Sentinel+ character extractor: Here it is!
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Posted on: 2012-09-06 24:01 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Why problematic, A?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
That might be problematic, but I did ask a couple of red names to look into the possibility of either handing out a ton of server slot unlocks or just unlock every slot with a character currently in it, so players can at least log in any character they want.
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Be well, people of CoH.
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Thank you, Arcanaville! My husband has dozens of characters on almost all servers and no way to turn his VIP back on to save them!
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
That might be problematic, but I did ask a couple of red names to look into the possibility of either handing out a ton of server slot unlocks or just unlock every slot with a character currently in it, so players can at least log in any character they want.
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This sounds very cool. I can't wait to get home after work and try it out.
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Found an old (~1 year) copy of Wine I had... CoH wouldn't load past the banner image (not even the splash screen). If it works on Wine on Linux, I'd bet that it'd likely work on OS X. I'm sure someone else with an OS X machine will be around to test... if not, I'll try to grab a newer copy and see how that goes.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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I believe she was saying that not being able to access those characters is, of course, a problem, but she has been talking to the rednames about some possible solutions or workarounds for that problem.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Why problematic, A?
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Does the program work with the test server? I have yet to try to long in to the test server, but it *appears* that I can still copy characters to the public and beta test servers... no idea if it's worked yet, though.
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Ahh. I read it as "giving everyone VIP status may be problematic."
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Originally Posted by Megajoule
I believe she was saying that not being able to access those characters is, of course, a problem, but she has been talking to the rednames about some possible solutions or workarounds for that problem.
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Be well, people of CoH.
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Since that was tied to systems involving money, I'm not sure the devs are capable of doing that anymore. But they might be able to grant in-game access to the things VIPs had access to, like character slots, the invention system, incarnate powers, etc. There may be ways to do that using systems they still have access to. They might not be able to flip the VIP switch itself, but they might be able to go around it to give players the ability to play their characters without those restrictions.|
Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Why problematic, A?
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Right now, the most important thing is to be able to let players log in their characters. To give them one last go around, to say goodbye, and to capture mementos. And to be able to run tools like Sentinel+. I'm hoping the devs can figure out a way to do that, or negotiate that for the players if necessary from NCSoft.
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That's how I was seeing it go down: Ex-Paragon bigwigs getting NCSoft to relent to a goodbye gift of access to the players before the nuke drops.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
...or negotiate that for the players if necessary from NCSoft.
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Be well, people of CoH.
Thank you so much to TonyV and all the folks at Titan. It's not just good to know that we have the toon info saved off for later - it's a sign of hope that all the hard work going on behind the scenes isn't for naught. We're not even a week in and we have this in our hands already? Means we're getting somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
That's how I was seeing it go down: Ex-Paragon bigwigs getting NCSoft to relent to a goodbye gift of access to the players before the nuke drops.
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It probably wouldn't have been Positron though. But I'm going to picture Positron doing that anyway, because its funnier.
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Thank you, Guy.
Characters are saved, or at least really really thoroughly documented. Thank you! 
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This is awesome! It kind of reminds me of the ending of the movie AI.
Other options for folks with macs who want to run this;
BootCamp - you can make a partition on your current drive, and install windows on it.
The two virual host software packages have trial versions available. They won't be fast, but they don't need to be for this.
VMWare Fusion http://www.vmware.com/go/tryfusion
Parallels: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/?icid=2135
All of these solutions will require a copy of Windows, and significant free disk space which may be less-than-ideal. But may be better than nothing.
Another thought is to investigate renting a laptop for a weekend and do it that way.
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Believe it or not the extractor ran fine under Wine.
Great work, thanks!
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Success.
Thank you!
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Still works. I am running code I wrote in the early 90s on OS X with no changes. Only reason it's not older code is that before that I wasn't using ISO C, and that's a little *too* old, just from a language perspective.
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Originally Posted by blackjak
OSX used to work well with UNIX based stuff for Linux. Somehow don't think that's the case anymore.
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Thank you so much for your efforts guys - this is great news for all of us.
Sweet, I'm sure this program will be very handy if we can save this game.
One thing I noticed though: While it tracks all the powers from AT (Primary and secondary) as well as Ancill/Patron and Incarnate, it seems to ignore other inherents or temporary (say I have all prestige sprints, Oz POrtal (Inherents) and a six-pack of shivans (temp). Or did I miss this?)
In the long run this concern is trivial of course, but have you looked into it?
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Awesome tool! It'll be nice to have a record of all this information if nothing else. Thanks for developing it.