AFAIK you haven't been able to target yourself in City of Heroes since... well, long before May 2004. This is by design and a basic aspect of the game engine.
i must admit that i'm surprised that you were able to target yourself in 2007 since i've never heard of anyone ever being able to do that.
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The game has never allowed you to target yourself. There have been powers you could use to heal yourself (Aid Self), or heal yourself and others at the same time (Healing Aura and many other powers), but never something that would normally target other players and be able to target yourself and use it.
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Originally Posted by Viridian Crane
I haven't played since 2007 or so, though on my mastermind I use to heal myself clicking my level icon. Though, it isn't allowing me to do that anymore. So I've been trying to find away to target myself and at best I've come up with...
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ive been playing since 2006 and i dont think ive ever been able to target myself
i think you may be misreading something, do you happen to play a merc mastermind? you might be confusing the medics heal with another heal power
or using aid self to heal self and not remembering
trying not to rule out any possibilities
I didn't misread or assume anything, I KNOW I was doing this from 06-07. If it was some bug or something then alright I wont complain. If its how it is great so no issue there.
-Sincerely Viridian Crane
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I've been playing since May 04, after playing Everquest in which you could target yourself to use spells. Not being able to target myself was a big shift in thinking on how to play. The ability to target yourself has never been in the game, bug or otherwise and certainly not for months stretching from 06-07.|
Originally Posted by Viridian Crane
I didn't misread or assume anything, I KNOW I was doing this from 06-07. If it was some bug or something then alright I wont complain. If its how it is great so no issue there.
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At my best guess, I'd say you're remembering using Respites and other healing inspirations
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Yeah, there was NEVER a way to target yourself in this game. Period. So whatever you remember doing, it wasn't targetting yourself and then activating a healing power. It could have been [Transfusion] from Kinetics, [Aid Self] from the Medicine Pool or [Healing Aura] (or other powers like it) from Empathy that (depending on positioning in the case of Transfusion) been used to heal yourself. However, you certainly were NOT using a power like [Cauterize] from Thermal Radiation, clicking on your name on the team list, and activating it.
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Originally Posted by Viridian Crane
I didn't misread or assume anything, I KNOW I was doing this from 06-07. If it was some bug or something then alright I wont complain. If its how it is great so no issue there.
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Sorry, you're mistaken. I've been accidentally or intetntionally been clicking or hitting every targeting method I can think of, and have never gotten anything but an error when I attempt to target myself. I've been playing before you left, while you were gone, and currently, and I've played every AT. It doesn't happen. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by Viridian Crane
I didn't misread or assume anything, I KNOW I was doing this from 06-07. If it was some bug or something then alright I wont complain. If its how it is great so no issue there.
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there is a way to appear as if self-targeted - ie: bounding box and name appearing above character - had it recently when teaming up for an ITF. It doesn't mean the character is targeted though
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That happens when you target a player who has you targeted. Part of the target through player system. I always find it reassuring when I am checking peoples info and I see see myself targeted. I like to assume they are doing the same thing in preperation of what to expect from people during the tf. I like to think it shows a bit of situational awareness.
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there is a way to appear as if self-targeted - ie: bounding box and name appearing above character - had it recently when teaming up for an ITF. It doesn't mean the character is targeted though
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I'm trying to figure out what VC means by this. At first I thought it meant the status bar (hit points, end, level, xp circle, etc), but then I realized that the level number wasn't added until much later. This image from the wiki shows that it didn't show level until at least some time after 2009 (the year it was uploaded)
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Originally Posted by Viridian Crane
I haven't played since 2007 or so, though on my mastermind I use to heal myself clicking my level icon.
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Yeah, I've been playing since 2005 and there has never, ever been a way to target yourself, for healing or anything else. You have to use powers (or inspirations) that target yourself specifically or PBAOE powers.
StarGeek: the level number wasn't added until...Issue 18 or 19? Last year sometime, I'm pretty sure.
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You couldn't even target yourself in late beta. It's never been a feature of this game. The Op is misremembering.
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Your memory's off. You've never been able to target yourself in CoH. AOE heals/buffs/etc would generally hit you as well, but targeted effects could never be used on yourself.|
Originally Posted by Viridian Crane
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I haven't played since 2007 or so, though on my mastermind I use to heal myself clicking my level icon. |
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I didn't misread or assume anything, I KNOW I was doing this from 06-07. If it was some bug or something then alright I wont complain. If its how it is great so no issue there.
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Do you think enough of us have said the same thing yet?
Pretty much everyone is saying the same thing at this point.
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Do you think enough of us have said the same thing yet?
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Pretty much everyone is saying the same thing at this point.
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Given what I know of several of the posters here I'll have to go with "everyone except the OP is right".
It also matches my own experience. You can't target yourself and have not been able to since (at least) late February/early March 2004 when I got into Beta.
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OP is probably thinking of a different game. I can think of several where you have a "level icon" and click it to target yourself.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Everyone except the OP.
Given what I know of several of the posters here I'll have to go with "everyone except the OP is right". It also matches my own experience. You can't target yourself and have not been able to since (at least) late February/early March 2004 when I got into Beta. |
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No clue. Don't play other games. The one other game I did try for a short time (it was a gift, the first month was free) I don't recall seeing any "level icon". Come to think of it, that interface had me fairly confused most of the time anyway. I might have seen some type of "level icon" but not clicked it due to not knowing what it was or what it might do.
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OP is probably thinking of a different game. I can think of several where you have a "level icon" and click it to target yourself.
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Hi Everyone,
I haven't played since 2007 or so, though on my mastermind I use to heal myself clicking my level icon. Though, it isn't allowing me to do that anymore. So I've been trying to find away to target myself and at best I've come up with...
/target_name Viridian Crane
And it says "No entity name matching 'Viridian Crane' found within targeting range."
I've tested it on my ninja's and it dosen't work ether, though it will work with NPC's and enemy target's so I have to wonder if the target_name is only for grey / hostile names and there is a different command for friendly targets but I can't find it.
I've also looked under options with key-mapping under targeting but they have no target self. So I'm kind of at a loss as to why? Other then they aren't allowing me to target myself or something or I'm just not finding something very simple and trying to make this to complicated. Any help would be most appreciated thank you.
-Sincerely Viridian Crane