Please don't delete your characters

You guys at Titan Sentinel are freakking awesome.

Also, anyone on a Mac, find a friend to loan you a computer so you can save your characters. Dagnabbit, we don't want to lose you if the game survives!

I'm not saying give a trusted friend who owns a PC your account info so they can log in for you. Technically. I'm saying borrow a PC and do it yourself.

Yes. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Deleting any of them sounds crazy to me, since this game isn't going anywhere. You hear that NCSoft? Not. Going. Anywhere.

Tony, I've said it already before, but going to say it again. You are the Hero my heroes look up to.

Thanks TonyV

I have no idea if it is possible, or realistic...but..if you guys could come up with an Exporter to actually load the characters..to see them in 3d or something..

Keep up the good work.

Question: How do you intend to prevent duping when people move Shield Walls and superior ATIOs and 2b inf between their 30 characters before they snapshot them?

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Fascinating. I would love to be able to save my character data. On a pseudo-parallel effort, I've been working on trying to save the appearance of my characters in a format that doesn't require the game in this thread. Hopefully you guys will succeed and that will become redundant, but just in case, the more ways to preserve things the better I suppose.

For the Mac users I'm wondering if its enough to install the client in Fusion or Parallels to do the export. It doesn't really matter how fast the client runs at that point, so even if the result is laggy or jumpy the important thing is if the Titan export tool works in the virtualized environment, you'll have your data.

Thanks Tony, Thanks for fighting the good fight

You know... I don't even care if minor things were lost. It was like when the game switched to Freedom while I was unemployed and couldn't subscribe. I was slightly disappointed in the things I couldn't do, but it was nothing compared with being able to play again.

So if a move loses my stuff in the auction house or my Paragon Rewards, I won't mind as long as the game is playable.

Brilliant! This gives me hope for the future, whatever it may hold for CoH.

Popsicle Heroes!

Excellent and thank you and Golden Gril for your work on this.

I will gladly praise Guy Perfect and Codewalker for everything they have done and are doing.

Regarding Mac users: you'll need to run the game in a Windows environment to export information. You can do this with Parallels Desktop if you feel like being fancy, but the game can also be run in self-contained virtual machines since the graphics are done in OpenGL. You might consider Oracle VM VirtualBox or VMware Workstation for this task, though I'm not an expert on what works best. I'll have more information before it's time to export everyone.

Failing all else, find someone you trust who runs Windows and have them log into your account. It may be a violation of the terms of service, but that really means beans nowadays.

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Originally Posted by Leandro "Costume" singular, as in just the active costume?

Please refer to this file as an example of what will be exported. Currently contains the following information:

• Character name, Title(s) and Description
• Server and Global Handle
• Archetype, Origin, Alignment and Dimension of Origin (Primal or Praetorian)
• Inf and XP (from which level can be derived)
• Current selected costume and build numbers
• Enhancement, Invention Salvage, Recipe and Vault Reserve capacities
• Currently held Enhancements, Inspirations, Salvage (all types), Recipes, Vault Reserve and Incarnate Abilities (even those that are not slotted)
• All Costumes currently available to your character
• All Builds currently available to your character
• All Badges your character owns, but only when your personal Info Window is open

Super Group name won't be preserved because all Super Groups are disbanding. )-:

Auction and e-mail storage are intentionally being omitted as well, since it amounts to busy work. If you want items recorded, pull them out of storage and have them on-hand before exporting the character.

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Originally Posted by Triplash Also, would the tool have the ability to save things bound to the account for later reinstatement? Things like unused global character unlocks; number of character slots per server; Paragon Rewards information; market purchase history; full Account Items list; and remaining Character Items list.

In the event of a new system importing old characters, it would be administered and maintained by a different entity, and they'd be the ones who make the rules. The likelihood of it being run the same way Paragon did it is pretty slim. I'd be willing to bet just about any entity will remove the restrictions on character slots.

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Originally Posted by Dispari Question: How do you intend to prevent duping when people move Shield Walls and superior ATIOs and 2b inf between their 30 characters before they snapshot them?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville If it was me, I would add a hash signature to the end of all exports so it could be verified the export information was not hacked after export.

That's how it works; see the file linked at the top of this post. However, that won't prevent anyone from exporting a character, moving valuables to a different character and then exporting that other character.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. So there's 50 more Shield Walls on the new server than there should be. It won't be the end of the world. (-:

And frankly, there's no way to prevent it for sure. But I imagine most people will be honest, though that's just my imagination.