[Unable to connect to the remote server]

Guess I just play some Monopoly and go to bed early.  Cheers all!  The sun will come out tomorrow.

[Unable to connect to the remote server]

Hope this warrants a new topic.

 

After months of working fine, Tequila (1.0.0.20) is failing to load the game.  It pauses on 'Fetching Manifest...' for a few seconds then tells me 'Manifest download error for http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml
Unable to connect to the remote server'

Where should I start troubleshooting?

[Poor performance despite modern hardware]

My rig can easily handle the likes of GTA V and Resident Evil 2 remake on high settings, but City doesn't run any better now than it did when it went dark.  I've seen people post videos of hami raids that appear to be at least 30 fps and silky smooth but I can barely keep it above 15 fps when I'm fighting as much as an AV, much less hami.  During the Halloween event I was trying to troubleshoot with someone in the middle of Trick or Treating and they suggested I try lowering myself to minimum settings for a benchmark.  I was getting maybe 28 fps then.  Asking on facebook groups the only things I get told are condescending and not helpful in the least.  What can I do to optimize the game for my hardware?  Please help, I'm at my wits end.

 

AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core 3.0 GHz processor

CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM

ASUS Prime X370-Pro AM4 AMD X370 motherboard

EVGA 03G-P4-2667-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 FTW Signature 2 3GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 graphics card

WD Blue 3D SSD

Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Blue Edition - High Air Flow Full Tower Computer Case (Cleaned regularly)

Windows 10 64 bit

[Mastermind Custom Costumes]

I'd love to see Illusion MMs with pets that draw from their costumes and are indistinguishable from the player in PvP.

[Mastermind Primary: Prehistoric Mastery]

Yeah file this under a great idea that'd be almost impossible with the current engine.  Let's hope it makes it to City of Heroes 2.

[HO values are inconstant between tasks]

On 1/9/2020 at 12:00 AM, Bentley Berkeley said:

Personally I feel HOs should of been entirely removed

That's crazy!  They still have plenty of use.  I love slotting damage/ranges in my cone attacks, or filling in a def debuff power that's already got three Def debuff set IOs with two acc/dam hamis, or using ether /mez hami with a power that causes more than one kind of mez.  Travel HOs sell for 80m on the market.  HOs certainly aren't as useful as they were before IOs were introduced but they're still critical to most builds.

[Winter isn't over.]

Agreed, the 'winter' event was over much too soon.  It should run until February, at which time the Valentines events can run.

[Practice Dummies for bases]

Wasn't sure if this should go in the base forum or suggestions.  Hated to make a thread for one little thing but whatever.

 

So I found the Vanguard Training Dummy in the base items but unless I'm missing something it can't be targeted and hit.  Could that functionality be added?  They'd be a big help in programming macros and crunching numbers.  Seems like half the time they don't load right in the Vanguard base.

[I Love Knockback]

I don't get the hate knockback gets.  Its so much fun knocking an enemy off a cliff or into a lava pool.  People should stop treating it like its cancer.

[HO values are inconstant between tasks]

I understand everything that has been said but it does not address my point.  The game simultaneously suggests that a HO is the equal worth 80, 37, and 25 merits.  I already know how those merit rewards were calculated.  However, if there is an alternate reward to the HO, the merit values don't make sense.  Furthermore, those average times have pretty much been shredded by top, and even mid-skill level players.

[HO values are inconstant between tasks]

I'm going off the merit rewards off of Paragon Wiki.  Forgive me if they've been tweeked since then, I haven't been paying enough attention

 

Its bugged me since live that the proportional merit value for a Hami Origin Enhancement is wildly inconsistent.  Completing a Hami Raid rewards 80 merits or one HO.  LRSF awards 25 merits or one HO.  STF/MsLTF awards 37 merits or one HO.  So an HO = 80 merits = 37 merits = 25 merits. 

 

Is there any room for debate on balancing these rewards?  Personally if it were up to me, I'd make Hamidon drop 80 merits or TWO HOs, then make both trials 40 merits or one HO.

[Old Character Data]

Thanks for the responses.  I backed up my characters with Sentinel Plus and while I'd prefer to restore -everything- about them I'm thrilled just to restore their costumes.