Unable to add to global friends
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2009-10-25 24:08 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I tried adding a global friend last night by right-clicking their name on the team list and it failed completely. NOTHING happened. No error message, no confirmation message and no friend request was sent. That function appears to be broken.
I opened my global list and used the ADD button and their global name and that worked.
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I also been having problems with globals, I'll try that thanks Ironblade.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
I opened my global list and used the ADD button and their global name and that worked.
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I don't know how to fix it, but in my experience, it's somehow related to Hiding options.
Sometimes what can happen is the game believes you are hidden, even if you're not. One of the workarounds I've found is simply clicking on the Hide button in your globals window and checking all the boxes. Apply that and then go back in and uncheck everything. Once you've applied that, the game finally understands that you are not hidden in anyway and most functions like adding globals return. At least until the game randomly decides you're hiding again 
We'll see....
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Instead of doing that, you can instead use two commands:|
Originally Posted by Flameshot
Sometimes what can happen is the game believes you are hidden, even if you're not. One of the workarounds I've found is simply clicking on the Hide button in your globals window and checking all the boxes. Apply that and then go back in and uncheck everything. Once you've applied that, the game finally understands that you are not hidden in anyway and most functions like adding globals return. At least until the game randomly decides you're hiding again
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/hideall
/unhideall
This ends up with the same process, but is much faster/less tedious.
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Originally Posted by Flameshot
Sometimes what can happen is the game believes you are hidden, even if you're not. One of the workarounds I've found is simply clicking on the Hide button in your globals window and checking all the boxes. Apply that and then go back in and uncheck everything. Once you've applied that, the game finally understands that you are not hidden in anyway and most functions like adding globals return. At least until the game randomly decides you're hiding again
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E.G. I've put a Character A into hide, swapped to Character B who was not in hide, but appeared hidden. Played Character C who wasn't in hide, and was visible. And only got Character B out of hide by going all the way back and taking Character A out of hide.
After a while it does get confusing.
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Thanks for the suggestion, I wasn't aware that this command existed. I was using /ghide and /gunhide and it wasn't working the way I anticipated |
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Instead of doing that, you can instead use two commands:
/hideall /unhideall This ends up with the same process, but is much faster/less tedious. |
We'll see....
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Yes, I've run into that a few times. I'll send someone a tell, they reply, then they tell me I'm hidden. But it's not telling me that I'm hidden when I send the tell. And I'm showing up on globals and SG listings.|
Originally Posted by Flameshot
Sometimes what can happen is the game believes you are hidden, even if you're not. One of the workarounds I've found is simply clicking on the Hide button in your globals window and checking all the boxes. Apply that and then go back in and uncheck everything. Once you've applied that, the game finally understands that you are not hidden in anyway and most functions like adding globals return. At least until the game randomly decides you're hiding again
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The global friend issue is different. One method of adding the global friend simply failed with no notification while a different method worked properly. Something in there is broken.
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Looks like a fix for the global friends issue is on the test server right now: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=196741
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In fact, that went live today. We'll see how it works.
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Originally Posted by Katze
Looks like a fix for the global friends issue is on the test server
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Yeah, everything seems to be working fine after the patch. I forgot to check on this thread after a couple of days, but I had gotten an e-mail from support saying the devs were working on the fix. All seems to be well.
For about 5 days now, I have been unable to add anyone to my global friends list, or be added by anyone. I don't recieve an error message or anything, it.. just.. does.. nothing. I have tried adding teammates. I have tried /gfriend. You folks have any ideas? Thanks!