Release Notes - 18.20090324.13T2 4/10/09

Niviene · 04-10-2009 01:32 PM

Release Notes - 18.20090324.13T2

Friday April 10, 2009

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Architect Custom Critters
<ul type="square">[*]Players can no longer place Cimeroran Immunes Surgeon Minions in custom missions. Any missions that specifically include these critters will now be invalid, and will have to be edited. Do NOT Unpublish your mission, or you will lose your Arc ID and ratings. [*]Players can no longer place Council Transformation Capsule Bosses in custom missions. Any missions that specifically include these critters will now be invalid and will have to be edited. Do NOT Unpublish your mission, or you will lose your Arc ID and ratings.[/list]Mission Architect Server
<ul type="square">[*]Improved Mission Architect stability.[/list]Bases:
<ul type="square">[*]Corrected an issue where all Supergroups (Heroes and Villains) that logged in after Issue 14 launched would receive all Supergroup Badges. All affected Supergroups had their badges removed. The first Supergroup member to log in an affected base will have their SG badges re-granted based upon their Supergroups previous achievements and exploration.[/list]City of Heroes
<ul type="square">[*]None[/list]City of Villains
<ul type="square">[*]None[/list]

Justice_Bringer · 04-10-2009 01:53 PM

Thank you for wrecking our bases.

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james_joyce · 04-10-2009 02:28 PM

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<ul type="square">[*]Players can no longer place Cimeroran Immunes Surgeon Minions in custom missions. Any missions that specifically include these critters will now be invalid, and will have to be edited. Do NOT Unpublish your mission, or you will lose your Arc ID and ratings. [*]Players can no longer place Council Transformation Capsule Bosses in custom missions. Any missions that specifically include these critters will now be invalid and will have to be edited. Do NOT Unpublish your mission, or you will lose your Arc ID and ratings.[/list]
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Might be a good idea to mention if these'll be back in or if they're gone for good.

My understanding from beta was that they'll be back in as soon as you guys find the time to make no-xp copies for MA, but I could be wrong.

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Sermon · 04-10-2009 02:28 PM

Interesting. No surgeons?

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CosmicThunderer · 04-10-2009 02:33 PM

When i went in my base after 14 i noticed all my banners have no color now??? what is up with that and it wont let me change them?

Monkey_King · 04-10-2009 02:35 PM

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Interesting. No surgeons?

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You could create a custom villain group made up of nothing but Immunes Surgeons, drop them into a mission, and farm the heck out of it completely risk free. With some trickery, you could do the same thing to the transformation capsules.

I'm surprised they cranked this patch out so fast. The devs must have been sweating bullets when certain individuals blared the exploit all over the forums right before this went live.

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Justice_Bringer · 04-10-2009 02:46 PM

My group had 6 storage racks (each with a different Tier and type [Arcane/Tech]), 3 inspirations racks that had 11-13 at every level which were Tier 2, Tier 2, and Tier 3 and 4th rack that had a combination of Tier 2, Tier 3, and Special. There were 5 enhancements racks. They're all gone. We received none of our lost prestige.

WTF?!

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The Emissary of Justice. - Level 50 WP/Fire Tanker
Mesmerius - Level 50 Psi/Mental Blaster
Nucleoa - Level 50 Rad/Son Defender

Obsidius · 04-10-2009 02:59 PM

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My group had 6 storage racks (each with a different Tier and type [Arcane/Tech]), 3 inspirations racks that had 11-13 at every level which were Tier 2, Tier 2, and Tier 3 and 4th rack that had a combination of Tier 2, Tier 3, and Special. There were 5 enhancements racks. They're all gone. We received none of our lost prestige.

WTF?!

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Seems like filing a petition would be more constructive than posting on a thread created by a community rep, who can do nothing to fix your problem, except tell you to file a petition.

Justice_Bringer · 04-10-2009 03:15 PM

I did that already, no response and I want my base back sometime today.

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The Emissary of Justice - Level 50 Fire/Fire Blaster
The Emissary of Justice. - Level 50 WP/Fire Tanker
Mesmerius - Level 50 Psi/Mental Blaster
Nucleoa - Level 50 Rad/Son Defender

Dark Ether · 04-10-2009 03:21 PM

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Thank you for wrecking our bases.

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Uhh....what? They did no such thing. The y rolled back an exploitable bug.

Thank you for rampant over-reaction.

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CoX_Zombie · 04-10-2009 03:21 PM

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I did that already, no response and I want my base back sometime today.

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Maybe kick and scream more?

Steeple · 04-10-2009 03:22 PM

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I did that already, no response and I want my base back sometime today.

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If you had stuff literally disappear from your base, that is one of 2 things:

1) A serious bug and needs petitioning, which you say you've done already.
or

2) Someone got to be superleader who shouldnt have and has been running around deleteing stuff.

Neither of these represents bringing the issue to this thread. It has no business here.

Justice_Bringer · 04-10-2009 03:37 PM

I'm the Super Leader of the SG and didn't delete anything. If that were the case, I'd have my prestige back. It isn't. My base wasn't gone until this patch went out so it pertains to the subject at hand.

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The Emissary of Justice - Level 50 Fire/Fire Blaster
The Emissary of Justice. - Level 50 WP/Fire Tanker
Mesmerius - Level 50 Psi/Mental Blaster
Nucleoa - Level 50 Rad/Son Defender

Steeple · 04-10-2009 04:19 PM

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I'm the Super Leader of the SG and didn't delete anything. If that were the case, I'd have my prestige back. It isn't. My base wasn't gone until this patch went out so it pertains to the subject at hand.

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What? Wait...

Your base is gone?

You kinda left that out dude.

Still doesn't pertain to this thread though, as it's not something included in the patch notes.

If I were you, I'd petition it again in case the other petition fell through the cracks.

Tempest_56 · 04-10-2009 05:02 PM

Try perhaps giving the GMs some time to work, hmm? There's no magic 'fix the code' wand, particularly if they don't know why it happened in the first place. Being one of probably ten thousand people logged in at that time and demanding an instant solution plus personal response on a possible bug of unknown origin, complexity and cause is foolishly unreasonable and setting yourself up for disappointment. Just as much so as complaining in a non-constructive and antagonistic manner to the wrong people is.

Also, still have all my storage racks across three SGs. This doesn't seem to be widespread, so if it's a code glitch it isn't consistent. Did you do any base editing, or were they just gone when you entered the base?

Undead_Steve · 04-10-2009 07:36 PM

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Mission Architect Server
<ul type="square">[*]Improved Mission Architect stability.[/list]

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everyone loves a good stability increase

Justice_Bringer · 04-10-2009 08:20 PM

Last night, I found myself unable to access my Super Group base. Upon installing Combat Logs and Robo Surgery, I received the message "Map failed to start" when attempting to enter my base. However, I was able to access those of my coalitions and we weren't even close to the 10-12K item mark. Following the patch, my entire base got deleted and none of the prestige restored to me. Several people have noted encountering the same problem in other threads throughout the forums with no response as to what's being done.

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The Emissary of Justice - Level 50 Fire/Fire Blaster
The Emissary of Justice. - Level 50 WP/Fire Tanker
Mesmerius - Level 50 Psi/Mental Blaster
Nucleoa - Level 50 Rad/Son Defender

Obsidius · 04-10-2009 08:31 PM

Then you should probably stop cross-posting and contact a community rep via PM, since it appears you're already discussing this topic in one of the aformentioned threads.

RazorDemon · 04-17-2009 05:50 AM

I also noticed the border-less banners in my base, the logo is there but it's just a plain banner, on all of them.

CaptA · 04-17-2009 01:33 PM

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Upon installing Combat Logs and Robo Surgery, I received the message "Map failed to start" when attempting to enter my base.

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Have you earned the badges required for these, or did you craft them when Issue 14 went live and gave all the SG badges to all groups? If you don't have the badges normally, maybe that is what caused the issue.

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