GM Crumpet

It's not a stupid suggestion. Sometimes even a basic change like you suggest makes for a very different playstyle and slotting. So many powers have a KB to KD proc that could be used for something else. I'm somewhat lost at the high end conversation myself, I can get behind a sensible suggestion I understand 🙂

I thought it was all a plot by you to make people increase their vamp hunting and thin out your competition

You might be right. I have a PB and WS on Excel, and apart from toying with the idea of a pure human build (which I can do on the existing toons by swapping builds) the only other WS I made was so I could play on Reunion without having to worry about running out of shard transfers. Once you have your kheld built to your playstyle and budget there aren't a lot of alternatives to choose from. I'm sure we all have half a dozen of a particular AT with different power sets but you don't get that with khelds.

No problem. sometimes what we hear in our head when we write comes across a little sharp when it's on the page. I do it all the time 🙂

More like the team is so busy it takes something like this to actually take the time out of their day to collate the information. I'm on the periphery but the people with access to this information (not many) are generally doing several things at once and prioritise the important stuff. Plus having full time real lives that limit the time they can spend on everything they need to do. It's not that they didn't want to, it's more one of those things they had in the to-do list that kept being put off due to more urgent things needing their attention.

If the creator of the IP contacts us with proof of who they are then they are free to play any of their characters as they wish. A lot don't, simply because they want anonymity and to play and interact with other people as "normal folks". They are free to do so though as it's using other peoples IP that's forbidden, not using your own IP 🙂

I do love a good homage or parody character. I can't name names, but some really make me chuckle. Then I get sad when someone reports them as it's obvious they aren't copying an existing IP. I see the name, the costume and the bio and it's obvious where they got the inspiration from, but it's not the IP and is almost always different enough to pass with a "nothing to see here" from me. Actually, a bio can make or break a character too. "The raging Wolverine" could pass if the costume was different and the bio said they got their powers because they were abandoned as a baby and raised by a colony of wolverines in the wild. Or they were on a camping trip and got bitten by a radioactive wolverine. But without the bio making it transparently clear it's an original character "The raging Wolverine" would get hit with the generic hammer without a second thought. Comic companies own the rights to the image and story of the character, they can't own words themselves. Harley Quinn was a one off side character that took off and now nobody can think of the Batman franchise without her name popping up in the top 10 most popular character lists. But Harlequin is an old word used for centuries. As long as it's not Harley adjacent you're good to go.

I don't know if it's being turned on this year, but don't forget we have April Fools and Mapserver event due if they decide to run it again 😛

locking this thread as some people can't play nice

I was just being silly, I know you wouldn't do that 🙂

that told me. I said it was an old memory from a long time ago. I got it wrong 😛

No idea to be honest. It's an admin conversation not a GM one

I wouldn't worry too much as Ms T Knight wouldn't survive long before becoming Generic 405674 quite quickly 😛

I may be confusing win 95 with win 98 🙂 I know it's an early Windows. It was a couple of years ago he mentioned it in conversation

As far as I'm aware it was only Adamastor, and that's been a problem for a while with the number of AFK players farming merits, and Ghost of Scrapyard as he can be summoned in a minute or two. There were 24 hour leagues on some shards getting 30 to 40 MA's and 200+ merits an hour. All the other GM's are either random timings, or summoned under specific circumstances that take work. I haven't seen Deathsurge leagues anywhere, but if players do start farming at the rate they were with GoS I'm sure that will be looked at.

Cipher did a look-see a while ago and there are actually people playing this on Windows 95 🙂

I did mention that to them as I use it a lot as the boosts from shadow fall and the slotting are more important to me

Tequila is legacy and as secure as a bucket with no bottom. The launcher is a closed system and while it would be nice to be compatible with Tequila our support for Tequila has ended and at some point the launcher will be the only way to play Homecoming.

That would just cause more aggravation and bad feeling than it would solve I'm afraid. From my own personal playing experience, I play alts until they are fully incarnated to tier 4 on everything then park them up in a retirement SG and move on to the next alt. I have maybe 60 alts saved that way. I loved them, nurtured them, enjoyed them, but for me the thrill is maxing out a character. I will occasionally pull one out for a TF or trial if the leader asks for a specific AT or power set, but for the majority of time they are unplayed. With characters like that we deserve to keep them until we ourselves decide to free the name. We've put in the time and they've earned their retirement. Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion as a player and may or may not reflect the feelings of the other members of the Homecoming Team: 🙂

I can't comment on individual cases due to player confidentiality, but I am in an interesting position to be able to see player accounts. I don't sit there for hours being nosy, but in my time helping players, investigating complaints, genericing inappropriate alts I have seen a large number of accounts with dozens, if not hundreds of unplayed level 1 characters. Name camping is a real thing.

I've had a report that the conceal part of shadow cloak isn't concealing, and the invulnerable part of stygian return isn't activating when you use it after death. Has anyone else noticed this?

Or you could invite them to your farm 😛 Seriously, my bugbear is AFK farmers. I don't have a problem with it as a thing, I have a problem with it when they exit the mission and clutter up the entrance and constantly spam powers, sometimes for hours. It's so annoying and distracting for everyone else in the area.

I stand next to a vendor and know off the top of my head what the vendor will pay, so if I drag a recipe into the AH and it's trash it gets sold at the vendor. Anything a decent chunk above the vendor I list for 10 inf and watch it fly away to the sound of clinking coins.

And I think it would be a good place for a START vendor. Null not so much though, he's a unique entity and a vast interdimensional being with a small animal as his avatar. A bit like Jimmy.

The devs looked into it but it's not possible as bases are classed as instanced maps and close down when they are empty, so the restrictions on instanced maps (np P2W/S.T.A.R.T vendor or auction house) amongst other things applies. The only solution would be to keep the bases up permanently and that takes a lot of resources for something that for 99% of players isn't going to be in use for large amounts of time. Yes I know the main maps close down when empty but unlike bases all the resources are permanent and loaded in when it spins up. It's looking at a master map and copying that exactly.