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Please see this thread:

With regards Global Chat and some Account related issues, I have posted a locked thread here with the current known issues. I will update it as I can.

Further update:

With regards Global Chat and some Account related issues, I have posted a locked thread here with the current known issues. I will update it as I can.

Update on Global Chat:

This service will remain unavailable for at least another 30 minutes.

We apologise for the inconvenience, and I will provide updates as I receive them.

Some services (global chat included) are still being restarted following the maintenance period. Please be patient while they come up.

Since it appears the original discussion points have been forgotten and we're indulging in some forum-based PvP instead, this thread will be locked.

I've removed several posts from the end of this thread. Please remember that personal attacks and harassment have no place on these forums.

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Does anyone know why i can't get into COH eveytime i try to log in keeps saying that a problem has caused the game to stop working, unistalled and re- installed many many times but yet it's not working can anyone help?!!!!

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Please contact the support team about your problem (link is in my signature). They should be able to help you identify the cause of the problem.

Here's the thing: every extra minute of moderation on the forums that we have to do is a minute less time we have to do other, more interesting things (for both you and us).

Our jobs involve a *lot* more than just sitting on these forums all day keeping an eye open for bad posts, bad images and just generally moderating.

This is one of the biggest reasons why we tend to err on the side of not allowing some things that might be nice to have.

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I'd like to nominate MiniNukette's Epic Moments comic

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That comic will be eligible for the June edition (and remember to link to threads when nominating!)

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i just took down my firewall and everything is just peachy now thanks

Edit: scratch that its still f'ed in the [censored]

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The build currently being tested on the Training Room includes a /sync command that will resync your client to the server as a temporary solution. Investigation into exactly what is causing the desyncs to occur is ongoing.

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do a /petition in game or via 'Menu' 'Support' and request GM assistance with the issue, additionally contact web support 'Ask a question' for further assistance...
(Support's link is available via main webpage help, Ghostraptor's sig, or via your master account's help option.)

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Yep, get in contact with support and they'll be able to assist. Minor correction, however, you only need to do one or the other of the above suggestions. /petition requests and web form requests all go into the same system, so doing both just creates unnecessary extra work.

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Allowing forum members to embed images and videos, not just mods.

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This is highly unlikely to ever happen due to the additional moderation burden it would add.

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Raising the avatar size a lil bit. (about a extra 25 x 25 pixies would be fine)

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Not sure what the size restrictions will be, however with a new forum comes an opportunity to reassess this. One thing I can say is that file size will almost certainly be restricted by the forum code itself, so anyone with particularly large files as avatars may want to consider looking at finding a new avatar (or a version of the current with a smaller file size). Speaking of, I will be contacting a few people about their avatars soon...

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Banning the use of member name 'Golden Girl'.

Banning the use of 'animated' and 'hair' in one sentence.

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While I'm satisfied that these were meant as a joke, I'd like to point out that they can also be very easily misunderstood and jokes directed at other forum members (especially repeat jokes) may be considered harassment under the forum rules.

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More graemlins.

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Maybe. Except they probably won't be called 'graemlins' anymore .

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More forum types, enough to compete with the US forums.

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We'll be reviewing the forum structure as part of the new forums implementation. I, personally, tend to feel that the more specific forums are created the more you fragment discussion and end up with confusion about which forum a specific thread actually belongs in.

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OK that was really only the first part of the post...the second part is a request.

The request is: Wherever you host the new forums, please don't use UBBthreads. There are loads of free forum hosters on the market that forums are actually decent...

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As a profit making business, we can't use free forum software/hosting (they are either insufficient for our needs or are only free for personal / non-profit use).

We've picked out the forums we'll be using, and they are *not* UBB.

People, enough on the whole Psydock / Shannon topic please. It's off-topic and trending very close to the harassment rules.

I still haven't had the chance to fully read the thread, but I am following it ... just for noting:

Whether or not someone currently plays PvP in CoX is not a valid reason to tell them they aren't allowed to comment. That person can still have valid opinions formed on prior experience in other games (or CoX itself in the past).

These forums are open for all CoX players to express their opinions. If you disagree with someone, then feel free to explain why you disagree. However, to stress it again, dismissing an opinion out of hand simply because the person holding the opinion is not a current CoX PvPer is not a valid counter-argument. Pointing out why their opinion might be outdated, or not relevant to CoX, is a far better approach and helps advance the discussion instead of getting it bogged down in silly arguments.

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Prefer the Heroes content Would post on the Tank forums BUT theyre empty :/

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I've moved your post to the most appropriate forum. Per the forum rules, the Tanker forum is where this thread belongs.

(open admission: I have not had time to read this thread in detail yet. I will when I do. In the interim, I'm going to share a couple of things and address a couple of specific points I pulled from a quick skim read.)

So, going out on a bit of a limb here. I recently had a chance to talk with Brian Clayton about the future of City of Heroes, along with others on the team here. No, I can't share specifics. However, I did specifically ask about PvP and I there's a commitment there for work to be done and acknowledgement from NCNC that the PvP in City's isn't where it should be. The changes needed to make the current PvP system into something really, really good and industry-leading are not insubstantial.

The comments about The Hollows being worked on jumped out at me in particular on a skim read. The Hollows revamp was a tiny amount of work by comparison with revamping the PvP system. Whether that got done or not had zero impact on PvP work in the grand scheme of things. It was something War Witch got to do because there was an amount of time available in her schedule in which she could get that work done. There was a clear reason why Hollows was generally avoided, and the work done was to address that and was addressable with a clearly defined amount of work fit into a small window in a tight schedule. Any belief that working on updating The Hollows was resources "wasted" by not being allocated to PvP is really misleading.

As far as balance is concerned, in the past there was Castle and ... errr, Castle. Now there's Castle and Castle's minions. More resource = more opportunity for balance, both in PvE and PvP, to be more systematically addressed. We're already seeing the first signs of this.

As I mentioned earlier, there is a commitment there for work to be done. The very first part of working on improved PvP balance commenced with i12 and will continue through i13 and beyond. All I can say for now is wait and see: PvP is certainly on the radar as needing work. I think PvP in CoX has a future that's worth waiting for, but there's absolutely no timeline that can be attached to that.

Right now is the time to post reasoned discussion points, suggestions and criticisms. And be patient. It isn't the time to get frustrated and rant or make threats about what must or must not be done. The team is (re)building, it's a great time for you to be heard: the best way to do that is rein in your frustrations of the past and current situation for PvP and instead let us know what you'd like to see for the future.

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and you live in the UK

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I so hate that...

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the compo page itself it states "Standard MGN Rules apply"
so i read those rules
and nowhere it says you have to be from the UK ...

also, you have to enter what Country ur from
why would they do that, if it's a UK only competition?

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so i entered anyway

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Don't read too much into what I wrote ... had to do it in a hurry and didn't have time to fully read the contest rules, and as the paper is a UK paper that phrase got thrown in 'just in case'. If the rules allow non-UK entries, then go for it .

Thread title for the forum index has been changed.

I'm going to be putting together a news post for this event, which made the use of the Olympics name a little problematic.

If you do, and you live in the UK, you might want to take a look at today's Daily Mirror!

The Daily Mirror has announced a City of Heroes competition to celebrate the launch of Issue 12: Midnight Hour. One lucky Mirror reader will win their very own uniquely-crafted PC. The case features unique artwork drawn by Andrew Wildman, one of the artists from the charity Draw the World Together who regularly attends events with us!

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Now if only they made the game client to auto-detect when it's out of sync instead of waiting for the player to guess it (a guess that usually comes way too late and leads to embarrassing results...), it will be cooler!

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The team is not going to assume this is a final fix and stop working on the desync bug. The re-sync command is not considered to be a final fix: it's a workaround for those affected while a more permanent fix is sought. I'm very hopeful that the desync bug will soon be a thing of the past for everyone in the near future, and that the command will not be needed for more than a month or two.

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I am so sorry, but I was under the impression GMT was the British timezone, I'm Dutch myself.
Think it's best to keep the initial post intact, which makes it 21:00h BST.

Thanks for pointing that out

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GMT is the British time zone, but not during summer. During summer the UK switches to daylight savings (BST), however GMT never changes as it is a reference time zone used worldwide.

Defcon_Kid,

If you haven't already, please contact support with your problem.

However, from your description, this sounds like you are getting a windows blue-screen error, which (according to the webpage your linked to) is caused by your display driver crashing.

Rig has multiple meanings, mainly nautical, however this one fits best:

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apparatus for some purpose; equipment; outfit; gear: a hi-fi rig

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OK, this discussion isn't really going in a direction I like, in terms of atmosphere. I'm not going to close it yet, but I will if I feel at any stage that it is going to degenerate.

You can discuss the topic, but you cannot name-and-shame the player concerned. That applies equally to this specific topic and any other topic (such as PL, gold seller etc).

This policy is in place to protect against someone making a false or misleading accusation on the forums and permanently impacting on another players reputation.