City of Heroes New Player Guide and Tips Page for Homecoming Server!

[CyberWoLfman]

Although I've been creating City of Heroes help pages since at least 2010 (the City of Heroes Enhancement Comparison Guide is at least that old), I've not posted it to the Guides section, yet.🤦‍♂️ 

 

Sometimes, I've given the URL out in-game to individual players and maybe once a day or so on the Help channel. But, I thought I'd share it with the forum users.  It's created primarily for new players, and, possibly, those who haven't played the game in years (kind of similar to why I made the base on the Excelsior shard (RADICAL-7910) so easy to find things (except the hidden rooms, which, aren't really that difficult to find), like splitting the portals up based on the side and posting the level ranges of each zone over them, since most new players frequently choose the busiest shard).

 

The full URL is https://cyberwolfman.com/coh_tips_homecomingservers_city_of_heroes_homecoming.htm

 

But, I made a tinyurl to it with https://tinyurl.com/coh-homecoming-tips which might be easier to give out in-game.

 

Just added a section to it which helps players access the Open Beta's Brainstorm server,  Which is convenient, since Issue 28, Page 2 - Build 2 is now on it! 😎

 

Of course, I also included links to the Homecoming Forum and the Homecoming Unofficial Wiki!

 

Other things are now easier to find, as I fairly recently added a left-side navigation bar to the page.

 

Maybe it's something that players can give out to those who want to get used to the game ASAP.  Copy and paste it into a global in-game e-mail to yourself to give to new players, if you'd like. 😄

 

There's some spots where I go into details (such as ways to get around faster in the game, like using LFG queueing and how to play the game on Linux), but, I've left out tips on using the Auction House or Black Market, if for no other reason than it fluctuates a lot, so, what might be true at the time I write and post it on the Web page, it'll probably change in a matter of hours.  LOL

 

Don't know if the devs might want to include it in a mission-loading tip or not, since I'm certain there's more well-designed pages out there (I code using a simple text editor, as I have for decades), but, at least I can say it's ad-free and there's nothing for sale on it, like the rest of my personal Web site.

 

Also have a few City of Heroes videos on my YouTube channel (not monetised) as well as the Flying Werewolf Tour of the RADICAL-7910 base on Excelsior shard, which includes a glimpse into one of the hidden rooms.