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I never owned the physx card, it didnt take Nvidia too long to take them on as competition and add software to allow NV cards to also do the same thing. NV now owns the company that was making the card (forgetting name of it right now). Getting purchased by NV prob made someone rich.

Super speed or fly through a pile of newspapers and watch them fly everywhere and get sucked up in the partial vacuum behind you. All sorts of things interacted with the in game debris.

It shouldn't take long for the trolls to find a new bridge to hang out under. What I have been reading happening to some of the other COH servers we are getting off easy. I honestly dont get it myself. In 7 years of COH I /ignored 1 person. You'd see a little bickering and pissyness in the old forums here and there. Nothing awful (that I saw anyways) - I just think with 100000 subs we have all 12 of the truly disgruntled COH players posting all at once right now. It is nice to see the nice, helpful, friendly community is reasserting itself.

Aman Brother! QTF

I suspect some people have misunderstandings about what a non-profit is or is not. It is clear that Homecoming is serving the public. With the internet self education is just a click away: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/non-profitorganization.asp Non-profits are allowed to have and pay employees, save money for emergencies, etc. It is clear Homecoming is entirely supported by volunteer hours. Thank you again to all those volunteers.

Have you tried running it as admin?

I had a dps meter in the old days. It might have been ATC, I remember a fussy set up. I rarely spoke to other people about my own numbers, just used it to test this vs that for myself and keep track of buffs and stuff. Total 'kills' er arrest was fun too. (for me anyways).

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I like it here.... maybe this little thing or that might not be exactly perfectly how I want it - BFD. OMG I get to play again!!!!! It doesnt take much work digging around to find VMs that can be downloaded and run your own server at home -- I've run across I24 and I25 versions. I have a copy in a safe place as protection against the future. Anyone can make their own server and run it any way they want. I dont see room for any serious griping. I will not be providing any links out of respect for Homecoming's desire to not share code as mentioned up stream in this thread. (Like the OP). I cant say enough times and ways how nice it is to have this world back!

There is a response to PhysX in the latest update thread. They are working on staying compatible with everyone for now and when a new launcher is out that supports separate .dll/clients per server they will update.

Thank you for doing this just the same.

I played from issue 1 to the night it was turned off - took some breaks and dont claim to be the best player or market manipulator. Now: As you get to higher levels more money will come in. Leveling up pre market it could be painful each time you out grew a set of SO's. Sell salvage and recipes, take a few min to check what it is selling for before listing it and you should do well enough. Some recopies can sell for quite a lot so check the price before posting. Other's I am sure will have more specific advise.

Maybe it is time we all agree KB can be a contentious topic - like some real world ones, and either all agree to best manors or drop the subject. We have ppl on the keep it as it is and change it now band wagons that are not going to change their minds. Lets find a way to enjoy the game the way it is flaws (as we perceive them) and all. We just got back to our personal Oz and are all headed to the emerald city ( go with the analogy ) lets not set the Scarecrow on fire while selling the Tin Man for scrap.

This one has been around a long time. I see it more on my stalker for obvious reasons and less on my controller. My PB just got it with 3 out of a group of 4. This has been around since the oldern days.

I'm going to address this because it keeps being brought up, and it is intentionally not being "fixed" right now. Reason #1: if you bump your Particle Physics to "Very High", you get the same amount of particle physics as if you had a PhysX card. This happens on the CPU, not the GPU, but for modern computers this barely registers. Reason #2: the "fix" involves upgrading the PhysX libraries (the DLLs in your game folder) to a newer version. So if we do that we are no longer compatible with the libraries shipped with Issue 24 Beta. This is a problem because it breaks the original client, as well as the client of any server that doesn't implement this "fix". It's a really bad idea to mess with the DLLs as long as multiple servers are sharing a COH install. A similar problem would happen if we were to enable the error reporting DLL (crashrpt.dll) in order to collect crash logs; as soon as we put that DLL in there, we start getting crash reports from every server, not just Homecoming. Bad idea. The solution is the Sunrise patcher, which will keep server-specific files on their own folders. At that point we can certainly start upgrading DLLs and adding our own features. But as long as all the servers are sharing a COH install folder, messing with the DLLs is irresponsible at best, malicious at worst. Thank you for the information. It is very much appreciated. I look forward to the update which, I fully understand, will happen when it is ready. Thank you to everyone making Homecoming happen.

QTF I get why it can be a pain for team mates - usually a grumpy scrapper for some reason, still it can be managed.

Have you reported it to flux? COH is old and likely has issues playing well with a few things - I am surprised I have not heard of more problems.

This is not typical. What drive/folder do you have the game installed to? Try running the game as admin (assuming windows). Please also post some system specs and make sure graphics, sound and other drivers are all up to date and your win/apple os is fully up to date.

I have found ppl either really like Gale or think it totally blows. :) After lvl 5 or 6 I rarely use it -- though blowing mobs off roof tops has it's joys.

I saw a COH screen shot posted on a random forum so did one of my periodic searches finding Homecoming online and working. I just about dropped a brick in my shorts right then and there. I doubt I can say anything unique in my thanks for being back - so please pretend I said them all. :) It is also nice to see the door open for future development. I should also thank Score without whose work this would not be happening. We all have our favorites, of course, I hear that PhysX has been fixed elsewhere, any word when the fix will make it hear? All the /Storm or Storm/ peoples I play it is really fun to have working seeing all the debris swirling in a hurricane, pushed out of the way by other powers and attacks etc really added a lot to an already uniquely living game world. Anyhow, THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS For bringing COX back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How many accounts? Have we broken the 10k concurrent yet? Just curious. -Zep-

They did make imps and other pets stronger to compensate for the lower numbers. More HP more Damage. I had a lvl 50 fire/storm and lvl 48 fire/kin on the old servers. The Fire/Kin could get 20+ imps out at times. Solo this was nice, they would just swarm things, take all the agro and chew everything to death (specially with fulcrum shift). The down sides, 10-20 imps get in the way of your team mates. Tanks, scrappers, all the melee ppl have trouble moving around. Missions with levels are a pain because every door you lose all your pets (well except for the various times they were trying to get pets perm and they would go hostile after going through a door). With the old pets you had to cast your pet literally every 45 seconds or less to keep numbers up. I remember the old days fondly with my armies of imps swarming evil doers - one of those lab maps my fire/kin manages to get the haste buff 4x from exploding lab equipment. I dont know how many imps he had - far too many to count - it was awesome. Swarms of imps are great control too, with so many of them on the field it was hard for the mobs to get agro on a player or even move much. All that said plus fond memories I dont want to go back. I have time to do more then stare at my imp/pet button to make sure I am casting it as soon as it comes up. I have time to look around and effectively use all my other powers too. One exploding nemesis boss or pretty much any other half baked aoe would toast all the old imps leaving you scrambling to recover -- the new ones are much hardier. I know I speak mostly Imps, the controller I had pets with during the pre controller nerfs. The controller nerf/buff did much more then just change pets though....

Air Superiority is a must with my Fire/Storm Controller. Knocking those pesky flyers out of the air so my imps can get to them.

Boy Thunder, my storm/electric defender had it so I followed it a bit in the forums. For reasons I dont know the old studio was very much not going to change/buff it. They never said why.

Um..... I dont know enough on the topic to know but here goes..... Could we get the newer, correct, .dll files, rename them and replace the incorrect ones? I am guessing it is more complicated then that, but....

I really like the fire whip in ESO. I could see it being a nice set if/when animators are available again.