Lunar Ronin

Yeah. It was introduced in... I want to say Issue 27, Page Two.

Have you updated your graphics card driver lately?

C++? Oh no. It's much worse than that. Try C. No ++, #, or Carbon.

The real issue is that the rewards for Hamidon raids should have been cut in half years ago. Trying to compare anything else to them is folly.

As recently noted on the wiki, the last remaining City of Heroes supergroup website listed on the wiki went offline over a year and a half ago, and was removed. Back during the days of live, supergroups/clans/guilds/what have you having their own websites was fairly common and made sense. Heck, I ran a couple myself. But those days are over. Supergroup/clan/guild/what have you websites have been supplanted by Discord servers. Is having various Homecoming supergroups adding Discord server links to the Homecoming Wiki something we should encourage? Paragon Wiki felt it important enough to let supergroups list their websites. Just something I thought that I'd bring up.

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Submit a support ticket.

Ask.com and Startpage are wrappers for Google. In addition to DuckDuckGo and Yahoo!, Ecosia (an up and coming "environmentally friendly" search engine), Excite, HotBot, Lycos, Qwant (another popular privacy-friendly alternative to DuckDuckGo), and You.com all are wrappers for Bing. There are also up and coming search "AIs," namely SearchGPT and Perplexity. But note that quite a few websites are at least attempting to block all known LLM crawlers, including the websites that I own.

Agreed. If you want actual search results, try Brave Search, Kagi, and/or Mojeek.

DuckDuckGo and Yahoo! are essentially wrappers for Bing, so it's not at all surprising that they would show the same search results as they all use the Bing search engine. As for why Bing has deprioritized the Homecoming Forums, no idea. I checked the robots.txt file to see if Homecoming is blocking Bing for some reason, but nothing there. But Bing is a pretty bad search engine anyhoo. There are actual search engines: Bing, Brave Search, Google, Kagi, Mojeek, and Yandex. Others are either a wrapper for Bing, or are metasearch engines (meaning they search multiple search engines for you simultaneously). FWIW, I personally use and recommend Kagi, although it isn't free. Brave Search and Mojeek are my secondary recommendations. Bing and Google are just bad, especially since the LLM wars started.

There seems to be this belief among some (particularly MMORPG players that started with or after WoW), that "If a server has under 2,500 people on, it isn't a MMORPG." That's despite the fact that at most only one City of Heroes server back on live had 2,500 people concurrently on (Freedom), and that was only during the first few years of live. I've seen quite a few posts on the CoH sub-Reddit over the past few years saying things along the lines of, "Homecoming should merge Everlasting, Torchbearer, Indomitable, and Reunion into Excelsior. Rebirth, Thunderspy, and New Dawn should all shut down and everyone should play on Excelsior!" It's quite annoying.

People talking in in-game channels hasn't been a thing in any MMORPG since Discord became popular. You could have 10,000 people on a shard, and most in-game channels would be as quiet as a church mouse. Just is what it is.

It's been stated on here by developers quite a few times over the years that, except for Reunion, consolidating the shards would save no money nor infrastructure as the four North American shards share physical hardware. They could save money by shuttering Reunion, except they use the hardware in Europe as a backup anyway. Secondly, Excelsior is very laggy compared to the other shards, especially the three lowest populated shards. It's nice playing on a shard without all of the lag that comes from being heavily populated. Thirdly, each shard has its own personality and sub-culture. I personally don't care for the personality and sub-culture of Excelsior. Others don't care for the personality and sub-culture of Everlasting. You would also lose the personality and sub-culture of Torchbearer, Indomitable, and Reunion. To sum up: Consolidating shards would result in the loss of shard culture and personality for three shards, and you'd lose players who do not want to play on heavily populated shards and would rather leave the game. In addition, you'd gain nothing.

There used to be a Twitch streamer that just streamed the LFG channel from all five Homecoming shards along with Rebirth, Thunderspy, and New Dawn simultaneously 24/7. It only lasted a few months though before he or she pulled the plug on it. It was a neat idea though.

Thank you for proving my point.

The OP doesn't care about any of that. Lordporkbone already stated that he or she plays on Excelsior, and just incredibly selfishly wants to force everyone on Torchbearer, Indomitable, and Reunion to move to Excelsior or Everlasting so he or she would have even more people to play with. It doesn't work that way. People who still play on Torchbearer, Indomitable, and Reunion today intentionally chose to play on those shards, and do not want to play on Excelsior or Everlasting. I played on Excelsior for years, and left for Indomitable because I found the player base on Excelsior increasingly toxic. Not to mention the heavy lag and shard issues from playing on a heavily populated shard that the lower population shards just don't have.

Well, that would be one way to get me to leave. Not everyone wants to play on heavily populated shards.

We have been discussing this a bit on the Homecoming Wiki Discord server. Chriso has been directly translating parts of wiki articles from the English on the article to French. Why, when he or she obviously understood the English well enough to translate it, no one knows. Another question is why only translate some of the article instead of all of it. Either way, it's making a bit of a mess.

The only time you ever need to dismiss henchmen is when you're about to enter the final mission of the Tin Mage TF. There's few or no beacons for henchmen to follow in the Praetorian underground area, so henchmen never make it through the doors. When you're outside the last underground door, then you should resummon, re-equip, and re-upgrade your henchmen ASAP. Other than that, there's never any need to dismiss henchmen. If you're just taking out trash, like most of BAF, or Underground, it's fine to keep henchmen on aggressive. When outside during the TPN Campus Trial, you want to keep henchmen on a very tight leash so that they don't attack cameras or Praetorian citizens so you'll need to carefully control them. When inside the buildings, you can set them back on aggressive. As for putting henchmen on passive, you do that when the league is trying to obtain certain badges. Like for BAF on Keep Them Separated or Triple Threat on the Magisterium trial, should a league leader order people to stop attacking when the AVs are at 5%, you put your henchmen on passive at 6%. Same for Avatar Assassin badge in The Underground trial. For Bunker Buster on the Keyes Trial, just put your henchmen on passive for that part. Some Incarnate trial leaders will tell you to dismiss your henchmen thinking that they will somehow cause certain badges to fail, like Avoids the Green Stuff or Avatar Assassin. They won't unless the Mastermind is played badly, but you should respect your Incarnate trial leader's wishes for that trial. Generally, Incarnate trial leaders that ask for henchmen to be dismissed don't play Masterminds or rarely play Masterminds and don't understand the AT.

There is now a wiki for Stars Reach, collecting all known information about the game.

The AE building.

Yeah, the henchmen aren't impacted by the +rech, but Electrical Affinity has so many other tools in its toolkit between heals, +absorb, +dmg, +to-hit, -dmg, +resistance, AoE mez protection, among other things. It's one of the top two secondaries for Masterminds, IMO.

No, the build just won't be as easy and you'll have to build around it, that's all. Electrical Affinity is one of the best Mastermind secondaries, if not the top. It gives great heals, absorb, and buffs, while providing AoE mez protection for you and your henchmen. Sonic Resonance is good as well. The only issue with Sonic Resonance on a Mastermind is the lack of a heal. It can be a drag to wait around for your henchmen to heal back up. Of course, you can dismiss and resummon them, but then you have to re-equip and re-upgrade them as well. However, taking the Aid Other pool power rectifies this issue.

Try verifying/validating your files. Sounds like a corrupt PIGG.

Sure. Run a traceroute from your computer to cityofheroes.dev (the Victory server domain name). It'll clearly show that it's on the west coast of the United States.