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I am glad you brought this up. There may be folks who planned to build 'tribute' characters with names they acquired. This is NOT allowed. A combination of Name, Costume and/or Description can and should lead to removal. Costume alone could be enough. Name alone is more discretionary with obvious exceptions. I tried to get Knight and Rook first, then did get Bishop. I wouldn't risk the name Bishop by intentionally infringing on any intellectual property. Mine will likely be a wizard. IF I were to unintentionally infringe on some intellectual property, be cool about it, I do not know comics as well as many of our resident experts. Send me a nice tell and I would make changes. If I fail to make changes, then report me.

I think the logins peaked around 2,500 (total all servers) with Excelsior going red. [seems pretty strong 5+ years in] The strategy of [new character] [any AT] [any Power] [random costume] [Atlas Park] [run into City Hall (for the zero second logout)], rinse & repeat worked well enough. Villain side.. not as easy. Biggest fear: Misspelling a name. Biggest surprise: 10 minutes for the name release code to proliferate. Biggest laugh: 'Bob' was available. I have a character named Bob now. It was great to see so many new characters created at the spawn points. I won't tell folks what to do but in my opinion there is no need to name squat on dozens of names we aren't going to use. Hi @Magical. There's little difference between Star Hammer, Starhammer, S t a r h a m m e r, Star_Hammer, Star-Hammer, Hammer Star, & Star Hamster. Gold star if you read that far. Congratulations to those who were able to grab that one-coveted-name! And /em fistwave to whomever has Tru on Indomitable. I loathe thee. You are nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for ya. Burning's too good for ya! You should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried aliiiiive! Alternately, feel free reach out with a reasonable request to make a deal and we can be friendsies, okay 🙂

I have ~100 alts on each Indom and Excel with about 20 on Ever, some with pretty sad naming. Some 50s will be getting new names. I was able to secure some from my tiered wish list: Indomitable Excelsior Tru nope X Shadow X nope Demon X X Spectre X X Mummy nope nope Endgame X nope Glacier nope X Saturn X nope Jupiter nope nope Bob X nope I am pretty happy to get one 'Tru', and two 'Demon' and 'Spectre'. Also secured: 'Supreme', 'Wiz', 'Bishop', and 'Rascal' Will be dumping dozens of names into the wild by Tuesday via Drop a name, pick up a name.

I'll post a list of what I got later. I had a list of 10 with two I really wished for.

Excellent

@Dacy It is amazing you all do this. Thank you!!

Is it a typo if terminology is interchanged? Most places refer to 'servers' other places are referred to as 'shards'. It seems this can and does cause some confusion. "Transfer you character to another server." "CHARACTER TRANSFER WARNING! NOTE: Your name is not guaranteed to be available on the new server! Transferring a character to another server cannot be reversed and has the following effects: One server transfer token will be deducted from your account inventory. You will be granted a rename token if your name has to be changed." "Shard XP Boosts Reunion & Indomitable: 2x Torchbearer: 1.5x"

300% XP that's amazing!

You may be able to find some help in the thread below: "I use a PS2 controller and sometimes the ingame setting dropdown switches from 'joystick' to something else and it seems like the controller just isn't working."

Actually, it's going on now and ends Tuesday. It has been there for sometime and not well advertised.

This weekend only!

Did you know Indomitable and Reunion servers have a 2x Shard XP Boost? Torchbearer has a 1.5 Shard XP Boost. The S.T.A.R.T Vendor (formally P2W) on all servers has options to boost XP gain. Double XP Booster (1 Hour) This will immediately grant the player a 100% boost to XP gain. While this boost is active, Influence/Infamy gain will be reduced by 100%. You may purchase up to 8 hours. While the START Vendor options cuts $$ the server boosts do not. So if you are currently are using or have thought of using the START Vendor 100% xp boost. Folks can get the same benefit without losing $$. We also have server transfers to move back and forth with relative ease.

That's okay. No need to be sorry. Folks get to go where ever they want. This topic is not as complicated as some are making it. The server bonus experience is only that, XP. There is nothing to solve in this topic other than the level of communication regarding a significant change. If reward merits, infamy, or other rewards suddenly got cut in half on all servers with no notice or explanation that would be significant, wouldn't it?

um.. just fyi: the server experience bonus did not reduce infamy ($$).

'Mode: PVE' vs 'Mode: PVP' maybe. Top right-ish next to the Villain/Hero button. Could be Superiors missing or something simple. In Mids are the sliders for Dodge and Lucky set to 0? If you are comparing your actual build in-game build to a Mids build perhaps you could share your build and we could take a look on the test server.

..soooo there is no goal. We get that it is very difficult to please most and nearly impossible to please everyone. Folks are gonna have a number of beefs with how this is handled. Even in-the-loop discorders appear to be reacting a bit neutral to poorly.

Even with too many announcements we could at least point to something and say "hey, we did share that information". (I hear what you are saying @lemming) Question: What would the goal of ending small shard bonus experience be? Is there some pressing reason to do so?

Public Service Announcement: Folks might not want to internet search 'edgelord' or 'edging' without appropriate filters. Oh Snarky.. 😛 "This is Your Life! And It's Ending One Minute At A Time!" "Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else." "This is your life, good to the last drop." "Doesn't get any better than this."

Odd that this is the first I have heard of this. Seems like it would be communicated well in advance rather than a surprise for anyone.

This sucks to hear. I was not close with Felecia but I have played with them. Have a character in All-Out-War. 😞

Thanks @Greycat just want folks to be aware 'rename' won't trigger 'name release'. Need to do the two-step. If there are any other wrinkles please feel free to share them.

Some have guessed this will be the single busiest day of the year. November 1st, 2024 at 9:30 PM Eastern Time - Hence known as R3n4m3M4g3dd0N (re-name-mageddon) Similar to Armageddon, the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times. As we prepare for renamaggedon. Please confirm a few things: 'Rename' will not trigger a name release. Must be a NEW character! only 'new' characters trigger the name release. Temporal Warriors will never have 'safe names'. Treated as level ones. 30 day limit (that's some excellent new pvp) If a character is renamed and they were a member of a supergroup, they will need to be re-invited. <--this is not troo no loss of their description, battle cry, clearing email/friends lists/sg, etc Any other nuance folks should be aware of? Name Release Characters will be flagged as ‘inactive’ when the following time thresholds are met: Level 1-5 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 30 days Level 6-49 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 365 days Level 50 characters will never be flagged as inactive (with the exception of Temporal Warriors) When a character is flagged as inactive they are not immediately renamed. Instead, their name is simply no longer locked. This allows another player to create a character with that name, at which point the original character will be renamed. This flag will be visible on the character select screen. You can remove the inactive flag from a character at any time simply by logging them in. Please feel free to chime in and confirm or clarify. @Number Six@Widower@GM Crumpet@GM_GooglyMoogly@GM Bot Thanks Homecoming team and coding contributors.

Kanibal A pumpkin powered pumpkin SR/Claws Tanker. "that's right, pumpkins eat their own"

As long as it has this face.. you should be good.