Texas Justice

Context is everything.

The quoted post below was the 155th post in the thread. It was also the last post in the thread. The quote below is the full post, including the quote of the OP.

Top photo: (Friday lunch at Schaub's) Clockwise from lower left:
Red Gren, Red Valkyrja/Angel Red, Janlee, Rangle, Impish, artphobia, Dramen

Bottom photo: (Sunday breakfast at Holder's) Around the tables from lower left:
Mekkanos, Rangle, Hyperstrike, Mrs. Fire Away, Fire Away, Impish, Red Gren

They have documentation on the engine, it's just not as thoroughly documented as they might like it to be. In some cases there may be things that are undocumented, but in general there is documentation. This is something I've been told by more than one person that has seen the code.

BAB knew the animation side of the engine very well, and knew some about the rest of the engine. I don't think I'd characterize t as really knowing the guts of the engine. Castle left after BaB and knew the engine pretty well. pohsyb knew it much better than either of them (both from being a programmer and from having worked on the game longer, including Beta) and he left after Castle. Neither BAB nor Castle originally worked on the engine. They came in later, much like the current team.

TheDarkWatcher knows the engine very well. Synapse knows the engine very well. Black Scorpion knows the engine pretty well. I'm not sure how deep Positron's knowledge of the engine is, but I'm pretty sure he has a good understanding of it.

People working there know the game engine better than you think they do.

Devs? May, March and twice in February just going back 14 pages in the Dev Digest to the beginning of February. The March post has been quoted by a few people in other threads there dealing with the same idea.

OCR? Twice in May. I stopped looking once I got to March 30 since it was 14 pages into the Community Digest.

Just because they aren't commenting in the threads doesn't mean they aren't reading them.

I heard some things mentioned at both Pummits in various conversations that had been under discussion in the Suggestion and Ideas forums.

I think they are reluctant to post there as some people have taken that as support for their idea and expected it to be implemented into the game within a few months.

One poster a while back even claimed that a Dev was supporting their idea when all they did was comment on some tangent brought up by a different poster that had nothing to do with the OP's suggestion.

Wrong. They've wisely listened to their players and decided to not retcon the existing badges. The new content will give new badges.

I'll correct you. You're wrong.

City of Heroes Game Time Cards and NCSoft Game Time Cards don't work that way.

I've used them on my second account as needed. I've also given them as gifts.

Black Pebble has given them out at the Pummits (and likely elsewhere).

There is no activation at a register for these.

It's the No Shouting code. You can't make a post that is all caps.

The patch on Tuesday for the Panther issues was on the Test server, not the Live server.

This appears to be the patch for the Panther issues and possibly some database maintenance to fix those characters that were affected.

My signature that Wendy was referencing is a paraphrase of something a game developer used to say around the office. Yes, there are more situations than just the two in the signature, but he didn't need to mention all of those other things to make his point.

Since I never could find the chat logs where I was told this line (it was said in a global channel by someone that worked with the game developer), I don't put it in quotes or attribute it to that game developer.

Also, if I were doing it as a quote I'd have asked his permission first. It's the polite thing to do since it wasn't a statement made in an interview, on a forum discussion or similar.

Without his permission, I won't even give his name. Similarly, without the permission of the person that told me I won't give their name either.

EDIT: I've been asked a few times about the signature but have never told where it came from in full. This is the closest I've come and likely the closest I'll ever come to telling the entire story.

Ah, yeah. I was looking at the Accounts number, not the Characters number.

Maybe someday.

Wouldn't it be 3 extra 0's to go from 500,000 to 500,000,000 in your memory?

There are times that the game and store don't sync properly. When that happens, you can usually correct it by logging out and logging back in. Some find that it corrects itself if they choose a different server.

If that doesn't correct the problem with the IO's, be sure to file a /petition in game about it. If the responses aren't getting it corrected or seem to be responses that don't apply to your situation just stay polite and ask that the ticket be escalated to a senior support person. Sometimes it takes a bit to get someone that actually reads and understands the problem fully as well as how to correct it.

As for the costume parts, they've shuffled several of the costume parts around and that will often flag an item as an Invalid part. One of the big ones recently dealt with combining "Standard" and "With Hair" in the Masks sections (I think those were the two that were combined, but it could have been something else beside Standard). It usually just involves selecting the costume pieces again from where they've been moved to.

If it was the sync issue causing it, it should clear on it's own when you get the store and game to finally communicate together about what you've purchased in the past.

Again, if that doesn't resolve it, file a /petition stating what you've purchased and what specific costume piece from that purchase is showing as locked. Stay polite and ask for escalation if the initial responses can't get it resolved or seem to not apply.

That last part was an amazing accomplishment.

Really amazing since VEAT's weren't added to the game until Issue 12.

I'm sure that there were some level 50 Villains within days of Issue 7 being released.

If you /friend someone and their name gets gen'd, they will show up in the friends list as the Generic 000 000 000 000 name they got changed to. If they give the GM's a name that is acceptable, they will rename the character and it will show as the new name on the Friend list. Some I've seen have decided to keep playing with the Generic name. If they don't log the character back in it stays as the Generic 000 000 000 000 name. I'm not sure what it does if they delete the character. It may auto-remove from the Friend list, but I can't be certain.

I've seen the name changes on the Friend list happen on a few characters.

Some I've spotted in the game and immediately added to my Friend list thinking "that won't last long" and kept an eye on it to see how quickly it was changed.

I saw one changed just as I finished adding it to the Friend list. Name, costume and Description all gen'd.

I've also added them to the Friend list just based on a comment someone made in a global channel wondering how long before they were gen'd. Some didn't take long at all.

You can sell other things in Wentworth's/Black Market besides just IO's. ATO's can be purchased there and don't require an IO license since they are not IO's but are SBE's (Store Bought Enhancements).

That's why you get market access before getting IO access. More than just IO's are sold through the WW/BM auction houses.

I've seen poeople advertising trading of various goods shut down by mods in the past and I'd rather you not be caught in that.

You might be able to donate them as prizes for some of the contests that PERC has at times or other player run events or contests such as the FART battle that Darth Delicious has been running (at least I think it's DD running it).

But I'd still recommend contacting the OCR team first. If you are interested in possibly donating some of the cards for use as prizes in a player run event or contest (such as the FART Battle) mention it in the PM and they can tell you specifically if that case would be allowed.

EDIT: You can't PM Black Pebble, he has PM's disabled *glare* although I understand why. Zwhydoiputupwithtjspellingmynamewrong, Hit Streak or Freitag would be the current members of the OCR team, unless we've got a new one we don't know about yet. *glances at Moderator 09 wonderingly*

I know that originally if you logged out in Outbreak and selected Galaxy City as your starting zone it would start the GC load screen then switch quickly to the AP load screen and load you into AP instead.

Recently I tried that with a character I had logged out in Outbreak and it sent me to a totally empty GC. I had the same issues with the tram that the OP. The train didn't give an option for Ouroboros, just a message saying "You cannot enter".

Also, the map and /whereami all said I was in Galaxy City, not Echo: Galaxy City.

If I go to the Echo: Galaxy City on any of my characters. the map and /whereami both say Echo: Galaxy City.

I think something broke recently in relation to the code that was handling where to send players if they picked Galaxy City as the starting zone from Outbreak and for where it sent players that had logged out in Galaxy City.

EDIT: I just double-checked by logging that character back in that is listed on the character select page as being in Galaxy City. He's still in what is labeled as Galaxy City instead of Echo: Galaxy City. The character I logged off in Echo: Galaxy City shows on the character select page as being in Echo: Galaxy City.

Aw Forbin_Project, it's simple to answer that question.

Everyone knows that the Devs and OCR Team are masters of mind-reading.

Also, they have their own O-Portal set up in the office so they can travel back in time to write their posts.

What other reason do you think they would have for not allowing players to tour their offices.

They won't even let you past the lobby if you show up there.