The City Scoop! ~Discussion~ August 3, 2007

This is the twelfth weekly edition of "The City Scoop" a publication for Supers by Supers.

This week’s edition is filled with some wonderful art done by our community members. I am incredibly impressed with the talents in art and writing that continue to be featured by this project. I for one always look forward to a new “Scoop.”

Discussion on the latest edition of "The City Scoop" is located here.

If you would like to do a feature article, have an event covered, or join "The City Scoop" team please PM Hertz or Marcian_Tobay

If you or someone you know should be considered for ‘Behind The Mask’ please contact Teldon

If you need some “Advice” or would like to “Ask The X” contact Lady_Athyna or LiquidX


For a printable version of "The City Scoop" please send an email to the following
CityScoop12@the-swarm.org

If you have an event you would like covered by “The City Scoop” please post your events under the event forum located here: Event Forum

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/em Smack!

Also, great art in this issue! Good work everyone!

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Ack ack! We been smacked!

... Was that a rhyme?

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:cough: PvPEC ad :cough: submitted 3 weeks ago :cough:

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Arc 185502: Who Killed Snow Globe? a mini mystery Put together the clues to solve the case!

Arc 22832: And Hell Hath No Fury (extreme)
Will you be the key to the Knives of Artemis' survival? or the instrument of their destruction?

I don’t know how that slipped through the cracks, but I apologize. We’ll include it next week. I’m very sorry about that.

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I would like to clarify the "breaking news" paragraph in the Market Report.

As I understand it, this is the sequence of events:
[*] August 2nd, 10am CDT, a patch was applied to the live servers. This patch inadvertently rolled back some number of auction transactions over the previous 24 hours.[*] Around that time, I logged in to pull the data for the Salvage Report.[*] At about 12 noon CDT, NCSoft shut down the auction servers to correct the problem.[*] A few hours later, the servers were brought back up, with reports from NCSoft that all problems had been corrected.

Since Thursday is the deadline (actually, past-deadline) for Scoop articles, my "breaking news" paragraph was informed only by the first three of the above four bullet points. I hope that readers are not misled into believing that transactions were permanently lost across the whole playerbase, because as far as I know that is not the case. I should have linked to the official announcement regarding the problem here.

I apologize for any confusion over this article. If anyone has any persistant issues related to the August 2nd auction house shutdown, I encourage you /petition it in game so that the GMs and support staff can review the case.

- Protea

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And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

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/em Smack!

Also, great art in this issue! Good work everyone!

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I hope to continue with the comic!

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Oh man, the crossword puzzle will be hard for me... most of the Rikti content I haven't done since I leveled up my first (and only) 50 a few years ago. And I haven't done any Rikti content red-side. Darn this altaholism of mine...

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Tech support IRL, CLR/DRU/MED/WHM/PRI/DEF. Hmm, I sense a pattern...
S 80% E 80% A 40% K 0%
A few of my alts

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/em Smack!

Also, great art in this issue! Good work everyone!

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I hope to continue with the comic!

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I liked the comic a lot, but the interview was even better. As an artist it's great to hear what other artists have to say about the craft in general, and you asked that questions that I wanted to know. Great job, Dirt!

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That's my crazy little Miss Insidious.

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Good job on the Scoop, as usual. I do have two points of interest for the crossword puzzle.

The clue for 16 Accross is:
"Learn about: Lost. Earn: This history badge."

I think the clue should have been:
"Learn about: Rikti War. Earn: This history badge."

Also, the clue for 15 down seems a bit ambiguous:
"We bring: To city zones."

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"Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end..." -- Q

Congrats to Toxic, Aerones & Spino on being in this week's scoop... And whoa Doug! /e bow, praise, grovel...

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Yeah, Doug rules.. *sneaks around his windows*

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wheres the people from guardian server?? no one interviewed from there ??

also...why havent we put the scoop in game yet? i should just be able to click on the newspaper guy and have it come up to read in game. add that to the list of things to do!!



and that dude biosphere lives like 20 minutes from me....always cool to find people that live close to me.

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40 50s so far.
if you dont like me....i dont really care.
respect is earned , never given

Dark Willing Lvl 8 Dominator last one on the list.

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Shadowy Presence - Absolutely, positively worse than playing a Kheldian... --Myrmydon

Nice job to Neuronia on his/her Defender story! Very true for us defenders out in CoH

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wheres the people from guardian server?? no one interviewed from there ??

also...why havent we put the scoop in game yet? i should just be able to click on the newspaper guy and have it come up to read in game. add that to the list of things to do!!



and that dude biosphere lives like 20 minutes from me....always cool to find people that live close to me.

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I'm trying I'm trying!!!!

*sobs sadly* I can only do so much cap'n!!!!

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The clue for 16 Accross is:
"Learn about: Lost. Earn: This history badge."

I think the clue should have been:
"Learn about: Rikti War. Earn: This history badge."

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Sigh. You are right. I blame mid-terms week. (Passed all with flying colors, pun intended .)

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Also, the clue for 15 down seems a bit ambiguous:
"We bring: To city zones."

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Actually this one is fine, in my opinion. I will say that the bottom box is an "S".

I've tried to make sure that all the answers are spread over most levels, and both "sides" to the game. It is one of the more difficult crosswords for the scoop. Some of the answers are in-game, some outside of it.

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Doesn't anyone bother to proofread any of this?

The 2nd paragraph of "Rikti Reactions" is repeated. The very first person interviewed (Princess Kiko) has her quote cut off in mid sentence. Assorted grammar atrocities are sprinkled throughout the very first page.

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"OK, first of all... Shut Up." - My 13-Year-Old Daughter

29973 "The Running of the Bulls" [SFMA] - WINNER of the Mighty Big Story Arc Contest !
- The Stellar Wind Orbital Space Platform

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The 2nd paragraph of "Rikti Reactions" is repeated. The very first person interviewed (Princess Kiko) has her quote cut off in mid sentence. Assorted grammar atrocities are sprinkled throughout the very first page.

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Yeah... I'm still not sure how that happened. Actually Kiko's statement is there, its just the last part ended up in white instead of black, making it invisible to for intents.

Anyhow, those mistakes happened because we had to make a major change in the scoop at the very last minute. We had the scoop change hands of formatters in the middle of it, because the one who did the original layout was AFK at the time, so the other one had to take over. Somewhere in all that those errors popped in. As it was getting late and we already past our targeted deadline, we decided to push it through rather then delay it.

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Excellent coverage of Defenders, Neuronia! Well done on the article.

Great paper again, as always. My thanks to all involved!

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Also, great art in this issue! Good work everyone!

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QFT. Just got done reading this issue, GJ all Some fantastic asrt work here. May have to consider comisioning some work for myself

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You should! Actually, I ran some information on how to request/commission art in a previous issue

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The "Scoop" is really coming into it's own . It simply gets better each issue. I just wanted to say "Cheers!" to the whole staff for doing a great job. This is exactally what I was talking about in my save the Paragon Press post.
Keep up the good work gang!

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Anything ya'll want added or expanded on?

The kudos and love are so very not being ignored. We thrive on it! But, how can we make stuff better? Granted, I'm so very selfish wondering about the horoscopes and the advice (looks at empty pm box and sighs) but is there anything else?

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