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Do you still have Fame points? You have to wait until they are gone until you can get more. Each Public Fame point has a 20 hour timer.

You can hold 5-Public Fame OR a max of 3 Tips, whichever is less.

Tips come back instantly if you haven't done a morality mission before.

The other missions you have to call or go back to the contact to get the mission again.

Are you running CoHLCD as an admin or without UAC off (Not really recommended)?

My design suggestion is something else from my code-rewrite suggestion. I think we both know that.

Other than my suggestion of a new hub zone, I've not made a design suggestion other than to say I like things how they are now.

The evidence is nothing of the sort. It is an educated guess based on my nearly 30 years of programming experience. When people tell me that a large program has "simple fixes", it instantly causes me to think about Interior Designers that change structure because it is "inconvenient". When a proper construction team comes in to fix the problem, they get annoyed with the Interior Designer that should have done it right.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Any time I post it is my opinion. In this case it is an opinion based on my programming experience. What's your basis that it is wrong?

Show me the code that these would be "minor changes". Show me how the base, character, and group systems are designed. Until then you are guessing as much as I am, and the standard code rant applies to everything in this thread. The fact that I recognize that even my suggestions are subject to that same code rant is one of the reasons I try not to ask too much from the developers.

What you are suggesting is, based on a very educated guess, a bandaid that has several problems with it.

• It has the potential to change/corrupt the character if the group affiliation is stored as a part of the character. Logically this would be the best place to put the group ties to. However, I'm guessing that the developers are storing affiliation mostly in the group system, based on several factors (prestige earned, joined date, rank). Storing this on the character would also potentially cause more game checks (where is the prestige going to), and more game checks equals more latency.
• The suggestion has the potential to interfere with who knows how many patches/changes designed to block access for specific groups.
• The suggestion asks the supergroup system to do something it wasn't designed to do: store character info from opposite factions. Okay, we are getting this now. But instead of keeping things simple (opposite side can't enter/use the base, super leaders are demoted when they change sides, and opposite side can't get prestige), you want to add further complications.

What? That I've had to come onto projects and have to read undocumented code, find out anything that used the problem code, and still meet a deadline to get the code working? The majority of the time it is quicker to scrap the existing code and replace it with properly documented functioning code.

One of the reasons I think that a rewrite is in order is that it would streamline and simplify code to allow for better access for everyone.

While it seems on the surface to be simpler, what you are suggesting would be a nightmare to program. You're suggestion would have the potential of corrupting groups, bases, and characters.

I'd think that a total rewrite of both the supergroup system and the base system would be easier, and less prone to problems of this suggestion.

This is inaccurate.

Edit:
Reason it is inaccurate is that the only thing that degrades the alignment bars (progress) is doing a morality mission (which resets all alignment bars).

Tip missions go into escrow if you go from a hero<->villain zones.

If you are a vigilante, the neutral zones will make the game think you are a hero. At this point the red side tips go into escrow. If you return to the red side zone before doing a morality mission, those tips come back.

If you are a rogue, the neutral zones will make the game think you are a villain. At this point the blue side tips go into escrow. If you return to the blue side zone before doing a morality mission, those tips come back.

Not the player's PFF, the AV is shooting through its PFF. Something that Castle came out and said it was a bug that they couldn't replicate. I did, and have a demorecord to prove it. Admittedly there is 40 minutes of "hilarity" in trying to get the obelisks synced in that file, but the last few minutes the AV was attacking/killing players through his shield.

Castle said that the AV should be under an "Only Affects Self" while in its shield.

So this should not be happening:

Click for Ruladak crystal grenade explosion on me.

Neither should this:

Click for Ruladak shooting red energy blast.

I still haven't been given any assurance that will be the case. Even though Gamestop.ca has changed to "Usually ships in 24 hours." I called the store I ordered from and they told me to call back tomorrow.

Well, I know of at least one way to grief whole groups that (a) hasn't been fixed, (b) was on the live, test, and beta servers, and (c) was going to be fixed eventually.

It is still active...

As to bug hunter, I submitted well over 100 bug reports and while most got fixed, not all did. I didn't get BH. I did hear of two players that got it during Issue 17 beta, one of which found a money duping bug with the gleemail system.

Check this post, it might clear up things:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3121266

Villain/Rogue/Hero/Vigilante alignment bars chart your overall progress towards an alignment.

Public Fame shows how many counting alignment points you have earned in the last 20 hours.

If you have earned 5 fame points you can't earn any more alignment points until at least one of the fame points fades away. Players interested in quickly changing to an alignment will resent being delayed 20 hours to correct the "wrong" alignment mission.

No, only if you repeat the same task force in a 18 hour period do you get less (not zero) merits.

Say you did 2 ITFs in two hours. The first ITF should have given you 26 merits, the second one would give 13 merits.

Nope, and it was brought up in beta.

As a vigilante you can do newspaper missions to get contacts. You will not be able to do missions from those contacts until you become a villain though. You can still do all the hero contacts you have or team with villains to do their missions.

Go to Dark Astoria, Terra Volta, Sharkhead, or Nerva. Defeat only bosses. If you spend more than 10 minutes without tips you have done counting tip missions that day.

I know the conditions to reproduce the salvage storage bug. I wrote up a three page document explaining how to consistently reproduce it for the developers. It took them a year and a half to fix it.

I'm talking about at least 5 undocumented patches over at the period of 5-6 years. I've had to debug code like that. It isn't pretty. Fixing code like that tends to break things when they are removed because other coders borrow that code for other things and they don't document what they've used. Add employee turnover and it soon becomes easier to make something new rather than change the problem that was causing the issue.

But they don't have that ability, you are asking for something to be added. In this case for rogues (villains) to be given access to hero bases and vigilantes (heroes) to be given access to villain bases. At the same time they have to make sure that "regular" villains and heroes can't access the opposing bases.

Actually situations like what Ransim did was when the first "barrier" was put in place. The reasons, if I remember correctly, was to keep the two sides separate. This was done as early as Issue 6. The developers have put in more and more barriers to plug all the succeeding loopholes. One allowed players to drop Hamidon Origin enhancements into a villain base. This allowed cross-faction trading. There was another way found that you could teleport to a team leader's base if you died or used the veteran base teleporter. There are a bunch of others patches/barriers that I know of that all would have to be removed, if the developers could find them all.

You see it as removing restrictions, and I see it as adding functionality. Even now they are not placing any more restrictions then was in place before Issue 18. What they did with Issue 18 was relax other restrictions. The restrictions relaxed dealt mainly with the ability to go to the opposing side's zones.

Kat, I disagree. My first post in this thread wasn't attacking anyone directly, it was directed at the idea that there shouldn't be any boundaries between heroes and villains. That and the numerous code problems I can make educated guesses at is the crux of the issue. Since that first post, some posters have felt the need to make personal attacks and those attacks were not in response to that post or posts in this thread, but other posts that I've made in the last couple of months.

I want a distinction between heroes and villains. By allowing vigilantes into villain bases and rogues into hero bases, it destroys the uniqueness between the major alignments.

I want something that can be done about the travel issue without having to spend countless work hours to try to unravel. I think it would be a waste of resources.

I would like more vigilante/rogue only stuff to be made. I think they need to be made into a distinct entities apart from their parent morality.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Behavi...tment_Facility

There are no other signs of any Mother of Mercy hospital otherwise, and the description certainly fits the B.A.F.

In the south:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Broken_Mind_Badge
Note that there aren't a lot of Seers in this section of the underground. Above ground would sort of align with the Four Gables area. There are no identifiable hospitals in this area. There is the possibility that the Mother of Mercy hospital is somewhere else, but that wouldn't make sense either.

I don't know, people insulting me for having a different opinion ranks near the top of the list...

As to coalitions between hero and villain groups:
Not what I asked in this thread. I asked specifically if you could make a NEW coalition between a hero group and a villain group. You can't. You've admitted you can't.

The only "evidence" that your groups are grandfathered is due to the game not breaking that coalition, not from any developer statement to that fact. They are a pair of groups that avoided a code change. It doesn't surprise me at all that a coalition like that exists when it took months just to remove Items of Power when the old Cathedral of Pain went active for one week -- after they ran the IoP removal routine TWICE. The whole base system and group system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

At any rate, the patch that removed the ability to form coalitions with the opposite faction wasn't described in a patch note (that I can find), which tells me that it was considered an exploit, not a feature.

Actually it doesn't mean I am trolling. All it means is that my opinion is different than yours. Having a different opinion is something that should be welcomed. I would suggest that you re-read the Forums rules & guidelines about calling people trolls.

Additionally the devs said they would look into it. Not that they would do it, but look into it.

Feign wanted me to admit I was wrong about my "guesses". He provided no proof to the contrary. Neither have you. Yet you are continuing to insult me.

[Edit]Beta threads are no longer accessible, so no point leaving them in here.[/Edit]

Because I think bases should remain hero/vigilante only or villain/rogue only. Using bases for this would not allow the developers the option to make new content specifically for vigilantes and rogues only. Making a new zone would open this possibility.

I know you are trying to push forward your agenda to have personal appartments put into the game. I don't really have any issue with personal appartments. I think that personal appartments are a separate issue than the base system though.

I don't see how you can be less insulting, or making a less direct personal attack.

I have a character that has the ability to hold 125 salvage on the test server. I got that ability through a bug in the game. This doesn't mean that it is still potentially possible.

I don't see the lowering of all the barriers as a good thing. I see that we (or our characters) are defined by our choices and our limitations. If you remove all the limitations then nothing has meaning.

In what way would not allowing vigilantes in villain bases be a further restriction? Likewise, in what way would allowing rogues in hero bases be a further restriction?

To my knowledge, prior to Going Rogue vigilantes and rogues didn't exist. Prior to Going Rogue, the developers put in code to prevent villains from entering hero bases and heroes from entering villain bases. Even though Ransim has a pair of bases with a loophole, I can't on a mixed team use the a base in an ITF or LGTF due to code that was put into place in Issue 12-13 almost two years ago.