Master-Blade

I just use the program shortcut I described above to bypass the updater if I ever need to:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project coh

The only time you'll ever have to run the updater and verify is when an update to the client is required.

The problem is, if the registry doesn't even have the correct install directory to begin with, neither method is probably going to help much... and going into detail on how to edit the registry isn't always a good idea anyway. I know you added a slight "disclaimer", but some people are going to go to the wrong place, and add/delete the wrong thing, or think it's ok to do the same thing for other programs.. and that's just heading down a bad road.

If you want to provide a helpful registry key.. just provide the key and say: "Those who know what you are doing will know how to use this, everybody else please disregard. It can be 'dangerous' messing with your registry if you don't know what you are doing."

On a side note, I have XP and my registry files say "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00", not REGEDIT4 as you describe.

I still need Justin and Sara on Tabby, so that's who I'll bring to this one

No. It's just the predownload we usually get about a week or 2 before the release.

The download actually started yesterday morning.

Mission Teleporter and/or Ouro shortcut.. FTW! (I haven't been in the Midnight Club in ages.)

Me either. In fact, I'm WORKING on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, AND Monday. lol

Will it help if I give you another "i phail" award before we start? lol

If you didn't press "Repulish" when you were done changing it, it wont save to the server, and you'll possibly lose that change.

And yes, autosave still does try to save temporary local copies of the arc you editing, even if it's a Published arc, so it's still going to overwrite anything in that file. As mentioned above, that's unfortunate and something to learn from. Make sure you don't keep things you want to save in a temporary file.

Sorry

For CoX, the NVidia PhysX is not going to work. For other games, it might.

It has also been discussed that there is not a big noticeable difference by getting an older Aegia card that is compatible with CoX... at least not any difference that is worth going through the trouble of buying one and tweaking it specifically to work with CoX. All the GPU PhysX did was unload the processing from your main processor to the video card, and with today's multi-core and faster speeds, it doesn't always provide any kind of real benefit.

CoH won't recognize my PhysX card

Dedicated Physx using nvidia card

About CoH's PhysX Implementation

THIS.

The autosave feature is designed so you don't lose your work if you crash or DC while working on a story. It's not a replacement for saving and naming your files. If you start working on StoryB, and you like it, you should name it by clicking the "Save As.." button

If you want to edit a published arc, make sure you are on your Published Arc tab, not your Local Stories tab, or else it's not going to apply to the published story. Re-publishing the edited local story results in a duplicate published story and a new ArcID.

Nix that. I just tested it. You still need 3 actual members to start the TF, and still need 2 members to keep the TF alive. The i16 difficulty rating seems to only affect the spawns inside the mission, not the status of the team/TF.

Indeed, since the badge doesn't even exist yet, we don't gain or lose anything from the challenges, so there should be no difference in attitude once somebody dies.

When/If somebody gets the "i phail" award, we'll certainly still try to avoid deaths for practice toward future runs.

Yep, the map only shows your relative x and y position. You were most likely directly below the team. If you had fly or some kind of jetpack, you probably could have flown up about 1500ft and saw them, and the mission. Using /stuck could have popped you back into the map as well.

If the team was able to get in, but you were not, it's likely they were just crowding the door, and the server didn't have a place to put your character, so you just fell behind the door. If it happens again, try using /stuck, flying up to take a look, or if it's convenient, use Ouro to navigate back to the entrance. Either that or you can obviously relog like you did this time.

Good luck

That dividing line doesn't necessarily split the list into exact teams, it's just to signify enough people to run more teams. It looks like you can pretty much bring whatever toon you like at this point and we can find a place for you without much problem. Hope to see you there!

Just make sure you do all your patching and updates at home on your regular network. lol

Sounds like you fell through the terrain somehow and ended up at the "bottom" of the mission. Were you very low on health (from fall damage) when you started also?

Anyway, yeah.. relogging or simply resetting the mission usually fixes that.

I'm not sure that the 3rd party company has fixed the issues yet. Hopefully it clears up soon. We'd love to have you come along. You can bring any toon you wish to bring. I'll put you down as -TBA- for now.

I feel silly saying this, but make sure it's actually named "bash1.txt" not "bash1.txt.txt" or "bash1".

Other than that, I've got nothin' for now. lol

You drop a mission by talking to the contact that gave you the mission. I don't know of any command that does it quickly. You can call the contact through your Contacts window, but I don't think it's allowed during an Ouro. If you are stuck with something, you might just have to send a /petition, or restart it with somebody who can help you complete it.

Not quite 100 kills depending on the circumstances, but not all the Shard TFs are long either.

The point is, you get a badge for the TF anyway, and you still get inf and other rewards while you are playing.. as opposed to spending almost the same amount of time hunting in open fields for specific enemies and possibly getting no other rewards from them if they are Grey.

I've never bothered doing the arc on Villain-side, so I'm sure that's still easier than Hero-side.. but I think doing a TF is easier than hunting for foes. I suppose it depends who know, so you can get a good team together.

As for badge hunters.. if somebody going to run each of the 4 TFs for their respective badges, they'd most likely get Visionary naturally as well, so it'd be a waste of time to hunt.

This. Make sure you go through your Hero/Villain elevator first. There are no TP restrictions in those hallways.

On a side note, whenever I want the rularuu weapon unlock on Heroes, I simply finish a Shard TF. That unlocks it in a short time without having to hunt around either. That seems fairly easy for Hero-side.