Discussion: Are you ready for Issue 18: Shades of Gray?

Any chance you could talk TPTB into giving us Free Re-Names during this same time-period?

Since it can be accomplished anyway, this would just eliminate/simplify - The hassle of swapping back and forth, and the quite likely creation of a temp character to act as a placeholder for the name being changed - while transferring the Character to be renamed.

And it would save whatever resources are used for the "transferring process" and reduce the load on the login servers... Which already seem to be straining a bit lately when people are shifting alts around to various Day-Job spots.
When they're mailing more than 20 items between Alts, and have to login to the "Destination Alt" to claim, things before logging back out & back in = so they can GleeMail 20 more items attached to emails. (Bumping that number up a bit might help some as well)

And all the extra logging/re-logging that will come along with people retrieving & re-posting, (or whatever) all their stuff on/in the newly merged Market - on every alt that has any current interaction with the Market...

I know that for that last several weeks - about half the time ATTEMPT to login a character, i get booted back to the login page (And it shows the character has logged in "0 days ago" - and it had previously been several weeks or even months in a few cases) - So, it seems they login BUT timeout while loading whatever Zone they're in?

I suspect it might be due to characters that are receiving multiple badges = 1 (or 2) Vet Rewards badges, a Day Job badge, and often a Day Job Accolade badge, and sometimes a "You've gotten X number of badges" Badge!

It "feels" like it may also have to do with receiving the MOTD from a global or server channel, & a SG MOTD, and maybe a "announcement MOTD" = OR it might be something completely different?

Anyhow... with logging in being "buggy" - at least for me, it would be great to minimize the logging for the whole "transferring to rename" if possible!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.

I find your lack of faith disturbing

I was meaning SWG and its NGE

aww shame it might have been mildly entertaining to watch Cole being force choked.

Darn. I thought the release date was tomorrow. Now I lost a free respec.

The release date is still scheduled for tomorrow.

Figured this was as good a place as any to ask....
I've been here a long time and the global name I want has been taken but the person hasn't been on the forums since 2006. I'd like to assume they also haven't played since then but what is the likelihood that global names had a purging? I haven't tried it in a while since I still have my original global rename available...

I haven't heard them say anything about a name purge.

Does anyone know if the server transfers will go effective at midnight, as the night turns into 8/17/2010? Cause I am so anxious to bring my favorite brutes to my favorite server now... Can't wait for 12:01 AM! (Hopefully... Assuming they activate transfers for free at that time)

I think it might be after the sevrers go back up tomorrow.

Probably not the right place because I see so little utter spazzing out here but,

All those changes of I18 I read sound really great!
They sound like they make sense, are useful, fix long-running glitches, bring awesome new stuff (some of which reads remarkably like what a lot of people here hoped for or dreamed of since City of Heroes came out), all the while being thought-over and not messing things up or spamming the game overly.
And there is so much of it!

If that really works out as good as it reads (this laptop in my second home still loads), awesomesauce thumbs up for you devs!