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Quote:We just spent an hour running this Task Force. For the second attempt, we had 3 controllers in the team and couldn't hold them. Your change is extremely unwelcome. And what about teams without controllers or dominators? You're just saying they're shafted?Originally Posted by Castle
I fixed the bug which made their power not shut off when held. However, I ALSO fixed the bug which made them perma-hold themselves, so the LGTF will be harder than you remember. Too hard? Perhaps -- the Green Mitos have 50 points of hold protection (as opposed to -50...) now.
Sorry Castle, you went WAY over with this change. You need to lower their protection if you want any teams other than 8 controllers/dominators to be able to do this. -
Oh, actually it's worse. Castle just posted in the patch notes.
Quote:So now you know, if you're not a controller or dominator, don't bother trying for this badge. 50 points of hold protection for a team of 8? What the heck, Castle?Originally Posted by Castle
I fixed the bug which made their power not shut off when held. However, I ALSO fixed the bug which made them perma-hold themselves, so the LGTF will be harder than you remember. Too hard? Perhaps -- the Green Mitos have 50 points of hold protection (as opposed to -50...) now. -
After an hour of going through the Task Force with the challenges set up for Mo run, we were stopped cold by the green mitos, which still regen like crazy and won't drop their shield. Avoid.
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Quote:Because something might go wrong when applying the patch and they might need to roll it back.Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack
To be honest I don't see why the notes can't go up when the servers go down.
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Quote:I ran the Cathedral of Pain while it was live; it was just a really hard trial. With the right resources, it was done in 15 minutes (of course, you had to gather 20 people to run it with). The big deal about it was the Items of Power, which got you great bonuses that could stack (you could have multiple IOPs in a single base) and were given to everybody in the supergroup (so they would be a great supergroup recruiting tool).Originally Posted by Ironik
It's been so long, I don't even know what CoP was supposed to be any more. Anyone who has been looking forward to it for all these years can't possibly be anything but disappointed by it when it comes out, because it's almost certainly going to just be a hard TF.
If the Cathedral of Pain is brought back with the bases in the current state (ie. not raidable) then it's unlikely it'll grant any item of power, so it's all up to what reward it's replaced with. Merits are the obvious choice. -
Quote:Yeah, but it's more complicated; you need to use both HTTP::Cookies::Mozilla and DBD::SQLite (because FireFox cookies use SQLite). The IE path is easier.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Ah, OK. Just one thing: I use FireFox. Could I just copy the cookies.txt and cookies.sqlite files?
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Quote:Nah, it's an ugly hack. Real Perl programmers would cringe at some of the things in there...
I looked at the source to have a look, never coded PERL at all. It seems very, very powerful in terms of the libraries and functions you use
You can run it from your own personal website:Quote:Guess I'm out of luck, then, because I'm not going to install some avtivexpearl thingy just to see rep comments.
If I could run it from my own personal website, I'd be good to go.
* Find your IE cookies folder [after being logged in and remembered by IE and making sure it wrote them to disk]. On XP, it's C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Cookies. In Vista/7, I think it's C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Cookies. It's a hidden folder, so you need to enable hidden files first.
* Copy index.dat and YOUR_USER_NAME@boards.cityofheroes*.txt to the same folder where the script is. If you use IE as primary browser there might be a lot of text files in there, just copy the ones with boards.cityofheroes in the title.
* Open the script in Notepad, then:
** Delete the line use Win32::TieRegistry....
** Delete the line my $cookies_dir = $Registry->...
** On the next line, change "$cookies_dir\\index.dat" to just "index.dat"
* Immediately below require 'rep_comments.ini'; add the line print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"; so the webserver knows that the script is outputting plain text.
* Delete the line sleep(5);
With those modifications, the script will load your IE cookies from the copy you made, and you can run the script from any web server, because the cookies are stored with the script. The password is not stored in plaintext, so your game login can't be obtained this way; but you run the risk of someone finding what folder you're running it from and gaining access to your forum account. You really want to risk that? -
At this point I don't think this is getting fixed until GR... the release schedule for i17 and GR is pretty aggressive, they might not have time to publish any bugfix builds until i18.
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Zloth makes a good point. I keep forgetting it. AVG in particular tends to screw up with COH on a regular basis.
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Quote:Security? In Internet Explorer? *laughs*Originally Posted by VileTerror
There are also potential issues of customized security settings for your browser and version number.
Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder. *HISTERICAL LAUGHTER*
IE stores its cookies in plain text files in a shell folder which you can find in the registry at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Shell Folders\Cookies -- It does not seem to care of what security zone or settings you're using; all the cookies land in there, in simple text files. In my case, there's a text file called leandro@boards.cityofheroes[2].txt which contains the cookies "bbuserid" and "bbpassword". Copy that file, and you're logged in as me. There's absolutely nothing preventing you from accessing that file; not even User Account Control, because that file is stored in the user folders, which aren't a protected location.
At least it doesn't store anything in plain text. Regarding the version number: cookie storage hasn't changed since Internet Explorer 5, back in the Windows 98 days. -
For some reason people are sending me PMs on the boards or global messages ingame instead of posting here about the Perl script. People, I'll see the complaints here faster :P
So far people seem to have trouble getting the script to recognize IE's cookies. This can be caused by two things:
1) You need to select "Remember me" when logging in. No cookies are created if you don't tell the site to remember you.
2) IE has to write the cookies to the harddisk before the script can read them. Usually just closing IE will do that. But if you're using a program that has an embedded browser, that might not be enough because "some kind of IE" is still open. If you can't figure out which program it is, restarting the computer will take care of that. -
That particular pigg is 91MB. Try deleting it, AND delete the file Coh.checksum in your City of Heroes folder; it should force the client to reverify and download that file again.
In case you know how to do a MD5SUM, this is what the Live files are supposed to be; the last patch was small (1.7MB) and should not have modified THAT MUCH. Find the files that changed, delete those, and let the updater get them again.
2d5c28c7644c9d8b324c126184189c60 *bin.pigg
2fdeb76862f98aadb947661ed784c4e2 *fonts.pigg
023d60c62f06b4b4fc3498a79ce182f5 *geom.pigg
6f0aacbb490a6330642228fccc892d73 *geomBC.pigg
b8dd68d9e1498ef2dd0dd9f1a1b9e7ad *geomV1.pigg
e47d0fcef1ed2fd9242e00ea806a84cd *geomV2.pigg
d4eb0e99684086c525866a6b2630df31 *mapsCities1.pigg
2f8b44205b11ee957db197672d6087d2 *mapsCities2.pigg
1b24e51c78df3d5da18efbd75ae9a66e *mapsHazards.pigg
ffce838c391d2a040f7b934a66cde824 *mapsMisc.pigg
124e128c786cb5c6b2b26b64783684f7 *mapsMissions.pigg
e804faf8a17f82448babc167fb50f5af *mapsTrials.pigg
ef7688cf8ab5cc4aa221b5472abe80b1 *misc.bak
0dc15e7361e289dddac26fd5db6fffb6 *misc.pigg
ead21283290f6390362d059500eb5b8f *player.pigg
376c406251b1d930d50ff31312212b42 *playerFemHuge.pigg
f18cf20334f72e9f3dd2ae45af169ba0 *playerMale.pigg
4d3aebb313adf14eaa58b2f6fefd3efe *sound.pigg
87ad8b5efe84002cab26ddd25133341c *sound1.pigg
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79c46d10018c1c1fe1392a8051d0ed58 *soundPowers.pigg
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9ec1246b1b0ad104c6a2a332482d0ad0 *soundV5.pigg
7dab94ff5f45f8461c3e32648f274700 *soundV6.pigg
acd7aa6b19f77e371504031117eebf7b *soundVMusic.pigg
f048f03e3109cb7b647f23e7ede735f7 *soundVMusic1.pigg
ae0c54e13518f605deb43b1453c32ffc *soundVMusic2.pigg
091c3ae5686b3c814fee04b3ffed6bf9 *soundVMusic3.pigg
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84b3829d0b9f92240754e3feab8fd9e1 *soundVMusic5.pigg
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fc7f49ac3d34d1e83d0f7c3d54bfe4b5 *texEnemies.pigg
52d073fde9f08b10b8f18f19d6b871cd *texEnemies2.pigg
089d6dce94087ede1edfb63a12c01480 *texEnemies3.pigg
81464bf16c9e2968a28126cd77b98ffd *texEnemies4.pigg
3142c57cd0ab0d5c6214569064943d2f *texEnemies5.pigg
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597abc7e8fc67a16403f76ade202e827 *texGui1.pigg
c2086431eb9473d37f888b7462523122 *texGui2.pigg
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cfcef6183332c8407899de9e3c44c5ac *texMisc.pigg
abaa03957c0799d185f54c465b8db042 *texPlayers2.pigg
16f5986d2cedf8e344bc882a05a934aa *texPlayersUI.pigg
b69b4fa9622d056810fd93b402f79ca1 *texts.pigg
70a8764b5d7ff803acfe2c2fdee3d340 *texVEnemies.pigg
ca6628114edb4ebd967160ae21b66853 *texVWorld.pigg
5ef180d8cbd439d81bf899e6c7e810ea *texVWorld1.pigg
b681cff78a4c24176156d2789189014f *texVWorld2.pigg
532aea506d1762ebe79b7ec92f1db731 *texVWorld3.pigg
2e5e268a9b35bf139109a9100947de20 *texVWorldBases1.pigg
1075787dd0f1b44b55861a3f99187123 *texVWorldBases2.pigg
2f592db8c486e5585262cf1b781e9aac *texWorld.pigg
806c5cbae43d2fae717aff72eb4698e5 *texWorldBC.pigg
8076c064a6cddd49a88a90a6dd32466a *texWorldBuildings.pigg
83d2252d2e5c1d31063435d46689f380 *texWorldCZ.pigg
1e3ace7a9064226fb75f899f924c7088 *texWorldSW.pigg
b7c29e63c587bf9d17087406f78628dc *texWorldV1.pigg
0a6f924fe29481149e589553ba3dea38 *texWorldV2.pigg -
Please note that prior to downloading patch files, the updater might say "Downloading file manifest" with no progress bar and apparently stuck. This is normal; just let it sit there for five minutes and it'll move to the patching phase, which does have a progress bar and reports download speeds.
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Quote:Work as in run? Yes. But it won't display anything, because the server doesn't have access to the local cookies for another domain. You'd have to give it your username and password, and I'm not willing to make anything that asks people for their COH username and password.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Leo, will your script work on a webserver with PEARL?
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OK, for the guinea pigs willing to try this thing and see if it works in a system other than mine, install ActivePerl (some of you might already have it, DropStats uses the same scripting language) and then download rep_comments.zip here. Unzip it in any folder, preferably one that has no files already in there, and double click it.
It will use the Internet Explorer cookies for login information, so if you're not logged into the boards from IE, you'll see this:
Getting the forum user ID ... ERROR: Not logged in?
Died at C:\Perl\rep_comments.pl line 68.
After you log into the boards using IE, it'll go more like this:
Getting the forum user ID ... OK: 375909
Searching for new posts ... OK
Getting reputation for post 2843123 ... OK
Getting reputation for post 2843108 ... OK
Getting reputation for post 2841769 ... OK
Getting reputation for post 2841458 ... OK
Getting reputation for post 2840360 ... OK
And it'll create a file called coh_reputation.html in the same folder, which will be the one I put a screenshot of above.
I used Internet Explorer's cookies because everybody in Windows has access to it, so it's not an endorsement of the browser (I use Google Chrome). If anyone here uses a flavor of Linux I can make it use Firefox's cookies.
Note that the search returns only the last 20 items in the first page; for me that's not a problem because I post only a few times a day, but if you post a whole lot, you'll want to run the script at least once every 10 or 15 posts to make sure all your posts are found. If you post that much you'll also want to increase $chkposts in rep_comments.ini
By default the script includes all your posts in the HTML, including those without any rep, so you can make sure that it's searching correctly and finding your posts. To make it output only the posts with rep, set $allposts to 0 in rep_comments.ini -
Quote:Hmmm... Not in the current version. It needs your board username and password and stores it in plaintext, and that's seriously insecure. I don't mind it on my computer, but it'd be irresponsible to spread that around. I'll see if I can make it use the web browser cookies instead.Originally Posted by Westley
must have.... Gimme!
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Quote:I don't miss that at all. Maybe because I hacked together my own version:Originally Posted by Westley
2) I miss having my comments all in one place, they were the best part of the whole system.
It's a script that searches for my own posts, then uses reputation.php to see if they have any rep, and fetch the comments if they do. Clicking on a post shows the comments it has. -
The last version number is screwed and always asks for an update. Disable automatic updates as a workaround.
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Quote:This is what I was referring to. I think Captain Fabulous made the point a lot clearer than I did.Originally Posted by Captain Fabulous
But this is the way some people are talking about ultra mode, like it *is* some kind of special graphics engine, and that by turning it off everything will go back to the way it was in I16. All I'm saying is this is not correct. Disabling the ultra mode features will not restore the I16 graphics engine. If you select not to turn on ultra mode at startup you won't get to use the I16 graphics engine instead of the new one.
"Turning off" or "disabling" ultra mode means disabling the 4 new graphics options the devs collectively refer to as "ultra mode". But you'll still be using the new I17 graphics engine, even in safe mode.
I'm just trying to explain there is a difference between the I17 engine and "ultra mode". They are not the same thing. -
People here seem to be thinking that Ultra Mode is an "addon" to COH that can be easily disabled and is isolated from everything else. It's not. It's part of the pipeline that renders the game, and while you can disable features of it, there's no such thing as "disable Ultra Mode". If you are crashing now and weren't before i17, there is a problem somewhere in the graphics rendering pipeline; but blaming Ultra mode is like getting run over by a car and then claiming the wheels are the only part of the car responsible.
Remember that there were changes made to the graphics code that had nothing to do specifically with Ultra Mode features. Antialiasing is not an Ultra Mode feature, yet it was fixed for ATI users after being broken forever. There are likely a lot of changes to the graphics system like that which cause problems, and they're not Ultra Mode's fault.
People with Intel graphics were hit hard by this, losing access to their shaders until yesterday's patch restored it. In the same way, reporting (with a DXDiag log) what hardware is having incompatibilities will help the devs come up with a solution.
To those being affected and nothing seems to work: keep your cool, post your DXDiag logs with a description of the problem, and be patient. There are many things that need fixing; your issue will get solved too, but the devs are human. They need time to track down the bug and fix it. -
Wait, so it's fine to auto-update on Windows XP? The computer I play COH and use Mids in has Windows XP. And my Windows 7 machines ALL have UAC disabled, precisely because it causes so many troubles when writing to "protected" locations.
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Quote:Dude. That could have come straight out of BAB's or Castle's posts. You're channeling a dev with that "Soon(tm)" talk.Originally Posted by St0n3y
This is something that I really want to get implemented into Mids', I just don't know when it will happen.
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Patch just downloaded, 1.7MB
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Added those rolls. Very frustratingly, there are still 8 recipes that are falling in a "grey area" where deciding if they're one weight or another is hard. I'll play with the data a bit when I wake up tomorrow.
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Quote:Yuck. That is one ugly connection. You appear to be suffering from regular drops every 5-10 seconds that last 2-10 seconds. If this is wireless, I can only recommend getting updated drivers; especially if it's a realtek chipset, as a lot of wireless cards ship with really old drivers that potentially suck. If it's a wired connection, I got nothin' other than letting windows "repair" it to flush the DNS cache and other things, but it's not likely to help; that connection looks too unstable.Originally Posted by SkeetSkeet
I don't see that helping. Just for kicks, here's a screenshot of what netgraph looks like on an idle toon toon with all chat tabs stripped of all channels except for local and broadcast on the default tab:
