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Attention NCsoft customers: We will be performing maintenance on the PlayNC website from 9am to 11am CST on Thursday, November 4.

During this maintenance period, account creation and administration functions will not be available. During this maintenance window, support petitions submitted within City of Heroes will be delayed. All questions will be queued, but will not be processed during the maintenance period.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

In a Paragon Times exclusive, Manticore talks about his on-going investigation into the Fifth Column’s recent strange behavior. Is there an internal war being waged within this group? Are the Kheldians involved? Who or what is the Council? For more information, please read the newest Paragon Times article.

We will be conducting some necessary network maintenance on Thursday, November 4, from 7:00AM to 8:00AM CST. Customers may experience latency and/or disconnects when accessing game servers during this maintenance period. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

The PCC would like to thank all heroes for attending last weeks PCC event. Over 2500 heroes attended to help investigate the evil that threatened to engulf Paragon City. As a result, we were able to overcome the threat to our fair city that occurred over the weekend and to save countless civilian lives. Heroes, you have our deepest gratitude.

The PCC would also like to announce several changes to the PCC event schedule. Many heroes expressed an interest in PCC events, but were unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts. In response, the PCC events will now be held twice monthly (more if needed) and the times and days will vary. We understand that not all heroes can attend every PCC, but hopefully by varying the event schedule every hero will be able to attend at some point.

Event agendas will also vary from question and answer sessions on test server related issues to testing sessions to special guest appearances. PCC events will be announced via the website and message boards ahead of time so that heroes can plan to attend.

There will be no event this week, but stay tuned for the announcement of next weeks event.

Lord Recluse / CuppaJo '04

The REAL Axis of Evil

Muhahahahahahahahaha!

November 5-7, 2004

Join NCsoft and Cryptic Studios at the 2004 Wizard World Dallas Convention November 5th -7th! The Arlington Convention Center in Arlington, TX, will host a variety of exciting events and activities featuring City of Heroes, and six lucky people will be the very first ones to walk away with a pre-release version of the City of Heroes Collector’s DVD Edition! Not only that, but daily drawings will be held for the exclusive Statesman HeroClix figure!

Match wits with Statesman himself! On Saturday and Sunday, Cryptic Studio’s Lead Designer, Jack (Statesman) Emmert, will be hosting a City of Heroes and comic book trivia contest for some great prizes. On Sunday, Jack Emmert will also be hosting a talk on the past, present and future of City of Heroes at 1:30-2:30pm in the Julius Schwartz room.

The convention hours are as follows:

Friday 10AM – 6PM

Saturday 10AM – 6PM

Sunday 11AM – 5PM

We hope to see you there!

Wizard World Dallas, November 5-7, is part of the Wizard World nation-wide comic book and comic book related convention world tour, hosted by Wizard Entertainment Group, publisher of Wizard, ToyFare, Inquest Gamer and other fine entertainment and hobbyist magazines. For more information about Wizard World Chicago and Wizard Entertainment, please visit WizardUniverse.com.

"Dear citizens of Paragon City,

Evil has not prevailed. The light has returned and a new dawn breaks over a bloodied but unbowed city. The forces of destruction, unleashed by those who would see our world enslaved by eternal night, have met their match in the courageous deeds and sacrifices of the heroes who protect Paragon City. As mayor of this great city, I wish to extend the gratitude of its citizens to all the heroes who placed themselves in harm’s way to protect our way of life.

In their reckless and blind attempt to harness powers best left buried and forgotten, the enemies of liberty and freedom have only strengthened our resolve to combat evil in whatever form it appears—in our cherished city and beyond. Though the light has returned and the nightmare shattered, we must not rest on our laurels. Our enemies have been defeated, true, but they have not been eliminated. They will reorganize. They will seek unholy alliances. They will bide their time and watch for our guard to fall. This will not happen. This city and its stalwart heroes will remain a constant bulwark against the fall of eternal darkness."

One of our ISP providers will be conducting some necessary maintenance on Friday, October 29, between the hours of 7:00PM and 7:30PM CDT. As a result of this, you may experience brief disconnects or lag. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

PARAGON CITY, RI - October 29, 2004 (20:00:00 GMT) – Unconfirmed reports have Paragon City under attack by unknown forces. With a strange, early darkness descending upon the city, calls of “demonic” and “nightmarish” creatures on city streets continue to flood the Paragon City Police Department switchboard.

An emergency meeting of the city and state authorities has been called. Mayor Morales, in a statement issued over the Emergency Broadcast System, urged citizens to remain calm and to stay indoors. “We have not ascertained the exact nature of this threat, but we have mobilized all our emergency resources and they remain at the highest level of preparedness. All available hero groups and the FBSA have been put on city-wide alert. Please continue to monitor your radios and televisions for up-to-date reports on this developing situation.” # # # EBNS 22168

Heroes of Paragon City, the Halloween Costume contest deadline is less than two weeks away! So get those wonderful costumes on (you need to physically dress your person as your in-game hero), snap those pictures, and win great prizes in six available categories. You could walk away with Halloween “treats” like an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra Video Card, Apple Ipod, Cannon Powershot Digital Camera, unique in-game title and cameo in the Monthly CoH comic book!

Need more inspiration? Visit our photo gallery to check out just a few of the “real life” super-powered heroes who have entered the contest so far.

For complete details about the contest, head on over to our contest page. Good luck!

NCsoft and Cryptic Studios have announced preliminary beta testing plans for the highly anticipated City of Villains . The plan will reward long time players of City of Heroes with beta testing slots for City of Villains, which is slated for release next year. Read the full press release
here.

One of our ISP providers will be conducting some necessary maintenance on Thursday, October 28, between the hours of 4:00AM and 7:00AM CDT. As a result of this, you may experience brief disconnects or lag. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

Moving to Guides section for safe keeping

Greetings, Heroes.

Statesman has contacted the Paragon City Council in regards to unusual activities occurring on the Test Server. In order to investigate these concerns, the PCC Event for this week will be held at 4pm Pacific Time/6pm Central Time on Tuesday, October 26th. We ask all available heroes to attend. Please enter the Training Room server, create a new character (or use one whose level is between 1 and 4), skip the tutorial and enter Atlas Park. Directions on how to gain access to the Training Room Test Server can be found HERE.

Further instructions will be given by the PCC at that time.

CuppaJo

Dire prediction announced for Paragon City over the Halloween weekend!

As a follow-up to last week’s city emergency meeting, the Paragon Times is running a special feature on the developing situation. For more details, please read the full article here.

Cryptic and NCsoft want to have a healthy gaming community. If you feel that you might be addicted to internet gaming please seek the counsel of a professional.

Psychological Symptoms:

Having a sense of well-being or euphoria while at the computer
Inability to stop the activity
Craving more and more time at the computer
Neglect of family and friends
Feeling empty, depressed, irritable when not at the computer
Lying to employers and family about activities
Problems with school or job

Physical Symptoms:

Carpal tunnel syndrome
Dry eyes
Migraine headaches
Back aches
Eating irregularities, such as skipping meals
Failure to attend to personal hygiene
Sleep disturbances, change in sleep pattern

PARAGON CITY, RI - October 22, 2004 (22:00:00 GMT) - A special emergency meeting of the Federal Bureau of Superpowered Affairs, the Governor, the National Guard, FEMA, city authorities and various representatives of the leading super groups has been convened to discuss evidence of an imminent threat to the city. Though reports are sketchy at the moment, the meeting was requested by noted Professor of Esoteric Anthropology, Dr. Nathaniel A. Bierce and SERAPH’s Professor Jonathan St.John-Smythe. Please stay tuned for further developments. # # # EBNS 22167

We've put together our first City of Heroes newsletter and it's full of information about current and upcoming events and other exciting CoH news! Active subscribers to the game will get their copies by email... for everyone else, here's the link to the online version of our newsletter. Enjoy!

The Paragon Times brings you an exclusive interview with new alien species. Times reporter Julianna Nehring, in her article says, "As we learned painfully from the Rikti Invasion, we are not alone. We cannot bury our heads and hope that we will remain safe." For the complete interview, please go to our Paragon Times feature.

Want to know what’s coming to Paragon City? Want the most current, up-to-date news about what’s being featured on the Training Room test server? The PCC (Paragon City Council) wants to talk with you! Here’s your weekly chance!

The PCC (made up of official CoH representatives) will meet with the public every Thursday on the Training Room server from 4:00PM - 5:00PM CDT. They will be available specifically to answer questions, take suggestions, and address any issues you may have with the current test server content.

This week’s event, Thursday, October 21, will be held in King’s Row, near the Paragon City PD steps (by BlueSteel). So head on over to the Training Room server (make sure to tell your friends to visit as well) and say hello to the folks behind City of Heroes!

For more details about the Training Room server, please visit this page. For information about copying a character from a live server to the Training Room, please read this information.

From the beginning, City of Heroes has been given some of the best review scores of any game published in the past year and our Press Page—chock full of review, preview & interview links from the gaming press—has been updated! Check out The Wargamer’s new “Award of Excellence” review and much more. The links can be found here. Enjoy!

Our ISP began having technical issues this morning at about 5 am CDT. They are working on getting the issue resolved, but players may have connection issues in game or on the message boards during the day today. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Want to know what’s coming to Paragon City? Want the most current, up-to-date news about what’s being featured on the Training Room test server? The PCC (Paragon City Council) wants to talk with you! Here’s your weekly chance!

The PCC (made up of official CoH representatives) will meet with the public every weekly on the Training Room server. They will be available specifically to answer questions, take suggestions, and address any issues you may have with the current test server content. The exact location of each event will be announced the before the meeting. This week’s kick-off event, Thursday, October 14, will be held in Atlas Park, near the Atlas monument. So head on over to the Training Room server (make sure to tell your friends to visit as well) and say hello to the folks behind City of Heroes!

For more details about the Training Room server, please visit this page. For information about copying a character from a live server to the Training Room, please read this information.

The next deadline is the 18th. However, you can submit at any time

Cuppa

Good Morning All!

Today we added 2 new sections to our forums: Player Ideas and Suggestions Forum and a Player Questions Forum.

The Ideas Forum is the place to post ideas and suggestions for CoH and to discuss them.

The Player Questions Forum is the place to ask questions about the game. Are you a new player and need help getting started? Have a question about a new feature? Ask it here! Be a hero and help other players. Please do not flame people in this section for asking questions. You were a new hero once too!

Also, the Guides section is now just for guides and other player created help information. If you have a question you can now use the question forum instead!

Finally, we added clarification to the tech forum that it is also for discussing bugs on the live servers. However - if you do find a bug, you should report it in game using the /bug feature first. Then you can discuss it in the tech forum.

With all of the changes we will be moving many threads to their new homes, so if you see a post is "gone" check first that it has not been moved to a new home. If you still can't find it, PM CuppaJo about it.

Thanks Heroes!