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I'm glad I could help you fill in that missing entry in your Dev spotting book.

Thanks - I knew someone would recognise it. Not a format I've worked with before, but if the XML feed is a goner, I'll see about altering the script I'm using on our SG website to decode that instead.

Having a working server status page again is very welcome, but the XML feed that goes with it is still producing blank data:

http://na.cityofheroes.com/global/in...=na&format=xml

Interestingly, stripping the format=xml part of the URL does elicit some live data, though in a format I'm unfamiliar with:

Yep, got it on my DP blaster too.



It's really distracting in combat. I've /bugged it.

I haven't had much in the way of lag on BAF trials since the very first one I played in the early days of it being live. There's been some slight power lag in a few since but nothing that really distracted. Admittedly I play a FF/Rad where lag isn't as much of an issue, but I'm nonetheless curious to see how things are now.

There will now follow a protracted argument over whether the broomstick animation should be between-the-legs or side-saddle...

Most of the time when I log in, Union has been one of the few servers in Yellow capacity, so it shouldn't be that empty.

That said, my home server of Victory is seeming like it's harder to find teams recently. I suspect there may be some truth in what Tyger suggests.

UStream buffering is so bad here that even the recording of the now-finished event is unwatchable. Glad I didn't bother with the live stream.

My advice for accommodation: don't stay at the Travelodge Birmingham Central. Based on my stay there for the Omega Sektor meet it's an utter dump and you will only get about an hour's sleep if you are lucky. When the hotel's own website even warns you that "there may be some street noise" you better damn well believe there will be street noise, even if you are on the 6th floor.

I just had another look today, and I am now seeing all the servers in the transfer list. Helpfully the list isn't actually big enough to fit them all, and there's no scrollbar so you have to do a reverse sort by name if you want anything past Union, but they are all there.

It does seem odd that we've heard nothing official about this. I was going to transfer a char to Union until I heard about it.

Question: having never done a server transfer, does the list you can transfer to appear before making a purchase? Could I therefore keep checking to see if it miraculously starts working without burning any cash?

Hopefully it encourages other able organisations to do the same.

Yep, the new updater already works with both US and EU versions of the game.

I'm pretty sure that that the code you use determines whether you get a US account billed in dollars or an EU account billed in Euros/sterling. Boxed copies of GR would give you a US account, but now I think about it, if you have no problem being billed in dollars you there is nothing to stop you doing that once global server access is in place. I have always used a US account as I started before the EU launch, and I will be able to use the EU servers once the time comes.

Bear in mind that the exchange rates have for some time now made a US account more expensive than one billed in sterling (not sure about Euros but I suspect the same applies).

Nothing has been mentioned to that effect. Merging the whole accounts system would be a much bigger engineering challenge than allowing global server access, so I suspect there will be no change on that front.

Finally.

Back before the EU launch, a few of us (myself included) who had been in the game since the beginning tried desperately to convince Cryptic/NCSoft that having a separate EU presence was completely unnecessary.

We were told they needed separate offices. They have since closed. We were told they needed local GMs because you couldn't do the job from another timezone, which was always clearly BS. And we were told they needed walled-off servers so they could concentrate the EU players onto a few servers so they could find teams easier, despite the fact that it was well-known then that Victory was the unofficial EU server (just as other servers had unofficial status, such as Virtue being the unofficial RP server).

We said they were wrong, and they said we didn't understand.

Now they've finally proved us right. And I'm not smug at all. NOT AT ALL.


On a positive note, I'm looking forward to seeing you on the 'classic' servers. I like to think that EuroCore's presence here still makes Victory the unofficial EU server in the US list, so feel free to stop by and say hello.

Every time there is a CoH announcement, I get 4 copies of the email, probably because a long time ago I had 4 US accounts on the go under my single master account. Today I finally tired of this, and given that I always already know about whatever it is the email is about anyway, I decided to take advantage of the Unsubscribe function.

This didn't work, however. I got a bounce message back stating the following:

From now on I will consider myself lucky that I only get 4 of them.

I was clued into this today by an SG mate who had failed two missions today this way, and it suddenly explained the report I had on one of my own AE missions. I understand there are a literally hundreds of open bugs that the devs have to keep track of at any one time, but this seems like it should be on the known issues page.

Haven't been able to find myself or either of the guys I drove up with . I'm wondering whether it was only people with the Hero Pass - we were there the whole weekend but stayed in a hotel...

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Can we talk about bulk discounts? Please? Or discounts for several accounts in one family?

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QFT. At the very least there should be a discount for buying 2 codes. That's an obvious trick to have missed IMO.