Hellguard

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The version number is now the same between live and test.

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Did you launch both updaters (Live and Test) and checked the version numbers from there? Or are you getting Test's version number from the Test Server patch notes?

Looks like Test is being updated too, and if the version numbers match after THAT, then that's a little suspicious. I can't see them throwing stuff into a patch that's not been tested (like I said earlier, they've never done that before).

Yes, it looks like Issue 15 is going live today.

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I say I-15 is going live. Hopefully with a newer version than they've shown us on Test though.

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That's not possible. They never release a patch to Live without first testing it on the Test Server. What you see on Test is what we'll be getting on Live when the servers come back up.

EDIT: This'll be the first time a new issue has ever been released on a Monday.

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DL a nice size patch but still cant logg in might be the day

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I haven't downloaded anything yet; for me it "verified patch" and started applying. The only thing that could mean is it verified the Issue 15 pre-download and is applying it right now.

There will probably be a patch after it finishes applying the pre-download (since Test has been patched a few times since the pre-download came down), but I'd say this has to be Issue 15 today.

It'll be the first time a new issue has ever gone live on a Monday.

Type /get_global_name CHARACTERNAME (where CHARACTERNAME is the, well, character's name that you remember) and that should give you his global chat handle.

You can then send him a global tell, even if he's offline, and see if he responds.

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"Hey, you might not be aware, but you can't make clones or ripoffs of "real" comic book characters. As soon as a GM notices you, your name and/or look will be gone"

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And how will a GM notice the offender unless players petition them? It's not like GMs just roam around the game all day and all night, on every server, looking for violations.

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So, there are NO GMs in game, ever?

Is that what you're saying?

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Not at all, but thanks for the strawman attempt. But they're not actively policing for bad names. They can't do that and still be able to handle the petitions and other work they have to do.


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Fight fire with fire.
Fight a strawman with my own strawman.

They can't and aren't policing for bad names, but somehow that is now your job?

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It's not our "job," no. You can't get your account banned by not reporting violations (unless you yourself are actively taking part in said violations, exploits, etc, of course).

Reporting violations helps to remove them, and removing violations helps the game as a whole.

Would you petition someone if they were using excessive cursing in a public channel? What if someone were harassing another player? What if someone was using an exploit to somehow give themselves infinite Influence, or Prestige, or whatever? Would you report that person?

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"Hey, you might not be aware, but you can't make clones or ripoffs of "real" comic book characters. As soon as a GM notices you, your name and/or look will be gone"

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And how will a GM notice the offender unless players petition them? It's not like GMs just roam around the game all day and all night, on every server, looking for violations.

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So, there are NO GMs in game, ever?

Is that what you're saying?

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No, not at all.

But I don't believe there are many (or possibly any) GMs in the game unless they are actively working on something specific. With the workload that would come from 100-150k players filing bug reports and petitions, I just don't believe the GM team is big enough to just have people roaming around looking for problems.

Even if that were the case, the chances of GMs catching violators would be much, much smaller than than the chances of the playerbase catching them.

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"Hey, you might not be aware, but you can't make clones or ripoffs of "real" comic book characters. As soon as a GM notices you, your name and/or look will be gone"

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And how will a GM notice the offender unless players petition them? It's not like GMs just roam around the game all day and all night, on every server, looking for violations.

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its ratings would seem to indicate that I'm not alone.

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Because popularity equals quality?

I have yet to meet someone who actually likes that Footsteps arc, and I play on Virtue even.

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I've edited my post to clarify that I meant I'm not alone IN MY OPINION of the arc.

I'm not sure what you mean by popularity. It's a popular arc only because people LIKE it. "Quality" is a very subjective thing, but I think that most of the people who have played Footsteps believe it to be a "quality" arc or else they wouldn't be rating it so highly.

Unless you mean that the author is popular and that is why he has such ratings. But I don't think that can be it, as if he were really popular I think I'd probably have heard of him before Footsteps, and his other arcs would undoubtedly also be bouncing in and out of HoF status...

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That's great, but the bio of one of the heroes outright said she was bisexual.

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If the bio of a character mentioned that they were gay, would that also bother you? I just don't see the hangup with the mention of a character's sexual orientation. And it's definitely not too outlandish for a Teen rated game anyway.

Also, if I'm remembering correctly, the whole point of that character being bisexual is so they would be attracted to your character in the ultimate form of hero worship. Kinda hard to do that if they weren't bisexual. (Although, that leads me to an idea about what we could do with branching dialogue and the like if it were available...)

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I think I know why. I mean it was done well and the creator made sure there were little mistakes. But mistakes there were.

Also the game is Teen rated but the Arc doesn't really follow "City of Heroes" Lore persee. It alludes to some adult subjects (( the one character is outright bisexual and another is a plant who is probably illegal just by himself.)) Also it breaks the fourth wall. ((Dark Shadow. ))

The arc is fun but I don't think it would really "fit in" as a regular arc if it were in the CoH universe so I don't really think it should be Hall of Fame.

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Why does it matter if a HoF arc fits perfectly into CoH continuity? An arc achieves HoF status because PLAYERS LIKE IT and rate it highly. HoF arcs aren't hand-picked by anyone to be HoF like Dev Choice arcs are.

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From chapter 7 Via Bablefish English -> French -> German -> English:
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QFT!

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I just played the "Footsteps" Arc though and for some reason this getting Hall of Fame rubs me the wrong way.

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Why? It's easily one of the best arcs I've played so far, and its ratings would seem to indicate that I'm not alone in my opinion.

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Be more specific then. Not THIS Friday, but to say never on Friday when you have no control whatsoever is pretty presumptuous, if not just arrogant. Very unlikely, yes. But not possible. They can release it whenever they want, without your or my say so.

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There is a reason why it was said never on a friday.... because it has happened before, DOOM ensued....

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No, it hasn't. Again, no issue has ever been released on a Friday. The latest day of the week for an issue release is Thursday (Issues 2 & 6).

Issue 2 was the one that caused a ton of headaches over the weekend following its release, but it was released on a Thursday, not a Friday.

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Nope they learned the hard way. . . NEVER, NEVER release an Issue on a Friday.

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Except that they've never released an issue on a Friday. The latest day of the week they've ever released an issue on was Thursday (Issues 2 & 6).

It was Issue 2's release that caused tons of trouble over that weekend, but it was released on Thursday, NOT Friday.

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ok....i'm startin to have a feeling that once reach a certain level, you have no choice but to do missions with others....is this true? if so, what level is pretty much the end of the line for doing missions solo?

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Wait... what is this "doing missions with others" thing you're talking about?

<----has six 50s, all primarily soloed to that point

This bug has been around for quite some time. I thought they'd fixed it by now, but I guess not.

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Because it is a forum avatar does not mean it is out side the jurisdiction of U.S. copy right laws.

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Whether or not some people's forum avatars violate US copyright laws, that's beside the point. The question that's relevant to this discussion is: does it violate NCSoft's rules?

To apply the above to the game (and thus, the main topic of this thread): Those of us who report violations such as the one shown in the OP don't do it because it's against US copyright law. We do it because it's against the EULA that EVERYONE who plays the game agrees to.

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Do Hall of Fame Arcs give merits or regular rewards?

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Neither.





















(They give TICKETS.)

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And if anyone's worried about name clashes... you can search the EU board.

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So... I wonder what they'll do if someone from the EU boards has the same name as someone from the US boards...

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If you finish before you click any stars, you're fine.

If you click on any star rating first, you commit yourself to submitting a rating. If you click the same star again to turn it off, you'll submit a rating of 0.

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You had me scared for a second... I go out of my way to play unrated arcs and give feedback, but I occasionally don't star it (because I feel that I'd be better off giving suggestions than rating it below a 3).

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Yep, Crime of Fashion was mistaken; as others have said, not rating an arc does NOT give it a "zero star" rating. Also, as I stated earlier, with Issue 15 there won't be any "zero star" ratings period.

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One-starring this thread!

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Griefer!

With Issue 15, they've made it impossible to "zero-star" an arc, so that will help a little bit. When they transferred the Live arc database over to Test, three arcs immediately jumped up to Hall of Fame status (including the one that's been HoF on and off on Live for a bit).

All that means is the people who've been zero-starring arcs will just move up to one-starring them, but it'll still be better than it is now.

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Yeah, I guess my post was a little bit snarky, but it just struck me as odd that someone hadn't seen Freaks on the streets since they are hard to avoid in Talos just across the street from WW. (And I do remember killing a few Freaks in Indy Port near the train as well).

This is the first time I have been attacked for post count. And me with only a bit over 2000 posts.... Maybe it's because I finally added a picture?

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Meh, if it had been me responding to the OP, I would have made a reference to his sig and wondered how someone with a level 50 Tank could possibly not know where Crey's Folly is...

Good thing I didn't do that, though, or I might have been accused of being somewhat snarky.

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Errr, huh? So if a map gets removed from the game that a DC arc was using, the DC arc is STILL playable? How is that even possible?

That's NOT how I understood DC to work when it was first discussed (and why a lot of folks stated that they would decline allowing their work to be DC'd.)

My understanding is that when a patch comes out that breaks somethings, YES the DC arc CAN become unplayable. However to edit it, you have to PM Customer service.

I never heard that the DC arc's were immune to breaking from patch changes (such as a map being removed).

Correct me if I'm wrong, or misunderstanding what's being said here.

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You're incorrect. DC arcs are immune from the invalidation that would occur due to map changes or other patch changes. My DC arc, for example, shows invalidation-level errors when I go to edit it, but it's perfectly playable. Pohsyb had a post specifically stating that DC arcs would be immune from invalidation (it came shortly after they made it so DC arcs weren't editable during Issue 14 Open Beta), but of course that post was purged when the Issue 14 forums were taken away.

EDIT: I've never heard that a simple PM or petition to customer service is enough to edit a DC arc. It might be worth a try, since I would LOVE to be able to edit mine. As I said above, I've considered unpublishing it just to edit it, even though I'd have no guarantee that they'd "re-DC" it.