Ironblade

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.

To save time for everyone. I run a lot of task forces and I will typically run the weeklies multiples times in a week. Synapse and Citadel are TORTURE. On SOME of the task forces, when I'm giving initial instructions and telling what difficulty I'm setting, I tell people to please stealth objectives whenever they can.

You can. If I recall correctly, the only time you can't kick on a whim is in incarnate trials when you're running an 'open league'. Then you have to have a vote to kick someone.

Some names are okay, like Clwyd. 🙂 Did you know that you can contribute to the server upkeep to assuage your guilt? Homecoming accepts donations through PayPal on the last Saturday of each month. When the donation window 'opens', it is announced on here and on Discord.

I agree, If for no other reason than to be able to say, "Okay, we ran the name purge like people keep asking. If you can't get the name you wanted, well, we did all we could." True, but life is full of arbitrary cut-offs. Why is the drinking age different in different states? Because it's an arbitrary number and people had different opinions.

Basically, yes. I'd heard that they simply didn't see any point in maintaining the game since it took significant resources and only represented 2% of their revenue. Yes, it was still profitable but 2% of revenue is pretty insignificant. I think that only applies to carrot cake. Anyway, speaking of 'forging ahead', whenever I hear that phrase, this is what I think of:

I guess. Forum search capabilities tend to be sub-par. When I'm searching a chat forum, I usually use Google and restrict the search to that domain. Works better than most forum search functions.

Define "sitting on". Plenty of people have pages of level 50 characters who are immune to the name release policy. Personally, have 43 characters at level 50 and 6 at lower levels. Will there be a clean-up? Maybe. Maybe not. The devs have looked at the situation and the simple fact is that it's not going to free up vast numbers of good names. It just isn't. You'll just have to deal with it. We're all in the same boat. When I create a new character, I have the same odds as someone who signed up yesterday at getting a name I want. Well, maybe my odds are better because I do a lot of concept characters with odd names: Fidgety Girl, Sparkie McSparkface, Toggle Man, etc.

Sometimes, the answer is "to confirm the KICK button works". Most of the time, if someone wants to 'do their own thing', it's not a big deal. But if I have made clear EXACTLY how we're doing some task force and someone goes off on their own completely ignoring instructions - I will warn them and then kick them.

Four points is plenty for pretty much every AT that doesn't get it in a powerset. I never bother getting more than 4 points on anyone that isn't a tank or brute. Most of the powers that give KNB protection ALSO give KNB resistance, making them even more effective than the points of KNB protection would suggest. For a tank with an armor set that doesn't give KNB protection, I've done it with 8 points and it was rarely an issue.

Stop and re-read what you wrote. No one is even close to saying that live had 1500 players per shard. You're confusing numbers of players online simultaneously with total number of paying customers.

Apparently, we also live in a generation of being ill-mannered.

It's a safe bet that if you had trouble finding it, other people are having trouble too.

Here's one I find useful for getting into a base. f3 "enterbasefrompasscode VF-5738$$enterbasefrompasscode COSMICTRANSPORT-6608$$enterbasefrompasscode Enclave-687$$enterbasefrompasscode TORCHCS-5949" Enclave-687 is MY base on Everlasting. All of the others are useful public transport bases. I don't have to build my own base on other shards or remember which shard I'm on. I just walk up to a base portal and hit F3. When I use this, I'll get a bunch of error messages for the wrong entries but the one that matches the server I'm on will work. I need to find a good base on the fifth shard and add that when I get around to it. I think I'm missing Reunion since I only have one character there. All of my characters have EITHER the Blackwand or the Nemesis Staff. So I don't have to remember which, or clutter my power trays, I use this: alt+f "powexecname Nemesis Staff$$powexecname Blackwand" Every character has one of the P2W travel powers, based on their concept and background. Whichever they have, this will turn it on and off. alt+e "powexecname Ninja Run$$powexecname Beast Run$$powexecname Athletic Run" The bind file I load onto every new character has 58 keybinds. I have a template at the top of my keyboard for all the ones on the F-keys, Alt-F and Ctrl-F. So useful.

Specifically, click on the fourth section per the image below and that will connect you. Edit: And I don't mean to click on this image. I mean find the main forum section that looks like this and click on the words "Homecoming Discord Server".

And if you're NOT trying to become fabulously wealthy, the effort is pretty trivial. I do my marketeering on one character at a time until they finish their incarnate stuff. I'll spend 15-20 minutes at the AH, a couple times per week. By the time the character is finished, they will have made over 2 billion inf - maxing out their holding capacity and dropping a few hundred million into emails. I then transfer any remaining converters to a new low-level character.

No. I actually based the build on the piece of prose about Toggle Man that someone wrote back on the live forums. So he adheres to the restrictions that were in place at the time. If you want to read the story, link is in my signature.

Yeah, the tough pet was on my mind when I made an earth/radiation controller. He's pretty devastating and radiation is great for the team.

This. We know from the plaques that he was tremendously tall. Not sure if I read it somewhere, but I also believe the statue in Atlas Park is life-sized.

While money is a concern, I actually leave some slots empty and don't upgrade the others until my enhancements are yellow and about to turn red the next time I level. Sometimes I miss and end up with all red (non-functioning) enhancements. When that happens, you'll notice it pretty quick. P.S. I do this until about level 30-32. Then I start slotting IO's (invention origin enhancements). They never expire so they're a bargain in the long run.