Master-Blade
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Quote:I'll agree that it can still happen at any time, but my personal experience is that it happens far less often if all people follow a specific guideline. The last time I ran one, we had only 1 bugged match out of the 8 full rounds to get everybody the badge, and the time before that had no issues with all 8 rounds. Back when these badges were released, we had issues with it almost every time when people were insta-quitting, so I figured that quitting while the opponent was still loading could be causing the issue. I suppose it's not the only cause and I could just be lucky, but I'd rather offer the tip in hopes it might be helpful, rather than make it sound like it's completely random chance.Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
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Quote:Not necessarily. If we had account-storage, it'd most likely be handled by a global server of some kind, and the same type of rollback could still happen to it.Originally Posted by EvilRyu
You know what, we wouldnt be in this mess in the first place had they just given us account based storage like what people been asking about since day 1. Its a pain to be moving stuff around 1 item at a time. Having account storage would totally make this email thing a non issue.
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Quote:WineHQOriginally Posted by Kinrad
I know just about nothing about Macs, so pardon if this is just plain ignorant, but is there a WINE you can use to emulate Windows like you can for Linux boxes? If so, you may be able to install Mid's to a Win Emulation or virtual machine instead?
Parallels Desktop® 6
VMware Fusion 3
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I also fight the ambushes in the hallway, then deal with the R-man by himself. It hasn't failed us yet. Just make sure somebody is watching both directions because the ambushes come from the main room and from behind as well.
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1. I have noticed the same thing. I'm sorry I have no info on how to earn this badge nowadays. The inerface has certainly changed since I earned it.
2. You'll have to first enable teams on the left side (where it says "No Teams") for the Pentad/Septad options to show up in a dropdown menu right under the Gladiator Match option. As for whether or not the 1vs1 of matching ATs still works, I am unsure. I was told it was fixed also, but I have not tested it in a while.
4. I heard the Swiss draw can still be buggy, but my personal experience with it has been just fine. Just make sure that the horn blows and the match actually starts before one player quits each match. Quitting before the match even starts seems to cause the sync issues and the seemingly wrong people advancing to the next rounds. -
Quote:Well that stinks.. but if the OP (or anybody else) is on Freedom and needs help with that badge, I think I still might have the right mission saved on one of my toons. Just shoot me a message in-game (@Master-Blade) and I'll see what I can do to help out.Originally Posted by Frosty_Surprise
I just did this map a week or so ago, and it was not on Unai's arc. As it is not a badge mission either, I don't think it is in OB.
Of course, I may be totally wrong on this. I just remember checking on whether it was on the arc, and being surprised when Unai did not have the book symbol by his bar. -
Quote:I've found the magic number to be 3 people on a team. It seems any time I'm hunting for bosses of any kind, they pop up in almost every spawn as soon as I invite the 3rd person.Originally Posted by Ironblade
One additional thing to note: do your hunting with a team. This will increase the spawn sizes and number of bosses.
Yes I know.. 3 is the magic number.. haha
On a side note, I'm wondering if you can find the map in Ouroboros that has a bunch of BP in the graveyard. On the right toon, you could up your difficulty and knock it out easy if it's there. -
I'm in again. Toon to be determined by the team.
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Wow, and it went back about a week or so! I still have 4 Phenomenal Luck Inspirations that I used up during last Saturday's MoLRSF. I was hoping I'd end up with duplicated Stealth and KB procs that I e-mailed myself Monday night. No dice though. lol
It sucks that anything people put into storage during the last week is probably gone. -
Gangbuster would have been near the top of your list.
The progress bar you circled is actually for Untouchable, which is for Family or Marcone Bosses. I believe the Lt versions don't count. -
Quote:I use my thumb buttons (both on same side as well) for jumping and backward movement. It makes playing with one hand very easy so I can eat bacon with the other. lol j.kOriginally Posted by Kheldarn
I tend to bind things like that to my thumb buttons. They're both on the left side of my mouse, thankfully. Thumb buttons on both sides is just pants on head retarded.
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Quote:I went down my list and counted only about 110, but then I realized I was on the wrong character (who hasn't even come close to finishing the Villainside stuff yet). lolOriginally Posted by Lothic
I haven't kept up with what the overall total could be on one character but it might be approaching 300 at this point.
Setting the bar at 300 sounds good to me, cause I'm sure we'd get there eventually with new arcs and TFs being added. At least it'd be better to have the badges there ahead of time so we don't end up with 300 of them and a badge for only 100, like when we were earning 600 or 700 badges with only a badge for collecting 200. haha
Speaking of TF souvenirs, anybody who is collecting these should make sure to double check for "Lady Grey Taskforce". Way back when the TF was released, the souvenir wasn't being awarded. I didn't earn it until I ran it again for the MoLGTF recently. There might be other ones with similar situations. -
Quote:255Originally Posted by the_pancake_king
thanks master-blade, i will give that a try. Do you know if there is a macro character limit?
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Quote:In some cases, anything after the "goto_tray" command is cut off for some reason. Try putting that command at the end instead.Originally Posted by The_Pancake_King
command to toggle on dwarf$$gototray 8$$bind shift+lbutton "Black Dwarf Step"
What happens is that after I zone a few time my macro changes to:
command to toggle on dwarf$$gototray 8
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Quote:You can't really award somebody for "NEVER" doing something. They would earn the reward and then simply go do whatever they weren't supposed to do before?Originally Posted by Shadestorm
In fact, there should be a badge for NEVER switching sides.
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Well this was certainly a fun run! We ran ours at lvl 28, so we did have a few wipes with the enemies at mostly lvl 31, but overall it went very well. We didn't really skip around. We defeated our way through to each objective.. except for the BP graveyard mission. With an open map, I think we just wanted to get it over with. lol
Anyway, nice job to everybody. Sorry about the other team having to restart. I hope it finishes off better for you. See you all next week in Ouro! Thanks for coming! -
Further developments.... It finally happened to me!
I was on a fresh client, logged onto a Praetorian-gone-Villain (lvl 28) who was in Ouro. I zoned in to Sharkhead. I was about to check on my tips, so I opened the Contacts tab... As the window was opening, CoH stalled. Not only that, but as Leandro encountered, I couldn't Alt-Tab out to anything else either. I couldn't even Control-Alt-Delete to kill the process. I ended up getting an error message from ATI saying something about VPU Recovery errors. I couldn't read the whole thing because the screen eventually just turned black and I had to hard-reset my whole system.
I tried to take a picture of the Contacts window loading and/or the ATI error message, but since I had to reset my system, I wasn't able to save anything. It's hard to describe. The window wasn't even it's full size yet, and it definitely crashed when the contact icons loaded because only the first contact image had appeared. lol
It's like the mini-environments simply refused to load to made the rest of the system hang.
After rebooting the system and logging in, I was surprised to see the contacts window was already open. I didn't realize window status would persist like that, but anyway.. It seems to be working just fine now. I'll head to Ouro so I can try to repeat the exact steps to see if it happens again.
In the meantime, here were my graphics options when it happened:
My bar was set to Ultra from the last time I tested this, but I since made a few modifications.
I turned on Advanced Settings.
Turned Occlusion down to "High Performance"
Turned World Detail to 200%.
Turned off DoF.
I didn't get a chance to fine-tune anything else past that yet.
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After bringing the same character back to Ouro and logging off/rebooting the system and opening a fresh client again, I zoned to Sharkhead and opened the Contacts tab again... It happened AGAIN!
This time, about 10 seconds went by and it refreshed the screen with the text all jumbled around and missing, then refreshed to a bunch of nasty colors on the screen, then I got the ATI error again:
Quote:I had to reset the whole system again. Blah!VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands.
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After rebooting again and logging back in, the Contacts window was already open again, and I watched each contact image slowly load from top to bottom. It was quite strange.
I also closed the window and went back to Ouro and tried it again on another fresh client. This time I didn't rezone. Clicking on Contacts as soon as I logged in triggered the freeze again, forcing another hard reset.
The really strange part is I tried it yet one more time, but on another character this time. I found any random toon on my list that was already in Ouro. It happened to be a lvl 32 PB. The window opened just fine.
I went on to try it again. I wondered if maybe this problem was isolated to Praetorians, so I logged into a Praetorian who was still in Praetoria. She only has 2 active contacts, but there was a 2 second hesitation when it loaded. That seems a it odd to me.
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Worse news... I logged onto the first toon again and this time it instantly froze when the Contact window automatically loaded. It seems I might have to wait about 20 minutes for it to reset the serverside status so I can log into the toon again? I guess I'll have to lower my preferences on a different toon so I can relog back to that toon.lol
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Well, this is the only thing (besides the RV Heroes, and i19 stuff) that I need on MB, but I'm still willing to bring another toon if it helps everybody else get the badge.
As for what to do next, Tabby is only missing the MoLGTF still and I've got about 60 EoEs sitting in my base, so I'm certainly ready for one of those again too... but with the new stuff around the corner, it'll probably have to take a back seat for a little while longer.
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Quote:I still have about 6k "Brain Storm Ideas" from converting all my base salvage, back when that counted too. lolOriginally Posted by Lothic
It's definitely a "plodding" badge now, especially since they got rid of base salvage. There used to be a time where you could get a bunch of base salvage to craft base components (which counted for Fabricator) then burn those components off as Empowerment Buffs (which also counted).
Of course Fabricator used to require 10,000 crafts (not just 2,000) so I guess it all makes sense somehow.
On a side note, I do have 2 more badge toons that I started since then who still need this badge. I've been too lazy to work on it so I'm glad this thread is here. I'll probably make a few empowerment buffs to empty my inventory, rather than simply selling to the store or CH like I usually do. Good "painless" tip there. lol -
Quote:My point was that once you get 2B in assets, all you'd have to do is e-mail some to yourself over an over again to get the badge for your alts, rather than them legitimately earning it separately. That's why I offered Merits as an alternative to the same idea. There isn't really any way of exploiting that.Originally Posted by Shadestorm
Believe it or not, sitting on 2 billion is actually kinda hard for some people. Besides, we've got all those other inf badges.
I'm not against there being a 2B inf badge, but now that the badge for earning 2B inf is reduced to only 500M, a good alternative would be to bring back the 2B badge as global earnings across all your characters instead.
I certainly agree with this, especially after going through the trouble of defeating that Jade Spider.Quote:Originally Posted by RosaQuartz
I still think there should be a badge for completing all of the Ouroboros TFs (Lazarus, Silos, and Tesseract/Twilight's Son).
Maybe there should be a badge for clicking those "mysterious" crates that have appeared in various TF/missions in the game since Ouro came out.
Of course we have to say: "all inclusive badges are a bad idea because they could always add more arcs and the requirements would constantly change,.. blah blah", but I still agree. That's a fair amount of arcs there on both sides, and a few of them are a real pain on certain characters that don't solo well. I've run through them all on my 3 badge toons as well, and if it means another badge for doing it, I'm in... so...Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
Heck I think there should be a badge for completing ALL Red and Blue Ouroboros arcs.
My main badging character has already done that.
...if we wanted to accommodate the growing list of arcs, we could simply make a badge for earning X amount of souvenirs (from non-AE arcs). Then we'd get multiple badges for the series, and more arcs would eventually bring more badges.
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Quote:Actually, you can use one of the powexecslot commands to call on a macro in another slot in the middle of another macro...Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
The reason you can't set up a macro to call a macro is because it would enable botting, which the devs are very much against.
If it were possible you could set up a macro on autofire that ran through every attack you have, and you could just walk away from the keyboard and farm.
Unfortunately.. there is no real benefit to this (regarding using powers or inspirations), because it'll just act as if the code from the second macro is inserted within the original macro (and still only fire off one power, and maybe queue a second one).
In short, it works, but it still wouldn't let you bot, and it still wouldn't be dynamic like the OP seems to want.
As mentioned, the best bet for rotating messages would be to use binds instead of macros, as linked above. -
Quote:This would be my guess as well. It sounds like they have a Stealth Proc slotted in Fly, which is why there is no shadow.Originally Posted by Photonstorm
When stealthed or invisible, characters won't cast a shadow. So are you using a stelath/invisibility power with that flying character? Or do you have a Stealth proc in Fly? That's the only thing I can think of, since you see shadows with your other characters.
I'll also note that a recent patch "fixed" it so that procs like that will only be active while the power is active, which means it no longer persists for 120s after the toggle is turned off like it used to. -
Quote:I didn't do anything yet.. I didn't even play Beta, but thanks.Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Show offs.
Also: Congratulations to both of you!
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Quote:I guess you have a point there, but I guess I was just assuming we were trying to come up with something at least semi-challenging that already exists in-game that doesn't have a badge. I'm not necessarily saying no to the proposal.. just saying it would be easy/worthless to some people, and added to it by presenting the idea of badges for merits as well. That's certainly an achievement.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
we get badges for logging in on certain days, for walking past particular spots on the map, for all manner of profoundly un-challenging acts.
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Quote:Lol that could be quite tricky... my non-badge hunters run into them accidentally all the time, especially all the new ones scattered around. How would you measure it? Make it to 50 without getting one? Then do you lose it if you go out and get them? hahaOriginally Posted by Kheldarn
There should be a badge for not collecting a single Exploration Badge. o.o
Well that's a good one, but the fact that it'd be impossible to go back and get later, I'm sure people are going to say no. lol