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General / Re: Download City of Heroes: Rebirth

« on: June 06, 2022, 03:57:05 am »

The basic instructions are these:

1. Click this link and follow instructions there to create your Rebirth Game Account: https://play.cityofheroesrebirth.com/public/create

2. Download the Sweet Tea City of Heroes launcher installer:
https://www.cityofheroesrebirth.com/launchers/SweetTeaInstaller.exe

3. After downloading, double click and run the SweetTeaInstaller.exe

4. Find and run Sweet Tea from your start menu. In the panel that appears, find the Rebirth server and icon. Select it and press the validate button. This will download and update your game files so you can start playing on Rebirth.

5. Once validation completes, with Rebirth selected click the "Play" button and get started!

But let us know if you are having any particular issues.

General / Rebirth Costume Tool Beta 0.3

« on: April 19, 2022, 09:57:48 am »

Hello Costume Fanatics

With the release of Rebirth RI3 and with the help of Silver Age Fan I have been working on an updated version of the Rebirth Costume Tool v0.0.3. It is mainly aimed at files of male & female costumes that were broken by the introduction of asymmetrical chests. However it will make an attempt to correct all costumes, even old v1 files.

You can download the tool from here: https://hero-id.co.uk/rebirth/costume-tool.zip

Download Zip
Extract to a directory
Rename your costume files folder to something like "costumes_bck" and create a new empty "costumes" folder.
run the costume-tool.exe
Set the source folder to the folder with all your costume files in it.
Set the target folder to the "Cityofheroes/costumes" folder (where ever that is for you).
Press "Execute" a wait a moment.
Log in to City of Heroes TEST or LIVE and see how many have worked.

I have not had as much time to test the male files as I did with the updates to the female files, so I think you will find many examples that don't work. However I will continue to test and improve where I can, given time.

One more caveat, as before I am not able to sign this programme. So you will almost certainly be asked to trust it and the only thing you have to go on is that I have been around since the second week of public Rebirth. I totally understand if that isn't good enough for the security conscious amongst you

cheers

Jagged

General Suggestions and Feedback / Team Inspiration Icon Size

« on: February 07, 2022, 05:01:56 pm »

I think team inspiration icons should be the same size as the comparable normal inspiration.
I have heard my team mates think they are worthless because the buff is so low.
But I think that's because the icon size gives them a misleading impression.

These two inspirations give the same bonus, but the group insp icon is larger, giving a false impression.

General Suggestions and Feedback / Listing Fee for Newbies

« on: January 21, 2022, 09:38:01 am »

One of the easiest ways for a new player to make influence is by selling top tier salvage on the auction house.
But you often can't afford the listing fee required to sell something for <doctor-evil>one million</doctor-evil>

So I wondered if it might be possible to give newbies someway of bypassing the listing fee for a limited period?

Perhaps an account based ability granted at the first level of the paragon reward tree?

Good idea or more work than potential benefit?

General / Rebirth Costume Tool Beta 0.2

« on: October 18, 2021, 05:07:24 pm »

Hello Costume Fanatics

With the help of Silver Age Fan I have been working on a little tool to help retrieve old costume files. It is mainly aimed at files of female costumes that were broken by the introduction of asymmetrical chests. However it will make an attempt to correct all costumes, even old v1 files.

You can download the tool from here: https://hero-id.co.uk/rebirth/costume-tool.zip

Download Zip
Extract to directory
Copy all your costume files into a separate folder, leaving your "Cityofheroes/costumes" folder empty
run the costume-tool.exe
Set the source folder to the folder with all your costume files in it.
Set the target folder to the "Cityofheroes/costumes" folder (where ever that is for you).
Press "Execute" a wait a moment.
Log in to City of Heroes TEST and see how many have worked.

My experience with the tool is that it will work successfully on most of the files, but by no means all. It is designed to work with the release thats currently on TEST (as at 18-Oct-2021) so if the file doesn't work on Live it may work on Test.

One more caveat, I am not able to sign this programme. So you will almost certainly be asked to trust it and the only thing you have to go on is that I have been around since the second week of public Rebirth. I totally understand if that isn't good enough for the security conscious amongst you

Developer Info
The tool works by creating a mapping of old costume elements to new and simply transposing the entries in a costume file. It does make a somewhat clumsy attempt at converting version 1 files into version 2, which seems to work more often that it should

The tool is written in Java

and the code can be found here: https://github.com/Jaggeroth/costume-tool
However I have excluded the Rebirth configuration files needed to make it work as they are not mine to publicize.

cheers

Jagged

Tech Issues / Re: Cannot install due to RebithTest.exe

« on: September 07, 2021, 06:57:56 am »

Are you still having problems with this?
If so try deleting RebirthTest.exe and revalidate

General / Re: 2XP or not 2XP? That is the question...

« on: June 19, 2021, 12:43:30 pm »

I am more than happy with the current situation and I really don't want the Devs diverted into needless developments. And funny XP options are needless. It really doesn't take long to get to 50 and most of the game is over once you are there.

General Suggestions and Feedback / Re: Feedback and Discussion Thread - State of the Game: Spring 2021

« on: June 11, 2021, 05:30:26 am »

Minor request: can the "State of the Game" posts be placed in the Dev Diary section rather than anouncements?

General Suggestions and Feedback / Horns and Sunglasses

« on: May 28, 2021, 09:02:46 am »

Horns and Sunglasses

One of the things that allways seemed somewhat arbitary to me is the categorisation of head details.
You have "Details 1" which includes everything, masks, glasses, horms, neck-things etc. Few of which seem like they should be mutually exclusive.
Then you have "Details 2" which includes masks, helmets, whiskers and other neck-things. Few of which seem like they should be mutually exclusive.

This is a particular problem for Officer Morgan:

Poor Officer Morgan is the butt of all the other officer's jokes because she cannot wear sunglasses.
Forever left out of the David Caruso jokes, which is a serious impediment for a police officer.

Not sure exactly how this can corrected. I think the models in Detail 1 & 2 use different anchor points.
But it would be nice to see some extra head detail slots so Morgan can stop shielding her eyes from the sun