Supergroup
Overview
A Supergroup is an organization within City of Heroes that is composed of a group of either heroes, villains or praetorians, uniting to work together to achieve various goals. A supergroup may consist of a group of people who frequently team together to play the game or may be more loosely associated. Supergroup members will typically wish to construct a supergroup base which can provide many benefits to the supergroup members. A supergroup can have at most 300 members.
Creating a Supergroup
Those who wish to start a supergroup should contact the supergroup registrars appropriate for their characters.
- The Hero supergroup registrar is located inside the City Hall building in Atlas Park at coordinates (145.5, -768, -691.5) .
- For villains, the SG registrar is located in the Arachnos Building in Port Oakes at coordinates (-889, 112, -886) .
- For Praetorians, the supergroup registrar is located in the Magisterium neighborhood of Nova Praetoria at coordinates (-4362, 34, -256) .
Click on the subgroup registrar and select "I want to register a new Super Group". Type a supergroup name (which must be unique) into the "Sec.1: Super Group Name" box of the supergroup's settings window. Then press the Accept button, and the next Accept button, and the supergroup will have been created. The other supergroup settings can be configured anytime afterward.
Once choosing the supergroup name is complete, the player then needs to get the Supergroup ID or Base Access Passcode. Type the slash command /sgpasscode into the chat box followed by some text and press enter. The SG Passcode will be appended to the text that you typed in while using the command. The final SG passcode will displayed in the Global chat tab in the following format text-#. For example, if you type in "/SGpasscode Newbies", your final SG passcode will be "Newbies-#". the number portion of the passcode can not be chosen, and is assigned to the supergroup based on how many supergroups were created beforehand by other players. The SG passcode is important. Write it down, or put it in your SG's message of the day so that all can see and use it.
The supergroup settings can be accessed by clicking on the "Super" menu item at the top of the Chat window, and then clicking on the Settings button at the bottom of the Supergroup window. Alternately, the Supergroup window may be opened by using the slash command /toggle sg.
The settings that can be edited are:
- Motto (displayed in the supergroup window)
- Rank names
- Rank permissions
- Message of the day (displayed to all members on login)
- Emblem
- Colors
Supergroup members can be assigned any of the six available ranks (only one person can be at the highest rank, but the current leader can promote someone, demoting themself), the names and abilities of which are customisable by the group leader, or any members whose rank has the necessary permissions granted. New members always join at the lowest rank, and different supergroups use these ranks in different ways to indicate membership roles.
Whilst in supergroup mode, the player can choose for their costume's colors to be altered to their supergroup's color scheme. The exact color alterations can be assigned on the second page of the supergroup settings screen, and allow colors for existing costume elements to be replaced by one of the two supergroup colors as chosen by the player. This costume change is the only effect of supergroup mode.
Supergroups are also given a chat channel which allows all members of the supergroup who are currently online to communicate with each other, no matter what zone or mission they are in.
A supergroup may also form a coalition with one or more other supergroups, which can allow members to enter each others' bases, and to allow easier organization of base raids or other large events. Coalition members have a coalition chat channel, which sends to all online members of all supergroups in coalition with the player's. Because each supergroup can set their coalition state separately, asymmetric relationships are possible so that a member of supergroup A might see coalition chat from a member of supergroup B but not a member of supergroup C who the member of B is having a conversation with - in this case, because supergroup C is not in coalition with supergroup A as well as B.
Ranks
There are six levels of leadership within a supergroup. Each level of leadership is given a default title when the supergroup is created.
| Hero / Praetorian | Villain | Icon | Notes |
| Leader | Overlord |  |
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| Commander | Kingpin |  |
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| General | Ringleader |  |
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| Captain | Taskmaster |  |
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| Lieutenant | Enforcer |  |
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| Member | Flunky |
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The actual titles for each supergroup rank can be customized to the player's liking.
Other than the highest rank, there is no limitations on how many people can be at each rank (other than the overall 300 member limit). Additionally, rank titles may be edited on the Super Group Registration screen or through several slash commands based on each rank.
Villain Group
Villain Group is a player-made term to refer to villain-oriented supergroups. Villains and heroes may join the same supergroups.
Alignment Changing
Changing alignment will not kick you from your current supergroup, since there is no alignment restriction on supergroup memberships.
See Also
- Player Supergroup Bases
- The Players' Guide to the Cities: Super Groups
- The Players' Guide to the Cities: Super Group Window