GM Crumpet

I don't blink. Well technically my inner eyelids flick across my eyes occasionally

Wouldn't know as I can't stand the 4 star stuff. Aeon leaves me cold and I'd rather eat pineapple on pizza than do ITF

Not sure what the figures are for AV's, all I know is they go down like a stunned zebra if you have some good support characters in the party. Kin, Rad, Darkness etc all help immensely when you are fighting the really tough people.

I'm in the UK and it's something that doesn't work for me and never has. I've reported it a few times so chances are it's not an easy fix.

You've met me then 😛

And apologies if I come across as evil and vicious. I am evil and vicious, I just try not to come across that way 😛

You know I can delete your posts and ban you from the forum? That would be rude 😛

Usually you need to log out and reboot your PC and it fixes it. If the map is corrupted and you still can't load in then open the launcher and click the three little dots, then verify. If anythings corrupted that should fix it. If worst comes to worst try reset graphics on next run. Saying all that. It might be an old version of Vidiotmaps. We had a big problem with Bricks a while back due to the vidiotmaps wanting terrabytes of memory to load so it was crashing. Removing the old vidiotmaps and using Michiyo's modder so the vidiotmaps was up to date fixed that.

You know people can just hit the return to sender button?

Seems legit

I know what you mean. I had so much trouble when I was leading leagues in the Mapserver event. One league, great fun and everyone was having a blast and getting amazing rewards. More than one league, so much lag you'd be lucky to get a couple of bars of XP. Despite me telling new leagues to go elsewhere on the map everyone insisted on staying at the spawn point near the base portal as that's where they zoned in. A soon as I used incan on my league to go to the other side of the map it was awesome again. Eventually with 2 days to go people finally listened, but it was like herding cats for the first few days. Even then, "Everyone concentrate on the GM please" fell on deaf ears half the time. I know debt badges don't earn themselves, but there's a time and a place 🙂

The main problem I think is the motel. If people ToT elsewhere I haven't seen the same problem. Kallisti Wharf does it at a building with 8 doors and there are normally enough players and enemies that moving from door to door doesn't really hurt with the door cooldown too much. I've also done it in RWZ with the same effect. The best part of KW and RWZ is they are co-op zones so heroes and villains can league together without having to go see Null and change alignments. Some players are against that for RP reasons. Even in PI there are plenty of streets with doors each side that are god for ToTing. I think everyone is just used to the motel as it's a convenient spot everyone knows. I'd like to see league leaders think a little outside the box for PI next year 🙂

Sadly there are a lot of players who pass and are mourned by their friends and family and we can't memorialise them all. Those who have been memorialised (both on live and Homecoming) were people who worked above and beyond to make the game better for other people. If you see a memorial character know that they were extraordinary people in life. For those who loved them it's a small reminder when they see them that they are gone but will never be forgotten.

best to go here and ask the devs nicely https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/45-suggestions-amp-feedback/

Today

Better we get 10 reports that turn out to be legitimate players than miss one that is a scam artist. Our priority is player safety and we encourage people to report odd behaviour. 99% of the time it's nothing and we thank the player for being vigilant. 1% of the time it's something we are glad we have been made aware of and can take action against. I've seen legitimate players who I've known for years suddenly exhibit odd behaviour and most of the time it's a family member/ room mate who knows the login details and decides to be a bit of an idiot for funsies. A quick warning to the player to change their password and all is good again.

We have discussed this issue extensively amongst the GM team. It's a difficult one to adjudicate. If we ban the players from the game until the event is over we get accused of GM overreach. If we kick them they come back. We do release pets on obvious offenders, and apologise if we accidentally do it to the wrong player, but for those who don't want to join a league and aren't AFK we can't do a lot as they aren't technically breaking the CoC. What I do as a league leader is Incan to another location. The motel in PI is a great place, but there are streets with plenty of doors in a line to click. In Kallisti it's less of a problem for some reason. I've run a number of leagues in Kallisti and the differences are remarkable. It's also easier to spot AFK players who aren't contributing. We have this problem every year and I think moving forward league leaders need to rethink the location of ToT activity. It's only a major problem at the motel. Going onto the streets might be a better idea.

There are a few missions which use the generic city map and the badge marker appears but there isn't a badge. We sometimes get tickets about it but there isn't really a lot we can do unless the devs go through every missions and rebuild the map specifically for that mission. It's a pain for the players who don't realise and spend ages looking for the badge (or indeed other things like the hospital or police station) but I imagine the devs have better uses of their time, and it's not a game breaking problem, just an annoying one.

Farming I might make 20 million an hour. Playing I'll probably make around the same amount. Doing MSR and Hami will get plenty of merits and with Hami the chance of a really profitable drop. Or a really cheap drop. I've had drops that have fetched 20 million, other drops a few thousand. It still averages out at a decent average though.

Is this the in game avatar? https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Todogut

I've been running leagues in Peregrine and Kallisti and I've had no end of level 1 players join and contribute and not die (much). The ToT is soloable if you have a good build and level, not so much if you are a low level squishy. Leagues (or at least a team) are the best way to do it.

Actual picture of GM Widower doing a generic

Nope. If they had messaged me privately the result would have been the same. As it was a public post I replied publicly. I could have hidden the post and replied privately, but I didn't want there to be accusations of hiding things. I'm always happy to put my hands up if I mess up and in this instance I did. Indeed, if a character is generic'd players are always at liberty to appeal the decision if they can come up with a reasonable argument as to why it should be allowed to stand. The lead GMs will then decide on whether to allow it or not.

First time I used the full combo after level 50 and lots of purple slotting I was shocked at the "insta-poof" myself. Teleported in, used shadow slip to collect the enemies, eclipse, mire, dwarf, mire, human, quasar.... "Where did everyone go??".

The server gods decided I was mistaken and the generic failed. I've cancelled the generic 🙂