Anyone else still playing? I decided to play again and it's still incredibly fun. Went for a mastermind robotics pet summoner as a villain.

if you don't play on thunderspy you are a giant nigger.

thunderchads are the best players on the best server.

>>1602498
I've tried the server and I love the changes but it's dead. Every time I think about posting in the general thread to see if anyone would like to roll a character and play together I remember it's been dead.

>>1602832
there are ways to find groups on what you call a dead game. The Planetside 1 revival project has less numbers than Thunderspy, and they still find ways to play.

Server drama burned me out of playing for the most part, but I occasionally mess around on Homecoming.

Yeah nobody makes threads as it descends into server v server drama

I still play on occasion.
>>1602498
This is THE only good server however it has too many problems now.
>Brain was useless for years outside of server payments
>Devs came and went and the current devs go from a mixture of doing jackshit to doing amazing work and right now everything has been stalled for too long
>Balance changes paused because Meka is "burnt out" from everybody being tired of his attitude
>Devs take server from Brain because Brain was brainless
I've tried Rebirth but it's cool just not my thing and i even tried some of those "funserver" crazy options but they are too over the top. I'll never play homecoming they were involved with hiding the server for years and that's unforgivable plus i don't want to live inside of the AE just to get money for IOs.

>>1607441
Brain was really good at organizing things and getting the community together for hype like whenever he had voice call meetings with everyone. It's too bad he's a massive lolcow and lies about half the shit he says.

What it mostly comes down to is a lack of manpower and motivation on the team. If we had 1 person more in each department I think we could get a lot more done, but right now it's really just me and Senpai doing at least some work. Senpai is helping his wife through her cancer treatment though so it's going to slow down more before it picks back up, so I won't blame him for anything. If we had a lot more players than we do then I think we'd be more motivated to do things too, but as it stands we just can't get the player count we'd like to have. Even like, 100 concurrent players would make me happy.

City of Heroes in general just kind of sucks to make content for too. A lot of the methods we have to go through are archaic so it makes content testing a pain in the ass. I hope the team gets the spark back soon. It was a really fun time when we all talked about what we were working on and discussing future content. I miss those days.

Rebirth is pretty nice, I only wish that the updates were more frequent and that the devs weren’t faggots.

>>1602047 (OP)
Why did people like the PvP in this game? I was originally from Triumph, but a lot of people left for servers with bigger pops for PvP.

>>1607441
>plus i don't want to live inside of the AE just to get money for IOs.
I don't get this meme. Homecoming literally throws merits at you past 50. Doing any sort of +4 task force like ITF or even running papers nets you plenty of whatever you need. The preconceived notion that AE exists so you HAVE to engage with it is so fucking retarded, just stop typing and end your post a sentence early.

>>1609413
It's a mess and basically always has been even before and after the PVP change updates. I think PVP is fine as like a side piece of the game where you can mess around but outside of that it's really really bad.

>>1607441
>>1608243
As a Homecoomer you guys have my sympathies. Some of the stuff I’ve seen you guys get does look pretty awesome, mostly in costume parts and MM pet customizations, one of my great frustrations with my own server is just the seeming unwillingness to add costume parts and such with most of what we’ve gotten being tights patterns and Goldbricker asset ports. Like someone even actually shared a bunch of costumes parts they made and offered it to the HC team but they never seemed interested and it seemed to go up fine on other servers including TS and Rebirth.

>>1609806
I think that HC's monopoly on the playerbase is, ironically, a huge problem for them (or their playerbase at least), in that they seem to have just gotten complacent with no competition. At the beginning when each server had at least 500 concurrent players things were a lot more competitive, and that's when we saw the most effort being put out for content. But now that HC has a stranglehold on any new blood the other servers don't have much motivation to make content for the 10-20 or so people that play, and HC clearly doesn't need to try since they will always be in the spotlight. Which is worse for HC since the other servers have the lion's share of actual interesting changes, specifically Thunderspy. To this day no other server has even attempted invisible body parts which is crazy to me since not only does it open up a massive amount of character concepts you can make, but it's one of the easiest things to implement.

But you're right in that even the costume stuff they do make is pretty low bar anyway. I've even noticed that a lot seem suspiciously like my stuff, namely the 3D glasses and plague mask. Obviously I don't know for sure if they copied me directly or it was just happenstance. The rest are just like, ports from NPCs. With their player numbers you'd think they would be swimming in content donated from their fans, but it seems like they want to larp as a legitimate studio which means to ignore any help from the community.

>>1609818
I will say in their defense, it’s not that HC doesn’t get new stuff, the thing is they the lion’s share of development has been invested in endgame content stuff it seems. Labyrinth of Fog and the Hardmode Taskforces being standout examples.

>>1609721
I remember when the original devs made attacks do more damage based on the animation duration. Real interesting shit.

>>1602047 (OP)
Just downloaded again

>>1603728

I ain't looking to set up playdates with other 30+ year old retards.

Which server is the best for solo?

>>1627348
Pick one of the funservers like We Have Cake or Purrgatory where they have crazy changes. If those are too over the top for you then i'd say Thunderspy or learning to host your own server.

>>1625932
>he doesnt want to arrange daily grown ass man play dates
??????

Thunderspy was stolen from the original owner a couple years ago. The people in charge now wish to dissociate themselves from 4chan.

>>1636380
And that's a good thing!

Oh wow CoH/V is still around?
I was there for the endless Hami raids on Champion. So many Hammy Os I filled 3 toons. CoV was cool. I was killed by Positron during the end of Beta rape.

Maybe I'll sniff around and jump back in. Probably roll a rad/rad defender.

Why is this game so dead? It's a good MMO with complex character building and rich customization, and it's completely free.

>>1638088
City of Heroes is a great MMO with an unfinished endgame centered around korean style grinding and repeating the same content to get influence(currency) and incarnate powers. The entire game has loads of lore and tons of things to see but by the time you hit 50 all you see is the same stuff constantly. Blame NCSoft, Paragon Studios, Leandro Pardini, Homecoming, and Thunderspy for where the game is now.

>>1638088
The powersets aren't that deep. 10 people could pick the same sets for levelling and there is a good chance they would all pick the same powers every level because there's usually a blatantly obvious best pick. It's lake with the depth of a puddle.

Gets worse as you get to max level with haste because it lets you focus on even fewer abilities. My blaster only needs to press 4 buttons.

what are some good ideas for powers. i like wiping entire rooms in solo and i've never gotten past like level 20 in this game. hit me with some power combos.

>>1641104
Yeah, this. I made an absolute asston of alts in that game because it was fun and interesting to invent different superheroes, but the reality is that they just don't feel that different because the power sets only have minute differences and there's not that much opportunity for different builds within the same power sets. It just results in the game feeling very samey.

>>1636380
I've been away for a bit, did brain finally sperg so hard everyone had enough?
>The people in charge now wish to dissociate themselves from 4chan.
Should've done that from the start and we could've avoided most of the homecoming nonsense

>>1602498
thunderspy has some cool content but the game is always empty. I enjoy homecoming, the game is more fun with more population

>>1609413
people like pvp; and consider all the deathbattle style which hero would win arguements people have. I enjoyed the thematic zone pvp

>>1638088
Homecoming went through a number of playerbase purges. They got rid of everyone with copyrighted characters and got rid of everyone who ERP'd . This combined with content luls and the no streaming policy keeps the population down. Its also a difficult game to get into

>>1641741
this is kind of true, but I still enjoy the core combat of herding, aoeing people down, pulling as much as I can, jousting, queing up actions ( wish more MMOs did this) and especially hover blasting. I wish more powersets supported the hoverblasting playstyle and that flying melee was more of a thing in this game.

City of Heroes 2 needs to learn more from xenoverse than it does from other hero games.

>>1642558
if the 4chan server (thunderspy which used to be called coxg after the /vg/ thread names) dissociated with 4chan at the start they would have never gotten even the small amount of players they have now.

>>1642888
>I enjoyed the thematic zone pvp
Yeah Siren's Call was a blast. Except for Stalkers. What an annoying AT.

>>1642888
>This combined with content luls and the no streaming policy
Wait, they have a no streaming policy? Literally why?

>>1642973
They had a no media policy which banned every form of media that was made on their server. It really stunted any kind of explosive growth since that time was the peak amount of players for everyone. They even went out of their way to DMCA youtube videos and threaten streamers.

They did it because of "muh talks" with NCSoft and didn't want to have a bad first impressions or get NCSoft's attention? I guess? Even though they were apparently in talks with them from the very beginning? Getting their "license" didn't really do anything good for them though.

I'm a 40+ year old boomer who used to love the Hell out of this game a hundred years ago. How would I go about playing this again and do any of you fucks want to start playing with me?

>>1643023
What a bunch of retards.

Can I install New Dawn and Thunderspy at the same time?

>>1643347
Yes, using Sweet Tea or Sunrise or whatever.

Actually, Thunderspy had a bit of a population boom lately, it's been pretty nice.

>>1643809
There were like 10 people on last night at peak time.

>>1642933
>Stalkers
Not my fault you're too dumb to bring yellows into a PvP zone.

>>1643912
there's more than that on right now and it isn't even peak time

>>1637603
Yes and no. The live game is dead and has been for 12 years. Private servers are still up though.

My friend was telling me about it for awhile, and finally tried it with him. It was pretty fun, but being a support solo doesn't feel so great lol

>>1644215
Were you a controller? I feel they struggle the most solo because of a lack of offensive powers

>>1636380
Stolen? I had no idea anything like this happened to Brain. I played on launch day but what the fuck happened? I've been out of the loop for too damn long.

HC shill thread

>>1625932
you'll be older than 30 most of your life retard. I'm sure you feel more at home around 12 year olds at the playground faggot.

post backstories.

>>1645115

>>1645125
People still consider homocumming to be a good server?

>>1645132
you can check the archives and tell me

>>1645133
I'd rather play with 2 genuinely good people than 200 pedo-enablers.

>>1645080
Reminder that Thunderspy lives rent free in many members of the homecoming communities heads. keep it up

>>1645138
The only reason i play on HC is for the RP. but im staying away from the weirdos.

>>1645356
Get on Tspy and RP. We have regular IC teams going pretty much every day, including the legendary Sho Hero

>>1645369
Do you have walkup RP? id be down to make something if that was the case. i have done PVE but jts not the real reason i play

>>1645406
Yeah, we're just usually doing other things while RPing, be it RP in team chat while doing missions, or RP over global comms while doing separate things. Doing nothing in Pocket D for RP isn't really how the server usually rolls, but if you wanna do that I wouldn't be opposed. no erp though

>>1642888
>They got rid of everyone with copyrighted characters
For legal reasons or to promote more creativity?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoHHomecoming/comments/1iub1yc/heads_up_thunderspy_gms_are_using_the_main_coh/

More server console warring: Schizo edition

>>1645132
I literally only played on it because it was highly populated

>>1645406
In case this guy is still about, Thunderspy's organizing a friday night get-together in the tiki lounge.

>>1646168
Man what the hell is even going on here. The fact this is so recent just makes me sad, dawg. I guess it is what it is, I still shitpost about Homecoming for the lulz so I can't be surprised some people over there take this shit as seriously as they do. I see HC as having some really shady background history but I also think they were kind of unfairly turned into a scapegoat for a lot of issues Thunderspy and other servers were having way back when. My dad plays on there regularly and I don't give the guy crap for it.

I sort of just want this all to stay back in 2019 and 2020 where it belongs. There are reasons to criticize any server, but I think being able to pick the one you like and play on it and have fun is special.

>>1646616
>what the hell is going on here
the owner of the homecoming subreddit invoking a witch hunt against thunderspy, obviously.

Thunderspy dropped the drama years ago, but unfortunately homecoming doesn't touch enough grass to understand how stupid the whole server war is.

>>1644566
Nothing was stolen. Brain is a massive schitzo lolcow who never did anything and had a meltdown when he was asked to step down from his role because he was a liability in getting the server into trouble and unwanted attention from the worst people. He's still in the server but surprise, he hasn't said a word in over a year since his meltdown.

>>1646742
It was stolen. He posted a big thing about the current owner being a snake that locked him out of things.

>>1645406
Nah RP is nonexistant on thunderspy. Never saw it once.

>>1645349
>this level of projection
kek No one on homecoming ever mentions you guys. But you guys obsess about them and whine about HC 24/7.

Does HC still have dogfucking RP in Pocket D?
This is important.

>>1646925
>But you guys obsess about them and whine about HC 24/7.
I was scrolling their "drama" channel in discord before I got banned, it really looks like everything 6 years ago happened much more recently to them lol

>>1646168
>>1646697
>Saw who made the thread
>Lady Victory
Oh, makes sense

>>1645132
I don't even think the people who play homecoming consider it to be a good server they just feel they have to due to thats where their 50s and their friends are, and thats where the most people are and thats where the RP community is.

Its kind of like how users of X/Twitter still use it despite hating it and nobody made the jump to Mastodon or Threads because it'd be starting over and nobody else they knew was making the jump. Then people started making the jump to Bluesky once enough of their friends made the jump at the same time. There needs to be a Mass Exodus.

>>1646616
>>1646697
I'd take it all with a grain of salt. The person who made that thread is a pretty known lolcow for HC and has nothing to do with community leadership for HC at all, even though they made the HC subreddit. They have a tendancy to make their own things in order to bid for control, they made their own RP community discord even though there was one, another seperate RP discord and now this. But overall they're pretty much a pariah in HC. They probably just made that subreddit and made that thread because they got banned from the main CoH subreddit due to their usual over the top lolcow antics or something

>>1646923
There was literally an rp movie night last night.
There was some people engaging in walkup rp this morning before i went to bed.
It exists, but you don't see it because it doesn't fit your narrative.

>>1646965
>dogfucking
>banned from thunderspy

hi trl

>>1646921
He's a habitual liar and takes things wildly out of proportion to what actually happens. Nothing was stolen, he doesn't hadn't said a word in the discord for like 2 years until he was asked to step down, where of course he thought it was this massive coup that happening.

>>1648377
>asked to step down
Kek it was blatantly stolen in front of everyone. habitual liar is projection from the snake that stole the server.

>>1651134
Okay, and why should I trust someone who plays homecoming about what happened on thunderspy?

>>1646965
Speaking of habitual liars, this fucker here claims he got banned for scrolling. My guy, how would anyone even know to look for you in a discord that size, and want to ban you if you didn't post anything?
You're either lying about just scrolling, or lying about being banned.

>>1602047 (OP)
Running Robotics/Temporal MM at the minute. Great for solo. I'm a HC fag, but didn't even know about the other servers. Will probably try some of those out, too.

>>1651137
I'm a thunderspy player who left when the server was stolen. Why should people trust anything from the queers who stole the server? Everything good about thunderspy died when it changed hands to redditors.

>>1647068
To be fair it's the only server that has added actual content besides Rebirth (story arcs, task forces, etc). Cosmetic additions are cool but don't have the same level of appeal as entirely new content.

>>1646742
From what I read it sounded like they forced him to step down or whatever under some kind of threat; that was the impression I got at least. Seems like there are multiple interpretations of the story but I'm more prone to believing the more reasonable and humanizing sounding ones as I am with all internet bullshit like this. I wouldn't say he did nothing as he was still great moral support for the server back when, and he handled all of the finances and paid for the server fees and stuff; really cool dude from what I remember, but I've heard a lot of takes on the guy. I was on the server day 1 and playing on the Bree server and shit so it's really sudden to hear that stuff was off with the guy.

>>1651502
>>1651572
He literally attracted KF people to the server because he was an actual lolcow.

>>1651594
Really? Hot damn, I had no idea. I honestly feel kind of bad for the guy if that's the case, being treated like that by the internet can't be fun. Some people treat their lolcows pretty terribly.

leave stealing servers to me.

>>1651502
>>1651572
King Of Pol is not the most stable or rational or reasonable person in the world let's be clear

>>1652042
Leave being stable and rational to me.

>>1645115
R8.
They're also following the main sequence star chart when it comes to height so Photoneer is kind of a manlet compared to Asterlucia.

>>1652042
He was much more stable and rational than the guy who has a tranny name/avtar tranny and stole the server. That tranny socks fag wasn't even part of the server originally. He inserted himself and stole the work of others.

>>1652342
You're actually stupid, got it.

This is now a CHADren thread.

>>1651512
Too bad almost nobody plays on Rebirth. Although I still give my preference to a smaller, but nicer community, I imagine Rebirth wouldn't be as good if it was more popular.

>>1652572
at least it's not as dead as thunderspy.

>>1652596
are you sure about that?

>>1652630
There are 4 people online on thunderspy right now.

>>1652635
I see sixteen.

>>1652737
Cool. There were only 4 when I posted that. Now there's over 30 online on rebirth

Your favorite server is dead, lol. What now?

Good to see a CoH thread up. The one that lasted months last year was a godsend. Homecoming has went to shit over the past year and months and I am really goddamn mad about it. John Starkweather - an infamous player from back on Virtue on Live, made an alt account and a SG "Orbweaver Syndicate". Dude is a giga-fetishist who regularly does stuff like torture RP, rape RP and now he has people in Atlas Park and Marcy tossing cold invites to Orbweaver to anyone who seems new. Shit sucks.

New players are also getting given the worst fucking advice from LFG/Help/General chat too. "Just make a second account and a fire farmer, bro!" "Just skip all the story content and DFB until you can do Yin's and once you hit 35 just spam ITF to hit 50! The story is so boring!" "X is the best powerset and anything else is suboptimal!"

But it manages to get worse. Most SGs are just hunkering down in SG bases or private discord channels these days. Public RP in places like nightclubs and Pocket D are just wank monologues about how cool characters are, boring as hell small talk, people trying to IC and OOCly act like Rick and Morty writers and desperate people looking for ERP. When I first came to Homecoming, Everlasting felt like Live - more or less. People were actively telling stories, plots were being spun and playing out in real time. Now it is just sexpests, non-ironically mentally disabled players and people banned from other games who had to come here to get their rocks off.

Bros, I hate it. I love City of Heroes/Villains as a game. The canon story, the universe, the gameplay. Everything is great. But the playerbase has turned into the worst of the worst and it sucks.
>>1646965
Wren Summers was account banned but made a new account and is back to fucking dogs and anything with a dick and fur, sadly.
>>1651512
The "content" Homecoming has is shallow and offensive. Maybe one of the handful of new arcs added has value. The rest is just badly written tripe at best.

>>1646616
>>1646697
See >>1647291 Lady Victory is genuinely deranged. They run Crey Corp's The Watch, which is just a reskinned The Boys and have earned the enmity of most of Everlasting by constantly trying to act like the premiere and only SG on the server, while being an assortment of egotistical, ERP motivated roleplayers. They run ParaCon in Atlas Park, which is basically just them spamming in broadcast and acting like hot shit while people make fun of them.

Lady Victory kept abusing the main CoH RP discord to the point she was booted from it, causing her to go form the Everlasting Roleplaying discord. ERP, get it? She hosts the nude mod there as well, amusingly.

>>1643023
>They did it because of "muh talks" with NCSoft and didn't want to have a bad first impressions or get NCSoft's attention? I guess? Even though they were apparently in talks with them from the very beginning? Getting their "license" didn't really do anything good for them though.
There is zero proof of a license being had aside from the post on the HC forum. NCSoft never once has acknowledged it or put out a statement. People are beginning to wonder if HC is even actually licensed at this point.
>>1609818
HC Everlasting has been bleeding players since October/November 2023. The licensing announcement boosted numbers for a few months in '24, but these days most zones are dead and empty, channels like LFG go silent for up to an hour at a time. It is pretty bleak.

>>1653393
I see, if that's true, that's genuinely upsetting to hear. Homecoming, for all of the bullshit, was honestly a pretty alright place to hang back in the day. I guess I'd have to verify it myself but I don't really care to check in, too busy with Thunderspy. Speaking of which, I'm actually pretty happy with Thunderspy's community, as close-knit as it is.

>>1653399
Dear lord. I had no idea she had so much bullshit about her. That's actually pretty wild she's like in a weird unofficial official community leader position. I guess getting ownership of a popular subreddit will do that regardless.

>>1653415
>I see, if that's true, that's genuinely upsetting to hear. Homecoming, for all of the bullshit, was honestly a pretty alright place to hang back in the day. I guess I'd have to verify it myself but I don't really care to check in, too busy with Thunderspy. Speaking of which, I'm actually pretty happy with Thunderspy's community, as close-knit as it is.
Homecoming use to be great. The community use to be active and popping, use to have LFG firing off 24/7 and people doing pub RP teams and everything. Now it is mostly people begging for fire farms and trying to get laid in Pocket D. Sad state of affairs.

>Dear lord. I had no idea she had so much bullshit about her. That's actually pretty wild she's like in a weird unofficial official community leader position. I guess getting ownership of a popular subreddit will do that regardless.
Lady V is odd. She's very, very quick to bring up being trans and a lot of The Watch villains/events involve gender bending powers/stuff. That combined with former members talking about noncon ERP being forced on them and a lot of sex cult shit going down has painted a bad picture of them in the community.

>>1653424
lfg was never active on shartspy. this post looks like an anon responding to himself

>>1653427
I only tried TS once and my friends pointed me to HC. I am
>>1653393
>>1653399
>>1653403
>>1653424
Not trying to samefag either, just giving what contributions I can to the thread.

>>1653403
Anon there's like 100x more player on homecoming than any other server. If you think that's dead then you must not play anywhere

Dead game

>>1653556
There might be 100x more players, but the numbers are dropping with each day. Turns out you can not have a private server full of elitist and autistic players of a decades old MMORPG that actively tries to turn off new players, while also not putting out any new content of note to keep people playing and interested. I wish NCSoft would just relaunch the game officially and the private server clique bullshit would be destroyed.

>>1653973
>a private server full of elitist and autistic players of a decades old MMORPG that actively tries to turn off new players
But enough about Thunderspy

>>1651512
Personally I think cosmetic additions are high on a lot of people's list as a main attraction to the game is the character creator.

>>1651594
Thunderspy is pretty much a lolcow server so makes sense

>>1653415
Everyone in Everlasting has a shitty Lady Victory/The Watch story, just like how they have a shitty John Starkweather story.

>>1653403
>HC Everlasting has been bleeding players since October/November 2023. The licensing announcement boosted numbers for a few months in '24, but these days most zones are dead and empty

Its their fault too, they should have capitalized with new content, constant content pushes, and announcements for a few months, spread it out. Instead they concentrated more on that dumb "city council" idea and integrating all the other private servers into their own which everyone but Victory wholly rejected. Because HC GMs are giga autistic over being the only and official server.

Then they went back to their usual radio silent GMs with zero communication of openness.

>>1653424
Can't remember the last time I saw a costume contest they were in abundance.

>>1653415
>That's actually pretty wild she's like in a weird unofficial official community leader position. I guess getting ownership of a popular subreddit will do that regardless.
It's definitely not an unofficial official community leader position. Its more self proclaimed. As someone said earlier she's a pariah in the community. She does no community outreach things, MSRs, Costume contests, Roleplay events, mission teams, big events none of that. She just tries to amass power really, like making her own seperate RP community discord instead which again does nothing community wise.

I don't think anyone really considers her a community leader at all, they all have the general same opinion of annoyingly spams the chat and mass recruits for what is essentially a niche supergroup but they still invite your extremely golden age stereotypical superhero that doesn't fit to the group at all. Then they also think of her as the leader of a supergroup with an extremely high and concerning turnover rate in terms of new applicants and people leaving, and a group with too many controversies to name.

The only reason she leads the homecoming subreddit is nobody thought to make one and she got there first. She basically held onto it and made it left to rot until she got banned from the main CoH subreddit for schizo theories and being whiny, which she's transferred to the HC subreddit. Which will make the HC and Thunderspy rift worse as due to her acting like she's an official community leader and representative of HC it looks like HC shares those schizo thoughtsd.

>>1654320
All the private servers have some form of cancer killing them. I only play on HC because I've spent nearly two years on it and established all my characters, AE arcs and RP here. I have no love for the community, the "staff" or anything else aside from a few friends. Every player run private server will turn into a cliquey circlejerk sooner or later.
>>1654405
Lady V and Johnny Boy are two sides of the same coin. John just was "smart" enough to make alt accounts and mostly not advertise who he is. @cheerie is his current one for running Orbnweaver. Dumbass kept using his main discord handle and fessed up when asked.
>>1654413
HC barely does anything. What they do end up doing is usually half-assed or horribly broken. The test server is invite only and you have to be vetter by HC staff/community, so do not expect any constructive criticism to be had. The new story arcs read and play out like Rick and Morty episodes or worse. Everything from random Nicholas Cage Wicker Man references and stuff that does not make sense in canon, to "Zoombies" and shitting on a dead players avatar during a cutscene in another.

HC had a golden opportunity to get and keep players, but instead they went radio silent and let the community gatekeep newbies with bad advice, sexpests and predators. They are making a few grand for "Server expenses" a month. They do not need to keep making content because they know they have die hard people who will fight and die to play on "the official server" now.
>>1654441
I miss costume contests, even if most were rigged and pre-won by friends/SG members. The community has really sunk and dried out and it sucks.

>Its more self proclaimed.
Lady V is pushing to make herself important, yeah. She gets banned from servers/groups and makes her own servers/groups and cries about being mistreated and harassed and how hard her life is.

>>1654441
>I don't think anyone really considers her a community leader at all, they all have the general same opinion of annoyingly spams the chat and mass recruits for what is essentially a niche supergroup but they still invite your extremely golden age stereotypical superhero that doesn't fit to the group at all. Then they also think of her as the leader of a supergroup with an extremely high and concerning turnover rate in terms of new applicants and people leaving, and a group with too many controversies to name.
The Watch has stepped on so many toes and done so much shady stuff I am honestly surprised it still is around. The amount of people talking about IC/OOC sexual harassment in and out of game from being a member of it is staggering, even for Everlasting.

>>1654450
>All the private servers have some form of cancer killing them
The only decent one seems to be Rebirth and yet thats the most dead one.
>Every player run private server will turn into a cliquey circlejerk sooner or later.
True. This isn't a CoH problem its just how private servers are. Its just a power fantasy for whoever runs them and theres ALWAYS inter-server drama as people desperately try to get others to play theirs. Just look at the FFXI and Everquest and SWG threads here.

>>1654464
>The only decent one seems to be Rebirth and yet thats the most dead one.
I heard good things about Rebirth, but apparently Homecoming sent people in to get the "proper role players" from Rebirth to HC. They did it with TS as well and probably other servers.
>True. This isn't a CoH problem its just how private servers are. Its just a power fantasy for whoever runs them and theres ALWAYS inter-server drama as people desperately try to get others to play theirs. Just look at the FFXI and Everquest and SWG threads here.
Yeah. I was called a fool for saying I would rather have NCSoft running the show again, but I would rather have uninterested Korean businessmen running CoH and not people like Leo who are doing weird power fantasy trips and letting the GMs and mods read chat logs and e-mail addresses used for signup.

>>1654478
Im unhappy that homecomings the only place for RP. Especially with ""Lady"" victory and John Pedoweather. And thats not mentioning the other freaks who need to be brought to light.

>>1654528
Victory at least sticks to The Watch and discord. Starkweather is like a bad disease, grabbing everyone for whatever SG/VG he is running at the time, hustling them into discords and doing his weird Resident Evil ripoff RP/fetish ERP shit. The man has such a boner for torture/snuff RP to be done in vivid detail. https://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Arbiter_Death#List_of_tortured_individuals

>>1654399
Personally I think you're a fucking retard. Content is what attracts players. Cosmetics are cool but not a game changing feature.

Honestly the thread took a turn for the dramatic and I get it, shit can be frustrating and all, but like
what characters have you guys been playing lately?
Been on Tspy myself and I've been levelling a Grav/Fire Dominator and was just playing my old Arachnos Soldier that's very nearing 50. I made him like at least 5 years ago so it's exciting to finally be getting to that point. Will also be my first level 50 in CoH period.

>>1654779
been playing SS/invul and radiation melee/radiation armor.

>>1654779
Been wanting to play again but after reading this thread I'm not sure I want to go back to Everlasting. How's Thunderspy doing RP-wise, if you ever did that on it? Not really the theatre kids RP that most people seem to think RP is, more the kind where you're doing stuff ingame while being in character.

>>1654838
I roleplay as Jiren the entire time I play in game.

>>1654838
0 RP unless you count roleplaying as women(male).

Just gonna post this here since it would be deleted anywhere else. I was a player on thunderspy for 3 years. Spent tons of times helping the community grow and supporting things. But out of nowhere the owner decided to make false accusations against me and call me a pedo and ban me. All over a month old team chat message where I said "16 year olds are hot" with just my friends. He accused me of being a pedo and groomer publicly despite the chat being between grown men. He said he was sorry when I reached out to him but never made any attempt to publicly apologize or take back the things he did to me. Been sick at my stomach for like 2 months thinking about the betrayal from people that treated me like a friend.

They spend a bunch of time in their discord circle jerking about how evil leo was for doing this kind of shit and turn around and get a little power and act exactly like him. Now it's clear the reason they hate HC and SCoRE is jealousy. They wish they had that much power over people. But instead they are little queens in an empty kingdom.

Here's the "groomer" chat between grown men that was so ban worthy.

>>1655065
>>1655071
Crazy. I've never seen anyone on other servers get banned for thoughtcrime

>>1654779
>what characters have you guys been playing lately?
Plant/Thorns Dom, Dark/Dark Dom I am leveling up and doing some random stuff on my 50's when I can work up the energy to pub and there is a pub group advertising. Mostly I just want to get into some RP that is not an Avenger's quipfest but have had zero luck with that.

>>1655065
>>1655071
So you want to fuck 16-year-olds?

>>1655291
So you can't read?

>>1655071
He probably got triggered by the first line since the owner of Thunderspy is a known pedophile.

>>1655071
>boot up City of Heroes
>yep, time to talk about how much I want to fuck kids
You deserved it. Not for being a pedo, but for being an autist.

>>1655316
I didn't talk about wanting to fuck kids. That's the job of Programming Socks the Thunderspy admin and resident groomer.

>>1655071
she was 16 years old you sick fuck

>>1655320
>Talks about wanting to fuck kids
>Gets banned for wanting to fuck kids
>"Noooooo! The guy who banned me is the real pedo!"
Who are you trying to fool?

>>1655329
I'm sure you are here at the command of the pedo admin Progamming Socks. Any anon can read that and see I'm not talking about fucking kids so your bullshit doesn't work here.

>>1655329
The owner of Thunderspy has a history of being outed as a known groomer. He invites underage players to the hidden channel on the discord server

>>1655383
Makes sense. the name "programming socks" definitely sounds like a tranny groomer.

>>1654601
Proof enough that we need a nuclear war.

>>1655071
Hopefully they ban the entirety of Japan and every Japanese that ever joins the server for being pedo enablers

>>1655383

There isn't a hidden channel. Literally anyone with a modded Discord can see every channel.

Double-down harder after admitting you wanted to fuck teenagers, weirdo.

>>1655409
oddly defensive, innit

To be fair both the owners of Homecoming and Thunderspy have talked about underage kids. Leo defended fucking 15 and 16 year olds. Screencaps exist on his Kiwifarms thread. Predators enjoy running private servers for many reasons.

>>1655413

I mean, you're the one that posted you had "evidence."

Go ahead and post it, faggot.

>>1655409
Projection from the groomers who run Thunderspy. The reason they banned me was the line "real pedos virtue signal about barely underage to deflect". Thunderspy owner fucks little kids so that triggered him.

>>1655429
kek that's not me. Probably another anon who had a similar experience on the groomer server. I wouldn't be surprised if he invites every underage player to the secret channel where they swap pictures.

>>1655426
I don't think Leo owns HC so only Thunderspy is owned by a known pedo.

>>1655432

Post. The. Evidence.

Cause right now, it just looks like you admitted to wanting to fuck teens and posted the evidence against yourself.

>>1655440
You can keep saying it if you want but I've never said anything like I want to fuck teens unlike Programming Socks who seemed fixated on the topic.

faggot redditors come in here from the trannyspy groomer discord and obviously don't fit in. His accusation is an obvious projection. Only a pedophile could read what I said and interpret it as wanting to fuck teenagers.

>>1655465

>I've never said anything like I want to fuck teens
>Posted image saying how fuckable teens are

No one is falling for that, pedo.

>>1655472
>Say pedophiles deflect by doing X
>Admin immediately does X
kek projection isn't gonna work this time Progrooming Cocks

>>1655466
I played on that server about 5 years ago when I was 15 and the owner tried to send me dick pictures. It was pretty small so I guess that's why he goes after kids.

>>1655065
>Been sick at my stomach for like 2 months thinking about the betrayal from people that treated me like a friend.
You've been shitting yourself in a fit of rage for the past two months because you're an autistic faggot and a pedophile. Sucks to be you, dude.

>>1655492
>autistic faggot and a pedophile
Yes that's Progrooming Socks. He's been seething at us calling him a pedo for years.

Thankfully he doesn't know my real name so his false accusations can't have any real effect. But public figures like him need to be held accountable for hosting a space dedicated to grooming children.

>>1655490

>Fake story

At least post one about the owner that's currently here, not the guy that's been gone. Fucking retard.

>>1655500
That guy was around. He wasn't the owner yet but he definitely sent me dick pics and tried to groom me. Hopefully someone can find his real name and hold him accountable.

>>1655492
Typical psycho post from the psychotic clique that protects the pedohile progrmaming socks.

>>1655497

>claims to have evidence he's a pedo
>calls him one for years
>years

So you protected a pedophile for years, anon?

>>1655509
>I can't read
Geez anon you should have stayed in school. I spent years trying to warn everyone about him but he managed to groom his way up and take over the server.

>>1655510

>Still not posting evidence

If he's a pedophile, anon, stop protecting him. This is the most obvious seething "I was banned post" and you look like a faggot.

>>1654838
The roleplaying channel in-game is actually genuinely pretty active. I see a handful of guys using it every night. Not a roleplayer myself to any real degree so I can't vouch for the quality of it, but it could be worth giving a look.

>>1655512
The evidence is that he grooms children and bans people when they call out typical pedophile behavior. Pedophiles always virtue signal about 16-17 year olds to deflect from their evil.

what the FUCK happened to my COMFY CITY OF HEROES THREAD GOD DAMN IT

>>1655517
Thundershills always ruin them by sharing the threads in their groomer discord.

>>1655515

>Still saying the same shit with no evidence
>won't post evidence when asked
>constant samefagging on a slow board
>calls people redditors when he's acting like one

Seethe harder, you colossal faggot.

>>1655524
>If i green text people will not read his posts!!!
Retard. The evidence is right there in the screencap he banned me for. The owner is obviously a pedophile for getting triggered over insulting his fellow groomers.

>>1655523
THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF COMFYPOSTING ANON
POST YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS TO PLAY
I DON'T CARE WHAT SERVER YOU USE, THEY'RE ALL BASED

>>1655528

>more seethe

You either knew this guy was a pedo and protected him before now, or you're mad that you were banned.

Kill yourself.

>>1655533
I'll leave your thread alone anon I've said what I wanted. Definitely stay away from the Thunderspy server since the owner Programming Socks fucks little kids.

>>1655517
A mentally ill degenerate was banned from a server for obvious reasons and now it's everyones problem. Sorry it has to be this way.

>>1655535
you are projected what you're doing now. Protecting a pedophile. I'm sure you want people who know what you pedos are to kill themselves.

>>1655536
Well, thanks for leaving it all alone homie. I get you have strong feelings but if you have a message I don't think the full frontal assault method is gonna get people to respect it any more than just a simple post.

>>1655537
Fuck that pedo server. I never want to play there after finding out that the owner Socks/Senpai fucks little kids. Sorry it has to be that way.

>>1655537
I really dig your screenshot, Anon. What are his powers?

I like the adjustable difficulty in Thunderspy but it makes leveling feel so pointless when doing missions since enemies are always scale to you. Is there a way to level up all the way so I can get all the skills?

>>1655537

Every time someone is banned there, they tell on themselves and make it apparent they should've been banned sooner. Sad!

>>1655555

The same way you do it on any other server?

>>1655543
NTA but looks like Dual Blades for sure. Maybe Dual Blades and Dark Armor/Aura?

>>1655555 (checked)
Also aside from what the other Anon suggested about levelling all the way, you could kind of just play on the test server for the instant level command I suppose? Most servers have the notoriety thing, I think. To me, I see it more as a reward for making a strong character/team; if you're good, you get to crank the notoriety up and reap more rewards from more enemies. If your character isn't as good, you'll have to turn it down a bit. Guarantees you can always make your character feel a challenge no matter what, too, and that you can play some dumb easy missions to relax on the side as well.

Homecoming is funny

>>1660132
>discord
Killed multiplayer gaming. Truly a virus

>>1660384
Steam and Discord turned gaming into social media and tribalistic bullshit. Truly a loss for multiplayer gaming.

>>1660132
man I don't even fully understand what's going on here and I don't even really care
that "is that a joke" comment though reminds me of all of the elitist clique discord servers I've been in though; some places just keep everything you do under a magnifying glass and you no room to be distant and laid-back about their bullshit

Man bros I made an Energy Melee/Regen Brute on Tspy and I was having so much fucking fun with him. When I took this screenshot I just got done levelling him from like, level 1 to level 20 in one session. Really fun combo.

>>1663321
I just found it funny that they didn't know dwarfism was a real thing or a disability.

>>1663503
I like the ironman mode. Picking a random powerset I never used and trying to play it +1 or +2 as long as possible.

>>1663673
Oh man that sounds awesome. I'd need to get a lot better to do it myself. +1 already got fucking violent for me at times. How far do you usually get and what have your strategies been so far?

>>1663674
I usually last til about my 20's until I try to raise the difficulty again to +2 and die. I always make sure I have a break free and some heal inspirations just incase.

Crafting invention enhancements as early as possible really helps too, they start scaling and giving you the best % at around 22, when you can equip level 25 invention enhancements.

>>1663738
Oh really? I had no idea. How do you normally get IOs so early? Auction house for the needed salvage? I haven't bothered with them at all.

>>1664440
You can buy the bog-standard recipes from any workbench. Thunderspy added an extra step to dealing with salvage but it made it easier for a dead server with no AH. You convert the salvage into another piece of "universal" salvage at a workbench which you then use in place of the dozens of bits of salvage you'd normally have to scrape the AH for.


Thunderspy is a bit crazy with the enhancement drops at a low level. Just cross your fingers and hope you are lucky and get a lot of origin based enhancements you can sell for big money to afford your recipe addiction. It's really nice not having to worry about constantly switching out enhancements because you outlevel them, great quality of life increase from the early levels.

>>1665063
Oh wow huh, I had no idea. Workbenches are a supergroup/apartment thing, right? I've never even interacted with them before, wouldn't even know where to start kek

>>1666550
Universities/Abandoned Labs Blue and Redside as well. Should be some in the bank in Pocket D as well.

>>1666560
thats a HC thing

>>1666696
Yeah, you are right. Going off the old, Paragon Wiki:

"Heroes and villains use Invention Salvage and Recipes to create items at Invention Worktables that are located in the newly opened Universities. Supergroups may also install an Invention Worktable in their bases.

Heroes can find campuses in Steel Canyon, Croatoa, and Founders' Falls. Villains can find a campus in Cap au Diable. The Praetorian equivalent is the Cultural Direction and Education Center in Imperial City. All campuses have many Invention Worktables at which inventions may be created. "

Funny how putting crafting benches in Pocket D did not do all that much to keep people in the social instance. I blame removing all the prestige costs for SG bases, leading to people making and living in SG bases. HC are retards, no surprise.

>>1666707
Aww, making bases free like that sounds kinda lame. I liked working together to upgrade the base by playing. It was really rewarding.

>>1666799
Homecoming was retarded in removing everything you had to work toward, be it costume pieces or base building prestige. Sure, it is cool to just be able to take a level 1, make a SG solo and build a base but there is nothing keeping people playing. I feel slightly confused and concerned that I am saying that removing the grind/gameplay loop in a MMO was a bad idea. However for Homecoming it was, because there is only so much content from Live and barely anything new. There is zero reason to stick around once you have played long enough outside of SG/RP/PvEmaxxing. If they could stop being lazy fucks and actually put out content and costumes there is a sliver of hope, but looking at server numbers slowly dwindling month to month, year to year makes me think HC will be a ghost town - if it is still even alive, in a year or two. It will make Champions Online look alive. Hell, even modern DCUO has more active community from my own, personal experiences recently.

>>1666879
HC will never be a ghost town because of sunken cost fallacy, even if they hate continuing to be there. They will refuse to try anything else and discourage anyone from trying alternatives because they refuse to see any themselves.

>>1666885
It is a ghost town already though. It's mostly just a few hundred people daily on Everlasting and Excelsior daily, with maybe a hundred combined on the other shards. People play, but social stuff is a joke. I've seen one (1) costume contest posted all year in LFG/Global and as someone who uses /whoall in Pocket D whenever I pop in there is usually 20 or less people no matter the time of day. People playing are mostly in private groups, in SG bases. New players are far and few, arriving to see empty Atlas Park/Mercy Island/Nova Praetoria and being chased off by retarded cunts in Gen/Help/LFG who have played this game for decades.

>>1666896
I'm just happy I can get on and find a group with a few people at any level range at any time of day. That's all the social stuff I need in an MMO. Can't do that on any other server unfortunately.

>>1666896
this is exactly the type of person who will ensure it is never abandoned >>1666939

>>1667079
Pure cope, homecoming got all the players because it was first. Still coping about this all these years later. Leandro won, unfortunately. Time to get over it and stop pretending the four people you encounter in these threads will bring thundershart back to life even though we already play on it.

>>1667123
>we

>>1667123
>Leandro won
Getting doxed and having your life threatened until you give up the source code is winning? Defending child abuse on the HC forums is "winning"?

>>1667134
The dude pocketed like a million dollars and you are seething that he is getting prime pussy.

>>1667140
He lives in a third world favela. What good is money when anyone can casually find him?

>>1667134
Do you need someone to roleplay changing your diaper for you?

>>1667140
dangerously based

>>1667155
>What good is money when anyone can casually find him?
You roleplay too much. Take a step back down into reality. Maybe after you find some man pretending to be a woman to change your shit-filled diaper.

>>1667169
Friendly reminder: Two individuals took pictures of themselves armed outside of Leo's formerly hidden home. Dude is not some rich, untouchable dude. I'm personally not going to do anything nor would I legally condone it, but I'm sure his behavior will catch up with him.

You guys tried this new WEG yet?

Average Excelsior experience

>>1667172
>do absolutely nothing
>all the normies are on his side forever
you "owned" me. thanks for the friendly reminder that Leandro "Megamind" Pardini won.

>>1667197
Can you even make characters that look like kids? The faces make it hard.

>>1667197
At least it's not like thunderspy where the staff are trans/pedo/furry. I'm sure that guy was banned quickly by the responsive moderation.

>>1667321
Thunderspy made changes so you can make more childlike characters like lower breast slider minimums. I don't think you can make children on any other server.

Thunderspy sounds awesome, but the lower playerbase really is a deal breaker. How hard is it to find people to run shit with?

>>1667606
It's dead. Maybe it's my fault because I go Villain side for nostalgia reasons which don't hold up because the location changed, but I never see anyone once I leave Mercy. Only occasionally spotting a single player heading to a mission once in a while.

I usually search LFG and then stick my LFG tag on when I start playing if I see nobody. I will usually end my session with another person in level range who also put LFG on but never messaged to group up, lmao. This has happened so many times I just started making ironmen.

It's worth playing on for Mastermind changes.

>Thunderspy is just a Discord chat with a tranny at the helm and one guy making models they occasionally release for all the sexpests that will eventually get banned when they need a good PR statement
>Rebirth has a few more players, friendly mods that try to keep the peace between servers but also has a TF2 modeler on staff that obsesses over minstrel show caricature black women with long dicks
>Homecoming is densely populated, didn't break any powersets, doesn't have any notable lolcow staff members and doesn't ban and dox you for making off-colour jokes
gee whiz where do i play

>>1669094
>>Homecoming is densely populated, didn't break any powersets, doesn't have any notable lolcow staff members and doesn't ban and dox you for making off-colour jokes
Blasters are broken due to all having a sustain and overall major buffs. Mastermind pets have broken pathing most of the time as well. I can not say if the leadership of HC will dox you, but it is an open secret that they trade player chat/ERP logs and that a lot of players will dox you if you say/do "the wrong thing."

>>1669748
>Blasters are broken due to all having a sustain and overall major buffs
That was part of i24 beta at shutdown. Instant snipes, crashless nukes, and secondary sustain powers are common to all servers. There are no homecoming specific blaster buffs.

Why Thunderspy doesn't have no Sentinel?

>>1669825
Sentinel sucks. I want the AT from Rebirth.

>>1669825
>doesnt have no

>>1669094
My only issue with homocoming is that they deleted my Jewish Mastermind outfit
Telling mutts to go shoot things for Israel was fun...

>>1602047 (OP)
Hows the pvp on homecoming? Hows the pvp in this game in general? I made a poison/dark defender how fucked am I?

>>1671817
>Hows the pvp on homecoming?
Excel is apparently the PvP server. Everlasting has some PvP stuff but mostly just pick up stuff in Warzones and a fight club nightclub that is a bunch of meta chasing sorts that have elaborate cliques and a special discord you have to register on to fight.

>>1671817
>hows the pvp on [city of heroes]
awful just like it always was

>>1671843
Indom was the pvp server, but everyone moved over to excel because there's more players. They should honestly just merge indom and torchbearer into the other ones.

>>1671862
They will not merge servers because they would have to ask for a cut to their server donations if they did. Cheeky cunts are bleeding the playerbase with all the servers and less and less people playing. The amount of damage being done to the CoX community as a whole thanks to the private server wars drama and the inner-server drama probably has killed off the interest of all but the most addicted, zealous and those banned from DCUO and Champions Online as well as other MMORPGs.

Which is better for DPS Brute or Tanker?

>>1671884
Brute if I remember right. Certain Tanker combos can be great though.

>>1671884
Brute is always going to out dps with the rage mechanic.

>>1671870
It all boils down to Homecoming being first. The normies are not even aware of the drama. It was all decided in the first hours/days/weeks.

>>1673437
I really don't get the characterization of people playing a freeshard of a game that's over 20 years old in some obscure corner of the internet as "normies." You have got to be at least a little weird to be playing this shit

Is this just a case of weird nerd hierarchy?

>>1673443
Yes, but even if they knew it wouldn't matter. Just look at TurtleWoW. Everyone still plays on it and gives them money.

The reality is there is no alternative for the average normalfag. You either play singleplayer or go to homecoming. At least the other servers exist and do things truly interesting that homecoming never will.

>>1671870
>DCUO
Is it good? I haven't played that In years

>>1675500
I am closing on 70 hours as a f2p and still have barely hit 10% of the content. I am enjoying it, although I am playing it co-op with my GF and randos via On Duty so it is not just solo gaming. I am considering buying the ultimate bundle, which surprises me.

>>1675661
I heard the combat was repetitive

>>1675711
Aren't all MMORPGs?

How do you even follow the various story arcs in this game without getting cut off mid-questline because you're overleveled?
Shit feels just as confusing as trying to read actual superhero comics.

>>1676688
Once you start a mission arc you always can finish that specific arc from the mission granter provided you began the arc. Are you using 2XP bonus? That's an easy way to overlevel, especially Goldside.

What's a good place to use a 8x exp item for level 20?

>>1676688
maybe play on a server where you can't outlevel contacts? Hmmm?

>>1678219
Which one would that be?

>>1678235
I play on the noonya server.

>>1682442
It's high noon

you should play on thunderspy with the thunderchads like that one guy said earlier.

>>1683007
I highly recommend not playing there unless you want the losers that run it to spy on you. Much better experience on Homecoming.

>>1683614
>HC
>not spying on you
LoL
o
L

>>1683614
>>1683614
Well it's called thunderspy after all but seriously don't their server peak 20 players anyway why the fuck would they spy on you ? Kinda wanna try it to see AT changes there to be fair

>>1683958
Played there for 3 years and never had anyone spy on me. 2 1/2 years on thunderspy and had the admin creeping on my team chats like the loser he is

>>1684572
>Played there for 3 years and never had anyone spy on me
how the fuck would you know if someone's spying on you when you can't even tell one of your visible teammates took a screenshot of you lusting over children

>>1684930
The admin of the server direct messaged me about it. He used pedophile terms he knew like ephebophile unprompted and made it obvious he was a pedophile. They only got offended because they were spying and saw that I insulted pedophiles.

>>1684572
>Played there for 3 years and never had anyone spy on me.
>He does not know about the "secret" GM channel #Homecumming.

Poor bastard. You probably have been getting all the GMs off with your ERP logs and not even realizing it.

>>1685074
>knowing what words mean = pedophile
based retard

h

>>1687366
entai

>>1660384
If discord didn't exist it would just be on the websites forum
Which I prefer but it's not really any different
to be honest it's much easier to comb discords for chat logs and evidence over forums which generally have limitations on searches.

>>1669094
How would the other servers dox you with just your IP?
I'm genuinely curious cause it's frightening if they can possibly do that with just that information.

>>1687675
Easily. You record that a person with ____ IP uses this account with this password. That info alone is worth money.

>>1691263
I don't get it though how does that dox someone?
Ok so "X" IP uses "X" CoH private server account

how does that dox or get you money?

Or do you mean using passwords from CoH accounts to get into other accounts like social media? which at that point it's just user error you obviously have a junk email and completely separate password for dumbshit like private servers

>>1687675
I think your ISP can't do anything with an IP.

I can definitely feel the population decline. In 2019 I BLASTED a Solider up to 50 on HC and totally decked him out in sets really quickly because so many people were playing. There were constant hammy raids. Atlas park was packed.

Now? You maybe see a few farms here and there. Maybe 5 or 6 people idling in atlas. I’ve been very casually leveling a dark/dark tank and every time I log in (few times a month) it seems deader and deader. No clue about any drama. But nothing is being done to get new players into the game. I think in a few years it’ll just be a handful of weirdos ERPing with each other and not even doing missions.

>>1695677
>years
Hehe.

>>1695677
Zones are dead but I always see stuff in LFG chat, definitely less though.

>>1695677
>But nothing is being done to get new players into the game.
Rebirth hasn't recieved an update in 1,5 years.

>>1695677
The nostalgia period is over, people got their fix from replaying memories. For some due to how the communities are now, their nostalgia has even went as far as being spoiled, its not the game they remember. The superhero fad in general is over too. Then when it comes to HC there's next to no content that comes out, and when it does its pretty bad and lazy, and the GMs are too secretive. Lots of reasons.

>>1663673
I've been sporadically dicerolling a random NPC faction or asking randoms to name one, and rolling an Ironman as a grunt of that faction, and will 'promote' them with a costume/name upgrade if they reach certain levels.

>>1697002
Oh, that sounds fun actually. I wouldn't mind giving that a go myself, or just using some other kind of roller to create characters concepts to make.

>>1697002
I used to do that as a kid. I vividly remember logging one of those characters many years later and cringing at the writing. A rad corruptor that was Freakshow affiliated that still haunts me to this day.

>>1704535
How bad was it?

Paracon is tonight bros! We can finally get our chance to join the elite ranks of Crey Corps The Watch!

which one of you flatfoots broke the discord server

Need more backstories, love seeing people's passion for their characters

>>1714650
Why didn't you customize your pets anon?

>>1714661
Sadly Homecoming has no pet customization, which is a lil disappointing

>>1714664
There's a simple solution to that....

>>1714803
Playing alone on a dead server is not a solution for an MMO.

>Leveled up my Rad/Energy Melee Tanker to max
>Perfectly kitted out with IOs
>Have all the incarnates maxed that matter
What now...

are there 1000s of people playing this game

>>1717002
Two years ago there was close to that on Homecoming. Now you get maybe 1k on all the servers combined at peak hours throughout the day. Turns out splitting into multiple private servers with drama, cliques, "veterans" who chase off new players and sexpests who camp Mercy Island and Atlas Park to prey on new players causes issues with player retention. That is not to begin with things like the #HomeCumming channel made by the Homecoming staff on Staff discord, the various club SGs having tantrums and shadow wars and clique nonsense trying to wrangle a dying community from each other and a general lack of new, quality content to run.

From what I know Rebirth and Thunderspy are in the same boat. Shame that these faggots could not agree to work together to make a good, single server that had regular content updates and reasonably balanced gameplay similar to Live.

>>1652303
based af, the mask detail is great

>>1645115
i like it when its not overly complicated, many classic superheroes had simple backstories

>>1645452
>TOASTY! (mortal kombat voice)

>>1717073
what's "#homecumming"?

>>1717523
GM/Homecoming staff trading ERP logs on Discord .Logs obtained from players via spying on RPers.

>>1717543
damn wtf
how did you find out about it did someone leak it?

>>1717582
There are screengrabs from disgruntled GMs.

Just like the nefarious NEMESIS
We are BACK and shitposting

Testing.

Anyone hear about the dramatic bullshit with Lady Victory over in Homecoming, during the downing?

>>1723810
No, qrd?

>>1723821

>>1723854
Just put the IOs in the slots bro and shut up
Why out of all games does my favorite have to attract such autistic fuckers

Imagine playing on Homegrooming where they let pedophiles thrive but will be on your ass in a second if you dare create a copyrighted character, lmao. Couldn't be me! Rebirth and Thunderspy have vastly better custom content anyhow.

>>1724604
The joke is that Lady V is a well known sexpest who has done some truly disgusting and terrible things, but demands that the community bow down to her and her radical ideology and demands.
>>1724692
If I had not put 2k+ hours into Homecoming I would drop for Rebirth or TSpy in a heartbeat. Still might, honestly. The playerbase at HC is dwindling more and more with each day and the people left are a bunch of retards and sexual predators.

>>1723854
If you ERP past the age of sixteen you should be killed, preferrably by the hand of God himself.

>>1724692
Copywritten characters are boring, desu.

>>1724790
MMO/Forum RPers are social failures that try to replace their need for human contact with playing house in videogames. At least with TTRPGs if you get a smelly neet weirdo trying to magical realm into a game you can just not play with them, but in games those people can hide their pathologies way better.
>>1724986
see >>1645125

>>1724790
>If I had not put 2k+ hours into Homecoming I would drop for Rebirth or TSpy in a heartbeat. Still might, honestly.
You lose nothing by trying them out. All your shit in HC will still be there if you decide to go back.

>>1724986
>If you ERP past the age of sixteen you should be killed, preferably by the hand of God himself.
I use to ERP with my girlfriend for a mix of plot reasons and occasionally lewds, since our RP duo was a married couple. Sadly the Homecumming leaks showing the GMs of Homecoming hunting for a trading ERP logs made us quit that.
>>1725372
>MMO/Forum RPers are social failures that try to replace their need for human contact with playing house in videogames. At least with TTRPGs if you get a smelly neet weirdo trying to magical realm into a game you can just not play with them, but in games those people can hide their pathologies way better.
Well aware of that fact, in both the TTRPG and online forms. Joys of being a /tg/ native and seeing all the retards there and some stuff locally/IRL too. RP is great, but a lot of people are such deviants that they reject their real lives and live vicariously through the most degenerative RP possible.
>>1725379
>You lose nothing by trying them out. All your shit in HC will still be there if you decide to go back.
Provided the server is not shut down, you are entirely correct Anon. My problem is that after busting my ass to run and lead groups, make IC/OOC connections and generally trying to maintain a place for RPers and friends to have fun and a living story for people to optionally participate in, only to mostly get shit on by retarded community drama by grown adults who are trapped in the 2003-2012 City of Heroes past, I burned out badly. I love City of Heroes, it is easily one of my favorite games ever made between the game play, the various stories woven into plots across Blue/Red/Goldside, the customization and music and everything. But playing for the past two years and seeing the community slowly inbreed, degrade and just be a wretched mockery of what Live once was - full of people acting like high school bullies and doxing and trying to force others to kill themselves with shit, it just sucked the fun out of it.

Is this how the thread dies? With a pitiful, wet fart, just like the game itself?

How do I join the social cliques of Homecoming and eventually end up in a compromising ERP situation with a higher up so that I can exploit it?

>>1733240
step 1 apparently seems to be "be underage"
>>1732553
the game's 21 years old, and the only server that seems to have any drive or ability to make new content (thunderspy) is currently too busy rebuilding the entire game so that making new content is easier, so there's not much to really talk about, unless someone wanted to be a FUCKING HUGE GUY and release these aforementioned leaked chats where HC mods were swapping ERP logs.

>>1735771
>and the only server that seems to have any drive or ability to make new content (thunderspy)
It's been almost two full years since the release of the last content patch on Rebirth - 23.07.2023 and over a year since the next one was announced – 28.04.2024.

Lel Lady Victory did another public crash out but it got deleted so I missed it, just got the @ and thats it.

>>1695677
Can't remember the last time I saw a costume contest

>>1737980
In game?

>>1738027
They had an argument in LFG and then on a crashout on their discord where they @everyone'd like 400 people

>>1609849
>Labyrinth of Fog and the Hardmode Taskforces being standout examples.
Labyrinth of Fog is a non-entity and a bunch of recycled assets and half-assed "work". Hardmode TF/SFs are only slightly better. but appeal to a very autistic subgroup of the dwindling population that mostly sticks to their own, autistic and minmax builds. The average HC player can barely do a normal TF/SF with pubs. LFG these days in HC is just "Can someone farm me plz? Alguien farm?"

>>1738027

>>1739328

>>1739328
>>1739330
The eternal victim strikes again. I guess all the people who have come forward over the past years with horror stories about The Watch - my own personal experiences included, have all been lying gaslighters tied to CoRP.

>>1739328
>>1739330
Can you grab whatever comes between the end of the first message and the second one? The Rough Houser story just cuts off mid-text.

>>1736178
case in point

>>1739778
Can't. Message is deleted now.

>>1740068
Actually she nuked the whole discord server in a tantrum since she just got banned so all messages are gone RIP.

Potentially why Lady V nuked everything in the ERP discord and made her subreddit private. It is almost like the community has had evidence of her and her SGs wrongdoings for years now!

>>1724692
>Imagine playing on Homegrooming where they let pedophiles thrive
Everyone on the Internet just calls anybody a pedophile at this point. I find it very hard to believe at this point.

>>1746158
that's exactly wht a pedofile would say

I better learn how to run my own server man because this shit is about to die for real.
City of heroes turned into a single player game by autistic middle aged sex pests and trannies

Epic Archetype Unlocked: Faggot

>>1751884
The never-ever crowd will keep Homecoming alive for some time longer, although rough estimate is that the near future update with mass nerfing of favorite defensive sets and sweeping, overpowered and frankly unneeded changed to Controllers might very well be the killing blow for anyone who actually enjoys the actual game. Controllers will be Better Masterminds with insane crowd control and the base mechanics will be further altered to be nothing like how it was back on Live.

>>1740157

Where'd she get banned from? I just saw this thread, and honestly I love that everyone hates her now. Shes such a passive aggressive piece of shit human.

>oh hey cool a coh thread
>thread:
I wish I never spotted this thread.

>>1760277
Such is the state of modern City of, sadly

>>1760254
She got a three day ban for the antics that her SG were doing, the then got another three day ban for sperging out over the ban, which caused her to sperg out in her own discord, which caused people to fire back at her and finally call her out. Which caused her to nuke the discord and move to DCUO.

>>1760277
>>1765229
Every private server is like that in terms of console warring and gigautist communities too autistic to move on from their childhood memories, but CoH has it worse.

>>1768099
>Which caused her to nuke the discord and move to DCUO.
Still waiting for the DCUO global chats to get a whiff of her behavior and crucify her. The amount of people tossing out racial slurs and hilarious banter will give those dumb The Watch creepers whiplash and PTSD.

>>1760277
It seems like people grew bored of the game once their nostalgia trip was over. As for myself, I've never played the game while it was live and only tried it thanks to the private serves. I was enjoying it until I realized that although the game seemingly offers a large degree of creativity, regarding character building, it’s not as good as it seems, because archetypes need to be able to perform certain things to function properly and that power sets are largely imbalanced and not in a fun way. So a lot of the power combinations are either non-functional or are just pain in the ass to play, what’s worse even some of the good options don’t really come online until you either get to the cap or even gear yourself up with a lot of sets, and before that you’ll be constantly out of energy, or constantly missing, or won’t have enough survivability etc. And then the gameplay in groups is completely braindead due to how broken buff stacking is, effectively turning everyone into immortal gods, and the end game is just a typical MMO grind. So after I tried leveling, playing in groups, end game, making alts, AE and other things, I came to the conclusion that as a game itself it’s pretty lackluster, but it’s better if you take your time to interact with people and do various things together, still didn’t keep me playing. I was playing on Rebirth server.

>>1770763
I just like the storylines

>>1751963
Hey you were right

>>1751963
What the fuck how did you know

I don't like how changing toolbar keybinds on Thunderspy is not reflected on the toolbar. That's like the one thing Homecoming has going for it over Thunderspy besides a playerbase.

I play both in Homecoming and Thunderspy

>>1777130
I play Homecoming, Thunderspy and Rebirth. What are you all gonna do!?

https://massivelyop.com/2025/05/29/into-the-super-verse-what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-balancing-in-city-of-heroes-homecoming/

>>1778269
It's happening >>1751963

>>1778269
These comments
>Bree Royce
>1 day ago
>I made the mistake of peeking into the Discord too and ooof yeah, def a faction of toxic positivity people in there who basically have a “fuck you I got mine” attitude. As long as it suits their personal preference, they don’t care how poorly the meta is going – deleting all nuance from the discussion, pretending critical feedback is from Olds who hate change. Incredibly short-sighted and arrogant. Disappointing from that corner of the community on a community project.

>I did have a huge belly laugh at the one guy who said MOP is sour about SCORE and we’re just haters. Like, how do you mangle the history of Homecoming that badly in a desire to preserve the rusher meta? That’s surely why they named the dumb server after me. Just a CoH hater!

>Mostly I’m just sad to see what’s happening. All that cool content finally going in, and a lot of folks just won’t stick around to see it because the game balance and loudmouths are telling them don’t bother.

The new enemy group and the recycled and buffed groups are going to kill Homecoming. The Beta forum has people reporting 80-100% Defense and Regen debuffs with stacking terrorize from multiple units and a ton of toxic damage to boot. The only set with toxic defense coincidentally "overperforming" prior to launch of this new shit.

>>1778689
Its wild that HC is still the most popular server. Every play I know is disastisfied with it. Nobody likes playing there, even the GMs seem to hate it because the admins are secretive cliqueish wierdos still.

>>1778689
The new enemy group looks as terrible as their Warriors redesign too.

>>1778689
They also just made the group's models in the CC but then rereleased thos same slightly altered parts saying its "new costume parts"

>>1779116
Yep. 100% recycled slop, OC donut steel characters that are even less original when compared to a 00's Megaman sprite comic recolor OC.

>>1779121
The Warriors redesign was the worst because its not like their models were even bad.

>>1779405
It all is bad. Have you played any of the new arcs? Those retards in Homecoming can not write, script or do anything remotely professional . I would rather have AI slop fanfiction over the offensively bad stuff they have so proudly put out at a glacial pace.

>>1779622
I played the Aeon TF and that was a while ago and holy shit that took forever. It was like three stories in wrong. They could have made three stories with that gradually released over a year like a story arc. Instead they made one massive story in a TF and then had another year of no content. And I never did another Aeon TF again as it was just too long.

I've not played any other stories as they seem very magic focused which doesn't interest me. The thing with the HC "devs" is its very obvious what they like and what they're into. Lorewise it's Incarnates and magic, gameplay wise it's definitely blasters, and tanks to some extent. They dislike support. Hence the rework for Controllers into something else.

>>1779685
Also forgot to add that I feel both TS and Rebirth evenly distribute their updates much better with less bias. They make sure that everyone gets an equal amount of love. All the Archetypes, origins, those that are more gameplay focused, RP focused, costume focused etc. HC very much focus on what they like (Very gameplay and numbers heavy) and push out what they dislike (Farming)

>>1779685
Aeon TF is incredibly schizophrenic in story. The main story with the Goldbrickers is pure, unadulterated, rancid horseshit. But the portal stories when High Roller tosses you into the doomed dimensions are exceptional, especially if your team goes and does everything. The Portal Corp invasion with Vanguard genuinely feels like it was written by the Live writing team during the Going Rogue/Freedom days. Sadly you get thrown back to that OC donut steel self-insert Princess Zoe and her retarded dialog, the fact that all the Gold Brickers are slavish simps for her and generally destroying the mystique and cool faction that was blue collar/white collar thieves with a technological edge in a union,

I agree completely with your analysis as well. They're so biased towards Blasters and have managed to make Melee without IOs feel obsolete. Controllers are going to be absolutely butchered and it saddens me, because it will only further ruin the Cryptoc/Paragon dev teams focus on teamwork and ATs all having a specific role.

>>1779754
You see it in the powerset releases too, which are very blaster heavy. They're all pretty poor animation wise especially earth blast and marine affinity which looks so frankensteined and stitched together. The only one that looks decent and like it could have been on live was Symphony Control.

Also their choices for new sets are always weird. Nobody asked for a Storm blaster set, or Earth blast, and now Pyrotechnic Control. They especially didn't ask for Pyrotechnics to be a control set which isn't fitting.

The reactions are in to the MassivelyOP article and they're as you'd expect:
>https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/57503-review-of-i28-p2-on-massively/
>https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/1kyhyeq/what_the_heck_is_going_on_with_balancing_in_city/

>>1609413
My favorite part of the PvP was back in teh day when players complained about masterminds the response was 'bring more heroes'

>>1637603
private servers. I ran my own for a while just for some friends since hte server code was leaked, it was fun.

>>1643267
Pick a private server and join. Otherwise run your own server. It runs really well on a home server if you have <20 people

>>1780178
Gadzooks seems like a genuine loser with a chip on his shoulder.

>>1780522
A lot of people still playing CoH on Homecoming fit that criteria. People have this weird, tribalistic obsession to protecting the game and the "devs". Their lives are so devoid of anything else that they live and die for a dead, niche superhero MMORPG.

>>1780842
Hence why when the game closed rather than move on they went to a super secret underground server

Are you gonna give it a chance? It's coming out late this year.

>>1780999
No, stylistically it looks like dog shit.

Why does this place never talk about Rebirth?

>>1781931
Cause nobody plays it, also doesnt have that much controversies

>>1780842
>>1780918
add to all of the above that
1) these people all had to be part of the same weird cliquey in-group to be able to get into said secret server in the first place since it was invite-only, and
2) said secret server was up running for just a few months shorter than the game did on live, so they had six and a half years to lose interest and fuck off, distilling that group even further to the most autistically fixated losers
and I wouldnt be surprised if most of the current population that made/makes up SCORE are actually, legitimately pathologically mentally ill. you cant do THIS kind of bullshit for THIS long about something THIS insignificant without having like "final fantasy house" levels of brain problems.

>>1784414
I mean like, this is just fucking egregious.

>>1784414
>>1784437
Horrifying, cult-like mentality.

>>1779622
>Those retards in Homecoming can not write, script or do anything remotely professional
Today I will remind them

>>1784459
What is that?

>>1784471
an arachnos helicarrier they added as a setpiece for a story arc.

this game has never been and never will be fun to play. it doesn't even have the luxury of being fun to optimize grind in like pretty much any other mmo. no number of repeat thunderspy/homecoming shill threads will ever change this fact. fuck off.

>>1784474
Is that from Homecoming? What a joke.

>>1784476
man if you dont think making your OC donut steel and smashing the fuck out of dudes sending them flying into a ragdoll tableau literally smashed into the geometry is fun, I dont know what to tell you.

>>1784481
thankfully i know precisely what to tell you. i had a wide variety of dress up role play simulators available even then, let alone now. i'll choose any of the myriad of them that are actually fun games instead of this steaming pile any day of any year. you just like it because you have a bias involving fetishization/idolization of comic book super heroes and also very low standards for your fingerstick activities.

>>1784478
Yeah, it's HC. Even completely discounting the fact that there's literally zero reason for arachnos to have a helicarrier, there's just so much fucking WRONG with the thing that it's hard to accurately articulate how shit it is. It's like something a child would make with lego, but even then a child would make something cooler. it's like someone wanted to make a battleship but didn't look at any references and just did it from memory, then stuck OCTOGONAL CYLINDERS AND ROCKETS on it because they changed their mind 80% of the way through and now it needs to fly.
WHY IS THERE SHIPPING CONTAINERS ON A CARRIER
WHY CARRIER NOT CARRY ANYTHING
WHY IS THERE
A FUCKING
GARAGE
DOOR

>>1784484
>deliberately entered a thread of things i do not like, etc

>>1784488
>deliberately shit up /vm/ with another regular advertising post about gay pservs for a crap game
>be confused when someone opens up an extra tab and shitposts it
>get angry and try to demean this person as a form of getting them back
shiggy

>>1784490

>>1784414
They always talk about how CoH was the "BEST COMMUNITY EVERRR" and all that shit especially on live, not realizing that people didn't mean them. They meant the autistic boomers who are now retired or dead. Just the mentally ill millennials remain. Also I feel like nobody talks about how CoH was the best community ever anymore, remember in the 2010s when everyone used to say that when nostalgia talking about CoH? Now that its back, it's shown how ugly the community is, or became, or whatever.

Is CoH worth playing if i don't know jack about shit about how character building works and i have a very specific character I'd want to make? It sounds like it punishes respeccing which is an ass backwards thing in a game with such a diverse choice system like this.

>>1785011
Cant speak for homecoming since given the above they apparently fucked the living shit out of the game balance, but for pretty much everywhere else, everything is viable. You would have to deliberately set out to make a gimped character in order to do so. There are SUBOPTIMAL builds, sure, but even those are still viable.
With regards to respecs, theyre more tedious than punishing since you have to go through each power/slot choice for each level, but its actually dirt simple to respec, theyre pretty cheap, and you get a number of them for free.

>>1737980
>>1739328
>>1739330
>>1739397
>>1739778
>>1740349
>>1760254
>>1768099
>>1769007
Late to the party but I have some screenshots of Watch antics on discord where they discuss their RP because I was in their discord for a minute. I can't be bothered to upload them all. But they did stuff like forced tranny RP including legit genital mutilation.

>>1786313
Also A LOT of incest/psuedo incest

>>1786313
>>1786314

>>1786314
>>1786315
All I can be bothered to upload

>>1786316
actually have some necro as well.
HC's roleplaying scene everyone.

I haven't played since a few months after the initial private server debacle, how bad is the balance of archetypes on the servers now?

>>1786356
Read up and you'll see. Its a hot topic right now. https://massivelyop.com/2025/05/29/into-the-super-verse-what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-balancing-in-city-of-heroes-homecoming/

>>1786313
>>1786314
>>1786315
>>1786316
>>1786318
Absolutely incredible Anon, thanks for taking the bullet to collect damning evidence like that. You are a true hero!

>>1787011
Oh yeah I got a whole bunch, I just don't wanna shit up the thread and derail it cause I got a lot and I'm very late to the whole Watch drama party, they're gone now anyways so its a bit pointless. It's just your usual Everlasting degeneracy.

>>1787673
Those degenerates are still lurking and potentially coming back to HC or another private server. They claimed they were going to DCUO, but eyes in DCUO have not seen sight of them, thankfully. Feel free to post anything else you have. Posts like those are a public service to keep them from ruining shit with their bad RP and parasitic attempts to take over established communities. Also, the fact that Lady Vic is accused of sending nudes to an underage player (15 years old) on Homecoming and was caught by the teens Mom who was a Live player.

imagine being this big of an ERP degenerate while simultaneously being so unoriginal your OC is literally just "homelander but girl"

>>1788414
"Homelander but girl, fighting a remarkable amount of enemies who have the power to genderbend/gender swap you are your team." What a sad state of affairs for the RP community.

Just started this, I made a gravity/psionic dominator?

What powers are good? Or did I pick a bad combo and softlock myself?

>>1799831
Dominator is a damage-dealing archetype and their CC is the only defense they have. Dominator wants to spend as little time as possible using CC and focus on dealing damage. Gravity is a very poor choice for dominator, because it’s abilities synergize poorly with dominator’s “control and pummel” type of playstyle, some of it’s abilities deal damage, which your secondary power set already gives you enough of, some displace enemies or phase them out, but very few allow you just lock enemies in place and prevent them from attacking you. Moreover, psionic assault deals lower damage in exchange for sustain (drain psyche), which will further elevate your struggle to deal with enemies with the very limited amount of CC that gravity control provides. So yes, your choice of power sets is, frankly, terrible. Unless are really invested in the specific vision of a character and not bothered by him being quite weak I recommend restarting.

>>1800366
OK, rolling a new hero

Thanks for the input

I know Rebirth is supposed to be the "middle" server in terms of population but even on the weekend I saw nobody on and the only group running was restricted to 27+ so I couldn't join.
Homecoming is crashing and burning, Thunderspy just has no sense of community beyond a barely active Discord chat, where do I even go?

>>1810099
I'd say Rebirth is the bottom and Thunderspy is middle population, number 3 out of the top 3 servers (aka the only servers with players)

Each server has its own significant drawback, there's no one big go-to server that is the most recommended. If you're a newbie and wanna try out the game and ask for a server you get three different responses. That's different to other games private servers where there's usually one most recommended.

>Homecoming is the most populated and the one where you're guaranteed to find full party groups to do content with
>However the GMs are and secretive and cliqueish and unapproachable and each update which appears at a snail's pace they do which is to their personal liking just kills the game even more
>Thunderspy has a lot more custom content and new additions which are really cool that prove HC wrong when they say its "impossible to add that". Constant updates too.
>The community has a lot of 4channers (positive in terms of you'll fit in)
>However there's like 10 people playing these days as most got driven off by interserver drama shit
>The community has a lot of 4channers (negative in terms of giga autist spergs)
>Rebirth has really nice GMs who constantly add a lot of CC content especially and communicate with the community and do lots of community things and events
>The server feels the most like traditional CoH on shutdown
>However the community is also like 10 people
>They kept all the grindy aspects of the live game, so you gotta collect prestige to even think about building a base and nobody really has time to invest that much in an MMO these days hence why modern MMOs don't use those grindy tactics anymore.

>>1810099
I'd say Rebirth is the bottom and Thunderspy is middle population, number 3 out of the top 3 servers (aka the only servers with players)

Each server has its own significant drawback, there's no one big go-to server that is the most recommended. If you're a newbie and wanna try out the game and ask for a server you get three different responses. That's different to other games private servers where there's usually one most recommended.

>Homecoming is the most populated and the one where you're guaranteed to find full party groups to do content with
>However the GMs are and secretive and cliqueish and unapproachable and each update that they do (which is at a snails pace btw) is always to their own personal liking and ruins the game even more.
>Thunderspy has a lot more custom content and new additions which are really cool that prove HC wrong when they say its "impossible to add that". Constant updates too.
>The community has a lot of 4channers (positive in terms of you'll fit in)
>However there's like 10 people playing these days as most got driven off by interserver drama shit
>The community has a lot of 4channers (negative in terms of giga autist spergs)
>Rebirth has really nice GMs who constantly add a lot of CC content especially and communicate with the community and do lots of community things and events
>The server feels the most like traditional CoH on shutdown
>However the community is also like 10 people
>They kept all the grindy aspects of the live game, so you gotta collect prestige to even think about building a base and nobody really has time to invest that much in an MMO these days hence why modern MMOs don't use those grindy tactics anymore.

>>1810270
I guess you can say that CoH has died again.

>>1810324
CoH is dead and the players killed it


again

>>1810355
I can't think of a single multiplayer game that isn't a shitshow these days. I guess you only have singleplayer to fall back on if you are still interested in video games.

>>1810270
>>However there's like 10 people playing these days as most got driven off by interserver drama shit
The GMs don't organize anything and instead cause problems on their own, the discord jannies sling impotent warnings when shit gets stirred up and Senpai/OBH are so cagey they're seeing Homecoming in their soup.
Who could have seen that coming?

>>1810324
>>1810355
>>1810366
I blame the attention span of gamers now, even the older folks who grew up on it. So many new games come out and we wanna try finna somethin new,

>>1810792
The last time I was interested in a new game was in 2021, when Nioh 2 was ported on PC. But I quickly grew disappointed in it due to how it handled the gear. Now I only try out various old games that I haven’t played yet, because I don’t expect to have any fun with the new releases, I play Red Alert 2 now. I’m only 27 and I thought that such a mentality would be even more pronounced for older people.

>Release your new page on the beta for "feedback"
>Nobody likes the changes
>Ignore the feedback and release it on the main server anyways.
Classic HC. Every patch so far has been this.

>>1812417
The players seem pretty happy with it, I'm not sure where you're looking.

Library of Leo and Slegman's Palace were both deleted. It is a bad time to be a Homecoming player.

>>1815444
Lmao. Look at the Homecoming forum with people in beta test complaining about how broken the new OC donut steel baddies are. Look at how they fucked over defensive sets so the new enemies can spam their toxic and cold damage attacks and deal massive damage. Homecoming are a bunch of retards who make Deviantart-tier "original" content while breaking the balance of City of Heroes, spy on their playerbase and abuse the authority of dev team/GMs and generally are a bunch of leaking assholes. Same assholes say they need around $3k a month for "server fees" but refuse to be transparent with how much they spend on the server. Meanwhile Thunderspy and Rebirth have both said that it comes under $200 to run a private server.

>>1815697
>Library of Leo and Slegman's Palace were both deleted. It is a bad time to be a Homecoming player.
Sleg was compromised. One of the newest people invited snitched to Homecoming. Game accounts were banned and the library and discord were DMCA struck.

>>1815697
>Meanwhile Thunderspy
You say lots of things because you're bitter. You had your chance at the top and when you screwed up the better team won. Now you have what? Two developers? More staff members than players, including one whom tried to bribe Homecoming streamers and Redditors with free level boosts?
Congratulations and enjoy your participation award.

>>1817163
At least Thunderspy and Rebirth are not using the server to traffic child sexual pornographic material. Fucking A, all I want is for NCsoft to take over and have official servers again. None of this retarded private server bullshit with a bunch of autists who get a drop of power and turn into retarded dictators.

>>1787011
everyone celebrating "lady" victories booting was great. Shame its june and they turn it into City of Homos.

>>1817618
Who is trafficking CP?

>>1817983
Leo and his inner circle. Additionally the CP trading might involve SCORE as a whole. There was a GM civil war in 2023 over newer GMs not wanting to be part of the problem after it was leaked on the Homecoming private discord.

>>1815697
Reminder: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/11g0gzw/comment/jk0k9sv/

>>1817618
>None of this retarded private server bullshit with a bunch of autists who get a drop of power and turn into retarded dictators.
Sadly that's every MMO private server not just CoH

>>1818557
>two years ago
Wow! How relevant!

>>1818604
sybau

Used to love playing this back in the day with my warshade but seeing as it's dead now, how solo friendly is it?

That feel when city of heroes is dead due to pserver drama

>>1817163
The thunderspy developers have more talent than the entirety of the homecoming team. Homecoming's development is as deep as a puddle. The new mobs are black coloured reskins, boring reskins is all they add. I've seen more effort out of half life mods Even with the knowledge of how to add 3d models being public, they still struggle. All that money and they don't bother commissioning artists. Even reusing assets they haven't added anything worthwhile. The floating inner tube emote is their best contribution to the game. The interview with the original devs and the direction they wanted to take the game in hilariously lined up with the shit Thunderspy has done. The revival of this game became a wet fart because of homecoming's controlling faggotry and money grubbing, Splitting and scaring off any talent just to a throne of dirt. They could easily crowd source the the base making community to use the dev map editor, to make more content but they won't because they just want to harvest paypigs and sycophants.

>>1834968
@grok is this true?

Homecoming is talking about using kernel level DRM/Anti-cheat for the private server.

Does HC still have that one guy who just sits around Atlas Park all day doing nothing but recruiting for his RP guild? That annoyed me so much getting DM'd by him every time I made a new alt.

>>1839671
Source? I still hang around there because of some friends but that's a good way to make me drop the server entirely if true.

>>1834968
>The thunderspy developers have more talent
Last I heard they've still just got two total, who are too busy to do anything, and don't want more because everyone else is a Homecoming plant trying to steal their stuff.

>>1834968
Thunderspy
>Janky mastermind costume changing mechanic
>control changes not reflected on the UI
>costume pieces bugged to shit during costume creation
>AE disabled because someone doesn't like it
>dead, never teamed with anyone despite playing on it for close to 60 hours.
Thunderspy sounds awesome!

>>1839708
I assume on Everlasting? If you're talking about John Starkweather no, he's gone back into hiding after SG drama but I'm sure he'll rear his ugly head once more.

If you're talking about Lady Victory and the Watch then no, they got driven out finally and moved to DCUO where gasp shock and horror, they still face the exact same problems there. Almost like the game wasn't the problem and it was them.

>>1833324
it's okay, the pserver drama is dead, thunderspy's discord is gone so they cant do gayops anymore

i thought 4chan was full of coomers and gooners.

why does this thread in particular seem so anti erp?

>>1841586
>right click pet and give it a name
>right click pet and hit "edit"
>give it a costume using the full costume window
How would you like it implemented? Even the original devs in that QA admitted they were going to do the janky method thunderspy first used before it was revamped into a context menu.

>>1842958
That's just /vg/

>>1842076
>Only server left is full of reddit AE Fire farmers and silent shuffling retards
Rather be on the dead server at that point

>>1844649
Barely any farmers left, now it is just horny ERPers and the terminally addicted, cult-like sycophants left at Homecoming.
>>1841666
Lady Victory claimed to be moving to DCUO but as a regular DCUO player, I have not seen any sign of them or their rebranded The Watch - I believe the name they were going with was LexStar? Even if by some unholy curse they did move to DCUO, the native community would tear them a new asshole and flame them mercilessly.

>>1844649
>silent shuffling retards
are they any different than thunderspy players who didn't play the game but just sat around talking?
the ones who don't actually like coh but wanted to be popular in a dead server

>>1845644
thunderspy players are just eternally bitter that they get none of the tiny trickle of incoming players.

>>1845644
>retard is whining about people socializing in a mmorpg
holy moly little lad you're retarded

>>1839609
lol

Sad how the game and general has fallen so low.

>>1736178
>>1860398
On 23.07.2025 it will be two full years since Rebirth received it's last update and it will be one year and two months since they announced the next update with only some customization options to show for it.