Cipher

The issue started around 1200 UTC on April 12th but seems to have resolved itself now.

Hey everyone! We’ve recently pushed the release candidate for Issue 26 Page 5 to our Staging shards. If you have some time this weekend, please hop on over to the Staging shards and test it; the more testing that we can get done, the faster we can push it live! For more information on how to access the Staging shards and copy your characters check out the Beta FAQ. As I’m sure most people are already well aware, it’s tax season! As such, this month we will be including our registered agent fee ($125) and LLC franchise tax ($300) in our donation target so that we can pay this at the start of April. March 2020 Breakdown Last month we accepted $5,380.78 in donations - $4.57 over our target for the month. Here is the breakdown of what the January funds went towards: $4,823.39 to OVH for our hosting Another $15 will be charged in a few days as part of our March billing. $375.30 to our lawyers for their services rendered through January 31st $96.00 for our Google G-Suite Business account + $12.83 for Google Voice $30.00 for our 1&1 IONOS domain & outbound email service $21.20 to Paperspace for an Air instance with a dedicated/static IP address $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira Cloud instance (10-user) $10.00 to Fontspring for a font desktop license This is being used for some art assets $9.73 for security / administration software $3.03 to Transferwise We are now being billed for wire transfers made through Transferwise. We currently use this service to wire transfer to our lawyers as it’s much cheaper than our bank! April 2020 As previously stated, we will be including our annual LLC fees which consists of our registered agent’s fee (required in Delaware) and our LLC franchise tax. Additionally, we have received a new invoice from our primary law firm for their services rendered in February (plus some in January that weren’t in the previous invoice). In total, the donation target for April 2020 is $6,543.49. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated: $4,838.39 to OVH for our hosting $1,108.30 to our lawyers for their services through February 31st 29th $425 for our annual LLC fees and tax $300 is our Delaware LLC franchise tax $125 for our registered agent fee $108.83 for our Google G-Suite Business account This includes the $12.83 Google Voice line $30.00 to 1&1 IONOS for domain services & outgoing email $25.00 for the Paperspace Air instance $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira Cloud instance (10-user) $9.73 for the security / administration software Our donation goal has been met and donations have been closed. Thank you for the awesome support! Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $6,543.49 and will automatically close once that target is met. As always, thank you for the incredible support! - The Homecoming Team

It seems that the official stats site is operating off a database snapshot and therefore isn't updating. In the mean time, I have created a Discord bot to keep a leaderboard updated in the #folding-leaderboard channel of our Discord server. This is the timeout for the work unit - you have that amount of time remaining to complete the work unit before it is marked as failed and reassigned.

🙂

I quite like the Dark Astoria caves and Praetorian Tunnels, excluding the Praetorian Tunnel maze in the DA arcs.. that place is just terrible. The blue Tsoo/Carnie caves are and forever will be the worst.

This is really odd - I've tested it on Chrome versions dating back about two years. What version of Chrome are you using?

What browser are you using? I've tested the forums on most modern browsers and haven't found any issues. Edit: I see that Edge does not render the background (and it's possible it didn't render the borders < 100% alpha either). Unfortunately, edge's support of various modern web features is really spotty 😞

Welcome! If you need anything please don't hesitate to reach out to your fellow players or our awesome GMs 🙂

The changes made have been very minor and should not have much impact on non-staff using the forums; this is why we did not feel that patch notes were necessary. For transparency though: The border around staff posts is now very slightly brighter. Lead GMs now use Orange as their group and highlight colour. Permissions for hiding / deleting were tweaked. Allowing thread owners to delete entire topics (there's no separate permission for topic vs post right now) can be problematic for moderation. Users can now instead hide their posts from the public while keeping them visible to staff for the purposes of moderation.

Our manifest / primary patch server had a temporary outage and is now online again. Thank you for the patience 🙂

Reserved Post

Reserved post

Tanker

Stalker

Sentinel

Scrapper

Mastermind

Dominator

Defender

Corruptor

Controller

Brute

Blaster

Character Statistics Number of Characters Players have created 1,207,409 characters on Homecoming, 330,397 of which have been played in 2020. Here’s a breakdown of that data per shard: Character Origins Veteran Levels Homecoming players have earned a combined 1,706,264 Veteran Levels, with the highest-level character being Veteran Level 2,273. Here’s a breakdown of that data per shard: Character Archetypes There are a lot of graphs here. Because of the prevalence of Fiery Aura Brutes, we have included an additional graph for each category which excludes Brutes with Fiery Aura.

User Statistics Accounts & Concurrent Users (CCU) This table shows the total number of accounts, number of active accounts (since Jan 2020), and the concurrent user (CCU) statistics for each month since Homecoming started. Month Avg CCUs Peak CCUs Total Accs New Accs Active Accs Apr 2019 - - 32,688 32,688 - May 2019 5,297 9,998 92,247 59,559 - Jun 2019 4,604 9,161 112,568 20,321 - Jul 2019 3,423 6,582 124,215 11,647 - Aug 2019 2,724 5,321 132,151 7,936 - Sep 2019 2,252 4,574 137,733 5,582 - Oct 2019 1,967 3,803 142,316 4,583 - Nov 2019 1,838 3,425 146,273 3,957 - Dec 2019 1,741 3,308 150,342 4,069 - Jan 2020 1,787 3,369 155,052 4,710 31,061 Feb 2020 1,861 3,495 159,537 4,485 32,164 Time Played People have spent 47,360,000 hours playing on Homecoming since we started back in April of 2019; that’s 5,402 years! Here’s a breakdown of that data per shard: