Ironblade

"Bobcat hits you with their Eviscerate for 2855.76 points of Lethal damage. " Odd phrasing there. I understand the use of 'their' to be gender neutral, but why is it there at all? "Bobcat hits you with Eviscerate for 2855.76 points of Lethal damage. " This version is entirely correct and has proper grammar.

Ironblade - broadsword/regen scrapper - My very first character and my favorite. Back on live, I estimated he got as much play time as all other characters combined. Nowadays, that's no longer true since I have so many other characters to recreate. Lifeshadow - empathy/dark blast defender - Aside from what empathy brings, most dark powers debuff enemy to hit and improve team survivability. Add the team-focused powers from Stealth, Leadership and Teleport pools and he's super useful. Dr Dolomite - stone/stone tank Chromatic Cat - invuln/dark melee tank Taiga Tigress - willpower/ice melee tank - What? I like tanks.

This is your recovery from your original nonsensical statement? I find farming tedious. My girlfriend finds it genuinely entertaining. Open your mind.

Basically, neither. I will run a farm map maybe 5-10 times in a MONTH, purely for variety. The rewards are nice, the actual farming is kind of tedious, but it's DIFFERENT. Like when I'll spend a couple hours doing exploration badges in multiple zones.

I can sympathize about the burnout. Back when the game was live, I ran a coalition of 3 SG's and was an officer in 5 others. I ran events for my SG's during the week and TFs/trials on the weekends with open sign-up on the forums. I ran overnight gladiator heal farms. I worked with people to farm the PvP badges. After the game shut down and I moved to other games, I didn't even JOIN any guilds, let alone run one. So, when you say "call it quits", I hope you are only referring to the nightly grind and aren't thinking about leaving the game entirely. I (and clearly many others) would hate to you see you go. Maybe you could (glances around furtively) become a . . . casual player. 😮

Yeah, a big chunk of the file looks like this "H²?z_g\qú;0üòi»±/~“µØž±g|,÷xnß" Then each item has an entry, like: 0 1 NEW "Dimensional Anchor" 0 1 NPC v_base_object 0 1 DYNLIB base_anchor_arcane_w_N_P 0 1 POS 160 17 256 0 1 PYR 0 1.583068 0 0 1 MOV READY 0 0 1 HP 8032.00 0 1 HPMAX 8032.00

I've previously mentioned bulletin boards (along with MANY other people). As for souvenirs, I think it would really cool if we could get a display on our own computers of all of our souvenirs like we have for our badges. Of course, someone would have to create artwork for all the mission souvenirs. On the other hand, storage requirements would be trivial since it already stores souvenir names and text. It would just need to add an ID to reference artwork.

Yep. Before shutdown, I took demorecords of all of my (five) bases and all the other (21) bases that I had access to. The largest file is 178KB.

No, because in any paid game (which this once was), this would allow selling of characters for real money.

I have an earth/rad controller that I really like. Earth control gives you two holds and radiation emission gives you two more. The earth pet hits really hard and rad gives you a variety of debuffs plus a rez and AoE heal. Super versatile, in my opinion. Also, easy enough to come up with a theme. My character is Agent Pitchblende (pitchblende is uranium ore).

Do you remember what server you played on? Scroll way down on the main page to the 'Reconnect' section. I'd post in there with your old server and character name in the post title.

Same with the Hess and Katie Hannon task forces.

They're definitely being run. I've been on every iTrial except Lambda on Homecoming. And I saw at least one successful run to get the 'Really Hard Way' badge, but I was not on that one.

This. And, specifically, the one I put in Brawl is the one with chance for knockdown because I find it entertaining when it works. 🙂

It's not going to sink in because it's wrong. The game DOES have an economy and the basic rules of economics DO apply. Is the game economy the same as the real world economy? Of course not. Are there enough similarities in the systems that we can draw conclusions and make predictions? Hell yes.

(shrug) I wasn't trying to impress anyone so I didn't bother. Then someone gave a snarky response which was based on THEIR ASSUMPTION of my lack of relevant knowledge, so I corrected them.

HO's are a total crap shoot. If you get a Golgi (heal/end), it's worth like 5,000 inf. On the other hand, I often take the HO because I'm looking for Cytoskeletons (to hit buff / def buff / end red), which are pretty valuable for my invuln tanks.

As a programmer and database admin, no, we don't. 🙂

FYI (and a lot of people don't realize this), there is ONE consignment house across all servers.

Well, if you want to sort of model this after PnP gaming systems. Each player could (as you noted - OPTIONALLY) elect to have a weakness to some type of damage. I think a good way to make this more balanced and make more people interested in the system would be to have the weakness countered by a strength. i.e. The Human Inferno is very resistant to fire but very weak against cold. A player could choose to have Slight, Moderate or High 'weakness' (minus damage resistance) to a type of damage and would therefore be more resistant to the 'matching' category. I would group them just like the damage categories are grouped. Doughman is resistant to smashing but weak to lethal. Pulsar is resistant to energy but weak to negative. This seems like something that would be relatively simple to code. During character creation, the player has the option of taking an always on power that gives +resist to X and -resist to Y.

Then people are playing the wrong game. You should be playing CoH because you ENJOY it. If your focus is grinding for inf or "trying" to get to level 50, that doesn't sound fun at all. ('Trying' to get to 50? Getting to 50 is inevitable.)

1. I'm downloading the game now, but it's moving REALLY slow. Is this normal, and how long does it usually take? By modern standards, this game is TINY (4 GB). Back when I first played this game, it took me 3 hours to download. Now, on 50GB fiber, the download took minutes. Keep in mind that almost everyone is on and using the internet currently. Everything runs slower - often HALF the speed it should. 2. Are there certain days of the week /times of day the servers are busier than others? Same as any game - prime time is prime time. Normally, that would be weekdays about 6-midnight EST and all day long on weekends. With the coronavirus shelter in place, you can usually find teams all day every day. 3. Is there anything that differentiates the two regular (non-rp or EU) servers? You just have to know which is which. The important one is Reunion - that's the EU server and it's hosted in..... I think Frankfurt. Everlasting is the RP server, but I play there and I don't RP and I don't see much RP. To be fair, I hardly ever visit Pocket D. And there are five servers: Indomitable, Excelsior, Everlasting, Torchbearer and Reunion. Excelsior is the most crowded - that could be good or bad depending on you. 4. Do people still run super teams? For example, back in the day, my friends and I all made Radiation Defenders, and would run in teams of 8. We melted anything and everything that got infront of us, and discovered that it was a great way to level toons QUICKLY. Yes..... My *impression* is that there are less fixed teams, super teams, supergroup activities, etc. I *think* this is due to the fact that supergroup bases are now free (no prestige costs) so there is less motivation to join supergroups. 5. Does the game play much differently than it did before? Not really. It's a bit more casual-friendly and new-player-friendly. There's a new AT and some new powersets. But, overall, it doesn't play differently at all. It's very much the same game it always was. 6. How are the servers maintained? Is there no membership cost? Voluntary donations only, accepted up to the monthly target. Donations are accepted on the last Saturday of each month and shut down once the target is hit. They do a breakdown of expenses each month. The last one is https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/17076-april-2020-donations-finances/

I'm pretty sure you don't have to do any missions to unlock it. I always unlock it when I do the Sara Moore TF (before starting the TF). You have to talk to a guy at the Cascade mole point where Sara Moore is. I believe he is called "Mole Point Technician" (maybe Operator). After you talk to him, you can use the portal from either side.

There's a building in Atlas that has a garden on the roof, enclosed by a glass dome. I forget which direction it is from City Hall, but it's easy enough to spot if you are flying. You can get inside the roof dome by taking the stairs at ground level - there are doors with a staircase symbol.

If you're sitting on the sidelines waiting for a resolution, you are very much in the minority. The FORUM community may be divided in their OPINIONS, but they're still playing the game. Most people are blissfully unaware that any change was made. Where are we headed? We're there. How can we fix this? They already did.