Inspiration tray keeps getting moved to center of screen

[Bad Advice Fairy]

I have my inspiration tray undocked and I keep it in the lower-right hand corner of my screen. Roughly 70-80% of the time, when I enter a new zone (usually happens entering mission zones), my inspiration tray gets arbitrarily moved to the center of my screen.

 

Easy, but not predictable, to reproduce, I realize. I'd file this under "minor annoyance."

[Arc-Mage]

Have you saved your settings after you set your HUD the way you want it? 

[Reiska]

Checking in as someone else who also has this bug, yes I have saved my settings, and I usually have to reload them when I zone into a mission because of this bug.

 

Without knowing the underlying code I'd wonder if it's a symptom of CoH being originally designed for a 4:3 aspect ratio.

[Suicide Squirrel]

I have this same issue and it happens most often on the "TPN" maps, the interior maps to be more specific, the MJ arc is most notable with these maps but it does occur in some other instances as well. I wonder if it has something to do with incarnate generated maps.

[Jacktar]

Same problem and it seems at an increased rate.

The tray centered on entering every Yin TF mission last night and then on a different character when entering the Mender Incarnnate Alpha Unlock arc.

I have a screen layout save and bind but it is a minor annoyance given all the new shiny stuff to have this old bug unfixed still.

[SupaFreak]

Been happening to me on certain missions since HC went Live but I just deal with it.  Always happens on the Apex & Tin Mage TFs, that's for sure.  Can't recall offhand what other missions or instances.

[Herotu]

When I asked about this way back in the day, I was told it wasn't a thing, then I watched livestreams with it happening to streamers and I was vindicated. 

 

Like when you have a badge window open and you mouse over a badge and it grows in size and the name underneath is dark instead of light and you can't read it. people deny that it's a thing, but I know different.

Edited March 4 by Herotu

[Number Six]

5 hours ago, Herotu said:

Like when you have a badge window open and you mouse over a badge and it grows in size and the name underneath is dark instead of light and you can't read it. people deny that it's a thing, but I know different.

 

Have you tried that since the update? That was one of the UI bugs fixed in page 7.

[Tricnic]

The inspiration window moving when entering a mission happened to me just yesterday. It happens frequently on a new character, but at some point it stops happening on older characters. It hasn't happened for quite a while on my level 20+ characters, but still happens sometimes on my lower level characters.

[Herotu]

19 hours ago, Number Six said:

 

Have you tried that since the update? That was one of the UI bugs fixed in page 7.

Ooh it's fixed, it's fixed! Woohoo! Thanks 😄

[Marine X]

For me the Inspiration Tray Bug seems to happen almost exclusively with content that was added around when Going Rogue was launched. I can't recall ever seeing it on older missions. and see it on almost anything newer. Could just be my selective memory.

[Frozen Burn]

I don't recall it happening on any of the newer content - like what HC has released.  It seems to just be selective missions here and there - Yin is a memorable one as practically every mission does it.   

 

It doesn't happen on praetorian arc missions - at least, mostly.  One or two may squeak through?  But certainly not all of them.  So, it's not a "Going Rogue" issue for our Inspire tray to go rogue.  😄

 

I know I have seen it in various random one-off places - a single mission in an arc or TF here and there (Yin being the exception (maybe others too) having all missions in that TF doing it).  I've been dealing with the jumping tray for so long, I just automatically move it back without taking note of when and where it happened.  But perhaps, I will start taking note now. 

 

And perhaps, it may be an issue with certain maps?  

 

[ninja surprise]

1 hour ago, Frozen Burn said:

I know I have seen it in various random one-off places - a single mission in an arc or TF here and there (Yin being the exception (maybe others too) having all missions in that TF doing it).  I've been dealing with the jumping tray for so long, I just automatically move it back without taking note of when and where it happened.  But perhaps, I will start taking note now. 

 

I haven't been keeping track of which specific missions it happens on, but it happens on all my toons all the time regardless of the toon's level or zone. I have a wdw_load bind that I tap whenever I zone to put the Insp tray back where I want it (bottom of the screen, next to Chat).

Interestingly, I think on a few toons I put it at the top of my screen and it didn't move down from there, maybe it only moves up from the bottom.

[Snowdaze]

Well crud, I was hoping to find a fix for this, I'm getting pretty tired of it. Happens to me regardless of character and level. I cant discern any pattern that causes it, only that my insp try is normally even with and right next to the upper half of my chat window, and at random when zoning or loading a mission, it will move up about half it's height. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that it doesnt get too much in the way...

[mechahamham]

This affects me so often that I have a popmenu option to make a UI save file and then another to make a macro to reload it:
 

/wdwsavefile namegoeshere

/macro W wdwloadfile namegoeshere

 

Every character gets their own UI file so that I can, say, have my team and league windows set up as I like them and extra trays open on a mastermind.

 

The section in my custom popmenu looks like:

 

    Divider
    Title "Binds"
        Option "F7" "beginchat /bind f7 say <scale 1.50><color #FFFFFF><bordercolor #000000><bgcolor #00A000>F7!!"
        Option "wdwsavefile" "beginchat /wdwsavefile namegoeshere"
        Option "wdwloadfile" "beginchat /macro W wdwloadfile namegoeshere"

 

I hit this many, many times a day. You can be absolutely sure of this happening on a Penny Yin TF on any character.