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Issue 17 Overview

Acemace

By Acemace,
Posted on: 2010-02-23 11:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Or just made it a model of C-3PO instead
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C3PO has breasts?

 

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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
Oh, I have ways of fixing that...
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Except Orcs, especially in one of the RTS Warcraft games. Pink orcs just say "I'm badass and coming to kick yours".

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C3PO has breasts?
More than vader does, anyway... Especially with that special "Backroom Diplomacy and Protocol" upgrade Luke's been considering for him...

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Originally Posted by unjust View Post
I would fear this for the simple fact that new SG owners may end up spam inviting in hopes to fill their SG with toons. I understand why you want this done, but I fear that it may create unintended spam.
I don't think it's a big risk. How would a wannabe SG spammer get names of offline characters? It's easier to do what they do today, stand in Mercy/Atlas and spam invites to new lowbie characters.

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Originally Posted by Cainus View Post
Wouldnt it be easier to just implement an accound wide vault tab, so that any of your characters on the same side can access? That way, rather than having to actively send each item one by one to your own global name, you could just drop the items into the vault. Of course, that would mean updating the vault to allow recipes as well, and a field for adding in influence/infamy. Still, it would be a less cumbersome process
Difference: You'd have to travel to the vault. Email is accessible from anywhere.

It's a matter of convenience.

 

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Originally Posted by unjust View Post
I would fear this for the simple fact that new SG owners may end up spam inviting in hopes to fill their SG with toons. I understand why you want this done, but I fear that it may create unintended spam.

I have no problem with and ability to either promote/demote via an e-mail.
This could be prevented by implementing a rule that specified that a given group could only extend X number of invites per day via email.

Example: Paragon Defense League has 15 members, and wishes to extend its roster. However, across its entire roster, no more than 5 invites may be extended via email per day. Spamming problem solved.

You might lift the rule for alts, but if an invite is sent to any global name that is not already in the group, it counts towards the 5 message per day limit.

 

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Just one question.

Will we be able to send inf, enhancements, etc across servers or just between alts on same server?

Half my alts are on Union and other half is on Defiant - will I be able to send inf from Union alt to Defiant one and vice versa?

(Haven't read all 13 pages so I don't know if anyone already asked that)

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Originally Posted by TyrantMikey View Post
Difference: You'd have to travel to the vault. Email is accessible from anywhere.

It's a matter of convenience.
Unless they add mailboxes.

 

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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
Except Orcs, especially in one of the RTS Warcraft games. Pink orcs just say "I'm badass and coming to kick yours".
Hmm...I might have to give you that one. Maybe

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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by TyrantMikey View Post
This could be prevented by implementing a rule that specified that a given group could only extend X number of invites per day via email.

Example: Paragon Defense League has 15 members, and wishes to extend its roster. However, across its entire roster, no more than 5 invites may be extended via email per day. Spamming problem solved.

You might lift the rule for alts, but if an invite is sent to any global name that is not already in the group, it counts towards the 5 message per day limit.
Actually it would be so much easier and better to simply take a page from the email spam fix and add a toggle off to any SG invites sent to you. Let them send as many invites as they like, I won't receive a single one this way.

While I'm here, I want to bring up the oddity of the SG mass email being limited to once per day. This seems very odd. It would be better to let each SG determine for themselves just how many mass emails it wants to allow any given RANK to send per day. Just add this to the SG permissions screen.

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Originally Posted by Ashlocke View Post
Actually it would be so much easier and better to simply take a page from the email spam fix and add a toggle off to any SG invites sent to you. Let them send as many invites as they like, I won't receive a single one this way.
They've had such a switch for ages; look in Options, under Miscellaneous I think.

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You know thinking about it...I'm all for emailing (and promoting/demoting) SG invites through email but....

Whatever happened to having SGs use globals and not character names? I thought that was one of the things that they were 'working on' (or maybe just 'wanted to work on'? :/). That way you could free up the whole "SG is full" issues because it'd be looking for 75 globals and not 75 toons (with maybe 50+ of those toons being alts of 3-4 people).

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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade View Post
They've had such a switch for ages; look in Options, under Miscellaneous I think.
Just to be clear, that is for SG invites while you are logged on.
My comment was made in reference to the SG invites sent to you via email.

The Devs rewrote the entire mail system, just putting out there that including an opt out toggle from receiving SG invites via email would be a good thing to have.

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Originally Posted by Afterimage View Post
Unless they add mailboxes.
Which seems terribly unlikely. How about 'unless they only make mail accessible at the character select screen?' i think it's just as likely.

It kind of sounds like trying to invent problems out of whole cloth to justify the otherwise unnecessary and less useful solution.

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Originally Posted by Rodion View Post
I'd like to fight other people's characters in mayhem/safeguard missions. Instead of having the same old Crematorium or Rose Thorne you'd have something new each time.
As long as we had the option to opt-in to that system (I suppose opt-out would be okay too, though i really think it should be opt-in), that'd be pretty awesome. Maybe we could also customize the lines the character would say during the fight (within censor filter limits, of course), to help further personalize it.

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Originally Posted by Hallowed View Post
No. You need to re-read. You can send to any global name, including your own.
Could this be used as a form of denial-of-service attack? I buy 20 Training enhancements and send them to you; now you can't receive email until you delete them.

Not sure why anybody would want to do this, but somebody will come up with something....

 

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
Emails can be sent to local as well as global names now.

Emails with attachments can only be sent to a Global name.

Valid attachments are Enhancements, Salvage, Recipes and Inspirations if they are tradeable (buyable on AH). One per email. Inf can be sent alongside item.

There will be 20 mail cap to inbox. Mails sent to full mailbox will bounce (bounced mails can exceed cap). If you are at the cap you cannot send mails.

Items with attachments cannot be deleted until attachment is claimed. They can be returned to sender.
Ok now I can finally fully return to the game. This is the one feature I been begging for since day one. I was going to quit CoX for good if this feature wasnt in by GR.

Small Edit. I just want to ask who is responsible for this feature. Who ever it is I want to send them something. Pie, cake, money, I dont care, they deserve something big for this. You guys just dont know how big this feature is for me. Just give me the name and address of the person who coded this and I will send them something.

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If you were a super-IOed defense-heavy tanker with few attacks, what do you do with your doppleganger? Dance?
Well, to be honest if they put me in charge of the doppleganger system, I wouldn't make you fight your exact equal, I would make you fight your exact opposite. So the super-defense tanker would go up against the ultra-ultra-firepower blaster.

Or a toggle-cracking gravity controller. There ain't gonna be no draws in my doppleganger system. If you want to hokey-pokey with superpowers, we have pylons for that.

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Could this be used as a form of denial-of-service attack? I buy 20 Training enhancements and send them to you; now you can't receive email until you delete them.

Not sure why anybody would want to do this, but somebody will come up with something....
I hope the cap is on emails with attachments, rather than emails period. I can understand the limit on attachments (they can be used as a form of global self-storage) but there's no reason to bounce emails without attachments if you have 20 emails with attachments.

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Originally Posted by Sardan View Post
First, they didn't say an attachment could only have one item in it. So presumably you could send a bunch of items in a single email, eliminating the "one by one" part of your objection.

Second, this mechanism isn't just to send stuff to your own alts. You can send things to other accounts too, so it's more flexible than a vault could be.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that the initial post by Poshyb said that you were limited to one item per attachment. Of course, its quite possible I misread that.

And yes, it does give you the ability to send to other people, which is nice.

 

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[QUOTE=pohsyb;2647831]Emails can be sent to local as well as global names now.

Emails with attachments can only be sent to a Global name.

Valid attachments are Enhancements, Salvage, Recipes and Inspirations if they are tradeable (buyable on AH). One per email. Inf can be sent alongside item.
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Emphasis mine

 

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Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
This is what I imagine will be the case.

Make sure you type the right now. Or if you do make a mistake, hoep the other person on the other side is nice enough to return the item.
How about adding it to the rt-click drop down window for people in you global.

I don't know how many times I've gone to my global list, or rt-clicked on someone ingame, expecting to see an email option.

 

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Well, to be honest if they put me in charge of the doppelganger system, I wouldn't make you fight your exact equal, I would make you fight your exact opposite. So the super-defense tanker would go up against the ultra-ultra-firepower blaster.

Or a toggle-cracking gravity controller. There ain't gonna be no draws in my doppelganger system. If you want to hokey-pokey with superpowers, we have pylons for that.
And there are those who go in a completely different direction for their evil opposite. My main is a classic big n' tough guy (WP/SS). Instead of just going SS/WP Brute, I decided the mirror would instead pick up weapons and back up, and became Mercs/Traps.

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Originally Posted by pohsyb View Post
Emails can be sent to local as well as global names now.

Emails with attachments can only be sent to a Global name.

Valid attachments are Enhancements, Salvage, Recipes and Inspirations if they are tradeable (buyable on AH). One per email. Inf can be sent alongside item.

There will be 20 mail cap to inbox. Mails sent to full mailbox will bounce (bounced mails can exceed cap). If you are at the cap you cannot send mails.

Items with attachments cannot be deleted until attachment is claimed. They can be returned to sender.
I'm just quoting this for the inevitable poster who comes to this thread saying it isn't possible to send items through the new mail system. Having it on 2 pages will hopefully make them feel more stupid for saying it.

Hopefully.

(Thanks for the clarification pohsyb!)