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I guess it's not a fatal problem, but I always wonder what the note was -- it's like getting a warning sent by your past self that's illegible. "What does it mean? What am I missing? Am I supposed to trust this person, or avoid him/her?"
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Or "Don't trust Mender Silos" and "I'll see you in the crystal!" 
All playernotes are stored in a single file:
"..\City of Heroes\account_name\playernotes.txt"
It's possible the file formatting got screwed up and/or became corrupt, causing the client not to recognize some of the names or information you stored there.
I like the feature, but I think it was implemented poorly. I would have preferred a playernote folder with individual files instead. Then each file can be formatted in a way that can prevent many of these errors.
Names with spaces tend to throw it off, as you'll see and note "Mender Silos" and then come back later to check your note for "Mender Silos" and known player names will be "Mender, Silos, Mender Silos".
Bug this in-game.
I rationalized the "(null)" as someone I've opened the Player Notes on previously, which I do occasionally to check their global name to try to match who's who from the global chat channel during/while the team recruitment, but didn't insert any comments. I assumed the Player Notes window does an auto-save upon closing and thus the "(null)" to serve as a null value note.
Teams are the number one killer of soloists.
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I rationalized the "(null)" as someone I've opened the Player Notes on previously, which I do occasionally to check their global name to try to match who's who from the global chat channel during/while the team recruitment, but didn't insert any comments. I assumed the Player Notes window does an auto-save upon closing and thus the "(null)" to serve as a null value note.
[/ QUOTE ]I believe this is correct. That's why I give a star rating to anyone who I put a note on, rather than relying on Edit vs. Add.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Hrm...I guess that's plausible. But I don't see it immediately. Also I see it on peiople who seem really familiar and I feel like I would have written something about them. But my feeling is not evidence, so it could easily be wrong.
If we are to die, let us die like men. -- Patrick Cleburne
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The rule is that they must be loved. --Jayne Fynes-Clinton, Death of an Abandoned Dog
I use the "player note" capability frequently, to add little comments to players I meet. Usually they're pretty inane little reminders to jog my memory, things like "cool player", "handles team drama well", "good sense of humor", "argumentative", "God-cursed fill-teller" and the like.
The handy way to know if I already have a note for that player is to right-mouse on the character or the name on the chat menu and a menu pops up, including either "add note" if there is no existing player note or "edit note" if one exists.
But fairly often, I'll see a familiar name and get the "edit note" option, and when I check the player note, it says "(null)."
I'm pretty sure these are people I've left player notes on before. They're almost always names I remember. Is this a case of the player note getting corrupted or deleted somehow? It should be stored on my hard drive, shouldn't it, so it's not anything the player in question is doing or changing.
Does anyone else get this? I've never run across any reference to this issue on the forums, and I couldn't find anything this morning searching the wiki or running a forum search set to "1 year or newer."
Is this a known issue? Is it fixable, preventable, or is there a work-around?
I guess it's not a fatal problem, but I always wonder what the note was -- it's like getting a warning sent by your past self that's illegible. "What does it mean? What am I missing? Am I supposed to trust this person, or avoid him/her?"
If we are to die, let us die like men. -- Patrick Cleburne
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The rule is that they must be loved. --Jayne Fynes-Clinton, Death of an Abandoned Dog