TonyV

I considered this. I paid my $99 and applied to their developer program. They sent me an e-mail requesting that I snail-mail them documentation of who I am. (I guess paying them with a credit card in my name wasn't good enough. Whatever.) I made copies of my driver's license and sent it to them. They sent me another e-mail saying that wasn't good enough, they need it notarized.

At that point, and especially after reading out the problems other developers were having with getting their apps published (and given how I was getting jerked around just registering, I believed them), and especially reading how Apple is jerking other companies around (Google, Adobe, ...), and especially after pulling hair out learning Objective C, I sent them an e-mail asking for my $99 back along with some pointed comments of what I think about their developer program.

So no, there are no plans for any iOS development. Other platforms (Android and/or other phone/tablet platforms) are in the state of "not now, but not ruled out at some point."

Can you please either post a message on our support forum or PM me or GuyPerfect with the error, maybe even a screenshot, you're receiving? We're logging tech support issues like this to be investigated and hopefully quickly fixed.

We've already discussed this and figured out how to get the program to trigger the UAC instead of requiring users to do the right-click-run-as-administrator thing. Hopefully that will make it in by the next minor version release. It will definitely need to be run with elevated privileges, though, since it reads the client process to get your character information--something forbidden to apps without elevation, since it could be a security risk if it were a malicious app.

Aye, that we do, even though we don't do much solicitation. (Believe me, we hate spam and ads as much as everyone else does!) It's at the bottom of our home page. We use the funds to offset the hosting cost for the Titan Network sites. Although we may very well have to pitch in now to get GuyPerfect a headset so that he can talk to us during the meetings...

While I think that the OP is a troll, I also think this is a fair criticism, presented in a thoughtful, non-trollish manner. Gotta respect that.

The one thing I was a bit disappointed in with Going Rogue is that the old zones didn't get the "ultra mode" treatment. I would absolutely love it if, over the next year or so, they spend at least one or even two issues focusing on revamping existing art and content instead of adding new stuff. I'd love to see Boomtown starting to be rebuilt, Faultline progressing even further (maybe even a big push to officially rename the zone back to "Overbrook"), new ultra mode textures rolled out to at least the starting hero and villain zones, etc.

It's one of the new exploration badges, located at (-3504, 512, -783) in Underground Nova.

You don't know that. In his defense, it's entirely possible that he meant that the idea was being developed, not that actual code was being written yet. Or it's also entirely possible that code was being written, but for whatever reason, it was scrapped and put on the back burner, which happens sometimes. The Cathedral of Pain comes to mind. That was not only "in development," but actually released for a while before it was yanked for years and then re-released. Or the City Vault, which people are still clamoring for, but that has been put on indefinite hold status.

Incidentally, this is exactly why the devs and marketing are so tight-lipped now about what they're working on, why we just plain don't know until either it's in late beta or sometimes actually released. As soon as someone says something like, "It's in development," a contingent of players assumes that to mean, "I swear by all that I hold holy that we are focused 100% on this becoming reality, and so help me on my very life, you will see it within the next three months." Sometimes shtuff happens, and then no matter how cool something is, nothing is good enough and the game sucks. I've seen comments posted here saying basically that about Going Rogue because the Incarnate System was delayed. This moral of this thread to me isn't so much "Statesman sucks!" as it is, "When you have people that demanding (and obnoxious), the best course of action is to just keep your damn mouth shut about everything until it's literally on the live servers."

I didn't see the dates at first either, and I was wondering if the OP was on drugs or something. When I saw Statesman's post, my first thought was, "What the--!!? Why is he posting here? Doesn't he know he's going to be crucified? And how is he posting here? I thought his account was banned! Oh... Wait..."

This is why I love reading your posts.

Oh, and happy pre-21st!

That was indeed awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great job, Ashcraft!

I'm guessing this is the case, that the pseudo-code looks something like this:

So if you don't have a map profile, a default one is generated for you that includes the zowies. If you do have a map profile, it will only display the icon sets that have been explicitly enabled, and since the option never existed before to enable zowies, they won't be enabled.

They should change it to:

...Except that outdoor objectives is not enabled by default for all players. I'm one of them. You know how you can toggle off the little icons for train stations, gates to other zones, contacts, teammates, etc.? When I started my new Praetorian character, he did not have "Outdoor Objectives" selected in that list. So when I got the mission, I had no freakin' clue where to go, even though I always keep my map open, and since I don't toggle those items on or off very often, it did not occur to me that they might be on the map but hidden by default. I suspect that the OP was in the same boat.

I guess my point is that yeah, once you know that, it's easy. But knowing is half the battle.

Dude, coming to the boards and airing out woes is the homework.

You, sir, are correct. I was frustrated last night, trying like the OP to find the outdoor glowies. The bomb mission was killing me. Finally, in exasperation, I yelled out in the broadcast channel that I couldn't find them and asked if anyone knew where they were, that I'd been roaming around for half an hour to no avail. I got greeted by a couple of yells of, "They're on your map!"

Um, no, they're not.

Oh, wait...

What's this?

*forehead slap!* You have to turn them on to be seen! I foresee that this is going to be a rite of passage for an awful lot of players in Going Rogue. This was my first Praetorian character, so I don't know how the option to display outdoor glowies got turned off when it was never even an option before, but there you go.

I did write up a /bug and filed it under the "Suggestion" category, that during the very first outdoor glowie mission, it needs to be printed in bold yellow text that if you cannot see them on your map, check to see if you have your settings set to display them. Hopefully, they'll do that, or maybe even print it in every mission text that has your traipsing around looking for them in case you forget or the settings get wonky again.