Are the official forums broken again? They're telling me I don't have an active game account any time I try to post.

Help?

Edit: Already checked my account page and logging into the game. Both work fine.


Edit 2: Aaaaaaand, they're back.

From today's "Now Testing in the Training Room" thread:

Cimerora: Fixed missing ocean in first mission of Imperious Task Force

Current Mood: amused

Anyone see this set in WW/BM, or the update to toggled travel powers?

Well, global seems to have just gone down the tubes. GMOTD popped up, suddenly my global handle was changed to my character's name, all global friends gone, all global channels gone and claiming they do not exist...

Whee.

My widow, Onyx Widow (level 41 Night Widow) doesn't have those long coattails (aka 'the buttcape') that Night Widows all seem to have.  Did I miss something, or is this something that doesn't become accessible until level 50?

Also, how do I set any other costume slot to the Widow template?

OK so I know Ive been bad and haven't logged into City of Heroes for a while (curse you World of Warcraft!)

but way to make me feel guilty NCSoft!


I would dispute that I havent logged into her for the last 136 years, I mean I am forgetful, but not like this

So has that 'toon rearranging' bug got you down? Where every time you visit a server your toons have either completely changed their order, or just revert to the order of creation?

For whatever reason, the game is corrupting the playerslot.txt file whenever you modify it by rearranging your toon's order in the server list. The corruption is the addition of a string of nonsensical characters to your file, and continues to add them each time you modify the file by rearranging toons.

There is a fix! You can manually modify this text file and then set it to 'Read Only.' The game then cannot modify or corrupt your text file and your toons will remain the order you wish them to be. [Read Only: Right click the text file and click on Properties. At the bottom, above the OK/Cancel/Apply buttons there is a checkbox for Read Only. Check it, click apply/ok and you're set.]

Also, if you've had trouble lately with the game crashing when you quickly switch servers and toons, this fix should help. The game flips out when it's trying to make sense of all the gobbledygook and you don't give it much of a chance by switching quickly, so it crashes. If you don't want to mess with the text file, you can prevent this crash by just giving the game a breath or two between switches.

You can find the playerslot.txt file in the account name folder of your city of heroes directory. Example:

C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\accountname\playerslot.txt

Before you go changing that file, however, you may wish to make a copy and rename it for backup. You can either add to the file (playerslot_2a.txt) or change the extension (playerslot.bak).

The basic formula is this:

"account name" "Server" "toon name" "order number"

Where the "order" numbers are 0-35 on each server, with 0 being the top slot on the first column and 35 being the bottom slot on the third column. ( the tl:dr examples here )

If you create/transfer a toon later, you'll have to remember to go back and modify the file manually again if you want them in a specific place. Otherwise, the game will automatically just place them in the first avaliable slot each time.

Now good luck and happy rearranging!

*Edited for slight clarifications.

I bid on a stack of recipes. I checked on the status hours later. I lost all the bids, but the sale history showed some sales at my price followed by sales at lower prices. I shrugged and said, whatever. These were only recipes for common IOs, and it was 2XP weekend. (Note: if WW were working properly, it is still easily possible I would have lost out to other bidding at my price or higher. The thing is, there should have been no sales at prices lower than my bids.)

But it occurs to me that if this was not simply a result of 2XP, and for example could affect bids on pricey recipes, this could be quite annoying.

Did I do wrong to not /bug it? On the other hand, perhaps others already reported it.

Uh.. Is it just me or does there appear to be no global anything in City atm?

Meant to post this last night, but forgot.

I grabbed a level 2 VEAT and teamed up with FB, Lag and AF last night. I was LKed up to them. While they were all summoning their pets, I went through and claimed all my vet rewards. I know for sure I clicked on the reward to claim the VG/SG base teleporter.

After I had claimed all of my rewards, I opened up my powers list to start dragging the powers into my trays. The VG/SG teleporter was not there. I read over the list several times. I also went back through the badge list several times, but it wasn't in either place.

I asked in the LJ chan and no one mentioned having seen this problem before. I resolved to log off and back on at some point to see if the power appeared. Then @Pyper sent me a tell and said that they'd experienced the same thing, and that if I zoned the power might appear. Apparently this happens if you pick the power when you are SK/LKed up to someone.

After mission complete we exited. Still no power. We did another mission, during which we had to all hit the base (team wipe). And we completed the mission. At some point with all the zoning I did eventually get the power in my powers list.

So if you experience the disappearing veteran reward trick, just keep zoning til you get the power. Apparently.

6.24.08 - Version 17.20080612.1T

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( Anyone see the new skirt options? )

I hadn't noticed it until now but the character list re-ordering bug is gone. This is the one where if you switched servers, the characters at the character select screen would just randomly change order. I couldn't tickle it with changing servers a few times and exiting CoX and getting back in. Was this fixed previously and I just didn't notice?

I didn't see it in the latest set of patch notes.

Current Mood: pleased

The bugged buff icons are getting really annoying.  I can't be the only one who relied on that stuff next to the team window while playing my controllers and defenders to know when it's time to refresh force field bubbles or reapply things like clear mind.  Last night I was playing my grav/ff with an awesome team of LJers, and I was still beyond frustrated that no icons were showing up at all for either of my force field buffs.  There's no way in hell I'd dare run in a PuG with this thing broken.  It's like driving a car with a busted fuel gauge.  I don't know how I12 could get rolled out with something this obvious broken, or why it's taking so long to get a patch done to fix it.   Maybe I just don't understand how code works, but if it was working before... what's so hard about getting it working again?

/rant

CoX is a bit messed up right now. It is still playable. However:

Some channels (like LiveJournal) and also global friends and global ignore lists are missing. Error messages about "invalid command" or -"wrong number of parameters" show up in the chat windows, and some of these appear to be related to the problem of the missing channels.

[ETA 5:26pm Eastern] Things look fine now. [/ETA]

Someone want to clue me in on how you keep your character page in any semblance of order? Ever since I12, I've felt like I've been playing some sadistic mini game called "Guess where your character is?" that they didn't include in the patch notes.

Yes, remember my login name is checked.

So I'm a little confused--

I have not yet gotten a hero to 50, but I have a villain at 50, and it supposedly unlocked an Epic Archetype for me. I made one (widow), but I went to make another and the epics are grayed out. Are we only limited to 1 epic per server?

If I get a hero to 50, will I only be allowed to make one epic hero?

Is it just me, or does other people have issues as well?

I crash every time I want to switch to another toon and I rarely have game crashes. This happens on different servers.
I also wanted to transfer a toon from Triumph to Virtue and I selected the toon, but if I say "buy transfer" the tool want to transfer a different one.

I´ll petition this now; I´m just curious if other people have the same problems.

Anybody else having issues with door missions d/cing them with lost connection to server errors on every door mission and real bag lag. Can't even move most of the time. I'm dealing with the tech department right now but I was wondering if anybody else was having the same problem as me. I was playing fine on the Monday before issue 12 went live. I play on the protector server if anybody was wondering about that.

Main Character: Ash Hellsbane - lvl 50 claws/regen scrapper
Alts:
Sparks Tum Tum - lvl 25 ma/regen scrapper
Summer Soldier - lvl 24 assault rifle/devices blaster
Beowulf Strahd - lvl 21 katana/regen scrapper
Demonbait - lvl 21 db/invul. tanker
Granite Father lvl 18 stone/stone tanker

Is anyone else having this problem since Issue 12 went live? At random moments, even when I'm just using the character creator, the game crashed to desktop and Window logs out and shuts down my computer. It is driving me completely apeshit. I've tried:

Turning down graphics settings.
Reinstalling CoH.
Updating graphics and sound drivers.
Updating my virus scanner and scanning the entire machine.
Virgin sacrifices.

Nothing is working to stop this. I didn't have this problem on the test server with I12, nor has this ever happened before on this computer with any application whatsoever. It's making teaming impossible, and giving me fits. Thoughts, anybody?

POSSIBLE SUCCESS!! I deleted the entire folder and started over. it seems to be holding out, though the occasional flicker that heralded the crashes can be seen. Lets hope for the best. Pray for me.

Current Mood: aggravated