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Ah, cool, thanks both )

Was just wondering, wasnt there a badge if you logged on for the 5 year event?

Logged a few alts on and not had one yet....

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So GR can't say when he's be on the server because it's still morning in America?

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Why would you want to see GR? He isn't alowed to say anything.

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Plus, why the test server, does that mean even the Reds cant be arsed to log in to the game?

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But there is definitely going to be more. They are bound to know a small issue would disappoint the majority of players, and with CO round the corner they can't afford to [censored] of players. As I recall they have never told us everything about an issue right away.

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Sadly though Thorny, you old devil, this is what we all thought with I14, that they would add more for people who didnt like that, and they didnt.

And to be honest, if they take as long as normal to announce anything further, then it will be too late.

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All i can say is i am shocked at how unrealistic and greedy players are ..want want want ..and yet its all Free content upgrades ..other MMO dont add in such content with out you having to pay for the stuff , AND its not player feed content ..Yes we pay for the game but work out how much you pay per hour played and its the cheapest fun going ....

The reality is COX has more new FREE content per year that any other MMO i can think of .

some clear want to have their cake and eat it , have 3 more slices and get to pick different toppings each time .

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The problem is that a lot of us love this game and want to stay but have reached the boredom threshold and it IS the Devs responsibility to keep players interested if they want the game to continue amid all the coming competition.

Also, it is not the players, the Devs have promised awesomeness for ages now and have not delivered.

This is why people are fed up and in some cases ....leaving.

I have been struggling with the game lately, I admit, but I was hoping for more than both the event and I15. Can only come to the conclusion that the Devs have been promised jobs at Cryptic, as they are doing a great job advertising for that game.

I still say CHAOS stands for Champions Has Abducted Our Superheroes.

Well thats about as bland as you can get.

Looks like I will be moving when I dont want to

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1st of the don't nock it until you try was a tongue in cheek joke hence the :P

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As i have no problem with the rest of what you said i will deal with this. Its a small thing about smilies the one with the tongue sticking out is the equivalent of a a blown raspberry which you used and not a "yes we are all in on whatever you are discussing and oh what a joke it is" which i believe you were aiming for which would be a smirking smiley . You may know what you mean but its interpretation is changed. Its a small distinction but a vital one much like the use of a comma such as this classic example.


A)What's the latest dope? (dope equals information)
B)What's the latest, dope? (, dope equals you, dummy)

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You really are a serious person arent you, lol

It was a post just digging a bit of fun, not malicious or anything, but if you want to take that attitude, the US have been more than xenophobic in the past about EU folk.

I did not see people in the EU forums making the same error or I would have taken the p1ss there too.

So climb back into your box.

Champions Has Abducted Our Superheroes?

Hmmm, maybe just me being daft, thought I logged on after last one, lol

Anyone have any ideas what the patch is today as no notes naturally?

Already had the others.

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Maybe it means he'll be wearing a clown costume when he types it?

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That will just scare everyone off.....

mmmmmm.....warm apple pie.......maybe I shouldnt go down this road ))

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100% agreement with what Dr_Toerag says, I especially like the rampant bigotry towards Americans. Good show CoX community.

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Not at all, I just found it funny and would have taken the p1ss out of the euros if they couldn't tell the time as well, so jump back in your box.

Just read the 5 year anniversary thread and aside from appearing that the US seem perfectly happy with the tedious 5 years events, I found it really funny that most seem to think it is only running for one hour, lol.

Or to show how out of touch they can be.....

Can Have Architect On SpectrumZX

"CHAOS is going to break loose in-game on our anniversary date"

City of Heroes Anniversary Operating System is going to break loose on our anniversary date..........

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http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/new..._annivers.html

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Five years ago a trumpet call rung out for heroes...

From around the globe that call was answered and the streets, rooftops, and skies of Paragon City™ were filled with the widest variety of costumed crusaders ever seen. These stalwart players brought with them the courage, fellowship, and dedication that made Paragon once again a true City of Heroes®!

Since that fateful day much has changed. Enemies have fallen and new ones have risen in their place, proving that evil never sleeps. Threats came from alternate dimensions, mystical realms, other times, and even from our own world itself. Lord Recluse™ loosed an army of villains into the world, turning the Rogue Isles™ into the largest den of villainy in recorded history. His destined ones showed remarkable will, cunning, and determination in this City of Villains®. Heroes and villains came into direct conflict with PvP battles, uncovered new powers, found new worlds to explore...or conquer, broke through with new inventions, and flashed back through time. The most recent development has provided the tools for players to architect all new adventures and help take us into the future.

Now it is a time to celebrate all the triumphs of the last five years and so Paragon Studios™ has cooked up some special gifts for all our loyal fans.

Please join us for a month of celebration starting on our birthday, April 28th and continuing on throughout the month of May!

In-Game Events

We're not going to ruin the surprise...but suffice it to say that all CHAOS is going to break loose in-game on our anniversary date and you're not going to want to miss it! From 11am EST on April 28th to 12am EST, get ready to re-experience some of the things that have made City of Heroes® the great game that it is over the past five years! The festivities will be more fun than you can shake a stick at, and will include plenty of opportunities to earn merits, badges and XP.

But that's not all...

Some familiar faces will be hanging out on the Training Room Test Server throughout the day--ready to wish you a happy anniversary. They could be anywhere, but you're definitely going to want to check out Pocket D! So copy a character over and pay them a visit!

Don't know how to get on the Training Room? Learn here.

Global Anniversary Address From Positron™

Also on our anniversary day, be watching around 8pm EST in-game (and shortly thereafter on the website), for a special Anniversary Address from everyone's favorite Lead Designer, Positron. He will certainly have some fun information to share!

Anniversary Contests!

For your participating pleasure, we've got two fun contests with cool prizes that will be launching on April 28th and continuing throughout the month of May!

Details will magically appear on the website on our anniversary day, but until then, just start thinking about what masterpieces you might create for the following competitions:

5 Year Anniversary T-Shirt Logo Contest - where the winning entry *may* very well get turned into actual shirts produced for a limited run!

City of Heroes® Video Homage Contest--That's right. We're going to challenge you to be as creative as possible and video tape yourself (alone or with friends and loved ones), paying homage to City of Heroes (in whatever way strikes your fancy), in two minutes or less! Then, you'll postal mail your video to us on CD or DVD and viola-- you'll be entered. Will you write an original song about the game and perform it for us? Perhaps you'll execute an interpretative dance in costume? The sky is the limit so get those creative juices flowing and watch for the specifics coming soon!

It's A Re-activation Week!

We want everyone to benefit from our anniversary, so from April 28th until 11:59pm EST on Sunday, May 3rd, all expired retail and trial accounts that are in good standing will be able to access the live servers. Now is the time to encourage everyone you know to patch up and jump into the game so that they can experience with you our anniversary events, the new Mission Architect system and more!

5 Year Anniversary Badge

Now then...it just wouldn't be a City of Heroes® milestone event without a commemorative badge, would it?

Beginning at 11am EST on Wednesday, April 29th and continuing until 11:59pm EST on Sunday, May 31st, we will be issuing each individual character you log into the game with, the following 5 Year Anniversary badge:




Just a reminder - this badge will be awarded per character, not per account!


All the fun all begins on the 28th and we can't wait for you to join us!

Thanks to you all for making City of Heroes® the success that it is.

Happy Anniversary!



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Okay, so I may be gloomy lately about CoH, but am I the only one who thinks this is all bland and lame for a milestone like 5 years? besides the fact that it aint I15?

An invasion, a chance to actually see a dev (though u could class that as a miracle here in the EU), another Positron "Soon" address, a cossie comp, invite day and a badge.

Well that sums up the game lately.

Oh, and yet again, we have to get the information from the US......

Idiots

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Sirens and Harpies are technically the same thing.

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Not modern, older drawings, Rupert Graves and even Homer, none of them depict Harpies as just women with wings

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I believe you'll be talking about Defiant. Unfortunately this server was made available earlier than it should have been due to a technical fault. The server is not being scheduled for a second 2 hour maintenance and will be restored as soon as the CS team has completed base restoration work.

This work should not take very long - Vigilance, Union and Zukunft are all now enabled for public access.

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Hehe, Is that normal soon or NC soon?

Well players, you have stuck with us now for five wonderful years.

In return for your loyalty and to celebrate this landmark, here is a free costume change and a respec to add to the other hundred you have.

Stay with us for another five years to find out what is coming.................soon!!

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other games can do similar things

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Theres no need to be condescending.

Even other sites such as Titan etc can link to this game and show info, so why it is so hard for the apparently skilled devs, I dont know.

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Arc #74519, "Valley of the Harpies"
tl;dr: 3 stars. Offenses: Short, "Just a bunch of stuff that happens", nasty mobs, no EB warning, glowie hunt on huge outdoor map, no custom mob descriptions, typos.



Used the Brute as the default one again.



Your contact is Julia Pria from Cimerora, who somehow seems to know that far in the future (your present), Harpies will invade Paragon City out of lack of food. Only, the way she's speaking makes it seem like she lives in Paragon, in our present. Very odd. Anyway, they're lead by the three sisters of myth, Aello ("storm swift"), Celaeno ("the dark") and Ocypete ("the swift wing"), and you've got to stop them.

Sure enough, Kings Row is under attack by harpies. They've scattered the remains of their victims around, so you're going to have to clean those up in addition to killing Aello (harpies are apparently acceptable targets for heroes to kill). Unfortunate choice of map, as it's a bit huge to look for five tiny piles of bones.
The Harpies look somewhat inaccurate, considering the original myths described Harpies as simply winged women - these mobs look like monstrous lizard-women with wings and claws. If anything, they look closer to Sirens (ugly bird-woman-monsters with seductive voices). They also don't have descriptions. Powersets vary - minions are either Claws/Sonic Attack, or Claws/Sonic Resonance, which means resistance-based (or squishy) toons can quickly be overwhelmed by incoming damage. The Lieuts are Claws/Pain Domination.
Aello is a Dual Blades/Storm Summoning Elite Boss, which is appropriate for her name and will make her incredibly annoying to fight for melee ATs or Masterminds. Both powersets turned up to max, so expect no mercy. I had some insights on hand so I beat her the first time. Took me a while to find all the glowies on the huge map, but I got the Assassin badge in the process.

Next up we have Celaeno, who's been tracked down to a cave under a shop. The map is one of the office-to-caves maps, full of harpies. Pretty straightforward defeat-boss mission. Celaeno, sadly, isn't exactly "straightforward" - Dark Melee/Sonic Resonance. She debuffed me a bit, hit Soul Drain, and before I could expect anything she killed me with Shadow Maul. I popped my godmode the second time and managed to take her down. You receive an irrelevant clue which uses a wrong name for her, strangely.

Finally, Ocypete needs to die. You're warned that she's the most brutal Harpy known to man. The map is a rather well-chosen Snake Hatchery map, a cave full of eggshells. In the final room we have Ocypete, who indeed turns out to be brutal, but not in the sense you'd expect.
Illusion/Kinetics. First three fights I just died horribly. Illusion is just -mean-. She could stack enough Terrorize through 2 breakfrees and 4 lucks to make me shiver. The Confusion was nasty the first few times, too. After messing about a lot and an insp restock run, I took her down, and got another flavor clue with a wrong name attributed to the Harpy. You get a rather boring one-sentence congrats from your contact and the arc's finished.



Bland. Bland bland bland. The idea is fine, I can appreciate a good play off mythology. After all, mythology plays an important role in the CoX storyline. However, it basically amounts to "bad guys are doing bad things, go beat them up", nothing better than a radio mission. It lacks a moral or strong theme. It's also short, and thus provides no background on the Harpies.
The mobs, in addition to lacking any description, are problematic. The minions stack a LOT of -resistance, and also have some -defense in Claws - more casual players might get shredded a lot in this arc. The healer Lieuts seem an unnecessary extra annoyance. I'd keep the Sonic Resonance to the Lieuts and give the Minions something easier. Also, the name of the Lieut mobs is in plural.
In its current state it's mostly just a "Go, hunt, kill" series of missions, with a glowie hunt thrown into the first mission just to be annoying. It's perfectly salvageable though, and if the story were (somewhat heavily) expanded upon, it could become something defnitely worth recommending to others. It's anything but easy, though.

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Thanks Col, will take various bits under advisement. I think the incorrect name bits are where I added and altered the arc but obviously must have missed some bits.

With regard to the Harpies, I do disagree. They were were "women with wings" but not in the way you think, They had claws, beaks and were indeed monstrous. You say they were more like sirens, but actually Sirens and Harpies are technically the same thing.

Anyway, will look at the arc, thanks again for your review.

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True, but soon != over a year, as in the case of the vault or many of the other things we've been told "soon" for.

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The vault is an example of why devs should keep thier mouths tight shut.

They anounced it then found it did't work.

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But if other games can do similar things then why cant NC?

Does that mean other Devs are more clever?