Sentinel+ character extractor: Here it is!

!!!! That alone was worth reading through this whole thread. Thank you

Will be using the extractor this weekend, so thank you Titan Network too

Haha.

Yeah, it makes me a little sad that it doesn't export temp powers. I know they're totally not the point, but I am a bit proud of my huge piles of them.

I suppose I'll go through and enumerate them in screen shots or FRAPS. Personally, I look at it as testament to how rocking this export tool is that I wish it included this other stuff. What we have is so awesome, it makes me care enough to wish it had everything!

Temp power trivia: My Issue 1 DM/Regen Scrapper has two copies of the [Ring of Pain] temp power, and the second one is not an Ouroboros echo. (It predates Ouro by about three years.) I don't remember how it happened exactly - you should only be able to get that once. I think I crashed either during or right after the mission where you receive it, suffered a roll-back, and was able to get it a second time.

The question mark is a reserved character in the Windows file system; I wasn't aware that it could be used in character names. The same would hold true for colons, slashes and asterisks, if those are allowed as well.

If anyone else has troubles with special characters in character names, let me know.


You might try right-clicking it and running as administrator. Make sure it's in a folder where files can be created. Also check your character name for the special symbols mentioned above.


I've never looked into it, but other aspects of the info window consist of a formatted block of text. It wouldn't be impossible, but no work has been done to preserve this or Alignment stats.

All of these can be exported, but are intentionally left out.

There have been a few requests for Temporary Powers, but no decision has been made at this point to include support for them.

Current zone and character coordinates fall into the category of things that would be possible, but aren't particularly useful information. It would require some amount of reverse engineering and implementation that, frankly, doesn't have any real purpose in the end. A few other things not being exported:

• The direction your character is facing
• Which powers are toggled on
• Which powers are recharging
• The configuration of your power trays
• The arrangement of your Inspirations
• Window settings
• Speech bubble colors
• Chat tab configuration
• Whether auto powers are configured to show icons

These are all just examples. The line had to be drawn somewhere.

When it's all said and done, characters won't be members of any super group, and the super group itself may change in some way between the time of the character's export and the end of the world.

This information is not available for export, or believe me, it'd be exported.

If this is something you've wanted for a long time, you could have bugged me about it. (-:

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Incidentally, as the name of the utility indicates, this is all technology developed for the Titan Sentinel project. The big secret plan was to rework Titan Network in such a way that we really could make a player-created City Vault. In fact, the internal name of the server we were working on is literally City Vault. It's a shame we never got to finish that. )-:

That's a bummer. It's obviously sent to the client in some fashion. Is it just not something anyone's had the time to reverse engineer? (I wish it could be exported, but I'm also just curious about the comment that it's not available, since it's surprising to me, doubtless due to my layman-ness about the particulars.)

If your curious why I care particularly, I'm OCD about my contact progress. I actually turn off XP so I can max out all their progress bars, and ones who don't actually give enough missions to allow that always bug me. Yes, I am insane. Aren't we all?

(Worst case, I'll record it with screenshots.)

I asked about that earlier. They aren't capturing it. They might be able to at some point (my inference more than their statement), but for now it's not available.

At least the vault is captured:

I too would like to capture AH data, mission arc progress, and the like. But the mission arcs may not even be part of a new universe if COH has to be rebuilt by private interests.

And the auction house and e-mail are really my account's wealth, not explicitly tied to a character. I imagine the characters like refugees, potentially arriving in a new universe with only what they could carry on their backs, after desperate flight.

In such a (hypothetical) new world, just being identifiably, incontestably ME, the same character, would be amazing in and of itself. I would be perfectly willing to restart in such a place.

I'll get to work on an update to the utility.


What's sent to the client are those sentences that your contact says to you, and the options of how to respond. Exactly how that relates to story arc progress or even which contact they came from is something only the server knows.


I'd have to double check, but I think the list of souvenir names you own is only available while the Souvenir tab is active, and the text that goes with the souvenirs is only available after you click the >> button. It's in the same boat as the mission progress.

I want to stress to everyone that with the exception of the stuff directly tied to your character (powers, costumes), the server never sends any information unless it's requested. For example, if you remove the NPC Dialog chat channel from all your tabs, you'll never see characters in missions say anything.

The reason they did this was to reduce the amount of data sent over the line, which makes sense. It's inconvenient to our cause, however, because it means we don't have ready access to every type of information.

By the way, I doubt this is actually something you didn't already know, but I did think to try to run the exporter while both the souvenir tab and my personal info were open (the latter just to make sure it still got the badges), and it didn't add any souvenir info to the file (again, I doubt that's a surprise, I just thought I'd mention it).

Worst case scenario (if that info never gets exported) is I'd just have to play every story arc over again if this stuff is ever imported to a private server...

Ah, you know what, I'm talking about something different. Looking back over the thread, that's my bad.

I was wishing it stored who is in your contact list, and how far you are on your "friendliness" progress bar with them.

It makes complete sense to me that you have no way to store progress in a given story arc, which I would expect to be server-side only. When I think about it, I suppose I have a couple of instances where that makes me very mildly sad, but given what it took to make me even think about it, I think I'll live.

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I'd be pretty happy with a list of just the souvenir names, even if I had to open the souvenir window and tab before running the extractor in order to export them. I'd be ecstatic if it was able to preserve the order of the souvenirs in that window.

I figure I can rely on places like ParagonWiki for the expanded text of the individual souvenirs.

Fair enough. Still glad to have it. And hey... anyone complains, tell them they can make their own.

I wanted it in part specifically so you guys in the Titan Network could have the information

What I was asking for was a command or a command toggle that would, either when you logged out or on command, dump everything we're allowed to know about our character into some kind of file. Costumes, contacts, inventories, current position, active mission, etc, so that in theory that could be used by players to track their characters' progress through the game. The Titan Network could then write a tool to capture that data and present back to the players something like a timeline of each character and what they did. Sort of like a cross between herostats and city vault.

It does work in seperate directories Wildcat, I turned on COH and launched Sentinel+ from ~/Downloads and it worked. "Incidentally, I keep coh in ~/COH instead of the wine c: as the perl script used to start coh will support that"

The MAC users might be able to use the perl script us linux users to start up coh and do it that way, would help get the launcher out of the way. Ofcourse, if Sentinel is reading some or any of the information from the network, then it wouldn't matter if COH was in cider and sentinel in wine as they would still have access to the same information.

It does record salvage stored in the vault. It does not record salvage stored in the auction house or your base bins. The latter can be obtained by performing a /demorecord inside your base. Unfortunately, recording the former is not possibly using any utilities yet. If we are still up and running in December, I'll talk to Guy about some ideas regarding capturing some of the stuff we had to cut out to get this utility out there in reasonable time to allow people to capture their characters in case their VIP status expires.

And to one of the other posters above, no, there is no Mac version at this time. Some people are looking into possible solutions using WINE or other means, but we really don't know if those efforts will pan out. If you're on a Mac, right now, the only sure-fire options are to borrow someone else's PC to export your characters, or install a Virtual Machine software package (e.g. VMWare or VirtualBox) to emulate a Windows machine, or to dual-boot Windows using Boot Camp.

I tried to gain access to locked toons on Beta and Test last nite. Test flat refused because I wasn't VIP and beta refused to unlock any AT that was covered by VIP status and not already purchased. Considering the market was down (must have tried a dozen times), there was no way to purchase said ATs, thus preventing the use of this tool on those toons. It sucks because I've got a few good toons on beta that for some reason don't have their costumes backed up! Here's hoping for Nov being full server existing toon unlock.

Ok, I tried to get this answered in a related thread, but I guess I wasn't coming across clearly. I understand how to Use 'demorec', how to name the file, etc, but what is the required implimentation? Obviously, if I start demorec and move around, then the playback will show exactly what I did and saw movement wise. I did a test to where I simply started it, waited like 5-10 seconds and ended the recording. I played the recording using the appropriate launcher method (-demoplay File_Name) and saw my toon standing still for 5-10 seconds.

Was that all I needed to do to record the many intricate details of the base or was I supposed to walk through each room, opening storage bins as I went? The last response I was given made it sound to me like I was going to be able to do that, play the recording, and freewalk the base within the recording being played back.

A question about ingame screenshots. How far into the game do I have to be to take a screenshot? Obviously I should be atleast at the character list, but can I take shots there or must I be fully logged into a character?

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!