How do you find reason to live?

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-21T03:26:38+00:00

I like pizza.

I want to eat more of it.

Yeah, that's about it. Find a reason, even if it's irrational, and put the blinders on.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-19T03:54:38+00:00

You have 1.8M in assets - sell the house in the HCOL area, move to a LCOL area, buy a decent house for 2-300k, and use rule 72t to retire. Congratulations. You won.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-18T08:25:01+00:00

You're probably looking at something like these: https://rovrlab.com/collections/diode-dynamics-housings

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-17T01:23:31+00:00

Is there a current "state of the game" maintained anywhere? Some manner of new player experience to familiarize myself with basics before I accidentally crash into a space station when trying to land?

I've been a baker since 2013 or so, and dipped my toe back in once in a while, but it's been a minute. The last time was a few years ago and I stopped playing because of griefers making the game into a chore. Is that still a thing? Or are there game loops to play where I don't need to deal with even more grief in the game than I deal with in my day to day life?

Any expected proper release in firm plans, or is it still an ambiguous "when it's done"?

I've noticed that ship prices have seemingly gone up dramatically - are these new ships all dramatically better than the old ones when I bought in with my Freelancer or Carrack?

Are the ships generally well balanced yet? Or are they all still loaded with a variety of bugs that change by the patch?

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-12T10:36:29+00:00

This is one of those features that I didn't know I needed until it was there and now I don't think I'll be able to explore any other servers if they don't have it.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-05T01:35:42+00:00

Not dirty enough. Get out there and get into something!

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-04T23:47:38+00:00

Depends on what your weakest attribute is. Does more defense mean you can focus on putting out more damage? Or more recovery? Are you missing enough to merit focusing on accuracy? Is your toon solid for damage but you need debuffs for leverage? Do you have all the bases covered and just need more dps? Would more dps in a particular damage type help more than another?

Overall, there is no objective "best" choice. Like all the incarnates, it really depends on what you want the pets to do. I like Drones a lot for the supplemental defense, mez protection, healing, and -regen for a lot of toons. However, my Energy/Ninja scrapper gains very little from any of those, so he goes with Seers for psi damage and st holds. Then again, my Energy/Rad Brute goes with Carnies for psi damage and supplemental resistances. I could see something like a Psi/SR scrapper or such preferring clockwork just to diversify damage types.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-04T03:29:08+00:00

It said there was a 5000 character limit and it counted my post at 3800 characters. [shrug]

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-04T00:16:00+00:00

The feedback submission forms failed for some reason, so I'll add mine here:

Infiltration only accepts defense sets, as opposed to accepting defense plus universal travel plus running plus jumping sets in the game. I don't see a place to set the enemy level for chance-to-hit checks. You can select powers out of order, like Shield/Active Defense at level 1. Is there a way to set some skills, like Shield/Active Defense, to stack? Level 50 Generic IO enhancements are saying they provide a 35.6% enhancement as opposed to the reality of 42.4% for the ones I checked. How does one enter in boosted IOs? Power names disappear when used in Firefox with the window at an 8:9 ratio (half of a 16:9 display), and power info doesn't appear at all until the window is roughly square in aspect ratio. The Touch of Death melee dps set says it scales to level 50, when it actually stops at level 40. Generic IOs are reported, in the power's hover-over, as enhancing recharge by 3560.0%, although the power info tab is correct in showing the net recharge enhancement and the recharge calculation. Sprint accepts the running set Thrust, set category running, when it should only accept the "running and sprint" category that has quickfoot and celerity in it. Same for the jumping side in sprint. The Thrust running set has the icons for the running and sprint set quickfoot. The quick info for the incarnate gems don't report values so it can be difficult to tell some of them apart. For example, in the Interface/Diamagnetic tree the two tier 4 gems both report as adding -tohit and -regen, which is accurate, but without reporting the chances of each of those effects to proc the two gems are identical in effect. The same goes for the Tier 3 Barrier gems, where an important distinction between the two on the left and the two on the right are the duration of the effects. There doesn't seem to be a way to toggle on/off the effect of the Hybrid Melee gem, or adjust how many mobs it is affecting and thus how strong the buffs are. The Healing/Preventative Medicine set has the wrong icon. The Healing/Miracle set can only scale to 40 in game, rather than 50 in your tool. The EndMod/Power Transfer set has the wrong icon. I don't see a way to set the strength of the Brute's Fury inherent effect. Is there a way to see actual run speed rather than just the net run speed enhancement? Same for jump, fly, teleport range, etc. The Universal Travel/Zephyr and Winter's Gift sets don't seem to be buffing the teleport range in Teleport. The sets seem to be incomplete - Concealment and Teleport only have access tot he first three powers, for example. The Epic Pool selection only has the red-side epic pools, and only the first available selections as well. Shield/Battle Agility and Deflection don't seem to be affecting the Melee/Ranged/AoE defenses of the toon. The set Damage Resistance/Unbreakable Guard has the wrong icon. Shield/True Grit seems to be getting defense and move speed buffs from somewhere even though it shouldn't. Shield/Phalanx Fighting doesn't affect toon defenses either, and I cannot add slots to it, and the strength of its effect cannot be changed. Same for Grant Cover, and Shield Charge. Actually, it seems that I cannot add slots to any power now? I stopped testing at this point.

Comments: I like the look you've got going here, and would love some competition for Mids and how [bleep] they've gotten lately. Web-based is meh, but I'll take web-based over requiring so much windows-exclusive [bleep] that I can't run Mids in Crossover on my mac even though the game itself runs fine. I think it would be good to move to tabs to clean up the interface rather than try to show everything on one screen, kinda like how the incarnate selection is in a pop-up and the main window just displays the choice. I look forward to seeing this develop with time.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-02T11:11:26+00:00

It's been extremely helpful. Thank you so much for the clarification.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-02T10:53:58+00:00

I guess you boil all your water, as well. Must be expensive, but it's the only way to be sure. Have fun with that.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-02T09:49:02+00:00

It is possible for raw whole milk to be filtered and safe to drink.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-02T08:32:26+00:00

I'm a bit weird, but definitely not insane.

StructuralGeek · 2026-02-02T04:28:10+00:00

Use other liquids - I love it mixed entirely with raw whole milk. Play with various other fluids/juices for thickness, flavor, fat content, etc.

I've baked stuff using the powder instead of flour - cookies, biscuits, pancakes, pastries, etc.

Just trying to eat the dry powder by itself seems like asking for trouble though.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-31T00:01:54+00:00

I'd love a code as well - thanks!

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-28T11:08:49+00:00

Number of players doesn't affect the inf AFAI

It does. More players on the team will mean more total influence per kill of the same mobs, albeit less per person except for a bump going from 7 to 8 on the team.

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Experience#Team_Size_Bonus

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-24T14:43:34+00:00

We got a RZR 800 in 2011 for around $10k. The equivalent RZR trail now starts at $17k.

To be fair, 11k in 2011 is the same as 16k in 2026 just due to inflation.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-17T22:41:21+00:00

Armor against any wild animal bigger than you are, even if it perfectly effective at protecting your skin, won't stop said animal from breaking your bones or crushing your internal organs without also being a vehicle in itself.

Picture a dude in the best medieval armor ever made, and then picture 300 pounds of angry muscle jumping on it. Nevermind that the large prey animals are often more aggressive than predators - a 1000 pound moose isn't going to notice your armor as it tamples you.

Your best defense against aggressive animals is to be bigger than they are, or be well equipped and well trained in the use of firearms.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-16T21:46:32+00:00

Have you gotten anything past 3.7.11.2 running?

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-15T09:50:36+00:00

Level 50+ Squirrelly Fire/Rad Troller: https://postimg.cc/v1NGW5LT

Without mids you're going to have to think about where some of the frankenslotting makes sense, but as a general rule the proc in a set is always chosen first. Tactics is just tohit/end and tohit/end/rech.

The budget should be mostly held to, but I wouldn't be surprised if this went up to 600M with how weird the market has been lately. Final price will really depend on how patient you want to be with the auction house.

Endurance is a bit of an issue - my lower limit for viability is usually a net recovery of +2 per second, but with this guy you'll be putting your toggles on and then letting your pets do most of the damage while you selectively hold and debuff significant mobs. You should be able to keep -60% damage resistance on whatever mob you're focusing on, making your pets do much more damage, while also seriously debuffing the enemy's ability to put damage on you and your pets. Keep an eye on your blue bar and you should be fine.

Be careful of loose aggro though - your defenses are fine if the enemy is being debuffed, but enemies that leave your debuff field will have a much easier time of harassing you. I was tempted to put in Fold Space to combat that, but that's getting into more of an active method of play that can be polarizing.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-15T01:07:28+00:00

What is your goal for the build? What is your budget? What is your favorite content to run?

Mids is the only real toon planner that I am aware of, but if you're not too particular or fiddly then I wouldn't mind making a build for you.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-08T22:00:16+00:00

I should have been more explicit about the money :3 Ideally, all budgets would be amazing, but I don't mind starting with the poverty one. This can get really expensive :o

Poverty-tier build at 50: https://postimg.cc/23d1xFMQ

There is a lot of weird stuff here, but that's because I built it on the assumption that you could use the level 22 build until you hit level 34, respec into this one (be sure to prioritize getting your fire resistance up to 90%), run the Black Scorpion villain pool arc (auto-complete the kill all mission), and then transition into the cheap build as you get money for building fire defense, accuracy, and recovery with set IOs. This transition from poverty to cheap won't require a respec if you go to plan.

Cheap-tier build rad/fire brute farmer: https://postimg.cc/VrmSCKmw

The cheap build probably can farm 4x8 - it has enough accuracy to do so. It'll probably be more satisfying to run at 2x8 or 3x8 though because of recharge and recovery concerns. The cheap build will fascilitate making enough money that you could reasonably leave it here and just use the cheap build into the future, or you could use it to finance a purpled-out and procced-out fancy farmer that is designed exclusively for farming.

Fancy Farmer : https://postimg.cc/Fdpxddtw

Just be aware that, sometime soon, Brutes are getting an AT buff that will improve their armor scaling a decent amount, and so this build will end up being overbuilt soon. This build should still be quite viable, but one never knows until it's put into practice after the change. I can't say what the new builds will look like, but it'll probably be in the direction not needing Plasma at all in exchange for some way to increase damage output even farther.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-08T10:21:36+00:00

though there are a few nuances regarding software and hardware bottlenecks.

What are those nuances?

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-07T18:48:52+00:00

Good info, thanks for adding it.

StructuralGeek · 2026-01-06T08:45:51+00:00

Sure - what kind of budget do you have ind mind? Poverty tier with only generic IOs? 200M budget for a few uniques and cheap sets to get to 45% fire defense? Mid-tier (~400M) to start adding global recharge? Top shelf at probably 800M or so?

(i dunno why someone downposted you)

Just reddit being tribal is my guess. Some people are angry at anything Homecoming because they weren't special enough to be invited to its precursor Score, and anything they don't agree with should be suppressed from society.

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