Beef_Cake

I ran a katie Hannon TF last night with the SG mates, you wanna talk about running. Mary in the first mission was horrible, if we didn't immob her, she was all over the place. We literally watched her run for about 5 minutes before she came back to the group.

Running has gotta pretty bad with GR. I'm not sure whats changed, but something has and it needs to be fixed.

Badge Update for Heroes & Villains

These 4 badges need some new code to make them count correctly. Considering you can only have 1 of the 4 badges, I have put in code to allow only 1 selection of the Patron badges and to count as 1 and not 4.

Due to this code being in polace, I need to rework the code to work for Heroes as well. This is all being worked on now. I'm sorry I have no estimated time frame on when this new code will be done, but I'm doing my best to get it out as quickly as I can.

Real Life can be a PITA sometimes, and it takes me away from what I want to do

But rest assure I'm working on it.


Beef

I personally like the Master of badges, but I will have to say "Hell No!" to this one. Way too many variables to screw things up for everyone. A 8 man team is one thing, but 24, too much can happen. And if 1 teams fails its overwith.

Besides, this is a trial, not a Strike Force or Task force. And I do belive ther isn't a Master of badge for a trial. And I'd like to keep it that way, lets not make these badges trivial.

If you take the time to read my site you will find the answer to those questions.

My site will be done when its done, I'm not rushing the site for anyone. I want it done right and if people don't like the fact they have to wait for me to get it right, then there are other sites they can use until then.

My site still allows you to track your badges that you earn, badges you can't earn will be dealt with when I finish the code for the new expansion. This issue isn't as simple as adding new badges, there are many new things I need to add to the site to get it inline with the game's mechanics. And its not a easy task.

And yes, the Patron badge has this mechanic, but not in the way I need it for the other badges. The Patron badges is set as a group of badges and there can only be one selected. You can't earn all 4 so I coded the site so that you can't collect all . Once you select one the others are hidden.

But this will not be the case for the respec badges, as they are two seperate alignments, so it will need new code. So it will take some time.

No, the site is not in error.

Due to villains being able to gain the 3 villain respec badges and having the ability to switch to the Blue side, these badges need to be made available to both sides, otherwise the site will remove the 3 villain respec badges when a villain's alignment has been changed, and visa versa for Heroes.

So that badge needs to be available to both alignments, and so do many others.

And until I can come up with a way to put special resrtictions on the badges, it will have to remain like this until then.

Ok, well I will keep an eye on it. Its been 3 days since I solidified my heroic alignment, so we will see when it gets down to 1-2 days left.

Thanks for the heads up.

Well there is no timer on that buff icon at all, so there is no way to tell the time. So I assumed that tab in your personal information window is that timer.

If it is the timer, than that timer only keeps track when you are logged in and not when offline.

Ok, whats the deal, on the first day GR went live I solidified my Hero main and remained a Hero. I got the countdown buff and now I'm waiting for the 7 days to lapse.

Do you have to be logged in to get credit for this count down? because after I got the badges I could get I wrote my time down which was

Time Played as Current Alignment:2 DaysPlural, 12:05:01

and when I log in 4 days later my timer now shows...

Time Played as Current Alignment:2 DaysPlural, 12:09:35

It hasn't changed at all over the 4 days I was logged off my main. I really hope you don't have to be logged in for this but it seems like you do.

Impy, that hat looks like a platypus!

Put it on the floor and tep on it repeatedly!

Once Blondeshell has gathered the information and sends me the maps, I will be creating the installer for it and posting it for download.

Hopefully we will have in as late as next week, but no promises. There is a lot of information to put on the maps this issue

I wanted to thank those who joined us on the Blue side run, it was fun. Yeah, the nukes were overkill I admit it, but it was still a blast and to make sure we completed it since that first attempt we all did blue side was a big FAIL, we wanted to make sure it was competed this time

Thanks for coming out everyone, we look forward to doing some more.

Yeah, twas fun teeaming up with larger teams like that. Been waiting a long time. Too bad the Trial wasn't ... Umm I don't know more of a challenge I guess. I felt it was way too easy, or maybe its because we had some of the better players from the server under one roof

Either way, it was fun. Now lets see if we can get a Hero side going. If anyone wants to get one going, give me a hollar in game, I will gladly put one together or help out.

Thanks for putting it together Funk, I look forward to doing it again if you guys get one going.

How about instead of these give-a-ways, you add some of these costumes powers to the NcSoft Store.

I'm not a costume junkie, but I know I'd spend 4.99 per costume power that intrest me.

Bill, everyone in my SG whether on vent or not, seems to notice these very long load times, but we see it going into missions and not so much loading into other zones.

I timed my load today and it took almost 4 minutes to load into a AE mission. I had thought the client crasdhed, but I let it sit and sit and it finally loaded.

SG Mates see this same sort of thing on radio and paper mission. Last night we put together a ITF and we spent a total of almost 15 minutes of just loading into the missions.

And when we did all finally load into mission, it seen a lot of serious rubber banding and ungodly lag, sort of like the old days of Hami Raid when you got 2-5 frames a second. It was really bad and it seems to be getting worse.

So you're not alone on this.

Ok, for those you haven't noticed or did't know.

I've included the Map Pack download on the download section of the site. You can visit the download page for the Map Pack Overlay and at the bottom I've included a link to the MAC files that you need.

Hope this helps you guys out. I'm not sure how the MAC operates as I don't have one, but thanks to one of the members of my forums, they kindly emailed me and gave me what I needed to post for everyone.

So I hope you all can enjoy them as the rest of us do

Beef

Turn off the Compatiability Mode in IE, this will correct your bars.

As I said, Compatability Mode for some reason breaks the bars, I'm not sure why but it does. I've messed with that for hours to try and fix it, but Compatability Mode is a unknown mystery.

BTW, what resolution you running? Your character details seem to be smooshed there.

Yeah, with IE if you have compatability Mode turned on, please turn it off. The site was coded so that you don't need Compatability Mode at all. For some reason this seems to break some things from working properly (progress bars). Why I have no idea as the code is solid and works fine with all browsers.

As for the badge counts, I think I know what you were referring to and made that change. So if you could let me know if that fixed what you were referring to.

Just to give everyone a update, the site is up and running 100%

I pushed the site live 2 weeks ago, but still had some kinks to work out and since then, I've done just that. Skip over at Hero Stats has pushed out a UNSTABLE version that currently works with the site.

So please make sure you download the UNSTABLE version if you plan on tracking your characters.

So I hope you all enjoy the new layout of the site and its new features.

As always, I'm open for changes, so if you have any suggestions, please feel free to PM me and I will consider your suggestions for future updates

**EDIT**

Also, for new accounts, please don't forget to activate your account by reading the email you get from the site, you will need to click a link to activate your account. Failing to activate your account will result in a deletion by the system after 3 days. So please make sure you do this, that way you won't have to sign up all over again in the future.


Beef

I just wanted to come here and let everyone know both domains are now working. After waiting almost 6 days, the domain registar released the domains and are now pointing to the new host.

Now keep in mind, its 4am. I'm off to bed, but when I wake up, I will get in touch with Skip and get him to released the unstable version of Hero Stats and we can be on our way to tracking your badges again

Please be sure to read the news section as this will explain a lot about the new site and what new features we've added and what we've improved. If you have any questions, please feel free to post on the new boards and I will do my best to answer any questions or fix any problems you may find.

http://www.badge-hunter.com & http://www.vidiotmaps.com

Take care and Happy Badging!

Beef

I think a lot of people use both. I even use both, I may not update both at the same time or forget one or the other, but I use them both.

Some people do have a preference and may like one over the other, but thats the luxury of choice I guess

But both sites do the same thing, one may have a feature that the other doesn't, but thats to be expected.