Lunar Ronin

Ding, ding, ding. When I was going through the old blue boards digging for Ultimo's old threads, I saw a lot of posted builds in 2009 and 2010. Every single one was SOs only, and this was years after IO enhancements came out. Granted, it was live, enhancements were a lot more expensive back then, but still. But then what do we have here? All SOs. In 2021 and 2023, on Homecoming, where IO enhancements are much less expensive. That's fine. You can still play on SOs outside of Incarnate content and advanced modes. But you're not going to solo AVs (with certain exceptions), and you're not going to last long against them solo either.

Don't forget classic old blue board threads like these: Defenders balance The State of Invulnerability Damage output? This game is tedious

The Mender Lazarus Task Force used to reward ten reward merits back on live, but it looks like the reward merits were removed when SCoRE/Resurgence/the old secret server converted the Ouroboros Task Forces and Strike Forces into story arcs.

Sadly, no. As Rudra explained, it's a power granted by Null the Gull, not a command. My suggestion is to do what I do: Lead teams. If someone that joins complains about your use of Group Fly, explain how it can be disabled. If he or she keeps complaining, /kick

I realize that this is going to go nowhere and I'd have better luck talking with Claude the LLM, but I'll just point out: The "inconsiderate" players leaving aren't the people holding up your team. You are holding up your team. There's nothing in the City of Heroes bible that states that you absolutely need six to eight players on your team before entering a mission. If you have three people on your team, lower the mission difficulty to something like x5 before entering, and continue recruiting while you're in the mission. Then if you get two more people on your team while doing the mission, raise the mission difficulty to something like x7 for the next mission. Someone leave during that mission? Then lower the difficulty back down for the next mission. But keep recruiting, while you're in missions. Obviously the above doesn't apply to Task Forces, Strike Forces, and Trials, but you mentioned story arc missions.

If you're dying a lot on a Corruptor, then either you need help with your character's build, you need to learn to play the AT, or both. Corruptors don't have less health than everyone else. They have more HPs than Defenders, for one. Corruptors have the same defensive power as Controllers, and a heck of a lot more than Dominators considering that Dominators don't get defensive powers. Yeah, the damage reported on Corruptor powers is wrong. It's been a bug in game for a few years now, it's taking Scourge into account when it shouldn't. That said, Corruptors do more damage than Defenders.

Taking away options generally isn't a good idea. It's true that the game is moving away from SO enhancements. Using SO enhancements in Incarnate content and advanced mode content certainly isn't viable. However, there's a lot of content in the game that is still viable for SO enhancements. No reason to remove SO enhancements for those.

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.

Snarky's PUG Emporium.

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.