Techwright

Not a big fan of the Super Stunners either. I've no metering to prove it, but it feels like the majority of Freek rezzes go to these guys now. I liked the original take on it, which was that any of the Freeks could rez, and good percentage of them would.

Post things fondly remembered from the original game that you might not have seen in Homecoming. I play Excelsior 98% of the time, so these may be prevalent elsewhere and I've not seen them: Taxibot supergroups - though I see an occasional character designed as a taxibot, the new and easier travel methods have mostly annihilated this. Cow Supergroups - though I see the occasional cow character, I miss the days when a full bovine supergroup would meet up under Atlas before heading out on some crazy mission most likely heavily laced with cow puns. Full instance herding - from the earliest days of CoH, tanks were powerful enough to herd an entire instance to one spot for wild and crazy team slaughtering.

It seems strange that her XX chromosomes would be the unintentional deviation, but admittedly it is the only possibility with what we've been offered so far. I've gotten the vibe that something(s) about Omega was/were a deliberate manipulation by Nala Se, and her gender might have been one point, though I'm at a loss, admittedly, to explain why. As to the "never had a room", I've perceived that as she's never had a room of her own, implying that she's been treated as an experiment, on a cot in a lab somewhere with Kaminoan scientists always observing her, or probably always somewhere near Nala Se, who appears to have a special connection to Omega, though that may be as scientist and favorite lab animal. I agree that her name "Omega" implies she's the last functioning clone, though Nala Se's comment that the Fett DNA "continues to degrade" seems to imply that they're getting more failed cloning attempts, but still getting viable Regs. Alternatively, I've considered the possibility that "Omega" implies an ultimate effort, possibly an ultimate success in creating a super soldier. As to her age, this is a long shot theory, I admit, but if Omega is 9 or 10 with a natural aging process, she'd be around 38 years old in the era of both the Mandalorian and the upcoming Book of Boba Fett. 38 being the age of her voice actress, Michelle Ang. (10 years old plus: 19 year gap between Prequel and Original Trilogies, 4 years for Original Trilogy, 5 year gap until The Mandalorian) That could lead to a live appearance of Omega by Ang in some future work (admittedly with a hair dye, and possible some makeup effects), similarly to how Katee Sackhoff portrayed Bo-Katan both in voice work and live action. Of course, this means checking off a number of unknown factors at the moment: natural aging, survival, location in the galaxy (assuming she's not moved off to some uncharted area as a survival tactic), etc.

It's an interesting thought. She looks, what, ten now? I get the opinion she was created much like Boba: no inhibitor chip, no accelerated aging. I guess it would depend on why she was created, which is probably the biggest mystery for the season.

So it follows the Scots Gaelic pattern of putting a bunch of letters down then completely ignoring them in the pronunciation? Got it. 😏 This thread has been a fun read, but is there really just one legit pronunciation? I mean, isn't that part of accents and linguistic origins? I still get a kick out of watching YouTube videos put out by Brits and hearing words I was 100% sure had only one pronunciation, only to hear a Brit offer something wildly different. And both are technically correct depending on place of origin. You probably just read "pronunciation" in your own accent's version.

somewhere between 5 and 8 at the time I looked. Don't remember exactly. There were a couple of base open-house postings, Kuros Paladin has a prominent "Zapp's Back!" video posted, GamerFourFun had a streamed posting, I don't remember the others specifically. In contrast, though they are low view count, there were several identifying as Reunion players. I believe nearly all of those post solo-play videos. I did just go run the week-filter search again and there's more that have popped up in the last 24 hours. Awesome! Of those posted in the last 24 hours, Global @LastPhantomZoner caught my eye with the following, which at time I post this had 157 views, which is a lot more views than I've been seeing on COH Reunion videos for a while, even after a few weeks being posted.

Awesome! And I just sat down for solo dinner. Show time!

Be happy. Travel powers launch times have greatly improved since 2011.

I'm showing my age by punning off the IBM "flying cars" commercial of 2000 or so to create my title, but still, I've been watching YouTube with the 1 week filter on seeking new Homecoming videos. Considering how many were bellyachin concerned about not being able to post for two years, I'd have thought the big Y would be flooded with new material. Instead I see a handful of new works, mostly showing bases (nice spaceship base, Dacy!) and the rest of the week's posting are solo runs on other emulators. Am I looking in the wrong place? I need COH team videos to watch while my batch of work computers re-image I'm on my lunch break! EDIT: I should note that @Glacier Peak even went so far as to create a thread in the art & multimedia section specifically for posting everyone's new videos, and right now, it's starving to death.

I'm leveling up a bots/electrical at the moment and loving it. While my dps is a tad low at the moment (which may just be me and my design) my team's survivability is quite good, what with both healing and endurance recharge at my fingertips. The dps will come with time.

If I had a penny for every time someone used that old chestnut of a squirrel joke, I'd...oh look! A cardinal! 🐦

Found this on my own today when I did a search on YouTube for how many new Homecoming videos posted on YouTube over the weekend. Not as many as I'd hoped, but your's was front and center in the filtering by date. Really wonderful work, Dacy!

To be fair, the printer appears to have captured that COH...um...effect...rather accurately. One of my characters had the skin-tight spandex and was drawing one too many comments about how "cheeky", as you say, he was. Nothing I could do as it was how the devs designed the costume piece. I liked the outfit otherwise, and as he's a rather upright and modest fellow, I gave him a long cape.

Might have to get a buddy of mine to print my favorites, after seeing this. Those are awesome!

I understand the ad parts are gone, but the graphics I don't think have always been the same, at least I seem to recall some having different ones. If there's graphics, like ZomBCare, are they hardwired into the code, or can they be swapped out? I rather like the idea of posting contest winners' pictures, especially if they're made to be fictional product endorsers. In similar vein, are the theater billboards still changeable? I'd love to see an update to the movie selections. Maybe hold a competition for designing such.

Knowing Praetoria, it is probably some subconscious mind-control tool of Mother Mayhem's.

I, too, am grateful. I still remember when a work teammate told me Homecoming existed. I believe I frightened about 20 nearby coworkers in my outcry of shock and excitement. I agree, creativity is hard. I've killed several character projects, even 30 levels in, because I couldn't get all the components to feel cohesive. But we've got a forum full of friendly helps including both name ideas and costume design. Its a better choice than copying a trademarked property. As I mentioned in the OP, I've no problems with homage characters should there be enough differences that there's no ripoff. I mean, I even saw what appeared to be an homage to 1930s Superman and a really swell homage to Dr. Fate during the weekend costume contests. Neither violated the rules so far as I could tell, which meant the players took the time to think through their crafting, rather than just ripping something off. Yes, I used "swell". No I'm not a Boomer. 😛 I saw your character, too, at the costume contest, Snarky. Actually I saw him before I noticed the name, and thought, that looks a lot like Snarky's forum pic. And it was. Good show! Yes I used "good show". No I'm not a Victorian. 😛 That was home-made? They told me they got it from Elon Musk. (Still don't want the apartment complex burnt.)

Those are good points. I'll watch for alternate effects next time it happens, and I appreciate the eye-opener on tactics. 👍👍

Thanks! What petition type does that fall under? I don't ever recall having to report like that before. Exploits and Cheating? Harrassment and Conduct? General Help?

Yes, I was concerned what it might mean if they're on a team that is recorded and the video pushed to the public.

I hate to even bring this up, but I've seen a host of names of other properties in game this weekend. I'm not talking homages, where there's subtlety but a different name and enough of a different look and build that it doesn't rip off the trademark. I'm talking flat out copying the name, and using similar look and build. Am I correct in assuming the rules have not changed, and this is still not acceptable?

Honestly, even if player behavior could be modified, there are a number of pets that fire off these same abilities, and I'm not sure they can be reigned in once the fighting starts.

If you want to really go back a ways, look up the history of The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. In radio, writings, TV. and later comics. You'll notice a certain last name: Reid. The Green Hornet was really Britt Reid, a wealthy newspaper owner with other investments in his financial empire. Then realize that the real last name of the Lone Ranger is Reid. (His first name has been changed up a bit over the years, but most settle on "John" the name Tonto put on the fake tombstone.) Ranger Reid had a secret silver mine, from whence his silver bullets came. The mine was maintained, in part, by his nephew Dan Reid, son of the brother and fellow ranger gunned down in the box canyon ambush. Dan inherits the mine and uses the silver wealth to found a financial empire. His son is the first Green Hornet, Britt Reid. Making the Lone Ranger's silver mine the source of the Green Hornet's wealth, and the Lone Ranger the great uncle of the first Green Hornet. The crossover connection is Dan Reid. He appears as a youth in the Lone Ranger radio show, and as the father figure in some of the Green Hornet radio show. In the 1990s, NOW comics ran Green Hornet comics. In them, they actually tied up a loose end or two rather nicely. Green Hornet and Kato of the radio series became the first Green Hornet and Kato, the WWII team. Green Hornet and Kato of the TV series became the second team, composed of Britt Reid II, the nephew of the radio Britt Reid, and TV Kato was the son of radio Kato. The radio Kato was given seed wealth by radio Britt, and returned to Japan to found a business empire focused on technology. It is his empire that provides the research and equipment for many of the gadgets and vehicles the Reid/Kato team-ups use. The comics then go on to tell their own stories with a third generation of Reids and Katos taking the mantles, the fourth generation of heroes from the Reid family. In the comics, over top the fireplace of the Reid's family room is a large painting of a masked ranger on horseback, said by the Reids to be their ancestor, the first to don a mask to fight crime. Challenge of the Yukon with later became Sergeant Preston of the Yukon on TV, was created in part by Mr. Fran Striker, who'd been behind both the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet series. It can be argued that Sergeant Preston and his dog, Yukon King might also be in the same universe, but I know of no references back and forth.