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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom View Post
    Care to share that bind?

    I have to agree with the OP. Sometimes it can be annoying travelling with Teleport in it's current state. A lot of the time when I'm really not bothered I'd stick on a Raptor or Zero-G Pack and travel instead.
    I use
    /bind mousechord "powexecname teleport" which means I can press both buttons of the get the targeting recticle, then a click to bamf.

    But the left shift one would be

    /bind shift+lbutton "powexecname Teleport"


    There is also a bindfile thingajig with steriods I havent tried myself, that rezooms the camera and a few other tweaks to make it even better.
    That can be found: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=113599
  2. Even the base storage auto sorting would be great. All the acc toghether please.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    For example, what if we got a reward window at the end of Dark Watcher's arc:
    Claim Reward:
    - 18 Reward Merits
    - 180 Vanguard Merits
    That would be great


    /still pinning to go on a ship raid
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim View Post
    (SNIP)
    The same doesn't apply for RWZ. So you're not really hurting anything by locking it to 35+ again.

    (SNIP)
    Except you are hurting the only place you can currently use for cross faction teaming below level 35.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper View Post
    Hush, you european.
    /em shusssh 'Australian'

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Westley View Post
    That's a really good idea. I just "added" an asterix to the icon along with the scissors. I hope that's pretty self explanatory.

    I also resized those two buttons, shortened the window and slightly widened it. So now it's slightly fatter and shorter. And for some reason I like it better that way.

    Try it out, what do you think?

    Screenshot:



    Still wish I could make it smaller, but I want to leave at least a few lines for people to type stuff.
    The button change fixes my OCD about cit doing something unexpected for standard icon

    Testing it on a diskimage with only WInXP installed gives a "failed to initailse" error.

    If i get time today, I'll install .net on it, which may be all it needs. Not sure what the lastest VB studio actually uses
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5 View Post
    Sadly yes, there are only about a few dozen word and letter combinations left, across all servers. A few of them left are listed below:

    Painful Itch
    ItsRainingMan
    Captain Slippery
    Mr. Failure
    I Love Mud
    Gramblesnoot
    Broken Toe
    MarkTwainMan
    Kdkjrsfgwert
    DirtyKnees
    Xuuydy
    iiiiiiiiiiiiir

    So go ahead and bite the buillet and learn to revel in your uniquely named character iiiiiiiiiiiiir - it's quite a distinctive name!
    Kdkjrsfgwert was taken by the coalition of gold farming yesterday.
  7. Sometimes for concept I've taken the axe. On most of those toons, I've then regreted it it soon after too.
    Its pretty easy to get at least 2 in sands of mu, and has that nice -tohit.

    I'm glad that halloween time makes the axe a better choice sometimes
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Westley View Post
    ACTUALLY I didn't even want the window to be as big as it IS! I wanted it to be the tiniest window possible... but feature creep kept making it bigger....

    I still wish I could make it smaller somehow without losing functionality or having to use a magnifying glass to read the text...
    No it works really goodly.

    Except colour being mispelled.

    Maybe change the standard cut icon as it behaves differently to expected.

    The machine I tested it on has lots of stuff already installed, so cant say if I didnt have to install anything due to that or due to it being unneeded. I'll test it on my virtual XP machine which has nothing installed.
  9. Colour Picker 2.0 under WindowsXP. Works good.

    Not crashes or nasty bugs, quick & easy to run.

    A nitpick, I'd have an icon for select all and for copy and for paste, in addition to your select all & cut button.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Westley View Post
    no u!

    I will take your advice, however I still do blame Microsoft for not making their new operating systems not fully backwards compatible with the stuff they've released in the past. NO ONE ELSE DOES THIS.
    Everyone else does this.

    And I'll test it under XP
  11. tanstaafl

    CoV Box

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bramphousian View Post
    Ah.

    I found a pile of CoV copies at a local store. I didn't realise that you could only apply a box-code once. I bought 6 copies at $5 (CAD) apiece. I figured they worked like the monthly time cards. Bah.

    The only box code I have applied to my account is the GvE one.
    Bummer: Looks you have 5 xmas presents ready to wrap.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    No. Eventually they will shut the servers down. I give this game a decade. Tops.
    Naw, As long as there are enough subs for one server & the MA building, the game can run forever.
  13. I want RWZ to stay open for lowbies.

    Theres not enough cross fraction fun for me as is (Cmom GR) and RWZ is only place under 35 you can go for this (asides special events at the D).
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja View Post
    And? Even given a limited number of objects, what are the odds that out of 6 members on a team all 6 of them saw the same object?
    Its definatly different per viewer.

    I play in same room with my daughter, and she uses this emote a lot. A real lot.

    Never seen it the same on both screens yet.
  15. And thank you again for the Offer/Inf/Transaction Fulmems

    Now to put it to good use.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Brynstar View Post
    I have to agree!! I like that idea of the small raids that only need maybe 2 teams or one really good team. It's faster than a TF (at average speed not the 25 mins ITFs). Good Mid-ranged reward tasks are just what CoX needs. I personally wish they would re-do some of the current zone GM encounters into mini-raids that made it worth doing. I think people would go after Lusca if it was a mini-raid that was worth more than just 2 merits and a badge.

    I think that these 2 events (halloween and Winter) are tests for similar events we will see in the future (GR).
    I hope multi team stuff is the exception not standard in GR.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by FreckledAvenger View Post
    What changes in particular detract from the enjoyment? Nothing was taken away from last year's event (as far as I can tell) so you can do exactly the same things you did last year with the same results. Enjoyment!

    There are also *new* things. Which you might not enjoy. As far as the cost of the candy cane respec...of course it's expensive. Have you seen the costs of respec recipes on WW? You don't want to buy one? Run a respec TF.
    Not present this year (as far as I could tell).

    - No Candy canes for baby new year will lead to much more expensive candycanes on CH. More competition and candy present sniping is my prediction for a follow on effect of that.

    - Merits reduced for winter lord hunting, the most fun merit hunting I've ever had (influenced by how few TFS I get to do).

    This means I can not "do exactly the same things you did last year with the same results." The results of those doing those things have changed. I am giving feedback, as I hope they get changed again.

    I'm in no need to buy a respec, the freespecs at each issue (which of course don't cost anything and better than candy respecs), plus vet respecs means *I'm* fine.

    You did miss my point though, which wasnt complaining about not getting a candyspec from thier cost but that the cost for a candyspec (and other items) seems based on the amount of candy canes farming time from last year, not the adjusted rate.

    It would be more much more time efficient, and easy to manage (ie team together) to get a respec recipe from the respec tf. A respec recipe that as you know, is worth a lot to sell & can be saved until needed.

    My opinion is that a special event respec with the extra limations shouldnt be harder to grind than the already there, all year round, way of getting one.
    How long does it take to spawn the winter lord, then kill lord winter? An hour? Then repeat 15 times? Compared with any other reward in game, thats an out of whack time/reward.

    I'm also saying that if the dev intention on limiting candy canes is to prevent farming/grinding behaviour, then the candy cane prices should reflect this, ie doing 6 major winter events to gather enough CCs for a halo/what ever, or dozen odd times for a candyspec is farming the winter event. Reduction of candy canes rewards means for longer grinding that last year for same rewards.

    /2 inf

    edit: looks like candy canes restored to baby new ugly, so that address most of my concerns anyway
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by toilet_monster View Post
    who is the character on the left of the villian badge?
    Ghost widow?

    Justin going off forum pic....
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GibberingLunatic View Post
    Pfft, shows what you know! He's a Villain! So there!

    Nah its a habit of mine to do words like that, but still, Drive-By and Driveby were both available, thanks to my (albiet odd) case of OCD I capitalized the B in By so there yah have it.
    Now I only wish he had a car...

    (snip)

    I'm a professional, trust me o.O
    I didnt think character names were case sensitive? ie if DriveBy is taken, then Driveby, DRIVEBY etc are all taken.
  20. I really enjoyed last years xmas event, and was looking forward to it again.

    These change distract from that enjoyment.

    It seems the reward for the xmas event is minor to prvent farming, but the cost of the respec and other candy cane purchases are based on reward times due to grinding lots of candy canes.
  21. tanstaafl

    Screen Shots?

    Holding page up down with the arrow keys works much teh same way as pageup & mouse.
  22. I really like how many of the vet awards seem focused on giving reasons for vets to level up lowbies once more.
    As such a book with phone numbers for contacts would be fit well.

    ANd give out some costume codes instead of tailor tokens for the 'cossie' rewards.
  23. tanstaafl

    Library Pass

    I normally get out my mobile, reverse the polartiy so I can call through time to Marcus (? the repeatable mission guy) in Cimerora, grab a timed one and use mission teleporter to get to Cimerora in a single load screen
  24. tanstaafl

    Custom T-shirts

    Not via Paragon/NCsoft.

    You could take a screen shot, and use cafepress or many other instant tshirt places.