Oklahoman

Sigh...

I wondered if anyone had noticed. 🙂 I've been spending the bulk of my gaming time lately on Tears of the Kingdom. I'm doing that thing now where Zelda says I really, really should go defeat the bad guy, but I kinda wanna work on my house more first. I plan to be back on COH again more soon.

Like you, I target Hami before the league heads out. When we get TP'd in, I hit one of my regular attacks which then forces me to face Hami. Thanks for coming out for the early Hamis!

I never require Discord for anything I run, but some league leaders do and probably have a better success rate with some of the tougher badges (I'm looking at you, Triple Threat). I really don't like Discord. Having said that, I scan through several COH related Discords and by and large there's nothing you are missing out on. The most active Discord I am in is for some of the Excelsior league leaders, and we coordinate who's running Hami in the Abyss, and debate whether Margot Robbie is mid.

Cut the crap, Snarky. You steal it on purpose and you know it.

I do wish the bug would get fixed, but I doubt it ever will. I think we have to live with it and look forward to new and unique ways to earn PAPs. I think (hope) people know I am normally very patient. This particular day the frustration really hit a new peak. I enjoyed the movie, though. 🙂

...I expect you can do the most basic things in the game. Had a BAF run the other day with a 50+1 to whom LFG had gifted the league star after we zoned in. They didn't respond to my tells, nor messages from others on their team. FINALLY they fixed it, then complained in league chat about everyone bombarding them with messages about the star. Look, I'm pretty easy going, but I'm seeing more and more 50+ players who can't (or won't): respond to tells pass the star use the map pass an item without a trade window use follow click glowies etc. I know a lot of people new to the game are just leveling up in AE then doing iTrials, and I don't even mind. Whatever floats your boat. But if you don't know the basics like these you need to do a little research before jumping in the deep end. I've mentioned before I wish we had some sort of "test trial" you had to complete to go from 49 to 50. Anyway, that's my rant today. I'm gonna go watch The Flash now.

It's Y2K all over again.

I've wished someone would look at Empathy again since Live, but I don't think anyone ever will. Honestly, if they would just change Resurrect to work more like what you suggest, I would call it good enough. I feel like Empathy rez should be the best in game.

Hami raids occur at least twice daily - one in The Abyss at 5pm Central, and one in The Hive at (I believe) 9pm Central. There's an additional Hami raid in The Hive on Friday nights, as well. A good place to look, though not everything is up-to-date: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/events/11-excelsior-player-led-event/ Also, in addition to Task Force Junkies, keep an eye on LFG and DON'T join in conversations there. 🙂

That would be me, at least on my main. I usually run with 8 team heals, 8 team reds, then 4 super rezzes, just in case. Pretty much all of my characters have RoTP and Return to Battle, so I often pass the rezzes to others unless things really go south. I don't use very many inspirations at all, normally.

If the concern is that LFG is overrun with farm requests, I was suggesting a programmatic solution. Have only 1 AE in Pocket D, then program the game such that if you are in Pocket D you cannot post to LFG. That then moves all of that chatter to a more effective environment from all. Moves, not eliminates. Otherwise, I can't really think of a way to move the farm requests from LFG and just have to accept them under the umbrella of "looking for group." That's all I'm saying. @Bionic_Flea mentioned there are numerous farm channels already, and we still see farm requests in LFG. Plus, you'll recall I ended I ended that post with this:

You asked why I don't improve what we have and post it to mods. I answered what that would look like, and maybe confused matters by not being clear. I would not want or encourage an external program that just looks for "BAF" to show up somewhere and automatically send a tell, assuming such a thing could even exist. It would be best for the user to see the advertisement and choose to click on the player name and select "Ask to Join." If we could add "Ask To Join" to the list of options mentioned in the first post, there is no need for the script I wrote at all. I cannot, as far as I know, use Powershell to automatically send that tell for the player. I can put the message on the clipboard, but the player would still need to hit enter, control-v, and enter in-game to send the message. Maybe someone smarter than me (which is a low bar to clear) can make that happen, though I don't think it would be a good idea for exactly the scenario you mentioned. If we can add it as an option to the list I showed in my first post, then no external script is needed. You may still want to use the other tool to get an audible alert and know you need to look at one of your chat windows.

It's possible @Michiyo could add my functionality to his program - I ain't a programmer and am treading water already, which is why it's a script. I'm not sure if any external program like that could automatically send the tell for you in-game, though. If it could be added in-game like I described above, then when you see whatever you are interested in you just click their name and select "Ask to Join" and you are done.

To clarify, what you describe is: Copy "I'd like to join your team" into your buffer. See something you want to join, click on their name, and select send message. Append to the tell that's now in your chat line with Control V and send. What I am proposing is: Optionally, the message in 1 could be set in your Options or perhaps even on your character ID along with stuff like your war cry, but I don't know if that would make the developers balk. The recipient just gets a tell - no new popups or anything. Just makes it quicker for someone to request getting on a team or league. Also, if you know how to build a macro that will look at LFG and see who just posted about that BAF and format a tell to them so you can just hit F12 or whatever, I'd love to see it. I'm not sure that's possible. @Michiyo wrote a program that will monitor the chat logs for key words and audibly alert you when something like, say, "BAF" shows up so you can try to join it quickly. I wrote a powershell script that will monitor the chat logs and when it sees a keyword (like "BAF") it will create a response text and copy it to your clipboard, so in game you could hit enter, control v, and enter to send. What I am suggesting here would basically be a better replacement for the script I wrote, and the other tool could offer an audible alert for you.

Boy, I hope you're right. 🙂

I think the better question is when would you NOT use an accordion reaction?

Cool, the times I've used it I got no response. Wasn't sure if the tool itself wasn't working or if everyone hates me. Thanks for clarifying.

What I am asking for is a way to quickly respond to someone who has said something in a channel visible to others, giving the example of quickly responding to an ad on LFG. I feel like what you are describing is what happens when people log on and see you are online as well. Two different things. Absolutely, I might just be hanging out in Ouro and chatting with people in broadcast, not forming anything at all, and get some tells this way asking to join whatever I am forming. I would get those anyway.

On this menu, I'd like to have added: "Ask To Join" - sends a tell to the character that says "Can I join you?" or perhaps some customizable message from Options. This would help to quickly respond to people forming teams and leagues. "E-mail Global" - opens a new email message pre-addressed to their global. Makes it easier for those of us who send prizes. While we are at it, does "Send... Team Leader Message" and "Send... League Leader Message" even work? If not, can we just remove them? It wouldn't surprise me if this is a popmenu somewhere we could override by placing a new one in the "menus" folder.

I must have downloaded the wrong movie. Mine didn't have most of this, but it did have Kate Winslet naked in one scene, so maybe that should have been my first clue it was fake.

Honestly, I don't know anyone who uses that tool as designed, and have a hard time seeing people suddenly starting to use it. It's an antiquated tool that doesn't really reflect how we form and join teams now. I'm sure some do use it, but by and large I think it was always a solution looking for a problem. I have seen a suggestion to create a "Looking for Farm" channel, which can easily be done already by whoever would care to create, manage, and promote it. Not me. The trick would be to get people to USE it, to make it a better choice than using LFG. The LFG channel still gets used as a quasi-General and Help channel as-is, because people get the results they were looking for. I suspect that even if we did create a LFF channel, people will still post to LFG about farms because that works for them better than any alternative we have right now. Until there is a solution that works better for forming or joining a farm, this is what people are going to do. I wonder if the only AE in the game was in Pocket D, for instance, would people find it works better to actually use broadcast or local to form or join farms? I think not, because you still could not join farms in-progress that may have an opening, but perhaps it would cut down on the traffic on LFG. Maybe we could decide that if you are in Pocket D you simply can't post to LFG at all, forcing people there to use broadcast and local. That hoses some folks who choose to form other things out of Pocket D, but that still leaves Echo Park and Ouro as very reasonable alternatives for iTrials and such. And, after all of that, they are still, in fact, forming and joining groups, which is appropriate for the LFG channel. They are using the LFG more correctly than people who post to LFG asking how to get to The Abyss, or which lore pet is best, or replying to someone who said something funny, or sharing that Tina Turner died, etc. Honestly, the farmers don't bother me near as much as the others I mentioned. At least farm requests are trying to form groups, which is what we need to sustain this game. The yappers make it harder for that to happen.

I double checked yesterday, and my Robotic Drones Core Superior Ally do not get Incan'd away. Like I say, my Dark Servant does, though. Weird that it affects different lore pets differently.