Zombie Man

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Ignore the fact that I'm showing two different powers (oops). The Enhance tab is working for all powers.

News, Events & Announcements

• Announcements
• Discussion of Official Announcements
• Developer Digest
• Community Digest
• Calendar

Development

• Training Room/Test Server: Bug Reports and Discussion [For bug reports and problems connecting to the Training Room Server. Also for discussing events and patches on the Training Room Server.]
• Open Beta Server: Bug Reports and Discussion [For bug reports and problems connecting to the Beta Server. Also for discussing events and patches on the Beta Server.]
• Live Server Environment: Bug Reports [For bug reports and problems connecting to the Live Servers only. Please use the other forums to discuss the content of the Live Servers.]
• Technical and Computer Issues (mac, linux, pc)

Feedback & Suggestions

• Suggestions & Ideas
• Hot Topic: Paragon Market & Paragon Rewards
• Hot Topic: Issue 21
• Hot Topic: Freedom! Free to Play and Premium Account Issues

Player to Player Help and Discussion

• Game-Play Questions
• Archive of Player Guides
• Player vs Player
• Inventions and Auction House
• Mission Architect
• Base Construction

For Fun

• City Life -- General City of Heroes: Freedom Discussion (merged w/ EU & Oceanic if possible)
• Role-Playing
• Multimedia & Fan Creations
• Comic & Hero/Villain Culture
• Forum Games

Archetypes - Leave as-is

Servers - Leave as-is; SG/VG recruitment done within server subforums



Edit: a few tweaks based on suggestions below.

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• Developer's Corner -- no longer needed. Developer communications can be made in Announcements (including diaries, focused feedback topics, etc...) and then a discussion thread placed in Discussions.

• Copy Tool -- Already exists as a link at the top of the Training Room forum. Also put it as a link at the top of the Open Beta forum.

• Badges -- Badges that already exist have info that is already archived in Player Guides and the Wiki. Discussion of badges usually on centers on new badges, which is just with each issue release. And by the time the Issue is released, all the badge info is already archived. So... this forum is not really needed since almost all badge discussion happens during Beta.

• Bug Reports -- It's been indicated that QA and the Devs find bug reports made in the forums to be more helpful than through in-game /bug. So, it's really important, IMO, to have dedicated forums for bug reports that doesn't mix in other discussions.

• Hot Topics -- It would be great for the Big New Thing to get its own forum, even before it hits Live to consolidate all the discussions there. If it turns out that it will continue to be a big thing, then it retains its own forum (like Base Construction, e.g.). However, if the topic starts to wind down after the Big New Thing goes Live, then the forum can be merged into City Life.

• Can we decide on just one name for the Test Sever / Training Room Server so as to stop it with the confusion and lengthy naming schemes? (I'm in favor of just 'Test Sever')

• Player Guides -- please rename to Archive of Player Guides so that people will stop asking questions in it.

• Player Questions -- at some point, it's important to emphasize that it's Player to Player Questions so that folks will stop expecting red-name answers.

• EU/Oceanic -- maybe merge to an "International Communities" forum?

Sorry to be a Grinch, but there are tens of thousands of registered forumites. If they all inputted their birth dates, then each day of the calendar would have at least 10 birthday cakes in them.

Which would lead to 10 "Happy Birthday!" threads... per day. Seventy birthday threads a week. Three hundred a month.

I'd be in favor of the return of the birthday notifications only if publicly wishing people a happy birthday was forbidden... that's what PMs are for.

You totally miss the idea that there are indeed Guides that are several years old and are still relevant today: E.g., guides on finding a good name; how to role-play; how not to be a victim of real life stalkers, etc...

Many of those guides go years without new posts, but are still read often. The forum, when it purges, does not go by "was this read recently?" but by "was this thread posted-to recently?"

Thus, you're proposal would age-out perfectly good and still-relevant Guides.

So... no.

Besides keeping Guides in their own forum so that they're not purged, it's also a good idea to keep them in their own forum for Searching purposes. If you're looking for a Guide on Endurance management, it's very helpful to limit the search to the Guides forum, otherwise, you'll get 100 times more hits than you need.

When looking to streamline the forums, there are other 'systems' to take into account besides the point of view of a player: How the forums actually work (e.g., how forum purges work and how that affects what gets saved); and the point of view of the Developers, who need certain information gathered into one area, even if it's low-traffic.

I would rather this not be stated so black-and-white else the fear it gets enforced by the letter rather than the spirit of the law.

There is another important reason why necroing is a Bad Idea besides 'bumping' to get attention, namely, when it causes confusion over how recent the topic is. E.g., a thread with the topic "Jack 'Statesman' Emmert expresses ideas for the future of CoH" would be confusing to see at the top of Recent Posts.

However, there are cases where 'resurrecting' a thread is not done to bump it to the top of Recent Posts nor to generate confusion as to topicality. One case is with threads in the Player Guides section. Months after a Guide is posted, someone may have a question or further information. I would hate to see a Guide thread locked because someone reported a post that had a 30 day gap and some Moderator look at it and think "30 days? check... locking it." And before someone say that would never happen, it did in the previous Community Rep administration because a controversial poster posted in a Guide thread and someone reported it as necro-posting.

Also, the 30-day rule should be stated as a 'general rule of thumb', because not only can certain Mods apply it uncritically, there are a handful of forumites who seem a bit too vigilant on that rule.

Country song!

"If you can read this, ZZZAPP!!"

But it hasn't happened yet for our about-to-die Doctor.

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Bug.

And it's listed in Known Issues, which means that they're 'working on it.'

For the Incarnate pre-Beta, they asked those of us already in to submit suggested names for others to join in. I happened to slip in the names of all the Titan family programmers and mods (among others).

It was quite selfish: I wanted the latest version of Mid's to be come out with the Issue release, and I wanted to give other Wiki folk the chance to have a head start chronicling the game development.

Yes, the Devs did flub by saying "you keep everything you bought" when they should have said, "nothing is deleted when you go Premium, but some things may become pay-extra-for or completely unavailable while F2P. When you pay a la carte or go VIP, your stuff is still there!"

However, it was the playerbase that flubbed when they heard, "Incarnates come with purchasing Going Rogue" when that was never said. What was said was "Incarnates are *unlocked* by purchasing Going Rogue." That's a distinction that was clear, but it was a distinction people didn't want to hear.

When the Devs were creating End Game Content (i.e., Incarnates) they also knew at that time that FREEDOM was coming and decided that End Game Content was VIP-only. However, in order to monetize Incarnates until FREEDOM came, they locked it behind the purchase of Going Rogue *as an unlock*, not as *included in the box*. They were very clear about that as one can tell by Incarnates never being mentioned on the box.

They have changed the unlock feature for Incarnates from purchasing Going Rogue (and being a subscriber) to just being a subscriber.