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*******The contest is now over, thank you to our participants. We will be announcing the winners as soon as possible*******

The festive season is here! Whether you call it Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or something else, everybody needs a little holiday cheer in their life. And what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to add a little color to your costume or freshen up the decoration of your base!

That's right! In honor of the holidays, City of Heroes® is giving you the opportunity to show off your decorating prowess by putting together a costume or a base interior that will astonish and dazzle us!

This contest will have two (2) categories:

• the most cheerful costume
  
• the most cheerful base or base room (a minimum of one room must be decorated).

Your submission* will be judged on originality, creativity, and the ability to achieve a Holiday theme.

If you choose to participate in the costume category, you will need to send us two (2) screenshots of your character (front and back).

If you choose to participate in the base category, you will need to send us two (2) screenshots of each room you've decorated (from one corner and from the opposite corner). Please note that we may need to arrange to visit your base in order to select the winning trio!

The total (not individual) size of screenshots should be 5MB or smaller and that they should be in .jpg format.

One entry per person ONLY will be accepted, so you will have to choose which category you'd like to enter!

So start decorating! We look forward to seeing how you celebrate the holidays in-game. Good luck!

*For the official rules and conditions, please go to our official US or UK website.

**We apologize for the fact that this particular contest is only open to our U.S. and U.K. players. We are rectifying this situation so that we are able to extend our contests to additional communities in the future.

*******The contest is now over, thank you to our participants. We will be announcing the winners as soon as possible*******

The festive season is here! Whether you call it Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or something else, everybody needs a little holiday cheer in their life. And what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to add a little color to your costume or freshen up the decoration of your base!

That's right! In honor of the holidays, City of Heroes® is giving you the opportunity to show off your decorating prowess by putting together a costume or a base interior that will astonish and dazzle us!

This contest will have two (2) categories:

• the most cheerful costume
• the most cheerful base or base room (a minimum of one room must be decorated).

Your submission* will be judged on originality, creativity, and the ability to achieve a Holiday theme.

If you choose to participate in the costume category, you will need to send us two (2) screenshots of your character (front and back).

If you choose to participate in the base category, you will need to send us two (2) screenshots of each room you've decorated (from one corner and from the opposite corner). Please note that we may need to arrange to visit your base in order to select the winning trio!

The total (not individual) size of screenshots should be 5MB or smaller and that they should be in .jpg format.

One entry per person ONLY will be accepted, so you will have to choose which category you'd like to enter!

So start decorating! We look forward to seeing how you celebrate the holidays in-game. Good luck!

*For the official rules and conditions, please go to our official US or UK website.

**We apologize for the fact that this particular contest is only open to our U.S. and U.K. players. We are rectifying this situation so that we are able to extend our contests to additional communities in the future.

There was a little issue with the Knowledge Base article not displaying in its entirety. It has now been fixed and you should now be able to find answers to your questions.

There was a little issue with the Knowledge Base not displaying the full Character Transfer FAQ, this should now be fixed.

The character copy tool has been restarted and some transfers have been taking place already. Thank you for your patience with this matter!

This should have been resolved in the meantime, apologies for the delay. Our engineers are looking into it. We'll update this thread as soon as we hear back from them.

The server transfer announcement discussion thread is available here

City of Heroes® is proud to announce that starting today character transfers between servers (within North American OR European server lists) will become free to all players and remain that way through the end of January 2010.

• Starts: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:59 a.m. PST (11:59 a.m. EST / 4:59 p.m. GMT / 17:59 Central European Time)
• Ends: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (2:59 a.m. EST / 11:59 p.m. GMT / 00:59 Central European Time)

Now you will have more freedom to fully enjoy the game and each other...but don't go haphazardly jumping servers without knowing the Character Transfer limit and all the other facts. Visit our Knowledge Base to learn all the specifics so that you can make educated transfer decisions. Amongst other things to bear in mind:

• Transfers are not available between North American and European servers.
• You will be able to complete up to 6 transfers a week (7-day period) per account.
• Not all possessions will transfer over with your character so be sure to read the corresponding Knowledge Base article before you decide to transfer a character.
• Super-group affiliation, Prestige and access to your Supergroup base items will be lost.
• You may lose your character's name when transferring from a server.

Then all you have to do is transfer away and enjoy the holiday server ride!

Join in the Community Discussion!

City of Heroes® is proud to announce that starting today character transfers between servers (within North American OR European server lists) will become free to all players and remain that way through the end of January 2010.

• Starts: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:59 a.m. PST (11:59 a.m. EST / 4:59 p.m. GMT / 17:59 Central European Time)
• Ends: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (2:59 a.m. EST / 11:59 p.m. GMT / 00:59 Central European Time)

Now you will have more freedom to fully enjoy the game and each other...but don't go haphazardly jumping servers without knowing the Character Transfer limit and all the other facts. Visit our Knowledge Base to learn all the specifics so that you can make educated transfer decisions. Amongst other things to bear in mind:

• Transfers are not available between North American and European servers.
• You will be able to complete up to 6 transfers a week (7-day period) per account.
• Not all possessions will transfer over with your character so be sure to read the corresponding Knowledge Base article before you decide to transfer a character.
• Super-group affiliation, Prestige and access to your Supergroup base items will be lost.
• You may lose your character's name when transferring from a server.

Then all you have to do is transfer away and enjoy the holiday server ride!

The 2009 Winter Event has reached Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™ and there is much rejoicing to be had again this year! But don't fall into the trap and keep your senses alert as a new menace is also looming in the horizon threatening to bring the holidays to an abrupt end! Will you be able to defeat Lord Winter before he succeeds?

This year's Winter Event goodies include a new "throw snowflakes" emote and a character respec (both bought by candy cane salvage), and two new holiday badges--Festive and Lord of Winter/Lady of Winter! All the temporary powers, badges, and fuzzy earmuffs from last year are also back, bringing nostalgic cheer. Along with streets and rooftops loaded with Father Time's gifts, you'll still encounter snow beasts and Winter Lords, Father Time's mission, ski challenges, candy canes, and more in this fun-filled feast of holiday festiveness!

• Starts: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:59 a.m. PST (11:59 a.m. EST / 4:59 p.m. GMT / 17:59 Central European Time)
• Ends: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (2:59 a.m. EST / 11:59 p.m. GMT / 00:59 Central European Time)

Before you launch yourselves into the action, here are a few facts you should bear in mind to enjoy the 2009 Winter Event to its fullest:

• If you are in Lord Winter's Realm and the event timer runs out, you will be returned to Atlas Park (Heroes) or Mercy Island (Villains) rather than the zone you originally entered from (unless you entered from a PvP zone).
• The Winter Lord may not spawn in Mercy Island and Port Oakes.
• The Winter Event does not run in the Co-operative or Hazard zones.
• The Winter Lord will spawn in Bloody Bay, Siren's Call and Warburg but not in Recluse's Victory. Be careful though, since they are PvP zones, you may accidentally attack another player through the 'Tab' keyboard button or through your pets.
• If your team gets split to two different maps of Lord Winter's Realm due to the zone cap, you can rejoin each other through Lord Winter's Realm Portal. Please note that the primary purpose of Lord Winter's Realm Portal is to allow split teams to rejoin one another.

Happy holidays to you all!

The 2009 Winter Event has reached Paragon City™ and the Rogue Isles™ and there is much rejoicing to be had again this year! But don't fall into the trap and keep your senses alert as a new menace is also looming in the horizon threatening to bring the holidays to an abrupt end! Will you be able to defeat Lord Winter before he succeeds?

This year's Winter Event goodies include a new "throw snowflakes" emote and a character respec (both bought by candy cane salvage), and two new holiday badges--Festive and Lord of Winter/Lady of Winter! All the temporary powers, badges, and fuzzy earmuffs from last year are also back, bringing nostalgic cheer. Along with streets and rooftops loaded with Father Time's gifts, you'll still encounter snow beasts and Winter Lords, Father Time's mission, ski challenges, candy canes, and more in this fun-filled feast of holiday festiveness!

• Starts: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:59 a.m. PST (11:59 a.m. EST / 4:59 p.m. GMT / 17:59 Central European Time)
• Ends: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (2:59 a.m. EST / 11:59 p.m. GMT / 00:59 Central European Time)

Before you launch yourselves into the action, here are a few facts you should bear in mind to enjoy the 2009 Winter Event to its fullest:

• If you are in Lord Winter's Realm and the event timer runs out, you will be returned to Atlas Park (Heroes) or Mercy Island (Villains) rather than the zone you originally entered from (unless you entered from a PvP zone).
• The Winter Lord may not spawn in Mercy Island and Port Oakes.
• The Winter Event does not run in the Co-operative or Hazard zones.
• The Winter Lord will spawn in Bloody Bay, Siren's Call and Warburg but not in Recluse's Victory. Be careful though, since they are PvP zones, you may accidentally attack another player through the 'Tab' keyboard button or through your pets.
• If your team gets split to two different maps of Lord Winter's Realm due to the zone cap, you can rejoin each other through Lord Winter's Realm Portal. Please note that the primary purpose of Lord Winter's Realm Portal is to allow split teams to rejoin one another.

Happy holidays to you all!

Join in the Community Discussion!

The live North American and European City of Heroes servers will be offline for a publish on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009.

Start Time: 4:00 AM Pacific Time (7:00 AM Eastern Time / 12:00 PM GMT / 13:00 Central European Time)

Expected Duration: 2 hours

Expected Finish Time: 6:00 AM Pacific Time (9:00 AM Eastern Time / 2:00 PM GMT / 15:00 Central European Time)

Patch notes for this update will be available after the publish.

Dieses Problem wurde behoben. Entschuldigung für diese Unannehmlichkeit! Ich wünsche euch ein schönes Wochende und sagt mir bescheid, wenn ihr noch Verbindung-Probleme habt!

Our Engineers have just confirmed that they had been able to resolve the issue. Please let me know if there is any remaining connectivity issue. Thank you for your patience and our apologies for the inconvenience. Have a nice weekend all!

Phew, our Engineers have managed to get it fixed now. Thanks all for your patience and have a nice weekend!

I haven't got the ok yet, I'll see what's happening!

We are experiencing routing issues with one of our EU peers. Apologies for the service interruption but our engineers are on the case. We'll update this thread as the situation progresses.

We are experiencing routing issues with one of our EU peers. Apologies for the service interruption but our engineers are on the case. We'll update this thread as the situation progresses.

I've asked for our tech team to look into it, I'll keep you posted asap.

Looking into this. I'll give you an update asap!

Only male I'm afraid!

Patch Notes for Build 1600.20091102.8T3

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

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CITY OF HEROES

Gameplay

Tasks

• Atlas Park: Fixed a game crash that sometimes occurred during the updated cape mission
• Ouroboros: The ‘Omega Team Time Capsule’ story arc (the updated cape mission) is no longer available as a Flashback arc. Characters that have already completed the original cape mission can still get the new version of the mission from the City Representative in Atlas Park.

CITY OF VILLAINS

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Niviene plans to dress as Mrs Claus if someone from Champion wins, just saying....