Master-Blade

Hey, I don't think anybody would have a problem with your post here. We know you here, and it pertains to our server.

As for your issue, I do have my own SG and VG, but I haven't kept them active in a long long time. I've got everything a base would ever need, except members... I just use the global channels for grouping and chat now. lol

There are a couple settings you could look for to make sure the options didn't change on your new system:

Menu> Options> General> Chat> "Chat Balloons" > "Enabled"
Menu> Options> General> Chat> "Pet Response Text" > (not "Disabled")

Also, check your chat tabs and make sure at least one of them has all the following:
Cutscene Captions
NPC dialog
Pets

You can even hide them on a Tab4 somewhere if you don't want to see them show up in your normal chat, but that should make sure you see all the chat bubbles.

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One thing I just thought of, but haven't tried yet, is this: Try telling the bot to "say" /stuck?

[/ QUOTE ] That wouldn't work. You can't get your pets to issue slash commands.

Even if YOU typed: /say /stuck, you would just see "/stuck" above your head.

Yeah that's been ongoing for well over a year now:
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Known Issues List
Pathing: Protector Bots get stuck on their own Seeker Drones

[/ QUOTE ] I'm not sure why nothing has been done yet. lol

Unfortunately, most people are forced to work Recall Friend into their build, just to unstick their bots when it happens. lol

Rick Davies is a Tech contact and should introduce you to one of the following other Tech contacts:
Maurice Feldon
Paula Dempsey
Tony Kord

I don't know that there is any pattern to it, but usually they give you a choice, and if not, you can sometimes do a few more missions and get another contact.

You might also try Caitlin Murray (the Tech contact in Galaxy City), and see if she will do anything for you.


As for the Negotiator badge, you can get the mission from any of the 3 lvl 5-10 Tech contacts that I listed above anyway, be on a team when somebody else runs it, or run it from Ouroboros later on.

I know this is a no-brainer, but I can't resist asking anyway..

Have you tried messing with the Playerslot.txt file at all? I know you were doing some editing in your playernotes.txt the other day. I'm just wondering if you accidentally messed up the other file somehow. If you temporarily move it to another folder or delete it, do you still have the problem?

As for verifying files.. it will do that after any client crash. If you wish, you can skip this process by making a shortcut similar to the following (substituting your own directory):
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project coh

That will load the game directly without loading the updater program. Keep in mind you'll still have to verify files the next time the updater runs, and you'll have to run the updater next time there is a patch anyway.

Yes, there are 4 Orbs you have to simultaneously click in Faathim's TF as well. Sometimes they are close together and one person is able click two at once, but it's safer to assume you wont be that lucky and it's better to keep at least 4 people on the team. lol

Besides the Shard, there is also the Hollows Cavern Trial that requires 8 simultaneous clicks as well.

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Now I didn't say any of that hoping for a compliment But thank you all.

Just cause I'm pretty good at organizing people doesn't make me a good team leader

I feel bad for anyone other than my team regulars (E-Man, Xort, Scruffy, myself and the husband) that I stick on my team each week. Cause I know they're in for the longest, most death filled team of the 2-3 . That's just how it goes!

But as long as we all have fun, that's all that matters

Luna

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I tend to play a little looser during the Monday events - going fully into scrapper lock mode...aggroing more than I can handle on many occasions adding to the death total.

It's all for fun & truthfully anything under 7 hrs for the TF is a win! We will be finished in approximately the amount of time that Jim's team took...only spread over 2 nights.

[/ QUOTE ] Sounds to me like you're playing your scrapper the way Tabby plays the ITF. I'm gonna have to get you a set of honorary "crazy kitty" ears. lol

Funny side note. I was almost refused a spot on a MoSTF last night after DrQ because somebody said "Tabby over-agros and causes death". They didn't realize that was just my crazy speed-ITF mode.. not the way I would seriously tank. lol
Needless to say, I showed them how it was done. We didn't get Mo because of a controller who stands to close to a cyst when it goes b00m (we had a PB on the team), lol.. but it was fun anyway.

Forgot where I was going with this.. let the mayhem begin! lol

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From the Archives:

Mr E-Man's semi-regular & mostly useless information post #152

The Origin of Memorial Day!

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I can't help but point this part out to Luna..

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January 1971

With the passage of the "Monday Holiday Law", the celebration of Memorial Day Holiday is changed from 30 May to the last Monday in May.

[/ QUOTE ] That was a looong time ago.

lol.. just playin'

And to add to what Hellguard said, it only lasts 30 days.

You said you had it for about a month, so it's possible it simply expired.

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And as has been well proven over the past few months, my team is guaranteed to come in last, and have the most deaths. I'm just that fantastic a leader

[/ QUOTE ] Hey now, You came into this whole thing saying: "Freedom is too big to not have multiple scheduled events going on. Guess I felt it was time to step up and get players butts in gear." You have certainly done that!

While there are a few people who held scheduled events before, I think your steady Monday group has been a real success right from the start. Positron is the only TF that was a single team.. and that was way back in February! You are being hard on yourself. You have done a fantastic job setting everything up week to week, and we all appreciate it. There wouldn't be a Horde without you.

It's not all about how many deaths you have, or how quickly you finish. It's about having fun. We all do, and we thank you.

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Thank you for the quick responses. Monday and Fridays, what time normally? Or do they have a general time for server mait in this game?

I'll try red, and see if that's easier to see. ^-^

[/ QUOTE ] What's wrong with white? lol

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Team Jim:

Repetitious taskforce, but the right team makes it soooo much fun! Thanks guys for a great night!

Aurora is still looking for the other 3 Shadow Shard TFs, so I'm game for another go around. Except tonight was a special night, as I had off for the holiday and I normally work Sunday nights (start of my work week).

Any chance we could do the other 3 Friday or Saturday nights?

[/ QUOTE ] Sorry, this is a standing schedule every Monday night. We only ran on Sunday for these because of the 2-night teams.

Next week's Sara Moore will be Sunday also.

Of course if you want to post other shard events of your own, I'm sure you'd get some response. I'll even join on another one of my characters. I love that place.

How would the GM demand that he delete the character? Something sounds fishy there.

lol well.. that's a big DUH.. but how come nobody searches anymore
(not that they ever really did, but you'd think people would notice similar posts on the front page. I guess I should know better by now. haha)

Please refrain from cross-posting.

CoH does work with Windows 7, however they don't officially claim support for Vista or Win7 yet.

Who didn't respond to you? Did you send an in-game petition? It will usually take some time to get a response back. The weekend (especially a holiday) is a rough time to get support also.

As for your issue, what is it? Maybe we can try to help in the meantime.

How do we get 3 separate threads about this within the same week? lol

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I played Runescape back when it was 1 server that ran the forum, game, and the website all at once, and having 300 people on the server status was a busy night. lol

I left that game like 7 years ago as a top player. I just got bored with what I called the "Hampster Wheel".. click this, click that, repeat.. for hours a day. Not like clicking powers in CoH over and over again is any better.. but it has a lot more personality. It's not the same as clicking a tree for hours just to get wood! lol

Anyway, yes, their character files are so much smaller and a copy is instantly sent to the server using it. Adjustments are made as you play, and every so often it "saves" your file again to the main server. Te problem used to be that some people could trade expensive items to another character (we called them Mules), then log out the "Mule" to save the file with the expensive item.. then crash the character or server in some way so that the original file never saves. When you come back on, you have the expensive item still.. effectively duplicating the item or money you traded.

Obviously they put in more safeguards by now to prevent such a thing happening, but it's still a weird system to deal with sometimes. I'm afraid with CoX's larger complex player files, and the track record with server crashes and file corruption, it wouldn't be a good thing to try. Every other time the server went down for maintenance, there would be somebody complaining they lost items or xp from a "rollback". lol

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There aren't, by the way, *laws* per se. They're just violating the EULA. Even *here* there's question about just how much weight that can carry, as I recall.

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It's not illegal in the sense that they will be prosecuted by a court, only that the Devs can take internal action against them by banning.

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It appears low on their priority list since this has been around for a year or two, if not longer.

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came about in i12 afaik when the devs were trying to lock people out of being able to peek at the new veat powers in the closed beta

[/ QUOTE ] Like Agg pointed out, it's been around longer, but you're right.. it's definitely been much more noticeable since the VEATs were released in i12.

MB's Dr.Q Team:
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1: Phanta-Rad : Ill/Rad Controller
2: Dread Lady Roberts : DB/SR Scrapper
3: Seigi no Akuma : Spine/Dark Scrapper
4: King Sac : NRG/NRG Blaster
5: Flu-Shots : Emp/Archer Defender
6: Max Shields : Shield/SS Tanker


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+ 111 Reward Merits
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Finished in 4:01:21
36 deaths.

Well, we didn't make it within the 4 hours we were trying for. If it wasn't for the team wipe we had ont he last mission, we would have done it.. but it was pretty darn close to my 2am estimate anyway. lol

Nice work everybody! Thanks for coming along and making it a short night.

Good luck to the remaining teams! (Now to plan something for tomorrow night.)

The game wont pitch a fit, it will simply slot the characters in the order you listed within the file, and place the rest in the first available empty slots in the order in which you created them on that server.

You'll certainly be able to still move things around, but with the file on "read-only", it wont save.

Well you wont be limited to 60fps like standard LCD.. you'd be able to get up to 120fps. Whether or not this would have an impact on your performance might depend on the computer it's attached to and what settings you use.

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The second half of the macro button you get from the accolade is an emote: MAtablet, which is jsut like clipboard, but with a blue MA screen instead.