Dynamix

No Hyperbole intended. And are you sure that's what they meant? They're adding.. dark powers to the arctype? Pardon me that's not a huge change. That's just an addition. No wonder I am confused. (It's also been rumored that the melee staff fighting power is coming out with issue 22 and that issue 22 isn't that far off.. but again I am merely goin on rumor here..)

Well at least you can GET to the game. I just got ahold of time warner again for an update. Just proof that information is spreading as they now report that every region that has time warner is affected and that their engineers are working to try and get things fixed.

... I am soooo asking for credit

Heh. I am not surprised. You're right tho, it does look like its Chicago! What is strange is that when I tried my tracer route it wouldn't go past 13. I am guessing that the person that works at time warner wasn't doing the traceroute WITH me. Tsk.

Lets see.. maybe it's time ONE more time to talk to the live rep and get em to report and fix it! heh.

You know. I am gonna contact Time Warner live chat one more time and mention this game specifically.. I am not sure how else to contact the game's support.. or if they would even be there on a saturday.. but if it's not Time Warner.. then it's gotta be the server end for COH. Here goes! ::dives into live chat with Time Warner tech support::

While I can certainly understand your frustration, and believe me there's a lot of us that are frustrated, what I believe we should do most importantly is to remind NC Soft and Paragon Studios that when they "ported" this to the Macintosh, they then brought the game to a community that is going to need support. The only way we GET that support is to be vocal. I will admit it wasn't until mid august that I went and downloaded the Beta client and saw on a whim all of the errors that were going on. I had presumed that it went through testing on the Mac as well as the PC prior to it being released.

Whether that is the case or not, is speculation. Only the internal testing people will know. However, they have been forthcoming in saying that they know things are broken and that they are going to fix it. (Still I am miffed that the fixes are not rolled into the LIVE publish.. but that's my beef.) My point without sounding too long winded, we're gonna have to roll up our sleeves and become mac proponents to get them to squash these bugs before something like this EVER happens to the mac gaming community again.

I'm a Mac gamer. And I am not going to go away. ::em picket::

Mmm it's not just you at all. I'm already predicting that this particular corner of the forums is going to become quite hot as people get home and want to play.. Still. If you can get the fixes to work, then you can enjoy the game!

heh. Well the support is currently coming from the Mac community! But heck we're all in this together! I'm not one of those geniuses like CuppaManga and Winterminal, but I am happy to help and point out where you can find their cup of genius at!

Hope it helps you get back to playing!

Howdy! I'm using 10.6.8 just like you are, and here's how I got the workaorund for it. I have highlighted the line you were looking for, and here's what you should do. First, copy that info.plist to your desktop so you have the original if anything goes wonky. Then.. open the plist in Text Edit and change the line to say:

<string>macosx10.6</string>

That's what I did and it did patch the new version of Cider. It'll do a couple other fixes before it then says "everything is good with the world and you may now play."

Fingers crossed!
-Mitey

I'm going to venture a guess that you're using Mac OS 10.5.8. If that's true, then ta daa, more fixes! This is from the post by Winterminal last night:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=271360

hmm. I send a PM to Winterminal about this and am waiting to hear back til any of us answer. Did your game at least patch up all the way?

I am presuming that what you are trying to do is to put the "coh old" folder that you made on your desktop BACK into the c_drive folder. If this is correct.. first make sure that you have renamed the folder back to coh... and then again OPTION click and move it into your c_drive folder. This will prompt you if you want to replace it... it also is merely copying what you have on your desktop back in. (you can simply try to move it back in if you don't want to keep a copy.. but I am not trusting the updater today, so I am keeping a copy of my preferences on the desktop.)

I hope that helps!

Depending on your version of your Mac OS, it probably is a good idea to copy out your COH settings anyhow as indicated in the instructions. The link is for a "new" updater.. Right now as I am trying to patch the game I reach 76% and then it hangs. So now off to try the new updater! However I would recommend at least copying your COH folder to your desktop. The transgaming folder is underneath "tgApplyPatch".

Its further down the list. I too wasn't sure where Transgaming was at first.. but it's in there. Keep looking sir.

Probably around the same time that you started thinking that "getting it fixed after it's posted" was acceptable as opposed to "I documented all of this in the middle of august during open beta".

I'm not arguing that it's getting fixed, what I am saying is that I PAY for the game. I am going to have no access (well access if I want to crash and not be able to play the game without intensively fixing the launcher again) to the Paragon Market to buy the stuff that Joe X, the PC user, will be able to do from day ONE. What surprises me more is that Mac users haven't become more infuriated at being told "wait. we'll roll your fix after."

Please note the use of the word SHOULD. And I am sorry you all, but as I said in another post it is not acceptable that the LIVE version coming out today has none of the fixes in it that will be in this "up and coming" patch. Like I said, mac players pay for the game too, and with this patch are NOT going to be able to use the Market which is the corner stone of issue 21.

One week later, four days later, however many LATER is still later. And that.. is not.. head start.

I'd love to see where you see that. His original post? The one where he says maybe?

that's a very good question. Zwillinger's fix was for the beta client and was directed at using the repair tool for the NC Launcher. In all likelihood that's not going to work. There is another forum thread called "What to expect on i21 launch day" with instructions on how to back up what you have.. and then how to proceed with patching it up, that is with the supposition that NC Soft is going to tell you to "delete and reinstall." I don't recommend deleting and reinstalling. Read the posts for "What to expect on i21 launch day" by CuppaManga and take notes. Read the WHOLE thread as there are updates.. then proceed. And of course.. stay off the market til it's patched. It's like during the 50s.. us Mac people shunned! no shopping for us! heh.

No Kitsune. There was a post from Zwill. He said that it'll be approximately a WEEK before they patch the mac fixes. They aren't rolling it out live. As of right now, there are NO fixes. zip. Zero. Nada. That is to say.. there are no fixes that are rolling out with the LIVE version. They say they have fixes and are fairly confident that they work.. but won't be rolling THAT patch out for a week.

Heh. Oh yes. If you use the market for more than 5 minutes, or even use the market at all, you will crash after awhile and not be able to start the client again. It happened in beta for days. Garbled text is NOT the only issue.