# Welcome back to Paragon City - how to play the revived City of Heroes **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [May 21, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264 "2019-05-21T02:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [May 21, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/1 "2019-05-21T02:48:40Z")
Holy toledo, Batman! City of Heroes is back! The instructions for how to play are written here, in detail: [https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,950.0.html](https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,950.0.html) To create an account, first create a forum account for the forum I linked above. Then sign into the forums. Then go to the game account creation page: [https://score.savecoh.com/account/](https://score.savecoh.com/account/) Of the five “Homecoming” servers, the one that’s the “unofficial RP” server (aka the new Virtue) is Everlasting. We have C.E.C.I.L. up and running there. Contact @thermocline, @dangerosa or @balanced via global chat to get an invite. Lots of fun nostalgia in the long-running CoH thread here: [Wanted! City of Heroes Players! - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=296158) ---
**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 21, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/2 "2019-05-21T10:18:09Z")
All of my toons are fortuitously on Everlasting, so I’ll join up. I originally rolled them all on Reunion, when it was still called Halcyon and not labeled “(EU)”, simply because it was showing the lowest server load. Used the pile of transfer tokens they handed out to move everybody over. I’m really enjoying the new i24 stuff. So far running into some pretty cool story arcs in Kings Row, complete with some slick cutscenes, something I don’t recall seeing much of before. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/3 "2019-05-21T12:14:54Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > Holy toledo, Batman! City of Heroes is back! > > The instructions for how to play are written here, in detail: > [https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,950.0.html](https://score.savecoh.com/index.php/topic,950.0.html) I suggest people read all the way through that thread before installing anything. Leaving aside the installation difficulties, there seem to be malware and re-sizing difficulties that need to be addressed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/4 "2019-05-21T12:26:58Z")
More about installation incidents [on this Reddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/bj4tb8/how_to_login_to_coh_score_server/) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/5 "2019-05-22T01:29:43Z")
Can’t remember how to chat, but Jim Beam (@Jim Beam) is back! Buy stock in hospitals! ---
**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:** [May 22, 2019, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/6 "2019-05-22T03:41:29Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Can’t remember how to chat, but Jim Beam (@Jim Beam) is back! Buy stock in hospitals! Welcome back, Jim! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/7 "2019-05-22T16:32:14Z")
I am playing on the Homecoming shards (mostly Excelsior), but it’s worth noting for the record that other efforts exist: [Massively OP article on public servers](https://massivelyop.com/2019/05/21/city-of-heroes-reddit-shards-homecoming-multibox/) Look at all these people willing to pay _substantial_ sums of money so that complete strangers can play for free, and tell me NC Soft didn’t err. A note about setup: while the instructions **Brainiac4** linked above worked for me, they recommend starting in windowed mode. For the first week or so, I experienced terribly long delays and crashes to the login screen _every single time_ I entered a city zone. Teaming with me was terrible, because every time we finished an instance, I was useless for 5-10 minutes. It was 100% reproducible, although the crashes to login were about 1 time in 4 or so. Then I changed away from windowed mode to full screen, and the issue _completely disappeared._ So if Windowed gives you issues, try changing to full screen. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/8 "2019-05-22T18:15:19Z")
If you want to recreate your original characters, particularly their backstories, check and see if you were tracking them on the [City Info Tracker](https://cit.cohtitan.com/). The character profile includes the name, backstory, powersets, and badges obtained. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/9 "2019-05-22T23:14:45Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > If you want to recreate your original characters, particularly their backstories, check and see if you were tracking them on the [City Info Tracker](https://cit.cohtitan.com/). The character profile includes the name, backstory, powersets, and badges obtained. Thanks for this, Balance. I was indeed tracking my characters, and this is great reference. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/10 "2019-05-24T04:51:28Z")
Is there an SDMB Discord server? If not, I’ll create one for us to use when teaming in City of Heroes. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/11 "2019-05-24T15:23:27Z")
That would be really cool. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/12 "2019-05-24T16:42:23Z")
I never played it back then and likely won’t now, but I was given a tour a few weekends back\* and I really enjoyed the names/costumes people come up with. Lots of really corny pun-ishment but I lol’d because I’m easy to please like that. \*After “let’s see if I can get this running in Linux” and two hours of cursing while I played another game. She eventually succeeded. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/13 "2019-05-24T17:27:20Z")
My playtime is very limited, but it’s nice to have friends to chat and team with when I do get on. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/14 "2019-05-24T20:00:37Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > My playtime is very limited, but it’s nice to have friends to chat and team with when I do get on. Same here. 🙂 (Stupid career and family and real life getting in the way…) ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/15 "2019-05-24T20:19:07Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Look at all these people willing to pay _substantial_ sums of money so that complete strangers can play for free, and tell me NC Soft didn’t err. OK. “NCSoft didn’t err.” First, the number of people willing to play something for free isn’t a good indicator of how many will pay for it. More importantly, they had the actual books – I’m sure they were capable of complex calculations like “greater than” and “less than” and determining if they were achieving their financial goals or not. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/16 "2019-05-24T23:43:16Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > OK. “NCSoft didn’t err.” First, the number of people willing to play something for free isn’t a good indicator of how many will pay for it. More importantly, they had the actual books – I’m sure they were capable of complex calculations like “greater than” and “less than” and determining if they were achieving their financial goals or not. The frustrating thing about the closure was that City of Heroes was making money when it was shut down. NCSoft wanted more focus on things in their portfolio where they saw greater ROI. And hey, that’s the kind of decisions that corporations get to make. But it’s hard to wrap your head around the idea of turning off something that is making money. Then add in the additional information that seven years later there are thousands of people - tens of thousands - who are willing to install a special installer, work through technical issues and engage in something that’s quite possibly illegal. That’s a level of desire for a game that’s pretty remarkable. And on the (modern) financial front, the Homecoming servers raised the $6600 they asked for in something like 20 minutes. So hey, maybe they didn’t err. Or maybe they did, and they could have had a nice cash cow for the past 7 years. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/17 "2019-05-25T15:36:46Z")
I’ve created a Discord server, SDMB-Games. Invite link is here: [SDMB-Games](https://discord.gg/yxRa4yj). ---
**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 25, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/18 "2019-05-25T18:36:58Z")
I’m not entirely clear how to contact a global handle (@thermocline, etc.) via Global chat. No matter what I type in the text-entry line (which I have set to “Global” gets converted to [Local] in the chat window and just puts a speech bubble over my head. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2019, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/19 "2019-05-25T22:35:22Z")
It’s been a while, but I think you can add global friends. I should be under @MausMagill. I’m original that way. ---
**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 25, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264/20 "2019-05-25T23:19:13Z")
BTW, my global is @RikOz [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-to-paragon-city-how-to-play-the-revived-city-of-heroes/834264.md?page=2)