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  1. Ssyrie
    If I had to guess, and barring some game breaking bug, I would think that the beta would be open to everyone by July 22. Why that date? Because that's the date of the CoH panel at SDCC. If there's Q&A time at the panel, there will probably be questions asked that only beta testers would be asking, and getting both closed beta & non beta players together will inevitably lead to information leaking out.
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    SDCC just put up the Thursday schedule: http://tinyurl.com/2a5rnpw

    Thankfully there doesn't seem to be anything in that room later in the day that will lead to issues with room campers.
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    Th-th-th-That's all, folks.

    Guess I got to fork out the $10 dollars.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FlyingCodeMonkey View Post
    I may have to switch back to Firefox if there's a similar contest for the next booster.

    I'm unfamiliar with its browser automation, but I suspect it's not very difficult to write something that (1) refreshes the current page, (2) scans for new bit.ly URLs, and (3) opens them in a new tab/window ... which is probably what's happening in many cases.

    So basically you just have to watch for a window to pop up with the image, and quick-type the last few characters.
    actually, some of the last few codes had the same first 4 characters as most of the others, but after that they were different. That cost me at least 2 chances since I assumed that the first 12 characters were the same as previous codes.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Avatea View Post
    It took a whole 7 seconds this time. Congrats to the grabber!
    7 seconds? Wow, that's probably the slowest one yet.

    But PLEASE hurry with that last code so we can all get back to playing.
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    Too late
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MR5M1TH View Post
    kewl, another guaranteed 12 min break...burgertime! 8)
    Agreed, everyone should get up and take a break. Walk around, get food/drink, hit the bathroom, whatever.
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    and number 8 is up and gone on twitter
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by StarKitten View Post
    The one on twitter was claimed in about 5 seconds. As for the codes staying the same, the last 3 have had the exact same starting digits going downward.
    Actually, #6 started with 3a3zzqfwewy3h
    All the others started with hdd8qkq4ywwzw
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    #7 up and gone on Twitter
  11. Ssyrie
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by HochroterDrache View Post
    oh well, anyone have any idea when it goes up in the store tommorrow?
    Well, if history is any indication it could take hours to actually be able to get in to purchase it. The booster pack releases tend to overload the online store.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MR5M1TH View Post
    looks like it is the same formula for the forum-only crowd tho, that is, those with nothing to do with the evil that is FB or T
    Actually the first 5 all started with the same 13 characters (2 forum, 2 FB, 1 Twitter).
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ilconke View Post
    It wouldn't surprise me if it was mostly people with photographic memories. Which sucks for those of us that don't have that. It certainly would help at least. Either way a raffle would be much more fair instead of giving it away to those with the fastest hands/eyes/internet. What a jip.
    You know, if you can touch type (i.e. not look at the keyboard while typing), you don't need to memorize the number.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    my Master Account page in a second Firefox window, to the side, set to refresh every 45 seconds to keep the login fresh.
    I'd set that to more than 45 seconds. Last thing you'd want is for it to refresh while you're typing the code in. Mine is set for 13 minutes and I haven't been logged out yet.
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    4th on facebook. already gone
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Municipal View Post
    So they use a photographic memory, to remember the code and enter it real fast without having to look back at the code page.
    A good typist doesn't have to look at the keyboard to type. That way the can type it in as they read it.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Municipal View Post
    Then those people who do secretarial work, or any work for that matter should leave the free things to those who do not have money, yeah?
    As I pointed out earlier, if you can type 60 wpm, it would take 4 seconds to enter the code.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smoking Baby View Post
    I got bored and wasn't even looking. I give up.

    Been staring at 3 tabs for well over an hour now.

    I'll just buy it tomorrow. Good luck to those still in it!
    I was typing a response to another thread and wasn't paying attention to Twitter until they said that the code had been claimed.

    Thank god for USA Network and NCIS marathons. At least I won't be bored trying to get a code.
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    I just remembered that Eden Studios (the guys that were supposed to release a CoV PnP RPG), stated that there was a company that would be making mini's for their game. Unfortunately the game never happened (and probably never will).
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadowclone View Post
    I believe that City of Villians came with a figurine of one of the main villains, mine for example had Black Scorpion, which my dog promptly ate.
    The collectors edition of CoV came with all 5 major villains. Plus there are two Stateman figures. One came with the CoH DVD, can't remember how you got the other one. They're not bad, but Heroclick figures aren't the most detailed mini's out there.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scootertwo View Post
    Either people are using some serious typing skillz or seriously lucky.
    Fixed that for you.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by StarKitten View Post
    Avatea , honest question, how in the world is someone typing in the code in literally 2 - 4 seconds? This just doesn't seem right somehow.
    A fast typist could. 60 words per minute (which isn't fast), is 300 characters a minute. That's 5 characters per second which which means that it would only take the person 4 seconds to enter in the code. You just have to be a fast typist.

    FYI: Code 2 just got claimed on Facebook
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot View Post
    Bah! that didn't even show on Facebook
    it only shows on one, not all three (forum, Facebook, Twitter). You got to watch all three.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Unknown_User View Post
    It would be nice to have but I don't think NCSoft or Paragon studios will offering this to its playerbase anytime soon, or at all. As Caligdoiel pointed out the cost of production is one factor. I think another problem is exporting player character data off the game servers and moving it on to another completely different system. I think when Figureprints came out for WoW or sometime after it one of the devs said that it would be nice to offer something like that to players but one of the problems they ran across was exporting the player data off the game servers.
    But doesn't all the costume data get exported every time you 'Save' a costume? Shouldn't be that hard these days.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot View Post
    I don't understand why all the special boots always have to have heels
    You're kidding, right? Most of the special boots for females are either flats or only have a short heel. This is one of the few that has a stiletto style heal, and I'm glad.