Titan Network Presents: Titan Sentinel
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Posted on: 2010-11-07 15:28 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Strangely enough, I've never really looked into HeroStats at all, but I downloaded this one and am giving it a shot.
Oh, wow. You guys are really diggin' this, huh? I was keeping my fingers crossed that I didn't miss some show-stopping problem or that it just plain didn't work for a lot of people or whatever, but it looks like it's going great. Makes the last two months of work worth it in the end, I tell ya. (-:
Would you believe in the three and a half hours this thing's been available, it's already been downloaded over 75 times? And by the looks of it, it's all happy customers. Very nice to see!
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I was hoping to make somebody's day with that feature. It's all fine and dandy to me, but I know someone out there has a really good use for this and has been wanting it for a while, and it's for those people that it was put together. If it helps someone have fun with the game, I'm all for it! (-:|
Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i just used the build export utility to export the build for my heavily IOed Dark/Ice Defender to Mids'. It was a build that i did entirely in my head and as i leveled up that i was quite happy with. For over a year i'd been telling myself i'd get around to copying it to Mids', and now it suddenly became trivial.
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Originally Posted by Kyasubaru
This is win just for the export build feature. Do you guys have any plans to integrate this with your online planner?
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
I sent you guys 10 bucks, this function is worth superbooster prices.
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Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
QR: One thing i have noticed on a quick check is that TO's dont seem to be picked up when i did a build rip.
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Just a quick poll here: is having TOs work with the build export an urgent problem? The tracker's currently at version 0.9 for reasons relating to CIT's pending upgrades, so if it's not critical that people can export their TOs, I'll just make a note to have this fixed by version 1.0.
Four word response:
HELL TO THE YES
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Not critical for me. Toons that are still on TOs are so subject to change that I don't ever bother with putting enhancements in the slots when in mids. It's only when they start hitting the 20s (or in some occasions, late teens) that I start working with more than just order of powers.|
Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Just a quick poll here: is having TOs work with the build export an urgent problem? The tracker's currently at version 0.9 for reasons relating to CIT's pending upgrades, so if it's not critical that people can export their TOs, I'll just make a note to have this fixed by version 1.0.
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I can also say that some of the SOs are coming in greyed out for some reason. Again, not a bit issues, you've saved WEEKS of work for those of us with a lot of characters.
Edit to add: 44 characters later, and you have one happy player
And I posted all the "errors" / "quirks" I ran into. Happy, happy customer here!
--Virtue--
My 50s:
Tigra Swipe (BS/SR/Dark Scrapper)
Galena Storm (Emp/Ele/Ele Defender)
Master Tolarin (Psi/Fire/Force Blaster)
Bug report: it's displaying the hero badge names for my fully 100% villain (never crossed over, in fact just finished his 5th villainous tip). Not really a major issue since it's displayed correctly on CIT, just a minor annoyance.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Freakin' sweet.
Positron: "There are no bugs [in City of Heroes], just varying degrees of features."
Sounds great!!! The features sound awesome! Is there any gain in performance with Sentinel?
"Forgiveness is between them and God..it is my job to arrange the meeting."
Is there a way for it to run on top of CoH instead of having to Alt-Tab to view stats?
"Forgiveness is between them and God..it is my job to arrange the meeting."
THIS IS AWESOME!
Thank you very much! Saying this an infinite number of times wouldn't be nearly enough.
Besides the sheer awesome functionality it provides, I'd also like to thank you for the app having a small footprint (this being important to me as I run a lot of tools at once). If I remember correctly both HeroStats and Glycerine took much more resources.
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The tracker defaults to Hero titles if it doesn't know your Alignment, even if it picks up the badges from the chat tabs. It always uses male titles. This is kinda funny sometimes, 'cause if it says "You earned the Ironwoman badge!" in the chat tabs, it might say "Adamant" in the tracker.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Bug report: it's displaying the hero badge names for my fully 100% villain (never crossed over, in fact just finished his 5th villainous tip).
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It's actually a perk that we can do this, and it's a benefit of using the Build Manifest file. In addition to resolving exact badges from the names or personal info window, this allows side-switchers to track badges on CIT's current iteration by always sending hero badge titles for hero archetypes and vice-versa for villains. CIT's being fixed in this regard, but until then, this is a lifesaver.
Alignment is first checked 30 seconds after you zone in, so if you wait for then you should get the right badge titles to show.
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Originally Posted by Marshman
Sounds great!!! The features sound awesome! Is there any gain in performance with Sentinel?
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Originally Posted by Marshman
Is there a way for it to run on top of CoH instead of having to Alt-Tab to view stats?
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Among other things like minimizing to the system tray instead of the taskbar, this is one of the features on the list for version 1.0.
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This is, by far, one of the best things I've seen in quite a while. To the folks at Titan, I applaud you all. Can't wait for the systray minimize!
pohsyb: so of all people you must be most excited about the veats
Arachnos Commander: actually, I am
pohsyb: I mean you kinda were one already anyways ^_^
Arachnos Commander:
Sentinel is insanely awesome. One-click badge tracking and two-click build exports to Mids'. Just... wow.
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Full, detailed character list
This is quite insanely awesome. I haven't had the time to test it myself yet, but just reading about the features it has makes me happy.
Thanks for all the hard work guys!
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Main Hero: Inferno Sparky - Fire/Fire Blaster
Main Villain: Kerry Astrid - Fire/Cold Corruptor
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Crashes under Linux/WINE with a null-pointer dereference. From the looks of the backtrace, it's doing something with GetDC() that WINE doesn't like.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Would you believe in the three and a half hours this thing's been available, it's already been downloaded over 75 times? And by the looks of it, it's all happy customers. Very nice to see!
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WHOA!
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Pure awesome. Tested it very briefly last night but worked a charm. Loved being able to export my build and one click my badge.
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Not at all worried about it. I do have a minor issue with one of my exports where the level 45 power pick had a greyed icon. I'll look into it more and see if it was a one off or persistant.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Just a quick poll here: is having TOs work with the build export an urgent problem? The tracker's currently at version 0.9 for reasons relating to CIT's pending upgrades, so if it's not critical that people can export their TOs, I'll just make a note to have this fixed by version 1.0.
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This is fantastic. I don't know what techno-wizardry you guys cooked up to be able to log all of a character's badges just by opening the info window, but it's just brilliant.
@Demobot
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Guy, I have to ask...
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No, but he does wear a wizard robe and hat.
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Originally Posted by Tidbit Jr.
Guy, I have to ask...
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Mids' Hero/Villain Designer Lead
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Redside: Lorenzo Mondavi
Blueside: Alex Rabinovich
Got a Mids suggestion? Want to report a Mids bug?
QR: This is so awesome, I've actually joined City Info Tracker.
The power pool information on City Info Tracker does not appear to be correct. I've logged a few characters on now, and it still says that I do not have any power pool usage. What am I doing wrong?
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
QR: This is so awesome, I've actually joined City Info Tracker.
The power pool information on City Info Tracker does not appear to be correct. I've logged a few characters on now, and it still says that I do not have any power pool usage. What am I doing wrong? |
I love the Mid's export, it makes life so much easier. I no longer have to manually update my Mid's current build for my characters and that is AWESOME!
Thanks!
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Pediatric brain tumors are the #1 cause of cancer related deaths in children.
Jaw. Is. On. The. Floor.
The devs should seriously consider HIRING who came up with this.
I'm not kidding. HIRE. THEM. NOW.
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
Throwing my "Awesome!" on the pile of awesomes before me.
I kind of understand how it grabs badge info, but how does the build export work?
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The character info is stored server side, when you log in that info is passed to your client (how else could you open your enhancement screen and see your slotting). These guys figured out how to parse that info out and the badge info when you open your info screen, which I don't think is a trivial achievement by any means. A brilliant implementation in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by Chocolate_Bacon
Throwing my "Awesome!" on the pile of awesomes before me.
I kind of understand how it grabs badge info, but how does the build export work? |
"I used to make diddly squat, but I've been with the company for 16 years and have had plenty of great raises. Now I just make squat" -- Me
Pediatric brain tumors are the #1 cause of cancer related deaths in children.
This has just made Dual Builds so so much easier.