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[https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/12-help-amp-support/ Forum-based support] is available as well as a [https://discord.com/invite/cityofheroes Discord Server.]  Everyone starts over at level 1.


=== March 7, 2007 ===
More information about the [[Game Client]] is available here.  You do not need any prior NCSoft installers, apps or game files to play.
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==== PlayNC European Store Update ====
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According to ThinIce on the official forums, the following message was received by support regarding the inability for players to order game and upgrade codes for servers outside of their region:
* [https://fbsa.wiki/ FBSA Wiki] - Character bios, stories and RP content.
* [https://mods.cityofheroes.dev/ City Mod Installer] - A web site to download and manage mods.
* [https://costumes.cityofheroes.dev/ Icon Catalogue] - A web site to display and share costumes.
* [https://forumarchive.cityofheroes.dev/ Live Forum Archive] - A snapshot of the former CoX boards.
* [https://suggestions.cityofheroes.dev/ City Suggests] - An alt toon randomizer. (From RubyRed)
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* [https://midsreborn.com/ Mids Reborn] - a new character creator tool forked from Mids Hero Builder.
* [https://cod.uberguy.net/ City of Data v2.0] - Power information database


:"We apologise for the inconvenience, however if you cannot currently see the option to purchase a US serial code, this will be changed in a few days. In the meantime, we thank you for your patience." [http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Number=7787216#Post7787216]
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It now appears that the change to the stores was intended only to be a default, not to lock players into playing on certain servers.  More updates will be posted as received.
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=== March 5, 2007 ===
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==== European Players Denied U.S. Server Access ====
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'''Important Note:''' To clarify, ''existing'' European players are still able to access the U.S. Servers.  The following applies to ''new'' accounts and account upgrades only.
 
Players with European IP addresses are now unable to purchase game codes for playing on U.S. servers.[http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Number=7764218]  As a result, all new purchases of City of Heroes, City of Villains, and premium account upgrade options from NCsoft within Europe are effectively denied for non-European server access.  This action was implemented without any advance warning, other than an announcement that the option to transfer accounts from U.S. servers to to European servers would be disabled[http://de.boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Number=740056#Post740056], with no warning that new accounts and premium account upgrades would be denied to European players.
 
The motives behind this decision are subject only to speculation, but a post in the official NCsoft forums offering to facilitate Europeans obtaining codes for playing on U.S. servers was deleted.  Since NCsoft doesn't wish for messages pertaining to such an offer to be posted on their site, I (TonyV) will echo it here:
 
:If anyone wants to get a U.S. code, drop me a PM or e-mail me at [mailto:[email protected] [email protected]] and we'll see if we can work out getting you one through PayPal or something. (But that's just a friendly offer; if I start getting hundreds of requests or people don't pay me back, I'll stop.)
 
If you wish to contact me via forum private message regarding this offer, please do so on the [http://paragonwiki.com/forums Paragon Forums] instead of NCsoft's forums, as I do wish to respect their decision not to have messages of such a subject posted or sent via their forums.
 
==== Valentine's Day Event Over ====
 
The [[Valentine's Day Event 2007]] officially ended at midnight last night (March 4, 2007).
 
=== February 13, 2007 ===
 
==== Valentine's Day Event Live! ====
 
The [[Valentine's Day Event 2007]] is now released on the live servers!  Among the perks in this event are:
 
* The rare ability for heroes and villains to work together to accomplish missions in Pocket D
* Several new badges, including badges from [[Valentine's Day Event 2006|last year's Valentine's event]] and badges normally available exclusively to a character's enemy's side
* A new "Heart" costume pattern
 
Be sure to check out the article for all the details about the event!
 
=== January 20, 2007 ===
====Issue 9 info====
A confirmed list of content to appear in [[Issue 9]] has been released and added to the wiki. Anxiously awaiting it's drop to [[Training Room]]. {{smile}}
 
=== January 17, 2007 ===
==== Double XP Weekend Coming January 26-28 ====
[http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=7442701 Double Experience Weekend is Coming! Jan 26-28!]
: Gather your teams and get ready! Shape up your soloing prowess! Get those eager lackeys and sidekicks in line! It's time to clean up and cash in!
 
: Another Double Experience Weekend looms on the horizon! Mark '''January 26th to the 28th''' on your calendar because you won't want to miss it! All weekend long, experience, infamy/influence and prestige rewards will be doubled! It's time to level up!
: ''This does not include enhancement drops.''
 
===== MediaWiki Upgrade =====
An upgrade to the wiki *may* occur this weekend as well. However, everyone should be enjoying the double rewards too much to notice.
 
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Welcome

Welcome to the Homecoming Wiki, a central repository of all things related to Homecoming: City of Heroes, a superhero-themed MMORPG.

City of Heroes is home to an entire multiverse of superpowered beings in a stunning, 3D graphical world. Players take on the roles of heroes, villains, vigilantes, and rogues, while both saving and destroying worlds. City of Heroes was known for its groundbreaking level of customization, its highly community-focused features, and its abundant developer-player interaction and feedback. Homecoming: City of Heroes has been in operation since April 2019 with a wide variety of quality-of-life features such as custom XP rates, alignment switching at will, all costume parts available on character creation, all vestiges of the Paragon Store removed, and a new player archetype, Sentinels. Homecoming has five player shards, four testing shards, and the largest community of players today.

This wiki is a fork of the Paragon Wiki, a community effort created and maintained by more than two thousand volunteers since 2005.

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