Lunar Ronin

TFs and hero trials in rough order: Old Positron TF (Faultline hadn't been revamped yet) Synapse TF Calvin Scott TF Citadel TF Manticore TF Numina TF Dr. Quaterfield TF Sara Moore TF Justin Augustine TF Faathim the Kind TF Cavern of Transcendence Trial Terra Volta #1 Trial Terra Volta #2 Trial Eden Trial Terra Volta #3 Trial Moonfire TF Ernesto Hess TF Sister Psyche TF Katie Hannon TF Ms. Liberty TF Lady Grey TF Abandoned Sewers Trial Imperious TF Dr. Kahn TF Positron 1 TF Positron 2 TF Apex TF Tin Mage TF Admiral Sutter TF Death from Below Trial Drowning in Blood Trial Penelope Yin TF Market Crash Trial SFs and villain trials in rough order: Virgil Tarikoss SF Silver Mantis SF Operative Renault SF Ice Mistral SF Treespec #1 Trial Treespec #2 Trial Treespec #3 Trial Classic Lord Recluse SF Lady Grey TF Imperious TF Barracuda SF Lord Recluse SF Apex TF Tin Mage TF Mortimer Kal SF Death from Below Trial Drowning in Blood Trial Market Crash Trial Dr. Aeon SF Somewhere in there is the Cathedral of Pain Trial. The Cathedral of Pain Trial was added to the game, yoinked, and then added back in years later. When it takes place chronologically, your guess is as good as mine.

This is exactly what I do on every character. Although I made the mistake of doing the original Tina MacIntyre "The Praetorian War" story arc just for a change of pace once. Once.

Did you already do the Dark Watcher story arc? If so, that removes Aaron Walker from the game. You'll need to contact a GM.

Sure, and I 100% agree. The thing is though, we're in the extreme minority outside of City of Heroes. People exposed to MMOGs after 2010 or so fully expect for there to be a turnstile and for people to use it. I can't count the times that I've seen someone join the Homecoming Discord server, and say something like: "Hello. I'm new. I have a level ten character, and I queued for a Positron 1 TF. Except it never pops. What am I doing wrong?" I've even seen a couple say that they were leaving the game after finding out that we don't use the turnstile. It's just something that modern gamers expect. For the worse of the genre, IMO.

If you queue as a locked team, you will all be teleported to the contact. If you queue as a locked team, no one will be able to join the group unless they are specifically invited. Here's the thing about the LFG queue and City of Heroes, no matter the server. Theoretically, it works just fine like you expect. If people queue for a TF, SF, or Trial, once enough people are queued up, the game will form a team or league and shuffle you all off to the TF contact or trial. The thing is, City of Heroes players refuse to use it. It's a feature that was added only about a year before the game was shut down, and people never got used to using it. So, they continue to form TFs, SFs, and Trials the old fashioned way. By sending people tells, or asking for tells, and being manually invited to the team or league. Can it work? Sure. But it won't, because City of Heroes players are set in their ways and will not use it.

The question is: With the way that Heroic Games deletes even slightly negative feedback or concerns from the Steam forums and from their Discord server, and bans anyone expressing said slightly negative feedback or concerns from the Steam forums and Discord server, will anyone even care? One of the biggest Heroic Games and Ship of Heroes supporters since 2017, and who was going to be an in-game moderator once the game launched, told the lead developer yesterday that Heroic Games' treatment of people expressing legitimate concerns about the game was unacceptable, said that he was done with Ship of Heroes, and left the Discord server. That is just slightly concerning. I've put $,$$$ into Ship of Heroes over the years. Seeing the way that the developers have been treating people the past few months and trying to bury all feedback that isn't glowing... it's not a good look. The lead developers have taken the philosophy "If you're not with us, you're against us" to heart, and assume that anyone with any negative feedback or concerns is out to sabotage the game. That's... really not good. It's going to be a very niche MMOG. You want as many people to at least try it out as possible.

My condolences on your loss.

Not part of Homecoming, but: Contribute to the wiki. You can contribute by writing or editing articles. There's a lot of outdated information on the wiki that could be brought up to date. You can also donate to the wiki separately, if you really want to donate money. Answer questions on the Help channel in-game, and/or the #new-players channel on the Homecoming Discord server. Lead teams. You have no idea how many people are wanting to play on a team but are averse to forming one themselves. Spread the word wherever you have reach. I run the City of Heroes feed on the Bluesky social media network. You have no idea how many times the feed captures people wishing that City of Heroes was back, completely unaware of Homecoming or any of the other rogue servers. It's been six and a half years, but there are still a lot of people unaware that City of Heroes is back. So I and a couple of others spread the word. Volunteer to become a closed beta tester, if you have time. This will help new Homecoming pages be as polished as can be. You can do so here. Just playing the game helps Homecoming.

I second Dual Pistols/Martial Combat Blaster. You really can't get much more Matrixy than that.

Send an in-game petition from the account that is currently the SG leader, with the SG name as it is currently, along with the SG name that you'd like it changed to. There's no guarantees, but worth a shot. A GM can do it once petitioned, but it's at the GM's discretion from what I understand.

You can download all of the comic books here. That's a good start. There were also two City of Heroes novels published in the mid-2000s, The Web of Arachnos by Robert Weinberg and The Freedom Phalanx by Robin D. Laws. AFAIK, The Web of Arachnos is still mostly canon while The Freedom Phalanx is no longer canon but still has some good information. You may be able to find them at a used bookshop or on eBay or something. In addition the comic books and novels, there is the story bible that the original Cryptic Studios developers used which you can download here. For the first couple of years after the original sunset, the developers did lore-related AMAs on Reddit which you can find here.

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My condolences on your loss.

That's a combination of Steam forums being cesspools in general, and the Heroic Games developers being a bit in their own bubble and not realizing how people other than CoH fans and SoH donors would perceive the game.

Enhancement Diversification was great. The timing however was lousy. Enhancement Diversification was obviously in preparation for Invention Origin enhancements. ED hit with the launch of City of Villains in October 2005. Invention Origin enhancements landed in May 2007, a year and a half later. That was a year and a half period where characters were significantly weaker than before with nothing to make up for it. ED should have been held off until the IO enhancements was ready. I was in a decent sized SG on the Liberty server from Issue 3 through Issue 6. All but one other in the SG left the game over ED, and as far as I know never came back.