Master-Blade

Well.. at least you can't blame that one on spell-check negligence. haha

That could be true. It might also be possible that when i12 was released (when the custom option files were added), the OP might have done a /bindsave from a character that still had it, which means all characters created from that computer since then will still have it too.

That's what I get for (not) paying attention. lol

So I don't happen to have toons in either of those places, but it doesn't take much to sprout a couple and help out, so if you want to try to get a group together on your server(s), I'm in... just as long as I'm not at work.

I have access to a couple accounts, so I might be able to provide a few fillers for you... especially if anybody wants to do this during the free activation weekend. That'll add 3 more accounts to my availability list. lol

Easiest thing to do is log onto a character that has it set up the way you want them, and do /chatsave. Then log onto the affected character and do /chatload.

Yep, looks like we had just the right number of people show up, and we had a couple filling toons to stand in as people came and went. It went very smoothly right up to the end until somebody forgot to wait for the badge to ding before exiting the match.. so we had to redo that round. lol Thanks for setting this up, CaptA!

Gratz to everybody who came, and special thanks to those who crossed servers to do so!

Same here. I'm willing to move somebody over or create a temp toon to help you guys out if you really need the spot filled. Just let me know. BTW, which server are you on? I might already have a stray toon over there.

Don't you have to load the bind file first? It's not automatic (except on newly created characters).

Well, there's your problem! lol j.k

Glad it's working for you again.

gratz!

Problem is I'm on a villain. There might be some other villains too. I'd say Pocket D would be a better idea. I know you can access the arena from anywhere anyway, but it'd be easier to organize if everybody was together and can talk in local.

Maybe whoever took the screenshot didn't buy GR to unlock them yet. lol

Silver Mantis as a "Master of" would be fun .

And don't forget the possible Cole's TF in the upcoming releases.

Window position/scaling/opacity is saved separately on each character. Is it possible those characters used different preferences (even by 1%) than the rest?

If you /wdwsave and /optionsave from a working character, then /wdwload and /optionload on the affected characters, would that have possibly fixed it?

Did you change any of your in-game options after your upgrade that may have been responsible for resetting those options and fixing it?

It's possible that the multitude of people running the update at the same time this morning might be causing the "Connecting #" problem. For all we know, it'll work fine tomorrow. This is of course as long as you are not getting the "failed to rename" problem described in the stickied thread. That's a separate issue.

For now, you should still be able to bypass the updater and log in using the method explained above.

Besides it not being supported, you have to make sure you are linking to cityofheroes.exe, not cohupdater.exe, and if you have the EU version, it'd be -project eucoh

Example:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project coh
-or-
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.eu.exe" -project eucoh

Also, for anybody using the -project coh extension to get into the game, keep in mind you might run into trouble the next time there is a game update. You'll still have to run the Updater to update your game, so you might have to eventually fix your updater problem anyway. It's good to be able to get in now, but it might be in your best interest to still fix it in your spare time, or else i17 is going to come out and you might not be joining in.

Hopefully though, it's just a temporary server problem from everybody updating today, and it might work just fine tomorrow.

-renderthread 0 would supposedly disable the multi-thread instruction and only use 1 core of your processor, instead of two. I'm not sure why you would want to do that. Your error message might be referring to that part of your instruction set.

For those of you above using -renderthread 1... it's been enabled by default for a long time now. There is no reason to use the command line anymore.

More importantly.. for anybody using the -project coh extension to skip the updater and get into the game, keep in mind you might run into trouble the next time there is a game update. You'll still have to run the Updater to update your game, so you might have to eventually fix your Updater problem anyway. It's good to be able to get in now, but it might be in your best interest to still fix it in your spare time, or else i17 is going to be released and you might not be joining in.

There is a sticky on the top of this forum by TheOcho that explains how to possibly fix it.

Hopefully though, it's just a temporary server problem from everybody updating today, and it might work just fine tomorrow.

For anybody using the -project coh extension to get into the game, keep in mind you might run into trouble the next time there is a game update. You'll still have to run the Updater to update your game, so you might have to eventually fix your updater problem anyway. It's good to be able to get in now, but it might be in your best interest to still fix it in your spare time, or else i17 is going to come out and you might not be joining in.

Hopefully though, it's just a temporary server problem from everybody updating today, and it might work just fine tomorrow.

While this is true, I think the point Alt was making was that if the OP was logging into a new trial account each time, the characters he/she made on the last account will not be shown.

Alt didn't say the toons would be deleted, but that you'd "lose them unless you buy".

But the point is we wont be able pre-order the Complete Edition on the site, so getting the NCSoft pre-order wont give the other costume and power items, and you wont get the 30-day of time added either.

Yes, we can purchase the extra items separately once it's finally released, but it still wont give 30-days of time, which makes it cheaper to just wait for the actual release.

The only reason to pre-buy is if you want to have the new powersets ASAP.

It sounds to me like the OP doesn't want to buy it from the NCSoft website, so unless they want the powersets "NOW", I'd recommend just going to their favorite retailer and pre-reserve the Complete Edition in a box (if/when available).

That is rather funny how it worked out, and GRATZ to you!

I'm not sure that was a result of a purge, but actually a result of the merge.

More than likely, there was a "Lucky" on both forums, so those people ended up being branded as "Lucky_NA" and "Lucky_EU" when the boards merged. You simply stole "Lucky" from under their noses before they could get it back. lol

Edit:
Confirmed! A quick search shows that there are members with the names Lucky_NA and Lucky_EU. I guess they never bothered changing it at all, if they even still play.

You can view the list on the old forum via archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/200806111...p?Cat=0#titles

The serverlist is populated by the client, not by the Updater. I'm not sure how they would NEED to update the updater just to include more servers, unless they are changing the sources of the updates.