Lunar Ronin

This happened to me right after defeating Jack in Irons a few years ago. The Croatoa zone crashed and everyone in it was disconnected and rolled back a few minutes, losing the badge and reward merits. I just assumed that it was Excelsior being Excelsior at the time, as it's not exactly the most stable of the now six shards.

My condolences on your loss.

There's an ancient bug from very early on live that still exists to this day: If you enter an instance, there's a random but very tiny chance that the game will throw you onto someone else's instance... Someone's mission, an Incarnate trial, or even an arena match. It's happened to me three times in the past 20 years, and it sounds like that is what happened to you. Sorry, that sucks.

You can already solo 95% of the game's content on just about any character. There's very little content that you actually need a team for. So what's the difference between someone playing one or three accounts while soloing?

It's a known bug that has been around for about a year now.

Every shard has its own personality and culture. For better or worse, Excelsior is essentially Freedumb 2.0 with all that entails.

Just a heads up that at least one of the mods, Hasten Muted, appears to have become corrupt. I did a clean install of the OS on my computer this weekend, and went to grab all of the mods via City Mod Installer. All of them downloaded successfully, except for Hasten Muted. It failed the MD5 checksum match. I attempted again, same thing. So, out of curiosity, I downloaded the mod manually via the website, and it downloaded as a 0 KB file. There was nothing in it. Tried again on a different browser, and same thing. This mod used to download just fine before as I've done so several times before, and I know a couple of friends that use the mod as well.

The forums have really slowed down over the past few years.

There's also a Homecoming specific sub-Reddit created years ago but never used, and Homecoming is now the only major City of Heroes server without a presence on Bluesky. I suspect that it's a combination of people just being too busy, and word of mouth being "enough."

People have a lot of assumptions on how the game works. They assume that because their level ten character is on an invasion team in Steel Canyon, invasions must not care about character level... when the invasions are occurring because of the level 25+ characters on the team.

I'd like to propose a new badge: Wingman/Wingwoman. To obtain this badge, you need to spend ten hours under the effect of Group Fly, (either your own or someone else's).

This was a side effect of SCoRE's/the secret server's/Homecoming's changes to let people build outside of the SG base. Loss of pet pathing was deemed as acceptable collateral damage.

Best elevator to take:

To help avoid getting shot by snipers and such while flying around. But, again, as soon as you do an attack, *poof* the defense goes.