Electric-Knight

So, no one has answered or talked about my earlier question...
Is there a way to either see your current CAM POS and PYR settings during demo playback and/or is there a way to actually edit/save demos during demo playback?
I'm vastly unfamiliar with demo playback commands (and to most of the demo editor programs' functionalities), because I generally just edit everything in notepad. So, I might be missing something obvious...

Just would be great if I could swing the camera around in demo playback (as we can do now with F2) and then be able to grab those particular camera POS and PYR numbers so I can find and use just the right camera angle through this functionality (as opposed to adjusting the numbers and checking back repeatedly until I have it just right... or "close enough").

I'm posting this on behalf of Chant. His original post can be found here.
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First I would like to thank Electric-Knight for volunteering to post this in the Victory Forum for me. I am unable to post the message myself due to the fact that I did not have VIP on the right date. My fiancé, who I met on City of Heroes, bought me a PS3 and between that and graduate school I was taking a break from the game with the intention of coming back when time permitted. But with the recent news I wanted to make sure that I said a formal farewell to everyone before potentially losing that chance.

I was never a big forum person, but there are people on the forums that I did admire and befriend. I figured I would write about some of my biggest accomplishments and my biggest regrets in the game.

My biggest accomplishment had to have been meeting Snowy (aka Snowy-Blitz). I met her sometime in the beginning of 2009. I saw her several times before mostly in Costume Contests and always thought she made great costumes. I was on my main character, "Enchantress," and we expressed our appreciation for each other's style. I had been playing for about a year at that point and for the most part kept my gender a secret but for whatever reason decided to reveal the truth to her. It was not long after that the Super Group I would found would have a Teamspeak server and from that point everyone could easily tell I was a guy!

A few months later I decided to take a stab at creating my own Super Group, The Tribe of Legends. She was the first member. We both made friends in the Tribe and friends who were members of groups who were friends with us. It was not long before we started flirting. At one point, as a joke, I made a chapel for us in the Super Group base. Wasn't long after that I made the drive from South Georgia to South Florida to see her and the rest was history. By 2010 she moved up here with me and wasn't long ago that I proposed to her.

Another big accomplishment was the aforementioned Super Group. I originally started it just so I could entertain my base building obsession. Even recently I have people tell me that it is the best base they have ever seen on any server. I worked hard recruiting farmers, and yes noobs too, so I could build up prestige for the SG and build whatever the heck I wanted. I think in 9 months we were already in the Top 10 in prestige. But once we made it to that point and I had more than enough prestige, I backed off the recruiting and we pretty much became a clique of veteran players who mostly stayed in touch through our channel.

It was not long before I started to really focus on playing with the same crew. Usually this group consisted of some combination of The Milk, Kintrollr-Girl (Kin), GG (Heartless Angel, etc.), Novamaiden, Brierly (who was one of the best players I ever saw even though he did not stay long), Flux Faraday, Eagle Zone, Crazy Carl, Barettai, Slippy, Dynthorn, Ahiga, Khellar, Cosmic Thunderer and Psych Inferno among many others who would be impossible to be able to name them all at this time. Obviously Snowy and I would team a lot. We, at one point, ran TFs scheduled on a calendar for every day of the week and Rikti raids every Sunday. We talked to each other on Teamspeak and celebrated each other's good news and empathized with each other on the bad news. Several of the aforementioned people I consider true personal friends even to this day. I hope some of them are able to attend the wedding of Snowy and Chant!

Another accomplishment, and one of the fondest memories, was when our group was competing with The One. I know you are not supposed to mention stuff like this, but what are they going to do, ban me from the forums? Oh no!

Well anyways, King of Every Queen, aka The Master, kept trying to steal from our group one of the true legends of Victory Server, Kintrollr Girl (if you have not seen Kin play, I suggest doing so before Doomsday). Anyways Kin led him to believe he was switching groups so he could become a leader in The One. Master logged and then Kin recruited on of my toons. From that point her promoted me to leader. I then held the SG hostage. I replaced the banners that said "The-One" with one that said "Chant." I deleted their power supply that they had to get someone else to craft for them. I deleted a room for every time a person hurled an insult at me. This may sound cruel, but if you knew Master, you would know why I did it.

I am also proud that I never left Victory!

As for regrets, I think the thing I regret most was allowing Snowy to buy me that PS3. That infernal device caused me to take a long absence from the game to play Skyrim and such. If I had known that the game would be wiped out this November, I would have probably played more. Now I am in graduate school so it is hard to enjoy these last few months.

I regret not bring more toons to 50 than I did.

I regret not finishing that last room in the base. I deleted the old control room and was about to redo it much better (base work is never complete) but never finished it. Now when I think about finishing it, I loose motivation thinking about Doomsday (hopefully this impressive social media effort could so something, but I still feel like the base would be lost in any transition process).

I regret not building more bases. Base building was time-consuming but I was good enough that people actually paid me good influence or infamy to do their base. Instead of farming I could have done more of this.

I regret not keeping better touch with some of my friends.

I don't think I ever got all the incarnate stuff on any of my toons. I think I took off before the last update with incarnate stuff.

Well I am getting tired and this is getting long. I don't think there is a way to say everything I want to say in one message. If you wish to keep in touch, I can be reached at gh.ritchie@yahoo.com.

Thanks to all who ever shared a kind word or an exciting team with me.








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Oh man... the free camera is so friggin' awesome.

Is there a way to get the CAM coords when doing this? We could use it as a way to set the camera just-so and save it that way (or set it that way after the fact) if I can pull up the current CAM POS and PYR (hrm, probably is a way).

And another question, BP... You are wonderful and gracious for telling us this now, but... were you going to be so evil so as to not tell us about this amazing feature when it would have gone live??

First test inside of a base and it works like a freakin' charm.

Good grief...

And, yes, you can fly through walls and objects and you go way outside and/or above the base, such as in the base editor.

So, record your bases and now we can revisit them, manually.

And here I had been trying to record reasonable tours of them, but now, I really didn't have to. Just make sure you demo record your bases!!


EDIT:
And the camera doesn't even reset when the demo loops through, it just keeps looping while you're off flying around. So, you can record just a quick second of doing nothing in the base and use that if you wanted.

Have to admit, I'll still do recordings of in-game tours, as it is a bit difficult maneuvering through some of my tight twists and turns and secret rooms without having the (player-made) floors and walls to collide against.

Indeed. Great suggestion, UberGuy and Arcana.
The idea of demo recording your bases before shut down was always a good one to preserve them as best as can be, but this detached camera feature now should allow us to roam around in them (pretty much) freely.

I'm going to test it right now on some base demo recordings of mine.

Of course... if any geniuses can figure out a sentinel-like program for extracting bases (just in case), well... that'd be super sweet still.

Enjoy the family! You've earned it.

Thanks so much for the great job you did here. You took our enthusiasm, enhanced it, and threw it right back at us and really made a great place greater.
I hope to see you again soon.
So long Zwillinger... See you around, Andy.

Obviously, I had nothing to do with this, but I'm sorry that anyone felt misled by this. I honestly don't believe that this was the OP's intention (I'm not saying that makes your complaints any less valid, just speaking to intentions).
As for me? I always hover over a thread title to see the thread preview popup and I saw that it was a linked pdf going in and knew it was some sort of joke or something.
Honestly, even just seeing the thread title, I didn't take it seriously. It was canceled and nothing can ever change that. It can be saved, but it will always have been canceled.

Anyway... I am not trying to ruffle any feathers by insinuating no one should get upset or that they're dumb for thinking otherwise... I just don't thin that the OP intended to be mean... and that counts for something.

It might be best if a mod could change the thread title or something, but I don't know if that's going on at all these days.

Let's just not bite off each other's heads as we deal with all of this...

Also... I'm the chosen one and will free us out of Nemesis's plot...
Oh wait... blue pill... Mmmmmmmm...

Kept forgetting to get around to posting in here...
Also, slow going for me on my videos so far... not enough time!! Gonna try and get some more work done tonight now.

For now, here's The Electric-Knight's main outfit (well, he used to wear all black, but he added some color, because he was sick of people thinking he might be a bad guy):

Haha... I certainly hope that you didn't take my contribution seriously! Good grief.
I am well aware of the ridiculousness of it. I was just being silly... We all know it's B.S., but I was thinking that it would be hilarious if CoH is saved and the universe actually did end like the nutters were saying...
Humor... Ar Ar.

And yes, Tartyr's initial joke was played already... that's why I offered a little somefink different... Sheesh, Schism...

Sheesh, it's just the musings that he, and others, do regardless of the current situation. It's not like Steelclaw is pining for CoH to get scrapped so that his idea can become reality (although, I'm sure he'd like the second half to come true, hehehe).