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This can happen if Tequila experiences connectivity loss. If the connection drops and comes back, the current file is dropped and the next one in the manifest is downloaded. It'll report at the end any files that had an error if this is the case. If this is what's happening, simply close and reopen Tequila to try to catch the missed files again. Once all the files are downloaded, closing and re-opening Tequila a final time does one more validation to check the files, then when the green bar fills up and "Done" is reported, you have your client files 100% updated.

First thing I'd check is if your Anti-Virus is blocking the opening of Tequila. Check your AV program to see if it catches Tequila.exe as a 'false positive'. (Since there's 100's of AV apps out there... 1,000 counting the less-than-reputable ones, we don't have specific instructions. Someone using the same AV can chime in if you need step-by-step assistance.)

Glad it worked. 🙂 And once more, I miss the obvious.

Same fix, similar issue: see your other question. 🙂

In the Options window, pick the Windows tab. Scroll all the way down, and you'll see these two areas. Chat settings file saves presets, tabs, and channel memberships. Windows settings file saves window positions, sizes and tray locations. When you have the windows and chat arranged how you like it, click "SAVE TO DEFAULT FILE" on both. Then load your alts, come back to the same place in the Options dialog, Windows tab, and "LOAD FROM DEFAULT FILE" on both. You can also do this to use a toon between different desktops and resolutions. Let's say you got a large monitor on a desktop and a laptop with a smaller screen. Load your toon on the laptop, arrange the windows how you like it, and in the Options screen, under the "Windows" tab, use the Default File buttons to capture the layout on that system. Once you're back on the larger screen system, use "LOAD FROM DEFAULT FILE" again to put the window positions back. Returning to your laptop, "LOAD FROM DEFAULT FILE" to unjumble the windows for the smaller screen. (Unrelated to Homecoming: the same steps work on Paragon Chat as well.)

Ideas: -- Is the new device connected to the Internet? Dumb to ask, I know, but there's been times I've neglected to check this myself in a professional capacity. (So eager to see if something else is wrong, I miss the obvious.) -- Windows Firewall (or another program that does similar things) is blocking Tequila from 'getting outside' to download files. -- Your system doesn't have .NET Framework installed, but I doubt this is the cause, because Tequila wouldn't start without a "Windows Features Required" dialog stating that .NET 3.5 is missing. -- The site patch.savecoh.com might be blocked. You can test this by using a Command Prompt then typing 'ping savecoh.com' and press Enter. If "Destination Host Unreachable" appears or an even weirder error, it's not connecting. Tequila isn't the problem in this case. (If you see result times in milliseconds, you should be okay.) If you're on Wi-Fi or using a computer at a business, school, or workplace, this could be on purpose. Use another connection elsewhere.

On Paragon Wiki, most of the settings are explained. There's also Help Icons on the left of the option label for a brief explanation as well. Also depends on what you call decent, video card-wise. Budget-Class -- Priced around $50-120 brand new. Capable of playing the game, and powering two monitors with one running game video. Ultra Mode will cut frame rate significantly without 'tuning' away from everything at full. If frame rate matters over looks, I'd leave Ultra Mode off. Reference Model during Live: NVidia 9800GT. Recent Cards: NVidia GeForce 940, AMD Radeon R5 240. Most on-board video cards fall into this camp more often than not (Intel HD Graphics, AMD Radeon APUs.) Enthusiast-Class -- From $120-220 brand new. Capable of playing the game on multiple monitors, with multiple instances at 60FPS in most areas, and 15-30FPS in raids and high-populated zones. If you pick "Ultra Mode", performance may take a hit. Reference Model during Live: NVidia GeForce GTX 260. Recent Cards: NVidia GeForce 1050 Ti, AMD Radeon RX 580. Recent on-board video cards are close to or approaching this level (Intel Iris Pro, AMD Radeon Vega.) High Performance -- From $220 and up. Capable of playing the game at 60FPS with Ultra Mode on at full blast, with slight hits in high-populated zones. (Nothing's perfect.) Also best for play across multiplexed monitors (game resolution spread across 2, 3, 4 or more screens). Reference Model during Live: NVidia GeForce GTX 285. Recent Cards: NVidia GeForce RTX 2080, AMD Radeon RX 5700. No on-board graphics will qualify for this category regardless of who makes them. Important to note: on-board and discrete is not the same when it comes to laptops. A laptop with discrete graphics will outperform on-board graphics (Intel HD Graphics/Iris Pro, AMD Radeon APU/Vega) any day, even if the discrete graphics have the same distinction that it cannot be upgraded because both of them are built-in. With all of that given above, it's hard to say what a recommended setting list is because user preferences vary so widely: Particularly in looks, FPS, visibility. Looks: having all the shadows, environmental effects, depth-of-field, bloom and other 'chrome' to high amounts, if not maxed out. This is for those who hold screenshots and streaming quality higher than issues like pop-up or draw distance. FPS: Frames per second. Simply put, putting the draw rate over all else, looks be damned. More often than not, this is the camp I fall into. Visibility: having particle effects, draw distance, anisotropic filters, anti-aliasing, and other 'non-chrome' settings (ones that make a graphics card really 'work' at the game) at full blast. This is for people who want no surprises when they play the game; costumes never 'tear', powers never look like colored sparks flying from one toon to another, and if a mob is coming, they see it as far away as possible. As a former boss told me once when presented with three options for an outcome like this, you can pick two. Or one, if you want to knock only one of them out of the park. You can't have all three without compromise, unless you are rocking a High Performance card in the first place.

If you're not interested in community help, using the forum PM system to reach a GM on this page would probably get you what you want.

The Issue 24 files from Tequila is the heaviest part of the client install. The Homecoming Client downloads changed piggs for Issue 25/26 and keeps them in a separate folder for the game, leaving the main files for Issue 24 untouched. (It does ADD files and folders, but it doesn't change the Issue 24 files.) The biggest portion of the download you did already with Paragon Chat. If you've ran Tequila since April, it has some or all of Homecoming's 32 bit, 64 bit (the two new and improved ones) as well as the legacy client (the original one from the Service Launch), Homecoming Beta clients (all three of the prior flavors), Titan Icon, and Paragon Chat. Why the Paragon Chat folders aren't in the Tequila installation folder is because it's been in AppData since version 1.0. (Open File Explorer, in the Address bar, type "%APPDATA%" and you should see ParagonChat in there.) You can move Tequila's folder out of Documents (remember, not Program Files or Program Files (x32) folders) wherever you like. Next time you run Paragon Chat, it'll show an error, but clicking on Settings and picking the new Tequila folder location will get it going again. As for badges: Paragon Chat's Data is saved in AppData and is local to your PC. If the AppData folder is deleted (or you uninstall Paragon Chat), the Badge progress goes with it (along with any bases made, mods, screenshots and .costume files.) The chat server for Paragon Chat saves NOTHING, it's just XMPP Authorization and Chat, nothing more. Homecoming is server side, so deleting Tequila and starting over means losing any locally saved mods, screenshots and .costume files. Your character progress, ACTIVE costumes (in any of your toon's costume slots), badge progress, and inventory is preserved. I'm not sure if this is what you're asking, and some of this might be TMI, but I hope this helps answer your question.

You got me. You find the most interesting problems, Derek. I know that doesn't help much, but I'm impressed.

Silk's Install and Troubleshooting guide covers this situation. Look for "Tequila launcher crashing at loading banner and other similar crashes". The TL;DR version: Homecoming isn't going to certify it's game files as virus-free (costs, plus it won't work anyways when you consider the source). You need to exclude Homecoming as well as Tequila from a virus scanner if you want to play.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Speaking for myself only, the news hit me like a Mack Truck last night. I've been preoccupied with settling things after moving out-of-state. I was just as surprised as all of you were, and I reacted similarly when the developments were ongoing last night. I did sigh a bit of relief when Sekoia took over the site. He's the one who hired me, and he's been a solid advisor and friend to me over the years. I think the site is in good hands. In the coming months, hopefully, all of you will see that too. If it hasn't been said already, we'll work with Homecoming where it makes sense to do so, and we're not going anywhere. I know the job of "Forum Moderator" isn't anywhere as important as "Developer" or "Admin", but I will continue to do all I can for the community. And in that part, I know I'm not alone. 😁

Quote marks wouldn't matter. I don't have much experience with AMD graphics. If it's something affecting all gameplay, or gameplay with other games that use OpenGL graphics, then that could help pinpoint what is specific to the root cause. You mentioned also that it's a laptop... if it's an HP with 'switchable graphics' its possible a BIOS update may have messed with your gameplay.

I've never edited them before. Here's what mine look like for a screen of 1600 x 900: I think it's worth a shot. If the values don't work, you can put the old ones back that you wrote above so you're no worse off than you were.

Same one as posted in our Install/Troubleshooting guide. It would be helpful to know what card you are using (or what onboard graphics name if Intel... GMA 3000, 4000, HD Graphics 400, etc.)

Current machine is a little hard-luck. Intel GMA 4000 is a bare-minimum for the game with the new Intel HD graphics (Skylake and newer) being fairly improved. GMA 3000 and older isn't going to work well. There's a shim to try with the GMA 3000, but it's not for the faint of heart. The new machine should be able to run circles around the older one. It should do 60fps in most situations (as long as all the settings aren't maximum.)

To clarify, the Loading Bar as in the first blue box that says "LOADING" and doesn't allow login? Or a loading bar when you're entering a city zone? If the first one, sounds like a video card hangup. You can try the following steps: -- Open Tequila, but do not start the game. Click Options. -- Under Launch Parameters, enter "-ignoreBadDrivers -screen 800 600" and click OK. (This passes the 'current driver check', and forces the resolution to 800 x 600 on start, ignoring your preferences.) -- Click OK and try starting the game. If the login screen appears, change the graphics settings to either match your fullscreen native resolution (depends on your monitor) or Windowed mode, then return to Tequila. Click Options one more time and blank the Launch Parameters. Then try loading the client one more time to see if it works. If it doesn't, repeat the steps above to go back to 800x600, and try another resolution or mode. If nothing seems to work, let us know.

Another consideration: This is demonstrable in Paragon Chat where you can get past the Costume Validation at your own risk (Basically, only you can see the changes, everyone else sees no costume on you and you're just chatting in the channels, making you effectively invisible until you change costumes). Movement was covered in your proposal, but it's missing another factor: animation speed. You can see it in smaller toons, use a dance emote. Now do the same emote on a larger toon. Smaller toons animate faster, larger toons move slower to the same animation. If you make a small toon do the Pogo, when the dance speeds up, they bounce faster than a kindergartener on an energy drink at a point. The same dance on a humongous toon, and it's more measured. While increasing the size to your proposal isn't going to dramatically affect movement speed in the same manner as I saw it when I made an 80-ft. Tahquitz in Paragon Chat, however, the running animation will be affected for various powers making a slight 'sliding effect' more apparent with larger sizes. The toon is running, the avatar advances forward, but the steps are less in time with the position of the character so they look more like they're running with socks on a linoleum floor. Apply travel powers, and speed boosts and it becomes more visible. Same as the Magisterium Task Force, 80 ft. tall Tyrant never runs at full speed across the battle stage. That's probably why. Just another factor to keep in mind. (And "That's Paragon Chat, and this isn't, so there" is probably running through some people's minds as a reply. Possible, but it is the same engine in the end. The differences from Issue 24 to Issue 26 in the avatar/costume system isn't night and day exactly.)

You're welcome! 😄

Never used Cream Soda, but if it uses the same Manifest as patch.savecoh.com, it should be okay. Just make sure Tequila points to the same directory as Cream Soda did for the game client files. If a different manifest, there's no easy answer. It would be matching user files found from directory to directory from the Cream Soda installation to the Tequila one. Screenshots and costumes are easy, as both are obvious folders... the rest isn't (like VidiotMaps, other overlays, .mnu's, etc.)

Origin also affects DO and SO choices, stores you shop in, contacts you select or are assigned by others, and dialog choices (the Origins of Power dialog arc being one example). While all of these are questionably negligable in the end game (IOs make all of the above irrelevant at Level 50), it's still very much a part of the mid game. I'm not arguing the importance of Origin (save for every Level X2 and X7 training session beneath 47, that's the only time it occurs to me), but it's not trivial to say that origin can be dismissed quickly either development-wise.

It's the only permanent choices you can make for a toon: Origin, Archetype, and Powerset choices. Nothing in the game will let you change them, and GMs won't do it for you either. You can rename, change gender and Respec a toon, so if you make another Level 50 with the aspects you're seeking, you can "move their identity" over to the new Level 50.

I'm sorry you tried to make sense of any of that. Really, I am. 😂

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Be patient, I am the new fish there. 😁 I think the only thing I can say I had a hand in was this: