Snow Globe

Thinking of it, I would hope the following is true:

• NCsoft Master Account
  • Game Account
    • Global Name
    • Character names

However I'm afraid it might be this:

• NCsoft Master Account
  • Game Account
    • Global Name
      • Character names

And I'd agree that this would be a dumb way of doing it, but I've seen worse from my experience.

Now, either way you go about it, messing around with the Game Account information has the potential to affect more NA characters either way.

Well, last night we had 3 MoLambda attempts, during the first one there was a bit of confusion, and we ended up using the temp powers.

The second run, everyone seemed to be on the same page, but one player went and used an acid on the NW corner door while everyone else was fighting the AV in the NE corner. Because I don't generally have names on the minimap and the offender was too far away, we couldn't even say who the offender was. The real shame was that we had Marauder down 18% in under 5 minutes at that point.

The last attempt we waited until there was about a minute left and 23% health before using the grenades.

I'm beginning to think that one crate moves. Most of the time the Hangar (south east large room) only has the crate in the center.

After checking, the one that was missing in the west is definitely there.

The double looks like it is in the SE warehouse, not the NE though. I knew it was in one of the large east rooms.

Grats, I didn 3 attempts tonight, the 1st there was some confusion, the 2nd someone went out of their way to grief the run and used an acid on a door while everyone was on the other side of the map, the 3rd we just didn't bring enough damage.

<shrug> Most groups I've played with split up and solo most of the temp locations.

What I'm gathering from what the red names are saying, the majority of conflicts are from that overlap.

Agreed, but given some of what I've been told I wouldn't rule it out.

To my knowledge there is no such command available to players. It would be highly likely that it would need development time to implement.

I think the large room to the north east has 2 (not 1), and the room due west has one as well.

Triumph seems to have defaulted to Pocket D.

Actually I think it is possibly C) They didn't think it was a problem until players brought up the issues raised by it and then didn't have time to fix it.

C is different than B because an oversight would imply that they had meant to change it.

While I agree it needs a coding change to make work properly, this is why I'm repeating the suggestion (I have made it previously). That, and to make other players aware of the issue.

There are a number of undocumented "features" missing from the patch notes. This is just one of the more annoying.

I notice you left out the emphasis that Second Measure had:
Their concern was over active players.

Throughout that letter he is talking about both account and in-game global names interchangeably, which suggests that he actually doesn't know anything beyond what he has been told. After re-reading his post, he might be under the misunderstanding that EU players are worried about their character names. I somehow doubt it though.

Maybe because Second Measure isn't likely the one reading this thread:
Second Measure is getting reports, holding meetings, and he is talking about what he has been told by the development staff (that there will be minimal impact) and the community team (a summary of this and other "hot topic" threads).

You're asking the wrong person. The people you need to ask are Zwillinger, Avatea, and Beastyle. It is their job to deal with the online community, not Second Measure's.

Oh, and here is the rest of Second Measure's post about the complexities involved:
At any rate, you are focused on one aspect of this change: Global names. Taking this only into account, I would agree that there would likely be a 1:1 collision rate. However it isn't JUST global names, it also involves accounts.

I can guess at the thought process though:

• How many global account names collide? This is a 1:1 check.
• How many of those collisions stem from the NA->EU transfers? This one is probably the cause of high number of collisions. This reduces the number of EU players affected. The redress should be allow to rename account names, but I personally don't trust their web staff to get it right given the botched "security" recently implemented.
• How many of those server transfer collisions also have the same global name for both NA and EU servers? This is being addressed by the global name change tokens given to those affected and the reactivation of the other accounts so you could change the global names of the accounts you hold, or others have held prior to the NA->EU server transfers.

When you eliminate the last two points, the amount of players affected is small on one side of the Atlantic. However unfortunate, the smaller population affected is likely the final deciding factor.

Edit:
The global name is likely stored with the character, given the difference in the amount of characters that can be made, doing it the way they are would have the least potential cause of damage. Up to 396 characters per account for NA players, and 144 characters per account for EU players.

For a full list of side specific badges, see this post:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3105559

It has one or two that Black Scorpion missed in his post on the subject.

When I pointed this fact out to the developers during beta, I got one of the following responses from fellow beta testers and the developers:

• Make a better team.
• It is possible to do.
• It will get better with level shifts.
• People will want to get the badges and the rewards so there isn't any problem. Just try again another time.

Sometimes I hate being right. Oh, and things will likely only get worse with future badges as far as griefing is concerned.

The producer's letter is talking about accounts, NOT global names. Reasons for less EU/NA account conflicts is that the most likely cause of duplicate account names is a EU player having the same account name on both the NA and EU servers.

Global names are a separate entity from what you quoted. I suggest that if you want to rant about something, that you might want to get your facts in order.

It is happening often right now on the BAF. After being told not to click the tower glowies, people are because they know better than everyone else.

Team leads can invite to their team.

I'm also having powers showing as recharged when they aren't. That is a disconnect between server and client. The client is keeping track of my powers correctly, but the server can't.

The frequency of people crashing or mapserving even on BAF or Lambda seems to disagree with your position.

Over the last few days at least 2 people are mapserving/crashing mid-trial in each one I attend.

If anyone thinks that this post reflects me saying one thing and doing another, that is a completely false idea. I have always said that if you don't want to assemble a full league for a trial that you should expect to get additional people from the queue. Nearly every team different players have joined, and over the last 3 days I've never had the exact same team more than twice, so I'm not isolating myself at all. Most of the teams I've been on have had players join from broadcasting in Pocket D or over a global channel. A couple of the teams went from BAF to Lambda when a number of players dropped.

I've join premade groups. Those groups are almost always full (with more wanting in). In the groups that aren't full, I fully expect additional players from the queue. I will not kick the additions. I don't need to. Why? It is because I know the core group I join or make will know who I am and will actually listen to advice, because they know the source. No team that I've joined that has less players than the maximum has kicked an addition from the queue.

I expect a lot of Triumph will know how to do these trials soon and the players that just want to "jump in" will do so. They'll likely make a core group still and accept whatever adds come from the queue, but that is just smart play. The trials aren't overly difficult, as people have found out over the last week. I have a 100% Lambda success rate (about 10 runs), and around a 60% success rate for BAF (many more runs, but either prisoners or siege are the failure points).