Kitsune Knight

I'd recommend starting a thread in the Tech Issues forum, linking back to this thread, and including a copy of the logs from CoH Helper and HiJack This. The people that frequent that section generally know their stuff with various tech issues.

No, Masterminds can only have as henchmen:

• Demon Summoning
• Mercenaries
• Necromancy
• Ninjas
• Robotics
• Thugs

All of which are genericly themed. You can't have any faction NPCs as henchmen (there's some other pets you can get 「the Arachnos Lore pets might interest you!」, but they can't be directly controlled like henchmen and aren't permanently out like henchmen).

You can get some Arachnos armor through vet rewards (the helmets), but not much. The full widow/crab outfits are only available to Solders of Arachnos, and in their first costume slot.


Although, there are special permanent 'temporary' powers (generally given out as rewards for contests by the Devs, or for going to special real-world events) that can make you look like an NPC from various factions. Come i21, you'll be able to buy many different ones in the Paragon Market (prices TBA with i21). They've also given out various actually temporary forms of those powers during various Halloween events in the past, as well as there being at least one mission in Faultline where you get an Arachnos costume change temporary power (very short duration, though!).

The total xp/mission might drop a fair amount, but, the xp/minute will increase by quite a large margin for such a situation. Long as you do at least one point of damage, you'll get a minimum of 20% of the reward. Do more damage, and you'll get a higher percentage... but, however you look at it, you'll come out ahead (if you kill fast enough on your own, which you don't, you'd just come out even at worst).


Confuse is a beautiful thing

A tanker that would only use Aid Other? Did he at least use his taunt aura?

You'd figure many things. And yet they still exist.



(fortunately quite rare, at least...)

It's the classic "healor" build... which, really, amounts to considering Heal Other/Healing Aura/(maybe Absorb Pain) as your primary and most important... and possibly only abilities! Taking medicine is the natural extension of it. Not using any non heal abilities how it goes.



There's a reason people make fun of 'healors'.

The hex code spreads over multiple lines, so '\' are put at the ends of lines to tell the interpreter that the next line is just a continuation of the current one. The NC Launcher, apparently, does not do this! It apparently doesn't take into account what those mean, and then it fails on the next line!

The NC Launcher needs to be modified to be able to properly parse multi-line registry entries, as well as to fail gracefully (with an error message at the very least!).


No luck with the font issue so far, though. I tracked down the Paragon Market webpag, although it's SSL encrypted and I've not investigated it enough to be able to connect myself to check the raw HTML (it doesn't like Opera )... I might also try simply copying the standard windows fonts to my machine and see if it suddenly starts showing them (assuming it's merely a missing font issue!). If that works, then I can remove them until I find the one responsible!

It should be generated when you're launching the beta client (not the Launcher!). There should also be a "City of Heroes Preferences" folder in the same folder (if you've run the regular client on that machine). Make sure you're looking in your user's Library folder, and not the global Library folder.

You can "fix" this problem by going to Finder>Library>Preferences>City of Heroes Beta Preferences and deleting the 'user.reg' file. The file is apparently getting corrupted, and the next time NC Launcher tries to start CoH, it just hangs instead.


I'm currently trying to investigate both the issues (the fonts and the hang on launch), although I'm more used to doing this sort of thing in Linux, so I'm not quite familiar with the OSX equivalent tools. So far I've concluded that it's opening the market that will trigger the Launcher to fail the next time... now to dig through some diffs for anything interesting!

VEATs did, but the devs "balance the game around SOs". You'd need to get to level 20 first anyways (pre-i21), so a Crab couldn't be your first build regardless I'd recommend against a Crab/VEAT, since they're a bit more complicated to play. Get your feet wet first before diving into the more complicated stuff like that.


Personally, I'd recommend against this. You really don't need to IO your characters to perform well, and, if you're willing to use the market (which you need to if you actually wanna IO anyways), you should have enough money to do some decent IOing without outside investments (obviously not purpling out, but some generic IOs and a few sets).

If you find that you're liking the game after playing for a bit, and you would like to go more all out with IOing, I'd then say it wouldn't hurt to roll up a "farming" character. I'd suggest going with something that matures earlier on, even if it wasn't the best end-game farmer at this point as well.

That is quite definitely not what I was saying. I was showing that Burn's peudo-pet does not have the Afraid effect. I'm quite aware of the difference between Terrorize and Afraid (Illusion was my first hero )


(although I did quote totally the wrong thing in that post... but hush! )

So you did... imagine that!

Are you asking which I mean, or saying it can do both? A "demo" would work fine, but I definitely didn't know you could replace the splash screen with one if that's what you're saying... I'd be quite surprised, even!

I don't think Splasher lets me replace the background image with in-game scenes


(although I was trying to remember the name of the program, since I was feeling like replacing it anyways... so thanks for that )

No, not really. To make a comic book analogy... it would be like for a Superman game, having the title screen be Superman facing off against... A janitor that works at Lex Luthor's company (and not any that work in the secret labs! the guy that waters the planets out front!).


Ignoring the context, I think it's fine. When you realize the context, it just looks silly. Statesman vs Cole would have looked a bit better (but, that would just prove the Devs hate Villains ). I'd prefer something that accurately shows off the multiple factions... Hell, they could replace the static image with a background rendered by the in-game engine, like how WoW, Aion, and (imo the best example) Tabula Rosa did.

Have it panning over a battle field where Arachnos, Longbow, and Praetorians are duking it out, occasionally showing some random Heros/Villains running into the fray, creaming everyone in the area (and the camera just continues panning, going past them eventually and back to generic enemies). Could also do shots of various other zones, such as Atlas Park, Grandville, etc that are more scenic by nature.