Well, the good news is that it looks like the official forums (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/index.php) are now converted over. I can actually log in.
The bad news is that it looks like they're still doing some kind of maintenance on it. I'm guessing (but I don't know for sure) that they have everything ready and and having some internal people poke around on it before turning it on and considering it live. Or maybe they're just doing one final backup of the pre-go live database. At any rate, it has changed from the "nothing here" page to the vBulletin scheduled maintenance page, so I hope that's progress. :)
I was happy to see it back up finally. I saw sever Topic Categories and tried to log in, but was told my password didn't match.
I decided to try to register and then got the scheduled maintenance message.
I am not entirely certain, but I think we might have to register for this forum separately from the previous COH forum. Does anyone know for certain?
They're completely up now. They posted a message (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=183333#post2056811) saying to use your game login name and password to access the forums.
Oh, and here's a quick tip. Since they've included European users now, this link is better (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=547) to use as a bookmark. It will get you to the layout and scheme they used before on the North American forums. (Assuming you don't want to bother with the French and German forums, of course.)
Quote from: Kryhavoc on July 31, 2009, 09:27:55 PM
I was happy to see it back up finally. I saw sever Topic Categories and tried to log in, but was told my password didn't match.
I decided to try to register and then got the scheduled maintenance message.
I am not entirely certain, but I think we might have to register for this forum separately from the previous COH forum. Does anyone know for certain?
The forum now uses the same username and password as you use to log into the game with.
http://twitter.com/Positron_CoH/statuses/3058830060
Awesome the forums are back! ;D
Quote from: SaintNicster on July 31, 2009, 10:32:00 PM
The forum now uses the same username and password as you use to log into the game with.
You know, I can't say that I'm a fan of using the same password for the forums. (Don't think I'm alone in that from some of the other posts I've seen already.)
If you have any feedback you'd like to leave, Mod8/Ocho has a 'New Boards Feedback' thread in the ... CoH/CoV General Discussion board I think. There's a link via his official announcement post as well.
I tried to be positive... or at least not outright snarly... ;)
-- Lady T
*waves to Lady T...
Hey there! How's everything going? (Hmm, is it possible to threadjack your own thread?)
Good news: avatars can now be 100x100 pixels! ;D
Bad news: it scales up smaller avatars automagically. :(
Worse news: that makes the CIT avatars distort and look bad. :'(
"Could be good, could be REALLY BAD" news: images are currently enabled! There is no way to distinguish between wanting to see images in posts and wanting to see images in sigs, so it's either all or none. For now, I'm liberally using adblock on a large number of signature images. :-\
Quote from: Aggelakis on August 01, 2009, 09:11:48 AM"Could be good, could be REALLY BAD" news: images are currently enabled! There is no way to distinguish between wanting to see images in posts and wanting to see images in sigs, so it's either all or none. For now, I'm liberally using adblock on a large number of signature images. :-\
I see this feature and a lot of others getting nuked quickly. I'm amazed they left them in for launch.