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5 hours ago, Uun said:
All this could be solved if they created in interior map of the base that would replace the zone map when you were inside.
I think that would require more coding than is viable for the game engine as it stands; I suspect it would be necessary to make the Vanguard base its own zone for this, as all of the 'indoors' maps where you click on a door and are transported into/out of the building without a loading screen (i.e., city hall, the Vanguard offices, hospitals, police stations, etc.) are, I believe, contained in the zone map, so the zone reference would be the same whether you were inside or outside the base.
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On 3/31/2024 at 8:41 AM, ShinMagmus said:
Please, comment if you've encountered this yourself.
If the waypoints on the zone map had annotations that indicated if they were in a different 'subzone' than the character (i.e., 'outside base' if you were in the base, and 'inside base' if you were outside), it would give clues to where to go that would benefit characters.
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5 hours ago, Herotu said:
As you play the game, things appear in the base. Completing story arcs gets you a copy of the mission-arc contact
Rather than giving you a copy of the mission-arc contact, it should unlock a base item that's a display case with the souvenir from the arc in it that you can place in your base wherever you choose to show off what you've done.
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21 minutes ago, SnoBahr said:
Bad NPC pathing inside the basement of City Hall, in Echo: Atlas Park.
That's been there since Live, and you can find more NPCs walking through walls in the Portal Corps buildings.
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15 hours ago, Rudra said:
If I remember correctly, this was implemented because the Tyrant solo mission where he fights a massive Arachnos force just before the Magisterium iTrial was breaking people's computers and not running because of all the mobs the game was trying to render, and the computers not being able to process it.
Having the game decide what you want to see, however, can shaft some players, particularly melee. If there was an option to prioritize rendering for a) friendlies, b) hostiles, or c) default would be better, and having the rendering algorithm tweaked so that if you have a mob targeted and have attacked/shot at it within the last, say, five seconds, then it is automatically rendered regardless of the rendering althorithm's choice of mobs to render (so your Tank/Brute/Scrapper won't be pounding on a target that the game decides is "too far away" and vanishes, or when the target you're still shooting at vanishes -- most often during MSRs when more Rikti teleport into the bowl and force the game engine to reassign which mobs are 'visible'.
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39 minutes ago, didraedimus said:
I realize that I know very little about programming, so I can't even imagine what this change would require.
The problem of changing it is complicated by the render limit built into the game engine, which (as far as I know) prioritizes nearby targets, so you could move your character and see mobs appear and disappear as the 'closest' mobs change; I noticed this in a Nemesis invasion this afternoon, where my Brute jumped away from the scrum of PCs and Nemesis fighting jammed together and had eight more Nemesis render out of nowhere as the 'nearest mobs' list changed. Dealing with the limitations of the game engine is likely to be one of the biggest obstacles to making this work.
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I've noticed that, during invasion events -- Rikti, Nemesis, mapserver, zombies -- there are endemic issues with attacking the mobs. A mob teleporting into the scrum is targetable, often even before the mob appears in the zone, for several seconds before it is attackable. This results in your character (particularly with melee-based characters) running up to an empty spot on the map with an attack queued up and just standing there until the mob that they've targeted appears, then waiting more until it becomes attackable and their queued attack goes off. Compounding this issue is the fact that some mobs that are targetable, and show the teleporting-in animation, despawn before ever becoming attackable, resulting in characters standing around looking like idiots, unable to contribute to the invasion defense until the server decides that a particular mob is attackable. This gets worse as the lag from the invasion climbs
If it's possible to make the change simply, I suggest that targeting hostile mobs teleporting into a raid situation be changed so that you can't target a mob until it's attackable, even if it's visible in the zone. As it is, mobs can spawn into an invasion scrum, fire off one or two attacks, and then despawn before the PCs in the scrum can attack them.
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On 3/18/2024 at 4:23 AM, Grouchybeast said:
TP to a random Shadow Shard location! More people should have a chance to experience the beauty of the Shards.
Only if you can a) inactivate the SG portals and the portals directly back to FBZ, and b) make the 'jump off the rock and be teleported back to the start of the zone' target change to the entry to the next deeper zone in the Shard. The full experience of the Shard requires that you find and use the gravity geysers (or, for the masochistic, flight or teleportation) to traverse each zone, so you don't miss anything.
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52 minutes ago, KaizenSoze said:
I have already reserved "Bobby Drop Tables".
Little Bobby Tables...
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It's a picayune grammar objection, and more properly a British usage, but the NPC random zone text:
[NPC] Buddy: Freakshow annexes Mashu Bridge! Can the PPD stop them? Pick up your Paragon Times today!
should more properly be "Freakshow annex Mashu Bridge", because 'Freakshow' is used as a collective plural noun, not that a specific individual Freakshow has annexed the bridge. Another example would be 'The staff disagree on the proposal', rather than 'The staff disagrees on the proposal'. But it is a niggling grammar point, and is widely ignored in common usage in the US.
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19 hours ago, DoctorDitko said:
Suddenly a pigeon swoops down, grabs my character, flies him up to the top of the map, and drops him.
I discovered that turning on Mystic Flight and pointing Translocation straight down breaks you free of the bird, taking you back to the ground.
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5 hours ago, Luminara said:
Close the base storage window and move away from it before using a catalyst.
The missing catalyst will reappear after you zone.
When you use a catalyst in your base with the base storage window opens, the game will put a catalyst into the storage item first -- so if you only have one, the IO won't become attuned/superior -- and only then will apply the catalyst to the IO. This has been a known bug for some time.
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Would that be 'City of Zeroes', archived at https://shenanigunner.com/coz/ ?
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The Midnighter Archivist in Dark Astoria does not show all the recipes in your inventory:
As you see, the vendor recipe list shows two recipes -- Reactive Defenses and Touch of Lady Grey -- while the character recipe list also shows Experienced Marksman. The latter is just a rare recipe, not one of the non-vendable ones, so there's no reason for it not to be shown in the vendor list.
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On 2/27/2024 at 12:52 PM, Rudra said:
Pretty sure Lusca doesn't actually have a generated body.
And in a freak spawn where Sally was on the shore of the island where War Witch is located, but moved back into the water before I could grab a screenshot, neither does Sally; she's just a blob with a neck and head -- no fins or tail.
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On 3/11/2024 at 4:03 AM, Ukase said:
So, I confess, I never actually looked at the requirements, so I don't know what they were before this referenced change. Given that we can't earn a vanguard merit before level 35 (because that's when Levantera is unlocked as a contact), I'm not sure I agree with any msr being open to a level 1.
You earn 10 Vmerits for an MSR regardless of whether you have the Member of Vanguard badge or not, but if you don't have the badge, that's all you get.
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On 3/14/2024 at 7:01 PM, Aracknight said:
That's a really specific amount of time.
It's like the bug in Windows 98 where, if you left a system up for more than 49 days, the system clock would stop advancing. I always wondered how you kept a Win98 system up for 49 days without having to reboot it for one reason or another...
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All of the boots costume pieces have unique sole textures.
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On 1/1/2024 at 8:56 PM, DoctorDitko said:
w (which Disney used to lobby for, and win) on the regular).
The Mickey Mouse Perpetual Protection Act.
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On 12/30/2023 at 2:53 AM, Scarlet Shocker said:
Vitric Vixen aka The Glass Fox
Vitrified Vixen, perhaps.
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On 12/21/2023 at 6:56 AM, Clave Dark 5 said:
Just made a toon based on an NPC I put in an MA arc back on live, Rabbitual Criminal. He's redside, yes.
Reminds me of the joke about the Jewish stage magician whose best trick was going up and down the aisles pulling rabbis out of his yarmulke...
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Try /optionset buffsettings 1316112
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16 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:
I generally save mine up and get some of the Slow Resist recipes to craft and sell.
They're automatically bought level-appropriate, so if you buy them with a level 8-12 character, you get a level 10 recipe; a level 50 character gets a level 50 recipe.
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On 12/21/2023 at 8:50 AM, Snarky said:
I can guarantee no one has pictures of me enjoying myself. I have been miserable since long before cameras were invented.
And what's ten seconds one way or the other?
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Report Typos Here!
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I'm not sure if it properly qualifies as a typo, but if you look at the list of zones when you click on a teleporter in an SG base, you'll see that all of the zones that have 'different' names from their original neighborhood names -- Baumton to 'Boomtown', Venice to 'Crey's Folly', Woodvale to 'Eden', Eastgate to 'The Hollows' -- have the zone name enclosed in quotes, but Astoria, now called Dark Astoria, doesn't. While the base neighborhood name is still there, I think that prefacing it with 'Dark' is enough of a change to justify putting the zone name in quotes when it appears in destination lists.