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So, I can see one detail already, that was not apparent from just the "total playerbase" numbers: the popularity of Robotics, as a Mastermind primary, is becoming less and less overwhelming over time.

 

Level 50 (total 3,284)

  • Robotics: 1,067 (32.5%)
  • Demon Summoning: 634 (19.3%)

Level 32-49 (total 6,756)

  • Robotics: 1,981 (29.3%)
  • Demon Summoning: 1,262 (18.7%)

Level 2-31 (total 79,504)

  • Robotics: 19,125 (24.9%)
  • Demon Summoning: 16,713 (21.0%)

So, the lead over the second place starts at 13.2%, then declines to 10.6% and finally a statistically-negligible 3.9% in the next two brackets.  🙂

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A lot of people are recommending that sets be fixed based on the low number usage. While I'm in complete support of this, there will be a number of individuals who proclaim "Cottage Rule!" or "I actually use this power and it's great, you just don't know how to use it!" despite information clearly displaying it isn't very useful or it's just bad.

 

I loved seeing this breakdown of selected powersets and combinations. I think it could definitely help the devs look into the sets that need some support (Trick Arrow, for example). I'd just hope that the devs focus on the betterment of the set and the support they have from community members, as opposed to not doing anything because a handful of individuals say "don't do it, it's my baby!"

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Accolades held by level 50s:

 

Note that the power name is used here rather than the badge name:

Set Power Count
Accolades The Atlas Medallion 11,811
Accolades Task Force Commander 11,772
Accolades Portal Jockey 8,197
Accolades Freedom Phalanx Reserve 8,026
Accolades Invader 6,386
Accolades Marshall 5,214
Accolades High Pain Threshold 4,670
Accolades Born In Battle 4,214
Accolades Demonic Aura 2,033
Accolades Riwe Accolade Power 2,030
Accolades Eye of The Magus 1,945
Accolades Geas of The Kind Ones 1,538
Accolades Crey Cbx-9 Pistol 1,336
Accolades Vanguard Medal 1,102
Accolades Force of Nature 916
Accolades Stolen Immobilizer Ray 780
Accolades Megalomaniac 685
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  On 9/1/2019 at 11:38 PM, Cipher said:

 

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Going to guess here, but, is that the internal name for Hover?

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  On 9/2/2019 at 1:40 AM, PaxArcana said:

Going to guess here, but, is that the internal name for Hover?

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It is! I swapped a lot of the internal names for their display counterpart but missed that one 🙂

 

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  On 8/31/2019 at 3:05 AM, XaoGarrent said:

Masterminds are still every bit as prolific as everyone thought. Maybe it's time to retire the purple cave map, yeah?

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Yes, even on live I'd not summon my tier 1 pets on those maps, just so my teammates could actually move around.  Sometimes I'd go with just the one tier 3 pet.  If this game gets a license from NC Soft and goes legit, one of the first things I'd like to see them do is to hire a couple of game artists and redo the CoT blue caves and the Council cave maps too.  Those things are just horrendous, and with any pet class at all they're doubly worse.

 

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Thanks for this great data! Here's some more analysis, and I hope it is correct as there are a number of small naming conventions that I've found which I am hoping I have resolved. Also, I apologise for the awful table, if a moderator knows how to stretch those columns out nicely please do so 🙂

 

The Wooden Spoon badge

I have some good news if you want to make a 50 that no-one else has - there's quite a few choices! Since not a single one of these combinations have made it to 50, they each have a 0% success rate. I give the wooden spoon badge to Beast Mastery/Traps MM, since it has had the most attempts to get it started and therefore failed the most number of times.


 

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The Stand Alone badge

This one I'm giving to the combination of powers that just a single person has hit 50 on, and it will be granted to the combination that has the most attempts to get there. Congratulations to Tanker: Bio Organic Armor / Broad Sword, who has a single level 50 out of 247 attempts!

 

Runners up were: Blaster - Psychic Blast / Darkness Manipulation and Scrapper - Broad Sword - Fiery Aura

 

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The Not Stopping badge

This one is a category I'm reserving for the archetypes that have the highest percentage likelihood of going all the way to 50. In a very tight race, congratulations to Brute - Radiation Melee / Fiery Aura, where 48.4% of all characters created hit the magical 50!

 

A very close runner up was its fellow farming companion, Brute - Spines / Fiery Aura, where 48.0% of all characters created hit the 50! A good argument could be made that the total number of Spines/Fiery Aura characters means it should be #1.

 

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:40 AM, summers said:

Thanks for this great data! Here's some more analysis, and I hope it is correct as there are a number of small naming conventions that I've found which I am hoping I have resolved.

 

The Wooden Spoon badge

I have some good news if you want to make a 50 that no-one else has - there's quite a few choices! Since not a single one of these combinations have made it to 50, they each have a 0% success rate. I give the wooden spoon badge to Beast Mastery/Traps MM, since it has had the most attempts to get it started and therefore failed the most number of times.


 

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The Stand Alone badge

This one I'm giving to the combination of powers that just a single person has hit 50 on, and it will be granted to the combination that has the most attempts to get there. Congratulations to Tanker: Bio Organic Armor / Broad Sword, who has a single level 50 out of 247 attempts!

 

Runners up were: Blaster - Psychic Blast / Darkness Manipulation and Scrapper - Broad Sword - Fiery Aura

 

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The Not Stopping badge

This one is a category I'm reserving for the archetypes that have the highest percentage likelihood of going all the way to 50. In a very tight race, congratulations to Brute - Radiation Melee / Fiery Aura, where 48.4% of all characters created hit the magical 50!

 

A very close runner up was its fellow farming companion, Brute - Spines / Fiery Aura, where 48.0% of all characters created hit the 50! A good argument could be made that the total number of Spines/Fiery Aura characters means it should be #1.

 

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This was very interesting, nice work!

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:40 AM, summers said:

I have some good news if you want to make a 50 that no-one else has - there's quite a few choices!

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Are there any primary/secondary combos that have not been tried at all?

 

 

 

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:40 AM, summers said:

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In order to see if mine or the wifelet's toons appear on this list I reordered by AT, Primary, then Secondary. Made searching it easier. 

I'm going to start a new toon (when the baby allows some play time....)

 

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:47 AM, Cipher said:

This was very interesting, nice work!

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... now, maybe you need to actually create those badges ... 😄

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  On 9/2/2019 at 4:00 PM, Lunchmoney said:

Are there any primary/secondary combos that have not been tried at all?

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I'd have to go back and do this again for "tried at all", but here's a spreadsheet transcribing the info about sentinel primaries and secondaries at level 50:

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rCBSKg8oL260CUsH-uhbKnKll_DCAutMPmHKDEKW9eg/edit?usp=sharing

 

The following combos have never made it to 50:

 

Archery/Energy Aura

Archery/Ice Armor

Archery/Invulnerability

Assault Rifle/Ice Armor

Assault Rifle/Radiation Aura

Energy Blast/Ice Armor

Energy Blast/Ninjitsu

Water Blast/Energy Aura

 

And here's the matching info for masterminds (with the X and Y axes swapped for my viewing convenience):

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xiOSCAaI0jiEhqd4B_SIWPtCWkHvhYYZLQ_h4ILmjFk/edit?usp=sharing

 

The never-yet-to-50 combos for masterminds are:

 

Beast Mastery/Traps

Necromancy/Trick Arrow

Ninjas/Time Manipulation

Thugs/Cold Domination

 

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I, too, would like to know what people are NOT making. Because I would make some of them

 

Altitis prevents me from reaching 50, BTW. 🙂

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:40 AM, summers said:

The Not Stopping badge

This one is a category I'm reserving for the archetypes that have the highest percentage likelihood of going all the way to 50. In a very tight race, congratulations to Brute - Radiation Melee / Fiery Aura, where 48.4% of all characters created hit the magical 50!

 

A very close runner up was its fellow farming companion, Brute - Spines / Fiery Aura, where 48.0% of all characters created hit the 50! A good argument could be made that the total number of Spines/Fiery Aura characters means it should be #1.

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I go curious about this subsection, and the more I investigate, this list appears to be mostly Farming and PvP builds.  Which is interesting. 

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  On 9/3/2019 at 9:48 PM, tjknight said:

I go curious about this subsection, and the more I investigate, this list appears to be mostly Farming and PvP builds.  Which is interesting. 

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I find this really sad. Both those /fa brutes are farmers, and I'd say about 75%, at LEAST, made with that combo, are to build a farming toon.

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:40 AM, summers said:

Thanks for this great data! Here's some more analysis, and I hope it is correct as there are a number of small naming conventions that I've found which I am hoping I have resolved. Also, I apologise for the awful table, if a moderator knows how to stretch those columns out nicely please do so 🙂

 

The Wooden Spoon badge

I have some good news if you want to make a 50 that no-one else has - there's quite a few choices! Since not a single one of these combinations have made it to 50, they each have a 0% success rate. I give the wooden spoon badge to Beast Mastery/Traps MM, since it has had the most attempts to get it started and therefore failed the most number of times.

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I'm one of those. Got to low 30's and stopped. Just wasn't clicking.

 

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  On 9/8/2019 at 8:02 PM, 5099y_74c05 said:

@Cipher Besides the power pool breakdowns, is there a "drill down" into power distribution within the primary and secondary sets of the ATs?

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

 

This is a searchable, sortable table of all of the Primary & Secondary powers in the game along with the % of players that took that power relative to the number that took the power set.

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  On 9/2/2019 at 8:40 AM, summers said:

The Wooden Spoon badge

I have some good news if you want to make a 50 that no-one else has - there's quite a few choices! Since not a single one of these combinations have made it to 50, they each have a 0% success rate. I give the wooden spoon badge to Beast Mastery/Traps MM, since it has had the most attempts to get it started and therefore failed the most number of times
 

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The Stand Alone badge

This one I'm giving to the combination of powers that just a single person has hit 50 on, and it will be granted to the combination that has the most attempts to get there. Congratulations to Tanker: Bio Organic Armor / Broad Sword, who has a single level 50 out of 247 attempts!

 

Runners up were: Blaster - Psychic Blast / Darkness Manipulation and Scrapper - Broad Sword - Fiery Aura

 

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...  lvl 50 at least one of EVERYTHING

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edit:
... funny thing, I already had a few of those started ðŸ˜‰

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Has a toon of EVERY prim/sec combination(2062)

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