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@RubyRed this interface is FANTASTIC! Certainly anything above and beyond what I could ever make. Would you possibly be interested in collaborating with me at some point in the future on my own project? I would love to have your "CoH look and feel" implemented in my future Field Trainer.

Here's my official announcement thread.

Oh yeah, I got one of those. Here's a hint: "NOBODY puts Baby in a corner."

Yeah, that's the weird thing @Redlynne. I was talking about this kind of stuff, making these tools, over in Ourodev chat literally MONTHS ago, and asking for assistance in "craking the code" so to speak, and there were several (presumably) guys saying very partonizingly, "oh yeah? parsing def files? making web planners? dude, we did that a LONG time ago", and then sending me a screenshot of a tiny bit of data (just like I posted here). So, I gave up at that time, because I figured, why waste my time when there were people already farther along that path than I am. I wish I'd recorded those dude's names, because here it is, months later and... where's the result of all this work that they supposedly have done? Where's the product? I suspect that they were puffing up their chests as some sort of display of alpha male dominance or something, because... where's the beef?

Another trick I like to do is to converting inspirations. Thee inspirations you don't need can be converted into one you do with a single right click menu option. All that junk that drops can be useful.

@Redlynne Well I kinda sorta already do with my powers checker: http://www.cityofplayers.com/pks-tools/ I just haven't put the work and effort yet into looking into the code to figure out what all those attributes actually MEAN. I kinda thought someone else would have taken that collection of data, being intrigued, went through the code from the leaks, figured it out and presented it to everyone by now.

He's one of only six people on my ignore list for reasons like that.

I disagree. I think the best place to start getting folks to work together is to just ignore those posts that don't promote that goal, and try to invite those people that post them to the community with open arms. "Calling out those fearmongers" only continues the perpetual cycle of tribalism. The best way to stop that tribalism is not with more tribalism - it's to widen the tribe to include EVERYONE. For only love, can conquer hate:

Ironic that a hologram would say this...

Firey Melee Firey Melee Psionic Melee (against all but certain types of mobs)

Have you posted anything here yet? This is pretty much where we're centralizing all sound-related discoveries:

Hmmm.... I'm watching this thread. I might post my solo-only build here later. Maybe.

*snort, grumble* HEY! I was sleeping here! What the hell do YOU want @WanderingAries??? I need my bunk time! *flops back down and faces the other way*

Actually, I DO love Dark Souls and Demons' Souls. The Souls' series is one of my favorites. I guess I grew up with Nintendo Hard, so finding anything that matches that in the modern era has been... a challenge. Most games just hand hold you through everything. It's been... frustrating for me. I guess that's my reason for the /JRanger, because it would take some of that "Nintendo Hard" away from me at the early levels... which are actually (contrary to the opinion of most of the playerbase it seems), my FAVORITE part of the game. That's one of the reasons why I re-rolled my namesakes literally dozens of times on many, many different servers and brought him up to level 50 over and over again. All I can state is my opinion. This game should be all about OPTIONS. So, if it's a new "power" that gives newbie modern players that didn't grow up with Nintendo Hard a way for them to enjoy the game more? I'll only accept it if it's an OPTION, rather than mandatory. I'm frankly still kind of ticked that they dropped Travel Powers unlocking down to level 4, UGH.

I always level "classically". I've never actually been involved in a "DFB", I don't even know what it stands for, though I've heard the term waved around as some sort of powerlevelling at the early levels.

Exactly, @Luminara. And, if my beginner's understanding of the code is anything remotely close to accurate, there might also be the possibility of Homecoming being a central AuthServer, which points to many different groups and their servers that would display in the Shard/server list. AFAIK, there's nothing in the code that says that all the servers have to be owned and operated by the same people (there's separate listings in the code for different IP addresses). I just think the current groups just haven't had the time to look into this aspect of the code, as they all seem to currently keep things separate. But, I think there's the possibility already written in the code for a coalition of separate owner/operators that all use the same launcher. I could be wrong about all of this, of course, but I don't think I am.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powergaming But, I like this explanation best:

Looks like you solved your own problem. Also keep in mind that the Rest power has zero recharge time. You can literally rest after every battle. I see no issue here. /JRanger

Yeah, it's been my understanding from comments made by the HC team (I think @Number Six and @Cipher mostly), that for the upgrade to 64 bit operation, and the changes that they made to the underlying code cleaning it up and porting it over to the newer versions of Visual Studio, the code that they have now barely resembles the leaks that Cake would have gotten way back when. So, two roads diverged... That's not to say that Cake's stuff CAN'T be implemented, it's of course possible, the question is - how much work would it be. And only the HC Devs can answer that one, since they are the only ones that know their own code.

FYI, just to give you a preview... I'm already starting to do prep work for the Planner, which is what I expect to be the "winner". Lookie at what I've been scraping from the .def files:

Yeah, well, that's no problem, I'll be hiding it behind a virtual directory or short url.