Ex_Libris

Hot off the presses and coming soon to a forum near you our very own community will be creating the ‘City Scoop.’

This idea was presented by members of this community and Lighthouse and I have started the process of gathering interested participants to help design and develop this community created publication. This is news by players for players.

The ‘City Scoop’ will feature hot topics, spotlights, interviews, puzzles, event announcements, developer posts, game news and more.

If you have an idea or would like to contribute to the ‘City Scoop’ please post here or PM Marcian_Tobay or Teldon

We are grateful to work with such an amazing community and look forward to supporting this excellent player driven content.

Regards,

Ex Libris & Lighthouse

*Discussion on this topic will happen here!*

Hot off the presses and coming soon to a forum near you our very own community will be creating the ‘City Scoop.’

This idea was presented by members of this community and Lighthouse and I have started the process of gathering interested participants to help design and develop this community created publication. This is news by players for players.

The ‘City Scoop’ will feature hot topics, spotlights, interviews, puzzles, event announcements, developer posts, game news and more.

If you have an idea or would like to contribute to the ‘City Scoop’ please post here or PM Marcian_Tobay or Teldon

We are grateful to work with such an amazing community and look forward to supporting this excellent player driven content.

Regards,

Ex Libris & Lighthouse

*Discussion on this topic will happen here!*

We are working on figuring out if this is feasible and executable.

So short answer is we don't know yet.

Ex

On May 9th we updated the game. Read the full Patch Notes here.

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To elaborate on the roll back of the Hero auction; here is the scoop.

Hero Auctions were unfortunately restored from a back up dating from 10 PM Central on May 8th. This means that items you may have put up on the Consignment Market after that time may not be there now. Please keep in mind that this is Hero side only and does not affect Villains.

We are working on a way to address the issue by restoring lost items. Engineering is still evaluating and testing this method of correction. At this time, Customer Support is not in a position to address this on an individual basis. Should the current plan of correction not work out (again, it's still being tested) we have other ideas for compensation in mind and I'll elaborate on that as needed.

Please keep in mind that this in no way affects any items or influence that were on your character(s). Only items that were stored or up for auction may be affected. Our sincere thanks for your patience and understanding. Also, please know that we are already implementing new safeguards and procedures to correct the issue that led to this incident. ~Lighthouse~

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Reposting this here for discussion purposes. We will keep you updated as we know more information.

But this time we can say that it pays to be a Villain!

Ex

It's too bad the wax seal stamp and wax that I ordered haven't arrived yet, otherwise they would have been sealed properly.

I had a whole page of Ex Libris scribbled out on a page finding just the right feel.

Anyway I am glad you all like your prizes so far. I know we had some go up to Canada and overseas so some of the winners have not yet received their package.

Looking forward to future prize options as I had great fun putting these together.

Ex

So... little golden tickets have gone out in the mail...

Do we have any winners yet?

*sportin a new avatar of the week* this one is from Kroen

Ex

The Market is a place for people to discuss the specifics of the Consignment Market.

Players can post sales, bids, and trades for in game items there as well as discuss the ups and downs of the market economy.

We have also started an Official Thread to discuss the current user interface, please feel free to add constructive feedback.

Ex

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I updated my fire/rad corr build to account for IO slotting

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...=0#Post8162779

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Updated! Thank you.

Inventions Laboratory Forum has been moved to the player help and guide section.

This forum was the old Issue 9 discussion forum it has been changed and updated and will be experiencing some spring cleaning and attention over the next few days.

Also the Training Room will be scrubbed down for future testing soon so any threads you would like to have moved over please link them to us in This Thread or by PM to Lighthouse or Ex Libris.

Thanks and Enjoy Issue 9: Breakthrough

So...drum roll please!

The winner is... I can't decide.

So I have taken the liberty to reward all those that have submitted an avatar for me to use and I will highlight them by changing my avatar on occasion so everyone can see what great submissions were made on my behalf.

This first one was submitted by Samuel_Tow.

Other submissions received were from:
Rast_of_Guardian
EchoZeero
Balanced
_Shenku_
Kroen
Daitenchu
Snow_Globe
_________
Pants_Stealer
Demoniker
Patrick
The_Killbot_5000
Marcian_Tobay
MrEMan

Each of those 15 individuals will be receiving a letter from me in the mail with a small token of my appreciation.

I wish to thank you all for thinking of me and helping me to come up with my I.D.

Regards,

Ex

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I believe the nemesis are still in game... so pop in and check it out.

I had a great time..... my title zapper is tired so I am going to go let it sleep.

We had some great trivia with prizes sponsored by members of the community, and we will get an announcement up about those winners and the questions asked early next week.

Continue to enjoy the party, but please be careful on your way home

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MRS. LIBRIS! Why didn't you talk at all?? Lol I was trying to get you to say a word but you just stayed quiet the whole time

I would've liked to hear what you had to say! How come you didn't say anything?

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The reason I didn't talk that much is due to all the yellow titles you see running around on test.

I would say that 85 percent of those were done by Lighthouse and myself, and we did that so the dev teams would have more free time to answer specific questions.

I'm not shy, feel free to ask.

Ex

I believe the nemesis are still in game... so pop in and check it out.

I had a great time..... my title zapper is tired so I am going to go let it sleep.

We had some great trivia with prizes sponsored by members of the community, and we will get an announcement up about those winners and the questions asked early next week.

Continue to enjoy the party, but please be careful on your way home

*New/Updated on 6/28/07 (previous update was 6/15/07)


I9 Patch Notes Dev Team [I9]
- If patch notes aren't updated, then do a 'hard refresh' on your browser, usually done by holding the Control button down while refreshing.

City of Data (RedTomax, Iakona, Brev) has a bunch of information on inventions also.

[u]INVENTIONS[u]


Inventions in General

IO and U - a basic guide Brimstone_Bobby [I9]

Guide: Introduction to Inventions 1.0TerraDraconis [I9 Beta]

Inventions at Paragon Wiki Paragon Wiki [I9 Beta]

Analysis of Basic IO CostsProtea [I9 Beta]

IO's, SO's, HO's and ED--a brief overview Grumble [I9 Beta]

* Invention Enhancements and You _Castle_ [I9 Beta]



The Consignment Markets

Using The Consignment Markets (Wentworths/Black Market) Zombie_Man [I9]

Protea's Guide to Market Participation Protea [I9]


Salvage, Recipes, and Drops

Guide: Invention Salvage and You! (Version 2) InfamousBrad [I9 Beta]

* Guide: What the drop rates mean Coulomb2 [I9]

INFO: Invention Salvage Distribution Blondeshell [I9]



Invention Enhancement (IOs) Sets

EverydayJoe™ and his Set IO’s (v.1.2) Seldom [I9]

Invention Origin (IO) Enhancement Sets List Paragon Wiki [I9 Beta]

Consolidated Thread: Which Pools Recipes are in _Brev_ [I9 Beta]

* IO Set Enhancement Percentages Chart CaptainSpud [I9]

The Viva Las Vegas Intermediate Guide To IO's Fulmen [I9]

GUIDE TO IOs, SOs, AND ENHANCEMENT BONUSES Black_Specter [I9] NEW!



[u]ARCHETYPES AND POWERSETS WITH IOs[u]


Build Planners

* Midnights’ Invention Compliant Hero Builder website & download page [I9]

* Midnights’ Invention Compliant Hero Builder US Discussion [I9]

* Midnights’ Invention Compliant Hero Builder UK Discussion [I9]

Inventions Build Planner (version 0.94-beta) for Microsoft Excel (file download) iakona [I9 Beta]

Inventions Build Planner (version 0.94-beta) for OpenOfficel (file download) iakona [I9 Beta]

Inventions Build Planner (discussion)iakona [I9 Beta]

* CoHPlanner.com - Now with Invention Support! SuckerPunch [I9]



Example Builds and Powers Discussion

The Road to 22 (Leveling with IOs without outside inf. help)Venture [I9 Beta]

IO slotting example: How to slot an AOE hold Scrapulous [I9 Beta]

IO slotting example: Health Scrapulous [I9 Beta]

IO build example: Fire/Fire Tanker Scrapulous [I9 Beta]

IO slotting example: Combat Jumping Scrapulous [I9 Beta]

IO slotting example: Melee Attacks Scrapulous [I9 Beta]

Assessment of Pet set aura IOs (preliminary) Scrapulous [I9 Beta]

BS/Regen guide: New ways to kill!EvilGeko [I9 Beta]

DM/Regen i9 Build Crawler [I9 Beta]

Rad/Rad/Dark I9 build, what do you think?Pollution [I9 Beta]

Ian's Guide to an Awesome Fire/Rad Corr: I9 Updatemilk_weasel [I9 Beta]

DISCUSSION: Return of (almost) Perma-Hasten? Kage [I9 Beta]

I9 Necro/Dark MM Guide - IO Goodness Awaits Geek_Boy[I9]

Dark Armor & IOs: Slotting for performance Lobster [I9] NEW!

I9 Invul/Fire Slotting Guide - Three Builds gWrath [I9] NEW!



[u]TASK FORCES / STRIKE FORCES / RAIDS[u]


The New Statesman's Task Force

Statesman's Task Force - Issue 9 BetaLinea_Alba [I9 Beta]

A Statesman's Task Force Guide! (Beta version)Robot_Apple [I9 Beta]

VIDEO: Statesman's Taskforce Neutra [I9 Beta]

* Statesman Task Force Guide TrueShadow117 [I9]



The Revised Hamidon Raid

A quick guide to I9 HamidonMjorn [I9 Beta]

Issue 9 Hamidon Overview, 4/3/2007 Kossy [I9 Beta]

I9 Hamidon Strategy, Mark II - WARNING: SPOILERSMarut [I9 Beta]

Guide to the Abyss and HamidonSilverspar [I9 Beta]

PDF Map of Abyss with Mito Ranges (download once and save, please) Mister_Laser [I9 Beta]

DISCUSSION: Consolidated Thread: Hamidon/Abyss (Villain-side)community [I9 Beta]

DISCUSSION: Consolidated Thread: Hamidon (Hero-side)community [I9 Beta]

Teleport powers at Hami raids Rooftop_Raider [I9 Beta]

LORE: Back Alley Brawler: Oil Slick? WTH? (also: RUN FASTER!)Zombie_Man [I9 Beta]

Strykers Guide to Issue 9 Hami RaidsDirty_SFr [I9 Live]



[u]OTHER I9 CHANGES[u]

*I9 Badges Spreadsheet (printable download) Star_Seven [I9]

DISCUSSION: Any numbers on the -regen and AV/GM res changecommunity [I9 Beta]

Flight poses for Issue 9 (and binds)Grumble [I9 Beta]

* Your Guide to Dynamic Flyposes Duck_LOrange [I9]

Mantid's Updated Animated Emote Guide Mantid [I9 Beta]

LORE: Quinfecta! The_Boresight [I9 Beta]

DISCUSSION: Thank you for Villain Monster Islandcommunity [I9 Beta]

ADVANCED BIND GUIDE v1.3 Black_Specter [I9] NEW!

Wow...

I look through the window of my cubicle at Lighthouse and say, "I'm going to post for a collection for I9 guides since we have so many in the TR boards we might as well pull them together in one location."

He nods his approval. He is a busy man so a nod is good.


So I post... and booooommm doooooommm I break the internets.

The best way that Lighthouse and I can work towards getting specific and exclusive data out to our players is through affiliate fan sites. This way we have some open communication and some accountability to what information gets published and how it is used to benefit the community and IP of COH/COV.

We are working on that program now, and hope to have the finite details in place within the coming month. So anyone interested in registering a website with us for us to review once our foundation for the program is laid out please let me know via PM or better yet email me at exlibris@ncsoft.com.

If you have suggestions or feedback on how we can better organize the player submitted guides, perhaps color coordinate them based on ease of use, I would also be amenable to hearing this information.

As to whether there will ever be an official guide, I don't know, I'm not in that decision making position. I am however part of the official COH/COV boards and would love to help organize any guides that our community has already worked to compile.

Anyone wishing to contribute please let me know.

Regards,

Ex

I suppose the qualifying factor is this!

Resource allocation.

Would the subscribing consumer base prefer NCsoft/Cryptic to allocate resources to publications that are often outdated due to upgrades within a very short time period.

Or would they rather have new content, bug fixes, game features.

That's the deciding factor.

Ex

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I would really appreciate OFFICIAL guides. Player generated guides are from observation, and although they are frequently spot on, as far as we know, it would seem a better solution to have the software developers release formulae, and relevant numbers, rather than having people with no firsthand knowledge of how things were coded give us direction. The currently used, and requested approach seems flawed. Not only has the playerbase successfully performed quality control ( regen and fighting numerous + lvl foes, on the WRONG server, for example), but is now being pushed into reverse engineering data and techniques that should be presented by the people collecting the post $1000 I've paid since release for myself and my daughters' accounts. At a low average of 100K players, at 14$ per month, that's 1.4 million per month, at a LOW estimate. PLUS retail game costs($200 in my case, as an early adopter of both games, 2 accts), probably adding no more than $10 profit per player times about 300K estimated purchases. All these figures a LOW estimates to establish that, even on a worst case scenario, NCSoft/Cryptic can afford to salary someone to keep a revised online manual with real numbers available as "spoilers" option.

I would much rather have a direct line of information, that could then be evaluated/corrected by the playerbase. If I purchase a car, I can readily get manufacturer information on many things. Most owner's manuals will have more than enough information to get you going. Because automobiles are a one time purchase, and don't have monthly fees that go to the manufacturer, it seems reasonable to buy a Bentley guide for my A4, for example.
I realize the expansions are free. That's great. Except I liked the game just fine at release, and would definitely quit over useless nerf expansions or non- CoH related expansions that cost like other MMO expansions. Issues 4, 5, 6, would have lost a great many CoH players, in my estimation, were we expected to pay $25 to $50 for what tiny amount of "content" there was in there. Issue 7 was not much better. Issue 8 revamped some same old hazard zones at low levels. Inventions seems great and all, except now that I can get perma- hasten and then some on my Ill/Rad, what am I to do with him. Oh, let me guess, more Level 50 carnies/council/arachnos Radio missions. I was VERY outspoken about the journey being the game, but with 1500 ACTUAL in- game hours on my 50 Controller, and hundreds apiece on the other 4 L50s I legitimately levelled the slow roast method, I finally understand the complaints of lack of high end content.

I don't want to ever see the hollows again. Running around with 2 attacks, and defenses made of paper, pre 22 on my scrapper is as much fun as punching myself in the face. Someone else PLEASE punch me in the face, so I can make it to 38 on my claws/DA, without losing interest. I could immerse myself in the game and RolePlay, but every single street has some lady getting her purse snatched, or 6 guys intimidating X citizen. Hell, in order to be a true hero, i'd never leave Atlas Park or Galaxy City. Since the world is largely about as interactive as my wife when I forgot to take out the trash, RolePlay and effecting real change are out the window for me.

After all this, you want me to consider making it City of Reverse Engineering, for what reason? Please justify why the folks that create this environment cannot divulge how to use it? What is the hold up on telling us how things work, so that we can use it for powerful builds, OR for making quirky fun specialty builds?

I've said too much, the whitecoats are coming. Don your protective mayonaise, before it's too late!!

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Great Feedback, and I assure you we are collectively gathering those details now. However, player guides always will be more useful and more up to date, that is often the nature of these things.

Unlike your car example, this is a living and constantly changing environment. A simple users manual isn't simple in a situation like that.

There is nothing worse than purchasing a guide or book that is severely out of date, player guides and the people who enjoy creating these guides take painstaking measures to ensure it is complete and up to date.

This is just a call to gather what has already been compiled and link it all in one easy to find location. We are working on the release notes and information that we will share when the actual Issue goes live.

Hello I9 Community. With Issue 9 still hot on the testing block we wanted to take this opportunity to get some of you to organize and wrangle some of the best guides and information all in one handy location, this is something we can easily link into our overall Guide to Guides but this one will be I9 specific.


So we will need some help in making this happen.

1) A call for guides that are specific for Issue 9 this includes Salvage and Recipe Lists, as well as any helpful hints to I9.
2) Some dedicated and organized folks that will help us wrangle up all those guides and communicate with us on the community end to get those guides updated to the master lists.

What we are looking for are people who are willing to take a category or two and create a revised version of the post containing all the new links.

Let me explain further. For example, say someone is willing to help update the Salvage Guide Post. What they would do is the following:


1. Visit the guide post they want to update.

2. Click the "Quote" button, just like they are replying to that post and wanted to quote it. This will give the person editing the original posts UBB code (with links and all that).

3. Using that content and UBB code, create a new post that is updated. This would include links to any new guides and any new information, or organization they feel is appropriate for that Guide post.

4. Post their revised version as a reply to the end of the thread where the guide link post is at.

5. Send a Private Message to Ex Libris or Lighthouse letting us know you have posted an updated guide link post. As with any communication to us it is helpful if you provide the link in your correspondence.

6. Then, we'll take a look at it and if the revised guide post looks good, then edit the original post and paste in your revised version and give you credit in that post as the "Official I9 Guide Post Editor."

7. Once we use your revision, we will send you a reply private message and you will then have the option to have your title changed to "Official I9 Guide Post Editor."

Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to help with this!


Guide Link Posts that have been done:


If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask here or PM Ex Libris and I will answer you as soon as possible.

Thanks again.

Ex

Three years ago on April 28th City of Heroes exploded into the Online Gaming scene! Countless hours and many thousands of players later it is still going strong! To commemorate this milestone, we invite you to join us on the Training Room test server April 27th to party with the NCsoft Community and Cryptic Developer Teams.

Here are the details:


What: Official 3rd Year City of Heroes Anniversary Party


When: April 27th, 4pm to 8pm Pacific (7pm to 11pm Eastern)


Where: Training Room Test Server – for details to connect, See this post!


Costume Theme: ‘Secret Identity’ – Dress like your alter ego secret identity!


Be sure to tune in to w00t Radio to hear live broadcast from the party floor!

Discussion on this topic is here!

Three years ago on April 28th City of Heroes exploded into the Online Gaming scene! Countless hours and many thousands of players later it is still going strong! To commemorate this milestone, we invite you to join us on the Training Room test server April 27th to party with the NCsoft Community and Cryptic Developer Teams.

Here are the details:


What: Official 3rd Year City of Heroes Anniversary Party


When: April 27th, 4pm to 8pm Pacific (7pm to 11pm Eastern)


Where: Training Room Test Server – for details to connect, See this post!


Costume Theme: ‘Secret Identity’ – Dress like your alter ego secret identity!


Be sure to tune in to w00t Radio to hear live broadcast from the party floor!

Discussion is here!

Time is running out! The time for submissions for the Comic Book Creator Contest are coming to a close.

All entries must be received via e-mail at cohsubmissions@plaync.com prior to 11:59pm (CDT), April 27, 2007 (the “Contest Conclusion”) and must be in English. No other methods of entry will be accepted. Limit: one entry per person.

Please make sure to make your final submissions before this time.

Thank You!

Ex Libris

As with any post if you use the quick reply to a post you run the risk of getting snipped down the line of something previous that may have been reported.

The best practice is to click on the Reply hot button found in each window of every thread.

Quick Reply is just the big white box that is available at the bottom of the thread.

Sorry for the inconvenience, hopefully the train can be brought back to full speed shortly.

Ex

You will find links to all PvP Guides in here.

It is easier for us to sticky one topic than dozens. Sings links are in there.

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I know there was an event scheduled on my server with the PvPEC brand name, but I have no idea what difference that makes to the event (I'll come back to that in a bit).

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I forgot to come back to this, which is a shame since it's part of the source of my confusion.

The deal is this: Vince is pure awesome, and has been organizing great PvP events on Champion recently. His latest event is now an "official PvPEC event", but I can't figure out what exactly that means. As far as I can tell, the event is basically the same as any other event Vince has run lately. In fact, when his computer went belly up, the sign-up thread kind of fumbled around a bit, then the players decided it was best just to postpone the event until the organizer was back in action.

As far as I can tell, the event was going to be organized in the same fashion, rewarded in the same fashion (ie, no prizes but braggin' rights and GGs), and run in the same fashion as random ol' event by random ol' guy. When the organizer had technical difficulties, there was no committee backing him up to ensure that the event still took place, or even to officially inform of any change in plans.

So, what does it mean to be an official PvPEC event? Is it just the same as a random ol' event by a random ol' guy? If so, why bother branding it? What is the goal the committee is trying to accomplish here?

As long as I'm asking about what the committee's up to, might as well ask this, also: was the committee involved in the PvP forum reorganization?

BTW, thanks for the intros and info that has been posted in this thread already - it is appreciated.

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Ok so most of those events that Vinnie is running on Champion are educational events that are catering towards getting more people involved in casual PvP.

It's helping to learn skills, learn builds and learn the rules of some prevalent PvP tournaments and styles.

Now the reason that the actual event, the prizes, or the meetings of minutes have not been shared is because the full process of getting approval for all of those things has not yet happened.

And I hate to say it but unveiling part of a statue just to show the progress really doesn't do anyone any good.

I will say this. The proposal put forth by the PvPEC has three main events that are tied together by a story arc. That there will be events on Live servers geared at multiple levels of play styles and that the rewards that have been submitted include in game prizes as well as out of game prizes.

The problem with divulging this information is the approval process.

So patience it will all be announced as soon as we can do so. We don't want any screaming cats let out of the bag.

I can understand your points for wanting to know meeting minutes if this were a steering committee but it is an event committee... a big old party planner group, so what good is us sharing what is going to happen at the party before it is all laid out, invitations mailed, and the cake decorators contacted?

They aren't designing game changes, but they are working on increasing knowledge about PvP. So expect to see some server run activities run by members of the PvPec.

Any questions feel free to PM.

Ex

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Why is it that people who lead the commitee are people i've never heard of, or even PvP'ed against.

Sheesh!

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Maybe you will get your chance... but ultimately I think you might see a common thread amongst them. They are organizers. You can teach someone to PvP, but organizing, well now that's a skill worth pwning.

Most of them run and operate SG's and VG's as well as organizing events for their servers. So they might not be well known to people who frequent here, but if you hop on over to their turf they might just be someone with a rep behind their efforts.

The event was designed with PvP in mind, these are PvP oriented rewards etc. But the people coming up with all of that don't all need to be knee deep in the ring.

I work with diverse people to get diverse results, and I for one am betting on some satisfied community members once we roll out the red carpet of the event.

Now I know most of the skepticism revolves around the fact that you have had promises made to you in the past, and maybe those were broken, maybe they were borked, maybe they were all out dropped.

But if any of you recall, and I know that thread is still kicking over in the PvP general section that before I did anything I told you I wouldn't make promises that I couldn't keep.

I could promise an event, and even if we have to endure through some crashes, or griefers or what have you, we are doing our best to plan for those incidences.

Lets just say this isn't the first time I have been involved with large scale PvP events in an MMO, and even though I will be the first one eliminated on the match floor, it doesn't mean I don't get how to plan for a really great event. I don't see how I can't be absolutely awesome at one without being credible because I am not awesome at the other.

I think that those of you that are hung up on reputations and people being known or not are going to have to deal with that on your own terms and in your own ways.

But before you come hassling someone that you don't know, you better be aware that they might have been the champion behind the idea that really makes your head turn. These folks, those here now, those that were there before and those that come after have the interest of creating great events for people who PvP.

When it's all said and done, it will be your choice on whether you wish to participate or not... but I know that even with my gimped skills I am going to the mat. Because I know I will have fun.

Ex