GM Crumpet

The game should be back up for people. There are some back end things being held together with duct tape and spit, but nothing that impacts players.

Depends if the arc is split. Then the second part is unavailable if you outlevel the contact

Enjoy the journey, it's not about the end game here. Learn to use the auction house and merits or you'll be permanently broke. Enjoy making different alts and concepts, but be prepared to do the same training contacts over and over. (My friend made dozens of characters and never got past level 20 then gave up the game because he was bored. He'd never seen 90% of the content).

We've done some investigating, and Cipher has run his OVH tools, and it's something on the way to the OVH servers and is outside any of our control. Some bad nodes or outages elsewhere meaning the signal is bouncing round the world trying to find a route between players and the servers. Which is why some people are lagging and some aren't. It literally depends on where you live. I'm in Europe and have no issues as we use a different trunk.

Maybe your firewall?

As others have said, make sure you have downloaded the launcher, and also that you are logging in with your game account not your forum account. The login name is here https://forums.homecomingservers.com/account/ and you can also change the password. I see your account hasn't logged in (successfully) for five years. Edited to add, you can download the launcher here https://manifest.cohhc.gg/launcher/hcinstall.exe

Big booty collector?

Am I nasty because when someone said booty my mind went to a totally different place?

Wait, so those links you sent me are unsafe??? I only wanted cute cat memes!! Not cute cat-girl memes!!

I've said it before over the years, but it's worth repeating. some things that seem to be so simple are an absolute nightmare to implement. The code is twisted and complicated, and so many times a minor change will result in major problems. "I only changed the colour of those trees, why did city hall vanish?" kind of problems. There are a lot of suggestions that have been implemented, but we are a volunteer group of people doing stuff in our spare time. One dev might be passionate about costume parts, another might be brilliant at stories. Another might love redoing zones. We gain devs, we lose devs. If a particular suggestion resonates and they go "I love that idea" they will look into it and decide if it's even possible. Then how much work is needed to implement. Then that dev leaves because real life gets in the way and it's another project on the back burner. To be honest I'm always in awe when a new page comes out for the sheer amount of work a small group of people have been able to pull together. Most legacy games are frozen in amber. Maybe some bugs are fixed if you are lucky, but there are few that have the level of skill and dedication that we do. I love reading peoples suggestions, and a lot of them are interesting and clever. But we aren't a multi million dollar enterprise with unlimited resources and hundreds of staff to spend months on implementing ideas. We are a volunteer group that does what we can because of the love we have for the game and the willingness to spend a lot of our free time working on something that is really time intensive.

A pleasure. Shame it had to end that way. As I said ingame, when you finish leave a note in the box for the mission creator so they can move the glowie

Flies aren't that fast, I can usually slap one with a swatter. My dog thinks they are flying raisins and loves snapping them out of the air.

Hey, don't bring me into this. I'm a broke GM I have around 200 inf total

It's a known dual monitor thing. Just open the options in the launcher and click reset graphics on next run, and make sure it's set to the correct monitor. Happens to me all the time. Usually closing the second monitor first works, but sometimes it has it's moments and forgets which one is primary. Being a GM I'll open a second instance when someone needs help and park my player alt somewhere safe, Then even though I closed the GM screen after I'm done next time I log in it decides to be annoying.

Hami are good for filling in holes where you don't really need sets, but sets give bonuses the more of a set you have in a power. for some power sets you have to fudge and do some frankenslotting to get the bonuses you want though. Things like recharge rate can make a powerful power like Phantom Army or light form "permanent" meaning they recharge before the power runs out so you can basically keep them up all the time. If you get the set attuned you basically don't need to worry about them losing effectiveness as you level, or if you do a lower level TF or missions. They always act as your level (or the min/max level range they work at). Lots of powers benefit from set bonuses, even if it's only something like damage bonus or defence or resist. It's surprising how awesome your character can become with the right set bonuses. That's why Mids is so popular. with set IO's being so much cheaper than live you can have any build you like for a comparatively cheap price. For a given value of cheap. for a new player 20 million inf is an inconceivable amount of inf. for a player who's been playing for a while it's back of the sofa change 🙂