And old memory made me chuckle...

[DR_Mechano]

This was waaay back when the servers were 'live'. I remember a wave of Chinese bot farmer accounts appearing both EU and NA trying to peddle their inf selling services...

 

...only to get laughed out of the place when people pointed out making inf via either farming or simple market play far outstripped the time = money cost the Chinese bot farmer accounts could do. I distinctly remember one of them spamming chat where it was like 100 million inf for $50 and the chat responding "I can literally make that in about 30 to 60 minutes...that's not even cost effective on an hourly wage front.."

 

Then the prices started dropping, it became $30 for 100 million, then $20....then they just seemed to give up and leave...

 

To this day I think this is the only game I've seen break Chinese bot farmers by players just being more efficient and better game knowledge along with ease of access to IOs.

[SuperPlyx]

So way back when on Live, I can not remember exactly what Issue the game, I think 10.

 I introduced the game to my brother. He quickly took to it and soon had a nice collection of toons. I noticed he had a couple that were all decked out in purps and was curious how he had pulled this off. He had bought Inf from a farmer on Ebay. 

 

I was farming just about a month or so ago and a random guy who had joined asked if I wanted to sell some Inf for real life money. I told them that I wasn't interested.

 

And I team with couple people pretty regularly that don't do anything to make Inf but play the game. They are always in-game broke but they do not seem inclined to do anything to make Inf. 

 

No point really, just some remembrances and observations

[Glacier Peak]

I remember when I picked up Hover to fly over the Hollows.

[KauaiJim]

I count my blessings that we do not have that nonsense spamming chat here (gold sellers).  And yes, them failing in CoX Live makes me smile too.

[GraspingVileTerror]

There was a brief moment in Homecoming's history, close to the start, where "Gold Traders" tried to break in to this market.

I think it was, what?  Less than a week?

Does anyone else remember this, or am I hallucinating?

[MTeague]

4 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

I remember when I picked up Hover to fly over the Hollows.

Tradition demanded that you not pick up hover until after 8 or so wipes to the Pumice / Igneous trying to get back to the mission though. Often chain-reaction wipes of two or three groups each trying to get back and running headfirst into the other guys trainwreck. 🙂

 

[DoctorDitko]

1 hour ago, GraspingVileTerror said:

Less than a week?

A bit longer than that, but yeah, I remember them, it was how I learned to use the Ignore button.

 

I wouldn't have cared about the farming if it weren't for the constant spam!

[Veracor]

1 hour ago, GraspingVileTerror said:

There was a brief moment in Homecoming's history, close to the start, where "Gold Traders" tried to break in to this market.

I think it was, what?  Less than a week?

Does anyone else remember this, or am I hallucinating?

 

A few months after launch, yeah.  The bans for it happened in September 2019: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/10442-pro-tip-dont-engage-in-real-world-trading/

 

[Techwright]

8 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

I remember when I picked up Hover to fly over the Hollows.

 

Legend says GP was still hovering over the Hollows when the servers shut down.  😏

[Glacier Peak]

1 hour ago, Techwright said:

Legend says GP was still hovering over the Hollows when the servers shut down.  😏

And I almost finished crossing Wendel's Gulch too! 😁

[UltraAlt]

13 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:

And I almost finished crossing Wendel's Gulch too! 😁

....and I would have if it hadn't been for those crazy kids and that dumb dog!

[Xenosone]

5 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

....and I would have if it hadn't been for those crazy kids and that dumb dog!

Group hover is really slow

[Doomguide2005]

     Yeah feel like it took me a half hour at least.  I had been on a team as a sidekick for one of those really distant door missions.  The team was about 12th or 13th.  I was 6th.  The team finished the mission, exited and promptly, as teams sometimes do, disbanded.  Two choices take the suicide train to the AP hospital or use my newest power and Hover.

    Straight up I went then followed the Red River back to the AP gate and straight down.  Was only mildly *cough* concerned there'd be some flying threat being still rather new to the game 😛.