DoctorDitko

You crazed mooks have contaminated me with your forlorn, hammy puns! Now I have been possessed, my only escape is to summon a new doppelganger, a rogue Tsorceress (with purple eyes) named: Merry Tsoo! (Meet me on torchbearer if you value your independence!)

Yeah, thanks, Sonny Bono! The Supreme Court at the time essentially said "Infinity -1 year isn't the same as Infinity." It is very sad that the most famous detective in the Western world has been adapted in so many creative ways, but the second-most famous will never be part of the public domain.

Well, going by the topic title, I was expecting "Allow us to hire a gull to hang around our bases!" Why not? I've got a tailor, trainer, insp salesperson. Why not a world-warping seagull?

Please add my vote for combining TP Foe & Recall Friend! Also, Mystic Flight is currently the top teleport power in the game, and that's sad! TP hover should persist until another TP or movement happens. No one should fall out of the sky and get ganked because of their Travel power! TP+lag=debt! If updating the screen is a problem, I have no issue with reducing world detail while TPing; let there be a 4th-dimesional fog that slowly clears once you have arrived.

Agreed! I have a teleporter grav controller, too. All the TP powers. All the TP temp powers. All the TP, all the time. (TP toons, let us disperse!) My favorite is Wormhole, although I do wish it also got a bit more range. When I wormhole a group up to the top of the sky, some of them arrive back in the fight with enough health to matter. (Also, Team TP really can freak people out. They've never seen it before!)

Well, if it was actually useful, then the Crey troops would be equipped with them! (PS: I saw what you did there!)

I was very sad on Live to discover that my "Teleporter" concept character's lovely Propel power didn't show consistent projectiles. To me, I would hit a bad guy with a junked car, and quip "Eat Buick, buddy!" To my confused teammates, the object appeared to be a barrel, a gargoyle, or other random items. No two the same (except rarely, by chance). Is there some deep, game-changing reason this happens? Seems like our characters are exchanging info about buffs, SFX colors, costume changes... But sending an object ID is out of the question? At the least, couldn't we use a one-time pad approach, where on login a list of objects is generated which can be shared to my teammates? If you guys fix this, I promise to double your salaries! In any event, thanks for listening, and many thanks for my second life back!

Ah, guess that makes sense. Something similar shows up as a red ring around my Targeting Drone on my Rad/Dev blaster. Thanks!

Moonbeam, on a Dark/Dark Corrupter. Not used to seeing it on my Rad Blaster.

Precisely! Though, being able to prevent the trays from being dragged out of position would also be a blessing.

Every time I fight those Lost Bosses with the broken TVs on their heads, I can't resist: "Hey, buddy, does that get anything but the Ugly Channel?" ... And I'll keep doing it until someone laughs!

What about the red-and-yellow ring? What does that signify?

As an added bonus, it's free if you do it before level 10! Good time to fill any spare slots with interesting variations.

In the help screen for the log parser, the "settitle.txt" link is throwing a 404. (Noticed when I saved and tried to load and got html parsing errors for the custom 404 page.)

Just for fun, try doing the search-and-replace on the SpeedOnDemand30.bas file itself. Then you won't need to massage the output files. Nice find, thanks for this!

I wish there was a "Lock Trays the way I put them, dammit!" option. I use the mouse to trigger powers a lot (weird, I know) and accidentally hitting the tiny hidden arrows at the label end of the tray drives me crazy. Also hate acci-dragging a tray out of position, either can get my character killed.

Thanks, that's helpful!

I've tried running two toons at once, but I think I'm doing it wrongTM I cloned my c:\games\CoH folder to c:\games\CoH2, and created an new account, no problem, but the two fight over ownership of Tequila. Every time I launch either instance of Tequila I have to go into options, change the install path to the one I want, exit Tequila, and launch it again. Once I get both launched, things work pretty well just alt-tabbing with the sidekick on Follow, spamming heals or whatever. (And using the /maxinactivefps 1 command keeps the resource use down, which I appreciate.) But launching both is a pain, to the point where I seldom bother. Any advice from folks who do this every day? Also, Microsoft and I are mortal enemies, so I prefer to run under Linux, but let's not cloud the issue here. Just assume I'm running a stripped-down Windows 10.

I get the same about Mystic Flight/Translocate. I think it's a bug, though.

To the point, though, did recent changes make it so turning off XP isn't useful?

Yeah, I was hoping a Universal Travel enh would boost its range. No such luck.

There is a "Lock Powers in Tray" toggle at the bottom of the General options page. I wish there was a "Lock Trays the way I put them, dammit!" option. I use the mouse to trigger powers a lot (weird, I know) and accidentally hitting the tiny hidden arrows at the label end of the tray drives me crazy. Also hate acci-dragging a tray out of position, either can get my character killed.

Cool! I'll try to translate for RPM-based distros like Fedora once you're done. (I'm stuck working from home for a while, and one of my jobs is to practice shell scripting. I think this qualifies!)

Let us know if you have any luck getting CoH running on the Raspberry Pi. You might have to use qemm to emulate an x86 CPU, since rpi uses an ARM SOC. AFAIK, qemm is the most efficient way to emulate an x86 on ARM. Someone more capable than I might be able to take the source code and recompile the client for ARM. That would almost certainly let the Pi run CoH, it has done well with other games, at least on the 4GB Pi 4. Personally, I use PlayOnLinux to run CoH on Fedora 31, and it works quite well. But that's on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600, so YMMV.

Anyone else seeing Mapserver attacks much more frequently? I'm having trouble finishing missions. Also, I can confirm the PA zoning bug. 1 survivor each time.