Tiggy

Wasn't really sure what forum would fit this best, eventually settled on this one due to the Dev Digest RSS feed threads being here.

I noticed a little while ago that the EU CoH website has an RSS feed for the server status. I thought it was a great idea (saves refreshing the status page a lot while waiting for servers to come back up after maintenance, your RSS aggregator will just 'ping' you when something changes in the feed). Unfortunately we didn't have that facility on the US servers so I wrote a quick PHP script to generate one from the server status page.

The feed updates once a minute max (as that's as fast as the server status page updates). If it's called again before a minute is up it'll just fire out a cached copy from my server. It's not so useful on some online aggregators like Google Reader since their system won't fetch the feed very often, a locally installed RSS reader or one you can force a refresh with is probably better.

This is really my first time experimenting with generating RSS feeds so if anyone more knowledgeable spots a potential issue with my feed data or anyone has a suggested improvement feel free to voice it.

Hopefully it won't just be me that finds this useful!

Direct link to feed
Link to post about feed, includes feedback link (or you can leave feedback in this thread).

I'm assuming this is a bug and not a feature request as it used to work like this and now doesn't (comes from the big 'official thread for costume issues'):

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Okay, I don't see this in either of the consolidated posts and it's been an annoyance of mine for a long time. Since about issue...4? You've been unable to make the pants on two of my toons since then as you can no longer have a different pattern for the top and bottom of the pants. I really, really want this option back. :x I think it disappeared when Baggy Pants went from being a category to a choice under the Pants category.

Here's what I mean, this is the two costumes as made before the change:

Blind Bobcat - Freedom
Pixel Purrfect - Freedom

And these are a close as I can get to those pants now on TR (which is nowhere near close): :/

Bobcat 1
Pixel 1
Pixel 2

The inability to apply 2 types of pattern to pants now (top and bottom of) makes Pixel's pants impossible to make and Bobcat's can no longer have the white flames/orange background faded to white anymore (which looks a lot better than the plain orange on white IMO).

Please fix this.

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Oh, and Jay is Sexy of course.

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MMORadio

Channel for MMORadio listeners and staff.

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Well since MMORadio was sold to another company and most of the DJs left to form a new station the MMORadio global channel is now defunct and we have a new one! (Station and global channel still exists but it's not the station it once was...whereas WoR is )

Channel: WoR Radio

Purpose: Channel for World of Roleplayers (WoR) Radio listeners and staff.

Cuppa, as you said screenshot(s) but only one entry I presume multiple shots of the same toon and costume are okay?

Name: SchrodingersCat
Server: Freedom
Screenshots: 1 2 3

Edit: Several explanations of Schrödinger's Cat can be found here.

MMORadio

Channel for MMORadio listeners and staff.

Some visual in-jokes:

Face (Boomtown tileset)
Face (Lab tileset)
'This Way Up' Arrow?

Some of your contacts say some quite amusing things and offer some quite amusing missions (Note: Possible spoilers!):

Mouldy Pita Pocket
Sci-Fi Convention (Can anyone say 'ambush' or 'trap'? )
What makes freaks so dangerous?

Ooh, just remembered another one.

The Supergroup Registration form is Form 27B/6.

Form 27B/6 is the Ministry of Public Works' "Authorization for Repairs of Domestic Living Quarters by Licensed Repair Technicians" form in Brazil (the film not the country ).

And your first contact after stepping through the stargate... uh I mean portal is General Hammond.

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When you are in a TF if you click on the Mission tab you will see the TF set at Hard-Boiled, no matter what.

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I can say that i've been on a TF on invincible. Maybe shard tf's dont count as real tf's.

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I think it shows (somewhat confusingly?) YOUR difficulty setting next to the mission.

I did the second (Freakshow) Respec the other day, after leaving the first door I noticed it said Invincible by the Mission and enquired about it. TF leader said they started it on Hard-Boiled. I run almost always at Invincible currently when doing missions with small teams/solo so it must have been my difficult level showing even though it doesn't affect the mission it's shown by.

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The game client will be available for download, but we'd recommend new players buy the boxed game, as it'll have some goodies - and the 'special edition' box will be packed with 'em.

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This made me think of another question: If we buy the UK special edition will we UK players still on the US servers be able to apply the extras to our US CoH accounts using the 'Upgrade' feature?