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Exactly. With the above bind, when one presses Enter to begin typing, the AFK message of one's choice will appear above the character's head until Enter is hit again, which turns off the AFK message when the chat is sent. Can't remember who came up with it, but very clever.

wht?

What Hell! Thespians?

Why did we need YET ANOTHER THREAD on this topic?

Please, in the future, at least attempt to use the Search function. There are at least half a dozen existing threads on other boards for this exact same topic, including one by BAB himself and others commented on by BAB and Castle in the Dev Digest.

Agreed. Xamzax3, the events you describe in your OP are probably the most clever things I've heard a player do in some time. Don't be discouraged, I think your ideas are a gas!

Sounds jazzy. GJ St0n3y

Actually, I got Wet yesterday.

(Or at least the demo)

Indeed, it's one of the many QoL changes in I16

Corrections made, thanks

Samson_Sledge,

I believe you're under the mistaken assumption that Cryptic Studios still has stake and development roles in City of Heroes, which is untrue.

Back in 2007, Cryptic sold their share of CoH to NCSoft, who in turn hired most of the developers working on the game at that time and created a new studio, called NC Northern California, aka NCNC. Later, the studio was officially renamed Paragon Studios.

Part of the reason for the sale was because, at the time, Cryptic was developing a new superhero game in partnership with Microsoft and Marvel Studios that was to be called Marvel Universe Online. Later, Marvel and MS backed out, leaving Cryptic with a half-developed game. They decided to partner with HERO Games (for the IP) and eventually created Champions Online.

I understand this may be a little confusing, so there is no harm in your mistake. Just know that Cryptic Studios is competing with a game that they helped create, and co-owned for a period of time, but no longer help maintain. NCSoft is currently the sole owner of CoH.

In my opinion, the competition is helping to drive CoH to new levels of excellence, so I am glad Cryptic has provided more competition to a game they helped create in the first place.

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Already been suggested several times in the past. Although the consensus would love this sort of thing, the programming and extra server hardware needed to support it are non-trivial.

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Old idea. Unfortuantely, non-trivial mechanisms are still non-trivial. Adding the ability to share items in-game between difference characters is non-trivial - especially when hero/ villain faction is taken into account. I'm for this idea, but in order to get it to work correctly, I suspect a lot of developer time is required.

I know a number of Steel Paladins are checking it out at the moment. Me? I don't have the time, nor the money for another MMO subscription.

Hope you, Dark Watcher, and The Ocho get better soon. Sorry to hear you all got the "PAX Pox"

Ya, didn't even know this thread was still floating around until I get rep from it

The devs also hate Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.

Not that I don't agree that it's high time that bases get an "extreme makeover" as far as the construction and raiding systems are concerned.

Anything could be suspicious given the right paranoia.