Zwillinger

We're currently working on bringing the servers back online ASAP, once they pass QA smoke testing. Freedom will be coming back online first (we wanted to check the largest number of character records that we could) with the EU servers to follow.

Thanks for your patience all.

Update 11:00 AM PDT - We're still investigating the issue and do not have an ETR as of yet. We'll keep everyone posted.

Hey all,

We're investigating this issue now.

Thank you for your reports and I'll give everyone an update just as soon as I have concrete information.

- Z

Massively.com just posted an all new Dev Diary with John "Protean" Hegner (aka; Johnny Ambush) talking about the design behind the all new Admiral Sutter Task Force and the Mortimer Kal Strike Force, coming with Issue 20!



"Greetings and salutations, dear readers! I'm John Hegner, the Lead Mission Designer here at Paragon Studios for City of Heroes, but some of you may know me better as the dangerously charming Protean. But that's neither here nor there. Today I'm here to talk to you about my experience crafting the new Admiral Sutter Task Force and the Mortimer Kal Strike Force, for a content release I like to call Issue 20 -- Incarnates!"

You can check out the article in it's entirety here, and be sure to share it with your friends!

Join in the discussion here!

Massively.com just posted an all new Dev Diary with John "Protean" Hegner (aka; Johnny Ambush) talking about the design behind the all new Admiral Sutter Task Force and the Mortimer Kal Strike Force, coming with Issue 20!



"Greetings and salutations, dear readers! I'm John Hegner, the Lead Mission Designer here at Paragon Studios for City of Heroes, but some of you may know me better as the dangerously charming Protean. But that's neither here nor there. Today I'm here to talk to you about my experience crafting the new Admiral Sutter Task Force and the Mortimer Kal Strike Force, for a content release I like to call Issue 20 -- Incarnates!"

You can check out the article in it's entirety here, and be sure to share it with your friends!

Oh don't be so sadface...

We've got other things tomorrow, like the UStream Live Cast tomorrow night at 6:00 PM PDT and...other things.

Nope, no Issue 20, no Global Server Access and, sadly, no free punch and pie for everyone tomorrow.

We're just doing a bit of additional database maintenance which requires more time than normal.

OR ARE WE...



Yes, we really are

Global Name: You'll see
Server you mainly play on: Don't you wish you knew...
Level of PvP experience: A decent amount several years ago, however in general I'm a veteran of plenty of MMO PVP
Access to Ventrilo and/or mic: Yes.
Ability to meet at 9pm est on Fridays: Yes

I'll see you all there on the 15th .

I do understand the desire for account mergers, however much like game design, the introduction of a new service is something that goes through a considerable amount of...well, consideration (business and production/scheduling), development time and testing.

If we decided to introduce any new account service, it would be something which would be announced well in advance and would go through a lot of internal testing.

When it comes to account services we want to deliver the best possible service we can to our community, and as such your feedback and requests, specifically in this thread, are been forwarded along to the ops team.

And now for something completely different...

I've spoken to production regarding the Global Channel collisions, and I do have an answer for you all, however it's not one that the Community Team feels best represents the interests of the players. We're working with production on potential solutions and will come to you once we have that information.

Thanks all for the continued dialog.

- Z

At this time we do not have any plans to provide account mergers.

I think it's something to do with rasslin?

Don't worry, I'm paid to keep up with meme's and even I don't know that.

Hey guys,

Sent the email awhile back and got sidetracked on the follow up.

I'll see if I can't dig a bit more this week.

Thanks!

First off, welcome to the Community! We're glad to have you and Beastyle will be by with the welcome casserole eventually.

Secondly, just looking at the responses in this thread is a great example of what's so awesome about the CoH Community. While critical at times, we are, for the most part , some of the most helpful, friendly and occasionally hilarious folks you'll ever find this side of the intarwebs.

- Z

Happy Friday everyone! This week's check in is going to be brief; partly because I'm at home sick today, partly because it's been a fairly quiet week.

• All references to "that song" by Rebecca Black will be met with swift and decisive justice...Nemesis will be contacted and The Well will not be pleased.
• Don't forget that Open Beta for Issue 20 is going on now until Monday on the EU Training Room and the NA Beta Server. Thanks to everyone who's been coming out to the focused testing events! They've been great fun and I've really enjoyed getting to know the Community in this way.
• Since I moved to Northern California we've had a Tsunami and 7 days straight of rain. I'm going to build an ark. I'll need two of each AT to please line up and be prepared for embarkation.
• We've not forgotten about the producer's letter. Second Measure has been toiling away at it and we will have it for you soon!
• Don't forget to join us for our very first UStream live Video chat! Protean, Black Scorpion and myself will be talking about the upcoming content in Issue 20 and answering your questions. So please, join us as we'd love for this format to be successful so we can continue doing more live video chats.
• While you're at it, toss us a follow on Twitter and a Like on Facebook. Every like and follow helps us to build a better and stronger Community presence within Paragon Studios and allows us to do cooler and bigger promotions
• The Well made me do it.

Have a great weekend everyone, both in game and IRL!

Hey guys,

I've been watching this thread for awhile now. Just a reminder, let's keep the discussion on point here, the future of CoX, and not diverge to discussion of other games.

Thanks

- Z