City of Heroes

FTM · 25 Apr 2019 at 12:32

I would love to resurrect some of my old characters

that first time you got your super jump travel power...what a game!

JJimmyJ · 25 Apr 2019 at 12:52

Looks like I24 is almost in a deployable state and people may even be able to run their own instance with up to 200 peeps (depending on hardware etc).
I'd take that as a last resort. Prefer to have a proper community one

Rroff · 25 Apr 2019 at 20:56

JJimmyJ said:
Looks like I24 is almost in a deployable state and people may even be able to run their own instance with up to 200 peeps (depending on hardware etc).
I'd take that as a last resort. Prefer to have a proper community one

Hope so - I'll definitely grab the files if I can to run something locally for myself/family.

Narj · 27 Apr 2019 at 00:06

Now TWO public servers - I think this has hit critical mass and there's no way it's going away now. Brilliant!

GothicGhost · 27 Apr 2019 at 13:00

I hope we can host our own servers so later we can always have access to the game.

JJimmyJ · 27 Apr 2019 at 15:56

GothicGhost said:
I hope we can host our own servers so later we can always have access to the game.

Already can
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofhero..._coh_community_development_team_has_launched/

Rroff · 27 Apr 2019 at 15:57

Spent a good two hours last night with a team of 8 hitting missions in The Hollows - one thing I am finding is that previously I played the game on a much lower resolution - now in the middle of frantic action I lose the mouse pointer too easily with everything onscreen LOL - have increased the pointer scale a bit which helps.

GoogalyMoogaly · 27 Apr 2019 at 16:31

So if someone that wasn't going to play decided that maybe they were weaker than they thought and might give this a go, how might they get access?

Rroff · 27 Apr 2019 at 16:42

I think the guide here is still relevant:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofhero...uide_for_preparing_to_join_the_public_server/

If you still have an old CoH install that is reasonably up to date as per when they shutdown you can save a bit of downloading. Obviously don't use passwords you'd use elsewhere. You do need to create both a forum account and then a ingame account on the savecoh site.

In Tequila you'd use the 3rd option that isn't Paragon Chat or Icon - usually SCORE.

Narj · 28 Apr 2019 at 00:31

Rroff said:
Spent a good two hours last night with a team of 8 hitting missions in The Hollows - one thing I am finding is that previously I played the game on a much lower resolution - now in the middle of frantic action I lose the mouse pointer too easily with everything onscreen LOL - have increased the pointer scale a bit which helps.

I did the same. The option to scale your pointer. Is a life saver

Narj · 28 Apr 2019 at 00:33

For people who never played this game, follow the guides and I guarantee you will be addicted. This was the nmo that did everything right but got ditched by the publisher.

Rroff · 28 Apr 2019 at 01:02

Sadly seems servers are struggling (more than just the odd pause/map server message) at the moment combination of sheer player load and the patch they released to try and increase performance has some issues.

Rroff · 29 Apr 2019 at 18:44

We’ve had a bunch of questions regarding what the current setup is, where it is, and what it’s costing, so in the interest of transparency:

1x Auth Server (4 cores, 8GB RAM)

1x Web Server (4 cores, 8GB RAM)

4x DB Servers (6 cores, 16GB RAM) (One per shard)

5x Big Mapservers (32 cores, 64GB RAM)

4x Small Mapservers (16 cores, 32GB RAM)

It’s hosted in Amsterdam, and overall it’s costing around $4,700 per month.

Ooof I hope they can keep those funded - incredible how this game has taken off:

And some quick stats: We’re on 31,500 accounts, 107,183 characters, and we currently have just under 3,000 people online.

Times like this I miss having my old dual CPU Xeon 5 series server with unlimited gigabit - would have been nice to host some stuff but unfortunately was a bit of a drain on my finances.

JJimmyJ · 29 Apr 2019 at 20:32

Yeah I don't see how it's sustainable right now. Hopefully they can get I24 streamlined to run on less resources, but even then it still comes at a cost which they can't charge for.
Been loving it, although I did do some farming today. Without any monitoring you can fly through levels, got 17 levels in an hour. Also believe tips etc have no limits so can get merits easily. WW is not exactly well stocked

BS Dave · 29 Apr 2019 at 20:34

Are servers running better today Rroff. My clan of old are very excited about this

Rroff · 29 Apr 2019 at 20:43

BS Dave said:
Are servers running better today Rroff. My clan of old are very excited about this

I've not had much chance to play today (been busy) - last night was quite big queues to get into the servers.

MissChief · 29 Apr 2019 at 21:15

BS Dave said:
Are servers running better today Rroff. My clan of old are very excited about this

Supergroup thank you very much. This isn't WoW you know!

Sayso · 29 Apr 2019 at 21:31

Narj said:
I hit level 21 last night and it was a bit lonely up there so I started an earth /thorns dominator.

Ahhh i remember my earth/thorns The Thornicator, loved this game, i haven't got the time in need to play it though, i think i had 8 50's by the time i left it alone.

GoogalyMoogaly · 29 Apr 2019 at 22:49

Sayso said:
Ahhh i remember my earth/thorns The Thornicator, loved this game, i haven't got the time in need to play it though, i think i had 8 50's by the time i left it alone.

I think I had 26. Sort of why I'm struggling to go back without all my old characters.

Rroff · 30 Apr 2019 at 00:01

Ah midway through Positron taskforce and map servered and can't connect again

EDIT: Looks like their code to let people back in within 10 minutes of being disconnected is broken - if you join the queue, wait a little, reconnect it seems to think you were actually ingame and got disconnected and immediately connects you.