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I'll check, but I'm pretty sure that I saw a popup when I ran the game for the first time that the whole COH file was added as an exception in AV program. Try readding it, it happens sometimes you have to do this if that doesn't work try deleting the tequila key in the registry. Then when you start tequila again it should ask you for the install path again chose your game folder and see if that works. deleting Tequila registry settings with Start -> Find/Run -> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tequila Added the whole COH file to antivirus exception, and deleted Tequila/registry - downloaded fresh Tequila and ran it, went through validating the files, but still crashing about 95% through downloading the SCORE.EXE file. Any other suggestions? Download this archive, it's the score folder and score.exe from my game folder. Just use winrar or 7zip to open it and put the score folder and the score.exe in your game folder. https://ufile.io/art7wd5n

I think that just for chat window though and doesn't work for the chat bubbles and mission boxes etc

Okay I have another problem now. Music plays and all but if I move the music stops cuts off? Is this normal behavior? After some testing I see that: single songs I don't have this issue. I have this issue on joined songs. With the two playlist I have made by merging 6 songs into one ogg have this problem...hmm

Nit-pick: You've included options.txt, chat.txt, wdw.txt, tequilalog.xml and TequilaActivityLog.xml in the torrent. These files contain user settings (former three) and Tequila's activity logs (latter two). Players who already have the game cannot join the torrent to help you fully seed it without overwriting their saved settings files or Tequila's activity logs. Understandably, that is NOT an acceptable outcome. I think I will be redoing this torrent which is why I asked other to use the old one for now.. I probably should just remove it from here for the moment. Can you remove the link from the quote in your post please since I will be taking it down. Thanks!

Yep. Set up the folders. The file is .ogg (I used GoldWave to covert from an mp3]. No spaces in the filename. When I run the command, I get the response that the music is now (myfilename), but don't hear it, just hear the ambient sounds. And I checked the music channel in options. Any other things I can check? Not sure really I was having the same issue and it was just the name of the actual ogg file that was wrong..it had spaces instead of underscores. Can you show me what you type exactly in the chatbox? What you type in the chat box has to match the name of the ogg music file Also is the sound folder called sound or sounds? I initially had sounds but changed it to sound. When you type in the chatbox to start it up you need to put the " " and for the file name you don't add the .ogg part that's just the file extension and not part of the filename. The chatbox will tell you xxxx is playing even if it not spelled right but you will not hear it.

Check out my guide, see link in siggy it has fixes for various stuff including your resolution problem. There a few thing you need to do like make an exception in your anti virus, make sure you not in location that has file restriction like documents etc. You may also have to check out the registry just read through my install guide and if you still have trouble get back to use with more details like : what OS you have where you downloaded the files from etc. It kind of sounds like your anti virus is blocking score tbh, did you make an exception in your anti virus for the game folder?

I also checked my options and made sure the music channel is turned up. No spaces in my filename. I'm stumped, any suggestions? in your main game folder you should have a folder called data in this folder make another folder called sound in this folder make another one called ogg In the ogg folder you need to place your own ogg files. For example I want to play shoot to thrill by acdc as my background music so in my game folder: city of heroes/data/sound/ogg/ I have a shoot to thrill.ogg music file. This file needs to be spelled this way shoot_to_thrill.ogg In game in my base I type in: /sgmusic "shoot_to_thrill" to play the file once. To play the file on infinite repeat change the title of the file in data/sound/ogg to shoot_to_thrill_loop.ogg which also means you need to type in /sgmusic "shoot_to_thrill_loop" to play it in the base. note the sound files or music has to be in ogg format not flac or mp3 etc

I would like the see a jukebox that actually plays songs. For example imagine you have a billiards room with a bar and a nice classic jukebox that doesn't play music throughout the "whole" base but just in the area like the sound effects of the portal. Which when clicked on would give you a playlist of the songs in your data/sound/ogg folder. What would be very useful if some kind of ambient sky lighting when building outside the base like on the roof etc.

Okay so it not my ogg file as someone else tried it and it is workign fine in their base. For some reason it is playing in my base but I cannot hear it and yes my volume control in the options is not turned down... EDIT: Okay with the problem ended up being the filename itself. I had "Shoot To Thrill".ogg but you can't have spaces in the filename. Once I changed it to "Shoot_To_Thrill".ogg I could hear it.

Check the Sound tab under Options. There's the Music channel, and the Effects channel. Not seeing those two options? is there a sounds or options somewhere else other than from the menu at top right? EDIT: Okay with the problem ended up being the filename itself. I had "Shoot To Thrill".ogg but you can't have spaces in the filename. Once I changed it to "Shoot_To_Thrill".ogg I could hear it. Now to figure out if there is a way to chain together several files and make the whole chain loop other than just making one big ogg with all the songs in it.

I'll check, but I'm pretty sure that I saw a popup when I ran the game for the first time that the whole COH file was added as an exception in AV program. Try readding it, it happens sometimes you have to do this if that doesn't work try deleting the tequila key in the registry. Then when you start tequila again it should ask you for the install path again chose your game folder and see if that works. deleting Tequila registry settings with Start -> Find/Run -> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tequila

Did you check see if your anti virus is blocking score? it sometimes flags score as a virus. Just had someone have this issue on discord even though he was playing fine last night. If so whitelist score. I just add an exception to the whole game folder personally.

This the game updated a few days ago so you should have COH HOMECOMING now instead of SCORE. I just had someone in discord have a similar issue and it turned out his anti virus flagged score as a virus yet he was playing fine last night. He had to whitelist score again. If you still have score instead of homecoming on the launcher try revalitdating and it you have issues see my guide for some fixes, see link in my siggy. You may have to delete the tequila.xml and tequila reg keys and reset install path.

It's the first time you install the game on your desktop? Where did you get the files from? Have you tried downloading the game files and score files from the torrent?

When you got the "the account is already online' message did you try logging in again? I get that now and then and I just log in again and it works.

Okay so when placing a teleporter if the beacons become highlighted in yellow it means they are attaching to the teleporter I am using. Thing is when I click on the carnival teleporter it just has cancel, it not giving me the beacon options. I assume this means that teleporter isn't working so now I am trying to figure out how to add another portal I can hide somehow yet still see the carnival one. Another thing I am doing right now is wanting to add my own music to a future "pool/bar room". The stick say we add ogg files in Data/sounds/ogg. Not being familir with ogg as I tend to have mp3 and Flac I assume is what google tells me is ogg vorbis? Also I know/see the command to loop a music by adding _loop at the end of the filename which is cool btw. Questions is how can I loop 6 or 7 songs to play one after the other? Also what do you guys use to convert X to ogg? NVM I am using something called Switch converter. Oh also you can see a couple of green bars when in the edit window, on the top right corner, one has a lighting symbol and the other is a red circle...what are those? I assume the lightning one is how much energy left/being produced by your power generator room but whats the red circle one? so any clues anyone?

Very useful thanks for the write up!

up and away!

Walk me through what exactly you are doing to start the game? Post a pic of what your tequila window looks like. I have never done remote connection so I am not keen on doing that tbh.

Nice sticky! I was wondering is it possible to loop several sounds instead of one. Instead of putting say one song on repeat can you put a whole songlist on repeat? Also does this play the music throughout the whole base? Also what do you mean by using the "music channel"? I got a file on loop is says it paying in my sg but I am not hearing it? Is there a some format the ogg needs to follow when encoding? a specific bitrate?

Okay so when placing a teleporter if the beacons become highlighted in yellow it means they are attaching to the teleporter I am using. Thing is when I click on the carnival teleporter it just has cancel, it not giving me the beacon options. I assume this means that teleporter isn't working so now I am trying to figure out how to add another portal I can hide somehow yet still see the carnival one. Another thing I am doing right now is wanting to add my own music to a future "pool/bar room". The stick say we add ogg files in Data/sounds/ogg. Not being familir with ogg as I tend to have mp3 and Flac I assume is what google tells me is ogg vorbis? Also I know/see the command to loop a music by adding _loop at the end of the filename which is cool btw. Questions is how can I loop 6 or 7 songs to play one after the other? Also what do you guys use to convert X to ogg? NVM I am using something called Switch converter. Oh also you can see a couple of green bars when in the edit window, on the top right corner, one has a lighting symbol and the other is a red circle...what are those? I assume the lightning one is how much energy left/being produced by your power generator room but whats the red circle one?

How do you know if beacons are attached properly to a teleporter? I am trying to place a "Carnival of lights" portal. I have the tech beacons on the wall next to it, just for looks, and I have arcane beacons hidden below each tech beacon in the floor. When I place the carnival portal I see the top of the arcane beacon highlighted in yellow..what does the yellow mean? Right now I and have to quit editing base and running to the portal room each time to test see if it works and I can't seem to get the arcane beacons to attach themselves to the portal. I am also looking to figure out how exactly to make an outside area.

Sounds good, being that I live nearby!

Check out my guide, see siggy. Also did you have the game running before or is this a new install?

Updated OP with this method. Windows Install Guide Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:FD5ADD155E5FD01D6013B026A8766E56C2841E3D&dn=City%20of%20Heroes You need a bitclient to download via torrents so you need something like utorrent or qbits. If this isn't a first time install but you want to install from scratch you will have to delete the tequila key in the registry. You can delete the Tequila registry key with Start -> Find/Run -> REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tequila You can also check manually to see if the Tequila folder in the registry was delete by typing regedit in the start search bar and hitting enter. Then in the window that opened navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and check see if you have a Tequila folder in the list. If this is a first time install or first time using tequila ignore the registry key deletion bit above. NOTE: Due to the server migration some of the files will need to update. Namely before doing anything you need to rename the "SCORE" folder to "homecoming". Then when you update it should make a homecoming.exe application. For a first time install Step one Download the torrent..you can simply paste the whole magnet link into your browser address bar which will open up your bitclient and ask if you want to download the torrent, obviously say yes. ;) While that is downloading. Step Two Get your install path ready. Make a folder on your C:/ drive called Games. You can make sure your anti virus has an exception for the whole Games folder. (Some people are afraid of doing this and prefer to only add an exception to score.exe (now after migration will be the homecoming.exe) and Tequila.exe in the City of Heroes folder you are downloading via the torrent). I also run tequila.exe as admin but you shouldn't have to. Step Three Once the torrent is done you will have a "City of Heroes" folder in your torrent download location. Move the whole "City of Heroes" folder, via copy and paste, to C:/Games. Since we are using the old torrent for now you need to delete the "tequila.xml", the "tequilalog.xml", the "TequilaActivityLog.txt", and the "THIRDPARTYSOFTWAREREADME.txt". Rename the score folder to homecoming (due to the server migration). Step Four Start the Tequila launcher via the tequila.exe in the "City of Heroes" folder from C:/Games/City of Heroes. This should open a window asking you for the install path. Point it to C:/Games/City of Heroes. This will let it see you have all the games files and all the score files (homecoming now due to server migration). Let Tequila update/validate. Make sure "Homecoming" is highlighted in the Tequila launcher and hit play. You should see this: Enjoy the game, kill skulls! If there any issues my OP will have fixes for those.