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What do you mean by you can't get past the login screen?

Does the program just hang and do nothing?

Does it crash?

Do you get an error message?

You should be able to get rid of all the hostile spawns by putting in the maximum number of destructible objects.

Or at any rate that used to work.

Fill the map with destructible objects till it says you have too many. Remove one object and you are set. No mobs will spawn anywhere on the map.

At least that worked for one of mine.

The devs have absolutely nothing to do with anything that is banned in game. The GMs and customer service get to make those decisions. At one point a dev (I think it was BaB) mentioned that if he were to ban a player while in game he could actually get in trouble for it no matter what the offense.

The correct procedure for this is to open a customer service ticket through your main account. The arc will eventually be reviewed by somebody (and it may be quite a while) and you will get a response telling you if it can be republished with changes or if the whole theme makes it unsuitable. Or perhaps it will even be decided that it wasn't offensive and it will be marked as being ban proof unless you edit it further.

BigSung. Your problem is that your video card is bottom of the line. It's really not suitable for this game except on the very lowest graphics settings. This latest update through the Magic pack added several intense graphical features in the form of the new costumes and powers. Odds are that your card is simply being pushed beyond it's limit.

And even if the card can still play in minimal graphics mode your drivers for it are 3 years out of date which makes a big difference.

Something I noticed.

In all the CoH Helper posts above almost everybody has Realtek HD audio. The one exception is Ravendas.

And the audio drivers for everybody are at least a couple years old. The one exception to that being Scaywee whose audio drivers look to be corrupted since they are showing a date of 01/01/0001.

You might want to do some searching around and see if you can find a more recent driver version. Audio drivers have caused CoH crashes in the past.

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What about the Kheld player who figured out a way to 2-shot Hamidon by putting an infinite number of slots in one of his blasts?

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So is this really a covert Chuck Norris factoid?

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This actually happened. A Kheld discovered a bug while respecing that let him keep putting slots into a single power. The only reason it took two shots to kill Hamidon instead of one is that the damage cap was less than Hamidon's hits.

Coh is much more graphically intensive than WoW. Provide your CoH helper as mentioned above but odds are that you need to update your video drivers.

Check your program files. They should be named cohupdater.exe and cityofheroes.exe. If they are named cohupdater.eu.exe and cityofheroes.eu.exe then you have the European version which is why it keeps giving you the wrong name or password response when you try to log in.

It's the card overheating, guaranteed. That is the only thing here which has ever produced that effect.

So do the regular stuff. Make sure the card and fans are clean, that the inside of the case is clean, that all fans are spinning. Get speedfan or something similar and check the temperatures.

Then go out and buy a new card because you are going to need one in a month at most.

Thanks for the positive comments on The Devs must die. I'll see what I can do about spicing up the hobobots. I thought they were a little bland myself but I was focused more on the custom humor than the custom creatures.

Currently I don't have any other Arcs. Just a couple single shot missions.

So other than the unmutual sense of humor how was the mission? Too difficult, too easy, about right?

If you don't get the humor you don't get it. Not everybody thinks the same way. Personally I would rather gouge my eyes out with a dull spork than watch a movie featuring Will Farrell who is the singularly least funny person on the planet. However for some inexplicable reason some people like him.

I've changed the mission to track down the Arbiter to try and spring the joke as you rescue him.

I hate how the nav bar works when you put multiple objectives in. I'll have to do more research on how to lesson the annoying listing of each one if that's even possible.

Hopefully you actually read the clues and descriptions since the majority of the jokes can be found in those.

As a hero or as a villain for that matter you really don't have to help Nemesis if you don't want to. It's your choice if you want to let "The Devs" and their hobobots take over the city soon or aid Nemesis in stopping them. It's the hero's decision which one of those is the lesser of two evils.

And try as I might I can find nowhere that it's spelled Stakesman. I'll run the missions to see if it shows up there.

Edit: Found the misspelling and fixed it.

Just ran Hero Therapy. Great imagery job. The asylum map has never felt creepy to me before but this time it definitely did. That was all thanks to the little nightmares. Obviously they had been doing some siphon speed before I got to them because the first sign of them was a flicker of light zipping around behind screens and equipment. Definitely a very creepy feeling.

By the end I definitely came to dread the appearance of a little nightmare ambush. The bosses were well done and the EBs were the toughest I've faced yet in an AE mission. The Door particularly was a bit overwhelming and I had to retreat briefly, something I never do with EBs.

I agree with the above sentiment that the therapist was a bit creepy. Especially since whenever you managed to abandon him he shouted something about not leaving him behind because he wanted to watch.

Overall great story line and dialogue.

Now for the parts I didn't like. The glowies are ok with the little psychological bits. However there seemed to be an overabundance of them in the asylum map. There were only two types of description for them and the glowie sound was driving me crazy. There isn't a single spot in that entire map where it didn't sound like you were standing right on top of one of them.

But that's really a rather minor nit to pick. Again, well done.

You won't find any great depth to my arc since it was knocked out in a couple hours and is intended only as light humor. However if you want to try it

Arc Name: The Devs must die!
Arc ID: 113956

Known issue that already had several threads about it.

Also, if you open the ID of a character who does have line breaks in it then it will also change to a wall-o-text.

It hasn't happened just once before. It's an occasional bug that crops up where somebody winds up trying to load into a corrupted version of a zone. It might be because the current zone had a hiccup or because the player was trying to log in at the same instant that a second instance of the zone was being created or removed.

If the character isn't manually reset by a GM who gets the petition then as erall said, maintenance will reset it.

They didn't forget your name. Didn't you see that big article on you in the Paragon Times last week? Under that big picture of you pounding on the Nemesis robot the caption says "Unnamed Rescuer saves local business." I guess the hostages thought that was your superhero name.

Crashing while loading is almost always a sign of too little ram or else a bad stick of ram. You have 2 gigs which should be plenty unless you have tons of other programs running in the background. You might want to try memtest or another ram testing program to see if you have a bad stick.

It's the video driver. Upgrade to the next version.

Just duplicated this myself on my blue wisp. /bugged it in game and sent a PM.

Update: Tested with red wisp and blue and red shield drones. So far only the wisps cause the crash.

Network lag. Your wireless connection obviously isn't strong enough. You won't really notice it when downloading things or cruising websites because packets lost just wind up being retransmitted. However since the server and your end of the game don't doublecheck themselves constantly but only at intervals or when some event occurs you are going to get rubberbanding.

My advice. Buy an external antenna for the card and the router. I'm 100 ft away from my router and have two walls in between. Before the antennas I wasn't even able to see the router, now I get great signal strength.

It's not hacking when you give out the details that let somebody take control. It's foolishness on your part.

Plus even if you gave them the game login they never should have been able to get into your master account and change things.

Sounds like you made one of those mistakes that winds up teaching a valuable lesson the hard way.

Incidentally you can now have this former friend prosecuted for identity theft, and if your credit card was being charged for their game then they can also be prosecuted for credit card fraud. Or you might find it in your heart to let them buy you an all expenses paid vacation to anywhere you like... rather than you giving them an all expenses paid vacation to a federal prison. But that negotiation is in your court.

Send us a postcard.

There is only one update server. Lots of people have been downloading because of lack of planning. Every time a new major release comes out all the old subscribers get an invite back and a bunch of other people get free trials.

That said, changing the updater shortcut to

CohUpdater.exe" -port 13094

Will usually speed things up.

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Arc Name: The devs must die!
Arc ID: 113956
Somebody has hijacked a Nemesis plot to overthrow Paragon and the Rogue Isles. And Nemesis is looking for help to take them down. Ask yourself, do you want to help Nemesis or let the mysterious organization known only as "The Devs" take over?

Humorous little arc thrown together on a whim. Uses a combination of standard and custom mobs. Difficulty, moderate. The first boss is durable but not too dangerous. The final EB can be beaten solo but unless you are a scrapper it will likely require insps and possibly pets.

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Ok, honestly...what difference is there between this:

Lvl 5 troller lfsewers

and

Lvl 5 troller lf AE

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The difference is that the broadcast isn't "Lvl 5 troller lf AE" It's "Lvl 5 troller looking for AE farm."

The fact that the word farm features prominently in 90 percent of the looking for AE team broadcasts shows that most those people aren't looking for a team to adventure with. They aren't looking for mission content. They are just looking to get maximum exp and tickets per minute.

Personally I don't care about them farming. If that's what they enjoy then let them enjoy it. What bothers me about it is that I put work into creating a mission arc that is meant to be entertaining in every aspect and I get to watch that mission pushed rapidly down the list and get virtually no players. Meanwhile a farm mission, that is advertised as a farm mission, is getting 5 starred and tons of repeat plays.

As I said, I'm not against the farmers. I just kind of feel like I wrote The Wrestler and I'm looking at a box office take of 43 million after 18 weeks. Meanwhile Yes Man is at 229 million after 15 weeks.