GM Capocollo
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Homecoming isn't a fan convention, so the discussion's irrelevant to this thread.
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3 minutes ago, Trademarked Name said:
I just spent 8 mill influence to redress one of my toons and renamed 4 others to generic names. I'm reporting people that I just "FEEL" like are derivative of a character I've seen before. And I've collected Marvel comics for 24+ years...I will recite comic issue and page # when I report people.
First it was character creation and doing mishes, leveling up. Then it wsa BaseBuilding. Then Mission Architect. Just when I thought CoH was out of new things to play this comes along!
We CANNOT take a chance that DC or Marvel or Disney will shut this down! This is for the greater good people!
I figure this is closing the barn door after the horses have bolted, but your characters were fine as-is.
If this is just a protest against the policy, then godspeed, but you may have gone a little overboard in protecting yourself.
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8 hours ago, Haijinx said:
So your contention is that they will disallow Capt America, Iron Man, Hulk, etc. But allow someone actually named Thor, carrying a hammer as long as said Thor harkens back to the myth?
I guess we will see. I don't think they will.
It's a matter of a holistic interpretation. The overall impact of the character is what matters, rather than any particular single thing you can point at. Sometimes the name is such a fundamental part of the character that it's going to be weighted fairly heavily, but in many other cases it's not sufficient to cause any issues with us.
Taking this example, on its own, "Thor" and variations of it are fine. It's mythology in the public domain, the same way that Zeus or Samson or Izanagi-no-Mikoto or Rama or any other mythical figure is.
If your character is named some variation of "Thor" and he also has a little square hammer, long blond hair, a red cape, a sleeveless blue and silver breastplate and tight leather pants, then that's too close to the Marvel character "Thor". This particular depiction of Thor is the intellectual property that Marvel has control over.
Conversely, a character named "Captain America" will almost certainly be asked to be renamed. This name is already trademarked for use in video games; there's no wiggle room for that.
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Just now, Sylar said:
you speculated not me, i questioned the idea of this move, the "talks" have been going on alot longer than, well attemtps to up until the private servers came about, i have no hope in the talks since its taken what 7 years to get NCSofts attention?
There have been multiple attempts over the years, some which got further along than others before being abandoned, not one single group trying for seven years straight. The people involved in the negotiation on the HC Team side weren't part of the earlier parlays.
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On 9/11/2019 at 11:19 AM, GM Capocollo said:
(In short: it is fine now, but don't assume it will always be fine).
The policy has now changed. Please see the following announcement:
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The easiest way to use Mids on mac OS would be using an emulator like Parallels.
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If you're not planning to upgrade to Catalina, then you can keep using the 32-bit mode as normal. They're the same client built for different hardware.
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Or if you don't need to buy anything in particular, but you just want to strip all the valuables off a character or characters you no longer play and consolidate them on another one.
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Hero merits still exist, but the hero merit vendors don't, and no content rewards hero merits. Using the reward merit vendor, you can convert 50 reward merits into 1 hero merit and vice versa, which is useful for moving merits between characters quickly. Otherwise, they don't have any use.
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It's likely that the Windows 10 drivers for that chipset don't have the necessary OpenGL support to run City of Heroes. Unless you can figure out how to apply the necessary driver shim, you won't be able to play. We also don't officially support using the driver shim process.
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To answer your various questions:
First, try rebooting. If that doesn't work, open Tequila's options and add "-safemode" to the "Launch Parameters" as so:
The client files are frequently updated -- there are multiple versions of the client (live and beta, 32-bit and 32-bit safe mode and 64-bit). Patches occur frequently, and there are often minor fixes to the beta client that require changes to one or two of the beta client files.
Please don't run the game until updates have finished, no matter what version of the game you're running. This causes mismatches between the files the server is expecting you to have and the files you have, making incorrect models and FX load. The errors you've described are what typically happens when you try to run the client when it's only partially updated.
You can't set a default client version in Tequila.
The 64-bit client is fine to use if you've got a computer that supports it. It's functionally identical to the 32-bit client, just built to take advantage of the 64-bit computer architecture.
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10 minutes ago, ivanhedgehog said:
I agree, I hope there is more than just someone giving some one else some inf
There absolutely is.
Everyone on the Homecoming Team is a player themselves, too, and we understand how players play the game. Giving gifts to other players is perfectly normal, and definitely not the behavior that we're scrutinizing.
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13 hours ago, Ritikesh said:
Ok, I'm on board for stopping RWT, but the "no chance for appeal" raises SO MANY red flags. Sorry, but whatever system you have in place, you're still human, and humans make mistakes. Having a "no appeal" policy for RWT sellers means eventually you're gonna ban someone innocent, and that someone is going to permanently lose their account with no possible recourse, something I'm WHOLLY opposed to, and always will be.
The no-appeal bans that are being handed out aren't being handed out lightly. They are not applied automatically or based on mere suspicion.
To not make it easier for potential RWT/RMT accounts to disguise their activity, I don't want to go into the exact clues we're monitoring for, but we're confident in saying that it would be impossible for a typical player engaging in typical play to get near any of the thresholds for suspicious behavior, much less cross multiple ones and get banned for it.
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5 minutes ago, Trogan707 said:
I guess I just don;t understand the thought behind rolling up a tank and expecting to do damage...or not rolling a tank because it doesnt do enough damage..
Here's the problem as I see it: at the high end, a "tanker that can do it all" is just called a brute. It's possible for a brute to get up to tanker levels of resistance, defense and aggro generation with a proper set of enhancements, but a tanker doesn't have a path to get to brute levels of damage. Tanker has a strong "class fantasy" focused on a single domain, but it's mechanically getting edged out by an archetype that's been allowed to straddle multiple domains.
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20 minutes ago, Vayek said:
Definitive proof that Titan weapons is too strong for a melee powerset since melee sets must always be the weakest damage in the game! *he said with a deeply sarcastic and belittling voice*
https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/man-wins-yet-another-round-of-laser-tag-using-only-melee-attacks/
Please stop arguing against a point that nobody else in this thread is making.
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All PVP in this game is opt-in, so if you're in a PVP zone, you've implicitly declared that you want to participate in PVP. This is true even if you're only there for the purposes of, say, getting badges or sightseeing.
However, this only extends to the gameplay of PVP itself. For example, if you're in a PVP zone and another person in the zone is sending you harassing or abusive messages, then they are required to stop when you've made it clear that you don't want to receive them.
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If you look at the manifest XML file, each file has multiple sources.
When your antivirus software blocked one of the download URLs, Tequila saw that as a connection error and moved onto a different one in the list, so you still ended up getting the file.
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You can change a forum account's display name here: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/settings/username/
It would take an administrator to delete the account you've just made, but there's no harm in having an inactive one sitting around. Maybe you'll eventually want to use it for a second game account.
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It's a known issue with the current client build. We're currently working on a fix for the next update.
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If certain people in this thread don't want their homages and allusions criticized, I think it would also be best if they were also not simultaneously judging other players' preferences for original content.
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1 minute ago, drboston said:
Do we still have a commitment from Homecoming leadership that there is still absolutely zero chance that this will be for-profit?
I don't see why it would have changed since the last time it was affirmed.
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2 minutes ago, Ukase said:
Dooooooom!
Can't you just disable it in PvP zones? The problem is - now that we've tasted this treat, the "regular" base tp is awful. What's the point of that ridiculously long, interruptible animation in the "regular" base tp? And what's the point of the long recharge? It was annoying before - now it will be super annoying because we know it's possible for it to be practically instant.Additional quality-of-life changes will be accompanying the removal of the command.
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1 hour ago, Xeres said:
No, I don't want to hear "we'll know it when we see it". That doesn't work because this should be common knowledge for people to avoid (assuming they actually try and look this stuff up).
In common-law jurisdictions like the US and the UK, there is a two-pronged test for proving copyright infringement of visual works. Barring the simpler situation where the defendant has outright said "I plan to copy the plaintiff's work", the plaintiff must prove (1) that the defendant had access to the plaintiff's work, and (2) substantial or probative similarities between the two works. Unfortunately, the second prong is by definition subjective in a "we'll know it when we see it" way; there's no strict formula or rubric that you can use to show substantial similarity. The distinction between homage, unintentional similarity, transformative use and plagiarism can be very fuzzy.
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20 hours ago, Squid Vicious said:
Up next, the ‘enterbasefromcode’ ‘fix’ for example. You heard it here first!
This has already been acknowledged and announced. It's not a secret that we're planning on reverting this.
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Screen resolution ??
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