Neon Vixen

Its Midnight to 3am BST (UTC+1) or 1am to 4am CET (UTC+2) so its pretty late, good thing it on a weekend. I'll be there at Midnight but I won't be hanging around until 3am

I've never had any issues and I've been using commands that way for years. As Master-Blade mentioned I've more often found forgetting to surround stuff in quotes causes me more issues. Plus on a personal level it makes things easier for me to read. the double quotes around the command help me to see it as the 3 parts. It is the bind command, then the key and then the command I want to bind the key to.

But then again they are not needed in anyway so if they cause problems remove them, the game doesn't care, in the same way the game doesn't care if you use /powexecname or /pow_exec_name the underscores are simply there for human readability.

You can PM a Mod and they can change it for you. All they need is a couple choices in order of preference incase one of the ones you ask for is taken. You can however look up the name you want in advance on the member list just to check but I'd still send 2 choices, even if its just use new name otherwise keep old one.

maybe they changed it beforehand out of fear?

something about a Transatlantic you-know-what maybe?

there's an option under the chat settings to show individual name colours, you then get nice pretty colours randomly assigned (as far as I can tell) to each person in your chat window. Sometime helpful to keep track of who is who in the stream of text.

Techbot wants the option to choose your own, which if its easy to do I see no issue with.

My best guess is that there are 1000+ active US accounts which clash with EU ones, most likely broken down similar to this:

• some of them will be EU accounts inactive US trial accounts
• others will be people who had an EU account and left to go US side so their EU account sits inactive
• others may be people like myself who played then stopped playing US side then came back and joined EU side but after they shut down the acount transfer thing so had to create a new account leaving the US one in limbo
• some will be EU players who have left over the years
• next we have the people who have both an active US and EU account
• and finally we have the genuine clashes where the two accounts are owned by different people

But then you have to wonder if they know all these things why not contact the people who own both accounts and ask them which one they want to keep the name on, or in the case of inactive US trials just give the name to EU account. If it really is only a few hundred people the man hours involved won't be that extensive.

While I think we can all agree that a hundred is less than a thousand, losing a name to someone who is not even playing seems unfair. I'd be ok with using the inactive for 90+ days cut off point which is shown in the account management section as a safeguard for those who may have taken a short break if absolutely necessary but as far as I'm concerened when it comes to something as big as this if your not paying at the time you shouldn't get priority over someone who is. If your name was that important to you then you could pay for a month over the server merge window to keep it. If not then clearly it doesn't matter to you.

I'll give you that one if/when I see it happen, and if they stick around for more than a session.

I think Shadow Kitty summed up the feelings of alot of the European players with this. We may have only had 2 English speaking servers but we've been happy with that. As a general rule most of us only play on 1 of the 2 servers with the occasional dabbling on the other side. Most people I know only have chars on Union because they were swapped from Defiant to make space for new characters when we had free transfers a while back. Now since this merge doesn't actually give us more slots on the server we currently enjoy with the community we know and love theres not all that much in it for us.

You say we get 132 more character slots due to the new servers, so what. Give me the chance to move them all do Defiant in some kind of mega character list and I'll finally accept this as a good thing, until then I reserve the right to declare this move a big 'meh' verging on 'boo' at the chance to lose global names (how we all know each other) and global channels (how we all chat even on the SG level)

Now if you can sell it to me as someone who only plays one server I'm willing to listen but so far the only positive given have been "more servers whoop" and "yay bigger community", which personally I don't really see. How many people do you actually chat to from outside your server other than on forums? And its not like people are suddenly going to pack up and move from the server communities they've been with for years, maybe in a "is the grass really greener?" sense but I don't expect many will stay around and make it their new home. At the most we'll be tourists stealing your character names and holding them in character name limbo while we continue actively playing on our previous servers keeping our accounts active so the names can never be freed

I think you pretty much answered your own question with this. The game is still balenced around players who use only SOs so any IOs or Set bonuses or Alpha slots or temp powers already push the players past this. Nothing much that can be done about this as long as the developers don't want to force people to make use of the invention system, which personally I believe they shouldn't. Not everyone enjoys crafting IOs and Min/Maxing their builds.

I guess if you really want the challenge back go back to using SOs or just unslot everything and run with base powers

I will be changing mine to '@player formally known as Neon Vixen' if this is the case. Have fun typing that in to send me tells