NeoSporin

I set the tilde key "~" to auto run and "nop" the "R" key. I find it rather challenging to accidentally hit the "~" key.

Sorry but as others have already mentioned, you can't have a chat window displayed while in other windows such as Tailors.

I /hide and hide from all when I'm about to enter into a screen I don't want to have to back out of until I'm done.

So I hide from all when I'm respec'n, at the tailors, at the market, crafting, or editing my base. Just remember to /hide and deselect everything when yer ready to be social again.

You can also set up keybinds or macros to hide from all and unhide from all to make it easier. I don't have those binds but I'm sure someone out there would be happy to give them to you.

Oh I know exactly how to use the search tool.
My point is in regards to UE_Damz retrieving number of players logged into the servers. (Post number 109 in this thread)

A blanket search with no qualifiers does not list everyone who is not hidden that is currently logged in.

By the way, I consider this broken, because I don't build PUGs by what ATs I think I need. I'm willing to offer invites to anyone regardless of their ATs. So I prefer to use blanket searches rather then put in qualifiers.

Besides, team members get irritated enough waiting for teams to get filled out. Taking extra time to put qualifiers into the search tool only sucks out more fun.

Unfortunately EU_Damz, the search tool provided in the game is unreliable. You may notice that with every search there is a little blurb in the tool that reads. "This list has been truncated." I discovered this a couple of years ago when a friend of mine complained that she found it hard to get on teams and seemed to never get invites. She claimed she does not show up in the search tool.

I tried the search tool and discovered that indeed, her name didn't show up in it. If I specified her toon name or the first 3 letters of her toon names she would show up. I also noticed that some other friends would never show up in the search tool, even though I new they were on. However, there would be some days when the missing names would show up in search and other days when they wouldn't

We reported this as a bug, but aside from the form e-mail that they have sent our bug in to QA we never heard anything more on it.

To this day, the Search tool remains truncated, and incomplete, as far as I can tell.

I stand corrected.
My real point was the 10 year head start they had over CoH. Those players who were in Warcraft would naturally try and most would sub to WoW.

You forgot to mention one of the biggest contributors to WoW's success. It had a 10 year head start over City of Heroes.
Yes, World of Warcraft as a title did not exists before CoH, but it was already a successful MMO early on and when it was 'Warcraft'. Then it got a major overhaul and was re-released as 'World of Warcraft'.

Subscribers to 'Warcraft' naturally subbed to WoW.

Actually, Vet rewards were not around when the beta for City of Villains was in Beta. In fact. City of Villains went live in issue 6, and vet rewards went live in issue 8.

So there were no vet rewards to base invites to CoV Beta on.

I can understand your point. When I'm playing a melee toon, I really have a hate on for knockback. Also, I usually target a foe and instead of "manually" (for lack of a better word) running up to the foe and wailing on him, I hit my follow key so I know I'll be in melee range. If someone knocks my target away, I automatically follow them. This is were I end up in trouble. Often I end up too close to another group of foes and aggro them up.

Most of the time I can back pedal in time and not trigger the next group... but not all the time. Its also annoying on my Dark Regen scrapper when I leap into the middle of a group of foes and a fraction of a second before I hit my Soul Drain someone hits the group with an AoE or Cone knockback and I get no buff from Soul Drain.

Regardless of how I feel about knockback, I have to disagree with you about putting in a system that alters the function of player powers at another player's discretion. I choose my power sets and powers based on what they do. My choices in slotting my powers are based on what those powers do. No one should have the ability to alter my powers but me.

I'd have to say its an error. If a new person who has never played CoX before buys the game today, then purchases a years worth of play time, they are NOT a one year vet, and will not get one years worth of Vet rewards.

Vets are considered as those who have subscription time behind them (used up) not ahead of them (prepaid but not used time.)

It is entirely possible they might have decided that prepaid time counts for this specific situation, but it would be a first as far as I know.

I don't bother speculating what the devs may or may not do, there's just nothing useful in doing so. Cuz until the devs specifically say what they are gonna do, all you have is speculation.

It's not like there is a policy or formula on the length of time it takes to fix a mac or even a PC issue. If they take 3 months to fix this particular issue one cannot reasonably conclude it takes the dev's 3 months to fix all mac issues.

Each issue is different and there are many factors as to how long it takes to fix them. Some issues are easy to fix, some issues are diffucult, and some are extremely complicated and take years.

Like the ATI mouse cursor issue when managing enhancements on PCs. This bug may not necessarily show up on all ATI cards, but for many of us it does. (This is the bug where when you are in the enhancement management screen and you move yer cursor down to your enhancements inventory your cursor suddenly shifts and the actual cursor focus is about an inch and a half down and to the left of where the cursor appears. )That one is years old and it would seem is considerably elusive in its remedy. Yet, some issues are fixed within weeks.

(Keep in mind the ATI mouse cursor issue does not render the game unplayable, so you can relax and not go nuclear in fear that the mac cursor issue will go years un-resolved. I'm sure the dev's would recode from the ground up the mac mouse interface before they let the game go unplayable for years.)

The "creators of this game" didn't, if they had, then it wouldn't be "Un-official." The Devs are not involved in the experience your friend had that evening.

Because as long as there are people, there are going to be problems. The only way to stop problems, is to get rid of the people. Apparently there was once a great flood that almost accomplished this, but I'm told some people had managed to survive in a big boat. They had advanced warning, or something, about the coming flood.

Why do you think its allowed? Do you think that the dev's or GMs are listening in on every single conversation that is occuring on every server? Cuz they are not. Most crap has to be reported before anything is done about it, and even then, the Dev's and or GMs do not make public what actions they took.

One last thing, I don't think it breaks any rules to tell someone to play on another server. Making a racist/sexist slur against someone does break some rules though.

Seems perfectly normal to me. You know... just like the old forums. Sluggish, periodically unresponsive.

Yes.
But you'll have to be patient. Mid's moved on and no longer continues to work on the hero planner. However, before leaving, Mid's passed the torch to someone else who is currently updating it. I understand Steiner is very close to releasing an update.

When you log in to the boards... click on 'ENGLISH' at the top left of the screen. The forum layout you get from that is the same layout that was use on the old boards.

I tend to stick with just one server. I started on and for 4 years played on Pinnacle. But the population was too low for my taste. So I migrated to Infinity around October of last year. At the time it was the 3rd most populated server. My computer is kinda old, so I chose to not go with the top two most populated servers because of lag reasons.

Because I chose to build my own SG and VG (I have two accounts so I can invite my own alts to them easily enough) it took a while to make enuff Prestige to get the things I want. (Storage, porters) So I have too much invested on Infinity to switch to a different server.

Well, I can't argue against that!
Thanks ADH!

Did that initially, but I learned I didn't always want to shout my level. Sometimes the missions we were running were a level or two higher then me.

True. But so what?
Perception = reality. The perception is that when you attempt to build a pick up team for AE, or join one, most of the team tends to want to farm, and most farms are boss farms. True this is not always the case, and no one is disputing that. It is the norm and an overwhelming norm. Rare are those AE players, and teams that are not expecting or anticipating farms.

Many are the ones on the boards who will say "I have no problem getting on, or making teams" but I wonder if the circumstances are the same. Aside from friends and SG mates, building teams, especially red side, has become much more difficult for someone who wants to run regular content. But, if what you want to do is PL in AE... building teams is much much easier. People beg to get on teams there.

http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/T...r_Bullet_Badge

I'm pretty certain its only the WarWolves. And not just cuz the Wiki says so, but when I've hunted for this badge, I've only noted progress on the progress bar when WarWolves were killed.

You simply look at the mission list. Any missions that you and your teammates have will have a level number next to it, and the difficulty indicator. Then its a matter of learning what your team can handle. Take note of the level of mission your setting, and its difficulty. Try it out, see how the team handles it. Adjust as needed.

Keep in mind the level your teammates are. Example, you and another are level 17, you recruit 6 level 14s and do not SK/LK any of them up. Doing a level 17 mission on difficulty 1 will be very challenging. Most of your team will be under par. Team Wipes are likely. Doing a lvl 14 on difficulty 5, will give you foes around 16 maybe some 17s. This is survivable. But will be less xp for the lvl 17s on team.

Don't be timid about selecting missions. Communicate with your team. Ask your team if there is a specific mission they want to do. In most cases, they wont care, if there's xp in it, its all good.