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Well, at the very LEAST for accessibility for those that have sight issues, it should be an option.

Yup, sounds like something in Windows 7 specifically, related to a patch that the HC team released after live. I wish I'd noted when I first started seeing the bug, then they could trace it down to which patch and look at the code that that patch contained.... que sera, sera.

+1. I'd LOVE to see more of this kind of collaboration in the CoH Community. That's why I'm making my stuff open source, where possible (for legal reasons).

Frankly, I don't know how some things get pinned and some don't. Seems arbitrary.

Question: Do you two have Windows 7, Windows 10, or some other operating system? I experienced this issue on Window 7 after a certain patch, and then I upgraded to a new PC with 10, and the problem went away. I'm wondering if it has something to do with that.

FYI, this is a known issue, and from what I've heard, someone might be looking into it in the near future... maybe.

[glow=white,2,300]+9001!!!![/glow]

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Get Assault on a Defender, ALWAYS. ASAP. The damage boost really helps soloing.

Senticon exists for costumes. Something similar could be done for the WHOLE character. I think it'd just require a "checksum" that's hashed and unique and constantly changing, requiring validation with an external server. It's possible, but I don't think it'd be easy. +1 for the idea. I wish I had more time to work on something like this. Hey, anyone want to pay me $100K to replace my current full time job and pay me to make software for City of Heroes?

That being said, the idea sounds like an interesting concept. +1!

LOL, YES! +1

+1. Let's fix it all! Who's ready to jump in and start learning how graphics/animations work? We need some skilled graphic artists in this hizouse!

+1. I'd love to see a LOT of new power pools added.

+1. Or, better yet, let's recode it so that there's no need for "body types" at all...

Okay, 1? That is AWESOME. I want to see more ASCII art/emoji art like that on these forums, and 2? /JRanger

I don't see why not... Because the format in the pages is consistent across all of the pages. I just have to think of the right schema to use. And it will take a LOT of processing time to get these flat files shoved into whatever schema I decide on.

Okay, so I had a few minutes today to look at the files. It looks like they are straight up flat text files, that have a header that looks something like this: WARC/1.0 WARC-Type: response WARC-Record-ID: <urn:uuid:68cc19fb-7c62-4272-bc46-cba8947d160d> WARC-Warcinfo-ID: <urn:uuid:0e8969e5-67a8-4bb8-b607-e79a4836ebbb> WARC-Concurrent-To: <urn:uuid:16c1fe48-6d6e-43be-8b13-87be55268e5e> WARC-Target-URI: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=3389674 WARC-Date: 2012-09-05T03:16:33Z WARC-IP-Address: 64.25.35.208 WARC-Block-Digest: sha1:LXWNSCSQQ556BB2MHJKI4RM4QS7NZQWA WARC-Payload-Digest: sha1:VMESDRD3S6VLSNDJG76JRJAGAJW3K5H2 Content-Type: application/http;msgtype=response Content-Length: 159891 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:16:33 GMT Set-Cookie: bbsessionhash=ff91b849f3c8e8e8e9441213ec5aa751; path=/; HttpOnly Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=1346814993; expires=Thu, 05-Sep-2013 03:16:33 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=0; expires=Thu, 05-Sep-2013 03:16:33 GMT; path=/ Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache X-UA-Compatible: IE=7 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Set-Cookie: bbreferrerid=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bbuserid=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bbpassword=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bblastactivity=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bbthreadedmode=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bbsessionhash=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bbstyleid=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Set-Cookie: bblanguageid=deleted; expires=Tue, 06-Sep-2011 03:16:32 GMT; path=/ Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=44 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Set-Cookie: TS32e4e1=af9d022137a22c65678290c519cf5e4595d529eff757377d5046c3ca; Path=/ Transfer-Encoding: chunked 74 And then after that cryptic number 74 (it's a random two character string, I'm guessing some sort of checksum), then you get the actual CONTENT in raw text format. Usually, the contents of an entire HTML page. Sometimes, it's the "gobledygook" of the raw code for an image, for example. I don't think we want or care about those images, right? Or is that a bad assumption to make? I can parse the text, and scrape the actual webpages for the HTML values, and shove them into a database (along with the unique URL as an identifier) so that it's searchable, either by text, or by the URL string. Then, after you search, you can be presented with a page like my Dev Tracker, where I "recreate" the HTML in a sub-window. The caveat to this is that it will most likely be without ANY images in it, since the images were NOT stored in the WARC files, it seems. The URL will be pointing to probably broken images. But all of the HTML should still be good, so the words will be readable and have pretty much the same formatting you would have seen on the original forums. What say you?

I just want full MM character customization... but that would most likely require the engine be rewritten so that any time you get within X range of a Mastermind, your system automatically downloads the custom mobs from the server... that would be ideal rather than having all of the potential custom mobs download when the game starts via a patch.

HAHA! I missed seeing the Deth Kicker too! There were a whole bunch of those. Damn I wish I could even remember the URL of that site, so that if it was gone I could find it via the wayback machine...

It's true. You can actually play. Be prepared to be happy.* *after you get past any tech issues that may arise with initial setup.