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As of 5 Jan 2025, "I Lost My Daddy" is still level 20-24. It did not change back. I wonder if one of the original posters is around to be able to edit/update the list. I may be able to do one, but I'm working through these slowly and may not get around to a list, IRL being what it is. (My thumbs-down vote is only for the inaccuracy of the post, not to disparage.)

Hey, everyone! We have an HC:COH player who is an author with a new book out TODAY! Tannhäuser is a really good read by April Conrad, who is also a two-time Hall of Fame author for AE story arcs. I strongly recommend picking it up today! Go support one of our own! Of special interest to some in the community, the protagonist for this urban fantasy story is a 17-year-old trans girl who discovers that the complex spells she can now cast share an uncanny resemblance to the advanced math she excels at. (A well and properly portrayed trans story!) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCC5ZM8J

The long links in BillMailman's post don't work for me as posted. Same error screen. Trying to go all the way back and navigating through Events... Um... Yeah, no. Can't find that. I know that my search-fu isn't great, but I can't find any relevant Events or Events items in forum navigation or any variant of Search within 5 minutes. Looking forward to an update or fix.

Based on what you've seen of Homecoming's development capabilities, what direction would you love to see us go?

If it was ever considered, WHY and HOW would any humans join Nemesis? What did they gain from becoming fashion-gimped band camp rejects? I'm sorry that this is a serious question, but everyone else in the game has motivations and the human troops or followers of Nemesis never seemed to have a point or benefit.

March 31, 2024 on Everlasting. A Vice City supergroup base officer with /sgpasscode and base editing privileges for Vice City (7008), asked two players to have their characters leave the base. Characters were using space in a private area of the base reserved for staff. Got no response to tells or local chat. I changed the base passcode but neither of them were booted and they were NOT SG or coalition members. I removed Coalition privileges and they were still there. I changed the passcode again, and checked to make sure that I was receiving confirmation of the change each time. Still, the characters remained. I had to call for GM support (GM_Impervium responded first) to get them removed. There is a possibility that both characters had been AFK long enough to put them in some unobservable inactive status, except for being inside the instance, perhaps? I don't know but I have never seen a password change not remove a character before, and this time it was two characters, neither of whom were removed and who did not come in through a coalition or SG team leader access. The support ticket is below, before I close it, if this data is helpful.

NPC activation distance. Having a character 150 ft away, through multiple walls, activates NPCs. It also "counts" in the AE system for mission objectives as "bring Person A to Person B" and prematurely finishes the mission. Consistent across maps and for a number of years. Known issue. But no remedy available to AE arc writers, yet. I would LOVE to have activation distance equal regular NPC aggro range as a remedy. (Not really a bug; working as coded intended, but ends up being a bug to what we can do with the toolkit.)

Arachnos VEAT Widow: Widow Collar is only option now Previously, I could have a "No Collar" option on my widow costume. At the moment, the only option available is "Widow Collar." Not sure what changed. I probably last edited widow costumes in Feb-March 2023, I am guessing, but today (June 27, 2023) I don't get the option from Trina or War Witch in costume mode. They insist that the costume file be "Attempt Fix" instead. Albion v1.0.costume

I can't get the second technique to work on pre-placed NPC base objects. The closest thing my character's foot hitbox is next to is the NPC and that still does not find the NPC with the tab or shift+tab. Doing a "hover place and tab" works okay. This is REALLY clunky, though. Whoops. No. This doesn't work for me, either, to move or adjust the NPC object. I can only make it work to delete the selected object, but not get it selected for movement. Are we supposed to be able to get the NPC adjusted with rotation or height before placing? I can't manage to do that. And then when I get them placed, I can't select them to adjust again. Dang.

No, sorry. I'm not going to do this. And in an unusual turn, I feel strongly enough about this to post a comment. This is too complex for what was supposed to be a very simple "vote on the forum" process. I appreciate the CRs' and judges' efforts. If there is a perception problem, this will not fix it. It just creates (or feeds) cynicism, in my opinion. How and why do you expect votes to change with a re-vote? How does an expectation of bias and manipulation affect a re-vote? How does this affect the case(s) where people were encouraged to vote for someone without seeing the bases? I voted once, though I have multiple accounts and have relationships with several of the base owners. If I have to go through special hoops to re-vote, it's not worth it. It is no longer fun. And fun, IMO, is the whole point. No need to reply to this. Just register it as my vote of disapproval. Again, this is not a knock on the usual process or the CRs' or judges' actions, but I wanted to let you know that I'm opting out of what is now a "not fun" thing.

With the newer Homecoming Launcher and the change to the file structure underneath it as a result, and with the actual game directory being DRIVE:\Homecoming\bin\win64\live\cityofheroes.exe, where should the \data\customwindows folder go? If I put it under \win64\live then I get launcher errors.

From long experience, the problem is the scroll in the Chat window, and not the chat bubbles, visually. So what we're really looking for is a shorter range limit of 15-25 feet on Local. Or, an alternate short-range channel, but NOT another player-created global channel. EDIT: I think the suggestions for a 25 ft range make the most sense, so you can see someone nearby and say hello, draw them over and still be in "audible attention range," and yet move your little group not very far away to get out of "noisy" range of everyone else.

Still a problem. Solutions presented here for simply reducing Local range globally or creating a new limited-range chat channel remain in the options bucket as likely effective. Any opportunity to test this out?

That helped, thank you, but maybe not in the way laid out. 🙂 I went looking for the install directory and found that there was already a Mids Reborn folder there with a .json file different from the Mids Reborn 3.2.17 install folder. I deleted both folders and tried installing fresh from the installer and that worked. The behavior of Mids on my system is a bit klunkier than before (red/blue color changes, inability to easily grab and drag the app window to resize it, etc.), but at least it is working properly.

Nope. For some reason, this continues to fail on the other computer. I have uninstalled, scrapped the .exe installer, re-downloaded it, and installed again, with this error code. I am really not sure what the problem is.

I think I have fixed this on the desktop. I uninstalled the attempted (new) installation and deleted the old folder in its entirety. I reinstalled from scratch, leaving the install location as the default. (This is NOT my preference, but it seems to be required.) I was able to launch the Mids Reborn app after this reinstall. I then went to Options > Configuration > Updates & Paths and set the "Save Builds To:" location to my previous builds folder. Everything appears to work as long as I accept the default install location. I will go test this on my laptop and see how that works there, too.

I have had the unable to check for updates error since the January patch, but now on a new install to try to fix that, I have a new error that makes Mids completely unable to launch. I downloaded and attempted to install the 3.2.17 release with file 3.2.17.72, database 2022.02.22 on two different computers. One is a brand new laptop and I left the Camel defaults unchanged. On the older desktop, I installed to a D:\Programs\Mids Reborn\ folder. In both cases, I got the same error on launch. The new install to the older computer did not give me any messages about removing or updating the old version. It just installed. Any suggestions?

I provided the "please report this up the chain" request and the traceroute results to a pretty clueless end user support person at CenturyLink through chat, as well. "Did you reboot your modem?" "Everything appears fine with your connection and speed..." "Do you want to schedule a technician to come out?" No, Ma'am, I just want you to report this upstream to Engineering. I have little confidence that actually got reported or went anywhere. And the problem (as others have noted) could be outside of CenturyLink's direct control, too. Still, I can't reach OVH this morning and it is now 18 hours since it went down, dumping me from the game. I would think that the network techs would have identified and solved this by now.

NOOOO! Don't route my game traffic through the Ukraine! j/k, but one does have to wonder.... Given the situation, I would not be surprised in the slightest to have cyberwarfare/information operations activity going on in that region right now (2022-02-21).

Finally calculated some pathroute results Source to Here This Node/Link Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address 0 User-PC.Home [192.168.0.N] 0/ 100 = 0% | 1 4ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% modem.Home [192.168.0.1] 0/ 100 = 0% | 2 11ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% stpl-dsl-gw13.stpl.qwest.net [207.109.2.13] 0/ 100 = 0% | 3 13ms 1/ 100 = 1% 1/ 100 = 1% stpl-agw1.inet.qwest.net [207.109.3.97] 0/ 100 = 0% | 4 14ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% 4.68.38.177 0/ 100 = 0% | 5 11ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% mini-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.190.220] 0/ 100 = 0% | 6 20ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% chi-b23-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.123.243] 100/ 100 =100% | 7 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 142.44.208.208 0/ 100 = 0% | 8 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.99.146.140 0/ 100 = 0% | 9 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% 192.99.146.147 0/ 100 = 0% | 10 --- 100/ 100 =100% 0/ 100 = 0% ... This gets to Node 12, stops, and closes the Run window.

I found another internet service that appears to be affected. Not sure whether or how it's relevant, but my Articulate 360 software updater is stuck, too. 😄 (E-learning development tools.)

My pathping 51.161.76.201 trace is still compiling. One node that I can see so far has 100% packet loss. Aaaaaand... then pathping closed itself. *scratches head* My problem is the same, persistent across multiple computers. Platform - PC - Laptop OS - both Win 10 Launcher type - both HC Launcher Device security in use - Kaspersky Suite General location - Central US (in Century Link "mild report" area) EDIT: And the proof.ovh.net gives me a "Cannot be reached" error. Tracing route to 51.161.76.201 over a maximum of 30 hops 0 User-PC.Home [192.168.0.N] 1 modem.Home [192.168.0.1] 2 stpl-dsl-gw13.stpl.qwest.net [207.109.2.13] 3 stpl-agw1.inet.qwest.net [207.109.3.97] 4 4.68.38.177 5 mini-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.190.220] 6 chi-b23-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.123.243] 7 142.44.208.208 8 192.99.146.140 9 192.99.146.147 10 192.99.146.152 11 192.99.146.150 12 192.99.146.151 13 * * * Computing statistics for 300 seconds... (crash)

The Naughty List Kris Maus needs your help! Arc ID: 44800 Arc Name: The Naughty List Author: @Catbird Number of Missions: 3 Description: Santa Claus has fallen asleep and won't wake up! There are still many preparations for the holiday gift delivery run! And what's more, Santa was going to visit Rat City this year, but that's in jeopardy now! A small helper needs a hero! (SFMA, solo-friendly)

Interesting, thank you! This might happen even when those actions did not ping that particular character, but just another character on the account? @macskull

Hi folks. Not urgent, but I periodically notice characters that I have not played or logged in with for 30+ days showing at low or 0 "days offline" counts, as if I *had* logged them in recently. It happens rarely, but on different accounts and with different characters. It's not even something I can gather data on because I'm not vigorously watching day counts on all 140+ characters every day, but it has been consistent on Homecoming since May 2019, just every now and then. - I have been and am still using the Tequila launcher. - I am as certain as one can be that the accounts are secure; no one else has the login info. - I am certain when I notice it now that the character has indeed not been in play for 30+ days, but then appears with a 0 days offline counter. - This *may* be happening after a patch, but I have no data to check that, either way. (Just thought of it now.) - It *appears* to only happen to one character at a time, but I don't have data to really be sure. Any thoughts? I did not find this as a known issue, but my search-fu is not mighty.