From what I've heard they were quietly disabled because spammers were getting names from them.
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They stopped working in about November 2008.
Dunno why.
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That sounds more like a Conspiracy Theory. Anyone know of any dev's commenting on this subject at all? I miss this aspect of the game. My friends and I use to have alot of fun trying to get on the scoreboards and one-uping eachother and such. It was a fun competition, kind'a like haveing the high score on a video game at the arcade.
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Originally Posted by IanTheM1
From what I've heard they were quietly disabled because spammers were getting names from them.
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Ghost Falcon said at the anniversary meet and greet that he was unaware that they weren't working, and would take a look at them.
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Interesting. I thought it was a known issue as it was mocked in the City of Heroes: Golden Age April Fool's joke in 2009.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Ghost Falcon said at the anniversary meet and greet that he was unaware that they weren't working, and would take a look at them.
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The reason I doubt that is because they'd have to type in all those names by hand. I could easily get a hundred names just running from zone to zone and doing /whoall in that time it would take to type that out.|
Originally Posted by IanTheM1
From what I've heard they were quietly disabled because spammers were getting names from them.
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edit: Unless you could select and copy it, didn't even think of that until just now.
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Think the main grief was, pl/heal/inf farm beggars were using them to target the top 10s.
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Originally Posted by StarGeek
The reason I doubt that is because they'd have to type in all those names by hand. I could easily get a hundred names just running from zone to zone and doing /whoall in that time it would take to type that out.
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That I can see.
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Originally Posted by Ohsirus
Think the main grief was, pl/heal/inf farm beggars were using them to target the top 10s.
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nope, most we got was the (fairly rare) occasional spontaneous compliment from unknown people, none begged, a few asked advice,... that's 'bout it
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Originally Posted by StarGeek
That I can see.
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Wow been playing since '06 and didnt know they did that O.o
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That was a joke relating to the initial release. The terminals were around, but weren't made functional until Issue 2.
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Originally Posted by CharybdisClan
Interesting. I thought it was a known issue as it was mocked in the City of Heroes: Golden Age April Fool's joke in 2009.
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I miss it, too.
I never really used them, but my perfectionism demands that they work! If it's in the game for a purpose it has to work!
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I go crazy over loose threads sometimes.
I must admit that, on the one and only occasion that I went and looked at one of those things to discover that I was the highest killer of <some mob> in the zone, it did give me a little thrill.
My little not-niece (child of a friend) discovered CoH this Sunday and clicked on an info-terminal while she was running fast. It was a little disappointing that no information actually came up. (Not that that discouraged her, she was busy slaughtering Hellions.)
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Not that I ever experienced.|
Originally Posted by Ohsirus
Think the main grief was, pl/heal/inf farm beggars were using them to target the top 10s.
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And I was usually the #1 healer, and always in the top 3, for the better part of 10 months while getting the old Empath badge.
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I figured they just plain broke at some point and since they've never really served any purpose they were never given any priority to be fixed. I don't even remember if they ever worked right...I guess maybe they must've.
I think in the original game design they were supposed to be hooked into a citywide network to provide generic missions to heroes, but they made Contacts instead. It would've been funny if they had forced heroes to go use the kiosks instead of get a police radio scanner when heroes got the newspapers ported over.
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Was there an issue release arround then? ... Or something new/different added/changed to the game that may have effected it do you think ?
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
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Cause the whole list started turning into Chinse gold-farmers?
I have no idea why they stopped working... I think it was around I5 timeframe
(off the top of my head).
I had a blaster that hunted a LOT in the Shadow Shard in I3/I4 and they worked
then as he was oftentimes high on the kills list for those critters.
<shrug>
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Didn't they kind of become useless anyway, once people stopped all the street hunting? I was under the impression that they did not record what happened in instances. Was I mistaken?
I'd like to have them come back with more useful information, more like a help file than a contest of sorts.
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It was definitely AFTER Issue 6, because they still functioned when I started playing, which was the December after Issue 6/CoV dropped.
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I don't know when exactly they shut them down, but I certainly remember checking them at least as late as I7. Beyond that, probably, too, but I don't specifically remember.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Didn't they kind of become useless anyway, once people stopped all the street hunting? I was under the impression that they did not record what happened in instances. Was I mistaken?
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Doing something like the Synapse TF would get you in the top 10 for beating up Clockwork.
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Nope, they were info from the server itself not just outside zones, the info gathered was for all (cept maybe AE). And i really like the "Arcade High Score" feel of the whole system, though i'd like to see the other server results aswell, kind'a like a best of the best thing.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Didn't they kind of become useless anyway, once people stopped all the street hunting? I was under the impression that they did not record what happened in instances. Was I mistaken?
I'd like to have them come back with more useful information, more like a help file than a contest of sorts. |
I use to be able to go up to one of these many City Information Terminals located all throughout the game and find out who was the best healer/damage dealer/defeater/PvPer/ect... for the day/week/month/last month/ect... But now it is all blank with no information and has been for a while now. Is this something with my settings that i'm now unable to see the information? Or did they (the devs) just decide to turn these off and forget about them? Or what is wrong with them now ???