GM Crumpet

We used to rule the world, we gave it up as it was habit forming

I just feel sad for Americans having to wait until 21 before they can raise a glass to City of Heroes. The rest of us were holding drunken street parties 3 years ago 🙂

Yeah Max is a weird one. I don't know why the original devs decided to make it the only one where you can skip to the end, and also not make it an arc with a roll off the table like all the others.

Make sure you have remember me ticked and log in after you have moved your characters round on the character select screen. This generates and updates the playerslot file. You can also email the file to yourself and copy it into the game folder if you play on multiple machines. I do it a lot as I play on a desktop at home and laptop at work.

Running late on the donations this month I'm afraid. don't worry, unless Cipher won the Euro Millions he'll pop a notification up when it's ready. And if he has won the Euro Millions I want to know where the GM yacht is anchored.....

No spoilers, but The Well is a welcome return to form.

I don't know what's happened to RTD. His first 2 doctors were really well written. Even in the cheesiest episodes they were still fantastic. Ncuti is great when he gets something to stick his teeth into, and I like Belinda, but I don't know if the Disney influence is showing. 8 episodes is a very American streaming thing, and after the writers strike there are all kinds of concessions about writers rooms and bonuses after a certain number of episodes. I don't know. I think 13 episodes would give the whole season time to breath, and we'd be able to explore the whole "Gods" thing better. There doesn't seem time for any character driven stories now like Fathers day or Turn Left or Midnight. It's all silly robots, space babies and flashy graphics.

I really enjoyed it, my sister phoned me afterwards and said it was the biggest pile of poop she'd ever watched. I suspect mileage varies.

I loved season 1, and Joanna Lumley is awesome no matter what she plays

Hi everyone, Manga and Six have looked into it, fed the hamsters and greased the wheels. It should be working now

Just.... don't. It makes work for the GM's and we err on the side of intent when we look at characters. If I see someone with a name from another IP I get twitchy. If the first result on my google search shows a character from a movie like these do it's pretty much a slam dunk for a generic. Then you have to appeal and explain exactly why we were wrong.

And I was promised no maths when I applied to be a GM. They lied!!

I've confirmed with the devs that it's +100% boost so it is indeed x11 not x20. The event gives +900% (for a times 10) and with the extra +100% makes it +1000% (for a times 11). It's additive not multiplicative

Hi There is no ability to play the game on any tablet You can play the game on a Mac or linux, and even on a steam deck (with variable results) but not apple r android tablets.

I'm one of those people who think most events go on too long. I personally (player not GM) think things like Halloween, Winter and Spring should only be two weeks and not a full month. I loved the Mapserver, and judging from the popularity so did many other players, and 2 weeks was plenty. Many people have work or school so having two full weekends allowed them to take part properly. Shorter and they might not have had much chance to take part, longer and the complaining gets exponentially louder. Excel was always going to suffer as it is the most populated server. I stayed until the population went over 500 them moved to Reunion or Everlasting. Over the weekend it was more than 1K players on Excel alone.

I liked the league leaders. I honestly don't remember many of them as sometimes it was just one league, but the ones that spring to mind are Eepy, MGX and I'm Scared. Great league management, good communication, and generally chill with the drama that always seems to happen in these events. Special thanks to Stan IVE for excellent tanking of the GM to the various drones.

I have spoken to the people involved about reducing the player cap for MS zones in the future. I suggested 50 as that allows a full league, then a new zone spawns. Once you get to 100 players in a zone the lag is painful.

Small leagues get better results. A 2 or 4 team league will do better than a full 6 as the rewards aren't split as much, but it does kind of balance out from the increase of enemies. Double XP boost is actually a +100% so gives x11 XP and no inf not x20. I generally turn the XP boost off at around level 40 as the inf gain is decent at that point. As per usual open zone events rules notoriety doesn't affect spawns. Multiple leagues in zones will slow everything down. Lag is real. Balanced teams will do better than ones with lots of support. League leaders should ideally sprinkle the range characters evenly as melee and defence suffer from the fact they can't fight to their best advantage. I try to spread Masterminds out if I can. They are often hitting multiple targets so help all team mates. Also try to keep teams even sized. Can't think of anything else 🙂

I'm not a tech person but there is a lot of good information here. Because the game runs so well and we've been able to update a lot of stuff and add new content people forget the game is actually really old. It doesn't use anything that more modern games use like game engines and the like, and everything about it is bespoke. It's a miracle it works even a fraction as well as it does. Things like the Mapserver event show the limitations that hit a wall no matter what we try. Get 100 players in a zone with all the powers, pets, enemies and stuff going on and it slows to a crawl. 2 full leagues will really stretch the resources, and three leagues you might as well not bother. I've spoken to the people that matter about reducing the player cap in the affected zones during the event so it spawns more zone instances, but that won't happen this year. We've been accused a few times recently of using AI and our reply is always "huh?". There is nothing to hang AI on. We'd love to be able to do things like language translation and the like, but the way the game is built it's fundamentally not possible without a lot of work and I don't know if even then it would be possible without a rewrite of the entire game code. From my limited knowledge the game is just too old and too incompatible to take advantage of the more positive aspects of AI. While nothing is impossible, a lot of stuff we would like to do is so difficult it enters the realm of highly improbable.

Just to clarify for newer players. Some words are so iconic that there is almost no possible use apart from the IP. Wolverine, Silver Surfer, Aquaman, Storm, Green Lantern, Superman. As you read those names I'm sure anyone with a passing knowledge of comics and movies will have an image flash into their head. Other names are also iconic but can have many other uses, so Thor, Phoenix, Hercules, and many others while having an IP associated with them also have a long history before they became iconic comic characters. As long as they don't bear any resemblance to the IP then we will allow them, especially mythological beings. Play a Greek God, just don't use the Percy Jackson version for instance. If in doubt you can always DM myself or Googly Moogly and ask if it's OK. We allow homage/parody characters. If you want clarification on why your character was hit with a generic, ask one of us and we'll tell you. Don't agree with the generic? Pop a ticket in with your reasoning and sources. We'll pass it to the Lead GM's to adjudicate.

Don't drag me into it!! just because I did the generic I know nothing!! It wasn't me guvnor!!

I loved the Tick, I'm sad they cancelled it.

I can't help thinking this might not be true as you should be kicked every week 😛

Everything's going to be on hold. Good luck on the MSR hami and labyrinth 🙂

Well Dracula and Lestat can both walk around in daylight