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What about an "Export character to XML file" button? Don't allow loading of the file into prevent cheating. It wouldn't have to be real time, it would take minimal system resources, doesn't pose the firewall problems, the user could upload at their convenience, and given a default file structure add-on websites could read the files via upload.

Save a picture at the same time and it would be almost everything users/websites could ask for.

Actually, I bought that on sale 3 years ago (shortly before they stopped making that version) for around 1/2 of the suggested retail price. I've not been upset with the purchase. While the new version has a color LCD, it is also missing 6 keys.

More options are always good.

You missed three: Disruptor, Forward Observer, and Reinforcement.

Yeah, they've been mentioned in every badge issues list.

I have one of these:

Usually with some kind of clock running, and I still wouldn't mind an in-game clock display.

I remember it, but I'm not sure if it is still active. Then again, I've not been as active as I used to be lately.

I'm not sure if it is truly needed as there are numerous options for movement to safety (jet packs, jump jets, several teleports [Pocket D, Ouroborus, Base Teleporters, Went Worth's/Black Market Teleporters]), not to mention a hospital in the Hollows since Issue 12.

My worst moment like this was one character missing a single Halloween zombie from 2007. Then the progress bars came out with Issue 13 and I had to wait nearly a full year to get that 1 kill.

I'm not mad. I'm just pointing out that you are incorrect because it never has been a criteria that a clear majority needs to be proven to the developers for them to implement a suggestion. On the other hand, if you have to resort to ad-hominems and straw men arguments, you've lost.

It has merit due to the fact that it is a possible solution to a problem that has existed for years.

As an optional window element, I wouldn't mind this suggestion. It seems easy enough to actually do as the game already has the capability as a slash command.

It is one of the factors that everyone (or even a majority) wants a feature? No. Same goes for thinking that "a clear and undeniable proof that the majority of subscribers" want something. Given the numerous threads of this nature that have shown up in the four years that I have been playing this game, one would think that the developers would want to explore the possibility of doing something along these lines now that their competition is doing it. (Actually the same thing goes for mailing items, but that is another thread.)

I made the above into a numbered list to respond better.

1 and 2 are the same thing for all intents. Yes, it was wanted. I don't know if it was asked for by a majority though.

Numbers 5 and 13 are something that some will use and some will not, but either way has no ill effects to anyone.

For 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 those are all player requests that have no down-side for players. (The developers gave us something without taking anything away.)

Number 9 actually dove-tails with this suggestion as it has been asked that the limits be taken away entirely and allow invites to groups by global names.

For 6 there is a large portion (not a majority) of player upset about the microtransactions.

I did not for a moment suggest any such thing. So your entire post is a straw man.

What I had a problem with is your statement that a suggestion has to have a clearly provable majority for the developers to consider a suggestion. This suggestion has merit, despite those opposed to it.

It solves a number of issues (name purges, knowing who is in groups, allowing new customers to create their character the way they envision it,etc). It has the potential to keep new customers with minimal inpact on the existing customer base. So it would be a win-win for the developers, and for the existing customers there would be more people to play with.

To me it would be a far better thing to encourage more people to play than to worry about someone else getting "your" name. Think of the global name as a secret identity. Have the ability to hide the global name if you don't want to see the global name (it isn't as if the global name is all that hard to find anyways).

Well, I would for one.

When has that ever been a gauge as to what gets put into the game?

This, I believe, is the fully correct answer to the entire thread.

Set it to make macros easier to reach or other uses that don't give you a competitive advantage and you are fine.

The moment that you try to fully automate play, be prepared to lose your account.

I wouldn't bother, as I'm pretty sure Signum isn't serious.
I'll stick to agreeing with you, Arcanaville, and others in saying "NO" to this "suggestion".

Apples meet oranges unless you are talking about the Scrapper version. I am talking about the Tank version.

I did not make any comment on the bolded section. Also you forgot that RotP roots you for 4 seconds of that 15 second untouchable time frame. MoG is on a shorter timer, doesn't root. RotP also heals less if you are a scrapper, doesn't have stun protection, KB protection, the other status protections, or the increased Recovery that MoG has.

When the word "nonexistent" appeared multiple times the suggestion went too far.

Umbral's suggestion would strip every aspect of the power. I wouldn't take Umbral's version of RotP at level one. It is far too underpowered.

* I could see a small reduction in the heal. Healing Flames heals for 1/4 (edit: Fixed a typo here.) of base hit points for a tank, RotP is 1/2. So make the "alive" RotP heal for 1/3 of the base hit points.

* Make it cost a huge amount of endurance to use while alive, that would make it balanced with other nukes.

* Autohit while alive is problematical to program due to how the power works. Probably should be left in.

* I've already agreed that the debt protection should be out.

* If the untouchable (which in my experience doesn't work all the time) is too overbalanced, replace with +1000 Resistance and Defence to all for the 15 seconds while removing the root.

No, I didn't. On a character with out massive amounts of +recharge, RotP has around a 3 minute recharge. Not very game breaking. In fact leaving it in the "alive activation" would bring RotP back up to be comparable to other tier 9 powers.

This suggestion would leave the power far too weak to use while alive. You've just taken too much from the power.

Provided an external macro program (out of game) that allows timing, this is true.

The CoH macros are a totally different beast than the Logitech software.

With a CoH macro I would need to press and release a key 2 times to activate 4 toggles (pulling a value out of the air). With those presses I could activate one attack power and set one power to auto state.

With the Logitech software, if I chose to risk my account (and I'm not willing to), I could activate 6 toggles, set one power to auto, and fire off a dozen powers in a specific order. All that with one keypress. Or I could set it so that every X seconds a power would activate without any interaction from me other than 1 keypress.

Or even worse, I could combine the CoH and Logitech methods with some batch files for some really spectacular results.

To my knowledge Windows has not had a comparable built in macro recorder since Windows 3.1 and even that is not up to the Logitech software. All comparable macro utilities are separate from the OS.

A total exaggeration.

Atlanta was giving you the best results, followed by Clarksville, L.A., and San Fran.

This is not really true. Entire attack chains can be done. Easily in fact. That guide of mine linked to above? While only "typing" the ignore_spammer command with the spammer's name isn't a gaming advantage ( it is a peace of mind advantage ), the same principals apply to making attack chains.

Actually, this isn't totally accurate either. You can have perpetual actions. I once figured out how to do a perpetual "jump once every 10 minutes script" with the G-keys macros. It only required one key press to activate. The same script could be used with loading different binds to create a RP bot with a large amount of dialogue or cycling a targetcustomnext command (no, I'm not going to say how, as I find the whole idea of botting repugnant). However it is completely unlikely that bot would be at all successful in terms of combat as there is no means of properly assessing targets or moving (map hindrances).

Actually here is where I disagree.

This is one of those "looks bad on paper", but really isn't. No matter which zone, you are teleported to the mission door. As soon as you enter the door, everyone on the team is in the same instance. Therefore this use of the suggestion would be moot.

The initial suggestion would only be applicable to the markets if you are using these transporters as an alternate tram system.

Ok, this one is so rare that I've only heard of this once: The Manticore/Psyche wedding... They had Developers as ushers... On the test servers.

For what could be "dropped" when alive:
* Autohit.
* Debt protection.

Ok, how about trying to get the "Master of" badges. You know - where the whole point is to not die? Only by not dieing can they get those badges.

This means the tier 9 power of a primary power set is useless for the most difficult tasks in the game.

I think that is wrong.

Well, beyond that last bit, it sounded like a good day.

Ok, let me see if I'm responding to the right statement:
Right one? Good.

In that other game, it has an autocomplete function (something that should have been added a long time ago in CoH). Not only that, but the global name is always present in the chat window and logs (again it should have always been around, even if only in the log files due to potential harassment issues). In this case you could send a tell to the person, and given their responses choose the right person.

You would still have seen during your teaming the global name of the player. The only way you wouldn't know their global name is if they never spoke in any chat or forgot it. At that point you've also forgot the character name. If you did remember the character name, the game provides a list of globals so you can narrow down the right person. At its most basic, it does what this forum's search does when you type in a name: It tries to help you find the right person. It doesn't always succeed, but you've learned something. During that 2 week trial, I easily found several CoH players the same way.

The only problem I had with the system is that I had a real life friend that I initially couldn't find. A quick phone call and I had all the info I needed.

Actually I've seen more than 5 Pocket D instances on Triumph during the 5th Anniversary event.

A point of clarification, Rian: Even if someone is completely new to the game (registers today) and uses an original, unused 1st generation CoH code they get access to CoV & 12 character slots per server.