History of the Game

Hello everyone! I am working on updating my Historic Calendar and there are a few events I can't find. I know there are some really knowledgeable people around here, so I am hoping yall can help!

- When was the Calvin Scott TF removed from the game?
- When did Sister Psyche split from Aurora Borealis?

And, is there anything else important missing from the calendar? Thanks in advance for your help!

www.paragonwiki.com

ParagonWiki says Issue 4 for both.

Ah thanks guys. I looked all over the wiki and couldn't seem to find it anywhere. I thought it would be on The Calvin Scott TF page itself, or on Sister Psyche or Aurora Borealis page. Thanks again!

RE: Calvin Scott,

Wiki says Issue 4, so, May 2005

EDIT: I be slow

Good resource, all on one page for stuff up through i13

http://home.roadrunner.com/~dasloth/...20Updates.html

Hello all! I've updated the calendar with the following information:

10/28/10: Fixed text color: Issue 15, Jan09 2xXP, Jun08 Rikti Invasion, Aug08 Rikti Invasion, Mar10 Valentine's Event; Attempted (again) to standardize borders on issue descriptions, Added: Preliminary i19 info, Nov10 Rikti Invasion, Oct10 Costume Ball, Sep10 Party Pack Giveaway, Origins Pack, 05-10 April Fool info; Reduced font size: Issue13, Paragon Studios rename.

The calendar has once again been updated!

12/9/10: Issue 15 date text color corrected, added removal of set bonuses from /info to i19 notable features, reduced white-space in i19 notable features, added introduction of /cleartray command to i12 notable features, added 2010 winter event, reorganized April 2009, changed all references of issue "description" to "notable features" in update text.

The calendar has once again been updated, for those keeping track!

coloden.com/city

Great job. I am curious what Feb 23, 2011 has to do with the Party Pack?

Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Saph. Great work!

Crazy1van - OOPS! Good catch, thanks! I'll update that shortly.. *nervous chuckle*

Edit: Update complete. I guess you can tell which cells I copied/pasted ;]

The calendar has been updated and can be found here: coloden.com/city

5/1/11: Added April 2011 Halloween event for server downtime, April Fool 2011: No More XP, NC Launcher release date, i20 release date & notable features, 2011 Praetorian Invasion, Steampunk Booster Pack, 2011 Anniversary Event.

I am also in the process of updating/combining the two Incarnate Ability PDFs, but I don't have an ETA.

9/10/11: Added 2011 Summer Double XP Weekend & date change; added August Ski Chalet, added i21/Freedom Head Start and notable features.

Updated calendar here: http://www.coloden.com/city

Posted this in your other thread, and didn't see this one, but:

In February 2005, they had a buddy code give-away that new players could use instead of a retail purchase of CoH to start an account (15 days free, could continue to subscribe without a retail box).

Reference (besides how I actually got into the game):
http://games.ign.com/articles/587/587190p1.html

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

Interesting. For some reason, possibly old age and faulty memory, I remember starting CoH on Oct. 16, 2004, and thought I'd started in the middle of the Halloween event with Eochai's first appearance.

On that note, I guess you're focusing only on the Issue changes? As you note under Issue 5 Eochai was no longer just for Halloween. But there's also no mention of Winter Lord's first appearance at that incredible power-leveling of a Winter Event in January 2005. Its not a problem, just a passing thought.

Thank you all very much for the suggestions!!

I am actually interested in including as many informational items as is reasonably possible. If you have more things you'd like to see added, or if I've made mistakes, please let me know here!!

Calendar and other documents have been updated: http://coloden.com/city/

10/22/11: Changed color on Corporate Info text; added Freedom Public Launch, added 2011 Halloween Event

Also updated Lambda maps & added Underground Incarnate Trial Map & Walkthrough.

I still need to add suggestions from this thread, it's on the list of things to do!

Historic Calendar is still being updated here:

http://www.coloden.com/city/cal.html

2/18/12: Added 2011 Winter event, 2012 Spring Fling, Player's Summit #1 and #2, i21.5 notable features, Who Will Die? 1-5 release dates, Double XP Weekend
6/1/12: Added Who Will Die? 6 & 7 release dates, i22 & i23 release & notable features, Freebie Friday pilot, nemesis invasion, Summer Blockbuster event

Please let me know if the Summer Event colors are too close to any of the other events for colorblindness. Also open to other suggestions.. Thanks!

I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing you're looking for, but since you have the two Player Summits up there you might be interested to know that their predecessor was probably the City of Heroes Freedom player focus group event held on May 7th, 2011, which covered the Freedom model and elements of Issue 21. The structure of the player summits is very similar to the format used by the focus group event, with less playtesting.

As far as I know, none of the players invited to the focus group were told what it was going to be about until they announced it at the event, and as far as I know it was the first time anyone outside Paragon saw or heard about CoH: Freedom directly. Attendees had to sign an NDA which was mostly released when Freedom was publicly announced.

It was also, as far as I can recall, the first time I saw anyone attempt to deliver ethernet between two commercial buildings with patch cables strung through trees.