Discussion: Live Server Downtime - Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
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Ael Rhiana,
Posted on: 2010-11-29 16:13 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Finally...
Friends don't let friends buy an ncsoft controlled project.
First all:
Wheeee!
Second of all:
For those of you worried about having to write down the enhancements placed on each character: This program from CoH Titan has a feature to actually export your current IN-GAME build to a Mids file. It's mighty useful for people who have builds that weren't previously planned in Mids.: http://cit.cohtitan.com/sentinel/
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Main Villain: Kerry Astrid - Fire/Cold Corruptor
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Playing on a Mac or Linux system?|
Originally Posted by Dave_67
"A couple dozen"??? I have nearly 70 that I have to deal with - and just about each and every one that is at least lvl 14 has Fitness as their power pool. And because I can't grab a screen-catch of my enhancement slots screen, I'll be doing a lot of writing down things - especially with my lvl 50.
 Add in that Tuesday's are my laundry day, I'm gonna have to start packing for a weekend away, and baking the first batch of shortbread for the season - for that weekend - well, I'm gonna be busy as it is. But I'm soooooooo excited.  |
If you're using Windows the program Titan Sentinel can be used to create a Mids' data chunk for importing your live build into Mids'. Assuming you're running Windows and not averse to such things.
Edit: And Wanted NA beat me to it.
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Thanks for the advice guys, but I'm not okay with loading up a new program or fiddling with my system for such a small problem - in the tech problem section I was told that I could correct this by disabling something in Win 7, which I'm not comfortable with.
And yes, I've tried pasting the screenshot into Paint, Word and IrfanView.
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Top villian -Poisoned Plum lvl 30 robots/devices Mastermind
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Do you have a cell phone with a camera in it? |
Originally Posted by Dave_67
Thanks for the advice guys, but I'm not okay with loading up a new program or fiddling with my system for such a small problem - in the tech problem section I was told that I could correct this by disabling something in Win 7, which I'm not comfortable with.
And yes, I've tried pasting the screenshot into Paint, Word and IrfanView. |
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LOL! Yes I do, but I doubt it would be up to the challenge. |
Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing
Do you have a cell phone with a camera in it?
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(Sorry, I'm old fashioned, I prefer a phone to be a phone, not with a lot of bells-and-whistles extras. Unfortunately, you can't seem to get a cell phone without a camera nowadays.)
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Top villian -Poisoned Plum lvl 30 robots/devices Mastermind
There is always prepaid. Most phones don't have cameras.
Lets be honest. I19 more or less had to be this week, if they didn't want it to have to wait till the middle of december (no games company in their right mind is going to schedule a major content update/launch/etc against a WoW expansion launch, no matter what you think of Wow itself.)
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Originally Posted by Dave_67
Thanks for the advice guys, but I'm not okay with loading up a new program or fiddling with my system for such a small problem - in the tech problem section I was told that I could correct this by disabling something in Win 7, which I'm not comfortable with.
And yes, I've tried pasting the screenshot into Paint, Word and IrfanView. |
I'm guessing you've already looked in your 'screenshots' folder in the CoH directory and playing in a window?
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
[The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."
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I used to have the same problem!|
Originally Posted by Dave_67
LOL! Yes I do, but I doubt it would be up to the challenge.
(Sorry, I'm old fashioned, I prefer a phone to be a phone, not with a lot of bells-and-whistles extras. Unfortunately, you can't seem to get a cell phone without a camera nowadays.) |
For a less invasive fix, try opening up NotePad and making the window size reeeeally small. Then move it to the corner of your monitor, overtop of City of Heroes. Take a screenshot with NotePad as the active window instead of CoH.
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Thanks this is helpful, but what I really want as an early xmas present - is an updated mids to go along with I19. Any word/news on that? (For anyone replying: Thank you in advance!)
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Originally Posted by Wanted_NA
First all:
Wheeee! Second of all: For those of you worried about having to write down the enhancements placed on each character: This program from CoH Titan has a feature to actually export your current IN-GAME build to a Mids file. It's mighty useful for people who have builds that weren't previously planned in Mids.: http://cit.cohtitan.com/sentinel/ |
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My screenshot function seems to refuse to work in the CC window, so instead I use the 'Snipping Tool' that comes built into Win 7. Alt-tab, select that, then select what you want to 'snip' as a screenshot. Should work.
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Originally Posted by Dave_67
Thanks for the advice guys, but I'm not okay with loading up a new program or fiddling with my system for such a small problem - in the tech problem section I was told that I could correct this by disabling something in Win 7, which I'm not comfortable with.
And yes, I've tried pasting the screenshot into Paint, Word and IrfanView. |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
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And I even took the afternoon off. *crosses fingers*
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after I finish getting explores red-side, you bet your winking face there will be!
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Yeah I'm really waiting for that one as well. Unfortunately there is no real news from the Mids team aside from "we're working on it". But really though, they've been doing a fantastic job at keeping up with the issues. So I'd expect a new Mids release within a week at max. Of course, that's just my personal guesstimation.|
Originally Posted by MonkeyB
Thanks this is helpful, but what I really want as an early xmas present - is an updated mids to go along with I19. Any word/news on that? (For anyone replying: Thank you in advance!)
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I tried to take wednesday and thursday off, but they denied me
So I had to settle with just thursday (friday is already my day off a week).
@Sparky Jenkins || Freedom Server | Union Server
Main Hero: Inferno Sparky - Fire/Fire Blaster
Main Villain: Kerry Astrid - Fire/Cold Corruptor
Patching! Wheeee!
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They did say a good while back they have been working hard to have it out pretty close to the I19 release. I don't know if they'll handle the Alpha Slot by then, but fingers crossed.
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Originally Posted by Wanted_NA
Yeah I'm really waiting for that one as well. Unfortunately there is no real news from the Mids team aside from "we're working on it". But really though, they've been doing a fantastic job at keeping up with the issues. So I'd expect a new Mids release within a week at max. Of course, that's just my personal guesstimation.
I tried to take wednesday and thursday off, but they denied me So I had to settle with just thursday (friday is already my day off a week). |
Didn't they always have a new issue available for download ahead of time so that masses and masses of people wouldn't be downloading the new update at the same time? Unless it did so on my system without me noticing, there wasn't a predownload this time, right? /shrug Maybe it isn't i19?
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There was a predownload, I think it's been two or three weeks now. It probably snuck in on your's when you weren't looking.
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Originally Posted by Just_Blaze
Didn't they always have a new issue available for download ahead of time so that masses and masses of people wouldn't be downloading the new update at the same time? Unless it did so on my system without me noticing, there wasn't a predownload this time, right? /shrug Maybe it isn't i19?
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There was a predownload about... umm 4 weeks ago or so.
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Originally Posted by Just_Blaze
Didn't they always have a new issue available for download ahead of time so that masses and masses of people wouldn't be downloading the new update at the same time? Unless it did so on my system without me noticing, there wasn't a predownload this time, right? /shrug Maybe it isn't i19?
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How do you stretch out the "D" sound?
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Originally Posted by Unwilling_Hero
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
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Rich(@Naq)
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Bunches of good and evil scattered across all servers--
I do wonder. I mean, this is the first time that they haven't come right out and said: Extended downtime for publish of issue such-and-such. And wasn't the last issue a 6 hour downtime?
I, for one, will be disappointed if it turned out to be something other than I19. It does seem like that is what it is, but at the same time it doesn't.
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Originally Posted by Lady_Sadako
Patching! Wheeee!
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Now which lowbie to begin first? I have two different projects just waiting on this issue to go live....decisions, decisions.
I hope I was wrong.
I hope this is i19
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