[Installing the new Homecoming Launcher on a Mac (LaunchCat)]

17 hours ago, Ouroborean said:

F-secure finds this. Is it false positive?

 

Considering who got this running (and signed), then I'd say yea, it's a false positive. What company runs that AV anyway?!?

[Old Characters]

I don't 'think' I'd kept the actual files from back then, but I 'did' keep the various screenshots and files I had created to help store my Bios and such, so it was pretty painless to rebuild my old characters from that.

[Using Starlink Problem Creating An Account?]

12 hours ago, mechahamham said:

As a VPN user, my suggestion is to use public internet of some kind of some kind, like a fast food or coffee shop, to create the account.

 

That sounds like a bit of a security risk TBH

[cannot install launcher]

99% of the time it's an overeager AV. Try whitelisting the file before you do the installation as the second it wants to go online (to get the files), then many of these AVs will want to protect by blocking the event. You could even try moving it to the destination folder first (since That folder is definitely going to be something to whitelist) and see if it cooperates better. As always, see if my links help.

[How You Can Help Homecoming]

Eh, I go by DBaD 😉

[Wikipedia and City of Heroes (not the Homecoming Wiki)]

It'd be almost a guarantee that if HC made such a claim falsely that NC would likely have at that time brought the banhammer with a tie and receipts. Especially after having hit all the major news outlets.

[Moving Vanguard characters to Homecoming?]

3 minutes ago, GM Tock said:

Quoting to reaffirm: For the live service, everyone starts again at Level 1.  No Beta shard characters will ever be playable on Live shards.

 

I imagine that part of the logic is that they may contain aspects of the beta In them that the live server does not and may cause unresolvable code differences.

[why cannot people use words right? Remote bomb... remote?]

"why cannot people use words right? Remote bomb... remote?"

 

• Why can't people use words right?
• Why can't people use words correctly?
• Why don't people use words correctly?

/em bored

[Page 7 Keybind System Changes — Technical Discussion]

On 3/21/2024 at 11:06 AM, Number Six said:

Don't know about sharing them ingame, would be tricky since they're purely clientside. That's something that with a little bit of code support could be done with client mods though.

 

I don't see this working as it would be Real easy to mess up a bind via the chat function as I could see it mistranslating it TBH. It all comes down to the reserved characters vs characters that are usable in keybinds in my mind.

[old COH move into homecoming ?]

Check my links for a range of stuff from installation (sans Manga's new method) to file handling.

[Rooster Teeth closing down]

I knew them mostly for the RvB stuff as well. For that alone, I kinda wish that MSFT would just buy them up or at least host the content. I still need to buy the DVD set.

[Old Binds]

5 hours ago, Number Six said:

And fwiw I 100% agree that anyone doing any kind of non-trivial key binding should be using /bindsavefile very intentionally.

 

But that's always been the case, because /bindsave has always blindly overwritten a single file and destroyed anything you have set there in favor of the currently logged on character.

 

I think this was originally done with the idea that the average player would have a common set of binds, but most of us (way back then) learned to do things like create folders for characters / ATs / etc so that when you inadvertently reversed the process (guilty) you didn't lose all that work. Same for the UI files (custom arrangement / colors).

[CoH for Mac M2]

18 hours ago, uninventive said:

 

Rosetta 2 handles this for free.  Parallels sub not required.

 

To install it via Terminal (or find out if it is already installed):

 

/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

 

 

Heh, that's on the Top of my old M-series installation guide, but I think your coding may bypass the need to click prompts.

[Global account bank]

I can't give a link off-hand for previous threads (there are many I'm sure), but even on live I believe this was some sort of database issue that prevented it. There are most definitely discussions both distant and not so distant past covering this that would have some of the reasoning why. Not having 'behind the scenes' info, IDK what steps it would take and if the HC devs could do it without a rewrite of base code.

[Two-Factor Authentication]

3 hours ago, Marine X said:

Considering some of the other COH servers have Instant 50s and Free Influence by a slash command, it would be pretty hard to sell people anything there.

On HC I have seen a few ads for services in chat but don't really believe too many people are going to pay for things which are pretty easy to get to begin with.

Power Leveling is available at almost any AE at any time, can't really think of anything that's worth paying someone for.

 

Yeah, a "gold farming" service on a Free platform would be kinda pointless.

[Instead of "You cannot enter" let doors open upon random missions from Architect]

1 hour ago, lemming said:

On the original post, hilarious, but no.   If you were on a team and one of your teammates opened a door, getting suddenly dropped to level 1 from one of those AE farm missions would be very bad.

 

This would be a good reason to restrict it to solo play. Put a warning popup (if you're already on a team) explaining that if you want to proceed, then you'll drop from the team. Make it something you Have to click, but only when teaming.

[Instead of "You cannot enter" let doors open upon random missions from Architect]

6 hours ago, Saiyajinzoningen said:

the devils in the details.

This in of itself isn't a bad idea, 

random quests for random doors

 

the problem is both AE and Oro lock chars into Task force mode

all players have to be in the same zone

new players cannot be added after the quest has begun

some vendors are unavailable

no other quests can be done at the same time. (unlike your other arcs which can be run concurrently)

 

tbh if these issues can be fixed I'd much rather have them applied to ouroboros

before implementing open world inverse trick or treat AE arcs

 

I figured the OP was referring more towards Solo players anyway, so it would be a cool idea for those players for sure.

[PSA: WARNING, DO NOT SAVE KEYBINDS. EVER.]

Sounds like it from what I'm reading. I didn't see the update (elsewhere) until after posting initially.

[PSA: WARNING, DO NOT SAVE KEYBINDS. EVER.]

This is why many save their binds either to specific names or even archive them into other places just in case something bad happens.

[My screen is completely black, but is being projected onto my chat window]

That's not being projected onto your chat window, it's being scaled down to that part of the screen. That's probably either a graphics driver issue or simply the game's visual settings gone awry, hence why the above suggestion would work.

[Non-Game content eating up memory]

1 hour ago, Shenanigunner said:

 

True, but it's not a simple gauge. The primary engine etc. might need only those specs or a little more to chug along, but there definitely seem to be weak areas that do not process heavy graphic demands well, even on vastly more powerful cards. Look at FSAA — on many modern games, I can ratchet that up to 16 with only modest framerate hits. Go past 4 on CoX and it's intolerable.

 

That is, some aspects are full power on older systems and fine on modern ones, but some old code and such still chokes things if pushed too hard, with high settings or a mothership raid or 64 newbies demonstrating how many particle effects they can show Ms. Liberty at once. 🙂

 

That and the game has evolved over time. IDK where those specs came from (original or updated), but I'm sure the min specs had some vertical creep by the time we got to sunset.

[So many old 50s….]

10 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

Welcome to the over 50s club where crotchety old gamers go to fade away.

 

 

 

 

[Non-Game content eating up memory]

I vaguely remember Playing CoX on 32bit laptops originally (Win XP?) and dealing with the fact that it Would crash if the game tried to use more than say 1.5 ~ 1.75 Gb of my 4 Gb of RAM. As for "old computers", I'm STILL using the PC I built ~2010 for CoX, but it's 64bit, so I won't run into the same restrictions at this point. Hell, I can run Win11 on this thing. 😛 I know that not everyone (Read: "Me Too" for quite a while) has the budget for a new system, but you could quite easily pick up a used computer (Old W@H business desktops are good) that has at least the core hardware that's a marginal step up for not too much. Maybe check with a local repair shop to see if they have anything they could coble together from spare parts.

[Black screen & sound can hear but not see the game]

16 hours ago, GM Tock said:

 

The last bit of advice I'll offer up: don't risk losing a job over this game.  It'll still be here if you need to find another computer to play on.

 

Yeah, it's never advised to mix work and play as your IT could quite easily have access to things you don't want from the game (credentials, what you type, etc).

[So many old 50s….]

So this isn't a commentary about us GenX players. Got it!