[CoH: Homecoming BBCoder - New Tool!]

I could've sworn this forum had a WYSIWYG editor before, where'd it go?

[[Q: Admins] Are there plans to adjust salvage/recipe drop rates? [Answered]]

Yeah, right here. They're pretty long, too.

[[Q: Admins] Are there plans to adjust salvage/recipe drop rates? [Answered]]

Issue 25, which the current servers are running, already adjusted various drop rates.

[Brute Kinetic Melee/ Energy Defense Tank help?]

You should've rolled War Mace instead of Kinetic Melee. You'd be SO STRONG. And pretty!

[If we ever get to where we can get new content...]

Without Paragon Studios around, any new story developments are really just going to be fanfiction...

[The P2W NPCs are Most Excellent]

I think you can get the Pocket D VIP Pass by going into Pocket D through a door and entering the tiki lounge. That or spending time in Pocket D; the badge says it's for spending 5 hours in Pocket D, but I wasn't there nearly that long and it popped for me when I entered the tiki lounge.

[Command Help]

Right-click on any of the displayed stats and then click "Monitor attribute."

[I hope i25's reduced Merit prices make it to whatever permanent servers we get]

I wonder how hard it will be to increase the XP and inf gain by a little bit to lesson the grind at higher level. It used to be that you'll be done with the missions from contact before you gain enough to move up. A little help there would be really nice.

That was a problem they solved a long time ago on the Live servers. There's more content than ever at all levels, and they readjusted the XP cost curve, which resulted in an overall reduction of the XP required to level up at all levels.

[Patrol XP without logging out?]

Yes, I'm sure.

[Patrol XP without logging out?]

Like the top says, I've noticed I've been getting patrol XP without logging out my characters. Anyone know what's going on with that?

[I hope i25's reduced Merit prices make it to whatever permanent servers we get]

Respec recipes are one of the things merit vendors sell.

[24 & 25 patch notes?]

Those issue 25 patch notes look pretty good all around; other than the new and proliferated power sets, I'd pretty much want every single one of those changes in the permanent servers.

[So did Anyone Else Play a Blapper Back in the Day]

I always thought Blapper was a silly thing. We needed a special name for Blasters who actually used their melee attacks? That's just a proper Blaster! Blasters are damage-dealers. What we should've had was a special name for wimpy Blasters who only ever used ranged attacks.

[I hope i25's reduced Merit prices make it to whatever permanent servers we get]

I never made much use of the merit reward system in the old days, because everything was way too expensive. I had a chance to look at the prices in the merit vendors on Torchbearer, however, and they're way more reasonable. For example:

 

Uncommon IO recipes were 50-75 merits on the Live servers. On Torchbearer, I can't find any over 20.

PVP IOs were unavailable for Merits on Live. On Torchbearer, they can be had for 100 merits.

Archetype enhancements were 400 merits on Live, plus 25 million inf. On Torchbearer they're just 100 merits.

 

These are prices I can see myself working towards. I haven't gotten a chance to see the alignment merit prices yet, but I hope they're similarly reduced. I have very UN-fond memories of doing five alignment missions almost every day for two months to get my hands on a Gladiator's Armor +3% Defense IO, and I'm not eager to repeat that.

 

[Cost to change your costume.]

If there's a cost to change your costume I doubt it's different here than it was on the official Live servers.

[Things we didn't enjoy that were updates.]

ED actually worked out pretty well for me. Before ED, I had all my attacks six-slotted for damage, but I had terrible Endurance issues. After ED, I suddenly had three extra slots in all my attacks. I filled them with two recharges and one end cost reduction. Even though I no longer had perma-Hasten, my powers recharged as fast as before (faster, even, since I still had Hasten up whenever I could), but now they cost less endurance, to the point that I basically never ran out any more. It was a revelation.

 

[Okay, Who's the Jerk?]

This was one thing CO did improve on, Character name being independent of your global name, could have any number of folks running around with the same name,

it was only thier @handle attached to it that counted as your name.

Yeah, but it also made it so your name always had your global handle appended to it, so instead of "Justice Guy" I'd always be "Justice Guy@Vanden" or something like that.

[Does i25 give access to the unreleased power pools?]

Unfortunately I don't think any animation or FX work was done on those sets before the shutdown, or if it was it didn't make it to the i24 files.

[So these new i25 power sets...]

How many of the powersets that weren't in the official game at shutdown were made by Paragon Studios, and how many have been cobbled together by the fans for these servers? For example, Psionic Melee looks like the real deal, but Radiation Melee and Tactical Arrow looks like it was pulled together from existing FX.

[Any survivors from Triumph?]

Yup, Vanden here, maybe better known by my main Powerthrust, whose terrible name I will never, ever change.

[A Plethora of information via the WayBack Machine (OLD COH Forums)]

Seeing those old forums is just as emotional for me as getting back the game itself.

 

Edit: OMG! I found a post I made! I got my old avatar back!