# Wanted! City of Heroes Players! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023 "2005-01-10T10:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 91
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1803 "2013-05-19T19:24:20Z")
So… I was hanging around in Atlas Park last night. No, really. Want to visit it again? > **[Titan Icon Information and Patch Notes](https://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,7288.0.html)** > > Titan Icon Information and Patch Notes The latest version of Icon will get you there. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1804 "2013-05-20T02:42:22Z")
That is fantastic. Can’t hit anything, but flying around AP was great. Need to check out the other five zones that are available when I have time. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1805 "2013-05-20T16:56:41Z")
Hwhaaaaa?! Thank you so much for linking that! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1806 "2013-05-20T19:36:24Z")
Bwah ha hahhhh! I tried the first version of Icon but all it did was let you mess with the character creator. Great to be able to just zoom around a little… thanks for the update link. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1807 "2013-05-22T13:57:07Z")
Try being a villain or Praetorian, and taking the tutorial or not. And the music does come up by location. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1808 "2013-05-22T20:16:59Z")
Any luck for those of us who, in a fit of anger last Fall, trashed our COH folders? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1809 "2013-05-22T21:23:59Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Any luck for those of us who, in a fit of anger last Fall, trashed our COH folders? You can DL or torrent the full game image. See the link for the utility and it has a torrent source. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1810 "2013-05-23T02:29:37Z")
Haven’t had a chance to try out the Icon tool yet, due to work being busy, but I plan to. I didn’t have the heart to delete my CoH folders on either my Mac or my Windows laptop - I kept everything in the vain hope that the game might come back in some form. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1811 "2013-05-31T11:32:11Z")
Icon 1.6 The penultimate screenshot studio. Download - [http://repo.cohtitan.com/icon/icon.exe](http://repo.cohtitan.com/icon/icon.exe) Source Code - New! - [http://repo.cohtitan.com/icon/icon-src-16.zip](http://repo.cohtitan.com/icon/icon-src-16.zip) New in 1.6: You can now enter Paragon City, Praetoria, and the Rogue Isles with your NPC-mode costume creations. Made some improvements to the parser to reduce loading times for very complex maps. New commands: /prev\_spawn, /next\_spawn, /random\_spawn These are by default bound to and F12. They allow you to jump between player spawn points on the current map. If you don’t like where you spawned, you can press F12 to go to a (probably) different random place within the map, or use the square brackets to step through the spawn points in order. New command: /spawn\_npc You can use this slash command to create an NPC at your current position. It takes two parameters, the costume to use (this is the same as shows up in demorecords), and the name for your NPC. Some examples: /spawnnpc Model\_Statesman Statesman /spawnnpc 5th\_Mek\_Man Mr. Roboto /spawnnpc Nemesis A Plot? New command: /move\_npc Default keybind: G Useful for fine-tuning NPC positioning for screenshots, using this command or pressing ‘G’ will teleport the targeted NPC to your position. Note that this will bump you out of the way unless you have noclip mode on, because Citizens \> All. New command: /delete\_npc Default keybind: Shift+Delete Sends your poor targeted NPC to the great bit-bucket in the sky. Why would you want to be so heartless? The /mov command works on NPCs, as does the F3 coordinate editor. These are not new features, but are much more useful now that you can create NPCs at will. The Icon source code is now available! While I’d sent out a few copies to interested parties, this version has been cleaned up, commented, and is a lot more understandable than the big unexplained chunk of hex digits. You still need a good understanding of assembly language, but it could perhaps be used as a learning aid. 1.5 added the ability to change zones. [http://home.roadrunner.com/~scuzzbopper/models.html](http://home.roadrunner.com/~scuzzbopper/models.html) This is a list of model file names. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1812 "2013-06-02T03:34:58Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > You can DL or torrent the full game image. See the link for the utility and it has a torrent source. Okay, I’m probably looking in the wrong place. Can someone post a direct link to the download of the game image? I know absolutely bupkis about torrents so that won’t help me. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1813 "2013-06-02T15:21:59Z")
Ono, see PM. If Icon continues to evolve along these lines, it will be very high-quality methadone for COHheads. Just wandering is almost-almost good enough, since I spent a lot of time in the later years doing mostly… wandering. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1814 "2013-06-03T17:34:36Z")
Well dang it, I followed the Mac instructions to the letter (twice!), but all I get is an error when I try to launch the City of Heroes app. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1815 "2013-06-11T15:49:03Z")
I’ve got two things for you today. [http://missingworldsmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1837](http://missingworldsmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1837) This is VERY IMPORTANT and everyone should read it. Titan Icon 1.7 What’s this I hear about a party in Firebase Zulu? [http://repo.cohtitan.com/icon/icon.exe](http://repo.cohtitan.com/icon/icon.exe) Release Notes: ``` Icon now displays a message with its version number when first entering a map, to help you be sure that you're running the version you intend to. Some of the residents of Paragon City thought that empty zones were boring, and decided to come hang out. This includes contacts, trainers, and any npc that's a "Persistent" NPC -- one that is hardcoded in the map data to always be present and not spawned conditionally by the server. If you want to return to the ghost town, you can use: New command: /clear_npc Wipes all NPCs off the face of the map. Known Issue: Some NPCs display a P-string for a name instead of their actual name. Unfortunately, the localized names for some of the NPCs are not present in the client files, as this is information that is normally sent by the server. If your favorite NPC is affected by this, feel free to use: New command: /rename Name Changes the name of the targeted entity to what you specify after the command. May optionally be enclosed in quotes, but not required. If you don't have an NPC targeted, changes your own name. New command: /load_costume Filename By popular demand, this command loads a costume from a .costume file. The file should be located in the "costumes" subfolder of your COH install -- this is the same one that is used for loading or saving costumes from the character creator. You should not include the .costume extension in the name, just use the name of the character that the costume was saved for. If you are targeting an NPC when you use this command, it will load the costume onto that target instead of yourself. New command: /be_npc NPC_Name Ever wanted to know what it was like to be the Avatar of Hamidon? Type "/benpc Avatar_Hamidon" and find out! This takes the same type of NPC costume specification as the /spawn_npc command -- see the wiki page for links to a full list. You can also use this command while targeting an NPC to turn it into a different NPC. Along with persistent NPCs, Icon now spawns all the doors that are referenced by zone maps. They are non-functional, but look better than empty spaces where they should be. Fixed the /spawn_npc command to prevent a buffer overflow that could possibly crash the client if very long names are used. Icon now includes the patch that allows the game client to load any files as overrides from data/. This should make loading custom maps, geobins, and other mods easier in the future. New command: /access_level Number This command changes your client access level. Cheater. The default access level is 0. Higher access levels unlock many, many developer and debugging commands, which are outside the scope of this post. There are no commands that require higher than access level 9. Caution! These commands are intended for developer use, and many are not user-friendly. Several of them will crash your game client. Proceed at your own risk. ``` ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1816 "2013-06-18T16:55:00Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/FAYRhxD.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/FAYRhxD.png) Step. By. Step. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1817 "2013-06-19T00:45:54Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/FAYRhxD.png) > > Step. By. Step. See, this is why I want a “like” button. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1818 "2013-06-19T01:21:15Z")
So … does the Unreal engine allow the same kinds of camera angles I could get in CoH? [http://misterrik.deviantart.com/art/Saturn-Signal-4-293351603](http://misterrik.deviantart.com/art/Saturn-Signal-4-293351603) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1819 "2013-07-19T18:05:33Z")
Anything new? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1820 "2013-07-19T22:20:47Z")
I just played hooky for about an hour with the new Icon and a web site list of commands, map names and such. Having the fixed NPCs spawn is a nice touch, and I couldn’t find and enter map names fast enough to visit a few cherished places. But my rage at NCsoft is going to consume the rest of my evening. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1821 "2013-07-23T17:42:57Z")
Kickstarter Sept 8th. Keep your eyes open. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023/1822 "2013-07-29T02:31:51Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > That is fantastic. Can’t hit anything, but flying around AP was great. Need to check out the other five zones that are available when I have time. I couldn’t get this thing to work on my Mac, but I finally got around to installing it on my Windows laptop. How do you fly? It let me create a level 1 character, and I could run around AP, but that was it. I was hoping it would let me load my existing, saved characters. Granted, since I played mostly on my Mac (really only used the laptop for a second account that mainly just existed to let me invite my own characters into my SGs), I don’t have many characters/costumes saved on the laptop. Hopefully I can copy my characters (or at least their costumes) over from my Mac. Also, nice to see that all of the “extra” costume pieces are available. At least I’ll be able to recreate my characters, if nothing else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023.md?page=90) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-city-of-heroes-players/284023.md?page=92)