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Soon, FFM, real soon. 
I just find it sad that the only offical mention so far has happend on the us side.
I persoanly think they will stick in a new cossie as none came with i14 and they have said revist what CoH does best, Well cossies is what it does better than anyone else.
No EU announcement yet? Shocking.
I am actually pretty excited about the anniversary celebrations and will definitely be patrolling in Paragon for some of the day.
I am disappointed there has been no EU announcement yet, though, as it remains to be seen how much of this carries over to the European servers. Seems to be par for the course at present though.
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Yes they do costumes best..they also do cash shops very well. That's why you now pay $9.99 for something that really should be in the live game payed for by your sub....
Standoff? You're on the list!
Mad_Mud & Moon_Angel. It's par for the course these days. EU just doesn't matter any more.
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Oh and I bet we get the wonderful excitement of a DXP weekend in the month of may too...
Remember when DXP actually meant something?
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All I really want for the anniversary event is for something new... I don't think that's too much to ask, is it? Something new that actually fits in the game storyline instead of chucking it out the window again... 
It doesn't even have to be anything that big, honest! Hell, I'd settle for a day of Arachnos invading Paragon.
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I too (even if it meant bending the story-lore) would actually like to see new Invasion content (If they really must be invasions again). The fact that rehash has made it to the production board yet again is testament to, I fear, the possibility that either we are talking amongst ourselves here on the suggestions board or that Cryptic took the key Imagination brain-trust members with them.
Clearly The Fifth Anniversary sneaked up on Paragon Studios and they were caught having not put aside time for original Anniversary content, so I'll suggest this as an alternative that would of been better because I don't like moaning unconstructively; (Why I'm bothering though tbh I'll never know as none of this is ever read stateside):
# Sirens going off (along with warning from Paragon's seismology dept in your tab as Hero zone alerts): Giant Nemesis Mole machines burst out of the ground spilling rubble and battalions of Nemesis shock troops spill forth and continue to spill forth sporandically until the machines are destroyed.
# Air raid sirens go off and the sky darkens, small meteors then large meteors rain down (Aoe damage) before enormous ones rain down cracking open after a few seconds and spilling forth Shivans. Maybe if bosses are triggered then an almighty size one (massive AOE damage)could fall out of the sky with a newly designed giant Shivan boss that emerges after 30 seconds that awards merits and a special badge on defeats.
# Balloons start appearing in Paragon to the twisted sounds of Merry-go-round Circus music, if popped they are AOE sleep bombs, what you don't see coming until it is to late is a Carnival ambush, spilling out of circus tent spawn points somewhere on the map defended by Lv54 Bosses.
# The Rikti have been experimenting with new technology and are having limited success in sneaking through a few Motherships, they have no idea what is key to maintaining this breakthrough, but on the rare occasion these temporary experimental portals work they should send through some Motherships while they can to join their stranded bretheren and strike back.
# A foretaste of the Fifth Invasion, you could call them a reconnaissance party, they'd be rare and arrive in a stealthed SteamPunk Blimp, you'd have to search for them and it would award a badge or accolade to be used against The Fifth when they properly invade later on (hopefully) in Issue:15.
Thats just a few off the top of my head with 10 mins forethought - Paragon studios have had a year minimum to put time aside to develop something spectacular for the landmark celebrations.
I'll also add I would of loved to have seen an expansion of the merchandise offered as part of the Fifth Anniversary celebrations not a vague-sounding design contest for 1 potential T-shirt with the design-work done by fans.
Also an Announcement of statues/mini-statuettes by a renowned studio and a special collection of celebrational cossie pieces collectable in-game through forementioned invasions would of been nice.
Its also worth noting that the T-shirt contest, the video homage and the re-activation week are all incentives that rely on and are player-led, If no-one bothered then content for that part of the celebrations would be null and void.
I propose what you are probably going to be left with from Paragon Studios (with all of the time they've had since 4th Anniversary celebrations to come up with new content) is flipping some switches on old events.
And boo to no fireworks btw!.
The only thing I'd like to see from the last 5 years is the 5th Column and Council fighting it out on the streets again. And only if it ends up with an appearance by Reichsman, and the 5th back in game properly.
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To celebrate the 5th weekend there will be a competition on saturday (time 2bc!) unlike which none of you have seen before!!! Prizes wont be OMG HIGH but its all about bringing the fun back 
Keep an eye out people!
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Just about. Although it was a long time ago. Around the same time that XP debt was something to worry about, and earning a respec meant working for it, if I recall correctly.
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For one day only, all zones become PvP ones - with Arachnos invasion mobs, plus Longbow defense mobs
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It doesn't even have to be anything that big, honest! Hell, I'd settle for a day of Arachnos invading Paragon.
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At least that would be something NEW! Not just recycled invasions that most of us are pretty sick and tired of...
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It doesn't even have to be anything that big, honest! Hell, I'd settle for a day of Arachnos invading Paragon.
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At least that would be something NEW! Not just recycled invasions that most of us are pretty sick and tired of...
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For the wedding, they actually had Ouroboros flagged as a PvP zone, but Heroes and Villains were flagged as co-op until Recluse appeared, and then the fighting started
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No EU announcement yet? Shocking.
I am disappointed there has been no EU announcement yet, though, as it remains to be seen how much of this carries over to the European servers. Seems to be par for the course at present though.
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The announcement was only completed yesterday, and is currently being localised for French and German before we publish.
As a general hint, however, the EU announcement is nearly identical, and the changes are minor (the biggest is that one of the contests will be different).
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No EU announcement yet? Shocking.
I am disappointed there has been no EU announcement yet, though, as it remains to be seen how much of this carries over to the European servers. Seems to be par for the course at present though.
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The announcement was only completed yesterday, and is currently being localised for French and German before we publish.
As a general hint, however, the EU announcement is nearly identical, and the changes are minor (the biggest is that one of the contests will be different).
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GR, seeing as English is what the Americas use anyway, is it really that much to ask that we get the announcement on the same day?
Or is there this new 'American' language all of a sudden?
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I am disappointed there has been no EU announcement yet, though, as it remains to be seen how much of this carries over to the European servers. Seems to be par for the course at present though.
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The announcement was only completed yesterday, and is currently being localised for French and German before we publish.
As a general hint, however, the EU announcement is nearly identical, and the changes are minor (the biggest is that one of the contests will be different).
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Thanks for the update GR, but surely none of that stuff was top-of-the-head material they dashed off yesterday and felt they had to publish immediately?
Would it have been too hard to finish writing the US announcement a day earlier, then keep it under wraps until the localisations had been done and everything could go live at once?
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All of a sudden???
There's no 'all of a sudden' about it.
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Not too hard for any English company, no. But you're still operating under the impression that NC actually give a stuff about the EU community. If they did, then things would happen as you suggest.
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As a general hint, however, the EU announcement is nearly identical, and the changes are minor (the biggest is that one of the contests will be different).
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Thank you, GR.
Still, I think I agree with Techbot and Standoff's posts above.
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first it was complaints about there being nothing, then there was somethign nad the compalints changed to it not being enough of something and almost equivalent to nothing now its a complaint that the announcement was made US side and not EU at the same time.....
the lesson i'd take from that is, why bother.
way I see it: I'm playing the game I sub to. now i'm getting some free stuff happening on the 28th of april.
even it they didnt announce it at all, its still cool.
as to the fact that the announcements arent made at the same time: meh. when its made EU side, its made Eu side. I'm happy enough to wait until then.
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Not too hard for any English company, no. But you're still operating under the impression that NC actually give a stuff about the EU community. If they did, then things would happen as you suggest.
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Both cases, it will be bad due timezone.
Even if there was only 1 server (US) there still be serious timezone issues. GM-events will be US-time based, open/closure will be US based, everything will be US based.
Unlike now, we at least get our own timing, suiting our timezone.
So either way, it has a loose/loose and a win/win part.
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first it was complaints about there being nothing, then there was somethign nad the compalints changed to it not being enough of something and almost equivalent to nothing now its a complaint that the announcement was made US side and not EU at the same time.....
the lesson i'd take from that is, why bother.
way I see it: I'm playing the game I sub to. now i'm getting some free stuff happening on the 28th of april.
even it they didnt announce it at all, its still cool.
as to the fact that the announcements arent made at the same time: meh. when its made EU side, its made Eu side. I'm happy enough to wait until then.
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You are right, to an extent. But to be fair I said in my original post that I am quite excited about the 5th anniversary and I am greatly looking forward to Tuesday. As for the EU/US thing, I don't suppose anyone would have been bothered a while back; it is just that particular issue is a bit of sore point with people at present.
I normally prefer to post all EU announcements at the same time (so, EN, FR and DE all together). I'll publish the EN version shortly, however.
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