Leandro

Having a bit of a problem with GENERIC/BAGOFMONEY/BAGOFMONEY.FX -- The money from the bag is falling *up* instead of down:

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../fallingup.jpg

I *think* this is caused because the actor is about Z location -600, and the money is trying to fall "down" to Z location 0, without realizing "0" is now "up".

Anyone knows of a way to correct this, or will I be better off just disabling physics for this?

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Someone has to go in and fix all the text on the station recipes, right? So they say 1 hour instead of 15 minutes.
When that's done, can the names of the recipes be improved at the same time?

That whole chunk of "Increase whatever" in the middle is, at least to me, not in any logical order at all. If I want Run Speed, I'm inclined to scroll to the R's, not the I's. And really, would it be anything OTHER than an Increase? Write it as Run Speed Increase, or Run Speed Buff.

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Just give the assignment to Back Alley Brawler, he'll name the empowerment: "RUN FASTER!"

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Once you hit level 13, you'll be unable to do anything else with that character.

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What do you mean by this? I've teamed with people on trial accounts recently, and after they hit 13, they can still play normally -- they just don't gain any more XP.

Maybe you should include the Midnighter Club arc for heroes, that opens at level 10 -- mainly because it gives the player a look at two tilesets they won't see otherwise, the Rikti base and the Cimeroran caves.

Hmmm... you could replace the actual texture for the walls with your own transparent texture. I need to find the texture name and location for it, but it should work.

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Open to US Residents Only

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One day I would like to see a competition for NON US and NON EU players. ie all the International Players who dont fall into the US/EU catagory.

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There was one a few months ago. City of Commercials. I know because I won and I have the swag to prove it

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Hmmm... when I click COH/COV in the PlayNC store, nothing appears below its heading (it turns orange but nothing happens). This in both in IE7 and Firefox3, both with the English display and the Spanish default.

http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...drotlz/ie7.png
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...drotlz/fx3.png

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Dammit. IP filtering. I installed a proxy on my website with the server in the US, and I see the full list:

http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...otlz/proxy.png

Hmmm... when I click COH/COV in the PlayNC store, nothing appears below its heading (it turns orange but nothing happens). This in both in IE7 and Firefox3, both with the English display and the Spanish default.

http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...drotlz/ie7.png
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...drotlz/fx3.png

This sounds like a wonderful excuse to be creative... come on, details, details!!

This was the best edition of the Scoop in a long time, for me. The "history of PVP" and the "finding the equilibrium price in the market" articles were very interesting and useful. Nice job, guys.

The bit about how some costume patterns are broke is kind of weird to have in the Scoop, that felt more like a bug report.

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And it's the end of the month...what contest are they talking about? Did I miss an Announcement?

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We haven't announced it yet.

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Ooooo, I like contests. They give me a reason to be creative. I don't do that often enough.

Good for people who have the bandwidth to spare, me and my 128kbps connection will stick to text

The Midnight Squad Banner has new text in the May 2 build:

Midnight Squad Banner

This banner is much the same as the others, but for whatever reason, this one moves softly and is almost hard to touch, it eludes the grasp.

We gather in moonlight
when the clock strikes midnight,

With intellect our torch
and humanity our compass.

Quill or sword in hand,
we move through the mysteries of the night,

Despite what horrors we face
or dark lore we uncover.

We shall press on.

For this is the oath
and the burden of the Midnighter.

Next mystery: The words from a mouth without a face are useless to a wise man.

On the topic of ill/emp and endurance: sets help a lot here. I have both +recovery procs and a bunch of recovery set bonuses, plus perma hasten and Recovery Aura with 40 seconds of downtime. With all that, my endurance only goes under 50% when I'm exemplared below both Health and Stamina. I'm considering dropping Stamina in order to fit Deceive (the only Illusion power that I skipped), but as much as I like the power, I hate the long animation. If Deceive's cast time was shorter (one second like Spec Wounds) I would take it.

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Though I chose not to get some key powers (Clear Mind, Ressurect) for concept purposes, your guide didn't make them seem like they were necessary, so I feel more comfortable with my choice.

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Resurrect is not necessary at all; I don't have it on my 50. People rarely die on my teams, and if they do, someone always has a wakie (I carry some out of habit, but i12 means you can make a wakie out of any three equal inspirations, making Resurecct pretty much worthless).

Clear Mind, however, I'd take if you can squeeze it in your build somehow. Try to rationalize it into your concept. When you are fighting enemies with mez effects and squishies are getting held, stunned or feared, not having Clear Mind can lead to immense amounts of frustration.

*jawdrop*

I already have like five or six TFs planned in my head. This is FREAKING AWESOME news!

^.^

Thanks a bunch, Ex and Koschej. My days of hunting time cards on eBay are over ^.^

Eeep. Does Fallen Leo need to start practicing his signature for autographs now? :

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One thing I know as a noob forum poster is CoX currently has a level of customer loyalty (me included) that most corporations would kill for it.

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Most likely because when you think of a corporation, you think of the faceless board of directors who don't give a <bleep!> about anything but making money. Here, even when we complain, the complaint has a face:

"I wish Positron would have put badges in the Ouroboros TFs!"
"I wish Sexy Jay would fix the ugly bare hands model!"
"I wish BAB could find a magic voodoo doll to make Power Customization happen!"
"I wish War Witch could revamp Boomtown next issue!"

And so on. We have names and faces to attach to our issues, so we can sympathize with those dealing with the problems. You can't do that with corporations where all the contact with the consumer is done by phone drones.

Even the new forum Moderators (a position that tends to be hated everywhere) have a name and can poke fun with us! Hard to hate the guy who locks your thread when he says, "it was the history eraser button, I couldn't resist".

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2) Obviously to have an uncluttered screen, I need to have my screen emptied of various bars and am wondering aside fromt the obvious hotkeys if there are specific commands to do so and also restore them after filming.

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/bind f12 ++disable2d

Hit F12 to make the entire 2D interface dissapear, F12 again to get it back. Remember, two plus signs.

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Agreed. I recently quit EQ2 (with no hate, just 4 years in one game), but I'm still able to get really excited about CoH. That's amazing at this point in its lifecycle.

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And yet, you're at DOOMCON 4. Hmm.

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What about Geko? Obviously he's no longer with you guys, but when did he leave?

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His last post was in January 13th of 2006. His name doesn't even come up red anymore: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...Number=4523363

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You can always change the NPCs in the fight over to zombies in the demo. (Though the zombies will be fighting with the powers used by the real enemies you fought.) Or you could get get a bunch of friends with higher level Masterminds to pop in and help with the fight. Hopefully they won't mess up the script by defeating your heroes.

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Or you could defet enemies in Atlas Park, then swap the map for Recluse's Victory. Same coordinates for both.

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recovery aura > the entire thermal set

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All the endurance in the universe won't debuff that AV the way Heat Exhaustion and Melt Armor can. Just sayin'.

Auras are defined at Line 19, with this format:

none none none <effect_color> 000000 000000 000000 <aura_fx>

I will only list the <aura_fx> parameter. This is the list for males:

=== Electricity ===

Electric Body
Auras/Male/Electricity/ElectricBody.fx

Electric Fists
Auras/Male/Electricity/ElectricFists.fx

Electric Eyes
Auras/Male/Electricity/ElectricEyes.fx

=== Fiery ===

Fiery Body
Auras/Male/Fire/FireBody.fx

Fiery Fists
Auras/Male/Fire/FireArms.fx

Fiery Eyes
Auras/Male/Fire/FireEyes.fx

Fiery Hair
Auras/Male/Fire/FireHair.fx

Fiery Head
Auras/Male/Fire/FireHead.fx

=== Gaseous ===

Gaseous Body
Auras/Male/Gaseous/GasBody.fx

Gaseous Head
Auras/Male/Gaseous/GasHead.fx

Gaseous Hair
Auras/Male/Gaseous/GasHair.fx

Gaseous Fists
Auras/Male/Gaseous/GasFists.fx

Gaseous Eye Glow
Auras/Male/Gaseous/GasEyes.fx

=== Glow ===

Glowing Body
Auras/Male/Glow/GlowBody.fx

Glowing Fists
Auras/Male/Glow/GlowArms.fx

Glowing Head
Auras/Male/Glow/GlowHead.fx

Glowing Eyes
Auras/Male/Glow/GlowEyes.fx

=== Glowing Aura ===

Body Aura
Auras/Male/GlowingAura/GlowAuraBody.fx

Head Aura
Auras/Male/GlowingAura/GlowAuraHead.fx

Fist Aura
Auras/Male/GlowingAura/GlowAuraFists.fx

=== Rocky Crumble ===

Crumbling Body Heavy
Auras/Male/RockyCrumble/RockyBodyHeavy.fx

Crumbling Body Light
Auras/Male/RockyCrumble/RockyBodyLight.fx

Crumbling Fists Heavy
Auras/Male/RockyCrumble/RockyFistsHeavy.fx

Crumbling Fists Light
Auras/Male/RockyCrumble/RockyFistsLight.fx

Crumbling Feet Heavy
Auras/Male/RockyCrumble/RockyFeetHeavy.fx

Crumbling Feet Light
Auras/Male/RockyCrumble/RockyFeetLight.fx

=== Sparkles ===

Body Sparkles Light
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleBodyLight.fx

Body Sparkles Heavy
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleBodyHeavy.fx

Hand Sparkles Heavy
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleHandsHeavy.fx

Hand Sparkles Light
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleHandsLight.fx

Eye Sparkles Light
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleEyesLight.fx

Eye Sparkles Heavy
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleEyesHeavy.fx

Head Sparkles Light
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleHeadLight.fx

Head Sparkles Heavy
Auras/Male/Sparkle/SparkleHeadHeavy.fx

=== Smoky ===

Smoky Body
Auras/Male/Smoky/SmokeBody.fx

Smoky Torso
Auras/Male/Smoky/SmokeTorso.fx

Smoky Fists
Auras/Male/Smoky/SmokeArms.fx

Smoky Hair
Auras/Male/Smoky/SmokeHair.fx

=== Smoldering ===

Smoldering Body
Auras/Male/Smoldering/SmolderBody.fx

Smoldering Head
Auras/Male/Smoldering/SmolderHead.fx

Smoldering Hair
Auras/Male/Smoldering/SmolderHair.fx

Smoldering Fists
Auras/Male/Smoldering/SmolderFists.fx

=== Starburst Glow ===

Starburst Body
Auras/Male/StarburstGlow/StarGlowBody.fx

Starburst Head
Auras/Male/StarburstGlow/StarGlowHead.fx

Starburst Eyes
Auras/Male/StarburstGlow/StarGlowEyes.fx

Starburst Fists
Auras/Male/StarburstGlow/StarGlowFists.fx

=== Tendrils ===

Body Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilBody.fx

Torso Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilTorso.fx

Head Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilHead.fx

Eye Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilEyes.fx

Hair Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilHair.fx

Fist Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilFists.fx

Feet Tendrils
Auras/Male/Tendrils/TendrilFeet.fx

=== Vaporous ===

Vaporous Body
Auras/Male/Vaporous/VapourBody.fx

Vaporous Torso
Auras/Male/Vaporous/VapourTorso.fx

Vaporous Fists
Auras/Male/Vaporous/VapourHands.fx

Line 18, when used for wings, follows this format:
none <wing_geometry> none <color1> <color2> 000000 000000 <wing_fx>

I will only list the <wing_geometry> and the <wing_fx> param for each.

Demon
!X_Wings_Demon_01 GENERIC/fx_wings_Demon.fx

Angel
!X_Wings_Angel_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_ANGEL.fx

Dragon
!x_dragon_wings GENERIC/FX_wings_DRAGON.fx

Smoldering
!x_burned_wings GENERIC/FX_wings_Burned.fx

Burned
!x_burned_wings GENERIC/FX_wings_Burned_NoAura.fx

Insect
!X_Wings_Insect_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_Insect.fx

Glittering Fairy
!X_Wings_Fairy_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_Fairy.fx

Fairy
!X_Wings_Fairy_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_Fairy_NoAura.fx

Bat
!x_wings_demon_small GENERIC/FX_wings_BAT.fx

Cherub
!X_Wings_Angel_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_CHERUB.fx

Tech
!X_Wings_Tech_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_TECH.fx

Bone
!X_Wings_Bone_01 GENERIC/FX_wings_BONE.fx