Homecoming Server Update (January 7th): Victory is Ours!

[El D]

7 minutes ago, Display Name said:

Another question would be why is there a name release if it can be turned off?  Why not let players name their toons as they want?

 

If there's no name release in-place, more and more names just get locked away on accounts that are no longer active. Which is what happened with all the original Homecoming servers and why the devs finally activated it.

 

Victory is getting a grace period so the folks who migrated their characters have time to take stock, rather than have the 'Welcome to Homecoming!' party also immediately slap them with the Get Generic'd stick.

[Display Name]

1 hour ago, Display Name said:

Another question would be why is there a name release if it can be turned off?  Why not let players name their toons as they want?

 

[UltraAlt]

 

The Portal is open to Victory!

Let the invasion begin!

[BurtHutt]

I have a question. How big is the Victory dev team and will they now work with the HC dev crew? It would be great if they could join forces and make some decent content. Maybe some actual costume pieces too.

[Narissis]

5 hours ago, Display Name said:

I got that but "for the time being" means that it will come into effect and I was wondering how that's going to work.

 

Another question would be why is there a name release if it can be turned off?  Why not let players name their toons as they want?

 

I'm not sure you've understood what the name release function is and how it works.

 

Name release frees up the names of low-level characters that haven't been logged into in a long time, so that a player can take over a name that's being squatted by an unplayed character.

 

Not having it turned on at first will give people with characters on Victory the opportunity to log into them to refresh their activity timers, so that other players can't grab away the names from players who might want to come back following the onboarding.

 

Of course, once the name release is turned on at a later date, any idle names tied up on inactive characters would then become available to take over.

 

So it's not about 'not letting players name their toons as they want'; it's about giving players some lead time to not lose the names they already have.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure character names are stored per shard, not across all of Homecoming, which would mean there can be no name conflicts with other shards. So unless I'm terribly wrong about that, a name already being in use elsewhere on HC is no concern.

Edited yesterday at 03:56 AM by Narissis

[DoctorDitko]

Welcome home, Victory!

 

I just spent a very enjoyable evening running DFBs well organized by People's Hero 22.

Victory folks seem friendly and affable.

Good addition to the HC family!

[Michiyo]

2 hours ago, BurtHutt said:

I have a question. How big is the Victory dev team and will they now work with the HC dev crew? It would be great if they could join forces and make some decent content. Maybe some actual costume pieces too.

The Victory Dev "team", is me, and I've been on the HC Team with various duties and titles for years.

[lemming]

49 minutes ago, DoctorDitko said:

Welcome home, Victory!

 

I just spent a very enjoyable evening running DFBs well organized by People's Hero 22.

Victory folks seem friendly and affable.

Good addition to the HC family!

Myself and a few others ran some stuff.  I transferred an older char that was a little redundant over and ran some stuff and joined one of the many DFBs.

 

I do hope your base represents Ditko space. 😄

[Bananiac]

Welcome! When I saw it last night I sat down and made a new toon ... again.

 

How about giving Victory some XP boost for a while to draw some people there? I think that worked nicely for the other servers while it was running.

[Milk Sheik]

Welcome aboard, Victory! @Athena Nike here from the old server on Live. I'm mostly on Torchbearer or Everlasting these days, but I can easily transfer toons if you want to team.

[Frazzle]

Welcome to Homecoming! Glad to have you! 

[Gairian1974]

Nice, I only have 3 total toons myself, though I have noticed the population of my current server tends to run yellow.

I will likely make a toon on Victory after work today and check it out.

Dose anyone know how active there RP community is?

[COH Radgen]

I've appreciated and used your COHModd for quite some time, @Michiyo (although I had issues similar to @Snarky but resolved them with a fresh install of HC last year)! Welcome to HC to you and all the players on Victory!

[Snarky]

Welcome Home Victory Villains!  Err…Heroes!

[BurtHutt]

16 hours ago, Michiyo said:

The Victory Dev "team", is me, and I've been on the HC Team with various duties and titles for years.

There is no I in team! maybe a 'me' if you move some letters around...and so on... lol 

[Dazl]

You already have 3 low population servers, how is adding another one helpful?

[BurtHutt]

15 minutes ago, Dazl said:

You already have 3 low population servers, how is adding another one helpful?

I agree with this sentiment to a degree....but I think Victory being added is a positive as it brings more CoX players together. 

 

It's too bad the various dev teams didn't combine efforts. I have VERY quickly looked over other servers and they have done some good work. Putting all of these teams together would probably result in a very kick ass product. I also don't know how much effort was put into porting Victory over - if it wasn't too much extra work then so be it. I am all for adding Victory and more players to HC. Welcome to the Victory shard!

 

Until all are one.

[TauntingMonk]

<-- first one, globally ignored by everyone on Victory

[GM Crumpet]

1 hour ago, BurtHutt said:

I agree with this sentiment to a degree....but I think Victory being added is a positive as it brings more CoX players together. 

 

It's too bad the various dev teams didn't combine efforts. I have VERY quickly looked over other servers and they have done some good work. Putting all of these teams together would probably result in a very kick ass product. I also don't know how much effort was put into porting Victory over - if it wasn't too much extra work then so be it. I am all for adding Victory and more players to HC. Welcome to the Victory shard!

 

Until all are one.

Victory was in an odd position. The admin was Michiyo who spun it up early in HC history and she's been a member of the HC team for almost as long as we've been going. She is in charge of the wiki, various technical jobs on the backend and Victory was a kind of testing ground for quick fixes and patches as it ran on the same code and client as the main Homecoming. It was always the plan to eventually fold it into the main server, but it wasn't urgent and it's taken a while to get round to it. It's not like it appeared out of nowhere, it's been around for years as a side project but still very much under the Homecoming umbrella. Other servers out there have no contact with us and do their own thing. I'm sure they are happy to make their own version of the game to their vision just as we do with ours.

[BjorJlen]

   Welcome to HC, Victory! Long may you serve... 🙂

 

   Now as far as the "combining shards/servers" thing goes, I too am one who is in the middle about this, and can see both side fairly equally (from a non Dev point of view of course). Yes, it would be good to combine two or maybe more of the lowest Pop servers into one (not including Victory of course, as, well... it has just arrived and all 🙂), if only to increase the population in the newly formed server. After all, they basically all are the same, game play and content speaking and all...

   However, just speaking for myself... I think going to a very low server and playing "if" you've had a hard day at work (or whatever) and just don't want to deal with people atm, can be and is a good thing as well. Sometimes one just wants to chill, do a mish or two, without having to "ignore" people can be relaxing all on it's own. Heck, just going to a zone and "feeling" like your the only one there playing, can feel freeing all on it's own at times, ya know?
   Plus, these very hard working people who run and manage the game (yes, including @Michiyo for those not in the know), have lives too outside of the game, not to mention other things on the "to do" list in Homecoming. So I am sure that "merging servers" is way down on their list, and for good reasons too (some of which may not be so obvious to us). So what is my take on this finally?
   Be thankful for what we got, be happy to still be playing a game we all love so much, and give thanks for all the folks who have and are working so hard... even those we do not know about per say... that continue to give us the great blessing that CoH actually is in these crazy days and times we find ourselves in. Because quite frankly, it could be worse, believe you, me.
   So love ya all my fellow gamers & Dev's, and as always...

 

Peace...

 

P.S: @Michiyo, I just wanted to thank you too for such a great tool as the CoHModding tool. It's a fantastic addition to the game, and I for one appreciate you, your hard work, and it's creation (as do others too). 🙂 

Edited 7 hours ago by BjorJlen
Dang typo's lol...