Tuesday Dec 16th - Wednesday Dec 17th Outages!!

Greetings Players due to the upcoming holiday breaks and our normal publishing schedule you will be seeing some service outages over the next few days that I will recap in this message.

Web Server Maintenance--December 16th 6:00 AM CST - 8:00 AM CST
All NCsoft game forums will be down for DB maintenance for this time period. The estimated down time is set for 2 hours.

Live Publish--December 16th 7:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST
All North American Live Servers and Test Servers will be brought down for a live publish. This publish is expected to last 3 hours. There are no public patch notes as this publish is for the support of COH Mac.

Live Publish--December 17th 8:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST
This outage is to grant Holiday gift from NCsoft to all City of Heroes active subscribers of Freespec and Tailor Token.


Discuss or ask questions about this announcement here!

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First 2... Fine.

Last one?

Thanks but how about giving us the gift of letting us keep our 2 hours of playtime. I really don't need another respec and I SURELY don't need another tailor token.

Thanks for the thought though.

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I love the freespecs, I've burned half of mine from I13 already adjusting one build to solo play and the dual build to team play.

I'm liking it lots

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Crime of Fashion Level 50 Rad/Rad Corrupter
My Toons
My Rad/Rad Corrupters Guide
Mindscape - Reworking

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Live Publish--December 17th 8:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST
This outage is to grant Holiday gift from NCsoft to all City of Heroes active subscribers of Freespec and Tailor Token.

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Wasn't the freespec to happen AFTER the 21st?

Official post:
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Right now, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility is live on all servers. There are lots of new things to do and try out, so get out there and explore the new Day Jobs, Pact Leveling, Shield and Pain Domination powersets, and more! We’ve made a ton of changes to powers, so a Free Respec has been granted to all characters. I know we didn’t give much notice on this Freespec, so to make up for that, and in the spirit of the season, another free respec will be given out before the end of December. Remember, these don’t stack, so if you want to take advantage of both, you need to use the one you have currently before we issue the next one sometime after Dec. 21st.

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Last line.

Again, we get (less than) two days notice of a change in the granting of respecs. Can you please tell whoever is throwing darts at the calendar that they need to pay a tiny bit of attention to previous announcements?

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I love the freespecs, I've burned half of mine from I13 already adjusting one build to solo play and the dual build to team play.

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How do you burn half a freespec?

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Way to show your appreciation there guys. Merry X-mas to you too.

Devs: Merry X-mas! Here is some free stuff!

Crybaby players: Screw you Devs! I don't need this crap! Even if I did you should give me more notice! Can't believe your nerfing my playtime! Doom!

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Snow_Globe,

We realize that Positron set an expectation, however this was done without consultation of our publishing schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Unfortunately this is the only date before next year we can grant this gift.

Regards,

Ex

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Snow_Globe,

We realize that Positron set an expectation, however this was done without consultation of our publishing schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Unfortunately this is the only date before next year we can grant this gift.

Regards,

Ex

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2 days' notice is far more annoying to me than Posi not getting the date right.

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You get one; be grateful.

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Grateful? You will not speak of this term!!

Happy Holidays all

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@.MIDAS

BIG BROTHER MIDAS, Ice/Ice Dominator, 1314 Badges
* Any toon you see with Midas in the name is probably me *

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Way to show your appreciation there guys. Merry X-mas to you too.

Devs: Merry X-mas! Here is some free stuff!

Crybaby players: Screw you Devs! I don't need this crap! Even if I did you should give me more notice! Can't believe your nerfing my playtime! Doom!

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exactly ! be greatful, jeez !

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RED CAP DAGGERS: if you want them red side on infinity, send a pm i have the mission to get them for dual blades.

Thanks for the free goodies Ex, give a merry xmas to the rest of the team for me.

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Unit 609-1231 mk VII lvl 50 Stalker claws/EA
BlazingWing lvl 50 Blaster Fire/Fire/Fire

Aww man! I was going to log on in the morning after work. You suck Ex Libris. Just let them fend for themselves and give us a ski slope and some badges... Oh, we got those yesterday? Good deal then. THANKS!

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Probably too late for this now, but any chance that we can have the freespec limit raised to 2 instead of one? Now that we have alt builds one respec isn't going to be enough if we have to adjust 2 builds.

Just a thought.

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Wow, this is an unexpected and welcome surprise! I already used my i13 freespec on a couple of characters, so I'm happy that they'll be getting another one! Thanks, and Happy Holidays!

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Nevermind, I forgot timezones, it all happened while I was at work. Keep up the good work guys!

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Way to show your appreciation there guys. Merry X-mas to you too.

Devs: Merry X-mas! Here is some free stuff!

Crybaby players: Screw you Devs! I don't need this crap! Even if I did you should give me more notice! Can't believe your nerfing my playtime! Doom!

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I was struck with lulz.

Thanks for the consistently awesome work Dev types.

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@bpphantom
The Defenders of Paragon
KGB Special Section 8

Wow some people will complain about any and everything....

Thanks Devs... Love the new halos and the new ski run!!!!

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No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
"The potato goes in the FRONT."

Holy crap I have to go home and burn those freespecs.

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@Mojo-
Proud Member of Fusion Force.

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Snow_Globe,

We realize that Positron set an expectation, however this was done without consultation of our publishing schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Unfortunately this is the only date before next year we can grant this gift.

Regards,

Ex

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I'm really NOT trying to flame. But given that we have two days a week already slotted for regular maint., and that of late they have never run the full scheduled time- is adding a FOURTH morning of DT to a week immediately following the start of an event really the 'only' way to handle this?

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Things to remember:
-Common sense ain't;
-Overkill is the only kill;
-If someone asks if you're a god, run away.

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Live Publish--December 17th 8:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST
This outage is to grant Holiday gift from NCsoft to all City of Heroes active subscribers of Freespec and Tailor Token.

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Wasn't the freespec to happen AFTER the 21st?

<a href="/showflat.php?Number=12723565" target="_blank">Official post</a>:
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Right now, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility is live on all servers. There are lots of new things to do and try out, so get out there and explore the new Day Jobs, Pact Leveling, Shield and Pain Domination powersets, and more! We’ve made a ton of changes to powers, so a Free Respec has been granted to all characters. I know we didn’t give much notice on this Freespec, so to make up for that, and in the spirit of the season, another free respec will be given out before the end of December. Remember, these don’t stack, so if you want to take advantage of both, you need to use the one you have currently before we issue the next one sometime after Dec. 21st.

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Last line.

Again, we get (less than) two days notice of a change in the granting of respecs. Can you please tell whoever is throwing darts at the calendar that they need to pay a tiny bit of attention to previous announcements?

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All complainers don't get their respec...I'll take theirs. Geez...Really can't please people...Hey...We are granting you a SECOND free-spec EARLY...Oops...Sorry...Nothing for you...

I suppose you complain about getting a Christmas bonus a week early too?

Some people....

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BALANCE IS A NERF
Liberty Server
@Energy Aura and @Ill Conceived on Global
Han Solo: [laughs] Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good BLASTER at your side, kid.

C'mon ppl, can't we all just get along and quit the bellyaching? Why complain about something that is free? What purpose does it serve? Nothing-nada-zilch! Enjoy what you get, otherwise we may have to start to pay for the expansions... or is that what you want?

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I thinks what he/she is complaining about is legit they are complaining that it was said not until after the 21st and going by that some folks (myself included) may have not used their respec and because of this they are losing a free respec

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Thank you for the free gifts, and happy holidays to all.

Best wishes,

Sako

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Shhh. My common sense is tingling. ~ Deadpool

LMAO!

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Live Publish--December 17th 8:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST
This outage is to grant Holiday gift from NCsoft to all City of Heroes active subscribers of Freespec and Tailor Token.

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Wasn't the freespec to happen AFTER the 21st?

<a href="/showflat.php?Number=12723565" target="_blank">Official post</a>:
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Right now, Issue 13: Power and Responsibility is live on all servers. There are lots of new things to do and try out, so get out there and explore the new Day Jobs, Pact Leveling, Shield and Pain Domination powersets, and more! We’ve made a ton of changes to powers, so a Free Respec has been granted to all characters. I know we didn’t give much notice on this Freespec, so to make up for that, and in the spirit of the season, another free respec will be given out before the end of December. Remember, these don’t stack, so if you want to take advantage of both, you need to use the one you have currently before we issue the next one sometime after Dec. 21st.

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Last line.

Again, we get (less than) two days notice of a change in the granting of respecs. Can you please tell whoever is throwing darts at the calendar that they need to pay a tiny bit of attention to previous announcements?

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"Forgiveness is between them and God..it is my job to arrange the meeting."