Discussion: City of Heroes 6 Year Anniversary Celebration!
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Posted on: 2010-04-21 17:37 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Woot! I've been around for a few years, but this will be my first time attending the party!
I'm excited that we actually get to make the graffiti in Praetoria. 
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I'd agree. There are badges elsewhere in the game that have the stipulation of "If you weren't there, you can't have it." (Passport.) This is nothing egregious.|
Originally Posted by Retrogression
Disagreed here. It's nice to have something to distinguish my 5 year old characters from the ones just made last week. I like having the anniversary badges as something you had to be there to get. Also don't mind logging my whole stable in once per year; I need to do that to get them their day job badge too anyway now.
There's plenty of badges that represent how long the player has been in the game. All the veteran badges for instance show you were there for those years as a player. But characters who have been around and active for years on end deserve to be special by having the anniversary badges. |
Signing in all of my characters across the servers is a little annoying, but I can manage it in less than an hour for 23 toons.
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You're just a one-track pots and pans beater, aren't you? Just go around the forums mewling about the same tired issue... just file your bug reports and post about it once, on one forum, and move onto a different topic already.|
Originally Posted by InfamousBrad
Given that both of the last two patches to go to test server has each broken the Ember Demon's Ember Shield power in yet more annoying and painful-to-play ways, this announcement gives me the fear. If you're going to make that deadline, internal QA really needs to stop dropping the ball.
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| And yeah, I'm pretty sure you typo'ed the link to the list of server-specific events. Not one of the company's better days. |
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BTW, that link works now. The post is in the Announcement forum.|
Originally Posted by AlienOne
Same here.... Although... I believe it's on purpose with me. I pissed the Devs off, so it's only natural they don't want me to see the dates and times for that stuff.... XD
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Originally Posted by Avatea
Depending on your server, report to Atlas Park or Talos Island (if you’re a hero), and Cap au Diable (if you’re a villain)!
Monday, April 26th
Tuesday, April 27th
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There's a post describing the problem here.|
Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
WHAT?!
 * *Ponders stripping everything from the market across two accounts, three servers and way too many alts* |
It hasn't been talked about much in beta, partly I think because it required having items in stock on the test AH when the new UI came in, and the AH doesn't get much traffic on test. Exactly what happens isn't clear -- if the items are really gone or just invisible, if it's due to some peculiarity of the test server. Hopefully someone is looking into it.
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Wait, can a Hero go to either Atlas or Talos? Or is the zone it's in dependent on the server you're playing on? If so, which server events will be in which zone? | Depending on your server, report to Atlas Park or Talos Island (if youre a hero), and Cap au Diable (if youre a villain)! |
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Monday, April 26th Liberty (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST) |
Dangnabbit, why must college clash with half of those times?
So, speculation! What zone events may these be?
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If it's anything like last year, it'll simply be AVs and GMs spawning over and over again. |
Originally Posted by The Hound
So, speculation! What zone events may these be?
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For those of you who don't like PvP and are looking for the badge for the AVs in RV.. or you can never seem to get a team together to take down Jurassik, or you missed taking down a Winter Lord this year... just show up to this event.
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In-Game Server Events |
Originally Posted by Kohei
Link leads to "you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:" =(
Otherwise looks like good news! |
Depending on your server, report to Atlas Park or Talos Island (if youre a hero), and Cap au Diable (if youre a villain)!
Monday, April 26th
- Zukunft (10am-1pm PST / 1pm-4pm EST / 6pm-9pm British Summer Time / 19:00-22:00 Central European Time)
- Union (11am-2pm PST / 2pm-5pm EST / 7pm-10pm British Summer Time / 20:00-23:00 Central European Time)
- Virtue (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Victory (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Champion (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Pinnacle (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Liberty (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Justice (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
Tuesday, April 27th
- Vigilance (10am-1pm PST / 1pm-4pm EST / 6pm-9pm British Summer Time / 19:00-22:00 Central European Time)
- Defiant ((11am-2pm PST / 2pm-5pm EST / 7pm-10pm British Summer Time / 20:00-23:00 Central European Time)
- Freedom (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Guardian (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Infinity (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Protector (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
- Triumph (4-7pm PST / 7pm-10pm EST)
Happy 6 Birthday you Guys, you are Six years old, yes you are, Just kidding, Happy Anniversary you guys.
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Not a peep out of the developers that this is the reason.
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Originally Posted by Evilanna
I imagine they want to have the tech to be able to award badges based on when a character was created rather than just a blanket addition to all characters.
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Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters
I'm going to be on a school trip starting next Friday, so I guess I'll have to live without a six year anniversary badge. 
Just means I'll have to stick around for the seven year anniversary badge!
Edit: You know, I really need to read the announcements more clearly. Since I have 'till the 31st I'll be okay then.
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Characters don't need to have a badge to show when they are created. Put a line in the bio, and you'll have the exact date. Besides which, you can tell when a character was created often by the powersets that character has. You can reorder your characters by date on the loading screen if your are that bugged by which was created first.|
Originally Posted by Retrogression
Disagreed here. It's nice to have something to distinguish my 5 year old characters from the ones just made last week. I like having the anniversary badges as something you had to be there to get. Also don't mind logging my whole stable in once per year; I need to do that to get them their day job badge too anyway now.
There's plenty of badges that represent how long the player has been in the game. All the veteran badges for instance show you were there for those years as a player. But characters who have been around and active for years on end deserve to be special by having the anniversary badges. |
Even without a badge, I can remember the exact date that each of the characters in my sig were created:
Snow Globe & White Succubus were created Feb 12, 2005.
Strobe was created December 12th, 2005.
Shi Otomi was created December 25th, 2005.
The killing point is that logging in to so many alts feels like a JOB, therefore NOT FUN.
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Originally Posted by Tahquitz
I'd agree. There are badges elsewhere in the game that have the stipulation of "If you weren't there, you can't have it." (Passport.) This is nothing egregious.
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Originally Posted by Tahquitz
Signing in all of my characters across the servers is a little annoying, but I can manage it in less than an hour for 23 toons.
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Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters
Happy Birthday to the Game and all the Players out there that are enjoying it. I have to say the update is very welcome and a specific day no less . . . AWESOME! The link is even working now so even better. All in all I am a very happy player today.
And here I was about to delete the only toon i have now with the 5 year badge. Looks like you guys bought him some time lol.
So April 28th is the big day eh? I'm sure some of the "GIMMIE RELEEZ DATE NAO" people will rejoice.
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Originally Posted by Evilanna
I imagine they want to have the tech to be able to award badges based on when a character was created rather than just a blanket addition to all characters.
The character I created yesterday does not deserve the past anniversary badges that my other characters got. She will get a sixth anniversary badge, but she shouldn't get any of the others. One thing I like about anniversary badges is that they sort of track what year your character was created. All that being said, yeah I'd love for the anniversary badges to be global! |
Maybe we can get the 'logout to character selection screen' option, and reduce the logout timer to 20 seconds. It would make things so much more pleasant.
You know...it would nice if they could arrange the times so that people in Hawaii would actually be able to attend the events. Ex: Server events end at 10pm est which is 4pm est in Hawaii. A lot of us have 9-5 jobs, hence missing out. Now if we could actually get on CoH at work, that would be great... Other than that, I'm pretty bummed that I won't be able to attend any of the server events.
I'm looking forward to the server events. While I plan on having a good time regarless of what the devs have cooked up for us, part of me would really like to see an invasion of the 'enemies' in the new hero/villain arcs. That would be some chaotic fun.
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The way the first line is worded, it seems to say that each server should have a specific zone to report to... 'Depending on your server, go to these zones'... Okay.... so we have a list of servers and times... but which zones for which servers?
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Can't believe I've been playing this game 6 years now.
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I am going out on a limb and saying that they meant the date varies depending on your server. Last year it was in all 3 of those zones. It doesn't make sense for them pick different zones for different servers. I know that's not what the post actually says, but I think that's what they meant.|
Originally Posted by Impish Kat
The way the first line is worded, it seems to say that each server should have a specific zone to report to... 'Depending on your server, go to these zones'...
Okay.... so we have a list of servers and times... but which zones for which servers? |
Worse comes to worse, show up in Atlas at 4pm, and if nothing is happening in a few mins, just go to Talos. If you are a Villain, simply go to Cap. I'm sure it wont be hard to find the action, especially if you belong to global channels.
I has so much uber exitment i is thinking i shall go be Chaaaaaaaarging my demonic lazooooor blaw Woot to the Devs.! and this is worth the wait!
So, seeing how there are 2 zones for heroes,and only 1 zone for vills,does this mean there are possibly 2x the chars for heroes than vill?,that the empty zones redside, are not just one server,but more? and what will happen when GR hits, even more empty zones?
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Happy six years CoH.
Preferably retroactively awarding ones that we have on one toon, to all of them.
For some weird reason, my badger does not have the first aniversary badge. I know he was around for the anniversary, but I guess I forgot to log in with him. I was probably a bit overwhelmed with everything since I was a fairly new player (I'd only been playing a month before the first anniversary). And believe it or not, I only have one character with the first anniversary badge that's still around.
Instead of a different badge for each anniversary, there would simply be 1 badge re-awarded each year simply for celebrating any CoH anniversary.
Instead of awarding for the whole month, it would award during a 1 or 2 week period.
That would eliminate the need for the badges to be awarded globally and give everybody an eventual chance to get it on any character.