BlackSpectre

I think it's just flowery language.

OK. To help overcome this open and close problem, I've created a rotating text bind. Essentially the bind will issue the command 3 times... once on key press, and then twice on key release. That will keep any window open and also offer the relief from tapping the key twice when trying to use interact with anything. Here's the files and command strings: interact1.txt X "+$$interact$$bindloadfilesilent /binds/interact2.txt" interact2.txt X "+$$interact$$interact$$bindloadfilesilent /binds/interact1.txt" You'll want to change the path to your bind files if you don't have a folder called "binds" in C:\Games\Homecoming\Settings\Live. To import it into your character, you can either copy and past the command string from the first file and then in game bind it to the X key, or whatever key you want. Or you could just use /bindloadfile /binds/interact1.txt to import it.

Aw man! This trick has some problems I didn't foresee. Turns out if you want to open a merit vendor, this "toggle bind" will open and close the window really fast and won't keep the window open. This will happen with any toggle window that will open and then close again when the same command is issued. Kind of a bummer. The toggle bind solution is not completely useless. It still functions better when clicking on doors, stores, and teleport portals; and we click on those much more frequently than other things. I'm going to keep my toggle bind for now, and see if I can get used to just using the mouse to click on things that the toggle bind won't work with. It still might be better than reverting back to using /interact just by itself...

I would like to give a huge shout out to @Dazl, @Hunter Smith, and @Nicodemous Bain for hosting NIGHTLY (and sometimes twice a night) Hami runs on Excelsior! Did I mention this has been every night at 9:45 EST for YEARS??? Their Hami raids have been consistent, professionally run, and darn fun!

For me, the best use of reward merits is to buy enhancement converters. Not to sell, but to use to convert various cheap enhancements into much more expensive enhancements and sell the converted enhancements on the market. Buy low, sell high. Other than that, new characters typically use a few merits here and there for enhancement unslotters when I'm in the middle of reworking a build, but really that's about it. For me, it appears that on average I earn about 30 merits per hour... but this number can vary widely depending on what kind of content is run. For example, Hami Raids have by far the best merits/time ratio of anything else in the game... about 160 reward merits per hour. If you don't count Hamis, the 30 merits/hr is a fairly good standard to determine the value of merits by how you use them, IMHO. The Merit Vendor offers to convert inf to merits at 1 merit per 1 mil inf. This is way, WAY too expensive. If you look at @Snarky's list above, the most you'd pay is 200,000 inf per merit. 5x better than 1 mil per merit, and in most cases you'd pay less. So how valuable a reward merit is really depends on how you use them, and how you earn them. If we use the 200K inf per merit as the baseline, then the value of 100 merits would be 20 mil inf. This means that you'd want to purchase a 20 mil inf item or greater with 100 merits. A Winter Origin or purple enhancement that sell for 25 mil inf would be a fair deal. You'd be essentially be getting a 25 mil inf item for 20 mil inf. Saving 5 mil inf over purchasing the winter packs from the auction house. It's only about a 20% savings, but hey it's something! At least you'd know that you'd be getting a fair value for your merits.

It took me years dealing with the finickiness of the /interact command to come up with a way to make it work more consistently and smoothly. The problem has been that it often doesn't affect whatever you want to interact with even though your character is the right distance away from what you want to interact with and facing the correct direction. So I've been double-clicking the X key (the key I bound the command to) all this time to get it to work... but I didn't have to. The solution is to make a "toggle bind". That's a bind that has the "+" appended to the beginning of the bind string like so: /bind X "+$$interact" The plus prefix forces the command to execute on key press AND again on key release. Now, instead of double-clicking, all I have to do is tap the key once and it works. Finally! I guess I was just willing to deal with the annoyance until tonight when I finally got fed up with it and asked myself "OK, what can I do about this /interact problem?" LOL

ROFL Sorry, your comment just tickled my funny bone... but yes, on a computer it is in the upper left corner of the main page. Click Browse --> Clubs. At least I knew that (but I admit it wasn't obvious originally). Which makes me wonder whether or not it would be a good idea to make a new group for Clubs at the bottom of the main forums pages (like it is on the mobile version)? I dunno, just throwing it out there...

So a power animation that doesn't affect the character's body, such as Shadow Fall that animates an aura underneath the character, will also cancel out the fly pose animation??? Or is THAT a bug?

OMG!!! Sometimes I can be so dense! I saw some links at the bottom and didn't realize they were club links instead of links to other websites. LOL Thanks, GP. 🙂

I’ve been poking around my phone and for the life of me I can’t find a way to access the Clubs section of the forums. Is there any way to do it other than a bookmark, or should this be a suggestion to add a link to Clubs? P.S. I’m on the latest iPhone.

They could also give every player a coupon for a certain number of WOs at discounted prices. That would stay in the holiday spirit and preserve balance.

Would it be possible to copy over the alternate special effects to the villain version of Dark Embrace? I forget what it's called, but the alternate darkness aura cast by the Dark Mastery version is way, WAY cooler than the original tendril version. If I remember correctly, I originally chose Soul Mastery specifically to get the alternate aura for the Dark Embrace power. It's that much more awesome! Then the alternate version was moved to the Dark Mastery's Dark Embrace... so I RESPECed and took Dark Mastery to get the aura. Now I'm back with Soul Mastery for a specific power, but sadly no alternate special effects. Since I created the character 20 years ago, I've wanted a costume aura like the alternate special effects of Dark Embrace. Since I basically have Dark Embrace on all the time, it's functionally equivalent. But a new costume aura could be an option. Thanks.

Dark mode. Right. That would definitely be true. How would I see the wiki in dark mode? So italics then?

Hello all! I've been running across wiki pages lately (they might have been around for a long time) that use light gold text against a light gray background. It's very difficult to see. There's not enough contrast between the color of the text and the background. Can we change this practice, and may I correct it when I see it? Here's what a page looks like now... Some options could be to italicize the notes like so: or maybe change the text color to a dark blue like so: Looks like the gold color used is part of a template {{gold|}}. To change it to dark blue all that would have to be done is to change the color "gold" to "dark blue". To italicize, I could create a templated named "em" to make it easy to italicize things. So what do you think? UPDATE: the "em" template is now made!

I did discover Combat Teleport doesn't change player position when used, if that helps at all?