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You could rename Kick to something else like "Strike" and then just have kick/punch be chosen between in the costume editor.

I'd only make melee sets. Tired of melee? more melee sets. out of ideas? Introducing Melee 2, it's the same power sets but with different powers for variety. Armor sets? Blasts? nope, believe it or not, another melee set.

It means you're really diverse. A lot of diversity in what you say. You have a very diverse mindset. Your posts appeal to a diverse crowd of people to get a lot of mics 🤭

I got it BE EXCELLENT TO SOMEONE thread is now closed, anyone who replies after this post likes their peanut butter and jelly on the outsides of the bread

If every character had a base separate from the SG bases, i could have more storage for all the IO's i might need later and never touch. +1 for personal bases

I don't really mean the actual Be excellent to each other part. It's more the quoting someone then saying a one-liner. The one that's most easy to think about it and what you're thinking about as well is a good example for sure, so you know what i mean by how it can come across as mocking even if you don't mean it to and is likely just best avoided all together when its a heated back and forth. otherwise 👍

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I worked hard to make this a polite comment. I think you should stop quoting people and replying with one liners when closing threads. It's not always a problem, but sometimes it just looks like you're mocking someone while saying "BETO". It's not a good look and i think you as a GM should probably stop doing that.

[beanbag] this is not a reference to the discussion involving beanbag vs aim, this is simply a beanbag posting.

10/10 post

"Saga Mode" as you described it seems like it just wouldn't work for day to day game play on the normal servers. Being able to only take the powers you want regardless would create such a terror in power creep it would be unreal. The entire concept is bypassing opportunity cost and just allowing you to only take the best abilities. On paper, that sounds like it'd be a lot of fun as a side-mode on a test server or some place off to the side that wouldn't interrupt the normal game but mixing them with normal characters would be bad. It'd become the instant meta way to have a character be and basically completely flip balance on its head. I'm all for experimenting and trying out new stuff, but this is basically just the Cake server. You'd probably find it easier to just go try the game out in free form mode over there than to convince homecoming to do it here since the chances of that are about the same as them adding the griddy emote. https://evolution-newdawn.com/

That's just natural. None of the servers can produce content fast enough to keep the high numbers, not even actual developed MMO's manage to do that. For a private server for an already low-popularity MMO homecoming is honestly doing great. CoH has such a dedicated fanbase though, i think at a point the numbers will likely slow down to a crawl of people dropping out, and spike each update. I'm already playing other games waiting for more stuff to do, as are plenty of friends who play. Another fun private server for an MMO that deserved better, Return of Reckoning, usually bottoms out at around 700ish players and spikes with more content. Homecoming will be fine for a long time still, It's only a couple years away from being up longer than the actual game was. As for what was said, honestly it's a bait post so they can circlejerk on tspy discord about "mad" homecoming players, because of some cringe sense of tribalism, forgetting entirely Homecoming doesn't care if you talk about other servers or even go play there.

This threads only purpose is to watch PF and Arcane hiss and swipe at each other.

I really like this one, honestly. no idea why. Just stands out. Great suggestion 10/10

Well yes, another server would add cost. My one and only complaint was you mentioned 800, but it would appear i may have just misunderstood what you were saying. Like i said above, if the cost was too much it would likely be a non-starter. As for the lore, again you could basically call this non-canon experience and be done with it. The forking codebase, if it did actually require that much attention and wasn't closer to a side feature that didn't require that much attention, i would agree with you that it wouldn't be worth it.

Me being toxic to toxic people absolutely happened, yes.

Well, he did literally ask to be proven wrong about how many people would enjoy it, which i felt wasn't needed here. Hardcore is obviously a feature people enjoy, even if it's a lower population. It's like PvP in that way. I think i need to be clear, for me personally if adding Hardcore would require more dev time than just adding the feature and the occasional bug fix if there is one, I don't think it would be worth it either. If they had to address hardcore with every single update and make specific changes, then I too would be on the side of "this probably isn't worth it".

It's absolutely fine to just go "I wouldn't like this" i just personally think it doesn't give much to the conversation at hand. "I don't like this because ___ " even if the reason is short, gives the idea poster something to work from and can potentionally evolve an idea from something that may not have worked into something more people would be good with, an example is literally here in this topic. A lot of pretty good reasons an entire server isn't ideal but more were receptive to it being an option like the PvP warrior. You are right though, sometimes there are ideas so out in space that it collectively confuses everyone.

We do yes, but the comment made is it would be 800 dollars for a new shard, which i don't think is accurate? I genuinely don't believe it would be, I think Hardcore would be pretty niche as far as the CoH playerbase goes, which is why my support mostly shifted to Checkbox over server, my only issue with that is difficult for Homecoming. If it's easier to do a server, that would likely be preferable but as you mentioned, the server brings all kinds of other issues into account including EU Regions. The checkbox solves that, but it brings up- This is mostly hypothetical situation that could likely not occur, but I'm not sure this would be a fairly large bug that would hopefully be caught in testing phases. We already do this for every server an individual who donates doesn't use, I'm not sure what you mean. If the cost was too much, which again i think would require an actual developer to comment on, then obviously the server specific idea would be a non-starter and i believe people would accept this answer, or just any "We're not interested in this" really. I appreciate your post, It's a great set of questions and weekend math. I don't think I've told anyone it's their responsibility to figure out though, only for Devs who are literally the only ones who can comment on specific things, like how much it would really cost or if something would require complete reworks of powers or not. Or that one guy who told me i had to prove him wrong, which again i still maintain nobody has to prove anything to another player to suggest something like this. It's not the same as someone calling a power bad and being asked for proof its bad. (I'm still not feeling well, so if you reply with follow up and get nothing for days it's illness and not disinterest)

You're mistaken, My toxicity complaint is for people calling ideas "Dumb" "Stuipid" or "awful" and thats their only contribution. I don't think just saying "i dont like this" is a good post to make, but it's not exactly toxic.

Yeah, as much as i love the idea of letting people keep their stuff for a more casual City of Heroes approach to things- It'd probably be easier to do the dead > disconnect route. Also I've become increasingly more ill as the day has gone by so i likely won't be around to reply anymore. Sorry to those wanting to reply to me but aren't around in time to. If you're for what i say, pretend i gave you a thumbs up. If you're against me, pretend i said something mean. 👍 see you at the next one

I think a simple popup that goes "Self revives and awakens won't save you from HC death" would work just fine and be easier tbh

Idk about badges but i think if they did a hardcore, there should be a badge for doing the really hard way in hardcore called "Sweaty" 🤭

With a lot of things like revives and what not, It is just accepted as "oh well deal with it". If you get ganked by something unfair or dumb, oh well start over. It's just the nature of hardcore. It can often be janky and weird and off putting but people still love doing it. I think a forum section would be a great start, but it would really need some semblance of support in-game to take flight this far into Homecomings life span.

Technically the checkbox was not my idea @Maelwys 😛 i just also thought it was a good alternative idea to a whole server if that was an issue for homecoming.