CAVE ANT

I usually find the idle hand hovering towards Ms Liberty's...shoulder.

Cannot unsee!

SUUUWEEEEET!


/em snoopy dance

Do you think they will take th epic @ 5 exactly?

I'm rushing home from work to try & make it!



EDIT: heh, I ment the pic, but it will be teh epic also!

Ooooo, I almost forgot about Hero 1's capsule!

Happy 5th year of awesomalities everyone!

Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme......................................oh man...I'm on vacation until the 22nd...maybe I can find a computer with CoH out there.....Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme!

OOoooh shY-knEeees!

I can't wait to get my hands on the I14!




/em plot

Yep, Beta'd the game & still here kicking villains off buildings!

(or punching cops in the face on the Rouge Isles!)

I thank you for all your hard work with this game & it's player community, but...:shrug: you never answered my pm a while back & I only pm'd one other Dev ever.

I lost faith in you.

Actually I'm not sure of this, but did anyone notice if the global alert tells you if there's one going down in a different zone?
(I think they do, but I didn't take notice)

Virtue had it & I got 4 badges from it! + pumpkin head!

Red skies is a really nice effect for the mood.

Wow, Lagasaurus Hex!

Give Hayden about 30 seconds...because she's HOT!

Hi all,
I decided to try my hand at a page for FASTER

I didn't get a chance to really look through all the awesome pages, but from what I've seen, I've got a looong way to go.

Yeah Bass these has been some way on heavenly.

My fav has gotta be the Talsorian!
The animation makes me want to keep toggling!

HEROES, Chapter 98 - Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration. Part 2 of 2

[ QUOTE ]
Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.


Four years.

I will say that again in case you misread it.

Four years.

I am pleased beyond all belief that this game continues to prosper four years into its life. Our community is stronger than ever, the game as a whole is stronger than it ever has been, and the future for the game, as well as the franchise is extremely bright.

When I look back upon the game that we shipped in 2004, I can’t help but look at all the things that were missing from it. Things we added immediately, and things we added recently. Badges were not in the initial launch. Heck, level 41 to 50 were not shipped with City of Heroes! As the game has progressed, I think we have added more free features with our updates than any other MMO on the planet. Multiple zones, missions, features and systems have been added to the base game over the past four years, making the game better and better with every update.

Every time I visit the Tailor in the game, I say to myself “Heh, I couldn’t even change my costume when City of Heroes launched.” Every time I Exemplar down to play content with my lower level friends, I note that this too was not a feature in the game four years ago. Now I actively seek out Inventions and Recipes both in missions and on the Black Market. The Invention System worked out very well for both City of Heroes and City of Villains, and was not part of the plan when we were finishing up CoH in the first quarter of 2004. Just over this last six months we’ve also added our Ouroboros Flashback System, Weapon Customization, and more quality of life features than the game had ever seen (until Issue 12).

That’s not to say we haven’t been without our missteps. We’ve implemented a couple things imperfectly (Epic Archetypes and Enhancement Diversification come to mind), which caused a lot of headaches for us down the road. I can’t promise that we will never make mistakes, but I will say we will do our best to ensure that we don’t repeat them.

I can’t tell you how excited I am for our game’s future, and although we have some major announcements yet to be made, one of the things I can talk about is a feature that we are planning. Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. You’ll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it. Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall. It is features like these that we never dreamed of including when we first shipped, but are excited to be able to offer players very soon.

In the end I just want to send out a thanks to all of the players of City of Heroes and City of Villains. Everyone, from the veterans who have been with this game since it launched (and even earlier for some beta testers!) to the users who just subscribed last week, have made this the most fun game to work on in my seventeen years in the industry. I look forward to reviewing our accomplishments this time next year when we celebrate our 5th anniversary!

- Lead Designer, Matt Miller (Positron)


To highlight the four years of City of Heroes gaming, we bring you some fun facts about the game.

Since City of Heroes launched:
<ul type="square">[*] More than 32 million characters created – that’s 4 times the population of New York City![*] Players have spent a combined 292 centuries playing City of Heroes and City of Villains[*] More than 100 million items have been traded through the consignment (auction) houses since they were launched in 2007.[/list]Additional items of interest include:

[u]Most Popular Origins[u]
Mutant (25%)
Magic (24%)
Natural (21%)

[u]Most Popular Archetypes[u]
Hero: Blaster
Villain: Mastermind

[u]Most Popular Travel Powers[u]
Fly (34%)
Super Jump (30%)

[u]Most Traded Item (via Consignment House)[u]
Base Salvage: Alien Tech Salvage

[u]Most Wealthy Archetypes[u]
Heroes: Scrappers
Villains: Brutes

[/ QUOTE ]


I'm really proud to be a part of this game since beta &amp; it's wonderfully creative community.

Thank you City of Heroes/Villains (&amp; all involved!) for creating my favorite game to play!

4 years!
Way to be people!

Dag Yo, why you got to be all frontin Dr. Brainstorm!

"From: "wireless@samantha48616e61.com" &lt;wireless@samantha48616e61.com&gt;
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:25:36 PM
Subject: Yesterday's clues

I'll be more specific... my identity is hidden in the dream experts names and titles on http://activatingevolution.org/resources.shtml. Delete some and scramble them around. Don't trust anyone."

"From: "wireless@samantha48616e61.com" &lt;wireless@samantha48616e61.com&gt;
To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:21:26 PM
Subject: Brian's out of hiding

Brian has been under the radar for quite a while. Check out why here:
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/index.shtml?novel=77

His blog has been updated for the first time in almost a year. It looks like Brian's now on a search for the people that wronged him, and looking to get his revenge. Look for the easter egg in the comic for a link to his webpage. "

"From: "wireless@samantha48616e61.com" &lt;wireless@samantha48616e61.com&gt;
To:
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 6:37:38 PM
Subject: final riddle

Check this page I found out...
http://www.samantha48616e61.com/needle.shtml

I am two letters within one word, three letters apart.

Put all the letter clues from this week together to find my identity."

"From: "wireless@samantha48616e61.com" &lt;wireless@samantha48616e61.com&gt;
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:02:20 PM
Subject: Dream Videos

Remember Dr. Wayne Grody? Expect to see more intreviews with him and other dream experts on http://activatingevolution.org/resources.shtml in the near future, until next time..."

Odd...I just got this one...

"From: "wireless@samantha48616e61.com" &lt;wireless@samantha48616e61.com&gt;
To:
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:57:06 PM
Subject: riddles

I am one year younger than Ben Franklin was when he retired from printing.

How many times does Takezo Kensei love?"


We have a riddle &amp; we have a forum...who will prevail?

"postings of new dream submissions have been added to the activating evolutions dream study site at http://blog.activatingevolution.org/dreamstudy/. sapan appears to be adding submissions more frequently now, collecting data for his studies on dreams and their relationshiP to the human pSyche."

Ok, so at least now with seeing the P &amp; S capitalized, I can guess that this is the initials of the person who's communicating with us. Who is P.S.?

Why, it's our friend Paul Shapiro!

"I'll keep this first email short, but expect to hear more from me in the future. Hana and Drucker are no more. Check out the link to Primatech's Assignment Tracker: http://www.primatechpaper.com/about.php.

I've stumbled across Hana's contacts; so from now on I will be the one writing to you."



So I wonder if thats Bennet who'll be sending the emails now...

My teams &amp; I thank you devs!
Nice choices!