FloatingFatMan

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That's 3 times now I've petitioned a mission (latest one was alevel 40 boss in mission when I've taken it at level 35) and 3 times the email telling me I wasn't online has dropped into my inbox less than 30 seconds since I log out, even if I've been on for hours since the petition.


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I can't really say that's been my experience. I tend to get the email usually a good 24 hours later...

(( By the way, Ellie currently has the laptop taken from the Freakshow that shot at her a few days ago. Who do I contact to find out exactly what data is on there? ))

I considered that, and something along those lines is probably what I'm going to have to do until the devs do the nice thing. Still, it makes for messy code having to do stuff like that, and I'd really rather avoid it if I could...

Can you not purchase game time cards from the NCStore using this method? One way around the not using it for paying for subs issue.

OK, this is more of a QoL request than a suggestion, but this is the only place I can post it really. Hopefully GR can do me the favour of sending it on to the devs!

Anyway, I've recently been working, off and on, with a Chatlog parsing program, primarily for the use of myself and fellow RPers, but it would be useful for anyone really.

However, I've got a little snag with how some things are logged that's making some things impossible; mainly, it's how system messages and emote text are logged.

For example. System and combat messages look like this:

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06-30-2008 00:01:53 Entering Portal Court.
06-30-2008 00:01:54 Welcome to City of Heroes, Tiger White!
06-30-2008 00:01:55 Using global chat handle @FloatingFatMan
06-30-2008 00:01:55 Joined channel 'GGOOC'
06-30-2008 00:01:55 You have 1 email
06-30-2008 00:01:56 You have 4 unclaimed respecs available.
06-30-2008 00:01:56 You have 12 unclaimed free tailor sessions available.
06-30-2008 00:20:29 You are flying!
06-30-2008 00:20:35 Shutting off Fly.
06-30-2008 00:20:35 You are no longer flying.
06-30-2008 00:22:27 Arthuria has defeated Void Seeker


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Whereas emotes look like this.

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06-30-2008 22:34:38 Tiger White rolls her eyes
06-30-2008 22:34:50 Canada Red grins


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Code wise, it's impossible to differentiate between system, combat and emotes (and some others to). What I'm asking for is for tags to be added to all lines of text, to indicate what they are, IE:

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06-30-2008 00:01:55 [System] You have 1 email
06-30-2008 00:20:35 [Combat] Shutting off Fly.
06-30-2008 00:20:35 [System] You are no longer flying.
06-30-2008 00:22:27 [Combat] Arthuria has defeated Void Seeker
06-30-2008 22:34:38 [Emote] Tiger White rolls her eyes


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It's a very small change, and I know it would only really benefit a small number of people; but it would be of MASSIVE use to those who DO use it. Almost every other type of line in the logs is tagged with what the text is, all I'm really asking is for ALL lines to be tagged with identifiers. Pretty please?

Oh, and also... There's REALLY no need to include speech bubble colour coding information in the logs.. Makes them a bugger to read, but I can filter those out myself if need be; the untagged lines, I can't.

Anyway... I'm gonna finish my chatlog parser, but without a way to differentiate all lines, filtered logs will NEVER look as tidy as they could be without a load of manual editing.

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You made one team!

The servers must have a massive population!

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Oh look! FireKitty's trying to be sarcastic again!

Not so much the one team, but a team wanting to do the Cavern of Transcendence trial. A fair bit harder to put together than a general PuG.

SG neglected to point out that this was yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon. Hardly peak time.

Heroes or Villains?

For what it's worth; I'm currently using the 175.19's under Vista x64 Ultimate and experience no crashes of any kind in CoH, or any other game. This is a clean system though, only built 2 weeks ago; and I make sure I manually remove all driver files in safe mode after uninstalling before I install the new ones.

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They made so many changes to the trial accounts I can't recall what is and isn't possible. My fuzzy memory says they blocked being able to use /tells from trial accounts as well.

edit: Found it:

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Trial Accounts can only speak in

1. /local
2. /help
3. /team

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so no /tells



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You're right; I'd forgotten about that.

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Trial Accounts cannot email other players

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Which could suggest they'd coded to allow trial accounts to use things like tells and ingame emails to converse with GMs.

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That might be true, yes. But knowing the devs, I have a sneaky suspicion that they haven't... However, the GM's should be able to tell that a person is on a trial account, so would likely contact them by teleporting to their location and using local chat.

Sounds like the same as this issue.

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They should come to you first. Asking questions through in-game e-mail would lead to lots of e-mail clutter, the GM would prefer to talk to him/her in person.

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So like I said. The in-game email system is no good for the GM's to contact you. They should go direct with /tells, or teleporting to your location if you don't respond. No need or point in using the in-game email system.

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[Trial accounts cannot access the in-game email system, so wouldn't be able to respond.

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They can recieve e-mails, not respond to them. You're not supposted to respond to them.

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If you can't respond to an in-game email from a GM, how are you going to answer any questions they might have? Use your peanut, boyo.

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Let's just say, they NEED to change it to in-game email

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Trial accounts cannot access the in-game email system, so wouldn't be able to respond. What they NEED to do, is check if you're online. If so, contact you directly and if you don't reply to the tell, port themselves to your location.

If they STILL can't contact you, you're clearly AFK and then they should either just rectify the problem and leave you a message, or send you an external email.

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Yeh no rooting is great in light form. My favourite PB build up to now is human/dwarf. Human in light form dishing it out>light form drops into dwarf then before you know it light form up again.
I just feel invincible. Till some psi mobs suddenly pound me and I actually have to use some heals :P

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Considering that Lightform drops you back to human form with zero endurance and 1 hp, and unable to recover endurance for a little while, I think you missed out a step.

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I remember hearing the cries of doom back in 2006. And we're still here.

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I remember hearing cries of doom during the first live week in the EU, thanks to the major hardware problem causing lag the likes of which we've never seen on here since! We're still here!

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Haven't run naked down the street smeared in lime jelly.

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Don't believe you for a moment... well I'm sure you've floated...

ok.. I'm just gonna pour some bleach into my left ear

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Oh, I've run naked down the street before. It was just smeared in strawberry jelly, not lime!

Oh, btw... I've recently started a business selling industrial strength mind bleach. £10 a litre. I'm gonna be SOOOO rich!

The most likely suspect is either a video driver problem, or an installed and running application is causing it. It would help if you could give us a rundown of your system specs, what OS you're running, driver versions, and and apps you're also running at the same time. It would also help if you could detail any error message the crash screen might give you.

Haven't done the new Hamidon.
Haven't done the STF.
Haven't done a mothership raid.
Haven't done ANY of the Shadow Shard TF's (or a lot of the others, actually).
Haven't got a villain to 50.
Haven't run naked down the street smeared in lime jelly.

If the server population was as low as some people seem to think it is, then they'd drop below financially viable levels, and something would be done about it.

The fact that nothing HAS been done, should tell all you doubters something. There's no way in hell a company wanting to make money, will take a loss on a monthly basis. We know for a FACT that NCSoft can and DO cut their losses, even with CoH. We have Korea as an example of that.

If the EU servers were struggling, they'd have merged or closed them already.

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about the global name,but isn't global chat is for all the servers ?

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It is yes, but for regional servers only. You see, it depends on what kind of merger you're proposing. Do you want to merge EU servers only, or would you prefer to go the whole hog, and shift us over to the US servers? It's quite likely that there are people in the US sharing the same global names as people in the EU. If we merged with them, people WILL lose their global names.

Even so, many many people find their character's name is a lot more important to them than they realise. I, for example, would be EXTREMELY angry if I had to change the names of ANY of my chars. I'm a roleplayer, and their names are essential to their entire concept. If this were forced on me, I *would* leave.

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i'm not sure but i think it may be a good idea,i'm playing on union and the game feel a bit dead, a specially on the villain side but not only.
is this been discuses before?
what do you guys think?

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Yes, it's been discussed before, dozens of times, to death. The biggest problem with them doing such a thing is both character names and global names. Would you be willing to change the names of your chars if someone else happened to have the same name for longer? What about your global name?

There is NO way they would be able to perform a server merge without REALLY annoying a HUGE percentage of their player base, and quite possibly killing the game in one fell swoop. If EU populations ever drop below sustainable levels, they're far more likely to do what they did when they closed the Korean game down. Transfer everyone to the US servers, and issue free name change tokens where needed. That will still annoy people, but it's probably about the only solution they could take.

I'd like it if passives carried over to the forms too! Losing things like Swift and Stamina in Dwarf for is a REAL pain... And I've always thought it silly that Cosmic Balance should stop working in forms...

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The fact that models can't change shape might have something to do with why the Council troops that beome Warwolves are all much larger than their comrades, even in human form.

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They clearly can though, otherwise Kheldian transformations and Stone Armour wouldn't be possible, would they?

The Devs have made references in the past that these are just alternate "special" costumes. They even have specific limitations on what emotes you can use in other forms, so there really should be no technical limitations on allowing these, as there is existing precedent for it.

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A little check box for us with sync problems where the game would automatically do /sync for us each time we zone would be neato. I often forgot to hit my bind key, usually only remember when i get the jerky animation after zone.

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The game already tries to resync automatically every time you zone, that's the problem! It's not working right for some people! Why do you think they gave you the manual ability in the first place hmm?