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Number Six

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  1. 15 minutes ago, Blackbird71 said:

    Old players make new characters.  If you're going to go through with making these new settings the default, then it would be nice if the "classic" settings could be chosen as default account-wide so that you don't have to remember to change it with each new character made.

     

    Click Classic. Click Save to default file. That takes 5 seconds and you never have to think about it again.

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  2. Known issues that will be corrected and don't need to be reported:

    • Existing characters using the new key bindings if they haven't previously loaded binds or customized the keys in question.
      This is intended to only affect new characters. We are planning to do a database-side migration of existing characters to the Classic key profile during go-live to avoid this issue.
    • Resizing UI windows causing the camera to move and interrupt the resize.
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  3. 1 hour ago, Fade said:

    Characters 1 and 2 had the new quicklook left mouse button features, new mouse movement functionality, new shift+# for the third tray buttons, and the new walking towards a turned camera (free-look) functionality.

     

    Confirmed this is an oversight. The game only saves the bindings for individual keys when they're changed, otherwise it falls through to the profile. Which means if you haven't customized the movement keys at all, the changes to the default profile would affect existing characters as well.

     

    To avoid any nasty surprises, the current plan is when Page 7 goes live, we'll run a database query to change the profile of all existing characters who are using "Default" to "Classic" instead. That way new characters will be created with the new defaults while leaving existing characters unchanged, as was intended.

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Fade said:

    This part is somewhat misleading. Previously existing characters ARE affected by these new changes (especially noticeable with the changes to free look and moving forward, and the change to how mouse movement auto-run works), but loading a bind file saved before the update reverts them.

     

    That's surprising since binds are saved serverside with the character. Will look into it as that's not how it's intended to work.

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  5. 42 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

    Sorry, I was at work and misremembered the correct name of the option that I'm talking about:

     

    Ahhh, personal player name.

     

    I was pretty sure we hadn't changed anything there so I checked the code all the way back to when HC started and it's always been just an on/off settings. Only thing I can think of is that you set it using a slash command or manually editing the saved settings file.

     

    It would be

    /option_set ShowOwnerName 6

     

    Not sure about changing the options to allow that normally, it's a super niche use case and I can't imagine it being as generally useful as the ability to show enemy names. May be a moot point anyway as I'm considering the suggestions for a target-of-target window but that would be an I28 thing at the earliest.

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  6. 27 minutes ago, Wiseguy said:

    Any chance we can get a "show only when alive" toggle? Not sure how hard/impossible this would be to stick in, since I don't think there's an option to manually /option_set it right now...

     

    That sounds complicated, because then you'd need to check if the target's HP is 0, track who defeated that target and check the alignment to see if it was a Hero or a Villain, handle exceptions and special cases like the target being a robot, etc etc. And what to do about Vigilantes, maybe a null the gull option for whether they kill or just incapacitate?

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  7. Also if you DO see someone whose behavior is over the line, please open a support ticket, preferably with screenshots or chat logs that include timestamps. The GM team can't monitor chat 24/7 and relies on player reports to know when they need to step in and calm things down.

     

    Even if that particular instance ends up being determined that it's not egregious enough for immediate action, it does build a record of repeat offenders and affects future decisions.

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  8. 4 hours ago, Fade said:

    One more voice for the "shrinking power icon support" chorus. This seems like the kind of thing that should be an option.

     

     There is a subtle "sparkle" effect that plays when a power is finished recharging by default. This disables the little sparkle.

     

    It also disables the shrinking icons altogether, even when NOT using the recharge timer, as well as the exploding "0" animation that coincides with the sparkle if you are using the timer in Centered mode.

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  9. One of the frequent complaints about the volume in this game is that it's somehow louder than everything else on the system.

     

    Yet last time I threatened to reduce the top end volume because nobody sets it above 20%, a couple people complained and said that for whatever bizarre reason, they have to set it to 100% on their weird old laptop and it would be literally unplayable if the top end volume changed.

     

    So yes, it does go to 11. But if you play with the slider you'll notice that if you push it to 100% it wants to snap there and it takes extra effort to go beyond that. And at 150% it is indeed louder than all those wimpy other games you have set to a measly 100%.

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  10. Experimental change on Breakout for early testing and feedback.

     

    Missions

    • Players now auto-exemplar down to the mission level when completing missions and storyarcs that have been outleveled.

     

    NOTE: The build now on Breakout has been refreshed to match what's in open beta, but also includes a few changes that are intended for open beta build 4. In order to not split tester focus, those changes are not documented here. If something unrelated to this experimental feature is encountered we ask that you please wait until it makes it to Brainstorm (Soon™) in order to keep the feedback together.

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  11. 46 minutes ago, Jordisk said:

    And I assume editing the list of shards that it checks is a hassle, so you can't just remove the two that are down and then add them back afterwards.

     

    We considered that but it would mean a second restart for everything else, which is maybe marginally better but also annoying for everyone.

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  12. On 1/30/2024 at 12:03 PM, Hyperstrike said:

    But look at how much memory gets held onto (Properties/Memory - Minimum Server Memory)


    Don't worry, we have a couple people on the infra/admin team who do enterprise SQL server tuning for their day job. We're very well aware that it will try to consume all available system memory for page cache.  😉

     

    But the reason it's so critically important to run SQL on a dedicated host separate from dbserver and/or other game components is exactly so that it can make use of all that RAM without having to artificially limit it to a much lower cache size to accommodate a variable amount of memory demand from other processes.

     

    That and dbserver is extremely sensitive to latency. It can't handle a stall if SQL is monopolizing resources and something gets paged out or has to wait on a kernel mutex.

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  13. 29 minutes ago, BlackHorde22 said:

    What's the largest factor to memory / data need?

    Could it be the Architect with soooooo many created maps taking up all the memory and space?

     

    No, on SQL it's simply having more buffer cache. It's about getting as much of the character database in-memory as possible to minimize I/O wait, which gets amplified in high load scenarios when the game's dbserver has a large amount of database transactions pending.

     

    AE missions are on a completely different VM and don't even go into SQL.

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  14. 16 minutes ago, Jordisk said:

    I understand that this requires a shutdown of the system used for those two shards, but why does it shut down ALL the shards? Two of the shards are on one machine, the other two NA shards are on another, and then the EU shard is on a separate machine in (IRRC) Germany. Shouldn't you just be able to shut down one machine, upgrade/replace it, then run a reset to make sure it is connected properly and running?

     

    Global services like the auction house, chat server, etc. work by the service itself connecting to each shard, and if one of the shards are down it tries to reconnect every few seconds. But it does this synchronously, freezing the entire process, and causes lag on the other shards if they are waiting for a reply from the service.

     

    Also accountserver is not the most well written piece of software and instead tends to get really crashy if shards are down.

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  15. 10 hours ago, Duuk said:

    Could I suggest that the long range teleporter be unlocked at 8 badges and not 10?  Right now it can be unlocked with 1 zone of exploration, which is 8 badges.  Making it change to 10 badges changes it from a level 1 unlock to a level 8ish unlock.

     

    Counterpoint is that with 8 badges you can get them all in Atlas and then you have a new shiny teleporter than only goes to... Atlas. Where you already are. You still have to get at least one more badge to unlock any other destinations, which isn't a great feeling for a new player.

     

    10 badges ensures that it actually has some use when you unlock it.

     

    Either way, feedback on that particular feature should go here:

     

  16. Rereading your post, the only thing that looks like possibly a bug is Critical Mass and Fallen from Grace sometimes spawning as EBs. The villaindefs for those only exist as bosses and don't define an EB rank, it's weird that they're somehow getting their rank upgraded.

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  17. Not a bug. Bank missions have always spawned a named boss, much like a lot of storyarc missions do. This is normally a boss rank enemy.

     

    Different bank missions have a different pool of bosses to choose from. The high level missions (looks like Founders and PI) also include a chance for a signature villain to spawn, if and only if there are 4-8 players on the team. Only if one of the signature villains is chosen does it spawn as an EB or AV, depending on notoriety settings, and only then because that's the only rank that exists for those villains. The spawndef doesn't specify a rank so it would normally try Minion, Lt, Boss in a random order.

     

    Couldn't tell you exactly what the chance is supposed to be at a glance. Safeguards are a bit of a house of cards when it comes to the way the mission is built, and there's multiple layers of randomized variables that are chained together. I do remember it's always been a fairly low chance as far as I can remember, since they were added way back in issue 8.

     

    It may be worth checking the page 7 beta to see if the rate is any better there. It wasn't explicitly looked at, but one of the underlying changes in page 7 was cleaning up some legacy code, and that included switching out the old rule-30 RNG that was still used a few places for a higher quality random number generator.

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