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We'se turnin ur puppies into Nemesis Jaeger...
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Virtue is going to undergo a maintenance between 4AM Pacific Time (7AM Eastern Time) and 6AM Pacific Time (9AM Eastern Time). While it is a scheduled 2-hour downtime, the server may become available again earlier than the announced time.
We apologise once again for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding with this necessary maintenance. -
Virtue is going to undergo a maintenance between 4AM Pacific Time (7AM Eastern Time) and 6AM Pacific Time (9AM Eastern Time). While it is a scheduled 2-hour downtime, the server may become available again earlier than the announced time.
We apologise once again for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding with this necessary maintenance. -
Congrats Just_Blaze! And I thought the use of 3-letter words would make it that little bit more complicated.
Send me a PM with your choice of code. In the meantime, your title is set! -
Submissions open on Mondays only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between January 11, 2010 and July 26, 2010).
Welcome to our "Search the words, save the world" forum mission!
A super computer turned evil codenamed Ebil-o is attempting to take over our most powerful nations' computer systems and exterminate us puny human beings (how original, huh?). However, every week, a short window of opportunity allows us to break into Ebil-o's matrix and reset the timer leading to our undoubtedly apocalyptic end!
How do we do that, I hear you ask? Well, we happen to have an anonymous little helper and each week, he or she snail mails us a word search puzzle containing anywhere between 10 to 15 words related to City of Heroes related theme (Ebil-o likes City of Heroes; apparently, it helps him unwind after a long day hard at work planning to get rid of humanity).
Each week a new theme will be passed along and you will need to find the exact number of words youre being told exists within the block of letters you are given.
Your opportunity to save us all is through a word block located at the bottom of this post.
The goal is to be the first one to find the words based on the theme (without being told what they are), circle them in the word block (using Paint or an equivalent program) and then list them below it.
If you are the first one to answer with the correct words, you win and only then will we be able to input the words into Ebil-o's matrix, thus delaying our impending doom. As a token of our gratitude, we'll give you the "Ebil-o FTL [date]" forum title as well as 1 (one) costume code amongst the following ones:
- Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
- Freakshow Tank Boss
- Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
- Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
- Knives of Artemis Lt.
- Praetorian Clockwork
Rules
1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly " Search the words, save the world Contest with your submission.
2) Your reply must contain a number of words or names that will be defined every time this contest is run. Please refrain from posting more than the number of words indicated in every contest post. Only post the correct number of words or names, even if you notice duplicates..
3) Your reply must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 11, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.
5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count! Also, once you have posted your entry, do NOT edit it as any edit will disqualify you from that day's forum game.
6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines and to the Contest Official Rules and Conditions.
7) [I] If you win the City of Heroes® Search the words, save the world Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
-After reading the feedback from previous "Search the Words, Save the World" puzzles, I have made a few changes to how this will work and removed the failsafe.
- Note that if a word includes more than 1 word, they will run together in the puzzle. Example - Envoy of Shadows would be found in the puzzle as ENVOYOFSHADOWS
If there is not a winner by the end of the day, I will post the solution.
This week's word list consists of 11 Rogue Isles Neighbourhoods (whenever a neighbourhood name includes an article, i.e. "The", only the name following the article has been taken into account).
Monday, May 10th, 2010 - Word Block
Good luck all, and don't forget that the fate of the world is in your hands! -
COMBINED
Powers
General
- Corrected an error in Critter powers which could prevent them from being shut down in appropriate circumstances. Good examples are Reichsman keeping his max Resistance despite being shot with the Dimensional Grounding Ray, Green Mito's in the Lady Grey Task Force keeping their Healing Aura despite being held, and some critters retaining Hide when damaged.
Powers Customization
- Characters that had customized powers in Issue16 will no longer lose customization the first time they log in to Issue 17.
Auction House
- If the MAKE OFFER and POST are disabled due to too much activity, you will no longer be spammed with a huge number of announcements telling you about it.
- If the MAKE OFFER and POST are disabled due to too much activity, the buttons will become active again after a short time as they are supposed to, instead of remaining greyed out until the player logs out and logs back in again.
City Zones
- Midnighter Club Fixed a bug that sometimes caused characters to get stuck in the ground when moving between the Midnighter Club and Cimerora.
Global Email
- Messages with "<". "%", and "&" in the subject line will no longer be garbled.
Gameplay
- Fixed a few more rare random crash bugs.
CITY OF HEROES
- None
CITY OF VILLAINS
- None
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The maintenance is over. All Virtue citizens can go back to their home server safe in the knowledge that all baddies will be there waiting for them.
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The North American & European Training Rooms will be brought down on Friday, May 7th, 2010 between 2:00PM Pacific Time (5:00PM Eastern Time / 10:00PM British Time / 23:00 Central European Time) and 4:00PM Pacific Time (7:00PM Eastern Time / 12:00AM British Time / 1:00 Central European Time) for a publish.
Patch notes will be available after the publish.
Thank you for your patience while this. -
Virtue will be unavailable for maintenance, tomorrow Friday, May 7th, 2010, between 4:00AM Pacific Time (7:00AM Eastern Time) and 6:00AM Pacific Time (9:00AM Eastern Time).
We once again apologise for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience with this matter. -
Virtue will be unavailable for maintenance, tomorrow Friday, May 7th, 2010, between 4:00AM Pacific Time (7:00AM Eastern Time) and 6:00AM Pacific Time (9:00AM Eastern Time).
We once again apologise for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience with this matter. -
And Virtue is now back up and running again!
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Update at 3:06PM Pacific Time (6:06PM Eastern Time): Virtue is now back up and running!
Virtue will be taken down for a one-hour long maintenance between 2:30PM Pacific Time (5:30PM Eastern Time) and 3:30PM Pacific Time (6:30PM Eastern Time), today, Thursday, May 6th, 2010.
We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. -
Virtue will be taken down for a one-hour long maintenance between 2:30PM Pacific Time (5:30PM Eastern Time) and 3:30PM Pacific Time (6:30PM Eastern Time), today, Thursday, May 6th, 2010.
We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. -
Malheureusement il y en a trop pour qu'on puisse les poster individuellement. C'est pour cela que l'avertissement contre la racolage est global, pour que tout le monde en soit conscient.
En cas de doute, n'hésitez surtout pas à contacter nos GMs au travers de la plateforme d'assistance ou contactez-moi pour confirmation. En tous les cas, ne cliquez jamais sur les liens contenus dans ces emails !! -
Congratulations on tonight's success and good luck to the contest participants!
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Keep rocking Paragon City and the Rogue Isles
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COMBINED
Mission Architect
- Reduced the experience calculation point value of Ninjitsu/Hide from 5 to 1 and the multiplier from 1.0 to 0.5. The original calculations did not take into account that Hide's damage buff is not constant.
Auction House
- Fixed a bug that would delete an entire buy order for a stack of enhancements or inspirations when a single one was claimed.
Gameplay
- Fixed several rare random crash bugs.
- Fixed a bug that would delete anything sent as an attachment if there was a double quote (") in the body of the email.
Graphics
- Fixed a software conflict with some graphics cards using Intel chipsets that made the shader quality degrade significantly.
- Fixed a conflict with ATI-based PCs using driver versions 10.1 or 10.4. The game would crash if the user changed the 'Water Effects' slider to 'Recommended', disabled Advanced Graphics Settings, then moved the Water slider again.
CITY OF HEROES
- None.
CITY OF VILLAINS
- None.
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The Live Character Transfers are also available again!
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The Auction House is available again for your shopping pleasures. Thank you for your patience with this matter.
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Please note this extended maintenance is now expected to last 4 hours instead of 5.
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The Live North American and European City of Heroes servers will be offline for an extended maintenance as well as the implementation of a build on Tuesday, May 4th, 2010.
Start Time: 4AM Pacific Time (7AM Eastern Time / 12PM British Summer Time / 13:00 Central European Summer Time)
Expected Duration: 4 hours
Expected Finish Time: 8AM Pacific Time (11AM Eastern Time / 4PM BST /17:00 CEST)
Patch notes will be available after the downtime.
We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience! -
Congrats Stargazer, that was bloody fast too!
Send me a PM with your choice of costume code and territory so I can get that sorted out for you
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Submissions open on Mondays only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between January 11, 2010 and July 26, 2010).
Welcome to our "Search the words, save the world" forum mission!
A super computer turned evil codenamed Ebil-o is attempting to take over our most powerful nations' computer systems and exterminate us puny human beings (how original, huh?). However, every week, a short window of opportunity allows us to break into Ebil-o's matrix and reset the timer leading to our undoubtedly apocalyptic end!
How do we do that, I hear you ask? Well, we happen to have an anonymous little helper and each week, he or she snail mails us a word search puzzle containing anywhere between 10 to 15 words related to City of Heroes related theme (Ebil-o likes City of Heroes; apparently, it helps him unwind after a long day hard at work planning to get rid of humanity).
Each week a new theme will be passed along and you will need to find the exact number of words youre being told exists within the block of letters you are given.
Your opportunity to save us all is through a word block located at the bottom of this post.
The goal is to be the first one to find the words based on the theme (without being told what they are), circle them in the word block (using Paint or an equivalent program) and then list them below it.
If you are the first one to answer with the correct words, you win and only then will we be able to input the words into Ebil-o's matrix, thus delaying our impending doom. As a token of our gratitude, we'll give you the "Ebil-o FTL [date]" forum title as well as 1 (one) costume code amongst the following ones:
- Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
- Freakshow Tank Boss
- Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
- Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
- Knives of Artemis Lt.
- Praetorian Clockwork
Rules
1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly " Search the words, save the world Contest with your submission.
2) Your reply must contain a number of words or names that will be defined every time this contest is run. Please refrain from posting more than the number of words indicated in every contest post. Only post the correct number of words or names, even if you notice duplicates..
3) Your reply must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:
If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.
4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 11, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.
5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count! Also, once you have posted your entry, do NOT edit it as any edit will disqualify you from that day's forum game.
6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines and to the Contest Official Rules and Conditions.
7) [I] If you win the City of Heroes® Search the words, save the world Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.
-After reading the feedback from previous "Search the Words, Save the World" puzzles, I have made a few changes to how this will work and removed the failsafe.
- Note that if a word includes more than 1 word, they will run together in the puzzle. Example - Envoy of Shadows would be found in the puzzle as ENVOYOFSHADOWS
If there is not a winner by the end of the day, I will post the solution.
This week's word list consists of 15 Powers used by Arachnos agents (no exception).
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 - Word Block
Good luck all, and don't forget that the fate of the world is in your hands! -
The live Character Server Transfer has now been disabled and we do not expect it to be back up and running until after the weekend.
We will let you know as soon as it can be made available again.
We apologize for this further inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. -
- Catalyst 10.2 drivers have a conflict with Ultra Mode features. After toggling between graphics quality levels and pushing "Apply" in the UI the game framerate may drop dramatically until you quit the game and restart. In order to avoid this issue please update your drivers to the latest 10.4 version.
- The command "/chan_timeout <channel name> <duration>" is not working currently.
- In Mission Architect, the Unique map Grandville- The Fab has pathing problems. Pets will not be able to follow you, and it will not be possible to complete some mission types.
- Tailor - the tails of a trench coat automatically set to Long>Basic when entering a tailor session with a trenchcoat with tails set to something other than Long>Basic. Changing it back to the correct selection before purchasing a costume does not result in a charge.
- Windowed mode causes the NPC portraits to resize significantly.
- Some area buff powers still only affect a maximum of 16 player allies: Force Field/Dispersion Bubble. Kinetics/Inertial Reduction, Radiation Emission/Radiant Aura and Accelerate Metabolism, Sonic Resonance/Sonic Dispersion, Storm Summoning/Steamy Mist, Thermal Radiation/Warmth, Fortunata Seer pet Mind Link.
- If you already have a level 20 or higher character, you must log them in before you're granted access to the EATs.