Hints on installing Paragon Chat: April 24, 2016

This document was created by Athena Wilson
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1. Create a CoHTitan account; if you already have one, log into http://cohtitan.com and be sure everything is working correctly.  You will need your CoHTitan login and password later, and they both must work.  

2. Install Paragon Chat:  https://chat.cohtitan.com/release/ParagonChatBootstrap.exe

3.  Go to https://www.dropbox.com/s/k42aaiay22rv0cv/QuickChat.exe?dl=1  and run it.  This will install QuickChat/QuickPort.  You WILL want this...you'll thank me later; you can see more about it at: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,11188.0.html 

4. Double click on the Paragon Chat icon on your desktop.  In the box labeled XMPP Login put your Titan login name@chat.cohtitan.com.  Under XMPP Password put your Titan password.  Click Log In (or just hit Enter).  Paragon Chat launches CoH game client.  

5. You are now looking at the CoH Log In screen.  You can put *anything* in the "Local Account" box, but whatever you put, be sure to remember it (or just make sure that "Remember Account" is checked).  Click Log In.  

5.  You will see the Character Select list.  Create a character.  

6. When you get to the Costume Sets screen, there is a "Load" button on the lower right.  Click on it.  If at any time in the past you used Cox's Icon and actually *saved* a costume build, (OR you used SentinelPlus and Senticon, more info later), you will see a list of those saved costumes you can select from to recreate one of your old characters. 

7. Finish Character Creation, and enter a zone.  Only after you enter will your character be saved to the Character list for you to select again later.  Hitting the "Save" button will only save the costume, not the character.  

You should now be able to use Paragon Chat.  

Additional information: 

1. When you first open PC, on the Login window, you will see 4 buttons at the bottom.  The one on the far right isn't operational yet (SOONtm).  From left, there is a button that will take you to the Screenshots folder, one that will take you to %APPDATA%/etc folder so you can make changes to relevant files, and one that will open your browser to http://www.cohtitan.com/ . 

2. You have 48 character slots to begin.  If you want more than that, just put a different name in the "Local Account" box of the Login screen.  (Be sure to remember what you put!)  You can put *anything* in this box, and it will accept it, but it will save a different set of 48 character slots under each name.  
 
3. Once in a map, click on the Emote button, and look at the top for QuickPort.  It will give you a cascading list of zones and other maps that you can travel to just by clicking on the list.  Tunnels and trains work.  :-)  Some doors work, i.e., the doors to Icon and hospital interiors work.  You can also use /mapmove to move from one zone to another, as well as /mapmenu.  

4. Icon works!  You have access to 10 costume slots.  Go to Icon as normal.  You won't have any INF, but you do have 9999 costume tokens, and they are never used up (i.e., after using one token, you will still have 9999 tokens).  Load and save costumes just as you did in Character Creation.  

List of Numbers you can use with /mapmove: 
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Chat#Changing_Maps

Paragon Wiki
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

Frequently asked questions for Paragon Chat. 
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,10977.0.html

Many, many thanks to all the people who created the above programs, posts, documents, links.  I take no credit for anything above, I'm just trying to save someone else a bit of time and frustration.  

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IF YOU USED Titan's SentinelPlus to save CoX characters in the final days of the game, you can salvage the costume information (only! NOT the build or character names).  IF YOU DID NOT USE SentinelPlus, this will not work for you.  
	a. Create a folder under your main drive (usually C:) called Senticon.  
	b. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes\Player_characters.  (If you don't have this file, or it is empty, you probably didn't use SentinelPlus, and there's no reason for you to proceed.)  Right-click, Select All, Copy.  
	c. Go back to C:\Senticon.  Right-click, Paste.  
	d. Download Senticon.jar: https://cit.cohtitan.com/senticon/senticon.jar into that same folder.  
	e. Open a Command Prompt window.  On my PC, I click Start, and in the box marked "Search programs and files", I type "cmd" (without the quotes) and it appears at the top of the program list for me to click on.  (You can use Windows help to look up "Command Prompt".)  In the black window, at the ">" prompt, type "cd \Senticon" (without the quotes).  Hit enter.  
	f. At the ">" prompt, type "java -jar senticon.jar all" (no quotes)  
	g. If you get a message that says java is not a recognized command, you will need to download and install java.   Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.  Click on JRE Download.  Click Accept License Agreement.  It should change to: "Thank you for accepting the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement..."  (If it does not change, the download will not work...try hitting "Enter".)  You want the "Windows x86 Online" version...click the link next to that Description.  Put the file into the same folder.  Run it and let it take the defaults; be sure when it asks you if you want it to change your browser, that you tell it not to!  At the ">" prompt, type "java -jar senticon.jar all" (no quotes)  (again).  It should run okay this time.  
	h.  You should see some .costume files in C:\Senticon now.  When you look at the names of those .costume files, you will see that they are very long.  You should see your original CoX Global name, dot, a server name, dot, and then the character name (followed by dot costume).  (Example: Linuial.Liberty.Tinkrbell.costume or Linuial.Liberty.Tinkrbell.2.costume)  Do yourself a favor and use Rename to remove the Global name and the first dot, leaving the rest of the name intact.  You'll thank me later.  :-)  (You can also remove the server name and the second dot, but make sure that you don't create any duplicate file names...if you have Liberty.JohnDoe.costume and Infinity.JohnDoe.costume, make one of them JohnDoe.costume and the other JohnDoe2.costume.)  
	i.  Open Paragon Chat's Login Screen and click on the second button from the left, which will take you to the Data file for PC.  Copy-and-Paste the .costume files from C:\Senticon into the Data\Costume folder.  (If you are not familiar with this procedure, the simplest way to do it is to open Windows Explorer a second time, and you can navigate the 2nd copy of WE to C:\Senticon and just drag and drop in the first folder you opened with the PC button.)  
	j. Anything you were able to salvage should show up now in a list when you are in Costume Creation and click the "Load" button.  
	k. Warning: Senticon is unlikely to be able to convert all of your SentinelPlus files.  I only got about 50% of them to convert.  From what I am seeing on the forums, everyone is having this problem.  

Athena Wilson