AboveTheChemist

Check out page 78 of Shenanigunner's excellent CoH/CoV technical guide. It describes the commands for saving and loading window, chat, and options settings. I used that to "standardize" the UI across my characters.

I'm going to piggyback on this thread with a hopefully not-too-stupid question. Will accessing the Justin server have any effect on my "live" server files/settings? I've played games in the past (EverQuest) where it was recommended to keep the Test and Live server installs separate. I assume we would have been warned if that were the case with Justin, but I just wanted to double-check and make sure before I log into Justin and potentially bork my existing settings.

Outstanding guide! For anyone on Everlasting, I created a utilitarian, no-frills teleport base accessible using the code ELTP-7670. It has a trainer, normal and inspiration vendors, Ouroboros crystal, and teleports for every available beacon, all clearly marked and visible from the port-in location. Feel free to use it if you wish, and please let me know if you have suggestions for improvement.

Found an example posted in another thread:

I ran into a bug yesterday where I had the AH assign a listing to the incorrect item. You can read more about it in my post in the bug report forum if you desire. Previous posters in that thread have seen similar issues. So be warned if, like me, you use the AH for temporary storage. There's a chance your listing might get assigned to one of the other items in your AH storage. Going forward, while I may still use the AH for storage, I am going to pull all the stored items out while I am actively listing items.

I'll preface this by saying that there is an uncommon and relatively minor bug where occasionally, after clicking the 'Post' button and OK'ing the listing fee confirmation, nothing happens. It happens often enough that I have accepted it as a minor annoyance and in all cases repeating the posting process results in a successful posting. Yesterday I was in Skyway City and I tried to post a Panacea enhancement for 7,510,000. The confirmation window mentioned the 375,500 listing fee and I clicked OK. Nothing happened (or so I thought). So I tried posting it again, confirmed the 375,500 listing fee, and again nothing happened. This behavior seemed odd so I checked my chat history and I noticed that twice the auction house charged me a fee of 3,755,000, or 50% of the list fee. At this point I filed a bug report ticket and held off on any further auction house activity. An hour or so later I was looking at my selling tab and noticed that I had two stacks of 10 common salvage for sale for 7,510,000 each (75,100,000 total for each stack). That's when I realized the AH had posted the wrong item. I'll note that, on this character, I have some common IO recipes and some stacks of common salvage stored in my AH inventory as overflow because my base storage is not extensive and I've been working on my invention memorization badges. I had no intention of selling those stacks of common salvage and I would not have accidentally tried to list them. The amount I saw in the listing fee confirmation window corroborates this, because if I had accidentally tried to list the common salvage, the listing fee would have shown as 3,755,000, and I definitely remember it was 375,500. I've read enough horror stories in the "Oops" thread in the Market subforum that I am always deliberate and careful with my listings and I always check the number in the confirmation window, especially for a high price item like that Panacea IO. I've included some screenshots below of the fee showing up in my chat (I took those after the second attempt, when I realized something was amiss) and of the two stacks of salvage I later discovered for sale.

I concur on the sales history bug. Other players and I have been documenting cases we find in this thread. If you don't mind I'd like to add it to the list, or feel free to add it if you like.

Thanks BovineAvenger! You have the distinction of being the first person in the many years that I have been using this username to know that it was a Sisters of Mercy reference. Only a few have known (or at least only a few have mentioned it) what the logo is. I did confirm the other night that the character limit is 256 characters, so that latest zip file I posted is as good as it is going to get. I still have not tested that new file set but I feel confident it should work as well as the first set I posted. If you find anything amiss just let me know, and if you have suggestions for improvement I am all ears!

I had this same thing happen to me today. I am 100% certain it was a bug and not user error. I am not able to post full details at the moment but I will do so tomorrow.

I ran across this reply earlier today, which mentions a way of binding double clicks. I haven't tried it myself though.

I adjusted the files slightly to squeeze in as many /settitle commands as possible per key press, and still stay under the 256 character bind length limit. I've attached the new zip. Instructions are the same, but the last file is st232.txt instead of st301.txt, which should reduce the number of key presses by about 25%. I have not tested these so if there are any issues just use the previously posted zip and I'll fix these when I can. I've since tested these and they seem to work fine. Also, I am not 100% certain the bind length limit is 256 characters, so if anyone knows for sure what it is please let me know. If I have time I may test it this evening. badge_title.zip

If this is something anyone is still interested in, I have been working on a way to check my own badges using /settitle, which includes a means of easily cataloging the integers that go with each badge. See my most recent posts in this thread. My issue is that I am not very hardcore about badge collection so I'm only able to complete a small part of the entire list, and would need others with more/different badges to use the tools I posted in that thread and provide me their logs. For anyone that is still reading and wants to help, the only caveat is that the tools need to be run as provided in that thread (aside from changing the keybind key if so desired), because my parser relies on the feedback those tools provide. Feel free to contact me with questions or if you want to help, and I can explain further.

I think you are right, I moved that to my ESC key. If that is the case then I think you can replace the 'nop' in st301.txt with 'powexec_abort'. You might also be able to put: Z "unbind Z" Which should return it to it's default setting, but I don't know if it will accept a key that unbinds itself. Worst case, you can do /unbind Z on the chat line once you are done.

Were you killing Echidna in Who Will Die, part 1? When I did that arc, I had a similar experience. For a while, logging to character select and back in was enough to reset the mission, but at one point it stopped working, and after trying various means of logging, I ended up just playing another character for about 15 minutes and it went back to normal.

One thing that I will add is that if there is enough interest in compiling a list of settitle integers and their corresponding badges, I am happy to help with that. As I noted previously, the integers do not match what is on the wiki list. For instance, in my previous post, Celebrity is 5, Sensation is 6, Superstar is 7, and Tough is 8. On the wiki those badges have integers in the 1500 range. I am not a hardcore badger, and my highest is only now nearing 500, so with my characters alone I could only complete part of the overall list. If a dedicated badger with lots of badges is willing to run this and share their logs, I would be glad to parse the data and start fleshing out the integer list.

After checking all my characters I am satisfied that these files work as intended. I've attached them here if anyone else wants to use them, at your own risk of course. I changed the execution from how BovineAvenger originally posted. Rather than cycling through the NUMPAD keys and loading a new bind file once that cycle was complete, I use one key and reload the next bind file automatically with each keypress. It was simpler for me that way. My Z key was not bound to anything so I chose to use that key. If your Z key is bound to something, you have two options. You can export your current keybinds and copy your current Z bind into file st301.txt in the attached zip. That file is the last in the sequence and resets the keybind to its original state (which is 'nop' in my case). The second option, which assumes some basic familiarity with Python and how to run Python scripts, is to choose another (preferably empty) key and to rebuild the files yourself using the Python script (bt_builder.py) included in the zip file (it's in the badge_title folder with the rest of the files). If you choose the second option, you'll need to modify that Python script on line 1 to use a key other than Z. Just set the 'bind_key' variable to whatever you want to use. Running that script will replace the included files with your custom files. If you aren't familiar with Python I don't recommend this step, but Python isn't a particularly daunting language so it might not be hard to figure it out if one is so inclined. Any basic Python interpreter should allow you to modify and run the file, and you can get one from https://www.python.org/downloads/. This is written in Python 2, so be sure to use a Python 2 interpreter. So, to use the files: 1. Drop the badge_title folder from the zip file into the 'data' folder in your CoH directory 2. Using either the Z key or the new key of your choice, based on your options above, bind a command that looks something like: /bind Z "tell $name, BEGIN BADGE TITLE SET$$bind_load_file badge_title/st0.txt" 3. Press Z (or the key of your choice). This loads the first bind file, and sends you a tell that the process has begun. It will look something like this: 2019-08-06 20:49:48 Keybinds file loaded: badge_title/st0.txt 2019-08-06 20:49:48 [Tell] :Mitternacht: BEGIN BADGE TITLE SET 2019-08-06 20:49:48 [Tell] -->Mitternacht: BEGIN BADGE TITLE SET 4. Press Z (or the key of your choice) again to set the first batch of titles. It is set up to do ten badges per keypress. The output will appear similar to the below, individual badges notwithstanding. 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Keybinds file loaded: badge_title/st1.txt 2019-08-06 20:50:23 [Tell] :Mitternacht: 0 2019-08-06 20:50:23 [Tell] -->Mitternacht: 0 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Your badge title has been cleared 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Your badge title has been cleared 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Your badge title has been cleared 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Your badge title has been cleared 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Your badge title has been cleared 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Celebrity has been selected as new title. 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Sensation has been selected as new title. 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Superstar has been selected as new title. 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Tough has been selected as new title. 2019-08-06 20:50:23 Your badge title has been cleared With each keypress, the first action taken is to load the next bind file. Then it sends you a tell with the index number of the first badge in the list. Then it sets the badge titles in numerical order from 0 to 9. 5. Keep pressing Z (or the key of your choice) about 300 times to cycle through all the possible numbers. I spaced my keypresses by about 1-2 seconds so that I wasn't spamming the game too hard. I can't promise it will work right if you spam it faster than that, but knock yourself out if you want to try it. 6. When all the numbers have been set, it will tell you that the inventory is complete. Press the key once more to return the key to its original binding. It takes me about 10-15 minutes per character to cycle through all the keys. The main reason I included a tell to myself in there was so that the game would beep and I'd have audio feedback that things were working well. I just started watching TV, pressing Z, and listening for the beep to know that all was working right and I didn't have to pay too much attention to it otherwise. If you are familiar with Python feel free to modify the included python script to suit your needs. I am not a Python expert so there is probably room for improvement there. If you have any questions just let me know. (See post further down for updated zip file)

After some digging, I found some more typos in the badgetagger.txt files, and I believe that is why I was missing some badges after running these files. I created my own set of files using a Python script and did a test run last night. It appears to have successfully picked up all the badges for the test character. I plan on running the rest of my characters tonight to test it further. As I ran the test, I added the ability to roughly keep track of the integers for the settitle command, and comparing those numbers to the Paragon wiki settitle integer listing, the integers that Homecoming uses do not match for a subset of badges that I checked. It does not appear that the wiki list can reliably be used to set one's badge title with the settitle command. At this time I don't plan to share the files I have but if there is interest I am not opposed to doing that, once I am done testing it to make sure everything works fine.

My thanks to you both. There were already several cool teleporting tricks (like the LFG menu) but this one seems to have them all beat.

Just so I am clear, because this sounds too good to be true, but using the /enter_base_from_passcode command as described above will allow me to teleport into any base for which I have an access code, from anywhere within the game? If true, is there a variant that will let me teleport to my own base, or do I need to create a passcode for my base and just use the /enter_base_from_passcode command with that passcode?

As you have presented it, you would lose the set bonuses with the non-attuned set if you exemplar below level 32, since the set level is 35. With the attuned version, you could exemplar as low as 22 and still keep the set bonuses. Also I think you are stuck with whatever % bonus those enhancements offer at 35, whereas if you had attuned versions, they would increase in power as you level up to level 40. At least, that is how I understand it.

I ran these last night and found a few typos in badgetagger5.txt. The first is in the bind command for SHIFT+NUMPAD1. It currently reads (in part): SHIFT+NUMPAD1 "settitle 2969$settitle 2970$$settitle 2971 The second settitle command only has one $ preceding it. It should read: SHIFT+NUMPAD1 "settitle 2969$$settitle 2970$$settitle 2971 The other typos are in the bind command for SHIFT+NUMPAD2. The end of that line reads: $$settitle 2999$$settitle” That empty settitle command at the end causes an error (I think), and that end quote is not the right kind. The end of that line should read: $$settitle 2999" It took me a while to figure out that the quote style was wrong, and it's possible that the empty settitle is fine and that it was just the quote style causing the error all along. Since mid-May, I have been keeping chat logs and updating my badges by parsing those logs. I've noticed that my badge count in-game is off slightly from what my parser tells me. I decided to try these badge tagger files to see if that would help illuminate the badges that I am not picking up, but these files miss some badges too. I am going to keep digging into it and see if I can turn up anything.

From another thread a few days ago:

I built my first base about a month ago. If I had a nickel for every time I had to blow something up and start over, I'd have a sack full of nickels. Learning the tricks was definitely a trial and error process. You may know this already but when placing the water, you can hold shift when clicking the water surface to raise or lower it. That may help with creating the pool effect. I created a nice little pool in my base using that technique. If you are making a natural pool, there is a gravel floor surface in there that makes a great bottom for natural pools.

Zoning into the base, either via the portal or via a rez bay, always results in the character facing south. There is no way to change it that I know of. For water, look in the 'surfaces' tab after you click 'place item'. There are various water surfaces (calm, rough, etc) in there of varying sizes that you can place.

I use NUMPAD 1-8. I prefer using two hands on the keyboard so team selection, targeting, and most of my powers are accessed via the number pad and key combos.