Extensive guides or quick, but to the point guides?
Gee, I update mine every new issue without having to be told. Then I post it in the Guides Forum. Then I post a link in the appropriate forum's Guide thread. Then that thread doesn't get updated for two issues.
Why don't you update your Guides, Lighthouse. We've been updating ours anyway.
Updated: the Mastermind numpad pet control guide. Happy New Year! 
-Sandolphan
"When heroes fail, the Angels will save you."
MASTERMIND NUMERIC KEYPAD PET CONTROLS
HAMIDON NUKE RAID GUIDE
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Have you written, or thought about writing, a Game Play Guide? If so, now is the time to revisit it and spiff it up! Or, get writing and put your game play wisdom down in black and white!
One of the initiatives the Community Team will be tackling is to update the many guide posts on our forums. These guides are an excellent resource for our community and we want to keep them current and up to date.
So, make it your new year's resolution! Forget the gym and write or update your guide today!
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Lighthouse,
The first thing you should do for the guides is break them up into subgroups a bit like Tankers, Blasters, Brutes, Binds, etc etc. So that way its a bit more ogranized and not clumped all together. Even with search it can be a pain to go through all the clutter of guides.
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Gee, I update mine every new issue without having to be told. Then I post it in the Guides Forum. Then I post a link in the appropriate forum's Guide thread. Then that thread doesn't get updated for two issues.
Why don't you update your Guides, Lighthouse. We've been updating ours anyway.
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Not everyone does.
And I think this would be his way of saying that he is about to update the Guide Guide. I don't blame him for not wanting to jump in and do it - Cuppa was the last one to do it, I think, which means there are a LOT of "weeds' to trim, so to speak.
Orc&Pie No.53230 There is an orc, and somehow, he got a pie. And you are hungry.
www.repeat-offenders.net
Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
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Gee, I update mine every new issue without having to be told. Then I post it in the Guides Forum. Then I post a link in the appropriate forum's Guide thread. Then that thread doesn't get updated for two issues.
Why don't you update your Guides, Lighthouse. We've been updating ours anyway.
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That's what we are doing. We totally agree that it sucks that things haven't been updated in a while. The Community Team will be digging in to bring them up to snuff!
So, we thought we'd let the community know we are going to be doing that.
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Not everyones.
And I think this would be his way of saying that he is about to update the Guide Guide.
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Exactly! That is what we are about The Guide Guide and all the sub Guide posts in each of the Archetype sections.
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Extensive guides or quick, but to the point guides?
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Whatever strikes your fancy!
Lighthouse
Community Relations Manager
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See links in my sig for The Performance Guide and the Consolidated ATI Settings Guide.
The Performance Guide shouldn't need any updating. The ATI Guide will be getting a rewrite soon due to all the changes from ATI and Cryptic.
Be well, people of CoH.
I've recently updated my Archery/Devices Blaster guide for Issue 8, the link can be found in my signature.
I did a computer parts pickin' guide... So there's that... 
See below!
August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012
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Have you written, or thought about writing, a Game Play Guide? If so, now is the time to revisit it and spiff it up! Or, get writing and put your game play wisdom down in black and white!
One of the initiatives the Community Team will be tackling is to update the many guide posts on our forums. These guides are an excellent resource for our community and we want to keep them current and up to date.
So, make it your new year's resolution! Forget the gym and write or update your guide today!
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I'll get to it. Its good to here those things are finally being updated. I wrote my guide at the beginning of i7 and it was never put in the stalker forums.
My guide is updated randomly, but is always up to date, because it SCOFFS at the thought of issues. See signature. I think mine's pretty useful to anyone who has any mez-type attack, or to anyone who has any power that deals damage to an enemy. Mwaha.
Enemy Resistances - Damage, Mez and Defense
Enemy XP Mods
(Drag my avatar into your mp3 player!)
Funny you should mention that. With finals over, I was actually working on mine already (started yesterday).
It's liike your psychio or something.....
Must the guide be located on the forums themselves? We have a guide that the Livejournal community put together.. it's not very organized, but it's got a lot of good info. It's a very-very-beginner's guide.
http://community.livejournal.com/cit...s/2066886.html
Lighthouse never responded to my PM about putting my new online planner in the Guide to Guides 
I sent it like, 3 weeks ago :/
i wonder if they'll still put planners in that thread after the revamp?
(link in sig)
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Gee, I update mine every new issue without having to be told. Then I post it in the Guides Forum. Then I post a link in the appropriate forum's Guide thread. Then that thread doesn't get updated for two issues.
Why don't you update your Guides, Lighthouse. We've been updating ours anyway.
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That's what we are doing. We totally agree that it sucks that things haven't been updated in a while. The Community Team will be digging in to bring them up to snuff!
So, we thought we'd let the community know we are going to be doing that.
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Not everyones.
And I think this would be his way of saying that he is about to update the Guide Guide.
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Exactly! That is what we are about The Guide Guide and all the sub Guide posts in each of the Archetype sections.
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Extensive guides or quick, but to the point guides?
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Whatever strikes your fancy!
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If you wanted to be really spiffy, you'd translate all the guides into a less cumbersome and more user-friendly web-interface instead of forum links. You could even add pics to spice it up. 
I have seen very few pvp guides so I wrote the one in my sig. Not sure if it's "guide" section worthy
I happen to like the guides that include builds based on the information. See for me the problem is what to pick when to optimize what my character will be capable of. I realize that movement and pool powers are optional, but the rest is extremely helpful and those builds have increased my enjoyment of certain AT's as well as the game in general.
DarkEqualizer
My Katana/Ninjitsu Guide remains up to date due to the relative lack of changes in Issue 8. The link is in my sig.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
Well, I suppose there are a few things I can do to clean up the latest Mastermind Notes Guide (Its just a lot of work to run through.) Just a few questions though:
1) Is there a target "deadline" or target date to have these revised, refined, cleaned up, thread-condensed, or updated guides to ideally be done by?
2) When posting or submitting these revised, refined, or updated guides, is there something we need to do to denote that these guides are current, some place different we need to post to, or someone we need to send an email to to say "this guide is now current and up to date"?
3) What will happen to old guides, some which are hopelessly out of date, and may be misleading or irrelevant due to changes invoked by patch updates or changes brought into effect by Issue releases?
4) What about some of the older, but still relevent guides and guide threads that are so old that the original writer is a white-name "Anonymous", "The Incomplete and Unofficial Guide to /bind (1.1)", a popular guide thread with over 100,000 views? It has no "owner", and is quite lengthy. Tackling an update to that would be a project, in and of itself.
5) Will any of the old guides be deleted or archived into a seperate section?
I'll shiny it up for I8, since there are blaster power changes to address. I just hate having to reformat the entire bugged without being able to use EDIT
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I'll shiny it up for I8, since there are blaster power changes to address. I just hate having to reformat the entire bugged without being able to use EDIT
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I keep an off-line copy of my guide in a word processor, which I edit, then use a preview post without submitting the post to see how it will look on the forum using copy and paste. Any changes I make I make to the offline copy and then repaste and see what difference it makes. Its the only way I find to tackle such large and important posts without greatly screwing anything up and have it posted for eternity.
In my last guide, I broke it up and posted it into sections and then quickly went back and edited links in the index so people could navigate the guide better due to its long length.
A Guide for PvP Devices Blasters: How to Make an Anti-Stalker
The guide has additional information to conform to adjustments in powers post issue 8.
I've got a couple of guides about the Hamidon Raids that ought to be included, an overview for first-time raiders at Hamidon Raids for First Timers and a guide for being a Main Taunt Tank at Hamidon Raids - A Main Taunt Tank's Guide
COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
Good news! The New Testament will be in the works soon after the new year...
Have you written, or thought about writing, a Game Play Guide? If so, now is the time to revisit it and spiff it up! Or, get writing and put your game play wisdom down in black and white!
One of the initiatives the Community Team will be tackling is to update the many guide posts on our forums. These guides are an excellent resource for our community and we want to keep them current and up to date.
So, make it your new year's resolution! Forget the gym and write or update your guide today!
Lighthouse
Community Relations Manager
If you have a specific in game, account, tech or billing problem please contact our Customer Support team via The Knowledge Base "Ask A Question" page.