GM Crumpet
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Thanks all. Poor Cipher is getting no rest.
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The game should be back up for people. There are some back end things being held together with duct tape and spit, but nothing that impacts players.
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On 10/1/2025 at 12:27 AM, Skyhawke said:
Also, you can outlevel certain rewards for a story arc, even if the book icon is there. Looking at you, Stephanie Peebles....
Depends if the arc is split. Then the second part is unavailable if you outlevel the contact
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Enjoy the journey, it's not about the end game here.
Learn to use the auction house and merits or you'll be permanently broke.
Enjoy making different alts and concepts, but be prepared to do the same training contacts over and over. (My friend made dozens of characters and never got past level 20 then gave up the game because he was bored. He'd never seen 90% of the content).
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We've done some investigating, and Cipher has run his OVH tools, and it's something on the way to the OVH servers and is outside any of our control. Some bad nodes or outages elsewhere meaning the signal is bouncing round the world trying to find a route between players and the servers. Which is why some people are lagging and some aren't. It literally depends on where you live. I'm in Europe and have no issues as we use a different trunk.
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1 hour ago, Go0gleplex said:
Not getting timed out but rather am getting a "Can't connect to DBserver" message after logging in. Have done cache clear, reboot, and verification. Was working fine Thursday.
Maybe your firewall?
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On 8/12/2025 at 1:41 AM, Dontain said:
I'm an old player coming back and for some reason I'm not able to get into a server to even pick a character.
As others have said, make sure you have downloaded the launcher, and also that you are logging in with your game account not your forum account. The login name is here https://forums.homecomingservers.com/account/ and you can also change the password. I see your account hasn't logged in (successfully) for five years.
Edited to add, you can download the launcher here https://manifest.cohhc.gg/launcher/hcinstall.exe
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2 hours ago, Ravenplume said:
Nah. Just naughty. And earlier in General Chat, it was suggested that it badges get implemented for this next year, Pirate's Booty was my suggestion for one of them. Someone else suggested Booty Seeker.
Big booty collector?
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Am I nasty because when someone said booty my mind went to a totally different place?
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46 minutes ago, GM_GooglyMoogly said:
The Internet Archive also has the PDF - https://archive.org/details/City_of_Heroes_Prima/ as well as one for City of Villains - https://archive.org/details/City_of_Villains_Prima
But please remember that all of the information in these guides are terribly outdated and always think twice about clicking any links, even those posted by GMs!
Wait, so those links you sent me are unsafe??? I only wanted cute cat memes!! Not cute cat-girl memes!!
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I've said it before over the years, but it's worth repeating. some things that seem to be so simple are an absolute nightmare to implement. The code is twisted and complicated, and so many times a minor change will result in major problems. "I only changed the colour of those trees, why did city hall vanish?" kind of problems. There are a lot of suggestions that have been implemented, but we are a volunteer group of people doing stuff in our spare time. One dev might be passionate about costume parts, another might be brilliant at stories. Another might love redoing zones. We gain devs, we lose devs. If a particular suggestion resonates and they go "I love that idea" they will look into it and decide if it's even possible. Then how much work is needed to implement. Then that dev leaves because real life gets in the way and it's another project on the back burner.
To be honest I'm always in awe when a new page comes out for the sheer amount of work a small group of people have been able to pull together. Most legacy games are frozen in amber. Maybe some bugs are fixed if you are lucky, but there are few that have the level of skill and dedication that we do.
I love reading peoples suggestions, and a lot of them are interesting and clever. But we aren't a multi million dollar enterprise with unlimited resources and hundreds of staff to spend months on implementing ideas. We are a volunteer group that does what we can because of the love we have for the game and the willingness to spend a lot of our free time working on something that is really time intensive.
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4 hours ago, ZamuelNow said:
For today's Mission Architect Sunday Special, we ran:
@Leese's Through Rose-Tinted Glasses (#22) "Heroic" misidentified villainy!
The small team worked a masterful scheme and we had a good time. Unfortunately, we ran into the dreaded glowie in the wall.
This would have never happened to Manticore. Thankfully, @GM Crumpet was on the scene to help us.
NEXT TIME...
MASS returns to Reunion on September 21st.
A pleasure. Shame it had to end that way. As I said ingame, when you finish leave a note in the box for the mission creator so they can move the glowie
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Flies aren't that fast, I can usually slap one with a swatter. My dog thinks they are flying raisins and loves snapping them out of the air.
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6 hours ago, UltraAlt said:
Well, I think @Yomo Kimyata will still give some amount once to a @Global.
And at one point I seem to recall @GM Crumpet saying the same thing.
I wouldn't depend on it, but if you ask for help on the /help channel you sometimes get it.
I've been known to help someone out that asks in /help.
If you are trying to get enough loot to fully slot out a power-leveled/door-sitting main or alt, ... well ... as far as I'm concerned ... you can forget about it.
Hey, don't bring me into this. I'm a broke GM I have around 200 inf total
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5 hours ago, SHOVAR ROBOT said:
I have an AMD Radeon RX 580 and I'm getting the black screen at login as well, and turning off Freesync and disabling hardware acceleration in the launcher doesn't fix anything. I use a multi-monitor setup and the issue persists even when I switch the game to monitor 1. Any ideas as to a solution would be appreciated, I hope I don't have to wait for an update to correct this! 🙂
It's a known dual monitor thing. Just open the options in the launcher and click reset graphics on next run, and make sure it's set to the correct monitor. Happens to me all the time. Usually closing the second monitor first works, but sometimes it has it's moments and forgets which one is primary. Being a GM I'll open a second instance when someone needs help and park my player alt somewhere safe, Then even though I closed the GM screen after I'm done next time I log in it decides to be annoying.
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Hami are good for filling in holes where you don't really need sets, but sets give bonuses the more of a set you have in a power. for some power sets you have to fudge and do some frankenslotting to get the bonuses you want though. Things like recharge rate can make a powerful power like Phantom Army or light form "permanent" meaning they recharge before the power runs out so you can basically keep them up all the time. If you get the set attuned you basically don't need to worry about them losing effectiveness as you level, or if you do a lower level TF or missions. They always act as your level (or the min/max level range they work at).
Lots of powers benefit from set bonuses, even if it's only something like damage bonus or defence or resist. It's surprising how awesome your character can become with the right set bonuses. That's why Mids is so popular. with set IO's being so much cheaper than live you can have any build you like for a comparatively cheap price. For a given value of cheap. for a new player 20 million inf is an inconceivable amount of inf. for a player who's been playing for a while it's back of the sofa change 🙂
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9 hours ago, Uun said:
Winter and ATO enhancements are ONLY available attuned.
Well I buy them on the attuned menu. Mostly early on when they are orange, then turn them purple with a catalyst when I hit 50
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2 hours ago, Bionic_Flea said:
ATOs and Winter Sets are always attuned. You can't get a non-attuned one. The catalyst makes them superior. Unless you mean you buy them Superior, but then you can't slot them until 50.
For most procs and globals, the level doesn't matter. They'll do that same thing at level 10 as level 50 as level 50+5 EXCEPT if that proc has something else it does, like the LoTG +7.5 ALSO has a bit of defense enhancement and level and +5ing does improve that portion of it. If you get it attuned, you can slot it early and have the defense scale up as you level and then switch to +5 at 50 and donate the attuned to your next project, or just leave it.
I just use the attuned menu. I've bought too many recipes by accident
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1 hour ago, Championess said:
Oh. My. So gross!
Not only do you limit yourself from getting more enhancement value out of those sets by +5'ing them but most importantly you're ruining the beautiful hexagonical aethstetic for a dull round one.
Well I don't have the inf or merits to buy that many boosters
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I always buy set enhancements attuned as they are the same price as level based ones in the AH and it means I never have to worry about them again. Purple sets are different and benefit from boosters, but I'm not overly bothered so generally buy them attuned as well. I even get Winter sets and ATO attuned so I don't have to fret over using a catalyst to turn them into the superior version when I hit level 50.
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Manga says it happens every so often and it's generally some nanny software from the ISP
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I've asked Manga to look into it, but if you can play the game fine then it sounds like a loss of contact with GM Bot and nothing to worry about player side.
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It's deader than @Snarky and a lot less entertaining
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locking an extremely dead necro thread
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Some questions from someone who never played CoH before
in Help & Support
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All the staff are players, and we will play and team up on our player accounts. Some people like me are known on certain characters I play regularly, some are pretty incognito. And some are immediately obvious as they have titles like "City Council" under their name.
Unlike commercial games we as GM's are given pretty much free reign. We don't have to run everything by a committee before we respond to a ticket or reply to a player. It doesn't mean we aren't monitored, there is oversight, but we are treated like adults and it means we can jump in if we are available.
And welcome. The game is pretty forgiving and solo play is common. I often play solo and mostly team for TF's or events like trick or treat. You'll find players are really helpful if you ask something in the help channel, and there are often GM's available on Discord. A GM or Lead GM will always respond if we are available, City Council and devs generally can't.
And don't worry if you see a GM about ingame. We often wander in to chill and be silly with players 🙂