CrashPositron

Yes everyone gets that while maintenance is in progress - and the server status page is broken, so you can't tell from that either.

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Kevin Callanan
Community Moderator
Paragon Studios

I'm Crash Positron and I approve this message.

This morning COH is down for maintenance until 12 or so. I guess you've tried previously to login (like yesterday) and gotten the error?

Verizon shouldn't be the problem. However, the game is using a new installer/updater since you left. Are you still using the old loader?

Sorta applies to the alt animations questions:
I would like a toggle so that I can not see the ice / fire / dark buffs (like ice shield, fire shield) cast on me. I spend a lot of time getting the costumes just right, but spend most of the time with the look buried under ice or flames (these shields make it hard to see the screen sometimes too, particularly the fire ones).

As far as animations go, jump kick looks stupid, and need more (different) blast animations for fire & energy (although I do like the new arm-wave one, surely someone could come up with an additional one or two). Why does 'Martial Arts' not have any sidehand strikes (karate chops, etc.) ?

How about a puff of smoke alternate animations for the various 'instant heal' powers ?

'Exploding fist' animations for fire/energy/dark scrapper punches.

A minor thing, but Ninja Run: do we have to a flip with every leap and could a side leap involve a 'tuck' (watch a gymnast do a side leap) instead of somehow changing direction in the air ?

Remember the 'Kheld Bug' where the character appearance didn't change but the dwarf and nova powers still worked? I want that as an option! (Maybe with the faint outline of the dwarf or nova around the the character).

No, I believe you, just some folks were having additional trouble due to the temporary patch file (PRV) and deleting the Checksum causes COX to repair any damaged files.

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\program files\City of Heroes
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRN and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
(This is for XP, Vista and 7 are similar, but call the CMD box something else)
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\Program Files\City of Heroes)
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRV and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\program files\City of Heroes
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRN and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

How to fix the 'No response from server' problem:
Exit COX
Using Windows Explorer or hard disk browse, go to where your COX program is installed (like C:\program files\City of Heroes
In the City of Heroes folder, find two files: one ends in PRN and one ends in CHECKSUM
Delete them
At Start, click Run. IN the box, type CMD
The Command Prompt black screen appears. In the command window, type :
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS <--- notice the space before /

After it runs, type EXIT in the command window and the black screen goes away.
Restart COX
It will checksum and then fix the broken files
It will verify
And then you can log in

Trying the suggested fix right now. brb

Crash Positron

Getting the same response on all servers.
There is a suggested fix - I'm trying it now
brb

Crash Positron

My list:
World of Confusion - have had it before, usually doesn't do anything, even with 60% or 70%+ Acc, when it does confuse, its AFTER the baddies have already attacked me, just an ugly aura
Poison Arrow - occasionally I saw it hit with its secondary effect, v rarely with its primary effect
Time Bomb - useless
Flurry - a weak version of 'The Sands of Miss', I mean 'Mu'
Ghost Axe - limited uses & slow. I have a few chars with it for the look, but wouldn't take it otherwise. If it was a single-hit ghost kill, I would take it more often.
Ice Aura and Fire Aura - not because of the protection, which is useful, but because it obscures my character, and in the case of the Fire Aura, puts a distracting visual effect that makes it hard to click baddies. I LOVE the new colors, but there are so many layers of auras, effects, glows, etc., around now that I sometimes have trouble clicking and clicking trying to target, but hitting auras or shields instead. Would love to have a Suppress Effects or Tone-Down Others' Effects setting in Graphics.
Telekinetics - last time I got it, it was just a time-limited Repulse power. I expected an immobilize power.
Sonic Repulsion / Whirlwind - useless most of the time
Jumpkick - I get it sometimes for an autotrigger self-defense power, but the animation is slow and ugly

I like Propel - good damage, just wish everyone saw the same item when I throw it!
I like Black Hole, too - toss the baddies into a room-top corner for dmg and collect them in the corner for the tank to taunt

I was entering the SG base when this error occurred - I was told to send it to the fourm:



Assertion failed

Program: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Thu Sep 24 01:15:45 AM
Process ID: 3160
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0

Error Message: CRT abort() called

ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.

GLobal @CrashPositron - logging in

Gratz on level 40, Rhynwa!

First impression:
Wow, its cool seeing all my toons in the last uniform they had on!
(I have to be sure they're wearing something decent when I log off . . . )
<. <. .> .>

Crash

Cool, I'll have to try that