2 questions - forum & Who Will Die 7


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1. Is the forum search just completely broken?

<strike>2. I'm doing part 7 of Who Will Die, Investigate the Cimeroran Temple, and I've killed Arachnos, but I see no way out of the small map to "reach the top"...? What am I missing?</strike>


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1. What issues are you having with it.

2. There's a path along the side, as I'm recalling - I'd have to look at the map again.


 

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2. if you are still in caves/tunnels, there is a door in a room to take you to the outside temple area which is up top of the hill


total kick to the gut

This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.

 

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It depends on what you mean about the forum search.

I use the Advanced Search features regularly and have no problems with that.

I don't generally use the normal Search feature at all so have no idea if it is working as it should. However, a simple test shows that if I click Search and type a phrase into the keyword box and then click Go that it does return the results as I expect to see them.

Currently, when I am looking at a User's Profile page and click Statistics then click Find All Posts by [username] I get a notice that I must wait 15 seconds between searches and I can't get their posts to show that way.

I get the same error message when I click Find All Threads Started by [username].

I get the same error message when I am looking at posts and click a users name on a post and select Find More Posts by [username] from the drop-down menu.

IIRC, the minimum length for search terms is 4 characters. Anything else will return a message that no results were found. For example, typing wwd as a search term will return no results, it needs to be a longer term. Unfortunately, since we use several short acronyms such as WWD, SSA, TP, etc. it doesn't help trying to do searches.

If you mean something else about Search being broken, you'll need to give more information.


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Thanks, both repliers, I did find my way out of the tunnels. D'oh! >_<

As for 1., my experience with the search feature is that no matter what I search for, I get no results. Like, I searched for "die". You'd think...

If there's a trick, I'd love to be enlightened. :-)


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IIRC, the minimum length for search terms is 4 characters. Anything else will return a message that no results were found. For example, typing wwd as a search term will return no results, it needs to be a longer term. Unfortunately, since we use several short acronyms such as WWD, SSA, TP, etc. it doesn't help trying to do searches.

If you mean something else about Search being broken, you'll need to give more information.
I did try searching for "who will die", and got no results. Also variations of that. It seems odd there would ne no posts with "who will die" in the body...

I could be inept. Always an option. ;-P


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I did try searching for "who will die", and got no results. Also variations of that. It seems odd there would ne no posts with "who will die" in the body...

I could be inept. Always an option. ;-P
Well, if you look at the message it returns (or at least the message I got when I did a search with "who will die" in the search terms box, it explains it pretty well.



As stated, words of 3 letters or less are invalid for the search, so that leaves out "who" and "die" and the message also states that "who" and "will" are either very common (the reason in this case), too long (not the case) or too short (true for "who" but the first reason overrides this one) and wouldn't be included in the search.

Those two things made all three words in the search invalid.


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As stated, words of 3 letters or less are invalid for the search, so that leaves out "who" and "die" and the message also states that "who" and "will" are either very common (the reason in this case), too long (not the case) or too short (true for "who" but the first reason overrides this one) and wouldn't be included in the search.

Those two things made all three words in the search invalid.

Logical, but unhelpful when it's the name of an arc..


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Third question: How many waves of Apocalypse Beam with NO Rularuu spawns does one normally have to wait through?


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1. Is the forum search just completely broken?
try this in the Google search field. It is much better than the built in forum search:

site:boards.cityofheroes.com

Put what you are looking for after it


 

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try this in the Google search field. It is much better than the built in forum search:

site:boards.cityofheroes.com

Put what you are looking for after it

Cool! I will definitely try that!


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Third question: How many waves of Apocalypse Beam with NO Rularuu spawns does one normally have to wait through?

I had to sit through a couple dozen when I did it one time. One of the Natterlings got stuck under the front of the ship. I explored the whole map trying to find him (aka hitting tab wildly while looking in every direction) but never found him. Ended up calling in a GM to help me, and then looked like an idiot when he ported me to the front of the ship in the water. Tab didn't catch him since I was Super Jumping around and the angle meant he was behind the front of the ship.


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try this in the Google search field. It is much better than the built in forum search:

site:boards.cityofheroes.com

Put what you are looking for after it
who will die site:boards.cityofheroes.com is just as valid.


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I had to sit through a couple dozen when I did it one time. One of the Natterlings got stuck under the front of the ship. I explored the whole map trying to find him (aka hitting tab wildly while looking in every direction) but never found him. Ended up calling in a GM to help me, and then looked like an idiot when he ported me to the front of the ship in the water. Tab didn't catch him since I was Super Jumping around and the angle meant he was behind the front of the ship.
Wow! I have no idea if that or something similar was the problem this time. The mission just seemed to get stuck in a loop with the beam firing off every couple of minutes and no waves of Rularuu. I did petition and eventually a GM showed up, looked at the issue for a while, and then suddenly spawns started coming and the cycle resolved. Then the mission ended itself and I got booted. I saw the "Mission Complete" message, but I didn't have a chance to click on the exit button.

I was able to finish the arc though. I was running it heroside but I have to say that teaming with Recluse was pretty awesome.


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who will die site:boards.cityofheroes.com is just as valid.
Good to know! Thanks!


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Wow! I have no idea if that or something similar was the problem this time. The mission just seemed to get stuck in a loop with the beam firing off every couple of minutes and no waves of Rularuu. I did petition and eventually a GM showed up, looked at the issue for a while, and then suddenly spawns started coming and the cycle resolved. Then the mission ended itself and I got booted. I saw the "Mission Complete" message, but I didn't have a chance to click on the exit button.

I was able to finish the arc though. I was running it heroside but I have to say that teaming with Recluse was pretty awesome.
I'd wager that the same thing happened to you as I then. Your GM probably just zapped the baddy that got stuck or something to trigger the ambushes to continue. The rest of your description is as the mission is intended to go down.


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Sounds like the OP is having all the same problems I did first time through arc #7.

I found the door at the end of the cave but clicking on it didn't send me to the temple. Had to resent the mission to get it to work right.

Then the last ambush of Rularuu wouldn't spawn and it just kept cycling through endless waves of apocalypse beams. I'm sure there was a critter stuck somewhere but I never found it. Once again, reset the mission and it worked right.

Glad to see I'm not the only one to have these problems.