Homecoming Statistics: March 2020

[Heraclea]

My impression is that there is a lot more variety among my blasters within the AT than there is within any other AT.  I have several level 50 blasters: electric/electric, archery/devices, and ice/plants.  The double electric is basically built as a sapper, and is probably one reason why I haven't been all that interested in playing defenders.  The arch/dev probably comes closest to being a traditional pure DPS blaster.  Ice/plants has more hard control than my controller (ill/rad) and for that reason is a reliable earner, and my first choice to bring to Hamidon raids. 

[roleki]

Am I just imagining things, or did previous incarnations of this thread link to a massive table where the powers of each set were ranked by percentage of eligible builds that included them?  Wherever it was, that was very helpful in navigating oddball builds.

[Greycat]

On 4/21/2020 at 4:41 AM, Blastit said:

 Additionally I'm not sure if the sonic buff set ever got rid of that whole "giving people migraines" deal and that has stopped me from making anything with it.

Yes, it did. Well back on live. Which is why they're orange now.

[Mister Mass]

1 hour ago, Greycat said:

Yes, it did. Well back on live. Which is why they're orange now.

Unless you think sonic is purple & white & recolor it accordingly. 😉

[MTeague]

But how many characters have a backstory > 500 characters?

[merrypessimist]

On 5/17/2020 at 6:22 PM, MTeague said:

But how many characters have a backstory > 500 characters?

All of mine?

[Xeres]

Wow.  I don't have  Firey Aura Brute, nor do I have a Mastermind and I do have a rare Elec/Elec blaster.

 

 

[Without_Pause]

On 5/11/2020 at 2:32 PM, roleki said:

Am I just imagining things, or did previous incarnations of this thread link to a massive table where the powers of each set were ranked by percentage of eligible builds that included them?  Wherever it was, that was very helpful in navigating oddball builds.

I don't know if the numbers have been updated, but here's the link.

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/fotm-powers/

Edited May 26, 2020 by Without_Pause

[roleki]

23 hours ago, Without_Pause said:

I don't know if the numbers have been updated, but here's the link.

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/fotm-powers/

Updated or not, that's exactly what I was looking for!  Thanks!

[RogerWilco]

On 5/21/2020 at 12:13 AM, merrypessimist said:

All of mine?

Yeah, mine too.

[Coyotedancer]

Forgot to come back and mention it, but Ferrian… my second Unicorn- the Claws/Fire Stalker... did finally make it to 50. I just started working on his iToys. XD

[RogerWilco]

It would be cool if the active accounts/CCU/hours played numbers could get an update every now and then.

I only started playing in May 2020, and now have 5 friends who joined as well.

Only just reached level 20.

 

It would be interesting to see how things develop month-by-month.

 

Still think these are impressive numbers.

[Coyotedancer]

So... Just for fun, I went through and made a list of all of my current level-50's (That's all but three of my entire list of "active" characters at this point-) and where they are in the "How Common IS This Combination, Anyway?" ranks. I was a little surprised at how few there were of some and how many there were of others...

 

Only 13 Broadsword/Bio Brutes? Huh.

267 other nutty people went for PsiMelee and Energy on their Stalkers? Unexpected. But cool.

 

As-of the March data, Ferrian the Claws/Fire Stalker was a Unicorn, with no 50's of the type, but I know a few other people have leveled those since then, so no clue how much company he has out there now. It'll be fun to see how much all of the numbers have changed by the time the next set of data comes out.

 

As for me? The obvious WP/Bio/Dark/Time/Stalker/Sent/Defender fan-girl... I need to branch out more. I think I'm going to go look at the lists and build another less-than-10 combination of an AT I don't have yet. Maybe I need to look at Doms.  

 

Tavaris	Dark/Bio Sentinel	1 of 60
Artemian	Psy/Bio Sentinel	1 of 61
Code Merlin	Fire/ WP Sentinel	1 of 67
Shonokin	Dark/WP Sentinel	1 of 23
Winterslight	Fire/Ice Sentinel	1 of 9
Kaikara	Kin/Bio Stalker	1 of 16
White Thorn	Kin/Bio Stalker	1 of 16
Windwhispered	PsiMelee/Energy Stalker	1 of 267
Ferrian	Claws/Fire Stalker	1 of ?
Code Mordred	DB/Bio Stalker	1 of 19
Restless Ghost	Street/Bio Stalker	1 of 123
Abyssal Blade	Nin/Bio Stalker	1 of 17
Red Traveller	Kin/Fire Stalker	1 of 4
Void's Thorn	Dark/Dark Defender	1 of 240
Andris	Kinetic/Electric Defender	1 of 155
Narada	Nature/Water Defender	1 of 87
Edratarees	Thermal/Fire Defender	1 of 73
Graceful Ivory Mask	Time/Dark Defender	1 of 36
Orevial	Rad/Dark Defender	1 of 67
Semnai	Broadsword/Bio Brute	1 of 13
Haroeris	Claws/Fire Brute	1 of 173
Xhelethe	Katana/WP Scrap	1 of 106
Karnaim	Titan/Bio Scrap	1 of 593
Gentleman Spectre	PsiMelee/WP Scrap	1 of 39
Carwyn	Staff/WP Scrap	1 of 109
Nehemes	Water/Dark Corruptor	1 of 66
Deigan	Archery/Time Corruptor	1 of 14
Aegis of Serenity	Illusion/Time Controller	1 of 330
Amtes	Demons/Time Mastermind	1 of 166
Khalil al-Jinn	WP/Street Tank	1 of 101
Bahir	Peacebringer	1 of 1397

Edited June 10, 2020 by Coyotedancer

[ImpousVileTerror]

I'm pretty sure the Psionic Melee / Energy Aura Stalkers are popular since it's a fairly solid PvP Build.

[Coyotedancer]

14 hours ago, ImpousVileTerror said:

I'm pretty sure the Psionic Melee / Energy Aura Stalkers are popular since it's a fairly solid PvP Build.

That would explain it, I guess. I know I haven't come across a lot of them in the-game-at-large.

[killigraphy]

Truly the best thing about playing an MM - AH prices are cheap, you can second as a healer/(de)buffer, and you do more dmg than scrappers....just a great time to be alive.

[Evdoxia]

On 5/17/2020 at 6:22 PM, MTeague said:

But how many characters have a backstory > 500 characters?

I feel like I remember seeing more backstories on live. I get so excited to see even just a few sentences typed. I feel like they're an important part of a superhero game.

[ImpousVileTerror]

Which Shard are you on, @Evdoxia?  That sort of matters a bit for frequency of characters with backstories.

[Evdoxia]

2 hours ago, ImpousVileTerror said:

Which Shard are you on, @Evdoxia?  That sort of matters a bit for frequency of characters with backstories.

Excelsior

 

Backstories can't just be limited to the RP server can they? xD

[ImpousVileTerror]

While it's true that they don't -need- to be limited, there does seem to be a statical bias toward backstories on the roleplay Shard, Everlasting.

[Oginth]

3 hours ago, Evdoxia said:

I feel like I remember seeing more backstories on live. I get so excited to see even just a few sentences typed. I feel like they're an important part of a superhero game.

Sometimes when I see a large group of people, I toggled on the reading emote, then read their bio one by one. I love reading their stories.

[Chance Jackson]

On 4/9/2020 at 5:47 PM, Peacemoon said:

These numbers are interesting. The most interesting one is how many Masterminds don't go all the way to 50. Maybe once you get all the pets and upgrades it lacks stuff to aim towards. Maybe if their APPs were more personalised it would be better?

I think it's frustration with Pet AI & frequent resummons

[Apparition]

8 minutes ago, Chance Jackson said:

I think it's frustration with Pet AI & frequent resummons

That, and being left behind on speed runs, and poor damage from Ninjas, Mercenaries, and Beasts.

[Peacemoon]

5 minutes ago, Apparition said:

That, and being left behind on speed runs, and poor damage from Ninjas, Mercenaries, and Beasts.

Playing a MM does make every mission feel like an escort mission. The pets do like to ponder their existence when transferring from combat to passive..

[ImpousVileTerror]

The delay on switching to Defensive and then having the Henchpets retaliate was an intentional addition to prevent Masterminds from "cheesing" the Bodyguard Damage Share mechanic.

But frankly?  I think it's time we allow Masterminds to cheese it as an improvement to Quality of Life!