Shenanigunner

Common problem/complaint. Suppress your fx. /SuppressCloseFX 1 /SuppressCloseFXDist 30 First one enables (0 disables). Second one sets the distance at which you do NOT see your own FX. Adjust to suit.

I think those are both intentional. Kudos to the devs. What's really, really, really needed now... is the occasional, alt-scaled... bubbly fart.

Brought it back from the ghost lands about a year ago, in concert with the artist. It just moved to a new location but it's all there.

No, they specifically say not to enter costume creator. I think they're just overlooking the existing window/command/shortcut.

What's wrong with /show costume ? Default bind K?

And besides... I still have about 100 DVDs even though I give public seminars on streaming. 😄 They still work just fine. And there will be something of a resurgence with 4K Blu-Rays, since uncompressed bandwidth is prohibitive.

"Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again." Since nearly all media has gone wholly digital, without any physical media, the hard-tech changes are likely at an end. (The thing to fear now is not software/codec/etc. changes, but such changes that pull freely available access behind hard paywalls. It's already happening on streaming.) (And if the market had been smart enough to choose HD-DVD instead of Blu-Ray... well...)

Updated for the new release. That is all.

Maybe just a little too... granular? This, high priority, please now thank you — and extend it to ALL zoning. Standing by a door or portal and hearing the same power-activation sounds over and over probably wears on me more than any other element of the game. It would seem to be achievable to suppress these fx/sounds for the roars, chest thumps, screams, explody noises, etc. just because an alt went through a freakin' door.

He who has the code makes the rules.

Bingo. Completely overlooked that. 😛

Only in the sense of having an F-150 Lariat Edition locked in a vault somewhere. 🙂

Right over there. All the coddling, curation and preselection you could wish for.

Using the NumPad keys to target teammates (and pets) for buffs etc, is a very useful and efficient mapping. But I don't think I've ever seen any deliberate mapping to use the top-line keys. And since the default binds have absolutely nothing that targets team mates/pets, it must be something you loaded that had unexpected side effects. The fix is to reload your binds, which should overwrite all faults and glitches. If you don't have your binds saved, all you can do is reset to the full set of defaults with /keybind_reset or /unbindall (which does not "unbind" but resets just like the first one). I always suggest that players, even those who shun custom binds, save their binds so that they can be quickly reloaded/reset when weird glitches like this happen. For all alts, use /bindsave to write a localized keybind file. When it glitches, use /bindload to reset everything. (This would be the same as just the reset above, but will preserve any little tweaks you might have added.) For individual alts, use /bindsavefile filename and /bindloadfile filename... so you can keep a blaster mapping and a brute mapping separate. But that, plus /wdwsave and /wdwload, are great for fast fixes when something gnarfs your keys or windows.

The game terminology, she is zo crazy und confusing! 😄

Well, that's like saying a Toyota isn't a "car" any more because the new model has slab sides, an inch more ground clearance and a vaguely trucky style. (But, of course, anyone who follows auto news knows that "cars" and "sedans" are dead-dead-dead, because they're all now SUVs. Or some kinda UVs.) It's still massive (as few games have ever been), it's still multiplayer (even solos share the same air, most of the time) and it's very much online (only). No Semanticist badge for you. 🙂 About the only counter-argument is that perhaps too much play is in off-board AE farms etc., making the main part of the game less "multiplayer" than it was. But not everyone passes through to the AE building in every session, not by a long shot.

I really don't want to be in the position of defending MS, but very few of these unwanted features need patches or hacker knowledge... just following through to MS's own off button. The only really nasty, persistent, ha-ha-catch-me bit of this kind was the banner telling users that Office 2010 was EOL. Not only was it embedded in DLL code, but MS apparently kept moving it around so that hacks could not remove it for long. But for everything else... It's like buying a car and complaining because the seat is too close to the steering wheel, the A/C is set too high and the radio is tuned to a country station.

MS products always have marketing-driven crap loaded into the front end, the defaults, the toolbars etc. It amazes me how many people bitch loud and long about such things when I can't think of a one that can't be removed, disabled or bypassed in about five minutes. I consider it standard to install, for example, a new MS Office setup and spent a half hour 'de-marketing' it into a useful set of tools. Annoying perhaps, but everything comes with some default that most users will have to/want to customize. As for the endless annoyance of the ever-changing Start menu/panel/pane/system... I just don't use it. End of problem. (And if you want a locked, sealed, guarded and downright snotty 'walled garden,' well... 😛 )

How about that within a year or so it will be the only consistently supported OS? I'd be much more interested in a list of what might be hard downsides. What might trip up those of us who don't have the luxury of hacking along in an increasingly obsolete OS with ever-eroding support for high-end, $$$-relevant apps? (The short answer is that I haven't seen any, other the reduction of max-end game performance due to virtualization. I'll happily trade greatly increased malware management and security for 20% of a theoretical FPS rate.)

Oh, no. For that you have to go to Wikipedia. Oh, wait, same thing. 😉

Boy, are you in the wrong decade. 😜

I never wear socks, I was past 45 in the Live era, I am not named Chad and my crop counters any five bald guys on the list.

The real solution, of course, is a spinoff: City of Day Traders. Imagine all the fun you'll have watching up to six customizable commodity tickers! $$$-gank newbs who believe your fanciful tales about how dead-end items are the next hot thing! Social-RP around the virtual water cooler, hinting obnoxiously about how you just made millions being on top of a brief market bubble! Spend countless hours writing macro code to beat your competitors to the punch at reboot! (Even though it's not "automation!") Hear the gasps when Lord Artythuhdeal VC-bombs the market with Credit Mobilier credits sneakily converted from Ponzi tokens! And, of course, multi-box your way to the prized Insider Trading accolade!

As the song says, "Nobody gonna mezz me around."

Slash commands don't automate anything. With few exceptions, they bypass menu/UI inputs and add some deeper-level commands. Automation was strictly and intensively designed out of the whole macro/bind/UI system from day one. I would thumbs-down on this. As others noted, Dev time spent on this feature of interest/use only to a small set of power gamer/market gamer is not time well spent on the overall community needs. The AH is not a difficult interface to use and (especially with a bind/macro to pop it and the junk windows up and down) and it would involve knowing thousands of items names — exactly, no typoes. So it would be more for a very small set to snipe or dump small sets of high-value items, and not much else. Just not a useful direction. IMVHO. We need a Thanksgiving event. That is all.