Ironblade

If you don't remember it being this rough, then your mind is playing tricks on you about 'the good old days'. The in-game economy is DRAMATICALLY better than it was back on live. Prices for the 'good stuff' on the auction house are far lower than back on live. I mean, the +3% resistance unique cost me 2 billion inf back on live. Also, it's easier than ever to earn influence. The one factor that might be working against you is the common practice of getting the free double XP buff and/or playing on one of the servers that currently has an XP buff to attract new players. These make you level faster without increasing your influence (and actually decreasing your earnings in the case of the Pay2Win XP buffs). Final note: If you're genuinely struggling, plenty of people will throw money at you. Go to the thread linked below for info on how to have Yomo send you 100 million inf. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/43870-yomos-new-and-improved-bang-up-salmagundi-spectacular/#comment-570668

I don't expect him to take you up on this offer.

Characters disappearing and deleted ones reappearing is very unlikely. However, what happens quite often is that the character LISTING, which is stored locally on your computer, gets screwed up. We've seen that happen a lot. This is the file that keeps track of the character position in the list when you move them around. The file is under /Homecoming/accounts/(your account name)/playerslot.txt There will be one of these in each account folder. Try deleting that and see if it fixes it. Deleting this file doesn't delete anything, it just removes the record of what order they are displayed in.

Oh, very good. Yes, that does seem to be what is going on. Good to know. I'm going to leave the blank lines in because it makes the file easier for me to read.

Yeah, this is the one I use. It's excellent.

Well, it's a mystery to me. I wonder if there's some setting that one of us changed and forgot about. This is what it looks like when I load binds and it has always looked like this for me. Edit: By the way, this display is wonky as hell. Each load, it only displays about 14 of the bind commands from a file that has like four dozen. They all load correctly, but only a handful are displayed. And it doesn't display the same ones each time. Not sure what that means, if anything.

Wow, I bet that burn really hurt. I understand vampires are vulnerable to fire.

Ankle Bitter? Exasperated about your ankles? 🙂

If it was a change, it wasn't recent. I don't remember it ever working differently.

Yeah, that's crummy. When someone asks to join my team but has to switch, I actually click their name in the tell so I can get their global so I can be sure I'm getting the right person after they switch.

Yeah, that's nuts. I was playing something else online with my family and figured, "Eh, I'll do the donation when we're done here." Five hours later and it was too late. I'll have to get in earlier next month.

I would respectfully suggest you're storing a lot of junk that really is not worth storing. I have more than 50 characters and my girlfriend has a couple dozen. We don't have the max number of storage items and have plenty of space. Back on live (we're talking almost 20 years ago), I kept all kinds of stuff that "I might need". Now I just hold onto stuff that's clearly super useful and/or high value.

If you need more money, one of the richest people in the game gives 100 million to anyone who asks. See this thread for info: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/43870-yomos-new-and-improved-bang-up-salmagundi-spectacular/ You can right-click on people to bring up a menu. One of the options is Add Player Note. You can rate a person 1-5 stars and add a note. This is stored on YOUR computer and absolutely no one else can see it. Then, if you go into the game options, you can set it so that the stars will always appear above the persons head when you see them so you can instantly spot trouble-makers (1 star) or your best pals (5 stars) or anything in between.

Okay, that says either scrapper or brute to me. 🙂 Yes, you can. My one recommendation for new players - do NOT start in Praetorian Earth. That was added much later. I think it's quite well-written, and has beautiful zones, but the enemies are also a lot harder to deal with at low level.

Except the devs feel, and justifiably so in my opinion, that is not an acceptable position. The game is supported entirely by donations. So, taking a sarcastic and cavalier position toward managing the game just doesn't cut it.

Same here, but I think I know the reason in my case. About 95% of the PUGs I'm on, I'm the leader and I know where to expect trouble in most of the task forces.

Here's my solution. Remembering keybinds is an issue for me also, mainly because I have like 50 of them. I have most of my keybinds set to the F-keys. That's 36 keys since you have F1-F12, then alt-F and ctrl-F. I have a paper template with 3 rows of keybinds listed, positioned above the F-keys. Then I have a few more that I memorize since they are the same on every character. R turns on/off sprint. Alt-E turns on/off athletic/ninja/beast run (yes, I have one keybind that tries to toggle all three and it succeeds with whichever one the character has). Alt-F fires either the Nemesis Staff or Blackwand (whichever that character has). Etc.

That's what I think also. I do the full set of signature task forces on every single character. Even the long and annoying ones aren't so bad when it's the weekly and dropping double merits plus bonus XP.

Okay, so you have your priorities. Sadly, I do not think they match the priorities of the 100% volunteer dev team who, pretty much, work on WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE. They don't have the manpower to "grow and evolve" the game and they're not getting paid. The goal is not to compete with more modern games. This game is free. The goal, as far as I can tell, is to make gradual improvements. A major overhaul is simply wishful thinking.

Exactly. It's one more thing to do in the game if I don't feel like playing a different game.

It's human nature to perceive patterns in everything. Nothing to see here.

I made two characters for all all-rad team: Agent Pitchblende and Agent Roentgen.

That does seem awfully high, but I think this might be a comparison between 'number of accounts created ever' vs '64,000 *ACTIVE* accounts' (emphasis added). Also, realistically, how can they know how many total accounts a game has? I think they're probably extrapolating that number from the numbers they actually have.

I care. Everyone has their own image of a 'good leader' and so do I. I do what I think a good leader should do. If someone doesn't like it, big whoop. If I get called a poor leader and panned in General chat, so what? Anyone who knows me will recognize who's the idiot in the situation. And, of the people who don't know me, probably 95% will recognize that the person badmouthing someone in chat is the idiot.

Worth noting: every shard has the same rules and drop rates (except for the current XP adjustment to drive traffic to less populated servers). Also, something many people do not know: the market extends across all shards. There is no 'Everlasting Market' and 'Indomitable Market'; there is just the Homecoming Market.