Ruin Mage

Not yet. It is something I may revisit after Spring/Summer 🙂

patch note reactors was not the devs initially, but players started doing it. i would lean on the fact someone like myself started using it and it picked up. i'd know because i've used it plenty against people who mistake the word feedback for "garbage bile i type up while angry that my specific change did not make it into the page." being acceptable. there's a difference between reacting to the patch notes and actual testing & giving hard visible data - which has been a constant issue. every time a new page pops up it was the same crowd just leaping to conclusions, offering nothing for the devs to work with, and holding their ground atop the hill that "this change is shit" is good feedback. that being said, those threads have had wildly inconsistent moderation because sometimes the bat swings in a wide arc to clean up the threads. threads where people get into ad hominem and endless cyclical debates on feedbacking the feedback. it's not that the devs don't want feedback, its that the actual With Tested Data feedback gets shoved down pretty quick the the regulars muck up the thread and we start all over again. consistency often gets thrown out the window to get threads cleaned up as best as possible. if this hadn't happened for every page since HC's conception and the start of Open Beta Feedback, then i'd be more inclined to be less harsh about it. which is what i'd offer is needed the most in moderation: consistency. if i'm being an ass and someone is being an ass right back? both parties need to get the thwack of forum moderators. repeat as needed and as required.

HC is only really behind in costume-related things because they do not have a dedicated person or persons for it. They also prefer to make sure MOST things can fit on all 3 body types unless its designed for one in particular I think? Plus HC isn't going to just shatter the costume creator on a whim (Which TSpy has done - they've broken the sliders) Power-wise, HC has done more and has the Sentinel AT. HC has created: Symphony Control Seismic Blast Electrical Affinity Arsenal Control Storm Blast Arsenal Assault Sonic Assault ? I feel like I'm missing something HC has also had changes to several powersets, including revamps to Energy Melee & initiated overhauls to Masterminds. Some of these changes have not been well received, but they are changes! Content wise we're the one with the most. Tough end-game content for those that want to give a scaling challenge on 1 of 3 TFs, a new SF overall, the Old School feel as an optional challenge on LRSF, some new Master of badges applied to a few of the Trials (Eden, Sewer, and I forgot the other one), new contacts, and a dabbling of other things. Even a revamped holiday in a new V-Day mission! Rebirth does have cool things like a Kheldian revamp (likely on the table for HC as well, but who knows when) and the Guardian AT. Plus they have a dedicated costume person so they have that going for them too. It should be about the quality not the quantity and that is what HC has (to my knowledge/understanding as an occasional beta tester) operated by. Debatable on the quality of some of these changes if you ask around, but it's what they try to operate under. If I had to recommend another server to check out for slower-paced more Live-like gameplay? Rebirth is what I'd offer to point people to. Good people over there as far as I know/remember. Oops, I'm glazing Homecoming a lot and not getting paid for it.

The changes other servers have made can range from great to "okay but why" and that's fine. That's the same for how people view HC's changes. Let servers try to do things their own way. Let servers try to find their own way to stand out. Easy as pie. Though I will think you have a humiliation fetish if you play Thunderspy given they think the HC playerbase is full of pay pigs and sheep.

Oh boy, where to begin? Players can become Developers, but the process is full of training and getting them acquainted with the processes of Homecoming. Making sure they know the ropes. Making sure they understand and agree to certain things. They then can start working on things, or so I imagine, and then THAT stuff has to wait to be merged in with other things for Closed Beta first. Now, Homecoming will never generally use anything from Rebirth or Thunderspy. Why? Because we're not those servers. Thunderspy also went in and did things that are quantity over quality - HC prefers quality over quantity even if you might disagree with the quality of the changes they do. They have a certain methodology to it that does not fit with a number of changes TSpy did. Rebirth is doing their own things too and HC is not Rebirth. Don't get me wrong: Rebirth has a lot of cool stuff. Thunderspy does too if you look past what I'm about to mention. See there's a big big problem: Thunderspy in particular contributes to this day to a lot of Anti-HC conspiracy theories regarding donations (claims of Cipher pocketing the money for example), spouted baseless claims that HC sent cronies after them (I.e that HC Heads or players have called phone numbers tied to TSpy leadership), and more. They have also had leadership and members of that server try to poach (I use this word loosely) from HC. While also calling people who play on HC sheep. I speak from experience there in dealing with Arde, Inncuous, and Dr. Brain. These people have continuously engaged in insulting HC and its players out of some long held grudge and jealousy that people do not want to be on their cesspit of a server. Case in point. That is them calling people who donate Paypigs. Now, one question that gets asked a lot is why not collaborate? I refer to the above - that TSpy would likely have no interest and that Rebirth may (I am assuming here, I'm no sneak peak mind reader) have no interest in it either. All of the servers are doing their own thing and that is where it should be left at. This is a tried and true topic that will keep happening, but answers may very well remain the same for eternity. Also each server has their own thought process to what power changes / additions seem good and what does not. The philosophy of this is likely going to make collaborations difficult as well. Each team has their own vision for what City of Heroes should be. See you guys in the next 40 threads about this.

curse the department of education!!! look at what they've done to us.

Let's entertain this without the assumption that the OP is buttmad at being generic'd: You are asking volunteer developers to apply the Code of Conduct to the entire game in a narrative sense - to go into files and strip content from the game. A time consuming task AND one that would only open the doors to a whole host of other issues. "Well, you changed the game to remove x y and z because of this 1 poster!!" would snowball into a hell that could not be sealed. That is not even remotely how Codes of Conduct work. Codes of Conduct are for the players and not for the content of the game. In no game what-so-ever has this ever been different. That is why it uses the word conduct and most if not all CoCs refer to PLAYERS and the content THEY produce. This means in-game chat, names, and whatever else they themselves write up. You are confusing Codes of Conduct, in some scenario where you are being serious about this, with something else. You would have had more of a leg to stand on if you tried to leverage the game's ESRB rating. Which, shocker, would have been equally dismantled but at least it would have made a little more sense. To make it absolutely clear once again: CoCs and EULAs apply to the players, not in-game content.

How about no.

leave some for the rest of us, damn.

Everlasting - 1803 - 30 people. @Glacier Peak

Everlasting - 1791 with 37

@Glacier Peak 1462 - Everlasting, 32 players

I'll get a screencap for you later, but Everlasting just pushed to 1460 tonight.

I released Moment.

I'll try to do that afterwards, yeah! A reminder, folks, that this is THIS week. 18th at 6pm Central for Villains/Rogues and 20th at 6PM Central for Heroes/Vigilantes!! ROLEPLAY-32140 is the base code!