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2) It took about 10 minutes to copy the giant list of FX GEOs from Propel, and then remove the ones that were way too big


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Any possibility to get the flight animation to stick as a preference?

How about three others:

Yoga
Standing (of the floating one)
The wildly flailing one you MIGHT get when you fall from somewhere high.

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Yeah, I know about those. I just want them like the ones that you can just click on in game already. You know, the emote icon down next to chat? Click on that and have them all come up...All of them, not just what is there already.

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I don't really have time right now to go through the quickchat menu and correlate it with our list of emotes to see what's missing. I also can't add any emote that's restricted by a badge, vet reward, invention, or booster pack.

But if someone would like to give me a list of emotes that everyone can use but aren't in the quickchat menu right now...I'll add them in.

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Hey BaBs. I remember awhile ago, there was this one emote I cant seem to find.

It had a standing version and a kneeling version to it. It was kinda like research but instead of a book... I think you were welding or using some kind of item.

Did you list that and if so, which one is it?
Also, if its not, am I just out of my mind or was there once that sort of emote?

Thanks,

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http://www.the-swarm.org/Emotes/EmoteGuide.htm

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Yeah. Hey Babs, do you think maybe we could get a list of ALL of the emotes *in* game please? Like the one we already have, but all of them. There are so many I forget about it isnt funny, and I have always wondered why all the emotes wasnt in the list that you can bring up where you can just click on them instead of having to type them in.

Think maybe, please please, huh huh?

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Actually, you have many duplicates in there. You list 285 emotes, but there are only 206 even if you inclue "Dance" "Ledgesit" "Handsup" and "Surrender" which trigger a random one of a subset...

(I'm redoing quickchat.mnu for myself...)

If this is part of the devs plan to reduce spam, I have to say I'm impressed.

If it's more then a few hours work to write and do programmer testing you need new programmers.

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Yet another bug caught by players in beta and reported that was allowed to go live - and still is a bug.

This is another example of why I don't bother testing and reporting on Beta because I feel that my work does not yield the desired result of catching bugs in beta testing - is there another reason for reporting bug in beta other than the DEVS fixing them before they go live?
Are we really supposed to feel excited about playing a beta and reporting bugs if they go live and continue to be issues long after going live?

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A fix is being implemented internally, but probably won't see the light of day until after Issue 15 is launched.

We do read and appreciate all feedback.

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You say that (and I believe you mean it) but it's never felt like it. Unless you're liked enough to be noticed and get the mythical "Bug" badge, a bug report is shouting down a well - I get a mail that says "Why yes, we got the error but we can't tell you if you're right, if we're working on it - heck, we can't even tell you if it's NEW!"

After years of on and off play on Test I've deleted my test version. It just didn't seem worth it.

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Is it just me or is this post completely ignored by the Devs? I have recently put alot of time into my base with stacking and decorating, and have become very frustrated by the lack of such simple items as normal hospital bed. Have the Devs EVER paid this thread any attetion or is it all just wishful thinking?

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It's not that it's ignored, it's that they know bases are pretty messed up and they don't (yet) have the time to fix them. They need a serious re-vamp from the ground up and they've got make sure those that already have them won't be hurt by a major change.

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Please use this thread to discuss the recent <a href="/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=13368502" target="_blank">announcement</a>.

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Because SOMEONE has to ask:

Where there be a badge for getting your accont via Steam?

I'd be more impressed if they stopped looking like "butt capes" - I'm NOT constantly farting!!!

Paragon Dance Party posters too!

These are VERY full of win!

Now, for a request for something that's been ignored:

In honor of the fifth anniversary of "City of..." any account that has not been logged in for five years will have all thier character names "released" similar to the level 6/inactive for 90 days policy.

I know this shouldn't have a huge effect...

If you mean "doors just stuck to walls as decoration" then the devs could do that.

If you mean "doors that provide access from one area to the next" then no - you won't see them for the foreseeable future.

Mirrors would be a MAJOR change to the game engine. They'd have to make the mirrors so blurry they'd really be like that ugly metallic finish all over Grandville.

Doors would be nice, but they'd screw up raids so I wouldn't bet on them.

So, you're saying we can't have these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlBUglE6Hc

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Most of the negative feedback over flight poses is that they don't stick, and that you can't set the Hover poses (and, again, have them stick.)


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You gotta go back to the original comments on them, when they were random or cycled through the options sequentially.

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I can understand the negative on that for the cycle. No matter the character, I generally don't like more then one or two on them (three if you count the default flight.) The problem wasn't the poses; it's that everyone liked different ones and the only way to get the one you liked was to start-stop-start-stop-start-stop...

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Even today, some of you guys have strong feelings about certain flight poses (or all of the current options) not fitting the image of their character that they have in their noggin.

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Hence my comment on them not "sticking" - If I could only have the same one that I chose... Ah, but I dream.

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I would expect walks to elicit much the same type of response. Compounding that is aside from making a different walk for the male, female, and huge body types the possibility of doing multiple styles of walking for each is so un-feasible it's essentially impossible.

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I'm not sure how may styles of walk we're talking about. "No books" "with Books" maybe. What else would there be? (Okay, and the "Azrial Strut" - the Hokey Pokey is a DANCE though!)

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How does Prestige Power Slide work? Could Walk be a lot simpler if it were a toggle like that?

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Prestige Power Slide and the other sprints are sprint with particle effects. Prestige Power Slide also has a "Get into/out of slide stance" which has been in the game for a REALLY long time.

Animations are the problem, not the rules. "All you'd need to do" (yes, it's an evil phrase) is debuff speed down to 25% (or so). Regular movement (non-run sprint) then becomes the "standard" walk. If you activate any movement power it deactivates "walk" simlarly to how Flight/Hover and Combat Jumping/Super Jump work. Hit walk while Speed boosted and you look like an early silent movie. If you do it over Spikes, you look like the Bionic Man.

Oddly, I'd like this fix for those that don't understand "Please Don't Hit Me with Speed Boost!"

The only fix for animations is to make them. There's no help for art stuff but to DO them and that ALWAYS takes work.

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based on the mixed feedback about flight poses and the new hover animations.

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Most of the negative feedback over flight poses is that they don't stick, and that you can't set the Hover poses (and, again, have them stick.)

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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement

New Website!
The City of Heroes website has an all new look! If you haven't seen it already, please head over to CityofHeroes.com and take a look!

Bookmarks
Please keep in mind that if you have bookmarks to items deep in the CityofHeroes.com website, they will change. So, please visit the new site and update your bookmarks!


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COULD YOU MAKE THE SERVER STATUS PAGE LARGER? BECAUSE WHAT I REALLY NEED IS A HUGE FREAKING PAGE INSTEAD OF SOMETHING THAT SHOULD STICK IN THE CORNER.

Shouting? Me? I thought it was expected.

Seriously though - whoever did this never looked at it at 1024x788 resolution, or else he REALLY needs to get his glasses checked.

Personally, I don't like it. HUGE pictures, little tiny text.

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Has there been any comment on what will change, and whether it will be retroactive?

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The questions I am asking is:

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Should I keep our SG and VG bases "as is" or should I recommend a fire sale?

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Hmmm - PM a different dev about it every few days. This is a good question which I don't thnk has been answered (but should).

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I want I15 where there is power's color chang, and about 25 "NEW" powersets for each guy. : ) And you can have NPCs buddies with you all the time, you can fight your own hero/villian. I kniow this is more like I20. lol

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Ohh - that's I-30. I-31 is where they let you mix and match Primaries and secondaries.

(I-42 is where they just open source the whole thing and go home...)

Ah, yes! Issue 15:Where It All Began! When they roll back every single non-nerf change they've ever made and change our characters back to level 1. They're still being kinda vague on if they let us keep badges or not, though.

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I really really am hoping there will be the capacity to mesh edit the indoor maps and maybe even make our own outdoor maps.

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Not unless they change what they've told us. Static maps they've chosen for us. I bet it's something to do with the engine that they can't do it.

(Honestly, what you asked for was what I was hoping for with bases instead of what we got.)

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Er...static maps? So we we won't even be able to hook up rooms in different configurations?

Gee..won't THAT be 'fun'...

Team Leader" Oh, Look....it's 'standard Ornbenga map Number 4'...next mish!

And I hope that the ratings system will take into account the "Even though the mission is well designed, it's hard to solo, so it's going to get a lot of "This mission is impossible!" ratings from solo players." factor.

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I can't argue, but this is initial release if the Architect. If it goes well MAYBE they'll fix it correctly and let us put the tiles together, but it may take a while - I recall MANY maps over the years that the devs released that didn't QUITE mesh correctly and had black "veils" between rooms.

As I said, I really wanted what you describe for bases. Or let us move into an abandoned 5th Column base! Something other then blandness of what we've got.

At least there's going to be a few more initial maps then there are for Arenas.

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Not unless they change what they've told us. Static maps they've chosen for us. I bet it's something to do with the engine that they can't do it.

(Honestly, what you asked for was what I was hoping for with bases instead of what we got.)