Starhammer

I have a workaround for this that is vastly easier than hoping the devs get to it 😛 /wdwsave will save your windows in the state they're in. if you want to set some windows to be in the same spot even if you don't have them open regularly, open them, /wdwsave, close them, /wdwsave again. then bind /wdwload to a key that's easy to hit. I'm especially fond of /bind HOME "+up$$forward 0$$noparticles 0$$optionload$$chatload$$camreset$$camdist 50$$wdwload" because it resets a bunch of other stuff in case of changes as well. Then anytime anything is wonky, tap HOME and it should be fixed.

Heh, last time I filed a bug report, I got an email saying I should just post in the forums instead 😜

I agree completely with your take on it. The only time I block people here is over tone rather than content. Folks can disagree with me vehemently to no end and it rarely bothers me... but when they start getting rude, abusive, or intentionally obtuse... trolling basically, it stops mattering what their opinion is because their delivery is more unpleasant that it's worth. Again, it's all about whether someone is making the use of the forums or game worse or better.

FWIW, I play a few characters with Energy Blast (including my main, a FF/EB Defender). I only have to clip the KB on a couple powers to make it basically a non-issue. Most of those have a % chance of KB, and if the chance isn't real high, I just leave it be. If anyone's gonna complain about my KB it'll be on Nova, which I intentionally leave it there for. Otherwise it's just about careful positioning to make sure if there is KB, you're playing handball against a wall with the target anyway.

Personally, I'd love to see all non-Titan Weapon melee models available in every axe/mace/blade position. In the end, what I'm watching is the weapon model and animation. Damage Type falls in with the "invisible math"

Inf would be tremendously useful for me to be able to see. Can't count the times I had to search through sometimes dozens of the alts that had been played more recently to see which one forgot to email the 300 million inf back to myself... I'd like to see: Active Badge (easier) or a check box for a specific accolade (more useful... like have you unlocked Patron Powers on this toon?) Also, more in line with the OP, it'd be nice to see if there's a difference between actual level and trained level say for when I gain a few levels and log without training, then don't come back to that toon for a few days/weeks/months, knowing just from a glimpse on character select, Oh, I need to log in and train this guy.

I'm in the crowd that would love to see at least an alternate animation for Penetrating shot. It's great if your character is doing circus tricks or something, but I can't stand it. I have a LOT of Dual Pistols characters, and my solution is I usually just skip Bullet rain and Penetrating Shot. Sometimes I'll make an exception for Bullet rain if it's a Wanted style "bend the bullet's path" character, or some Runaway style micromissiles or anime reflex warheads tech. All the rest are fine. I don't think alternate animations would be a suitable answer for Bullet Rain though, because the problem is less the pistol animation, and more about the bullets falling from the sky.

Create a legally separate LLC that uses donations to fund hiring programmers, artists, etc per task on contract to create compatible code, art, animations, etc that can be then made freely available to homecoming for use in updates. I'm sure the lawyers and bean counters could figure how to make it work if they wanted to... then it's a matter of convincing the "Shut up and take my money" crowd to trust this second party.

This game was originally inspired heavily by Champions (offline). I wish we had it's mechanism for knockback, in that it more or less caused falling damage (halved if you didn't hit a wall or whatever). Now obviously falling damage has been nerfed to the point of being generally irrelevant for all but the lowest lowbies, but it'd be less of a kick in the teeth if instead of just making the tank play fetch, KB caused some supplemental damage on secondary impact. I don't think it's ever happen, and I can live with KB/D/U just being a soft hold... but it'd be neat.

if it's something that could be done via CoH Modder, I suppose there's nothing keeping anyone from "rewarding" skilled modders for creating a desired mod... I'd buy a coffee for someone if they could make a mod to give Star Wars blaster sounds to Assault Rifle and Soldier of Arachnos guns (the gunshot sounds anyway, the grenades and flamethrower are fine as is). Or turn the electric support bubble into something less seizureific 😛

I do that too. but I have so many alts with so many save files, sorting that list can take as long as resetting a few values individually. Often it's just after you get a few new powers, the easiest way to set their colors to match the rest is obviously to "Match all powers" but if you have a1 or more powers that are supposed to be different, it catches them too. If you load a save file to fix it, then you've undone the matching you wanted. It's just another tool I'd like to see in the box. I expect that's another layer of complexity that would get in the way of making this happen... not only would costume save files have to record the colors (as they do now) but they'd need to record a new setting for which, if any powers are marked as locked. I'm sure that's possible, but such added complexity shifts the time/difficulty vs reward/usefulness balance 😞

How is it possible that you took my statement to mean that I believe I have to do that to be a part of CoH? I think there's a lot of room for improvement in the system. I think the CoH auction house is the best AH in any mmo I've experienced, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to reduce some of the busywork, since we aren't selling premium packs, jetpack subscriptions, or needing players to expend playtime to extend their service subscription. I'm not saying the active servers need to change to "everything is always free, like on test" but we could move a few elements around. Don't look to be disdainful of those who don't love everything you love just the way you love it.

I just want to say I really enjoy seeing your post in bigger letters, a different font, and bold yellow colors. It makes it stand out nicely. These walls of text can be such walls of text sometimes...

Generally speaking, about "suggestions" on any game in continued development, I often doubt any developer would take any interest in any of it (aside from @GM_GooglyMoogly looking for an excuse to give folks the hairy eyeball when they get out of hand). They all play the game. They all have their own ideas they can't implement fast enough. Anything we suggest is only going to be a repeat of something they already want, or something they consider less important than something they already want. So for the most part, I believe we're just spinning our wheels here. But, that's for the most part. When you're mining you gotta move a lot of dirt to find a speck of gemstone. Sometimes we get a little traction. @Cobalt Arachne has been quite interactive regarding costume requests and suggestions in the last pass (I still wanna see Grenade Launchers available for Dual Pistols). We can't know what they do read, and we can know they don't have time to respond to most of what they read. But they're only human like the rest of us, so I hate to not post what I think is a good idea, or a good criticism of a not-so-good idea, based on the presumption that they already know... As I recently mentioned to someone else, I learned that particular lesson when I assumed a friend I was offroading with saw the big honkin rock he was driving towards... the one that took out his axle. Now I presume people don't know and speak up. As for the forumites who seem to prefer hanging out here and being difficult and rude rather than playing the game... Just ignore them. Almost none of us know each other in real life, and if anyone, even me, is making your experience of the game more bad than good, there's no reason to continue coexisting with them. Block and move on with life. Nobody will know, nobody will care, but you'll find yourself a little less aggravated when you're in the neighborhood.

All the Vader impressions, even by other humans, never seem to get JEJ's actual tone right. It's like they remember it being deep, so they aim too deep, and it ends up not matching what was.