TonyV

They've prevented the execution of multiple powers bound to a key or macro to keep people from scripting macrobots. Sorry, but your only option is to bind Combat Jumping to another key and toggle it separately.

Yes, binds are saved to the server, not just kept locally. I've actually played on different computers, and all of my binds stay intact without me having to reload anything.

Binds loaded on one character don't carry over to any other characters, with one exception. There is a default keybind file (I think it's default.txt, but I could be wrong) that, when you create a character, will be loaded on them. If you modify this file, it won't affect any existing characters, but it will affect any new characters you create.

I've looked over the HTML code to see if maybe there is something I could add to my Greasemonkey script, but the date is nowhere to be found, only the thread number, which is sequential. I don't see anything in options, and the only other way it would happen is to pull the date out of each thread, which I don't want to do for risk of dramatically increasing the load on the server.

Sorry, I just don't think it's something an end user can change.

I've added a couple of new features. You can install the new version by clicking on the link above. Here's something AdBlock can't do :

• On the post list page, threads with new posts are now highlighted with a light yellow shade to make them easier to see. Also, clicking on the thread title now takes you to the first new post, so you don't have to click on that tiny little arrow. (This mimics how the old forums worked.)
• I've replace most of the new smilies with the old smilies. The only one I didn't replace is the rolleyes smilie, since the old forums didn't have a smilie for that.

Here's a snippet of screenshot of the forum list so you can see how it looks on my machine now:

Well, it's not like I've been seething over it or anything, but the fact is that those forums are worthless to me because I speak neither French nor German. I mean, it would be like if they put a bunch of extra forums at the bottom that are locked and that they've said will never contain any posts. If I have it within my means not to see them there, why would I?

Besides, it's a common question/request, "How do I turn off the French and German forums?" The answer is that you can't, but with this Greasemonkey script, you can. I did it mostly to help out those folks, since I was already writing it for myself.

If you want to see those forums but like the other features, just change the var OPT_REMOVE_LANGUAGES variable at the top of the script from ['Francais', 'Deutch'] to false, and ployglot it up to your heart's content. Or hell, if you don't speak English and you're reading this (via a friend or translator service, presumably), feel free to change it to ['English'] if you want.

At some point, if there demand for it, I might check into adding config options to the menu instead.

You know, I never cease to be amazed at people who get pissed off at RPers buying an MMORPG. I mean, with all due respect, what did you expect? I'm not saying that you have to RP, or that you should expect nothing but RP, but really, isn't this like going to church and then complaining the religious people piss you off? I'm not offended, but I admit that I am a little puzzled.

Which incidentally is another way in which these forums rock over the old ones. In the old ones, if I wanted to explain why I'm reporting a post or thread, I would have to actually post a note to the mods in the thread, and invariably, that was interpreted as, "Ha ha, I'm reporting you!!!" This way is much better, I can actually explain why I tagged messages!

Most consoles nowadays have a hard drive built into it to store patches and updates. In fact, some games don't even have media now. You order it from the console's store application, it's digitally delivered to the console's hard drive, and you play it from there. I suspect this is the future of consoles, that at some point, physical media will become outdated.

...Not that I think that City of Heroes is coming to a console. I just don't think that would be very fun.

Thanks for referencing that, by the way. I personally wrote that article because the coordinates, when viewed from a birds-eye like most people think of them on the map, are kind of wonky. I'm glad that it's useful to folks.

This is why the axes are laid out like they are. If your character is facing north, the camera is facing south. If you think of your monitor as a Cartesian plane, that means that to the camera, the x-axis goes from left to right, the y-axis goes from the bottom of the screen up, and the z-axis goes "into" your monitor.

I created a picture a while back to make sense of it all. The character in the picture below is facing north, which means that the camera is facing south. The axes are set with a reference for how stuff is drawn on the screen.

It's called TweakCoH. I don't know if it's still updated, though, so your mileage may vary.

I'm not going to sit here arguing with someone who is so dug in that they defy logic and common sense with such tripe. I've already posted the simple provable ways in which farming hurts the game, as if it's not obvious enough to anyone with half a brain that on every conceptual level, it's not a good idea to have people exploiting your game--any game--in such a manner.

I'm not going to act like no one should ever farm at all. Everyone does it at least a little in every MMORPG, getting a little extra "oomph" to get to that next level or to rack up the currency to acquire the next cool widget, and to some extent, that's not a bad thing. But everyone knows--yes, you too--that those who take it to excess make the game less fun for everyone else. In City of Heroes, this manifests itself in ways such as farming spam, RMT spam, grossly imbalanced PvP, inflated market prices, and deteriorated image of the game and its community. It's not a question of whether or not excessive farming is good or bad for the game.

It's bad, period. Repeatedly explaining how and why is like repeatedly explaining why shooting yourself in the head is bad for your health, it's that obvious. Yes, there are nuts out there who will swear up and down that there was once a guy who had such bad migraines that he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head, but he lived, and the bullet took out the part of his brain that was causing the migraines, and he lived happily ever after. You're worse than one of those nuts, because in the analogy, you're actually using such crap to justify why shooting yourself in the head is actually really good for your health.

The developers know it's bad as well, which is why they have repeatedly taken steps to curb farming activities over the years. This is the part where you'll deny that they've done anything, as most farmers I run across insist that the devs either don't care about farming or actually encourage it, in spite of so much evidence to the contrary that it makes such claims look foolish. Or maybe you'll scream about how these steps have all spelled DOOOOM!!! for the game, in spite of it going stronger than ever more than five years later.

The only real questions are how far people like you are willing to go, how much you're willing to exploit the game, how crazy the stuff you say is, to justify the selfishness of farming excessively, no matter how much it hurts the game or its players, and what the developers will do to curb your farming activities.

I have a hard time believing that you'll still be around in a year or two as the developers continue to curb farming. I have a hard time believing that you've ever actually studied economics, or for that matter, given it more than a few second's worth of thought. I have a hard time believing that you actually think you're helping the City of Heroes community with a "yay, it's a farming game!" philosophy.

Oh, so you want to compare transcripts? I have formal higher education in economics (micro- and macro-), a minor degree in business (computer science was my degree major), and received a 4.0 grade point average in all of my business classes. Funny thing, I also have formal higher eduction in nuclear physics. But I digress; the point is that I do, in fact, know what I'm talking about. What have you got, other than a proven willingness to talk out of your *** to justify selfish practices so that you can continue maxing out your uber-leet characters? If you want to argue about sports, art, or literature, then maybe you'll catch me out of my element and win.

As it is, though, I tire of this thread. The question has been answered repeatedly, and non-farmers (which is most players) know that it's correct. No, farming is not killing the RMTers, it is helping them. As farming increases, in-game inflation increases, thus there is increased pressure on non-farmers (which is most players) to seek other sources of influence, which drops them right in the hands of RMTers. As supply of influence is increased and more efficient means of farming are developed, it lowers the cost for RMTers to acquire the influence they sell, thus lowering the prices on their sites. These two factors mean that the more people farm, the more wonderful RMT spam we can count on getting, barring the developers clamping down on it more, which they have demonstrated a willingness to do in the past.

By all means, please do continue arguing with other people who will indulge your farming delusions.

No, don't do that, I use reputation to judge people.

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No, but seriously, if you didn't have any negative reputation, then I'm guessing that you're kind of a forum sycophant. Anyone who's says anything worth listening to will always have some people out there who disagree with them, and of course, there are always the trolls who don't listen to anyone and just like to make others miserable. The best you can hope for is to either keep your mouth shut (which I don't suggest) or accept that sometimes you'll rub people the wrong way and live with it (which I do suggest). One disagreer/troll does not a reputation make, that's why it's cumulative. Just keep doing what you're doing and hope for the best.

QFTA

Firefox with AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and Firebug (if you're a developer) is a life saver, and I don't mean the breath mint. Over the years, they have protected me from all kinds of nastiness, and browsing the web without them is like downloading and running questionable software without a virus scanner.

With the improvements they've made lately in the scripting engine and other features, Firefox is simply the gold standard in browsers, period.

True story: At work, against the wishes of our desktop support group, I have Firefox installed on my workstation and I use it as my default browser. I've had a lot of people ask me, "That's not Internet Explorer, what is that?" Over the years, I've gotten so used to the question that I have a stock nickel tour explanation. I show them various features. Everyone I've told about it is amazed, a bunch have installed it at home as their default browser, and everyone that I know who has tried it is solidly converted now. Many have spread it to their own family and friends. Almost everyone in the office now also has it installed on their workstations.

Get it. Use it. Be happy.

Love the smilie, Mateo.

Simple. Because they are consuming MORE of the desirable items (e.g. purple IOs) while degrading the price of the other stuff, the stuff that is less desirable, to the point where no one else can make a profit off of it.

Duh.

What YOU seem ignorant of is the fact that farmers are supplying less desirable recipes in greater quantities while simultaneously jacking up the price of more desirable recipes. The glut of less desirable recipes hurts casual/normal players by keeping the price of them on the market so low that it is more profitable to simply dump them at the stores or, if that is not an option at the time, delete them to make room and hope you get lucky.

Meanwhile, the stuff that is more desirable to have simply isn't there. The people who are farming billions of influence--and the people who are keeping RMTers in business--are buying them at artificially inflated prices, prices that are currently so high that the only way that casual/normal players can obtain them is by hoping for a drop.

The more people farm, the more money RMTers make, plain and simple. Why? Because the more people farm, the more inflation there is in the game, the more casual/normal players can't obtain the high-end stuff, the more some will resort to buying influence from RMTers to avoid having to engage in the tedium that is farming. Like I said, farmers are causing this problem, not helping it. Please stop trying to rationalize selfishness. If I were an RMTer, I would pray night and day that this game go more and more to the farmers so that average Joes would have to buy my stuff to even come close to keeping up.

This isn't all just theory. Pre-Issue 9, before there were recipes, IOs, or an invention system, there was a point of diminishing returns. Once you had two or three million influence, which was easily obtainable by level 35 or so through normal playing, you were pretty much rich enough to SO out your character. You could farm if you wanted to, but really, there wasn't much to do with those extra millions of influence other than give it away or use it to twink your other low-level characters.

Back then, and this is important, there was no RMT spam. None. Zilch, zip, nada. There might have been some RMT sites, but it wasn't worth their time spamming people with RMT e-mails or tells because the real world money just wasn't there. There was a specific point of diminishing returns to having massive amounts of influence did you no good whatsoever, because you couldn't improve your character through more farming.

That is the point to which the devs should strive to bring the game back to. Where casual players have some stuff, avid players have more stuff, and farmers might have just a little bit more, but no significant advantage over the people who are avid players as they do now. I guarantee you that 1) you would see a dramatic drop in RMT spam, and 2) the game would be much more fun as people actually played it.

Nope, there are no ways to directly transfer stuff between your characters.