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Thank you @Cipher for the transparency as always! Thank you all (Devs, GMs, and donors) for everything done to keep this community alive and healthy! Rock on!

I can't disagree overall, what you said is true. However, Super Reflexes seems to stand ahead of other defensive/resistive sets on a Stalker or Scrapper more so than on a Tanker or Brute. This may be due to the stupid streak-breaker mechanic, where in if you've avoided being hit too many times in a row the "streak breaker" combat code will essentially force you to take auto-hits. It can be infuriating and fatal when it happens, which it does without warning. Then again with the extra hitpoints you might survive a streak breaker better too so... meh?

Of what I consider the top 5 tanky players on HomeComing, they either use Bio Armor, Invulnerability, Stone, or Shield Bio Armor in particular is arguably OP in the right hands, just like how a skilled tri-form Warshade is insanely powerful -- the key lies in the versatility, in knowing when to switch mode. I would agree with @twozerofoxtrot in that you should give BioArmor serious consideration, and if that's not enough consider that he highest Veteran Level in the entire HomeComing server group uses Bio Armor (with Titan Weapons). As far as the attack powers, honestly it's whatever you like. Sure the -toHit of Dark is excellent, but so is the knockdown/knockup of War Mace or Titan Weapon or Staff. Or the -DEF of Rad. Or the DoT of Stone. Also speaking of Stone Armor, that's very viable in HomeComing because of changes to the teleport pool (especially [Fold Space] which brings them to you) Shield also gets a lunging charge (teleport with PBAoE damage) and what is essentially a taunt aura

Good grief... I know there's inflation to consider, but that coverall pricing seems to be grossly overcharging our community. I have donated to help, but I strongly recommend taking time between now and early 2023, or maybe even merging some of the least populated shards if necessary (poor Torchbearer, I started there in 2019 but it's been looking pretty empty) Some possible alternatives to maybe consider and get customized price quote on? 24 racks of m5a.xlarge Ohio-based servers costs about $2354 per month from Amazon AWS, but that's only if all of those are used which to be fair they won't be and the pricing is charged based on actual usage needs updated every 5 minutes. So it it's a low server population, it then you don't pay for it -- which could be a game changer in cost savings while not compromising on a low latency experience. https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/pricing/ HostHavoc has been one I've been keeping an eye on as they have some of the best reviews on the 3rd party TrustPilot website with people frequently saying their price was fair and the customer support was above and beyond (especially for complicated game server setups). One review that caught my eye was a that one of the HostHavoc admins communicated with a customer via Discord to basically re-code and fix them up with a working VPN remote access JSON, like at no additional charge. There's multiple servers, especially on the East and West Coast US. They do have scalable dedicated servers. https://hosthavoc.com/dedicated-servers The Atlanta location Fragnet server location has a whooping 7 ISPs (means many of the players would actually have less hops), comparable hardware to what your are using, VPN remote access for SQL databases, and has been used by Bohemia Interactive (for Day-Z and Altis Life) and the ESL for competition servers. They do custom requests from what I have read on other 3rd party review sites, as well as in-person LAN setups for eSports (seems to be what they are known for). https://fragnet.net/page/about# Other popular hosts like https://scalacube.com/ are very Minecraft focused and don't seem to have the VPN feature we would want and need for CoH HomeComing. In fact that seemed to be the majority of ones I looked into which I personally would NOT recommend for our community. Reliability is super important, obviously. And changing providers is like moving houses -- It can be a hassle, but could be worth it in the long-term. And just like real estate, sometimes it's just good to shop around even if you decide not to move, because it's good to know what's out there options wise. Regardless, I'm happy to donate my part to continue that bar past the 88.2% it's currently at as of writing this. And I appreciate all the HC team and GMs do to keep the show rolling on for all of us! Thank y'all!

I don't think you're trolling at all, because if you were you wouldn't write all that out. Would an agreeable & simple solution be just a means of turning off the patrol XP like how one can currently turn off "regular" XP of they want? That wait it changes nothing for the majority of people and it can stay the default, but for those wanting to turn it off all they have to do is essentially flip the switch to off in the settings. That sound good?

Honestly, I wish more games did things like that... Day jobs are a very cool thing in this game, and I'd love to see it expanded in some way in the future (like additional badges, updating the temp power functionality, etc)

Interesting... and logging out the the character selection and coming back clears it, as you said.

1) Be specific. The price of what enhancement, exactly? 2) I'm not seeing anything wrong my end, collected my sold items and posted something just to see. Do you have a screenshot of this bug?

OMH yes! Especially imagine if you could load bases on other servers, that way you can share your architecture artwork with the other shards/servers! It wouldn't duplicate your storage items of course (because that'd exploitable), just the physical base object position architecture. But that alone would be amazing. Imagine your favorite base, and you could save it on Everlasting and load the save to import it on Indomitable so people could have fun using it for PvP or something. Or like you said, if you made some design mistakes and want to revert back to a previous save.

How is this poll topic not stickied/pinned? Really great information and thought-out suggestions @Dacy, as usual 😃

And by saying this, your essentially mildly harassing and making @Sneakers' point for him. *sigh* FAIL There's a humorous saying that's opinions are like A-holes, everyone has them, but they typically stink. In large respect you are correct, but I'll point out that even private companies have to be mindful of harassment, especially discrimination. More to the point, it shouldn't ever get that far. This whole situation shouldn't have gotten this far! Early on (Page3 and/or before) we were promised a dev blog to explain why they felt making changes that clearly changed how AE farming was done were necessary. In truth, the changes were not that major (they sky is not falling), but on the flip side, to deny several changes were specifically aimed at reducing farming (passive/AFK farming in particular) is naive and detrimental to us all. It's also a fools errand to try to eliminate all farming and power leveling from an MMO. Not gonna happen. Something will always be the "best way to power level", even if it means Go Hunt Kill Skulls. Why waste precious time and effort when there's better things that same development could be spent on?! This is where I personally get frustrated, the priorities seems messed up and we're not getting transparent communication from the community leadership, or at least not nearly enough (this topic's existence being proof as to where there's not enough) The primary focus needs to be on having fun, especially with teamplay since this is a multiplayer game And another post that's nothing more than mild harassment, adding credibility to the claim that farmers are being harassed and targeted by those in the clique that is on good terms with the devs. This does the exact opposite of what you intended. FAIL This. WIN Also to be clear, this whole situation with harassment could have been largely avoided early on the lack of a community spokesperson on the development team, but to be clear, it is not on the programmers on the development team to explain the reason for the direction of development, they need to focus their time and effort on coding and bug hunting. There should be someone dedicated to explaining things to the public and building hype to get people excited about changes. This is a rather depressing thread, and while I like many of the things in Page5 and other recent updates, we collectively need a plan to come together on this. Most of us are adults, and should be able to figure this out together without thrown insults like hormonal teenagers. Yes I know this is the internet forum environment, but I know we can all do better. It'll probably get locked too, which while necessary to prevent a flame war won't resolve things. I feel bad for the GMs, Forum-Mods and the programmers; and would like to see some cooler heads prevail on this fiasco

Eww... Cell shading... 🤢 To each their own, I know some people like it, even if I can't truly understand why...

Does the crash handler let you upload your game info? It's supposed to do that, and the HC Devs have found it to be really helpful Does this happen with any other applications (don't think it does or doesn't, you need to try to stress test it with anything else) Graphics card driver version, make, and model? From what your wrote, I'm guessing it's and AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and a Radeon RX 6900 XT?

Also unplug the fans before airblasting or vacuuming. I would've thought unplugging the battery was common sense... But thanks for making a point about that Also know that many laptop Li-Ion battery packs include a CMOS battery as part of the pack, and so when you unplug the battery pack you're also unplugging the CMOS. Not an issue, but just be aware you may have to update the BIOS as soon as you boot it up or it'll BEEP at you. Lenovo Thinkpad's are an example, they love to scream beep codes at you. Also while we're on the subject, ChromeOS is either easy or really hard, depending on whether or not your manufacturer used indexed MAC addresses for core components. If you replace a motherboard on a Chromebook, expect to run some low-level Linux sudo command lines, or get stuck forever in a loop waiting for an FTP connection to the China factory local intranet. It won't let you proceed until the UUID is associated with the various MACs, and while the ChromeOS Factory interface is cool for functionality validation, getting stuck because it can't connect to a particular server is aweful. In short, there is such a thing as over-engineering something, and that's what ChromeOS can be. Just FYI since tablet gaming and TikTok are hot things these days... Thank you, 100% agree. Yes, it's definitely gimmicky "sexy tech" to use liquid metal on any mobile device. It just makes for marketing hype to corporate executives, but in reality it doesn't do much to help cool, for the heat exchanger reasons I said above in more detail (basically limited surface area and limited mass flow rate on a laptop heatsink). Also I will add this advice of yours that when you go to airblast a fan, please make sure to unplug it first -- otherwise it may have potentially damaging backfeed voltage (because unless it has a diode to ground protection, it will act like a tiny wind-power generator when you spin the motor from the air flow)

I've seen silicone caulk used by the China-based factories, but it usually doesn't last or seal well enough. *accidentally bumps on edge* *Zap!* Dead MB. And no, most do motherboards not have a coating, at least not enough of one, that would protect again short circuit protection for the same reason most motherboards are not waterproof. Unfortunately, it's simply not worth the cost that people would have to pay to have it standard-issue. This applies to pretty much all brands, just to be clear. And as I said earlier, I suspect it will trend toward worsening in coming years, as wattages continue to increase on CPUs and GPUs as they currently are. What I do wish is that manufacturers would disclose on the specs whether it uses liquid metal or not... The customer should be informed when making the purchase. Samsung is the only one I've personally seen so far with a good design to prevent that, and I suspect Sony does too but I can't confirm that personally. Come to think of it, Samsung actually seems to always design their electronics with repairability in mind, even their large appliances are easier to tear down and re-assemble. I think they're on the more expensive side, especially compared to a HP. Just FYI, in case it helps someone: BBY's GS has factory-new OS images (like restore points, but better) of just about every SKU for every model # they've sold in the past 5 years. If it's older than 5 y.o. they can't do it, but if it's a laptop model# that's (or was in the past less than 5 years) also carried at a BestBuy store anywhere (even if you bought the hardware off Amazon or eBay), then they should be able to re-image a badly corrupted or missing OS back onto the primary drive. It's basically loaded from their network PXE, which is a function all major brands have in their BIOS (to boot via a network adapter). I think MicroCenter has that same service too, but most people don't have one of those anywhere nearby -- whereas there's usually a BestBuy nearby in your town or elsewhere here in the US, thus why I mention it here. I have no idea about Canada, sorry. And yes, once you've tasted how much faster and physically durable an SSD is over a mechanical 5400 RPM HDD you'll never want to go back. I know I can't stand the long load times. Even better if going to a M.2 SSD. I have no idea how we tolerated IDE back in mid-90's to early 2000's... I guess we just dealt with it because it was the best there was at the time, eh? (Also don't miss those heavy CRT monitors, although it was fun to mess with a magnet on the glass) Haha! Yeah well, you know how many gamers don't? (especially when it's smoker's tar + dust) Just saying... You'd think it's common sense... And it's not that easy to get gooey cigarette tar off the fan blades. I also personally know a gamer buddy (yes they're on HomeComing) who put toothpaste on instead of thermal paste because they saw it on Facebook. (Yes, he killed his CPU and couldn't afford to buy a new one for about a year). Again, common sense regarding computer tech isn't as common as you might think, especially if they're an older generation that doesn't easily identify what's just somebody trolling with intentional misinformation online.