Respec Spectrum

Having taken all your advice, I respec'ed Spectrum last night and feel
pretty good about the changes. Made one gaffe in that I had intended
to move all my IO's to my energy bolts, and leave my torrent slots
open to craft a positron's blast set. D'oah! Well that was my last
free respec on that character, so at level 48 he is pretty much locked
in. I dropped the concealment pool set, and the Electrical Epic power
set, and went with leadership and Epic Psychic skillsets. I tested my
character with hover & fly (freebird) and all three leadership powers
toggled on, along with the Mind over Body defense toggle, and he was
recovering end without dropping endurance levels. As soon as I finsh
adding IO's I'll be able to leave healing aura toggled on while using
my attacks. The ranged mental attack/hold was a better tactical
choice then trying to tank in there with Thunder Strike, even though I
loved the dramatic ka-thwoom style slam of the animation. Sniper is
slotted with a 4-set sniper IO and a pair from another sniper set, so
its pretty powerful. I appreciate your suggestions, now I need to
gather a couple billion in influence and fill about 50 empty
enhancement slots. Maybe I should rename him SWISS CHEESE MAN?

"Amigoid" <lbrown-amigoid.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1188399143.887439.226640@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
| Having taken all your advice, I respec'ed Spectrum last night and feel
| pretty good about the changes. Made one gaffe in that I had intended
| to move all my IO's to my energy bolts, and leave my torrent slots
| open to craft a positron's blast set. D'oah! Well that was my last
| free respec on that character, so at level 48 he is pretty much locked
| in. I dropped the concealment pool set, and the Electrical Epic power
| set, and went with leadership and Epic Psychic skillsets. I tested my
| character with hover & fly (freebird) and all three leadership powers
| toggled on, along with the Mind over Body defense toggle, and he was
| recovering end without dropping endurance levels. As soon as I finsh
| adding IO's I'll be able to leave healing aura toggled on while using
| my attacks. The ranged mental attack/hold was a better tactical
| choice then trying to tank in there with Thunder Strike, even though I
| loved the dramatic ka-thwoom style slam of the animation. Sniper is
| slotted with a 4-set sniper IO and a pair from another sniper set, so
| its pretty powerful. I appreciate your suggestions, now I need to
| gather a couple billion in influence and fill about 50 empty
| enhancement slots. Maybe I should rename him SWISS CHEESE MAN?

It helps if you do trial respecs (after you've earned one) by copying
your character over to the COHTEST server and then work out all the bugs.
MAKE NOTES of what you want and how you're picking these powers so that when
you decide to respec on the live server, everything is as you'd like. Note
that you will need 2.1 GB of extra hard drive space to install the COH TEST
server files.

Of course, at this point, the information is somewhat moot, but it might
help later.


AND FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, DO NOT ALTER YOUR MAIN COH OR COV FILES!!!
It won't screw up your characters or your game settings if you goof up
(they are saved on the main game servers and your characters copied to the
COH TEST server are saved on the test server respectively), but it is a big
download to have the game restore the original files if you don't create a
copy of the COH game files in another directory.


(Saves me a bundle of time typing this stuff up too! Thank you
PARAGONWIKI and the many other wonderful contributers to the Internet
educational resources about the "City of Heroes" & "City of Villains" game)

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The Training Room (aka Test Server) is a test server where developers deploy
beta version of City of Heroes before moving the version to the live
servers. It is a sandbox where players may test changes to their characters
or play new content before it is pushed out to the general public.
Contents


* 1 Reasons to Play in the Training Room
* 2 How to Play in the Training Room
* 3 Copying a Character to the Training Room
* 4 Notes
* 5 External Links


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Reasons to Play in the Training Room

There are three main reasons players may want to play in the Training Room
instead of a live server:

* To test permanent changes to their characters before those changes are
actually made. For example, if a player earns a powers respecification, he
or she can copy that character to the Training Room, respecify his or her
powers, and try them out. If the player is unsatisfied, the changes are not
reflected on the live servers. If a player wishes to test a different
respecification, he or she may delete the character on the Training Room,
recopy the character from the live server, and test further changes.

* To play new content. The Training Room receives new content before it
is pushed to the live server. If a player wants to play the latest and
greatest publically available content with the knowledge that his or her
characters in the Training Room cannot be copied to the live server, the
program may be a bit buggy, and the Training Room sometimes gets wiped
clean, he or she may play there.

* To engage in Arena PVP. There is a thriving Arena scene on test, with
both pickup play and scheduled SG vs SG matches. This is really the only
place for a Supergroup to battle a Supergroup from another server.

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How to Play in the Training Room

Important note: You must have space on your hard drive to handle a
completely separate copy of City of Heroes for this process to work!

To play City of Heroes in the Training Room, copy the existing icon for the
City of Heroes program executable. In the copy, edit the properties so that
the target contains the parameter -test at the end. The command line should
appear as:

"(path)\CohUpdater.exe" -test

When this shortcut is run, City of Heroes will prompt you for a path, and a
new copy, possibly beta, of City of Heroes is downloaded and installed to
the path specified. When this program is run after installation and a player
logs in, he or she will see only one entry in the server list: Training
Room. Select this server and play as normal.

By default, the installation path of the normal City of Heroes game client
is C:\Program Files\City of Heores. When the CohUpdater.exe file is run with
the -test parameter, the default installation path for the testing client is
C:\Program Files\CoHTest.

The test client's installation may be significantly sped up by using the
following process:

1. Run cohupdater.exe -test and let the download go for about 2 minutes.
2. Cancel the updater (click Quit in the lower right hand corner)
3. Copy the contents of the piggs subdirectory of the normal client's
installation folder (C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\piggs\ by default) to
the test client's piggs subdirectory (C:\Program Files\CoHTest\piggs\ by
default).
4. Run cohupdater.exe -test again.

The updater then 'fixes' the files in the \piggs\ folder with any
modifications currently being tested, which is significantly faster than
downloading a new version of every file.

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Copying a Character to the Training Room

In addition to simply creating new characters in the Training Room, a player
may opt to copy an existing character to the Training Room. This process is
a one-way copy only; characters cannot be copied from the Training Room to
any live server.

To copy a character, log in to the CoH Character Transfer page and follow
the instructions. After a few minutes, your character will show up in the
Training Room.
https://secure.cityofheroes.com/cgi-bin/coh_transfer.pl

One may copy a character to the Training Room server multiple times, and a
unique copy will be created each time. If the character name already exists
on the Training Room server, a sequential number will be appended to the
characters name. Note that even if a character is copied only once, his or
her name may still have a number because characters with duplicate names may
be copied from other servers to the Training Room.
Notes

* As of February 2, 2006, characters will retain their influence/infamy
when copied from a live server to the Training Room.
* If a character already exists in the Training Room with the name of
the character selected, either from another live server, from a new
character creation, or because a player has already copied the character to
the Training Room at least once, a sequential number will be appended to the
character's name.
* A player's global chat name in the Training Room may be different from
his or her global chat name on the live servers. By default, it will be the
same as the first character that a player uses in the Training Room. If that
character's name has a number appended to it because of the above note, so
will the player's global chat handle. Just as on the live servers, a
player's global chat handle may be changed once in the Training Room. No
chat may take place between live servers and the Training Room.
* It is possible for an existing character to immediately obtain new
badges due to the copying process because of lowered requiremenets on
existing badges or because of requirements for new badges already being met.

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External Links

* CoH Character Transfer page
https://secure.cityofheroes.com/cgi-bin/coh_transfer.pl
* FAQ article about copying characters to the Training Room
http://support.cityofheroes.com/cgi-bin/cityofheroes.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp
..php?p_faqid=971