GM Crumpet

The way it is intended to work is depending on the level of the alt the timer increases. So level 1-X is maybe a week, X-Y a month etc. And nothing is wiped. The names stay on the alt until someone asks for it. You won't log in on day 2 and find all your level 1 alts named generic<number>.

As far as I'm aware there is a blade involved. Possibly a fork and some napkins as well

I have a few names I want but are taken and am quite happy to wait to get them. Or not get them at all, it's been a long time since I had them on live and I'm not so caught up in stuff the games ruined for me if someone else swoops in. It's hard to know how much to say being a GM with obvious ability to look at stuff players can't without getting into trouble 🙂. I will say that there is a huge number of names that would potentially be released. I think Number Six said a number that was mind boggling, but are they names people would actually take? Good solid names are most likely to be level 50 characters which would never be picked. A lot of the inactive names are pretty random and aren't likely to be chosen by another player. You might be lucky and find the perfect name that has been languishing on page 9 of someones alt list for three years at level 1. I wouldn't rely on it though. Nothing will happen on day one anyway. The timer will start then and it's quite a long timer. The low hanging fruit will release within a few weeks but the higher the level the longer the timer, so you might have to wait up to a year. I still think this is a better idea than others though. Some games will periodically wipe inactive accounts older than X years and you go away and come back after 2 years and find all your high level stuff is gone. At least here we don't wipe, and even with the name release system in place the chances are you'll still have your name when you return. Just don't expect your level 1 Captain USA to still be available though 🙂

If you don't want to build more incarnate powers you can go see Luna in Ouroboros who will exchange them for stuff

We get asked this a lot and the simple answer is no. The complicated answer is also no, but it involves discussions of how each character is stored in the database with unique numbers and are tied to accounts also with unique numbers. If for example a character is accidentally duplicated both characters are locked until Cipher does some kind of dark incantation and probably sacrifices a rotisserie chicken which takes him quite a while. He has to get the grease off the keyboard for a start....... It was looked into, but sadly it's a mess up in the high levels of admin and most of the time touching one thing breaks five other things unexpectedly.

I know, just giving you options. Bidet Boy was free....... it's not now 😛

You're in luck, that name is free on all shards 🙂

The problem we want to avoid when we do eventually go live is for something to go wrong and it to suddenly free every single name and everyone to wake up with their alts called Generic <number>. It would solve a lot of issues with name camping though 🙂

As for the rest of the discussion, it's quite an interesting idea. Just remember that other people have opinions and they might differ from your own. And that's fine and good fun to see. Just remember to be nice if you disagree and be constructive. I have no opinion one way or the other 🙂

I'll reiterate what has been said ad nauseum and some people still won't believe. We as a team (From Cipher down to lead GM's, normal GM's and CR team) do not now and never have spawned Kronos titan for funsies. It's actually a weird little bug that pops up now and again which we haven't been able to track down. Of course there are admin codes. How do you think GM's pop into your mission or SG base when we come to help? Or fix your broken missions? We never use them to grief or abuse players. I was actually on an Adamastor team yesterday and was just as surprised as everyone else when Kronos Titan appeared. It certainly wasn't one of us who spawned him, and the list of people with Admin access is very small.

Sounds very plausible. Baby hackers have to start somewhere I suppose. The sad part is there is a small but vulnerable minority who despite all the warnings and information available they still fall for it. I see it on Facebook where blindingly obvious fake pages are shared "just in case". No Karen, they aren't giving away RV's/ Massive TV's/ free coffee and donuts for the first 1000 likes and shares. A while ago it was "before and after" pics of some thin woman next to a fat woman saying this slime in a jar helped them lose 10 stone in a month. It was shared everywhere. That kind of weight loss is impossible unless you are extremely sick or you've had extreme surgery. When I had covid and covid related pneumonia I didn't eat for three weeks and barely drank. I lost 2 stone. No amount of keto crap would have made the weight loss any greater. Yet people still fell for it in a big way.

It was my pleasure. I didn't even know the map went down that far!! I'm just glad I saw the ticket in time. The funny thing is there is a rare duplicating bug where occasionally tickets will clone themselves and send repeatedly. You had 24 tickets all for the same thing. It took me longer to clear the ticket queue than it did to sort your problem out 🙂

I'm getting a sore thumb from all the blocking

That's the one. And they don't chase me with nasty melee attacks

I just woke up and saw it

I have a plant dom and I find the entangle and roots really useful. I solo a lot and the holds and imobs mean I'm attacking with a lot more effect than I would expect. Add in seeds of confusion and outside of some EB's I'm pretty well sorted. I forget the name of the secondary (It's the one where you throw bees at people) but I find I don't use it that much. I do just to mix things up, but with the plants set I'm spoiled for choice. It's funny, some people have their "must have" power and other people look at the same thing and go "meh" 🙂

In a lot of cases, but a higher amount will counteract -def attacks. The -def (as far as I understand it) comes off the overflow first

We are trying to keep on top of it, so if people could still report it when they see it we will try to get to it quickly. And thanks, we try to do our best 🙂

Please keep reporting anything like that. We appreciate everyones efforts to keep the forum spam free as much as possible. And yes, it's a bit weird to get lots of airline spam. I think they might have misread City of Heroes: Homecoming and thought it said Lufthansa 😛

This thread has got off topic in places so I'm locking it. Please think about what you say and how you say it, there is no need to be unkind.

I believe it's the same system so claiming too many at a time clogs the system till the server reset. I truly don't know the mechanics of it, I just had to deal with the fallout

I'm not a dev and only know a fraction of the problems, but the reason it was disabled was that it was overloading something and causing all kinds of mayhem and drama. We made the problem ourselves unfortunately by making something widely available that previously was only available in limited quantities. The system was never designed to open hundreds of packs a minute and it only became an issue when players found a way to do just that. As per usual something that did one thing had an unfortunate effect on something else so had to be restricted. You can still open them the old slow way, you just can't open them rapidly and in bulk. The answer to any question that starts "Can't the devs just...." is generally "They could, but they don't have hundreds of hours to totally rebuild the system from scratch"

locked at the request of OP

Hey guys I understand the strong feelings and have no issue with the discussion, but just a reminder to keep cursing to a minimum. Also (and again I have no problem with how it was handled) just a reminder that descriptions of conversations are perfectly fine as long as the player you are discussing isn't identified in any way. No copy/paste of chat logs or screen shots. We all complain about people, and so far it's acceptable, but don't ask "Who was it?" or variations on that as then it will become a problem 🙂

Have a wonderful holiday, and thank you for the kind words. I suspect it was Jimmy who turned you into a trashcan, he enjoyed that sort of thing 😛