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Now that things are official, were it to become possible, I would set up a monthly recurring charge as well.

Global Coalition with a larger limit would be nice too.

Exactly.

Any thoughts on increasing the Coalition limit? In running a small (about 25 members) SG with 1 main and 1 alt SG we are doing ok, till everyone wants a personal SG (which is a great idea for storage and alts above and beyond what we can fit in the official SG's). It would be awesome if we could just make a big coalition. I assume in the code things are not so simple as changing a constant somewhere, or are they? Thanks!

Looks like someone agreed with you and moved the post. I had thought to post here as well, I didnt, originally, because while our official SG/Base is on Indom our members are spread out across all the servers. Luckily private channels allow us to all stay in touch about activities along with easy, smooth, character server transfers. What would be really awesome would be to have 1 SG across all servers with a single base everyone could meet within then when existing go back to the home shard.

The original OTG.

Posting here as I dont see a better place. The Old Timers Guild is a Meta-Guild across a very large number of games. Now that Homecoming is officially licensed we have opened a Super Group here for members. Our official Super Groups (Main and Alts) are on Indomitable, with our chat channel anyone on any server can keep in touch across all of HC. Existing OTG members who our interested please post in the General Games Invite thread on the OTG forums. Prospective members please see our official OTG forums for the application process. Full details there. Our motto is "Laid back, not too serious, no drama...all about the fun!" as such we typically only accept new members ages 25 plus (with a referral from an existing OTG member on an exception basis this can be waived). OTG Forums: https://oldtimersguild.com/ We have Super Groups, Guilds, Companies, etc across a very large number of games and once in you are eligible to join with just a quick per game application on our forums. We have a family to play with almost everywhere. -edit typo

I dont know if anyone from NCSoft watches the forums here. You guys sure make it hard to contact the company directly. Thank you much for Licensing COH to Homecoming. I've been looking at Throne and Liberty. will be the first money spent on NCSoft in 20 years. Might pick up some GW2 as well. -edit: fixed a font issue

Too big for the 1k limit so posting here. In the News today: 'Electron Volts' has robbed another bank and is still at large. Rogue Island police warn he is armed and should be considered extremely dangerous. Tossing down the newspaper with a lopsided grin a small Asian man of late teenage years and unimposing stature, spends a moment thinking about where to spend some of his newly acquired wealth, while trying not to think of the dark dreams of the night before. The dreams always come back. Having tried many treatments, legal or not, meditations and even black magic to stop the nightmarish dreams from coming back. They always start and end the same. A mysterious figure in a plain white lab coat, his face covered with a mask, looking uninterestedly on as Ramsmei twitches and shrieks in pain. A powerful hum fills the room as giant capacitors and transformers store up and discharge unimaginable voltages into his always hurting body. The only words spoken are "More electron volts" as dials are turned up and the pain increases. Ramsmei was born a happy child in a large family. A citizen of beautiful Cambodia. A county with lush vegetation and time honed Buddhist traditions. The child of moderately prosperous parents with many siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins by the score. It wasn't until decades later Raksmei Loun even knew the name, "Khmer Rouge," and the reason his parents sold everything. All that they owned. Gathering the extended family. Wise father and Loving mother gathered the family. All of it. Brother, sister, cousin, aunt and uncle. Bribes were placed and finally a captain with a suitable cargo ship was found who was willing, for a very steep price, to take them all to America. The plan was to seek political asylum. The captain was a small time smuggler. One of those petty souls who believes the world owes him. The kind of sad person who really would sell his mother for the use of a crack pipe. The Loun family never knew the man they trusted for their salvation had already sold them all into slavery the day they boarded his ship. In the Rogue Isles many things are legal, and even flourish, the rest of the world finds disgusting and abhorrent. Slavery is almost mild compared to what is allowed to take place under the rule of Arachnos and Lord Recluse. Drugged in their sleep the Loun family woke up in a secret lab, funded by Aracnos and run by a twisted mind the term sadistic mad scientists barely describes. The lucky ones died quickly during the first rounds of 'experimental' injections. With the sole exception of Raksmei, they were all condemned to a painful existence as one of the 'infected' those poor individuals who have been experimented on and dumped in a shanty town to fend for themselves, despite the genetic damage and mutations, or die. Whatever the twisted chemicals and viral vectors with genetic payloads were supposed to accomplish is not know. The Sadist in charge may have only been testing their toxicity to humans, or how much pain they could inflict. No matter the goal, in Raksmei's very being, in his personal genome something evolved giving him unprecedented abilities to generate, control and discharge electricity. At first it was only a spark or two, like petting a cat on a dry winter day. It was enough however to get him noticed for further experimentation. Dumped in an insulated cell by night. Only now for the first time in years getting almost decent food to keep the test subject echo-echo-four-one-niner alive. Day time was a decent into the red haze of pain. Strapped to a table, hooked up to generators and transformers designed to power a small factory, ever hearing "More Electron Volts.' The generators powering Ramsmei's pain and suffering had a finite limit. Day after day, body wracked in pain, he slowly learned to channel and even hold energy within himself. After months of intense torture and pain Ramsmei had learned to smell the voltage and see the amps. A new Synesthesiac sense has developed and electricity had become his life's blood. Reversing the direction of the current and forcing megawatts of energy into equipment designed to give punishment not take it, Ramsmei took his revenge on the staff at the laboratory and made his escape all at once. With the discarded newspaper on the ground a back page story is showing. The Rogue Island Police are looking for any witness to come forth in a bizarre accident. Mr. John Smith, retired after many years at sea running a small cargo ship, a resident of Cap Au Diablo these past five years was found on the docs last night dead of apparent massive electrical burns.

Are we at the point where AI could upscale and enhance all of the game's textures and assets? A quick google suggests the tech is available, how expensive and how practical for COH/COV I dont know. Providing the engine can handle it I would like to have 4k textures available with the added detail and clarity. If this is something that is practical/possible I am happy to provide cpu/gpu time to the project.

Have my now Fire/Fire/Fire Blaster to 47 - I agree other builds are also nice, its just hard to see another build being able to out put as many square feet of damage per min. I could be wrong.

Maybe a bit situational but has it's uses. Arachnos/Rikti Flyer, Hammi, getting imps into the air vs trying to get flyers to the ground. My issue with group fly is it blocks the use of any power that requires the user to be on the ground. This includes things like Hotfeet, Power Drones, and some melee attacks (including t9's). Leaving me, if I am on one of those characters to have to leave the area to activate the power. The random on/off as we move between and in missions is annoying as well. I get wanting it on a pet heavy character though.

Dps would be a big part of it and just plain mass ability to, er, ahhhhh, arrest, mobs simultaneously (as we heroes dont kill). I have a scrapper somewhere with 6 or 7 cones but not the same as a Blaster (AR or otherwise). AR what? AR/Fire? AR by itself is not going to hold a candle to Fire/Fire. Rain of Fire->Fire Ball->Fire Breath = Cleared pack Build up->Combustion->Fire Sword Circle = Cleared pack. Inferno = Cleared pack Hotfeet, consume and Burn all as control, buff and additional AOE damage For AV efficiency: Flares, Fire Blast (both useable when CC'd), Blaze, and Blazing Bolt for single target rotation. Not sure yet if I will fit in Fire Sword and Aim though Aim is very likely.

Doing damage over a large area repeatedly. I will posit Fire/Fire. Any agree/disagreements?

Or Reno. Smoking inside still allowed while gamboling and drinking. You know all the Cali people because they are outside at least 10 feet away from the entrance.