Combat Log Spam is getting out of hand, needs to be worked on

[Myrdinn]

/signed

[mans0n]

/signed

A combat log saveable into a textfile would be awesome!!

Just a little combat.txt file for every quest/login/day or toon in the home ddo folder.

Its a horror, everytime i'll check the artis combat log.. because the chatclient only save a few poor lines from it.

Why u dont save this on our computers? So we may follow a whole saved log quest, after and not during the happening.


my tipp: delete the whole chatclient with all the /waves /hugs and afk automatics buy MIRC, insert into ddo and everyone are happy ^^

[Dendrix]

I still cannot believe that we don't have the log written into a text file.

I'm sure there is a dev build or switch that will do this.

[Derysma]

/Signed

They've managed to lump Sneak attack damage into the regular damage when it happens, so they should easily be able to lump other kinds of damage.

[Devachan]

/signed.

[Anihsod]

The combat log is mostly useless. If the combat log simply didn't exist at all it wouldn't be missed at all .. other than when your toon gets a huge crit and you want to epeen about it ... or when you die suddenly and want to check to see what hit you and for how much. During a fight .. there's SO much useless info that the whole thing becomes useless.

[Drona]

/signed

[fco-karatekid]

...whole buncha stuff...

So, only one thing I noticed that needs to be added: This spam is/was a workaround to the real problem - the Character sheet doesn't reflect the character's buffs, etc. If the character sheet would ever be finished (I LOVE the new icons for spell power and doublestrike - THIS is what we need more of), this workaround spammage could be done away with (or made optional - which would be my preference, since on a blue moon I test stuff and rely on it).

[DarkForte]

Seems a bit excesive. And this DOES cause lag and slow down the game. If I log in as say Shiradis Champion, which only spams a few lines.. I log in nearly 5 seconds faster.

I believe you're seeing it backwards. The combat log spam isn't the cause of the lag. The cause of the lag is that magister/DI were implemented in such a way that a huge number of effects are applied in succession. The logs are just a symptom of that. I'm fairly certain fixing the log would have little to no effect on logging in.

[Shade]

I believe you're seeing it backwards. The combat log spam isn't the cause of the lag. The cause of the lag is that magister/DI were implemented in such a way that a huge number of effects are applied in succession. The logs are just a symptom of that. I'm fairly certain fixing the log would have little to no effect on logging in.

Seems you were wrong, they fixed this bug and I now log in much faster while in magster/draconic - about the same as in shiradis now, and swapping to magister or other destinies that had a lot of spam happens much more quickly.

However the spam related to my Elemental Savant remains on log-in. Plus a minor bit of spam left in a few destinies like Dreadnaught. That still needs to be quelled.

[Cap_Man]

For the love of clarity please make it so!

/signed

... and make the logs exportable.

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