The Grim Heaper

To be fair, when looking at the forums from the index (under English) you've got;

• News, Events & Announcements
• Development
• Player Help
• [etc...]

From being on the boards a long time I know that Tech issues and Bugs is under development, but I can see how that would not necessarily be intuitive if you didn't already know. If you've got a problem, you want help. Player Help sounds like an area where you can get that help, and Player Questions is the only board therein that looks appropriate.

The subtext for development does list "Issues & Bugs", but that listing seems short, less prominent, and in the middle of other seemingly unrelated topics.

I think the forums could do with a link to the Tech Issues & Bugs forum under Player Help, or at least a sticky under Player Questions, indicating where users might be able to get more prompt and accurate technical assistance.

Yeah, apparently since I posted that -projectcoh method for steam integration, some of the game's important IP adresses changed - And, long story short, I don't fully understand all that's going on (something about the launcher passing new IPs to the client on launch, rather than patching the client with those IPs.. I think.)

THIS THREAD looks like it contains useful info/tips regarding this though.

Unless they changed it - older characters can get them by switching to a new (lvl 1) build. It sometimes takes a few minutes, but you have 15 (20?) before you can switch back to a leveled/slotted build anyway.

(I tend to use this trick to put one of them in brawl)

Does this happen often? *debates changing global name*

Fixed a tiny little error.

Also, don't be embarassed, I figure anyone trying to brute force their way in by guessing passwords is more likely to try passwords that conform to the enforced standard. Passwords that don't conform to the standard might be more secure against such attempts (why guess passwords that shouldn't be possible?). If they get your password by some other means (malware, phishing, keyloggers, etc) then no password can help you, because they have it*.

I wish they would allow longer passwords, but at least the restrictions in use are more secure than what my bank uses. (seriously - 8 characters max, alpha only, does not appear to be case sensitive. )

*although this is an argument in favour of regularly scanning your machine and changing passwords routinely.

Yeah, not entirely surprised this made it past testing either - need a testing environment with plenty of 'dummy' servers, that can't be accessed, but cause the scrollbar to be used.

For ideas on what lore abilities might mesh thematically with your scrapper (I'm going to be working with existing ones, as I have not heard anything about them expanding the lore abilities again)... we might need to dance around the "dark" aspect - A number of summons have a few dark powers in their repertoire, but none seem exclusively dark themed (even the dark ring mistress has but one dark cone; the rest are psy).

-If your Character has any strong ties to Longbow, Arachnos, Carnival of Shadows, Cimerorans, Nemesis, Rikti, Vanguard, or Praetoria; We could hand-wave it as using your dark powers to (forcibly?) summon assistance from your friends in [faction].
-Storm Elementals, while perhaps they might not match the colours of your dark powers, could be considered clouds of dark energy that fire off lightning bolts.
-If your character (beyond being dark), is tech-ish based in origin, perhaps you could work in robotic pets? Warworks, Clockwork, and Robotic Drones could serve that purpose.
-If you don't mind using your dark powers to summon other-worldly monsters, Rularu could be a good fit.
-Vanguard - particularly any from this tree with both the Sorcerer and the buff-pet Magician (t3-Partial-core, t4-Radial-superior). The sorceror only has Lifedrain for dark (also 2 ice and one elec), But the buffpet has twilight grasp and assault. Bonus; vanguard tend to dress in black/gray/purple.



Lore can be tough to fit in thematically with some characters. I had a heck of a time picking a lore tree for my plant based character. In the end I went with Rularuu for the organic monster look. Polar lights were a close second

I have this odd visual of a hero who's cape is ripped going over to Back Alley Brawler. BABs then procedes to put on some reading glasses (likely on top of his shades) and tries for a solid hour to thread a needle with those huge gauntlets...

... Something like this I could get behind, actually. It would need a bit of tweaking to fit more thematically into our game; For some reason I keep thinking this could be tied in with the incarnate "quick path" that we cannot currently take... flying too close to the sun with wax wings, as it were.

I think you have just found common ground with the rest of the forum.

And, as Ad Astra mentioned, global chat channels are cross-server.

Playing an alt on virtue, but want to get in on that Mothership/Hami raid that just started on Triumph where your mains are? Or perhaps you want in on those raids but were on Freedom because lol-pvp-on-any-other-server. Global channels can let you know about them while you are off in RP/PVP-land

LFG-chat will fail you in this regard. However, I do support those forming teams to advertise in both lfg and Global channels. Also, global channel have the additional benefit of being moderated - anyone gets too spamy or flippant, and the mods can cut the annoyance off at the root.

... or on a Luck of the Gambler, sell that on the market for ~120mil, buy the replacement quad at around 65mil again, and pocket the change.

I have one character on which one of the costume slots is a pretty darn good Yoko from Tegen Toppa Gurren Lagann (the white outfit from later in the show... the inability to add textures to the "with skin" options make the iconic flame-print bikini difficult if not impossible to replicate)... If only the character in question made use of Assault Rifle powers, the vanguard 'Redding' Rifle would go perfectly with the costume.

With mace mastery, you can get another arachnobot at 47 (the other patrons also have a pet in the lvl 47 slot, but the arachnobot completes the set ). And then there's the Arachnos Lore incarnate abilities that gives you a toxic Tarantula for up to 7 spider pets! (also gives a bane or something. I ignore him.)

Normal way, launcher is configured to close on game startup, and I get no issues.

When I feel like launching through steam (also the way I dualbox if reading forums and stuff on PC#2). This method worked up until the last patch, but now when I try to launch this, I can't connect to the login server. Which is odd, because they both point to the same client (the other one just opens it through the launcher, this one through steam).