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Thank you very much 😁, though our SG name is Elysian Guardians, though we are coalitioned with Celestial Warriors, which many of us are involved with. 🙂 I have just been a bit too lazy to change the name in my Signature is all lol... 🙂

I remember playing with The Girls of Nukem High several times during Live on Freedom, and have even done so a few times on Leagues here (and teams? I do not remember, sorry), and I find that this SG is great, very respectable, and are a fantastic "old" addition to Homecoming. So well done, and well met I would say. 🙂 The T (T'rel) approves. And as far as the so called "restrictive" nature of their look goes, it IS only ONE costumes slot here... one out of many, so as far as I am concerned, it is not only perfectly fine, but also a very cool and good idea for a SG. Heck, it's just an expansion of Super Group Mode imo, so its all good as far as I am concerned. So as the ever Vampy Vamp Snarky said... ROCK ON! 😁 And thank you, one and all, for being here and recreating such a cool SG here for all for all of us to enjoy and appreciate (if we so choose). Now, if only the ever loved TAXI SG would come back, even if they are no longer "needed" per say, with all the ways we can travel now... 😏

Great data collection OP (and others)! 🙂 Any such efforts are very much appreciated, so thank you for doing the leg work on this. Now personally I feel that any events that the Dev's add to the game is a blessing for all of us, even if they "might" be immersion breaking. Of course, as this IS a video game, and more and more, people are thinking that we live in a Virtual Universe (ala the Matrix?), that is solely a matter of personal viewpoint. That being said, the event can be a total Lag-fest, so how I approach it is I just play the game normally, and if along my travels I encounter one, I join in (If I am not on a team mind you). This has the benefit of increasing the immersion part for me significantly (not that I really care "too" much about it overall). But I usually do not hunt these down. However, I do feel that the Dev's have missed a "slight" opportunity here. The GM does not give a Badge at all, nor does the event itself(?). Not good at all. 😞 Also, after having run this for roughly 3 years now (If not longer), not doing something... anything to elevate at least some of lag generated by this event, is not good at all. For the Dev's and the players both. Yes, I know that much of this lag is based on several factors, such as how many people are in the zone, and even how many League teams have been created (for examples), but that isn't that is creating the lag I am sure. I only know this because "I" am comparing it to the Halloween event itself. During the Halloween event, I really don't get any lag at all when participating in a door league, either in PI or KW, where the largest league teams are formed. However, with this even, it can be an incredible lag fest. So there is obviously other game factors "code" wise that is affecting this, and for the Dev's not to have done much at all to at least fix "some" of this lag issue, is a big missed QoL benefit to this game. Yes, there are other priorities, but this has gone on for years... so that can't really be used as an excuse anymore I feel. But overall, this IS a cool event, and any data collection that has been done for it, like what @Lheeli has done, is very appreciated. So thank you very much for this. Keep up the great work, K? 😁

What... What??? 😲 No more...costumes?!? But, but... I was just about to finish my awe inspiring "I Hate Costumes" costume"! Dang nabbit! /e Tosses the costume on the floor angrily, and just as I am about to walk across the sewing room to kick a Kheldian, the needle on the floor stabs painfully into my big toe! And as I scream in pain and hop all around the room on one foot, I accidently trip over the Cat that "someone" has set fire to (again), and fall out the windows, only to land in a truck carrying a whole pile of nuclear waste... Omg, see!!! Banning costumes can injure people! Like me! So I vote not just no, but hell no! 😁 (The proceeding was paid for by "Cat's on Fire", and Kheldian Assassins everywhere...)

It's just a after image of this Max person is all. Sorta like the Ghost of Max from Christmas past, telling us all to not to give Santa anymore cookies, cause you know... he's fat is all. And his wife is really considering getting a bigger bed because of it, and Santa won't front the bill. So sad... 😞

I would send one ice cream bar with Hami's picture on it to every person who play's Coh, with a note saying "Thank you for your support. Here's a HamiBar for you". That would be a very kind gesture I would think... 🙂

Run Away!!! RUN AWAY!!! 😲

I'll just repeat something here that has been said to even myself, as one who now is known as having and loving, my own Grav/FF Troller (Ms Grav)... "Humble much?" 😁 Welcome back to your home away from home... 🙂

Ahhh, this just warms my heart to no end. Seeing a new returning player (or completely new one) coming home, to the best game in the world, with the best community and folks around, bar none. And as the X-Men used to say... "Welcome to the Party... Hope you survive the experience." 🙂 So welcome home, and let the tears of joy be shed at this... Welcome Home!!! :)

Yeah, not much reason not to hit 50 in this game, imo, as (like has been said already) there are a ton of other options available to you @SirBronco. So yeah... As far as being able to manually reduce one's lvl so as to be able to do content that one would otherwise out lvl, or even have the option to have the game set your lvl at a zone's actual lvl range when you enter it (like the PvP zones for example), or heck, not being able to out lvl Contacts at all so as to be able to do them, well... That would sort of negate the need/desire/use of Ouroboros for the most part (A good fairly big part of the game here in Homecoming), and I am fairly sure no game DM would want that (generally speaking). So yeah, while a interesting and useful idea, not gonna happen I don't think... 😁

Hey, fixed that for you Snarky man (Or would that be, Snarky Vamp? 😋)... 😁

Ahhh, that's just what is known as "the miracle of life" is all. 🙂 Sorry I missed all the farm fun GL & Company...

Ok, I thought about this for a long time, but after the comments' made by @Arisara, I figured I would share something quite personal... And that is about how I almost quit CoH and how GL saved me from doing so... You see I, like so many of us here, store what money I have in our Emails. Well, a long time ago, I looked at my Email to get some money for some IO's, and low and behold, I saw that ALL of my money was no longer there. And when I say all, I mean over 500-700 mil (if I am remembering correctly). So I checked all of my characters (all 100+ of them) to see if it was on any of them... nope, it wasn't. Totally confused and quite distraught, I contacted support to see if they could A) find out what happened, B) find out where it was (I think), and C) see if they could reimburse me for my loss, if it was in fact lost to the wind. Well, they replied saying negative to all three things, so I was totally angry and devastated by this incredible loss. For while such a sum of money might not be that big or even a big of deal to many of you, to me it amounted to nearly a year of accumulation and, well loss. I am generally a "casual" player by most standards due to RL and medical concerns, and to lose such a amount of money was something beyond... heartbreaking. And yeah, it might have been "pilot error" on my part of course, though I had been told by several people that sometimes this Email snaffu was a bug that hit occasionally. So I decided I was going to quit the game, and having contacted GL (and the SG) I explained the situation with near tears, telling her goodbye. Well all of a sudden, GL says to look in my Email, and much to my shock, GL had replaced ALL of the money I had lost, with some extra too. I was... shocked beyond belief, and talking to GL she said that she had indeed sent me the money as she did not want me to quit the game, or leave this great SG & people. I was... well, words still fail me on what I felt/was feeling, and I thanked her of course. But long story short (too late I know), GL saved me. In truth, CoH IS just a game, but to many of us it is much more than that, with the connections we make with the people who play it. As such, what happens in it can and often times does affect us in a very real life way. GL did NOT have to do this... but she did, in a heartbeat, with no thought for her own self. She "saved" me from leaving this great game of ours, all the friends I have made in it, and this great community. SHE did this, and I love her for it, as many of us love her as well. GL has one of the biggest hearts I have ever known, in game life and real life, and she does so much for ALL of us out of the goodness of her heart. Yes, she is Human, and not perfect, with all the baggage and mistakes that exists in our species. But she does so much for this game, and for us all... whether we see it or not. And if she wasn't here, or didn't have such a great, bright, and loving heart & soul, this game... all of us would be lesser for it... period. And fyi, I do NOT worship GL as some do in the game... I only did that for my wife, who has long since... passed, and the Lord. So @Arisara, I ask only this... please lighten up, let go of the possible "anger" you may be feeling, look in the mirror, and know that GL is not perfect any more then you are. She is... Human. But with a heart and soul of gold only real care and love can bring. So yeah, that's my story. Sorry if it was long, and possibly detracted slightly from this thread, but I felt it needed to be said. As Wispur said, she is incredibly busy in the game, giving & leading all the things we do event wise (Hey GL, again, will you please, please take a breath occasionally lol), and she... like all the Dev's here... does this on her own free time. And no, she never asked for this "fame" you speak of. It was only developed by US, because of how much she does for US, not herself. Out of love, for us, and even you @Arisara. May we all be so blessed to be like her in this way. For when it is all said and done, at the end of our lives, there is only ONE question that matters, and that is... How MUCH have we loved...

Quoted for truth! Well said Wispur, well said... 🙂

Ok, how's this.... Next week's theme is "Punk"... Early enough for ya? 😁

I would have to say... yes... 🙂 However, I would also say it is a Victory for Homecoming as well... 😁

Oooo, I can't believe I missed this thread... 🙂 Hi y'all! I too used to play on FreeDum, and was there since I4 I do believe, and only left in 08' due to health reason. My "main" main was a character named T'rel (Dm/Inv Scrapper), though I had other ones named Ire Isotope (Fire/Rad Troller?), and the Blue Max (another DM character, and super speedster heh). And I was also a member of the great SG named The Conglomerate. We did everything in game, like Hami runs, Base Raids, Zone PvP (RV was so much fun back in the day), GM hunting, and holding very large Costume Contests as well (to name but a few things). While my memory is a bit shot now, I do remember... Kooky Monster Rose (well, everyone seemed to know Rose, so that's not a surprise... 😄) The Babes of War (I think) The Girls of Nukem High (though I might be mixing todays time with back then heh) And one of my best friends in the game was a person by the name of TIGRIX (a Claw/Regen scrapper). She always crashed in game unfortunately now and then, but that was because she used a old laptop to play the game on (I think). Ohhh, and I should mention that my main, T'rel, was noted as generally being the 2nd toughest Dm/Inv Scrapper on the server, only really outmatched by a lady on the forums (who was well known) that also played a Dm/Inv Scrapper. I always wanted to hook up and team with her, but our play times never seemed to match up sadly. Freedom was a great server, with all you great people playing it (and more), and I loved being there and joining you all in the joy that is CoH on Freedom. 🙂 You all rocked back then, and still do I am sure, and while I may not remember most anything about our great times with you all for the most part, maybe we did team up after all? 🙂 Either way, keep on rockin and representing the best that gamers can be, in the best game ever. P.S: The pic is of T'rel, and except for a few additions nowadays, his look was fairly the same back then.

Imo, thank goodness for that. I played live back in the day, and while I knew it was there, I felt it was too insecure to use at all. And of course with how we can all "surf the web" with ease nowadays, we don't need something like integrated into CoH and/or HC. So I for one am glad it was taken out of the game (code?)... 🙂

Welcome to HC, Victory! Long may you serve... 🙂 Now as far as the "combining shards/servers" thing goes, I too am one who is in the middle about this, and can see both side fairly equally (from a non Dev point of view of course). Yes, it would be good to combine two or maybe more of the lowest Pop servers into one (not including Victory of course, as, well... it has just arrived and all 🙂), if only to increase the population in the newly formed server. After all, they basically all are the same, game play and content speaking and all... However, just speaking for myself... I think going to a very low server and playing "if" you've had a hard day at work (or whatever) and just don't want to deal with people atm, can be and is a good thing as well. Sometimes one just wants to chill, do a mish or two, without having to "ignore" people can be relaxing all on it's own. Heck, just going to a zone and "feeling" like your the only one there playing, can feel freeing all on it's own at times, ya know? Plus, these very hard working people who run and manage the game (yes, including @Michiyo for those not in the know), have lives too outside of the game, not to mention other things on the "to do" list in Homecoming. So I am sure that "merging servers" is way down on their list, and for good reasons too (some of which may not be so obvious to us). So what is my take on this finally? Be thankful for what we got, be happy to still be playing a game we all love so much, and give thanks for all the folks who have and are working so hard... even those we do not know about per say... that continue to give us the great blessing that CoH actually is in these crazy days and times we find ourselves in. Because quite frankly, it could be worse, believe you, me. So love ya all my fellow gamers & Dev's, and as always... Peace... P.S: @Michiyo, I just wanted to thank you too for such a great tool as the CoHModding tool. It's a fantastic addition to the game, and I for one appreciate you, your hard work, and it's creation (as do others too). 🙂

I told you... Tracking Device! 😏 No one needs no stinking Locator Spell anymore to find you all now (how else do you think some of us find you so gosh darn fast, hmmm?) lol... (Man, no one listens to me anymore... <em walks away sadly, shaking his head>) 😝

Just a little hint here... The reason why we can find you all so easily, is because unbeknownst to you, some of our oldest players put tracking devices on you years ago... 😁 Oops... Did I ruin the surprise? 😬 Sorry, my bad'z... ☹️ Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night... 🙂

If I may ask, what's not to like about this idea? Hide & Seek has been played in the game for years now, by some very cool generous players, and nothing has been "bad" about it as far as I could see. It's also another way for our GREAT community to come together and share laughs, have fun, and support one another. So again, what's not to like about doing this? Isn't GM's like @Arcanum people to, and a part of the community here? I be so confused... 🤔

You win, and all expenses round trip to the CARIBBEAN ISLANDS for you and one loved one of your choice!!! (Of course, you gotta come back, so... yeah... 😛 )

Yes they are @Glacier Peak. Unless something has changed, I believe most, if not all, CC Pics are posted there... 🙂