Mathew322

Updated chart, started adding orange borders to the Flashback available story arcs and a hexagon shaped box to the missions with badges associated with them.

One of the first things I need to know is if anyone knows what the current contact chain for Shadowstar is, the wiki still says she directs you to Kip Cantorum but he's not a contact anymore and I don't think her page has really been updated since she was moved from Galaxy City. At the moment I just linked her up with Sunstorm's contact chain which has a chance of being wrong.

I'm making a flowchart for the game because there are a ton of contacts and story arcs in City of Heroes, City of Villains, and Praetoria and it can get pretty confusing for new and old players alike on what's available and how to get there. The Homecoming wiki is obviously a massive resource for helping but there are also a ton of outdated pages with old information back from when the game was Live so I figured opening the project to community input would go a long way of circling back to the wiki and updating any old information. While I would love to open the project to direct input, I really can't figure out how to do that, but in the meantime I'd appreciate anyone who wants to help with suggestions or sees inaccurate information and knows what the fix is. Full resolution link here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6oep6atp01qs1suu35l0b/City-of-Heroes.drawio.png?rlkey=adt9v2at2ruq413ylzs9l4l0l&dl=0

As someone who primarily switches between Vigilante and Rogue to maximize the amount of content available to me- -it is vital that I clarify that no badges aimed at Heroes or Villains should require participation in changing your alignment. There can be contacts and missions and badges and other things that you need to be Vigilante or Rogue to participate in, but the in-between alignments should remain entirely optional and shouldn't bleed into the Hero and Villain Accolade Badges/Powers. Now if you wanna make some Vigilante and Rogue Accolade Badges/Powers then that's a different story! 😉

Alright so I just finished all the Flashback missions and as a Primal Earth character, you can add the following Praetorian Contacts to your Inactive list and fill them out once you start Flashback Missions, Dr. Hetzfeld is the only one who's bugged in this way. Nova Praetoria: Praetor White Chief Interrogator Washington Deputy Assistant of Information - (Must add after doing his missions and before leaving his office) Robert Flores Underground Nova Praetoria: Ricochet - (Must add after doing her missions and before leaving the resistance base) Imperial City: Jessica Flores Relations Expert Verna Arcola- (Can be added, Primal Characters can not do the Praetorian Invention tutorial) Bobcat Mr. G Underground Imperial City: Hatchet - (Must add after doing his missions and before leaving the resistance base) Neutropolis: Aaron Walker Dr. Hetzfeld - (Flashback mission progress does not change out-of-flashback progress) IVy Underground Neutropolis: Crow - (Must add after doing his missions and before leaving the resistance base) Noble Savage - (Can be added in the resistance base, unsure of later First Ward interactions.)

As far as I'm aware, a handful of Praetorian contacts can be added to a Primal character's contact list, though they will not react to you if you talk to them normally, I believe it's only the contacts that start the major story arcs but I am not 100 percent sure. If you use the Flashback system to do their missions, that will actually fill the relationship bar for those contacts even though you can't under normal circumstances, it will fill the relationship bar during the Flashback mission's active period and when the mission is finished, it will leave the filled bar on the contact in your Inactive list. For some reason, even though Dr. Hetzfeld's relationship bar fills up during the active period of the Flashback mission, once it ends, his relationship bar in the Inactive contacts tab does not change at all. This bug was not present for any of the contacts in Nova Praetoria and Imperial City or their underground areas and was also did not appear for Ivy who I did the mission for earlier. I am not aware if the bug will appear for Aaron Walker who I haven't done the mission for yet or the Underground Neutropolis contacts who I can not add to my contact list until I finish their mission behind the Resistance door and talk to them after the Flashback mission is completed.

Sure those are good suggestions, I came up with Nautical and Aerial cause I figured they would sound more formal and fit the "Greek" aesthetic in the lore of City of Heroes, but I'm certainly not opposed to Sea and Air. ^.^ And yeah, I need to see if there's a way to distinguish the table a little more, I did the extra sorting for the second version and it took me a moment to interpret just how to read it correctly.

I'll have to check mediawiki to see if there's code for that, though the colors it uses right now is cause I use the wiki in dark mode.

So I realized that while my table showed all of the overlapping travel points, it didn't show the alignment required which is important to know if you're trying to navigate between them, so I did a few coding adjustments.

Well that's the point of having grouped together pages for similar content, it keeps the wiki from having multiple stub sized pages that have currently been redirected anyway, and Ferry only applies to two of the subjects while my suggestion applies to all current and future ones.

So if anyone has been paying attention to my messages in the Discord, you'd probably see that I've been working on the Zone Overview page a lot. I rearranged the Zones to match the changes made up to Issue 27, added every missing Zone and their original lore names, added the alignment icons to show who can go where, and most recently added as many of the game's unique travel shortcut methods as I've been able to find which at the moment is 18, though I found 2 more today that I have to make pages for (The Vanguard DPO portals and the Shadow Shard Portals) which is why I've been so focused on revamping those pages. Currently I've revamped the pages for TUNNEL System, Paragon City Monorail, and the Cole Transportation Authority, but I've got two changes in mind that I wanted to run by everyone first before I put them into action. 1. I want to change the "Ferry" page to "Nautical Transport" because only two of the four boats are actually ferries, as well as merge all the stops into one table, here's an example I've quickly coded up. 2. I want to merge the "Black Helicopter Transport" and "Free Fire Zone Transport" pages into an "Aerial Transport" page with a similar style table as above. I personally think that these are great ideas and I might go as far as making a similar grouped page for TUNNEL, Shadow Shard Portal, and Vanguard DPO portals but I wanted to see if others think these changes would make using the wiki as a reference guide as easy as I believe it would.

Ah, I see, I forgot there was a third tab since I use a GIMP plugin that just opens and saves DDS files in program.

So when you try to use the "Texturize" tab to merge the DDS and JSON files back into a single Texture, you get an error that says you're missing a DLL file?

A DLL? If you're using Michiyo's TextureTool then it should just work. Converting a texture file should give you a DDS and a matching JSON which you use together to convert back to a texture file.

Thank you, It took some time to figure out but it's really not as complicated as it first appears! Glad to hear it! ^.^