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I just started playing two days ago and have created 5 characters. At the end of the character creation, it always asks if I want to play the tutorial. If I say no, another choice pops up, Hero (Atlas) or Villain (probably Mercy). If yes, there are three choices, the classic hero tutorial, villain tutorial, and Galaxy City invasion. There appears to be no way to start a character in Praetoria. That said, one of my characters started directly there seemingly at random. I selected I wanted to do the tutorial, and instead of being asked which one, he was sent directly to Praetoria. Is being born a Praetorian really a random event, or is there a way to force it?

I am experienced player from NCSoft days, and just started back. My first character is a scrapper with two skill sets unfamiliar to me, Savage Melee and Radiation Armor. He is level 3 hero right now, having made it thru the Galaxy City starting zone. His chosen powers currently are Savage Strike, Alpha Burst, and Gamma Boost. What things are important for me to know about this archetype?

Hi. I have a large number of saved characters from the old Mids, when the game was run by NCSoft. I see that Mids Reborn loads them just fine. I'm hesitant to use same directory to store new characters because I'd like to keep them separate. Is there easy way to set new default directory, and should I bother? * http://r0k.us/rock/games/CoH/HallsOfHeroes/

@ColdZero Thank you. The new manifest works. I have the game now and am able to log in. 🙂

I just downloaded Tequila and ran it. The GUI came up, but its text window reported: Manifest download error for http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37952257/Tequila/titanicon.xml The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. Is this a temporary problem, or do I need to do something else?

I'll add two votes for William's Square. One for here, and the other for being the song leading off my CoH website since Dec. 2012. * http://r0k.us/rock/games/CoH/HallsOfHeroes/ I find it peaceful and somehow somber and hopeful at the same time. The first time I heard it, I felt, "Yes! This is a place of heroes." -- Rich

Thanks, everyone. If I were running a CoH server, I would have made the same decision, even if an import capability were easy to implement. After all this time, it would probably divide the player base between vets and newcomers. Some newcomers would quickly become newleavers as a result. And actual vets without Sentinel backup files wouldn't be the happiest either. @Ironblade and @Turric, hi! It is really nice to see familiar names. If history is anything to go by, I'll likely be creating characters on multiple servers. -- Rock

Herotu, heh, been there, done that: * http://r0k.us/rock/games/CoH/HallsOfHeroes/Infinity/RetconTheNever-Was.html

Cool! and Thank You! I'm just in the process of returning now. One of my questions was whether MIDS would still work. Now I find out it will be even better than the great tool I remember. Will the new version read old character files from before the official servers went down?

Before the official servers shut down a tool became available that could catch your character from the IP stream and save their attributes to a text file. Those files offered hope that if CoH came back, one could regenerate their guys and gals. I forget the name of the tool, but I saved all of my folks and wrote the files to a CDRom, which i cannot find right now. Can these files actually be used to remake your original guys? After so many years, it might be considered an unfair advantage, so I would understand if the regenerative capability were not actually implemented. That said, I'd reincarnate a few if it is possible. Can it be done, and if so, how? Should I bother looking for that CDRom? (BTW, I haven't downloaded the game yet, so as far as I know there is a button at the start of the first "make a character" page that accomplishes this.) -- Rock --- http://r0k.us/rock/games/CoH/HallsOfHeroes/