Official CoH Announcement : i14 SG Changes

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Greetings Heroes & Villains,

With Issue 14 there will be some slight changes to the ranking system that you are currently familiar with. Here is some background and information that should be useful for you to prepare for the new issue.

The new ranking system is mainly needed by our internal Customer Support team. This feature allows GM's to assist players in resolving issues that may affect an SG or Base.

This tool essentially allows us to resolve your tickets more rapidly, keeps us from getting involved in SG/VG political drama, and also keeps groups that may have lost leadership from losing access to a fully operating base.

The new rank introduced in this issue is called, duh, duh, duh… “Super Leader.” The super leader title does not have to denote actual leadership or rank within the SG, consider them mainly to be the key master or owner of the group.

Due to the current format in game, we had a few options, we could either demote everyone but one person or we could auto promote a single leader into the new position. We opted to go with the second option.

So when Issue 14 goes live, the highest ranking leader that had most recently logged in will be promoted to the “super leader” position. This ensures that every group that is currently active will have someone who recently played the game in this rank.

Any of you wishing to pinpoint who that person should be can effectively set up those permissions now by changing the ranks of members so that you have the one person you would like to have this access be the only SG leader at the time Issue 14 goes live.


We understand many of you may have questions & concerns as always we are here to help clear up confusion.

We appreciate your feedback.

Sunstorm

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Please post comments and questions about this announcement in this thread.

If I read correctly there's also a slight change to base editing as well. Let me see if I can dig it up...

Yep, here it is.

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Sunstorm
City of Heroes Developer

Re: So no base loving this issue either?
03/12/09 02:44 PM

Unfortunately, not many changes made for bases this
issue. Mission Architect was a huge project that took a great deal of
everyones time.

There is only one major fix for bases, along with a SG fix.

Storage
containers now have rank based permissions for each storage container.
So each container can be set so specific ranks can add or remove items
from that storage container.

Otherwise a super-leader position
was added to smooth out some of the leadership change problems.
Promoting a player to super-leader will make them the leader, and
demote the original leader.

I'm just gonna say it once....

DoooooOOOOOooOoOOoOOoOOOOOOOOOOOooOOoOooOoOooo::gasp::ooooOOOOooooM

...but no really i like these changes, but like i said in a different thread, however awesome mission architect will be, its sugar into a wound. FIX GAME MECHANICS FIRST! RESTORE PVP! BASE RAIDS! CMON FOLKS!

I'm with Peace on that, they've been pushing new content way too much. But that's another discussion. Does this mean we will have an official "Head Komtur" rank for Twiggy? If I'm reading this right, there is only a single Super Leader allowed per SG.

Mayhaps, maybe the "Super Leader" title will be invisible, and I'll still show as Komtur, ya know? I hope something like that, at least.

From what Sunstorm said, I interpreted it as this was a rank that was basically the Founder rank we've been asking for for years. This person is basically the same as every other leader in the SG, but they're the ones who the GMs and other support can point to as 'the person to talk to when things go wrong'.

I love the new storage permission changes. This'll give some much needed effects on that subject. And I also agree with Peace, although i love allt he new zones and content like Cimerora and Ouroboros, I would also love to see the base raids fixed. I've always wanted to participate in these, but noone ever does base raids because of the horrible setup. :/

Yeah, Twig's personal storage in his office can really be personal now!