A thank you spotlight - Philotic Knight

[_NOPE_]

Just now, DoctorDitko said:

Yes, and the wiki link doesn't download anything.

For paranoid ol' firewalling me.

 

The link that's on that site is what's called a "magnet link", and works with any torrent program. So, you have to have a torrent program installed in order to be able to download it.

[DoctorDitko]

AH!

OK, my apologies. Entirely on me, then!

 

Don't get me wrong; Bittorrent is an excellent idea and a worthy protocol (Microsoft stole their "Allow Peer Downloads" from it) but my so-called ISP blocks 'em all by default.

 

(It's a pet peeve: Web does not equal Internet! Call yourself a "Web service provider" and price accordingly, ya jerks!)

 

Thanks again, _NOPE_! Hope you are well! (Your secret identity is safe with me!)

 

 

Edited October 12, 2022 by DoctorDitko
rant

[America's Angel]

2 hours ago, _NOPE_ said:

Mostly because people have been pinging me, and since I'm not a COMPLETE curmudgeon, I feel the need to read and respond. That will die down pretty quickly, I'm sure.

 

I just got this working today:

https://wiki.ourodev.com/view/I25_Community_Virtual_Machines#i26_Self_Installer

 

So, if I ever need a hit of that sweet CoH juice, I've got it now:

 

I **WILL** miss the community though. Thanks everyone.

Welcome back!

[PeregrineFalcon]

3 hours ago, _NOPE_ said:

I just got this working today:

https://wiki.ourodev.com/view/I25_Community_Virtual_Machines#i26_Self_Installer

 

So, if I ever need a hit of that sweet CoH juice, I've got it now:

I'd love to have a copy of City of Heroes that I could run on my own computer for myself, and possibly my friends. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills necessary to set that up myself.

 

3 hours ago, _NOPE_ said:

I **WILL** miss the community though. Thanks everyone.

Peace and long life to you good sir.

[_NOPE_]

22 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

I'd love to have a copy of City of Heroes that I could run on my own computer for myself, and possibly my friends. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills necessary to set that up myself.

Oh, it's actually pretty easy. Here, I'll give you the step by step with screenshots:

 

1. Download and install a torrent program (I like qBittorrent) and 7Zip.

2. Click this link and use your torrent program to open the "magnet link":

 

3. Choose where you want to put the "7z" file at:

 

4. Wait for it to download completely:

 

 

5. Locate the file in your file system, right click on it, and extract it using the 7Zip right mouse click menu:

 

 

 

6. Drill down into the extracted folders until you come across "InitialSetup.bat". NOTE - BEFORE you run it, make sure that the files are where you want your server/client setup to be installed. If it's not where you want it, move it to where you want it now, before you click the ".bat" file. Run it:

 

7. Say "Y" here:

 

8. The script will start, say "Yes" or all the "positive" buttons for all of the installer processes that start happening now, until they are all done:

 

9. Inside the directory, there should now be a link called "Account_Tool", run it:

 

10. This tool lets you modify the database easily and let's you setup accounts and characters and such. Use it to make your own account on your server:

 

 

 

 

11. Once this account is setup, you can now start the "game server", which is really like a DOZEN sub-servers. Go back up a folder and double click on "Startup_Server":

 

If you see any prompts from Windows like this, just accept them all (you may see MANY!):

 

At this step, my AVG Antivirus also FREAKED out, saying that they were all filled with viruses. These are "false positives", just add Exceptions to your anti-virus, or turn it off while you're running this.

 

12. You'll see these 13 different icons pop up on your computer, each one is a different server:

 

Just keep switching windows and watching them until they all give you a "happy" positive message, like these ones. It might take a while for all of them to link up with each other and be sitting there "stable", but they'll get there... eventually:

 

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---

 

13. Finally, you can go back to the main folder, and start up your "Client":

 

Log in and BOOM, you're now in your very own lonely, silent, "City of Hero":

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by _NOPE_
Formatting corrections.

[_NOPE_]

To stop playing, close down your client like you normally would, and then go back to the main folder and double click "Shutdown_Server", and the magical script will shut everything down:

 

 

Edited October 13, 2022 by _NOPE_

[Troo]

That's great PK!

Your instructions are a bit more streamlined than the original SCoRe release.

 

Everyone who wants one should have a copy of the game.

 

 

maybe call it Paragon Chat +++.

 

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Troo

[flakoff]

I have now got coh running solo but no idea how to add stuff like hc test server

[Bionic_Flea]

3 hours ago, _NOPE_ said:

Log in and BOOM, you're now in your very own lonely, silent, "City of Hero":

This is awesome.  Thanks!

[PeregrineFalcon]

So if I'm able to get this up and running on my computer, how do my friends (Shut it Flea! I do so too have friends!!!) connect so that they can log in too?

[_NOPE_]

9 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

So if I'm able to get this up and running on my computer, how do my friends (Shut it Flea! I do so too have friends!!!) connect so that they can log in too?

That's... more complicated, and involves actually opening up your PC for the world to find. I've never done it, though I'm sure I could probably figure it out for myself, I have no interest in it, so I never had to figure it out. Your best bet is to either see if there's anything over on OuroDev to describe how to do it (here's the FAQ):

 

https://wiki.ourodev.com/view/I25_FAQ

 

Or, join the OuroDev discord and ask around there:

 

https://discord.gg/5k3RXKYv

[Doomguide2005]

Weee, now even i might be able to get my own copy for when 1) I get a working computer 2) and in the horrid case of a second shutdown.

😁😁

[WanderingAries]

On 10/11/2022 at 1:46 AM, Troo said:

Now, with that out of the way, how does this relate to City of Heroes? Well, through some miracle of life, I managed to get through college and graduated with a degree.

 

In Computer Information Systems.

 

Immediately after Y2K, when thousands of developers were laid off since their work was no longer necessary.

 

In a tri-college town where dozens of students were graduating each year with degrees in my same field.

 

I had also screwed myself by not specializing, instead taking a little bit of networking, a little bit of programming, a little bit of electronic engineering. I had made myself a “jack of all trades, master of none”, and had screwed myself to every job because there was always someone else that was more of an expert in that area than I was. So, I delivered pizzas and worked in the Geek Squad in a Best Buy (with a BACHELOR’S in CIS). It went this way for over a year with no hope in sight of jumping into the tech career that I wanted. A life with no meaning. I got depressed. I got bored and lonely, as I was no longer surrounded by fellow students that were forced to interact with me. I got dark and considered ending my failure of a life.

 

Who told you to out my bio?  *cries in corner*

 

As for the topic, yeah, PK's always been one to try to help and take ideas we threw out as wish lists and put them into workable tools.

Edited October 15, 2022 by WanderingAries

[lemming]

I didn't see any layoffs from after y2k, but there was the popping bubble in late 2000 iirc

[DoctorDitko]

Would this work as a Docker instance?

 

(Don't run Docker; use Singularity instead!)

 

 

[BlackSpectre]

Wow. Sorry to see you go, PK. I know we only just started talking, but dang! We were like kindred souls. Messing around with the game mechanics and mods, etc.

 

I'm sorry you were slighted by the Homecoming crew (or at least feel that way. I didn't read what happened and wasn't involved, sorry). But if what you love about the game is the community, the camaraderie you get from us, and the joy you get out of helping many, many players who have the same love of the game... then stay, PK.  We weren't the ones who dissed you, and yet we're the ones who will suffer from your absence, not the devs.  

 

Anyway, I'm sure if you ever decide to come back that nothing will be held against you. You're always welcome here.

[Solarverse]

On 10/12/2022 at 6:45 AM, America's Angel said:

He's not quit. He still logs into the forums every day:

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/profile/6005-_nope_/

 

Logging in to read forums does not equal playing the game. I left the game for my own reasons that I won't get in to here...my gripe was put quite bluntly in the past already, no reason to bring it up again, yet I still log in once a week or so to see if anything has changed to undo what brought on my reason for quitting. PK is likely doing the same.

 

Edit: And as I read on, his reqson was given.

Edited December 4, 2022 by Solarverse

[Bionic_Flea]

I hope you one day come back to play too, Solarverse.

[Troo]

Almost to the one year anniversary

[Solarverse]

On 9/17/2023 at 12:33 PM, Troo said:

Almost to the one year anniversary

 

And still miss the guy.