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[Tactic21]

Where to play? probably prefer a RP server.

How's the content specifically farming etc?  Mission architect could be awesome but im looking for somewhere where it's not the only way to play. Not fussed about PvP most likely. If Architect is used as it was intended that could go a long way to creating interesting content.

Can i jump server as much as i want? is it easy or is there anything i need to do carefully?

Will have more questions soon.

AGAIN Incredible!!!

[Marine X]

Welcome

Everlasting is the Unofficial RP Server and Excelsior has the largest population followed by Torchbearer. Reunion is located in Germany if you are in Europe, all the others are in Canada.

Victory and Indomitable are lower population if you want a quieter experience. Brainstorm is the Open Beta server. You can have characters on any server and limited server transfers are available if you chose to relocate. You may lose your Name if it has already been taken on the destination server. Have fun

 

Be sure to check out the START Vendor in Atlas Plaza just west of the Atlas Statue Platform, lots of good freebies, buffs, enhancements and temporary powers available there.

 

[Forager]

Marine X covered the server choice question very well. Everlasting is where all the cat-girls are. You get 5 server swap tokens and I think they replenish every week.

 

AE is mostly used for farming, but some people make Story-Focused Mission Arcs. You can search SFMA in the AE interface and find a lot of posts about them in the AE subforum.

 

Oh... and welcome home.

 

Edited Tuesday at 11:33 AM by Forager

[Tactic21]

limited transfers?

 

[Maagic]

2 hours ago, Forager said:

Marine X covered the server choice question very well. Everlasting is where all the cat-girls are. You get 5 server swap tokens and I think they replenish every week.

 

Every 3 days actually, and you can have up to 1000 characters per server, so go nuts! 

 

Oh and welcome back!

[srmalloy]

2 hours ago, Tactic21 said:

limited transfers?

 

You've got 1000 character slots per server; the limit on transfers is to manage people making wholesale moves of characters between servers — you just have to take longer and wait for the transfer pool to refresh so you can do another group. 

 

[UltraAlt]

7 hours ago, Tactic21 said:

Where to play? probably prefer a RP server.

 

As stated, Everlasting would be the way to go for RP.

It wasn't entirely clear in another post; the highest population servers are (from highest to lowest) Excelsior, Everlasting, and Torchbearer. The first two tend to have much higer populations that Torchbearer.

 

7 hours ago, Tactic21 said:

How's the content specifically farming etc?  Mission architect could be awesome but im looking for somewhere where it's not the only way to play. Not fussed about PvP most likely. If Architect is used as it was intended that could go a long way to creating interesting content.

 

If you want to farm, I would go to Excelsior as it has the highest population and you will be most likely to find a Farm that will accept doorsitters there.

[I don't condone farming. I think it is a bane to the CoH community in general. My own opinion.]

 

There is a small but active group that make non-Farming missions arcs for the AE - that is to say, using for what the AE was intended to be ... players creating mission arcs that they would enjoy playing and providing the for other players to enjoy as well. And, obviously, these "story" missions are buried by Farming missions.

 

The most PvP that goes on in Homecoming happens in the /ah. Otherwise, PvP appears to be pretty rare at this point and mostly on the weekends.

 

After all this is said, I would suggest to playing the game before going to stay in the end-game.

 

7 hours ago, Tactic21 said:

Can i jump server as much as i want? is it easy or is there anything i need to do carefully?

 

It depends on what "as much as  you want" means to you. There is a limit on how often you can transfer characters.

 

Every time you switch characters to another server, there is a chance that your character will have to be renamed. The higher the population of the server that you transfer to, the more likely that the name will already be taken on that server.

 

 

 

[Lyte Stryke]

Welcome home!

 

Most farmers use AE, especially when farming with friends, but I  like using Oro content to also get reward merits.

 

I recommend making a character on each server you are considering just to get on and experience it, rather than transferring your toon.  Leveling is fairly easy and you may prefer to  even capture the same name on multiple servers.

 

the only other thing I might add is that even the "quiet" servers have great communities in terms of being helpful and having lots of regular daily group activities.

[Xalon]

Welcome! There is honestly no point in joining any server other than Excelsior because it has everything - RPers, PVPers and everyone else. Maybe if you have a different time zone than another server might be better, but none of them come close to how many players are on Excelsior.

 

The PVPers are there, but you should reach out on PVP forums to find others. Sometimes you can find them online depending where you go and which channels you ask on. But it's maybe like 5% of the playerbase, if even that much. 

 

AE has a TON of content, though stick with the higher rated missions as they are the most complete. But for REAL content, you have tons of story arcs and missions and repeatable missions, as well as dozens of trials, taskforces, strikeforces and raids. You will have years of content just playing one character and if you make alts and play a Hero, Villain and Praetorian, you will never get bored. You can also become a vigilante or rogue, which opens up some special story arcs as well. 

 

Ease yourself back into things and check on the wiki for "what has changed" (link below) and it gives a nice outline of everything added or changed since GR ended. WELCOME BACK! S!

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/What's_New_in_Homecoming_for_Returning_Players

 

 

[MTeague]

If it matters to you, Everlasting has an outsized share of Redsiders.  Redside was typically dead when I used to play on Excelsior. I could go entire evenings without seeing another player. There's still not a thriving metropolis in the Rogue Isles on Everlasting, but neither does it feel like you're stationed in Antarctica.

[lemming]

Everlasting is busy, but not too busy and has a good group of people leading trials and other stuff.   (So does Excel)

 

The other servers are lower population, but have some other benefits.    Indom has a nightly GM hunt for instance.

[Sanguinesun]

On 9/16/2025 at 7:36 PM, Tactic21 said:

Where to play? probably prefer a RP server.

How's the content specifically farming etc?  Mission architect could be awesome but im looking for somewhere where it's not the only way to play. Not fussed about PvP most likely. If Architect is used as it was intended that could go a long way to creating interesting content.

Can i jump server as much as i want? is it easy or is there anything i need to do carefully?

Will have more questions soon.

AGAIN Incredible!!!

 

1. While there may be some who wish to gate and dictate how one should play(ie Architect system should be X not Y) or similar, players have the luxury here to choose how they want to play and level.  Most common leveling method for example is through task forces but there are many other methods and of course just playing the game's zone story lines and leveling up that way as well.  And yes of course some hit the fire or s/l farms to level in too.  You do you in other words.

 

2. RP server is essentially Everlasting in name and second in general population but there are RPers on the highest population server Excelsior too.  However, rp I would say tends to be not as common as you may expect outside of super groups you may opt to join to do such with.  Even everlasting has people who dont rp and no server has rp enforced.

 

3. Pvp is rather thin. 

 

4.  Moving between servers is free and can be done with a character up to 5 times a week. Then you have to wait to refresh your xfers.  However, given the ease with how to level, especially if you join the higher pop server(s), you may just simply wish to make alts on each you're looking into trying.   Keep in mind too that you can mail across toons items and influence to your global handle and it can be received on any server too.

 

5. Also keep in mind in a few weeks the halloween event will start and there will likely be a ramp up in players then because, as with every year, its also a common time players make new toons to level up fast due to the trick or treat event system and as well it can be a fun social thing too.

 

All in all, you've choices.  Best of luck.

[Tactic21]

Brilliant. I cannot stop playing.

How do respecs work? at this point my goal is to have a single character that i can stick with for a while.

[MTeague]

You get a respec for free at lvl 10, and very possibly every 10 levels. (I don't need them that often)

Should you need more, the oldschool "respec" task forces (Terra Volta, Nerva Archipelago) still exist. 

Should you need even more, there are respec recipes on the Auction House (Wentworth's / Black Market).

 

The auction house is a good thing to familiarize yourself with, anyway. Even if you have no interest in invetions / IO Sets until you get a character to high level, you can typically sell rare (orange) invention salvage for 450,000 influence, each.  That'll fund quite a few enhancements as you level. 

[UltraAlt]

4 hours ago, Tactic21 said:

How do respecs work?

 

when you have a respec available type /respec

I generally do mine in bases. Some people have issues doing them in bases, but that may be due to traffic. Seems like it is best to do them where there will not be a lot of player character activity around you.

 

When you set off the respec, it will dump all your enhancements into a temporary storage bin.

(I'm a bit foggy on how this actually goes through as I think I have only 1-3 respecs since playing on Homecoming definitely less than 5)

you then pick your powers.

once you pick all your power, you then pick slots.

Then you slot enhancements. Any enhancements that you don't slot or move to your normal storage trays will be loss when you complete a repec. So make sure to leave space in your enhancement storage trays before doing a respec if you plan not to reslot all your enhancements. If you aren't an avid (some would say Ebil) Marketer then you should have plenty of room to move 70 enhances to the /AH for storage; you don't have to post them for sale in order to use the /ah for additional enhancement (or anything else that you can move to the /ah) for storage purposes.

 

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Power_Respecification

 

You might also want to think about creating alternate "builds", but that requires supplying the build with its own set of enhancements.

You can use that this to make single-target, multi-target, main-tank, archetype-primary heavy, high-damage, etc. builds that you can swap into. (I'm not sure how often you can change builds. I don't use them).

 

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Multiple_Builds

Edited 22 hours ago by UltraAlt

[lemming]

4 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:

I generally do me in bases. Some people have issues doing them in bases, but that may be due to traffic. Seems like it is best to do them where there will not be a lot of player character activity around you.

With bases, iirc, people seem to have issues in more complicated bases.    I've never had a problem, but my bases are utilitarian with not a lot of details.

Busy zones seem to be another issue which is why Atlas and the like are to be avoided during respecs.