Bloodspeaker

Allow me to add a couple more comments to FA's response:

1) Give me access to the code and show me how to work with it. I'd be happy to get in and, at the very least, fix the broken stuff in there. Seriously. I know exactly jack sh** about it, but I'd be just dandy with learning... and doing it... for nothing.

2) As a prime example of the kind of "attention" bases get from Paragon, I personally know folks who have identified the problematic code with the broken teleport beacons for Grandville and Pocket D. These folks haven't just bugged the issue, they've told Paragon how to easily fix it; the correct files are there, they're just referenced incorrectly. Did you even realize they were broken? A lot of people don't. It's been broken for so long, most people think they're supposed to be that way. THAT'S how long Paragon hasn't given a rat's butt about bases.

Seriously, I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but a great many of us already HAVE taken the initiative and shown community interest in bases. All we have ever gotten in return... was requests for another list.

Heh, I think she has 2-3 teasers she's wanting to get done for it, first...

So you plan on letting your subscription lapse?

Depends on your point of view, which obviously differs from mine. Nothing about the ability to move SGs and their bases between servers implies anything (to me) about them also allocating any work to fix or add to existing base functionality, it merely supports their position of removing hindrances to character transfers.
I felt the same way after i13. Since then, the crickets have been the only ones in the choir. Again, their interest in adding this functionality to the game implies absolutely nothing to me about their interest in the bases themselves. I can pay to have a trailer home moved without ever expressing any interest in the contents.
Oh, I'm not raging. Never went there. But in my time in the game working on the various bases I'm responsible for, I've progressed from enthusiasm to optimism, to realism, to pessimism, to skepticism, and finally to cynicism. I was done accepting their repeated promises to "look at" bases quite some time ago. Now, I require definitive proof, i.e. genuine action. No more posts on the boards, no more requests for lists, no more excuses about who is or is not responsible for getting things done. Show me. Give me ONE fix for a broken base item, ONE new decoration, ONE more functional object... ONE more feature of ANY kind that directly affects the way ANYone builds their base. That's all I'm asking. That's all I've been asking for some time.

Trust me, I've been on "cruise control" for some time now. I have honestly become comfortable... or perhaps numb... with the belief that they will NEVER again touch SG bases.

I'm also desperately hoping they eventually prove me wrong.

Eh, as long as they don't bend their knees, it's a pretty smooth arc from "upright" to "faceplant".

Noticed it. Means nothing in context of them ever revisiting base features, really.

Fixed better?..

My own point being that, while ignorance of a given game's naming rules doesn't divest someone of the consequences of breaking them, a complete lack of enforcement does. I've seen it in a great many MMOs.

Ignorance of such rules doesn't confer immunity to them. Lack of enforcement does.

Actually, I thought it was throwing several characters in a crate, realizing that some stick up more than others, and stomping on them til they're all level. Kinda like what Reichsmann tries to do.

Re: unique vs global names (blah@whatever), I haven't weighed in one way or another. For the record, the idea doesn't bother me all that much, as long as the only place it appears is in chat. Still, ask yourself: what would most people think while running around in game upon seeing another character with the same visible name? This, I think, is the rub most people have issue with, and short of appending the VISUAL names with an ugly @global suffix, there's no way around some people having that reaction.

Re: the comments I've directly quoted: I have no idea how you construe any sense of "specialness" on my part from my earlier comments. I'll say it again - if the name someone wants it taken, try something else.

As for your google-fu, yes I liked the name, yes it was available, so yes I used it. I've never made any assertions that it was somehow unique or original to me. Had it been taken, I'd have gone with something else, easily, without tears. I've made no claims that every, or even ANY of my characters are somehow named "something cool that NO one would ever think of", simply that I have no difficulty following a different path if my first choice has been taken.

More than anything else about this dead-horse argument, the "But I want MY name!.." position baffles me. Newsflash: it's not yours.

I have quite a few characters in CoH that are based on prior PnP RPG characters. I have never gotten fixated on, or even extensively delayed by, the fact that their "special" name was taken, either because I don't have a problem finding a new name that fits my desired concept, or because I didn't give them an extremely obvious, boring name in the first place.

I understand people wanting, but unable to get, the special names they associate with their special characters. They all need to get over the fact that, in an environment with potentially tens of thousands of (at least) equally creative fellow players, the "first come, first served" law is the only one that's fair... and they lost out. They claim "all the good names are gone", to which I respond "apply more imagination and education". When they say "this is the best and only name for a character I've played elsewhere for years", my answer is the same.

There's more light outside the box. Folks should try it.

Yeah, for me the coolest part of the tips is having some enemies "give up" rather than "drop dead". Would like to see more of that kinda thing filtered into the older content... at least blueside. Many of my villains don't have the scruples to care.