Suggestion: Customizable Login Screen!
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CommunistPenguin,
Posted on: 2012-06-02 02:37 in Suggestions and Ideas
I wouldn't mind seeing something like this, but I can think of a dozen of things far more important to be added and/or fixed. This would be an extremely low priority project. Like how we got Walk.
At least the new one is much better than the last one! But I agree, more control would be nice. Personally I would just like to see a screen changer that gave us a random different screen every time we logged on. We could rotate through a selection of all the past screens.
Id settle for a choice of all preexisting screens. SO CoH classic, Cov, praetorian, Statesman punches a clockwork, statescrotch or the new crappy one.
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Speak for yourself, the new 'YYAAAAAAAAY TROLLFACEPENNY! YAAAAAY!' screen grates far more than Statesman did for me. To the point I've adblocked the image from the forums altogether.
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Originally Posted by Remaugen
At least the new one is much better than the last one! But I agree, more control would be nice. Personally I would just like to see a screen changer that gave us a random different screen every time we logged on. We could rotate through a selection of all the past screens.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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I still have mine 'set' to the GR loading screen. It still gives me the golden 'Loading' box of GR. Then it goes and ruins it by over-riding the loading screen.|
Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
Id settle for a choice of all preexisting screens. SO CoH classic, Cov, praetorian, Statesman punches a clockwork, statescrotch or the new crappy one.
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In fact, the functionality was already there. So...WHY was it broken?
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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You could always use Neo Shadowdream's Login Screen Changer.
You can create your own login screen with it from just about any image.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
When I tried to download it this morning, AVG screamed Trojan warnings at me and quarantined the file.
Personally I love the new log in screen. But what would be the point in changing the picture there? Are you planing on staring blankly at the log in screen for hours on end? I know I don't. I launch the game and as soon as the game loads I log in and don't see the log in screen for hours. I see no point to add a feature for something that will not be looked at very often or for extended periods of time. And I agree, if they did consider adding a feature like this it would be at the bottom of their priorities list.
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I actually do use Neo Splasher!|
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
You could always use Neo Shadowdream's Login Screen Changer.
You can create your own login screen with it from just about any image. |
I just wish there was a built in way to do it and not rely on outside software that could stop being updated at the drop of a hat.
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Sounds like a false positive.|
Originally Posted by Remaugen
When I tried to download it this morning, AVG screamed Trojan warnings at me and quarantined the file.
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Luckily I have a few computers I'm working on here that have different A/V systems. I've scanned the downloads I've done (including one after seeing your post) with 3 virus scanners and none of them have detected anything. I used Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials and Kaspersky.
All came up clean.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Yes but that person said they used AVG antivirus. Did you test that one? |
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Sounds like a false positive.
Luckily I have a few computers I'm working on here that have different A/V systems. I've scanned the downloads I've done (including one after seeing your post) with 3 virus scanners and none of them have detected anything. I used Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials and Kaspersky. All came up clean. |
I don't have a computer here at the house that has AVG on it. I can take the file to work with me next week and scan it with two different versions of AVG there, but after scanning it with 3 other programs with no problems I don't really see the need.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Think of it like being able to choose your desktop background. You don't DO anything with it. You don't even tend to pay attention that it's there half the time, but it's cool that you atleast have the choice.
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Originally Posted by monkeyslap
Personally I love the new log in screen. But what would be the point in changing the picture there? Are you planing on staring blankly at the log in screen for hours on end? I know I don't. I launch the game and as soon as the game loads I log in and don't see the log in screen for hours. I see no point to add a feature for something that will not be looked at very often or for extended periods of time. And I agree, if they did consider adding a feature like this it would be at the bottom of their priorities list.
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Well the reason why I don't use AVG antivirus is because, in my personal experience, and reports I've seen on the internet here and there, AVG has a bad habit of giving out "false positives", i.e., notifying you a file is infected when it is fact not. Maybe out of curiosity you could give it a try at work if it's safe to do so. |
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I don't have a computer here at the house that has AVG on it. I can take the file to work with me next week and scan it with two different versions of AVG there, but after scanning it with 3 other programs with no problems I don't really see the need.
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The login screen also works as a loading screen, before the zone loading screen pops up. So you seem it for brief moments throughout playing the game. Especially if you go into an SG base, as the login screen is the only loading screen for those. Also, I just don't like the picture and want it to be something different. I don't like booting up CoH and getting greeted with this.
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Originally Posted by monkeyslap
Personally I love the new log in screen. But what would be the point in changing the picture there? Are you planing on staring blankly at the log in screen for hours on end? I know I don't. I launch the game and as soon as the game loads I log in and don't see the log in screen for hours. I see no point to add a feature for something that will not be looked at very often or for extended periods of time. And I agree, if they did consider adding a feature like this it would be at the bottom of their priorities list.
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I have no need to scan the files with AVG. The purpose of scanning it with 3 other trusted A/V products was to see if they reported any viruses. That's a basic troubleshooting step when a program reports a file is infected. Since they didn't find a problem it seems to be a false positive and I don't need to scan it with the one reported as giving the false positive. The other explanation would be that the file that was uploaded was infected already which I can't test since I don't have that other persons files.|
Originally Posted by monkeyslap
Well the reason why I don't use AVG antivirus is because, in my personal experience, and reports I've seen on the internet here and there, AVG has a bad habit of giving out "false positives", i.e., notifying you a file is infected when it is fact not. Maybe out of curiosity you could give it a try at work if it's safe to do so.
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As for AVG in general? It's still a good program, but it's become too bloated for my tastes.
I think I might have gotten 3 false positives in the 7-9 years I used AVG, both on my personal computers and work computers. 1 of those false positives was at work this past year.
I stopped using it on my personal computers because it became just another bloated program that used more resources than what I liked. They also made it more difficult to shut down temporarily for software installs. Previously I could disable it from the system tray icon. Now I have to open the program, go to Tools > Advanced Settings > Resident Shield, uncheck the User Resident Shield box and click OK. After installing the software I have to repeat the process in order to check that box again.
Too much hassle for something that used to require two clicks to disable and two clicks to enable.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
While there are already a couple fan made utilities to allow this some have been left without updates and others are just very limited. Why not actually build the functionality into the UI to allow the players to use a picture of their choosing for the login screen and give them control over the coloring of the UI text!
Such a feature allows players to stick with login screens they've liked in the past as new ones come out or even turn a screenshot of a favored character into their new login screen. A function could even be added to allow a random login screen to be chosen at each startup.
Jem - Ill/Rad Controller Lv 50+3 Nic - Mind/Psi Dominator Lv 50+3 Lady Liberation - Invuln/SS Tanker Lv 50+1 Invicitx - Demon/Pain Mastermind Lv 50+1 Celeste - Emp/Arch Defender Lv 50+1 Nightsilver - DB/WP Scrapper Lv 34 Dusk Howl - StJ/Regen Brute Lv 32 Kyriani - Time/Energy Defender Lv 41Psifire - FF/Psi Defender Lv 50
Star Lighter - LB/LA Peacebringer Lv 30