue with what you were folding. I've noticed that older computers need longer to fold and get less heavy jobs (which are still usefull, but give less points). So basically anyone can fold. Personally i just use my computer as I always do while folding in the background. My GPU get's used a lot so is somewhat warmer now. Personally i found that folding at medium works best for me.

     

    A little sidenote because many of us are folding it sometimes takes longer to get a folding job.

     

    Hope it is a bit more clear now.

    Greetings

    Sealdy

     

    PS I love squares

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    What kinds of badges would you like to see added?

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    Posted · Edited by Sealdy
    Looked into it

     

    On 2/16/2020 at 7:05 PM, Ulysses Dare said:

    The problem with the Homecoming Wiki is that whoever started it decided, for whatever reason, to reinvent the wheel. So instead of forking Paragon Wiki and using it as a start point, the Homecoming Wiki is starting from scratch. It's going to take a very long time to replicate the efforts of the PW editors.

     

    I'm not that knowledgable with site making and such, could we transfer it?

     

    I took a look at the source code of paragon wiki, so I guess some copy pasting would do a lot. Just not the images probably. And some of the links should be changed, but it might indeed save some time and give a better base to start from. Would ofcourse help if we found the person who started the homecoming wiki 🙂

     

    After 10 years ...

    in Excelsior

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    Hello Carandiru and welcome home.

     

    On the homecoming server there are no major differences.

    There is the sentinel archtype to play, haven't tried it yet so can not help you there.

    There are some extra badges to get. All pvp zones have 8 exploration badges now, There are 2 story arcs, one for vigilantes and one for rogues. And all the anniversary badges can be bought from Luna at Ouroboros in May for 100 reward merits each. Also you get a badge and some empyrean merits for each third veteran level after 50.

    Null the Gull at Pocket D can change your allignment now.

    And there is the P2W-vendor (T4V in praetoria) where you can get xp boosts and usefull powers (the old veteran powers).

     

    Excelsior is a great shard to play on 🙂

     

    Greetings

    Sealdy

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    What kinds of badges would you like to see added?

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    Posted · Edited by Sealdy
    Adding Badger link

    4 hours ago, Display Name said:

    I would like to see ALL of the CURRENT badges ADDED to the Paragon Wiki.

    https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Badges

     

    Or (a better suggestion,) I would like to see a Homecoming Wiki!  I will be HAPPY to help keep it updated if someone would show me how (a simple, 30-min tutorial, if that.)

    There is http://homecoming.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Homecoming_Wiki:Main_page

    It is not complete, but it is a start.

     

    And there is Badger: https://n15g.github.io/badger/

    Which I like to keep track of the badges

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    What kinds of badges would you like to see added?

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    12 hours ago, Voltor said:

    Forever Loyal:  You are truly loyal to your alignment.  Stay true!  Earn this badge by doing 50 morality missions that reaffirm your alignment.    Caveat is that if you ever change alignment prior to getting this badge you can never get it.

    I'm sure many current badge collectors wouldn't be so happy with this one.

     

    I do like all the fantasized badges so far.

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    A Question from The Homecoming Team

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    Posted · Edited by Sealdy
    Saw many posts that don't want subscription fees.

    I'm truly happy with the game as it is. But if i really need to chose I would say:

     

    Some more debugging. Finalizing story arcs. A new villain zone, the rogues isles are pretty small. Kallisti Wharf finalized. In that order.

     

    Oh and i'm happy to pay up to €10/month if that would keep the servers up and viable. Or something like the old fremium system.

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    Ouborous badges

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    hello

     

    While doing the ouborous flash back The Spider Weaves His Web (lvl 30-34) I noticed i got badges at the end of the first mission. Since I love badges I checked them right away. I got the Flashback badges, I was going for, for lvl 35-39 instead of lvl 25-29 (the ones i expected at the end of the arc).

     

    Greetings,

    Sealdy

    Getting healing achievements as a Blaster?

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    Hi all

     

    The tactic to heal the arachnos soldiers in Mercy Island with rebirth partial core invocation does work. It goes with a decent speed if you set yourself near the archanos groups on the helicopter platform, about 20 soldiers each heal.

     

    Greetings

    Sealdy

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