GM Crumpet

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/

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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 🙂

It was me. Apologies, I've been suitably chastised and am happy for you to rename it back 🙂

I hate speed boost with a passion and would happily kick kins from my team if they spam it. Big wide open maps? Go ahead, fill your boots. Small twisty caves/ council maps? For the love of dog stop!! 😛 I know I can turn it off at null but I always forget until I'm disentangling my corpse from scenery or shooting past the mob I'm aiming for into the one behind them....

I was shocked at how good Mire is on a Warshade. You get two and with a lot of enemies round you they boost the WS to damage cap and you just obliterate everything. Use it with Eclipse and your WS is seriously OP. It's like Fulcrum Shift though as the more enemies in range the better it is, but it's not team wide. Soloing +4/8 is actually easier than soloing +4/2 🙂

I barely notice the crash o be fair. "Oooo my damage is a bit low, oh it's OK again now" kind of thing. I run with Invulnerability

AFK masterminds generally multibox and usually with more than three accounts. They don't click doors to replenish the enemies, and generally sit there for hours and hours while their pets earn them rewards. Leagues are a delicate balance. The rewards are already reduced because only damage caused by your team count, then it's split between all teams who hit that enemy. Normally it doesn't matter. If a player is finding it hard to fight then they click doors. Everyone involved is generally doing something for the league. An AFK team not associated with the league is another drain on the league rewards. Yesterday I had half an hour to kill so went to PI and my level 36 blaster barely got 2 bubbles. My XP was in the single and double digit range. Hovering overhead was a flock of masterminds. Later I went to Kallisti Wharf and the league size was roughly the same and suddenly my XP was in the hundreds and thousands. I levelled three times in the half hour I was on. That's the problem with so many AFK Masterminds. In KW I've been in leagues where someone has tried it and we just moved round the corner leaving them to it. With PI at the motel it's not so easy. I went on at silly o'clock in the morning and there were a dozen MM's just standing there with their pets. No other players, just the AFK Masterminds. Many players are using the event as a way of fast levelling alts. Either alts they haven't played for a while or new alts they have created specifically for the event. As GM's we have a duty to all players to have things as fair as possible. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something. We have policies in place such as no multiboxing when servers are busy and creating strain on other players systems. Too many people and the lag is palpable. If you've done Mapserver with 2 or more leagues in one spot you'll experience a slide show and rewards will drop to almost nothing. The solution for that is for the leagues to move away from each other. One quick incan across the map and everythings fine. With ToT it's a similar principle. So many AFK Masterminds slows everything down to the point the lag makes the game borderline unplayable. Players are in it for the badges and PaPs, but also a large percentage is in it for the increased XP rewards.