Lost Ninja

I just run a pair of fire/kins, fast and furious... but overkill for a 2x spawn farm map. For six player spawn its lots more fun.

Run with a Mind APP using IW which gives me mez protection Increased density does for the rest.

Bind the two keys you use most to both what you use them for and the command you want autoed...

So eg:

/bind w "powexecname hasten$$+forward"
/bind s "powexecname indomitable will$$+back"

So in my case everytime I hit the forward key it'd try and fire Hasten, and backwards it'd try and fire IW... you'd get a lot of power is still recharging messages but it works.

I'm with Scarlet Shocker on this, it will be better to wait and see what happens, people are right it isn't needed now. Which leads me to think that perhaps in the future it will be needed.

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I've just thought of something.

Here I am trying to suggest a server transfer tool.

And you lot are trying to point out it's not needed. Why?

I mean - one person wanting something is a demand (a small demand granted). So there is a demand for it.

I can't think of any reason why you lot are dead against the idea, unless your worried that people would up and leave the EU, and that might effect the population numbers.

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Probably the same reason that anyone is against any 'good' idea. Personally speaking I don't think it is a good idea, I don't think its something that is needed and I believe that time and money wasted on it would be better spent elsewhere...

On top of which if they system was created and added it would only make the issue you are trying to get away from worse as there would be people who moved, who currently have no interest in doing so.

Besides if parity was included and the US player base was allowed to transfer to the EU servers, then I don't doubt our figures would go up too, making the necessity entirely unnecessary.

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even at 3am when I often play I have been able to find teams when I want (farming/PLing/and normal missions).

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So even though you're Lost, you can still find?

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Yes.

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At the time I purchased the game, I wasn't aware there was an US version. If I had then I might have signed up for that version.

Therefore don't the EU players, who like me were not aware of the choice, deserve to have the choice?

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Perhaps you deserve it doesn't meen the company are in a posistion to provide it.

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But we know they can provide it.

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Based on what?

AFAIK they have never moved any characters from the EU servers to the US server, I have certainly never read about it happening, here or anywhere else including the US forums. They have been known to swap accounts round if you bought the wrong one, or as the case of a Aussie player I spoke to once who bought the US but wanted the EU (to play with friends) and got his US account closed and a EU account opened, fairly sure I have read of the opposite too. (EU to US for an Aussie player.)

However I still wonder why you 'know' that they can provide a transfer of characters from EU to US?

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Rapthorn - you are too aggressive. Please tone it down.

We are all entitled to a point. Some people may not like / want to hear the point but it must be said.

If we all stick our heads the sand and pretent the game is the same as in issue 1 then nothing will ever change.

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Thing is the suggestions forum isn't really about discussing whether or not your point is valid, its about making suggestions to fix the problem. You aren't suggesting a fix, and as pointed out before neither of you are actually suggesting anything.

To fix the percieved lack of players on some servers at some points in time by allowing disgruntled players to transfer to server that might have a better population isn't actually going to fix anything for the majority only for those who actually want to transfer.

And as has been said in at least one other thread by a red name if such a thing was opened up the two servers that have a better population than Union at our peak periods would almost certainly not be allowed. So you'd transfer to a server that at the peak periods in the Eu actually has less players online than what you had left. Which I'm guessing isn't what you want.

If of course your play time is at 1am GMT (8pm New York) then I wonder why you bothered to buy the EU edition in the first place, and if it was a genuine mistake and you are in fact a US citizen who purchased the wrong copy of the game I suggest you get in contact with tech support. They won't transfer you but IIRC they might close your EU account and create a US version for you.

But TBH I think you're both whining about something that is only your perception of an issue, mine is entirely different and even at 3am when I often play I have been able to find teams when I want (farming/PLing/and normal missions).

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Been playing WoW?

Yes, it would be most useful and I'd love it.

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Not recently no but yeah thats what I'm thinking about.

With this being QoL thread I'm not going to suggest changing the UI to a fully LUA scriptable UI like WoW....

Oh wait...

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just a minor thing but, might alt+F4 be left alone, i like to close a program when it freezes.

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Try binding a key press to alt+f4...

Personally I'd remove alt+f4 anyway, same with alt+tab the keys would be better off used as in game keys and there are other ways of killing a process and looking at something else... though I do play in windowed mode.

Besides its alt+<mouse button> not alt+keypress which you can do now to an extent anyway.

Judging by your sig all you want to do is farm/PL anyway, fail to see why you can't just get another account and go to the US.

Auto fire doesn't work on a macro anyway, so it'd continue to work the way it does now on a normal power (ctrl+click to set auto fire). But macros give the option to have a modifier included to change the effect based on what was held while clicking... perhaps even having different clicks respond differently.

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A bind command allowing you to target anyone in your team whether or not they are in your LOS

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Could be wrong but doesn't:

/teamselect <team number>

Do just that?

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Some slash commands...

/logout - takes you to the login screen just like the /quit kills the game now, you still have to wait 30s in game before the character actually logs out, but will make switching from character to character much easier.

/list_recipe <chat tab> - Lists all recipes that you own in the default chat tab, if you add a chat tab name as an operator (eg. /list_recipe system) it outputs to that tab.

/list_memorised <chat tab> - Lists all recipes that you can make from memory

/list_salvage <type> <location> - Lists all salvage you own, the operators denote what sort of salvage (eg. Base, Invention etc) and where it is stored. If you have access to base storage it will also list what you have in the base storage.

/make_warcry <new warcry> - Adding Warcrys on the fly rather than having to go into the ID screen.

/powexec_emote <power name> <emote> - Allowing you to have a power activate with a specific emote rather than the one assigned to it. (Possibly impossible and part of power customisation if so ignore...) {Won't work in PvP zones.}

Split the emote part of /newspaper from the command to open the newspaper/police scanner:

/paper_mission <emote> }
/police_mission <emote> } - Which would work the same as now unless a emote name was given, which would open the mission select screen with the given emote. (Abbreviated to /pm <emote&gt

/played - How many days/hours/minutes you have played this charatcer.

/bio - As above but would also tell you how many deaths, respecs, badges, accolades... etc you have done during the character's life.

/played_account - How many days/hours/minutes you have played on this account, including deleted characters. (Not sure if that is currently stored. )

/close_tray <tray number> - Closes the extra tray of that number.

Add some more strings... Currently we have #Name, #Archetype, #Level, etc. Would like to see:
#Primary
#Secondary
#Tertiary - for APP.
#XP - Would announce how much XP current and % of the next level until 50, after 50 would announce how long since you reached 50.
#Debt - How much debt you have.
#HP / #END - How much Hit points and End you have, when either are not full the total is given as a percentage of total.
#SG - Supergroup name.
#Rank - Super group rank.
#Status <power name> - When given with no power name you insert something like: 'I am a level 35 Scrapper, I have 100 hit points out of a possible 600. I have 100% endurance. I am 50% away from my next level and have zero debt.' When given with the power name the output is something like, 'I used recall friend 10 seconds ago and it will be recharged in another 10 seconds.

#Status would be built up from the other strings and would be saved in one of the save files and so could be edited. All could be called from within macros.

Strings that are called as parts of macros would express as the stored value not the string... eg:
/bind_save_file z:\settings\#archetype\#name.txt
would actually look like this:
/bind_save_file z:\settings\Scrapper\Lost_Ninja.txt

Other stuff.<ul type="square">[*]Back buttons for each stage of a respec, so rather than clicking back for each step I can move from placing enhancements back to placing slots in a single step.[*]Cancel Button in respecs too.[*]Better script/macro system, especially allowing macros to modify depending on what modifier you select. (Alt/CTRL/Shift/etc)[*]All scroll bars that are connected to actual values should be given a real number rather than just the bar, especially important in the Character Creator. (See the recipe purchase thing within the AH as an example.)[*]Make the ID screen just a normal window, so it doesn't take over the screen.[*]Make enhancement slotting a normal window and not take over the whole screen[/list]

Forgot to mention that both are lvl50. But even with Indomitable will and stacked Increase density I get held/slept/killed by them plus pets, the Dark Ring Mistresses that killed my Scrapper and Blaster with ease on the other hand are hardly noticeable.

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A police band would work, but you'd need 8 man top rep to spawn some. THe arc is fine (again, top rep), but iic, there is a massive warehouse (or outdoor) map on that arc. It's just a matter of herding them to the right spot, and surviving (Most favour using a well outlevelled mission for this, as the MIs are genuinely nasty)

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You can spawn Master Illusionists at Unyeilding (IIRC) on a two player spawn, I know this because they are the bane of my fire/kin duos life. :'(

What would be more useful TBH is some form of inventory export function (or a command to list stored salvage/recipes in chat) so that you can rapidly input what you have into other software.

I made a spreadsheet that lists all my salvage, but I now only record rare, as to update everything across multiple alts and two accounts was taking hours. If i could list exectly what I have in both the salvage store and on my character with simple command I'd be in a much better position IMO.

Should it not be Interfere?

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They would do. MoG was a death sentence if you popped it against anything firing psi damage.

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Or anything with Auto Hit...

KoA were my bane for quite some time...

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So quit whining and leave.

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We never tell people to leave - we give them a hug, hold their hand, and tell them everything's going to be fine

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If you are so bored/cross/tired/annoyed with the game that you can come onto the forums and say that the last issue had nothing worth having in and looking at the info given so far say the same about the next issue, is there any point in continuing? IMO no, go away do something else, play WoW and realise how good this game actually is...

At this point in time, and bearing in mind that neither CO or DCO are following the same game play route as this game, in the future this game does not have a genuine competitor. That may not always be the case. If you have got to the point where nothing is of interest to you any more which is the feeling I got from the Nicky's post, yes leave. Go away spend some time doing other stuff then when you are bored of the other stuff come back and find that this game isn't so bad...

Besides by then there will be tons of great new missions written by the players.

I didn't say all that because I was ranting.

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Personally, I hope players names cannot be used unless its by them.


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I have no problem with people using their own alts as characters, as quoted in the first line of my post, I just dont think other people should have control over using my alts names etc in missions.

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Some people's names are already taken by villains (in heroes) I have run into Jag (a Freakshow boss) and Pyra (a generic safe guard boss) both of whom afaik pre-date as PCs their use as in game bosses. I'm sure there are others too.

So quit whining and leave. Seriously what the hell is left that you like, 'nothing' in the last issue, 'nothing' in this issue... And what the hell is likely to change that? More power sets, check. More zones, check. More unique missions, check. /rant

The mission creator is only one part of the issue, and unless I have completely missed an announcement or five there is still stuff to be added to what they have said is coming.

IMO I think the mission creator is actually one of the biggest things to happen to the game since launch (EU wasn't around for i0 ), you only have to look at other games that allow the fan base to make stuff for it to see how much latent unused talent there is out there. It may well be true that only 10 people use the designer, but you can be pretty certain that the content that they produce will be on a par with if not better than content written by the developers.

Personally I think that there will be a hell of a lot more than 10 hard core mission designers out there, who will make amazing missions. And thats not counting those of us who just think we can write great missions... there will be far more of us.

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But you'd always be a Legend to us LostNinja, regardless of Forum Title.

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What are you trying to do?

Simplest would be:

/bind &lt;key&gt; "powexecname hover$$powexecname fly"

First press switches on fly 2nd press swaps to hover, and back again on next press. I combine it with:

/bind &lt;key&gt; "powexectoggleoff hover$$powexectoggleoff fly"

Which switches both off. You could add a powexectoggleon sprint, to the end of the above too, but I tend not to.

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Anything that lets me be rid of the title I have is fine by me.

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Yes - remove all titles, post counts and registration dates - it makes it better for newer players, I think.

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An option so you can look like a newb... fine

Me I like my Legend, have never got around to earning anything else and don't want the next one up. Even thinking of asking a mod to stop me accruing any more posts.

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You have multiple accounts, I'm going to switch which account I post with before I hit the next title you could do the same

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I'd still no longer be Legend though...

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Well yeah i realise there almost certainly (not 100%, who says it wont have a form of damage mitigation within it?) wont be an offensive form of it, it wont stop all of the fans creating tribute toons as such will it?

/rantoff sorry i just dont like seeing non-unique toons! I like seeing players who put thought and effort into thinking up a concept and everything, not something that was thought up by another person 175 years ago (a plumber told me that as an estimate).

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While I agree with you on that point I don't think that having a power set that is similar to an already established character in the real world equals lots of clones or tributes.

I can't remember ever seeing a Wolverine toon, while his "powersets" are so obviously in the game.

I did run into some clones in my time here but of course there will always be people who don't have that creativity or are just too lazy to think up their own toons.

And sometimes I think the costumes are quite well done too.

And I also already have a shield character in mind, but it depends on the options what kind of shields we can choose.

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Seen a lot of Wolverine and Hulk clones and reported a fair few myself, seen an awful lot of other less well known comic book heroes, some I don't doubt I wouldn't know due to their nicheness.

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Anything that lets me be rid of the title I have is fine by me.

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Yes - remove all titles, post counts and registration dates - it makes it better for newer players, I think.

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An option so you can look like a newb... fine

Me I like my Legend, have never got around to earning anything else and don't want the next one up. Even thinking of asking a mod to stop me accruing any more posts.

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