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With changes to how AE works... any chance we'll be able to have an AE terminal in bases at some point?

As I rolled the wrong detective in KR, I just want this patch live 😄

You know, because of the great work the HC team has done running CoX like it never missed a beat, I sometimes forget that CoX isn't running on an old Unreal Engine like everything else is these days. (Now called "Unity" for your history lesson.) I swear I'm hoping that the HC team finds a way to get the IP from NCSoft and makes a "Universe of Supers" based on spiffy new unity. Imagine it... no war walls with load times, truly interactable cars, ability to shoot down the stupid blimp... ...and a codebase built after Ronald Reagan left office.

I never even connected the dots, but now I desperately want to play a whip/dark dom.

I step away from my desk for like 10 minutes and there is an amazing change. I love this game.

Those are work-arounds. With loading times. It just bugs me and I seem to be the only one.

I'm sure this has been suggested a million times... But we need a "whip" set, a fully fleshed out version of the demon MM whip powers.

This kind of thing is my "problem" with CoX that keeps it from being perfect. It was made in an era where "make the players run around so they stay online more" was considered good game design. I really wish contacts were all in good placement and storylines were all confined to the zone they start in. It makes me run newspaper/radio mishes more than content, which is sad, because the content storylines are SOOO good. But I don't want to run from Steel Canyon to Atlas Park and back every 6 minutes so I can read good content.

Please, for the love of everything holy, my 2 biggest desires for this game are: 1) Account-wide exploration badges, which code-wise isn't complicated (I think) and 2) Fixing every single contact storyline to stay in its own zone so you can level with the story and not want to punch babies. But this one is harder, so I'll settle for the exploration badges.

Reminder: Adding/Creating a 'data' folder in your City of Heroes directory is very likely to change the default configuration write/read directory from "piggs" to "data". This means if you use /bind_save_file or /bind_load_file, the directory has changed and the command/your macros may fail to load. TO FIX: You need to move your custom bindings and macros from "piggs" to "data".

Can either Freitag be made everyone's detective contact or can Becktrees go hang out on the sidewalk with him? I get jealous of the people who has quick and easy vs having to manuever around the stupid police station.

Obviously a Nemesis plot.

I've only managed to donate once. I wish there was a way to subscribe to an email announcement when the window opens so I'd know to hit the donation button fast enough.

So... there hasn't been any sort of update in a long, long time. What is the status of this project?

You know. I think if we were just able to customize the appearance of thugs/mercs/zombies (which would probably be a huge pain in the tail, because it would require costume customization for 3? toons per mastermind) I would die happy. Also... Female Huge. And fully-open costumes, so I can use the dresses and hairstyles on male and/or huge.

This, but more importantly to me would be to update the old zone content to be more in line with what "modern" MMOs have for zone content: In zone content and storylines should all REMAIN in one zone, not travel all over 10 different zones. Each archetype should have a "path" that leads through a set of zones (frequently that will be the same set of zones, but not always!) so that when leveling new toons and doing storyline content we have a reason to do the STORY content and not do radio mishes. I know the reason I mostly do radio is so I know I'm not bouncing all over 20 zones.

Technically speaking, the NFL is a non-profit...

After all, without the D Homecoming is sure to fail. ...I may or may not still be pondering /petitioning for my supergroup on Everlasting to be changed to "the unnegotiated D" or something.

Here I was hoping they could update the graphics engine to remove an antiquated relic while they were updating the rest. This is my sadface.

Except that there IS personally identifying information available. There is a delaware corporation formed. With someone who was as dogged as you are at NOT LETTING THIS GO, someone could look up who formed it and then internet stalk backwards. And then, if the HC team posted some basics like "Jimmy has worked with 4 corporate mergers before" you could cross-compare on LinkedIn and other social media platforms fairly easily and, within a matter of a day or two, the weaponized autism of the internet would know the names, home addresses, phone numbers, and credit scores of the entire HC team and likely blow the whole HC/NCSoft deal apart. So they are being VERY cagey for a reason. For example, I mentioned in this thread that I've been involved in sales, marketing, and politics for a long time. Someone on here could figure out my location from some of my comments (not hard, I think I list my location in my bio even), hunt me down on Facebook (I have a 2 public pages on there) and out me as a video gamer (which no one would be shocked by). I'm careful not to say anything outlandish in text that can be screenshotted for that reason, even if it's "hidden" behind "anonymous" forum logins, because I assume that SOMEONE will eventually link them to me.

Strange question, but since my daughter's laptops both use integrated intel graphics: Will this engine update eliminate the "OpenGL" requirement? I'd love for them to be able to play CoH with me.

Nice work team. This is an amazing patch. Upgrading the engine itself speaks to the long term viability of the team's plan instead of spending time tweaking game balance numbers. I'm excited.

It's probably been mentioned, but the "basic" office theme. I'd like to set up a generic corporate office.

And now I need a new vanity supergroup: Champions of Negotiated D. We'll be a vigilante group that kills everyone on sight and reminds them that even though YOU MIGHT THINK EVERYTHING IS AWESOME, D WAS NEGOTIATED AWAY. And when the deads' families come to ask us, "What was D?" we will stare deeply into their eyes and say, "It was everything. EVERYTHING."

This actualy did it. I have a very high def screen at home and use specific size windows so I can ultra-multitask, while at work I have a smaller monitor on an older PC so I'm used to not having all the windows showing at once. It literally never occurred to me to just make the window wider.