This command sends a global friend request:
/gfriend @handle
Replace handle with their global handle (for example, @Pleonast). The request goes out even if they’re offline. You can then see each other on your global friend’s list. And easy to get a supergroup invite.
I’m on [del]quite a bit[/del] pretty much nonstop when I’m not at work. My global is @RikOz
I read that one rogue server was suddenly shut down. Apparently a dispute among its operators. While the Homecoming servers many of us are playing on seem well organized, it’s best to have fun on them now. The future is far from certain.
Yeah if the CoH servers get shut down it’s okay. I am enjoying the time I have now and have no expectation about how long it will last. I’m happy to be able to experience the game as long as I can.
I can only play from my office computer–poor internet connection at home. Almost no one in the SG online when I’m on. Servers are down for maintenance at the moment.
My alt-itis is kicking in again. My main is the blaster I started with…he’s 26 now. I’ve started two alts–a brute who accidentally ended up in Praetoria Nova (which I did not even no existed), and a corrupter who I was more careful about sending to the Red side.
Was anyone here good with binds? I used to have one for flying that would automatically change between Hover and Fly depending on whether you were moving or not. (I didn’t write it, else I think I’d be able to re-create it). IIRC, the one I used required a couple .txt files. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
And for that matter: does anyone remember Vidiot maps? I think I’ve got the files, but they don’t install with Tequila…and I don’t know how to install them manually. Anyone?
I can’t answer your questions, but I recommend asking in the in-game Help channel. While the channel can get off-topic chatty, real questions are generally answered well.
TexasAndroid linked his old “Speed on Demand” binds, with instructions, here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/bm9e0z/old_speed_on_demand_binds/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
I don’t like the ground-speed toggles (which require you to dedicate a tray slot) and would make some other modifications before I used them, but you may like them as-is. It’s a starting point, at least.
Here are instructions for loading VidiotMaps, with updated maps for Homecoming: VidiotMaps for Issue 24 and Beyond - Tools, Utilities & Downloads - Homecoming
THANK YOU!!! You’re aces!
I wish VidiotMaps (or, even better, the actual in-game maps) would label the darned neighborhoods. I’m always getting missions that tell me to defeat mobs in a zone, and go on to say, “They’re mostly in such-and-such neighborhoods”, because that’s not much help if you don’t know where those neighborhoods are.
Each neighborhood has a white dot marking it. If you hover over it, the name of the neighborhood pops up. However, you do have to uncover the marker by exploring that part of the map to see it (or you can use the Reveal power to clear the fog from the map).
It would be nice to have them visible all the time, but it might be hard to make them readable at the default map scale, and the map is already pretty busy.
Looking at my stuff on City Info Tracker, I see that the original Flaminatrix had about 304 million Inf at sundown. I’m trying to remember, now, if I was doing something in particular to make that inf, or if it was just a matter of the veterans at that time having so much inf that they could just throw 10 million at whatever I posted on the AH.
Finally got around to downloading Tequila. What server(s) are we playing on?
I wonder if my ancient hardcopy maps, which do show where neighborhoods are, would be of any use.
The new “middle” route to Inf, for those who don’t want to do complicated market stuff, seems to be enhancement converters. You can buy them in substantial quantity with reward merits, and they generally sell for around 200K each.
If you haven’t looked at them, the converters are basically gambling chips. You can use them to turn one enhancement to another random enhancement. There are a bunch of different options you can select for the re-roll, and market players use converters to turn cheap enhancements into valuable ones, which they can then sell. (And the market auto-attunes them, for the ones that people want attuned. I can go into that a bit more, if anyone cares, but there are better explanations than I can give on the Homecoming forums.)
The consequence of all this is that there’s a steady demand for converters, because market players burn through a lot of them.
I did recently discover the Converter thing. I’ve bought and auctioned a few of those on characters that weren’t having any luck getting rare salvage drops to sell. For my low-level alts, auctioning a single piece of rare salvage usually gets 450k-700k, which is more or less sufficient to pay for all that toon’s enhancement needs until they start getting into SOs - and at this point, only my main, Flaminatrix, has gotten into SOs. She’s 4-5 bubbles away from dinging 30. Everybody else is at 20 or below.
Okay, I just entered Everlasting as one of my later alts. Comstock the Blaster (Dual Pistols/Mind), an Old West gunfighter who was wrongly convicted and put to death. The death didn’t quite take.
Never got to do much with him before NC pulled the plug.
Tell me about it. Comstock is only level 5 and now I’m wanting to recreate some of my other alts that never got played much.
I’ve recreated my favorites and a couple that I never really got around to playing. I haven’t recreated my Old West character, though. (Liberty Valence, a zombified gunslinger animated by a lightning strike on his grave. I liked his look and the name, but he was an AR/Elec Blaster, which turned out to not be my cup of tea at all.)
Brainiac keeps wanting to play through old sets, so the highest character I have is Eliza. I never played through a lot of types - I never got a controller past 30, never got a tank into the 20s - so I want to play new characters.