Lunar Ronin

Yes. When the NC agreement announcement happened in January, many new players flocked to Homecoming. A lot of people have this crazy notion that they absolutely simply must play on the most crowded server/shard of a MMOG. As a result, Excelsior became completely overwhelmed with people, heavily overloading the shard. Queues and shard crashes ensued. Homecoming decided to enable double XP on the three lowest populated shards to entice people to move the heck off of Excelsior and play on other shards. It isn't needed now. The flood of people that came in January through March all left and Homecoming's player population is back to where it was a year ago. However, much to my chagrin, the double XP remains on Indomitable and Reunion, with Torchbearer getting a 50% XP bonus.

The host OuroDev uses was hit by Hurricane Beryl in early July. Since then, their host has been down more than up. Just have to periodically check.

When your biggest competitor (in this case, Overwatch 2), is free-to-play, buy-to-play is just not going to work at all in this day and age.

Brute will be fine. Thank you! Steady Indomitable's second campaign is full with Glacier Peak and Midnyte.

Howdy! Steady Indomitable is about to start its second campaign next Saturday, September 7th, at 3 P.M. ET/12 P.M. PT. The plan is to run every Saturday for approximately two hours. We will all start villain side, with Matthew Burke's story arc. Once we reach level 20, we'll start making our way to the Vigilante alignment, and then run Vigilante story arcs and Vigilante tip and alignment missions until level 50. All missions will be kill most/steamroll, there will be no speed running. We currently have six players including myself, and we're looking for two more. Currently we have an Electrical Armor/Radiation Melee Tanker, Assault Rifle/Radiation Emission Corruptor, Dual Pistols/Marine Affinity Corruptor, Earth Control/Earth Assault Dominator, Psi Blast/Time Manipulation Blaster, and either a Mind Control/Marine Affinity Controller, Plant Control/Marine Affinity Controller, or Staff Reflexes/Super Reflexes Scrapper. The only three rules are: no XP boosters, no speed running, and have fun! If this sounds like fun, feel free to join our Discord server here.

It's a jail, some place for the GMs to send naughty people to if they do naughty things during an official costume contest in Echo Plaza or something. Not being able to get in (or out) other than by GM intervention is quite intentional.

I can't believe that Invision doesn't have an add-on that automatically locks threads after no one has posted in it for a year, like most other forums software have.

You said before that the ZIP archive works for you. What happens when you try to update that? If Mids closes, acts like it is updating, and then tries to update again, make sure Mids is closed and go to the folder Mids is in. Run cleanup.exe in the folder.

No problem. When I have a lot of time on my hands, I like to occasionally peruse the archive for a stroll down memory lane. It hurts when I occasionally come across a post made by friends who have gone beyond the rim. Some of my old posts make me wince as well. So many things have changed over the past 20 years, ourselves included. Then again (looks at the OP), some things remain the same.

Disable cel shading.

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.