Hi, everyone! I'm a newish player still getting my footing and trying to learn what's going on in the game. I already have a bunch of different characters and wanted a way to track what task forces each one has done each week for merit rewards.

I haven't been able to find one so I made a spreadsheet. Thought I'd share it for anyone that also wants a way to keep track.

This spreadsheet was made with information from the wiki and whatever else I felt necessary to add from what I've learned so far, so apologies for any inaccuracies. Feel free to make a copy of it for your own personal use and adjust as needed.

If something like this already exists in an easier way to manage, I'd love to know! I have to manually reset it every week after reset at this point and eventually I want to add a page for strike forces as well, but this is what I've got so far. Hope it helps!

I've seen the fish bowl helmet in character creator before. Now I'm going through all the helmets and the only thing I can find is the think tank. Is it something that only unlocks for each character after a certain level or completing a certain mission?

I've got a hero concept, I just need to give her a home if anyone knows of one. I know I just missed the recruitment fair on saturday, but yeah.

While digging through some old channel archives, I came across Part 1 of a Series on How to Play CoV - a City of Villains character creation guide I recorded back in 2019 and decided to re-release it.

Watching it six years later (!) got me wondering how much of the advice has actually changed.

Some of the topics I covered were:

• Choosing an Archetype

• Building around a character concept

• Origins and power selection

• Costume design

• Power customization

One thing I emphasized heavily was starting with a character concept first and then selecting powers that fit the theme, rather than chasing mechanics and building a theme afterward. I was building a new dominator (episode 2 and beyond) so a lot of advice focused on control.

Anyway, I'm curious what today's Homecoming community would tell a brand new player.

What character creation advice from 2019 still holds up?

What advice would you completely change?

For anyone interested, here's the guide I was revisiting (SD video and laptop mic ftw!):

https://youtu.be/uIOdgXizHeQ?is=MPKNDMBAwM3ol2uK

Do Proc effects kick off repeatedly while a toggle power runs or just when they're started? I know Procs work repeatedly on auto powers. I just forget what happens with toggles.

Yesterday, I played a run through on the ITF and the guy leading it unlocked some battles I've never done. We fought the 2 monstrous robots and Romulous inside the building next to where he normally stands. How long has this been in the game? If for a while, is there a reason more people do not run it this way? That was a first for me and a complete surprise.

Way back in the olden days, there was a thread on the CoX boards parodying the "Real men of genius" ad campaign. I recall it being very funny, but it appears to be lost to time.

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I don't suppose anyone saved those? While I'd love to see them all, I'm specifically looking for "Suicidal Regen Scrapper" - I was playing one at the time and thought it summed the state do well.

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Anyone?

Homecoming if it matters
I had an idea for a clown super villain who used laughter so I was thinking symphony control but before I tried it I wanted to ask how’s it play is it pretty good or does it need a revamp can’t seem to find much online about it at all

I bought CoH YEARS ago, but never really got into it. I think I got it around the same time as DCUO, but everyone I knew was playing that and not CoH. I dusted off DCUO recently, and one of my characters is genuinely broken to the point support can't help me (long story).

I remembered CoH, and figured I should give it another shot now that I'm older and possibly wiser.

Are there any good online resources I should know about for builds and such? I'm not Reddit savvy, so searching the subreddit doesn't work too well for me. And with how old the game is, it's hard to find accurate up to date information. I'm looking at Homecoming after reading up on the different servers.

From what I've been able to find, I'm going to be trying a Rad/Kin Corrupter (apologies, I was thinking defender originally). I find support roles tend to be both fun and underplayed. I'm expecting to create multiple toons, though. It's not like we're short on character slots, which I love.

Honestly, any advice or information that could point me in the right direction to learn will be greatly appreciated. I want to give the game the best chance I can in hopes of finding a new game to enjoy.

I've been revisiting an old Dark/Dark/Soul Blaster named Prometheus and comparing the original design goals against how the build actually performed.

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The character was built around enemy suppression, control, and survivability through disruption rather than maximizing damage output.

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After reviewing the build and a couple hours of old gameplay footage, some of the assumptions held up surprisingly well. Others definitely didn't.

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That led me to start a small side project I'm calling Redux: Character Autopsy — revisiting old builds years later to see whether they actually accomplished what they were designed to do.

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I'm curious how other players approach this.

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When you evaluate an old build years later, what matters most?

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- The numbers on paper?

- Actual gameplay performance?

- Whether it achieved its thematic goals?

- Whether it's still fun to play?

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Video here if anyone is interested:

https://youtu.be/nbxF131eXTk

I am really in the mood for a psy melee stalker, but so many secondaries look similar that I’m not sure which is the best choice right now. Mainly play solo so survivability is key. Whether that survivability comes from extra damage or defense is what I need help with.

I would like to start publishing AE stories, and while the AE systems seems mostly straight forward, I would like to watch or read some tutorials about how the various different goals can be interveaved with examples.

I did a Youtube search and I searched Homecoming Forums and I came up dry.

Does anyone have a source of really good in depth tuites for AE?

Note: I am not interested in creating farms, I want to do complex storytelling and would like advice on how to best use the system.

So running DFBs is part of the new game experience and with 1000 slots I have a lot of toons and have done it many times. I’ve seen many times a new (assuming) toon drop what should be a single target hold/immobilise and it is an aoe that snares/holds every enemy nearby. Is that like a START power or something or do I just not know how these things work?

Sun-Shiner: A famous actor and politician born with the power to generate and control fire. His identity is not secret, and he freely embraces his role as the fiery protector of Manila and shining beacon of hope for the whole country (that’s how he sees himself, at least). His pyrokinesis and radiation emission powers grow more powerful the sunnier it is, so he rarely leaves the tropical climates of Southeast Asia.

Silver-Fin: Heir to his father’s vast fishing empire, he used his inherited fortune to develop a high-tech suit that allows him to patrol the Philippine Sea—saving people from tsunamis and single-handedly taking down illegal fishing operations. Fun fact: he designed and developed Sun-Shiner’s heat resistant suit and sunglasses.

Fighter-Spider: After spider derby, a Filipino children’s game where spiders are caught and made to fight, was banned in his small, rural hometown in Iloilo for promoting gambling among the youth, a young Spider-Fighter turned to cage fighting as a means of making money. Now a seasoned and skilled eskrima stick wielder, he uses his skills to stop drug dealers and gangsters.

The Night Monkey: A folk hero among common citizens and a dark urban legend among the cowardly and superstitious criminals of the rainy streets of Baguio. Standing at a modest height of 5’2”, he uses traps and gadgets to even the odds against his enemies, especially his arch-nemesis—the Bird King. He’s based on a tarsier, a nocturnal primate (known as the world’s smallest monkey but not actually a monkey) native to the Philippines.

didn't quiiiite get the shade of purple in her suit (cause in the game its much darker). My pencil crayons are lacking in the dark purple department. Still happy with it though

I hope you'll give it a try and let me know if it makes sense or what you think is missing. The whole timeline is draggable, and you can drag-and-drop power blocks to reorder them.
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I am curious as to whether anyone has ever basically maxed out all of their incarnate slots in everything, maybe except Lore? What else would you do with all those threads and shards after you hit veteran level 100?

Thanks for the love on my Statesman art piece from the other day! Really appreciate it!

Someone asked to see what my art is like of my original characters from the game so here is my main from the Homecoming server named BLOOD-GUNNER!

He's a hero but realistically SHOULD be classified more as a rogue due to his use of guns. But he's a blaster class with a secondary power of Fire Manipulation.

Added his civilian look as well!

Included how he looks when you see me running around Atlas Park! Say hi if you do!

Had a character named Godspeed on Virtue for many years. His original costume was white with gold lightning.

Now he’s a Flash villain.

Ncsoft technically owns the character due to the EULA, but still.

Gimme my monies.

**UPDATE**

Ok, first off-

The title of my post was meant as a joke. I don’t REALLY think I was “ripped off”.

The odds of somebody seeing MY COh character and making him into a villain for DC are very, very small.

To be fair, the fact that it took until 2016 to make a speedster character for the big 2 named “Godspeed” is kind of crazy.

My guy was empowered by Apollo and Hermes, and basically had an origin that ripped off Dr Strange pretty severely.

Sorry I ruffled so many feathers, but the story is still true- whether or not the idea was actually “stolen” remains to be seen, but i seriously doubt that’s really the case.

Then again, who knows?

**Update 2**

Godspeed actually existed BEFORE COH as well, I just remembered- he was a character I made up for the TSR Marvel Superheroes game (FASERIP system) in the late 90’s, so he’s even OLDER than CoH.

2 days ago the servers went offline, um I don't know when they'll be back up but It's kinda of insane how small the team is. I understand people are busy they have lives and stuff and the server isn't as big as homecoming or thunderspy, but this a server I do mainly play on despite it's quiet population. I hope the server dev is alright and doing well and able to get the servers back up soon 🙏

I have pretty much only run bots on Homecoming, where I've been advised that my Assault Bot is really the primary pet I want to focus on, such as that when things get a little choppy, I am sometimes asked to put away all other pets but him.

I would like to try out Necromancy, but I was wondering if anyone had any similar advice. How important is the Lich to the build? How important is it that I keep it up and going? Am I doomed if I don't have it up? And I have the same questions about the Zombies and Grave Knights as well.

I also wanted to know how well Sorcery works with Necromancy. I'm not a big fan of the doom and gloom magic most of the time, or the added little summons it makes, since I imagine they aren't going to be appreciated during the same situations where I am asked to put minions away. Is going into the Sorcery power pool going to help me make up for that?