Snow Globe

I would like to set up a time to run this on a regular basis until achieved. The weekends are good for me, as well as early Friday evenings (4-8 pm PST).

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Grats!

Actually, yes. Pocket D on Virtue (an oxymoron if there ever was one), is a prime example of why anything that trips on the line of "adults-only" will fail. Virtue has definitely earned its reputation.

Thank you for stating the problem in a nutshell. By the way, a lot of what happens on Virtue, especially in Pocket D, is covered by the EULA and could be /petitioned. That doesn't make it right, or even wanted in a game with a teen rating.

Women's rights groups are much more vocal than men's rights groups. Also Women's rights groups tend to sue more.

I've already taken that possibility. Let's say that Jay, Babs, and the rest of the art team do come up with a single wing object that consists of 4 or more separate wings (unlike the current insect wings already available). At that point it would still be one object attached to the back point, the same point for wings. At issue with that is the problem that the multiple wings would have to work with all the existing character animations, and that was the reason we were given about fixed wings.

Valkyrie Cape or Wings, Magic Booster capes, and the 21 month Vet Rewards shoulder capes are all available from character creation. Care to put out another theory as to why capes and wings don't use the same anchor point? I say this because you didn't do anything to disprove my point: there is only one place to put either wings or capes, the back. This is why we can't have both wings and a cape (besides it looking funny).

That would be a pain.

The point (pun intended) remains that both capes and wings use the same attachment point. If the developers allow multiple wings (that are not "1 wing"), then they have to deal with multiple capes.

I can get behind this statement, with the proviso that the only explore badge so far with extra-ordinary requirements is Unabashed (badge in the Rikti Mothership). As long as the new explore badges avoids the need to organize a raid, things should be fine.

Not likely to happen as even multiple capes were blocked from use due to lag that was induced to other players.

Issue 13. Prices dropped dramatically for plots and items (upgrade), upkeep was reduced (upgrade), path placement was removed (upgrade except for base raids), and base salvage was replaced with invention salvage (personal opinion: downgrade).

Robots aren't male...

Anyways there are valid concerns about players controlling females, as stated above. I, for one, wouldn't want to see any "pimp" MMs.

In addition, there are very few female enemy types too (Carnies, Knives of Artermis, and a few AVs are the limit). Think about it and the reason for that applies as well.

Anyone with that information cannot speak about it.

Definitely not the /loc position as that would be too easy. Even the neighbourhood would be too much information.

Actually all the live explore badges already have /loc information on places like Paragonwiki and Badge-Hunter.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=2703703

Architect exploit fix.

Actually you can copy window settings, options, keybinds, costumes, and power customizations between the live and test servers.

All the hero markets (North America and Europe) are tied together. The sole exception is the Test Server.

All the villain markets (North America and Europe) are tied together. The sole exception is the Test Server.

These two statements have been true since the markets were put in.

Agreed. The drop rates for the Purple and PVP IOs are a bit too rare.

They do have a way to seed the markets (hero and villain). They've used it on the Test server before.

This would be nice, but at this point there is so much inf out there that prices would take a while to reduce.

Ok, I glossed over where he got one of the Day Jobs last month. He got the rest in one day.

Yes, exactly. This is why I said "day job badges" not time earned.

Exactly. This is how PsychoPez could get all the day job badges in less than 2 days (even though he was aiming for less than 24 hours).

I'm sorry that I read that as an attack. I've edited the response.

The other superhero mmo from Cryptic has iTunes and Winamp controls built it. These two programs cover most (not all) media types. Both are available without cost.

The amount of code they would need is very small, especially if they only did iTunes support. I'm guessing that you aren't a coder/programmer, so I'll try to describe what is happening in general terms.

Apple has made a library of routines to access iTunes. This is similar to what nVidia and ATI do with their graphics cards. What the developers have to do is hook into this library (Apple provides the specs and documentation, and would work with Paragon Studios to get it set up) and call the related functions. This is basic object oriented programming. In fact, they could assign this to a new programming hire as a means to get them up to speed on how the game works (it is that simple).

What it boils down to is that CoH, when given the command to play a song, would do something like:
That would be all that is needed to play a song.

To get the track information:
iTunes would handle the request and tell CoH what track was playing. Winamp is similar.

That is why I put QoL (Quality of Life) in the title. It isn't something that is needed for the game. People can still play iTunes, WMP, Winamp, or any other media player in the background. It is just one of those "it would be nice to have" things that doesn't harm anyone requests.

Not quite. Notable differences: I am not talking about a separate add-on. I'm talking about full integration with the game for everyone that would want to use a standard media player. I named the top 3 (iTunes, WMP, Winamp). That other superhero mmo from Cryptic has integrated iTunes support.

Okay this part is what I was thinking.

How about the ability to load in a .m3u playlist and play MP3s internally? This way players can make their playlist(s) in the media player of their choice then play it in the game.

/playmp3 <filename>
/playm3u <filename>

The only problem is that it is unclear if MP3s are out of patent-hell or not.

It doesn't need to be a full-blown media player.

I'm going to break this next bit up to be clear which statements I'm responding to:
Besides that, Macs have media keys, and iTunes responds to media keys on both the Mac and PC. This fact is why I suggested iTunes first. Winamp is for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The only other player I suggested was Windows Media Player, which the majority of players use.

iTunes has a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to control iTunes with other programs. This would allow Paragon Studios to send and receive information to iTunes. Actually playing MP3s internally would make it universal (Windows, Mac, Linux), but there are still questions as to whether the patents are still valid and Linux isn't supported.

This objection has absolutely nothing to do with the suggestion.

You do realize that there are a lot of client-side only effects in the game right? Gravity Control's Propel for instance. Besides this, it would be very easy to test: try to play a sound file. It would be very obvious if the sound played or not.

The iTunes SDK "allows programmatic control of iTunes from languages like JScript, Visual Basic, C#, and C++" or Applescript. The function calls are exactly the same as any other internal function calls. The SDK has all the references needed to call the functions requested above (track listing, play, pause, stop, next track, previous track, volume).

Zero bandwidth needed. Nothing is being touched over the Internet. All information would be transfered through RAM.

An internal player would have all information in the .M3U playlist or the MP3 itself.

Thanks! I expect I'll post something in the Triumph section of the forums soon.

Actually transferring servers does "reset" the time on the login screen, but it doesn't affect progress towards the day job badges. I did this with one of my other characters and it still got the badge "on time".