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I appreciate the attempt to clarify this auto promotion/demotion issue, but for some reason it still seems as clear as mud to me. It's almost like you'd need to keep an offline spreadsheet to track everyone if you wanted to get a solid idea of who'd be next in line to automatically get the Red Star. And that's of course assuming this convoluted system is in fact "Working as Intended" and has no bugs associated with it.
Ultimately it seems far easier to follow Shadow Ravenwolf's advice and try to avoid letting the system auto promote/demote anybody.
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Quote:While it's true that if you know how to "play the market" it's relatively easy to make enough INF to buy anything you want some people find the whole idea of playing the market as frightfully dull and mismatched to the idea of playing a hero or villain. On the other hand some people might legitimately consider the "daily Hero/Villain merit" method for recipes to be slow and boring for its own obvious reasons. Fair enough.Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
I thought that way originally then I remember I make more on the market in less time than it takes to do them so I stopped bothering. I do Tips for alignment changes and nothing else.
To me the whole dailies aspect of the alignment missions simply provides yet another method for people to gain access to rare recipes. Having multiple ways to obtain things that appeal to different playstyles can only be considered a good thing for this game. Some people are willing to trade off time for certainty or time for money. These different methods each have their pros and cons. And afterall there's no rule that says you must like or use both methods.
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Quote:If he ends up playing a character in this that's even vaguely similar to his "Captain Hammer: Corporate Tool" one then that'd pretty much be worth the price of the ticket alone.Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
Movie has Nathan Fillion in it, I must see it now...
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Quote:I detailed EXACTLY what my situation was - did you even read my post?Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
You're comparing being over there maybe twice a year for a couple of weeks to living there every day? Now that's funny, and very condescending.
Out of maybe 30+ attempts to play this game overseas (mostly tried in the evenings and/or "prime times" as far as a person living in Melbourne, Australia would be concerned) I've only been hit by the server maintenance once that I recall. This means that my average downtime in these timezones is around 3% of the time. To me that percentage is not worth whining about.
The only thing I see as "funny" around here is -anyone- whining about downtime here. *shrugs* -
Quote:To be clear did the star go to him instantly or was he the very next person to log in?Originally Posted by pyrite
I went villain and the star went to the previous holder. He wasn't logged in at the time either.
Also were there any other SG members logged in or were you the only one at the time you became a villain?
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Quote:Ironically enough I can actually speak to this point. Even though I live in Florida I do a lot of international travel to places like Japan and Singapore. These areas happen to be in the same general time zones the OP claims to be from in his "location" setting. Out of several dozen trips and maybe 30-40 play sessions overseas in the last several years I think I've only been "inconvenienced" by the weekly maintenance once that I can remember. Not too bad really.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Sadly our Oceanic counterparts do end up getting the short stick for evening play when the servers go down in our (US) morning. Cut the dude some slack for venting.
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Quote:Even though the Devs have not said it directly I think it's very likely that Primal Earth characters will be able to go to Praetoria fairly soon. If it doesn't happen in I19 it'll happen eventually, especially since at least some part of the Incarnate content was supposedly related to Praetoria in some form or fashion.Originally Posted by BlazingTiger
Im close to being done with badges other than Day Jobs and we will not be seeing 1000 until next issue. Unless someone starting in Praetoria really works hard to get all Praetorian badges plus Blue and Red side. Have not done the math but I believe there are enough baddges in Praetoria to outweight the unobtainable seasonal badges and boost you over 1000.
Basically this means that the window of opportunity for Praetorian badgers to surpass Primal badgers probably won't last much past the end of 2010. More power to anyone who wants to try to accomplish that before then.
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Quote:Whatever the "newest best type of toon" is right now you can be sure the Devs -will- nerf it sooner or later. Even talking about things like this in the forums helps the Devs become aware of what needs to be taken care of.Originally Posted by MLEdelen
First it was the Fire/Kin Controller, but they nerfed that. My Elec/Shield Scrapper used to be able to hold his own in a group of baddies set for 8 people with no bosses, and could manage with bosses in there, but now he gets hit like he has no defenses at all. So I ask, what is the newest best type of toon to make before I waste time and inf on a toon that will suck!!!
It always amazes me that people who love to exploit FotM builds never seem to understand why the Devs' reaction to those builds is pretty much inevitable. *shrugs* -
Quote:Then consider this: If you, a person who hasn't even worked with the code involved with this, can do this in less than a week why do you think people who've been working on this code for years -can't- do it?Originally Posted by TheMullet
I could probably do it in a day or two and about a 4-5 days to polish it.
The core of this game, if you go all the way back to its initial development, is at least 8+ years old. That might as well be an eternity as far as software technology goes. It's surprising how relatively inflexible huge applications become, especially when you've been adding bits to it piecemeal for years.Quote:Unless the code is built like a house of cards and any attempt to add or change it would break it entirely. So if they have the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality with it, then that could stop it as well. But again, that can be fixed if it needed to be. Some other update might need to edit it and then hopefully they can add in the bulk slider when they do everything else.
While I admire your blind enthusiasm I think you've greatly underestimated the situation in this case. You've included far too many "then a miracle occurs" steps in your wishful thinking. I realize you want this feature to happen (and I do too) but sadly it's just not as simple as you assume it is.
Cheers
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Quote:I don't think as of today it is possible.Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
The numbers I refer to were pulled from the Badge Hunter site. I have no idea if they are the correct ones or not and I don't know why there's one more for villains.
Still, I don't see how it is possible to currently get above 1000 badges.
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Quote:Not having 1000 badges to get -yet- doesn't interest me as much as the Devs apparently slippping in another badge called Voyager, the 1,250 count badge.Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
I thought the current maximum was 986 (H) and 987 (V) as the P ones are off limits for older toons (for now...). Unless you start as a Praetorean you won't be able to access those badges that would push you over the 1000 threshold. And if you do, you won't have all the old badges that are now inaccessible.
Am I missing something?
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Quote:I guess the only question I have is whether or not you even slept in the last 10 days...Originally Posted by Redbone
I am at 955 with all "old" Red and blue content completed except the Red Day Jobs and Day Job Accolades (10 badges total).
I think if there was a race buried in there somewhere you won it.
Take a breath and enjoy the fruits of your efforts.
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Quote:Clearly whatever "testing" they did with this didn't catch the problem either during beta or since then.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Actually in this case I think they were running a test bed without watching the results (simulated scenarios) without realizing that the AV wasn't generating combat or system spam...
I just was a little incredulous about Castle's claim about not being able to "replicate" this problem when apparently pretty much any player could manage that with a demorecord and a few minutes of time. Let's just say that his statement didn't really pass my initial "stink" test.
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Quote:Then we would've been stuck with Yar for the rest of the series? Ewww.Originally Posted by Teldon
Well if she would have gotten the part Troi would have been killed after the first season....
I have nothing against the actresses but the character of Yar was far more annoying to me than Troi in my book.
One of the weirdest cases of "actors trying out for roles different from the one they finally got" was when Charisma Carpenter was initially trying out for the role of Buffy in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show and Sarah Michelle Gellar was trying out for the role of Cordelia Chase. That would've been a fairly different show with those two playing the opposite roles.
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I think we can safely say:
1) There's plenty of comic book justification for having a "bulk" slider in this game.
2) There's enough people who've suggested this over the years to make it a legitimate player desire.
But the real problem for the Devs boils down to the hardwired limitations of the player character models. The Devs have told us that they are just about at the limit of what they can do to allow for player customization of the body shapes. This is why it's been so hard for them to give us backpack/quiver/scabbard options for our backs because they lack the "connection points" to make it work.
They're likely at the point where to do a bulk slider properly it'd almost be easier for them to scrap the entire character model and animation system and start over from scratch. The chances of -that- happening anytime soon are quite probably nil. At this point we'd more likely see this happen in CoH2 than in this game.
Who knows: the Devs might be able to pull another miracle out of the hat of this aging game engine and manage to give us a bulk slider. But let's just say I'm certainly not going to be holding my breath for it. -
Quote:Yeah I guess I never thought about it but that does sound rather anti-climactic.Originally Posted by GGG247
I took my character through all of Praetoria (Robot/Poison MM) and was given a nice send-off by several of my surviving contacts there. I stepped through the Rift and---- found myself in an empty parking lot in Talos Island.
On the other hand since it seems almost certain that there will eventually be two-way travel between Primal Earth and Praetoria I'm thinking there's going to be a more formal portal between the two. Maybe the no-frills drop off in Talos is just a "placeholder" for the way people are going to be moving between the two worlds for "real" later on. -
Quote:So to be clear you're saying you did not have the untimed Dreck mission before Going Rogue but now you do? That's pretty messed up right there - that would probably make you one of the only people left to have access to that mission.Originally Posted by Desi_Nova
I had an interesting variation of this problem happen to me. I was holding on "Explore third nemesis dimension" (Outdoor "steel canyon" map, Nemesis with 5 Rescues) to use for Farming Inf/Drops and when I logged into the char after I18 it changed to Untimed Drek.
I never doubted that the mission was probably still in the game regardless. The Devs apparently never really fully delete anything from the code even if they change an older version of something into something else. Case in point there were SGs out there who still had Items of Power in their bases for literally years after the Devs supposedly "removed" them from the game.
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To the OP... Welcome back to CoH.
As an FYI this game has had an average uptime of well over 97-98% of the time throughout its 6+ year history.
Quite remarkable actually.
Whenever someone rants about downtime here I can't help but smirk a little. Sure it's going to inconvenience somebody somewhere sooner or later, but to whine about this game's downtime openly on the forum is fairly unreasonable all things considered. *shrugs* -
Quote:Well historically the Devs like to introduce new things on Tuesdays. Since August 31st is a Tuesday and still technically in August I figure they'll wait to announce anything all the way until then.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
I don't care when it is, I just want to know WHAT it is. Aug is almost over.
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This kind of thing happens all the time. It's fascinating to look back and play the "what if" game with actors and roles. For instance Kurt Russell, Christopher Walken and Nick Nolte all apparently tried out for the role of Han Solo in the Star Wars movies.
Even in your list you'll note that Denise Crosby was trying out for the role of Troi... -
Quote:Well at least my statement was 100% true... last week.Originally Posted by Bramphousian
They're married. They got married last weekend
Yeah Daybreakers wasn't a perfect film, but at least its vampires were mostly vicious and refreshingly lacking in sparkles.Quote:Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
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Quote:While 100 times is a bit much that badge is actually farmable by even one person, assuming that person was so inclined to waste 100 solid hours doing it. Despite what the badge says it's keyed to trial attempts, not successes.Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
No mention of the SG badge in this thread ?
100 successful runs of the CoP, I hope that gets dropped to 25 or so in the future.
From what I understand the number needed for this badge was originally more like 25 successful completions at one point, but the Devs couldn't get the badge counting to trigger reliably upon successful trial completion.
Apparently the switch to 100 attempts was a compromise for making the badge technically easier to earn because now all you need to do to get credit for it is to be in SG mode at the "end" of the trial regardless if the trial ends successfully or if you run out of time after a full hour. -
Quote:Yet, anyway.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Actually Castle said that they couldn't replicate it.
When a bunch of users can easily generate recordings documenting a bug and a Dev responds with something like "they couldn't replicate it" that disconnect usually means something more along the lines of Castle telling us, "That bug is going to be relatively hard to solve and instead of getting the players' hopes up that we're going to be able to fix this quickly I'd rather be non-committal about it."
Trust me - as software engineer with nearly 20 years of professional experience I've heard just about every "the dog ate my homework" type of excuse when it comes to software issues. Reading between the lines of "Dev-speak" becomes pretty easy to do...
It's not that I'm trying to take anything away from the fine work people like Castle do.
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Quote:Unfortnately? That's probably the franchise's most appealing quality as far it eventually getting made into a series of Hollywood movies. At least Hollywood wouldn't have hamfistedly add that to the stories in order to make them more "sexy" or whatever for the masses because it's already in there.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
If they ever did an early Anita Blake movie I would so be there. Unfortunately the later books in the series turns into something more suitable to late night Cinemax soft porn.
These two even took their work home with them.Quote:Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
BEEL!
SOOKEH!
They're supposedly engaged to be married IRL.
Wonder if they do any at-home in-character scene rehearsals.
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Quote:I consider all the brain power I spent coming up with my binds makes up for the few thousand keystokes I've saved over the years.Originally Posted by Catastrophe
At first I thought "Neat, another helpful toggle bind thing."
But... c'mon, is it REALLY that difficult to make another keystroke?
Of course the answer is "yes"
P.S. I wish South Park did that ep based on City of Heroes, but it was still funny nevertheless.