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Hey folks,

Here are the codes for today's installment of the Countdown to Going Rogue.

Good luck and enjoy!

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PLEASE NOTE, YOU CANNOT INSTALL THE BETA CLIENT ONTO A EUROPEAN NCSOFT LAUNCHER FOR THE TIME BEING; PLEASE SET YOUR NCSOFT LAUNCHER TO NORTH AMERICAN IN ORDER TO INSTALL IT!


If you have NCsoft Launcher and Beta installed.

1. Run the NCsoft Launcher shortcut to get the latest update.
2. Double-click CITY OF HEROES BETA in the NCsoft Launcher’s game list to play.

If you do not have NCsoft Launcher but have COH Beta installed.

1. Click the NCsoft Launcher link: http://us.ncsoft.com/en/launcher/ncsoft-launcher.html
2. Click Download Now.
3. Follow the instruction to install the NCsoft Launcher.
4. The NCsoft Launcher will start at the end of the installation.
5. Double-click CITY OF HEROES BETA in the NCsoft Launcher’s game list to play.

If you have NCsoft Launcher but do not have COH Beta installed.

1. Run NCsoft Launcher shortcut to get the latest update.
2. The NCsoft Launcher will start.
3. Create a copy of the NCsoft Launcher desktop shortcut.
4. Right click on the new shortcut and open the Properties option.
5. In the Target window, add the following flag to the end of the line:
[space]/LaunchGame=CohBeta
6. Run the shortcut.
7. The NCsoft Launcher will open, starting a City of Heroes Beta installation.
8. Click Install.
9. If you are on Windows Vista or Windows 7, confirm the UAC prompts. (if UAC is turned on).
10. After the installation completes, double-click CITY OF HEROES BETA in the NCsoft Launcher’s games list to play.


FRANCAIS

ATTENTION, VOUS NE POUVEZ PAS INSTALLER LE PROGRAMME DE BETATEST SUR UN LANCEUR NCSOFT PARAMETRE EN LANGUE EUROPEENNE. ASSUREZ-VOUS DE PARAMETRER VOTRE LANCEUR NCSOFT EN LANGUE ANGLAISE AMERICAINE AVANT DE SUIVRE LES INSTRUCTIONS SUIVANTES.

Si vous avez le NCsoft Launcher et le client Beta installés :

1. Lancer le Launcher pour obtenir la dernière mise à jour
2. Allez dans Fichier/Paramètres, onglet Avancés, et assurez-vous que la région soit bien Amérique du Nord
3. Double-cliquez sur CITY OF HEROES BETA dans la liste des jeu du NCsoft Launcher pour le lancer.

Si vous n’avez pas le NCsoft Launcher mais avez le client Beta installé :

1. Cliquer sur le lien du NCsoft Launcher : http://eu.ncsoft.com/fr/launcher/ncsoft-launcher.html
2. Cliquer sur Télécharger Maintenant.
3. Suivez les instruction pour installer le NCsoft Launcher
4. Le NCsoft Launcher démarrera à la fin de l’installation
5. Aller dans Fichier/Paramètres, onglet avancés, et assurez-vous que la région soit bien Amérique du Nord
6. Double-cliquer sur CITY OF HEROES BETA dans la liste des jeu du NCsoft Launcher pour le lancer.

Si vous avez le NCsoft Launcher mais pas le client Beta installé :

1. Lancer le NCsoft Launcher pour obtenir la dernière mise à jour
2. Créer une copie du raccourci du NCsoft Launcher sur le Bureau
3. Cliquer-droit sur le raccourci nouvellement créé et ouvrir les Propriétés
4. Dans la boite de dialogue Cible, ajouter le texte suivant à la fin de la ligne :
   [espace]/LaunchGame=CohBeta
5. Lancer le raccourci
6. Le NCsoft Launcher va s’ouvrir en commençant l’installation du client Beta
7. Cliquer sur Installer
8. Si vous avez Windows Vista ou Windows 7, et si on vous demande une confirmation, cliquer sur Accepter
9. Une fois que l’installation est finie, aller dans Fichier/Paramètres, onglet Avancés. Assurez-vous que la région soit bien Amérique du Nord
10. Double-cliquer sur CITY OF HEROES BETA dans la liste des jeu du NCsoft Launcher pour jouer.

DEUTSCH

BITTE BEACHTET, DASS IHR NICHT DEN BETA-CLIENT DURCH DEN EUROPÄISCHEN NCSOFT LAUNCHER INSTALLIEREN KÖNNT; BITTE STELLT EUREN NCSOFT LAUNCHER AUF NORDAMERIKANISCH UM, UM DEN BETA-CLIENT ZU INSTALLIEREN!

Falls ihr schon den NCsoft Launcher und Beta installiert habt:

1. Startet den NCsoft Launcher, und ladet das neueste Update herunter.
2. Doppel-Klickt CITY OF HEROES BETA in der Spiel-Liste des NCsoft Launchers.

Falls ihr CoH Beta, aber NICHT den NCsoft Launcher installiert habt:

1. Geht auf diese Webseite: http://eu.ncsoft.com/de/launcher/ncsoft-launcher.html
2. Ladet den NCsoft Launcher herunter.
3. Folgt den Hinweisen, um den NCsoft Launcher zu installieren.
4. Der NCsoft Launcher wird automatisch gestartet, sobald die Installation abgeschlossen ist.
5. Doppel-Klickt CITY OF HEROES BETA in der Spiel-Liste des NCsoft Launchers.

Falls ihr den NCsoft Launcher, aber NICHT CoH Beta installiert habt:

1. Startet den NCsoft launcher, um das neueste Update zu bekommen.
2. Der NCsoft Launcher wird automatisch gestartet.
3. Erstellt eine neue Verknüpfung für den NCsoft Launcher auf eurem Desktop.
4. Rechtsklickt auf der neuen Verknüpfung, und wählt „Eigenschaften“.
5. In dem Ziel-Fenster, bitte tippt das folgende ein:
   [Leertaste]/LaunchGame=CohBeta
6. Startet die Verknüpfung
7. Der NCsoft Launcher wird gestartet, und die Installation von City of Heroes Beta wird beginnen.
8. Klickt „Installieren“
9. Falls ihr Windows Vista oder Windows 7 benutzt, akzeptiert jegliche UAC-Aufforderungen, falls sie erscheinen sollten.
10. Nachdem die Installation abgeschlossen ist, doppel-klickt CITY OF HEROES BETA in der Spiel-Liste des NCsoft Launchers, um zu spielen!

As part of our continuing beta for City of Heroes: Going Rogue, we have now granted access to Pre-Purchase Customers into the Going Rogue Beta. Please go here to learn how to connect to the Going Rogue Closed Beta in order to start experiencing City of Heroes: Going Rogue.

As an added bonus, all of you who have had the chance to view City of Heroes: Going Rogue are now free to discuss City of Heroes: Going Rogue to your hearts’ content!. Have an exciting tidbit from Going Rogue you want to share? Go ahead. Screenshots you want to post? Now is the time. Head on over to the Going Rogue sub-forum and let it all out!

To discuss this announcement, please use the Official Discussion thread found here.

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This thread is to discuss the announcement found here.

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PAX East…check! Comic-Con San Diego...check! What’s next? Well, PAX Prime in Seattle of course and we’ll once again be in attendance!

City of Heroes® is always thrilled to be headed back to the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington because really… what’s better than a three-day festival featuring and celebrating tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers? Not much in our book! PAX Prime will take place this year Sept. 3rd-5th at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center.

While CoH will not have a presence at the NCsoft Booth this time around, we are holding a panel session and throwing a Player Meet and Greet, so come on out to see us! Read on for the details…

City of Heroes® Panel Session at PAX Prime 2010

When: Saturday, Sept. 4th, 10:30am-11:30am

Where: Raven Theatre, 3AB

What: City of Heroes Going Rogue™….and Beyond!

City of Heroes Going Rogue™ is this summer’s biggest super-powered MMO expansion, and the Paragon Studios® development team is at PAX Prime tell you all about what it was like to once again redefine the on-line gaming experience. What was it like to create Going Rogue? How did they design some of the cool new features? And how will this lead into the next major advances for City of Heroes? Join Lead Designer, Melissa Bianco, Lead Systems Designer Matt Miller, Design and Programming Producer, Nate Birkholz and Art Producer, Eric Johnsen as they share with attendees the challenges involved in revolutionizing the MMO marketplace.

We hope to see you there!

PAX Prime Player Meet and Greet!



They were so good to us last year that we’re headed back to the Elephant and Castle in Seattle again for our Player Meet and Greet!

When: Saturday, Sept. 4th, 7:00pm-12:00am

Where: Elephant and Castle Pub and Restaurant (located in the Red Lion Hotel), Billiards Room
1415 5th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101-2313
(206) 624-9977

What: Come hang out with the Development and Community Relations teams! Play a little pool, grab a refreshment, synch up with other CoH players and leave with not only a cool lenticular Hero/Villain button, but also this year’s exclusive “Praetorian Police” PAX Prime In-Game Costume Code:




The festivities will take place in the Billiards Room and all you need to do is tell the hostess that you're there for the City of Heroes 'Meet and Greet' and you'll be pointed in the right direction. So please join us for a night of fun and schmoozing!

We can’t wait to see you at PAX Prime 2010!

To join in the community discussion of this announcement please go here.

On Wednesday August 11, 2010 the Official City of Heroes Message Forums will be taken offline for an extended maintenance starting at 6am CST (4am PST/7am EST/12PM British Time/13:00 Central European). Currently, this downtime has a projected duration of 4-6 hours but we hope to get the boards back up and running again as soon as possible.

We thank you for your patience and understanding,

On Friday August 6th 2010 we will be performing some back end maintenance on our websites including www.cityofheroes.com, goingrogue.cityofheroes.com, www.ncsoft.com, and www.paragonstudios.com. While this maintenance should be largely invisible to most users, some may experience a brief inability to see these sites while changes to DNS servers propagate. If you are unable to view these sites, please check back again later in the day and they should be available.

Thank you very much for your patience.

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This is just to let you know that on Monday August 9th, 2010 we will be wiping the Comic Hero and Villain Culture Forum with the exception of topics which have been stickied. If there is a thread you believe should be stickied, please PM theOcho, Avatea, or Moderator 12 with your request.

Please note that only threads that comply with the new Message Forum Rules and Guidelines as they relate to off topic threads will be stickied.

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The North American Servers will be brought down for emergency Maintenance on Thursday August 5, 2010 at 2pm CST for approximately 2 hours.

During this period, Wentworths and the Black Market as well as Architect Entertainment will be unavailable for our EU customers as well.

Thanks for your patience,

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This is the discussion thread for the announcement found here.

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Greetings All,

In the 11 months since we’ve made the switch to the new forum software, we’ve seen a lot of growth and change in how people interact on the Official City of Heroes Message Forum. When we launched the new forums, we enabled a number of features as a sort of experiment, to see how they would be received by the forum populace. After almost a year of gathering feedback and watching how the different features were being used we’ve decided to make some changes.

Both the Reputation feature and the Tags feature had some promise, however neither feature has been as productive as we had hoped. As a result we have decided to suspend use of both features on the forums. While some of you enjoyed the Reputation mini game and others did a lot of good work using Tags, both features were misused more often than they were used productively.

Also with the move to the new forum software, we saw a merging of the North American and European forums. We’re still extremely pleased with this move, but the resulting forums are very large and a bit cumbersome. In an effort to reduce the number of sub forums and thereby increasing the communication density, we have the following changes planned:

• Combining the Hero-con Forum with the Player Events Forum. With our decision to focus on an increased number of Meet and Greets this year including appearances on both coasts instead of a formal Hero-con this makes the most sense.
• Removal of the Super and Villain Group Recruitment forum. Recruitment for specific Super and Villain Groups seems to belong better in the server forums for the respective Super and Villain Groups. We are more than happy to move your current thread to the correct forum and for the rare cases that involve Super and Villain Group Coalitions that spawn multiple servers, we are available to discuss individual solutions with you.
• Consolidation of the Mission Architect Forums into a single forum. While both Mission Architect forums get traffic, often times having multiple forums for the same feature ends up splitting discussions unnecessarily. Consolidating both these forums should help make sure that any relevant discussion is seen by all of those interested.
• Consolidation of the PvP Forums. For reasons similar to Mission Architect situation, the two PvP forums will also be consolidated into one forum.
• Combining the Multimedia and Screenshot and Fan Art Forums. Both of these sub forums deal with different forms of visual representation. Combining them should give those of you who frequent them a wider exposure to some great creative talent!

With these alterations to the forum features and structure, we are also revising the Message Forum Rules and Guidelines. The new Message Forum Rules and Guidelines can be found here. The new version is basically the old Message Forum Rules and Guidelines expanded to be a bit cleaner and clearer. There is one significant change however, and that is how we will be handling the off-topic forums moving forward.

The off topic forums (Comic Hero/Villain Culture and to a lesser extent the server forums) over the last year have been the location of the most contentious and non productive discussions found on the forums. Frequently these non productive discussions have centered around a few topics: real world events, other MMO’s/other video games, and the physical forms of actors/actresses. As a result we will be tightening the restrictions on what is allowed to be discussed on these forums.

Going forward, non-CoH topics will still be permitted in these forums, but only those with some relevance towards CoH. Included in this list are: Comics, Anime, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and anything else that directly relates to the Super Hero/Villain Genre. While we wish to encourage discussion, often times topics not focused on these subjects quickly became filled with personal attacks and other non productive commentary. Such acts don’t encourage community within City of Heroes nor does it make the City of Heroes forums a pleasant place for visitors. This especially holds true for threads focusing on the physical attributes of real world people, which often cross the lines of acceptable content and therefore will no longer be permitted on the forums.

So when are these changes going to take place you ask? Well here is our current proposed schedule:

7/26

• Announcement of the Changes
• Removal of Tags and Reputation
• Begin the Feedback process through the corresponding Announcement thread

7/30

• Close the feedback process, including a response to issues raised

8/2

• New Rules officially enter enforcement, and forum modifications take place.

Since these changes will directly affect you the forum users, we’d like to hear your feedback in this thread. While some of these changes are a dramatic difference from how the forums are currently managed, we feel that they will provide a more productive and enjoyable experience for all of those who visit them.

We appreciate your patience while we work on implementing these changes, and look forward to hearing your opinions on them.

Thanks,

The OCR team

To give feedback, please use the Official Discussion thread found here.

This thread is to discuss the announcement found here.

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This thread is to discuss the announcement found here.

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Submissions open on Mondays only from 10 AM Pacific Time (1 PM Eastern Time / 6PM GMT / 19:00 Central European Time) until 5:00 PM Pacific Time (8:00 PM Eastern Time / 1:00 AM GMT / 2:00 Central European Time) between January 11, 2010 and July 26, 2010).

Welcome to our "Search the words, save the world" forum mission!


A super computer turned evil codenamed Ebil-o is attempting to take over our most powerful nations' computer systems and exterminate us puny human beings (how original, huh?). However, every week, a short window of opportunity allows us to break into Ebil-o's matrix and reset the timer leading to our undoubtedly apocalyptic end!

How do we do that, I hear you ask? Well, we happen to have an anonymous little helper and each week, he or she snail mails us a word search puzzle containing anywhere between 10 to 15 words related to City of Heroes related theme (Ebil-o likes City of Heroes; apparently, it helps him unwind after a long day hard at work planning to get rid of humanity).

Each week a new theme will be passed along and you will need to find the exact number of words you’re being told exists within the block of letters you are given.

Your opportunity to save us all is through a word block located at the bottom of this post.

The goal is to be the first one to find the words based on the theme (without being told what they are), circle them in the word block (using Paint or an equivalent program) and then list them below it.

If you are the first one to answer with the correct words, you win and only then will we be able to input the words into Ebil-o's matrix, thus delaying our impending doom. As a token of our gratitude, we'll give you the "Ebil-o FTL [date]" forum title as well as 1 (one) costume code amongst the following ones:

• Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
• Freakshow Tank Boss
• Paragon Police Department Hardsuit
• Carnival of Shadows Ring Mistress
• Knives of Artemis Lt.
• Praetorian Clockwork

Have fun…but not too much as each week we’re counting on you to save the world!

Rules

1) Reply in the official City of Heroes® forum (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/) thread created for each weekly " Search the words, save the world Contest” with your submission.

2) Your reply must contain a number of words or names that will be defined every time this contest is run. Please refrain from posting more than the number of words indicated in every contest post. Only post the correct number of words or names, even if you notice duplicates..

3) Your reply must also contain the following statement. Please note that your submission will be disqualified if this statement is not present in your post:

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

4) To enter the contest weekly, as of January 11, 2010, you must be 13 years of age or older. If a winner is under 18 or a minor in his or her state/province/country of residence, his or her parent or guardian must also sign any applicable releases and documentation.

5) Please note, only 1 (one) entry per forum account will be accepted. If you post a second time, you'll get disqualified, so make your one entry count! Also, once you have posted your entry, do NOT edit it as any edit will disqualify you from that day's forum game.

6) Entries must conform to the Official City of Heroes Message Forum Rules and Guidelines and to the Contest Official Rules and Conditions.

7) If you win the City of Heroes® Search the words, save the world Contest one week, you are not eligible to do so again for the next 8 weeks. This is to allow other people the opportunity to win. Please be courteous to others and refrain from participating during the weeks you are not eligible to win.

If there is not a winner by the end of the day, I will post the solution.

This week's word list consists of 15 Names (definitely 15) related to locations in Paragon City.

PLEASE NOTE that whenever a location's name is made of several terms, only one of them has been used for the purpose of this word search.



Monday, July 26th, 2010 - Word Block






Good luck all, and don't forget that the fate of the world is in your hands!

The Ghoul costume code (available from the NCsoft booth at San Diego Comic-Con) has a few Known Issues which will be corrected with the release of Going Rogue. Currently the Ghoul is lacking correct animations, unless it is moving forward. When using powers (or travel powers) incorrect animations (or no animations) will play. Please be aware that this is only temporary and will be fixed promptly.



Thank you for your patience,

Heya Folks,

Just a little note to let you know that members of the OCR team will be away for a couple days as we are attending San Diego Comic-Con. As a result the usual forum games (Screenshot the Spot and Creative Caption Craziness) will not take place this week.

Thank you for your patience, and we look forward to seeing what you folks do with these games next week!

This thread is to discuss the announcement found here.

Thanks,

At 75 months you have gone above and beyond, proving yourself resolute in the pursuit of heroism or villainy. With 75 months played, you become eligible for the following reward:

75 Months: Resolute Resolute Badge A permanent 10% bonus to Prestige earned by defeating enemies

Enjoy!

To discuss this announcement, please go here.

Thanks,

Just a quick reminder, you only have till July 24th to get your questions in!

GN recently visited Paragon Studios to get a sneak peek of City of Heroes Going Rogue™! They got an up close and personal view of the expansion and experienced first hand some of its most exciting features. Now they want to share their initial impressions with you, so head on over to IGN to see their thoughts on City of Heroes Going Rogue!