Homecoming Wiki:Community Portal
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This article or section contains information on several sites that are no longer in use (some links removed due to phishing scams, domain parking, and 'link rot') since the official shutdown of Homecoming: City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.
Official Sites
Alias: cohhc.gg
Fan Sites
If you want your site listed here, please edit this page and add it in!
NOTE: These sites are subject to verification and periodic review and may be removed if deemed inactive or inappropriate.
- Victory Team Owned
- City Chat Watcher, a tool that monitors your chat logs and notifies you when keywords you specify are mentioned in-game. Windows 10 and 11.
- City Mod Installer, a tool to manage, download, and package modifications for the Homecoming and Victory servers.
- Icon Catalogue, a website for people to upload, display, and share their costumes.
- FBSA Wiki, The Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs Wiki, available for character profiles, stories, and player-made content.
- Live Forum Archive, an archive of the old blue boards from live. Note that Paragon Studios had already purged most of the posts prior to 2009 when they upgraded the forums from the UBB.threads forum software to VBulletin when the forums were archived.
- Independent
- Advanced Bind Guide, written in Feb 2006, this guide delves deep into the binding system, especially useful when dealing with multiple commands in a single keybind.
- Aura y Capa Spanish Fansite and community nexus. Updated daily, all info translated into local language. Includes everything a spanish player could need!
- The Battlerock X Chronicles, dedicated to various news, events, and stories of City of Heroes characters as well as the home for the infrequent fan-based comic series "Tales from Paragon City".
- City of Heroes Site Reconstruction, a website dedicated to recreating the official City of Heroes website before it was shut down.
- Heroica! A fan site offering a wide range of things from a web comic series to useful keybind tips and tricks. Notably, it also hosts the COX Technical Reference Guide.
- Dawn Radio, a 24/7 Shoutcast Radio Station hosted in Excelsior, also hosting the Paragon Radio podcast (see below) as of Dec. 2023.
- Paragon Radio, a weekly podcast established after the City of Heroes Shutdown in 2012, covers all superhero MMOs as well as comics, movies, and TV. As of December 2023, merged with Dawn Radio and hosted live on Excelsior. (This link holds archives back to 2012.)
- "Guardians of the Dawn", the official website of the fan-based comic series "Guardians of the Dawn Spotlight" set in the City of Heroes universe with special appearances by various in-game characters.
- Virtueverse, the original Virtue server RP wiki.
Game Utilities
- Badge Tracking
- Badger, a server-agnostic open source web-based badge tracking system. Manually or automatically enter badges, see which ones you're missing, compare with other players who also use these sites.
- Character builder/designer/planners.
- Mids Reborn. An updated build planner app forked from Mids' Hero Builder. Windows 10 and 11.
- Client Files Extraction Utility
- Game Extractor, a Java application that allows extraction of game client files.
- PiggViewer from SourceForge (abandonware).
- Combat Data Archive
- City of Data, a web site that displays power data directly from the game's files. Create and save character builds, and share with others through "data blocks" or "data links".
- Historical Information
- Titan Network is an archive network of sites covering City of Heroes from Launch to Issue 24 (NCSoft Live Service) only. Hosts Paragon Wiki, which was forked to make Homecoming Wiki.
- Machinima Tools
- Paragon Chat from Titan Network. Use in Offline Mode to emulate Icon. Now requires a self-provided XMPP Server to host chat.
- Icon from Titan Network. Uses Issue 24 files downloaded for the game client. Less but different features from Paragon Chat.
- Map Packs
- VidiotMaps, maintained by AboveTheChemist, compatible with Homecoming. Available on Windows and Mac. VidiotMaps augments in-game maps of city zones and missions with informational icons and text.