Memphis_Bill

And here I thought someone was copying Tom Hanks.

Counterpoint: Stalkers, or "How would this choice risk gimping an entire AT for someone, and how much of a PITA would it be to have to code around it?"

One word.

Reroll.

How to deal with it, my way:
Step 1: Sell any commons I don't care about.
Step 2: Sell any sets that typically get vendored (yay, calibrated accuracy.)
Step 3: Make any Set IOs that I can. Put in SG storage.

Admittedly we have some "common access" salvage, and I can dual box (slowly - frigging ATI card dying on the other machine) to trade some other salvage off. But I don't see why some of this isn't just being made and stored - even if you want to sell it later, crafted IOs seem to always sell for more anyway.

Friend of mine and I ran it on our Khelds, and I tackled him before that on my elec/elec. He was ... well, rather easy.

Range will do that.

Short version:
Create a SG management screen that is, for those with the appropriate rights, "one stop shopping" for membership and base management. (Visibility of these sections can change by rank.)

Long version:
I'll say up front this would be a good bit of work. Several things I'm thinking of for this don't exist right now, and I'm not sure if they would be doable or not. But for supergroup management - including some things like base rights, as well as security (logs, mostly,) and membership management, it would be nice to have a unified interface to do this from.

The "Superleader," of course, would always have access to all functions. Specific tabs (and subsets, perhaps) could be made visible or hidden for various ranks, as well.

I'm thinking of a main screen with several tabs to move between - "SG Settings," "Membership," "Base management" and "Logs."

Supergroup settings:

This basically has the settings of the current "registration form," without that interface. Motto, MOTD, colors, symbol, and rank rights are handled here. Probably the simplest tab. What would be nice is a "Pay rent" button, as well.

Membership settings:

I'd like to see the ability to send an email out to all the membership at once here, really. This would also contain the current SG membership list you see in the SG screen, with the addition that you could use it to email someone individually (for instance, "You're coming close to the X day inactivity limit of the SG," if your SG does that. It's a convenience thing.) This is alsow where I'd add offline promotions and demotions, as well as the "kick" we have now.

Base management:

First and foremost, yes, a "Pay rent" button here, as well. (Seriously. Convenience, guys.) This is also not a link to the base editor - which itself needs an overhaul. What this CAN do, however, is set things like default storage permissions (add storage, it takes these automatically instead of the rather too-tight current permissions,) a global reset which (base item change time) affects anything that doesn't have its permissions locked. (Yes, I want to be able to set individual permissions and lock them for storage items.) A quick overview of storage units (#/30, for instance) as well as power and control would be useful here. (Tied in with this, I'd like to be able to rename storage units, giving them specific designations so this functionality would be more useful.)

Logs:

Yeah, fun stuff to read through, but if you want to know who added, removed, changed things, paid rent last, etc, this would give you access to these logs - and split up, so it's not just one giant jumble. (of course, you can see the current style log under "all" if you want that kind of overview.)

It wouldn't be a quick bit of work, and requires (well, would work better with) some overhauls of base items and new functionality, but I think it'd be reasonably convenient to have accessible from anywhere. (You'd get to it from a menu, if you have the rights.)

There was a free one I used at one point, I've been trying to find the name of it again. (You could, of course, snag XP's but it's a PITA and has to save an image to a local drive if you don't have a tape drive.) Think this is it. Not sure if it'll meet your needs, but I used it to back up before the win7 upgrade. (Of course, I also upgraded to a clean drive, but I'm picky about having my backups.)

Welll, both USWest.ncsoft.com and useast.ncsoft.com (as well as the same with cityofheroes instead of ncsoft) resolve to 208.69.32.132. Someone actually looking at the network would have to tell you if you need something else.

If you're having trouble copying them - and the system can be a little wonky - do two things.

1. Go to the Titan network and sign up. Specifically to get into City Info Tracker.
2. Download Herostats and install it. Let it run while you log into various characters.

What will happen is - after you tell Herostats to log into the titan network - it will save your character info (not build, but AT/pri/sec/level/bio and other info) to CIT. (It will look like this.)You can then go *there* and copy, as well.

What version of Windows are you using? 7 comes with a pretty good one (including making a system image) built in - and to all versions, not just "Pro and above unless you know where to dig it out of the CD." (And the XP version = Backup Exec v.6.1, from Veritas/Symantec.)

Other than that, been a while since I've looked.

The main question on Spark Blade is how doable he would be in game - yeah, they can "tweak" NPCs and give them stuff players can't have. Just wondering on the work involved.

Still, yeah, the characters themselves have been seemingly forgotten. Wouldn't argue with seeing more.

Just as a side question - and assuming you're in the US - does it happen with both east and west coast based servers?

(This is more out of curiosity, can't see why it'd disable a network adaptor - there's really no "larger amount of data," AFAIK, given all the graphical stuff is clientside. Though... hmmm... how is it with graphics - for testings sake - drpoped down to minimum, since I see mention of it not being an issue in instances?)