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Hey everyone! It’s hard to believe that we’re four months into this already, yet here we are - still saving citizens, smashing Skuls, and arresting lots of well-dressed fire-breathing cosplayers atop a meteor. It’s time to talk finances again. In case you aren’t aware, our donation window has moved from the first Saturday of the month to the last Saturday of the month in order to align better with our billing schedule. In October and going forward we will have some additional charges; we have engaged both a games industry specialist attorney and non-profit specialist attorney to provide us with legal advice and handle some legalese. We will not be posting the invoices for their services in order to protect their identities, but we will be including their service fees in our donation windows after this month. Finally, we wanted to go ahead and let you all know that we are looking into alternate hosting for better stability and support. While this is still likely a few months out, we wanted to go ahead and let the community know as this may significantly change our monthly operating costs compared to previous months which have been mostly static. Now, here are the breakdowns for the past and upcoming month. --- July Breakdown Last month we accepted $4,897.06 in donations - $1,773.13 over our target (this happens when donations are processing or pending at the time that the system closes). The $1,773.13 will be going towards September’s upkeep, reducing the amount that we need to take in. Here's what the funds from the July donation window went towards: $4,717.40 to OVH for our servers $96.00 to Google for our G-Suite account $10.00 to Atlassion for Jira Cloud (10-user) (New) $30.00 to 1&1 IONOS for domain / email service. Here is a screenshot of our payments / expenses since the last donation window: --- September Breakdown After adding a 1&1 IONOS charge of $30.00 in July, our monthly expenses have settled in at $4,853.40. We do not have any planned additional expenses for September and our $1,250.00 contingency fund is still full. As we are currently $1,743.13 over from the July’s donations, this amount will be subtracted from our donation target for the month of September. All of this brings our September donation target to $3,110.27. Here is an updated list of our recurring (monthly) expenses: $4,717.40 to OVH for our servers $96.00 to Google for our G-Suite account $10.00 to Atlassion for Jira Cloud (10-user) (New) $30.00 to 1&1 IONOS for domain / email service. --- The donation system will be open as of the time of this post until our monthly target of $3,110.27 has been met, at which point the system will automatically close. The donation goal for September has been hit and donations are now closed. Thank you! Thank you all for your continued support! We know things have been a little slow lately, but rest assured that we’re still working on things :).

Extracting data and creating graphs for every AT is a significant amount of work, and probably not something we'd want to do for so many level brackets. That said, I'm happy to do a 32+ series if people want to see how the data changes at that point 🙂

The internal name for it on all ATs is Brawling - I just forgot to switch it out in the parser until after I did the post for Brutes 🙂

Tanker Powers Primary Powersets Secondary Powersets Powerset Combinations

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Scrapper Powers Primary Powersets Secondary Powersets Powerset Combinations

Mastermind Powers Primary Powersets Secondary Powersets Powerset Combinations

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General Stats 911,434 characters have been created Excelsior remains the #1 server by population at 233,576 characters Torchbearer is hanging close behind at 206,060 characters Everlasting, unofficial home of the RPers, currently has 189,565 characters Indomitable, unofficial home of the PvPers, currently has 178,952 characters Reunion, our Germany-based European shard, has 103,281 characters 60,348 of those are Level 50 812,751 Veteran Levels have been earned The highest level veteran is just over level 1,000 People have spent 17,422,975 hours playing on Homecoming Archetype Distribution Origin Distribution

Hey everyone, it's been a while since we've released stats from the game so we figured we would go ahead and give you all the stats! Quick reminder that our Finances & Donation post will be going live and donations will be opening tomorrow (Saturday) at 2:00 PM EST (11:00 AM PST, 7:00 PM BST). Table of Contents General Stats Character total Level 50 count Veteran Levels earned Time played Character distribution by shard Archetype distribution Origin distribution Click an Archetype to jump to the powerset statistics for that Archetype: This includes: Primary powerset distribution Secondary powerset distribution A list of all powerset combinations, ranked by popularity Arachnos Soldier Arachnos Widow Blaster Brute Controller Corruptor Defender Dominator Mastermind Peacebringer Scrapper Sentinel Stalker Tanker Warshade

This is something we recently discussed actually. Though I can't make any promises or give any sort of time frame, it's something we'd be interested in doing 🙂

This was caused by a sudden need to change nameservers on the patch domain entirely which can take 72 hours to propagate to everyone. The issue should now be resolved though.

The primary server is now back online.

Our primary patch server is currently experiencing a network outage, but a second server has been spun up until that is resolved. To use the alternate server, do the following: Open Tequila and click [Options] Paste http://patch2.homecomingservers.com/manifest.xml into the box under Manifests, to the left of [Add] Click [Add] Click [OK] Restart Tequila

We do have a PayPal Debit card yeah, but even that was locked down during the time that this thread was made. It was simply because we were a new business (the LLC had just been formed) with a new account trying to throw lots of money at a French company (OVH), which set off all manner of alarms which even their customer service reps could not manually override and "had to let run it's course and checks". All is well now though 🙂

The forums use a feature called lazy loading to reduce page load times; what this does is replace images on the page with placeholders until you scroll down and they come into view, at which time it loads the real images in their places. Waterfox has a known issue with JS based lazy loading, but there's another issue with Wix's CDN 401ing (refusing essentially) certain images that have been posted from their CDN on the forums which is out of our control. If this continues to be an issue I will disable lazy loading.

Hey everyone, I hope you’re all doing well! As stated earlier in the month, our host consolidated most of our bills to the first of each month. This means that we’ll now need to open the donation window on the last Saturday of each month rather than the first. Today is the first day of the new schedule and things are actually pretty simple for our finances in August so this post will be quite a bit shorter than in previous months. Our donation window on Saturday, July 6th went over by quite a bit due to pending donations at the time it was closed. Our contingency fund ($1,250) is still full, so we actually have an additional $1,699.47 to put towards the bills for August. July Breakdown Our last donation window was on July 6th, so this one will be from that point onward. If you would like to see a breakdown of our expenses and invoices for the month of July then feel free to check out this post. We were billed pro-rata for our SQL server licenses from the 11th ($88.92) and 15th ($71.98) of July to the 31st of July, consolidating these bills to the first of August: https://i.imgur.com/yytXaGy.png https://i.imgur.com/dJlnUYB.png On the 20th and 22nd we paid IPSFocus (https://www.ipsfocus.com/) a total of $47 to license the base theme for the forums which we had been working on modifying for our forums. We were in the process of getting a quote from them for a custom theme, but after tinkering with an existing base they had, we decided to just license it and continue working on that instead. Other colour schemes for Villains and Praetorians are on the way! Lastly, on the 22nd of July we were billed $10.00 for Atlassian Jira Cloud, which we use for task management. PayPal transactions: https://i.imgur.com/yhSHS4V.png August Breakdown Our monthly upkeep has settled in at $4,823.40: $4,716.60 to OVH for our servers $10 for Atlassian Jira (Cloud, 10-user plan) $96.00 for Google G-Suite (Business, 8 users) We do not have any additional expenses in August and the contingency fund is still full, so after deducting July 6th’s overrun, the donation target for the month of August comes in at $3,123.93. As of the time of this post, our donations will be open at https://forums.homecomingservers.com/donate and will automatically close when the donation goal has been met. Edit: The donation goal has been met and donations are now closed. Thank you for all of the support! Thank you again for your continued support; we look forward to the future!

It's a server that hosts patch files 🙂

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