MedievalPower

Hi Gangrel,

I tried that, but right clicking and selecting to repair returned the "root element is missing" error.

I got impatient and decided to reinstall CoH. I renamed my City of Heroes folder (so I don't lose my saved costumes, AE arcs, etc., and started up the NC Launcher. It started up like I hadn't yet installed CoH live and I selected to download and install the game.

That seems to have fixed the problem although I would like to know what file(s) got corrupted so I could just fix those next time.

Hi all,

I have CoH live, test and beta installed on my machine (Win 7 x64). Starting today, from the NCSoft Launcher, live is showing up as red. Test and Beta are still green. When I try to start live the launcher returns the error "root element is missing". There is a Repair button on the error screen. If I click it, a couple windows pop up briefly then close. No errors, but no change. Live is still red. Clicking to start live returns that same "root element is missing" error.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing the launcher. No change. I am reluctant to try uninstalling CoH as I searched on the web and this error has been reported by some Aion users who reported that reinstalling the game didn't help.

There is a "force startup" or something like that option to play the game. That's working for me for now, but I'm guessing when the next game patch comes out I'll be in trouble.

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas on how to fix it? If I don't get any new options, I will try reinstalling the game.

Team MP(s) started with... ugh, Paragonwiki needs update, I can't find the new i21 contact names... Started with the first guy in Atlas. It was quite a challenge keeping 6 people sync'ed through that contact, with all the fedexes and street sweeps and missions that were in "side rooms", for lack of a better term, on the Atlas map.

We then ran through the next contact, Sondra?. Much the same types of problems. These contacts are really designed for solo play. At least she had a couple of instanced missions that we could do shared completion on.

We then took a break from the contacts and ran through Death from Below. Picked up 2 from the queue and ran through the trial at 8. That got us to level 9/10.

Isolators teams reorganized at this point. We lost one and picked up a couple. We ran through Wincott and Flux in the Hollows, topping off the night with Frostfire. I took advantage of MG's cheating and used his missions as they were higher level which effectively made them +1 for most of us.

The cuter MP made a suggestion that we try out creating a League next week which should make for better team reorg and Isolator-wide communication. Each team can be off on different missions while in a league. I have seen this in action a few times. It's pretty cool.

Finished off the night around level 13/14.

FYI, apparently today's patch notes stated that Shock Rifle and Devastator were now available. But they pulled it from the notes

Optimistically though that might mean that they may be available for free in a subsequent patch.

Hey Killi,

I don't think you can devastator or the other 2 models that were pulled during beta:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=269661

Maybe they'll be re-added as unlockables or purchaseable or free at some point, but there's no way to get them now.

-MP

Edit: the three pulled were Shock Rifle, the Shard Cannon, and the Devastator

And the fates (random.org) have decided! Time/Fire defender it is.

Corruptor: Beam / Rad
Corruptor: Beam / Time
Controller: Grav / Time
Controller: Ice / Time
Corrupter: Beam/Poison
Defender: Time/Fire

At least until I decide I want to play something else...

To my dear wife,

To one of the great leaders of Victory. You do so much for so many on Victory. And for the CoH community as a whole through your PERC leadership. But they all only get to see a small part of just how great, caring, and loving you are. I'm the lucky one because I get to see it all the time.

Happy Birthday!!! I'll do my best to help make it a good one!

Love you,

- MP

I'd like to join up with Isolators again. I've got a mental list of characters I want to create. Some candidates for an Isolators run:

Time/Fire def
FF/Sonic def
Storm/Ice def
TA/Arch def
Traps/Beam def
Grav/Time troller
Ice/Time troller
Dark/Dark blaster
Fire/Psi dom
Elec/Elec dom

Maybe I'll just roll a d10 to decide...

I haven't tried it (I've always brought my rad defender so far who has tier 4 clarion), but based on the numbers on paragonwiki it should just take a couple of tier 2 breakfree's to counter the confuse. So, a simple solution is to pack a stack or two of tier 2 breakfree's. There's only a couple times during the whole trial where there is a chance to get confused. It's just that most players aren't in the habit of carrying breakfrees - especially those with mez protection toggles.

Planning to buy Beam rifle and a new pack of character slots for the extra spaces on Victory if needed. Although I think I have some slots saved up so may wait a bit on that.

I'll probably roll a couple of new characters there just to check out the social atmosphere. Sometimes it's difficult to get a decent low level team going on Victory - usually I end up playing level 50 stuff as that's what most people want to do. And besides I always have more character concepts than I have slots available on Victory anyway.

My frequency of playing there will probably largely be based off the population and how active the server is. I'm guessing most of the time I'll still be on Victory.

I bet they are treating the Mac client issues as a showstopper.

I also expect they will do one pass at balancing of prices at the store, but I bet they'll do that maybe a week before release. There really isn't much reason to make the price changes too early as all they'll end up with is lots of posts about forum user's favorite store items still being too expensive.

I'm sure they'll fix some other bugs too, but other than the Mac client issue, it seems to be in pretty good shape. As Voodoo already said, there's always plenty of open issues when a release first comes out, and there will be frequent patches I'm sure for the first few weeks after i21 comes out.

I'm thinking end of September.

I made 900mil on the market in one "flip" transaction (buy recipe, craft and sell enhancement). And it wasn't due to someone making a bidding error.

Two words: Street Justice

(and a few levels on my Elec/DM tank - thanks FMP!)

Nice, Mental! I'm 2 or 3 trials away from being done myself. On the bright side, doing all those runs on my rad defender and blaster got me tier 4 everything on the defender and tier 3/4 everything on the blaster, a couple purple recipes, and a respec recipe.

Edit: And, done. Woot!

Very cool. What does he eat?

I had a blast on this! Thanks for setting it up.

Having a strategy to avoid the having the map-wide hold hit at the same time as an Obliteration is a great idea. There are some players though, who, for whatever reason, seem to get caught in the beam more often than others. Maybe they're not paying attention, or the beam marker doesn't display well on their screen, or they have some badly timed long animation attacks.

Whatever it is, if you have one (or more) of those on your league and they don't want to go to the hospital, you're screwed.

Tip: if in past keyes runs you have found yourself caught in obliteration beams, no matter how hard you try not to, then you may want to volunteer to go to the hospital.

GP, thanks for adding the Victory Limitless channel to your OP.

Aww, sad to see you go, Penny

Hopefully you'll be able to drop in to say hi every once in a while when the mood suits you once CoH Freedom comes out.