David Parker a/k/a Red Tomax made one of the best sources of information about City of Heroes/Villains. Sadly, he has left the game, but the wonderful folks at Titan Network have taken over the site and updated the "City of Data" part.
You can find the site HERE. It has a little bit of information on David himself.
LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control
The map pack is Beef Cake. Beef is legendary.
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
The map pack is Beef Cake. Beef is legendary.
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BTW does anyone remember that thread a few years back where Red Tomax was used in the place of Jack Bauer or Chuck Norris in how tough he is?
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
SwellGuy is legendary.
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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To misquote the great Dirty Harry "I'm a legend in my own mind."
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
SwellGuy is legendary.
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Bah, you'll just say anyone is legendary...|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
SwellGuy is legendary.
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I want to say Mids was started by Midnighter and he was an EU player, but I could be wrong. The about section has a list of the guys developing it and the copyright for it.
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I cannot express my appreciation enough for all the people responsible for making and upkeeping Paragonwiki, Vidiotmaps, Badge hunter, Mids, etc.|
Originally Posted by Diggis
Bah, you'll just say anyone is legendary...
I want to say Mids was started by Midnighter and he was an EU player, but I could be wrong. The about section has a list of the guys developing it and the copyright for it. |
They're real heroes of the game.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Seconded... |
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I cannot express my appreciation enough for all the people responsible for making and upkeeping Paragonwiki, Vidiotmaps, Badge hunter, Mids, etc.
They're real heroes of the game. |
without these great heroes my heroes wouldn't be such good.. uh... heroes... or something like that.
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Damn straight. And I'll never forget my original PM to TonyV about the wiki: "Yeah, it's a great idea...but it'll NEVER WORK, MAN."|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I cannot express my appreciation enough for all the people responsible for making and upkeeping Paragonwiki, Vidiotmaps, Badge hunter, Mids, etc.
They're real heroes of the game. |
I don't think anyone has ever eaten their words more happily, every single day I play this game.
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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DumpleBerry is legendary! |
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Damn straight. And I'll never forget my original PM to TonyV about the wiki: "Yeah, it's a great idea...but it'll NEVER WORK, MAN."
I don't think anyone has ever eaten their words more happily, every single day I play this game. |
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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This could be the start of a bad bromance!|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
DumpleBerry is legendary!
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But yes, Red Tomax, Mids, Beef Cake, and everyone else involved in creating and maintaining the community resources deserves all sorts of praise and free baked goods. (Or mead, depending on preference.)
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
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The map pack is Beef Cake's now, but even he took it over at one point. I don't remember who started vidiotmaps and the map packs, but it was around long before Badge Hunter started.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
The map pack is Beef Cake. Beef is legendary.
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"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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The people who collate the data and put it on sites are great, but I have more admiration for the people who spend hours upon hours in closed beta |
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I cannot express my appreciation enough for all the people responsible for making and upkeeping Paragonwiki, Vidiotmaps, Badge hunter, Mids, etc.
They're real heroes of the game. |
"discovering" the locations and conditions for things the devs don't disclose.
Not downing the people who make the sites, but in most cases the grunt work is done before you see any of them pop their head's up in beta, and the folks who did that are the one's who make it possible for the information to be out there for everyone at release or soon after.
I won't name names because my memory isn't good enough. I'd be leaving too many hard workers out.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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I also hate to name names because I know I will forget more people than I remember.|
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
The people who collate the data and put it on sites are great, but I have more admiration for the people who spend hours upon hours in closed beta
"discovering" the locations and conditions for things the devs don't disclose. Not downing the people who make the sites, but in most cases the grunt work is done before you see any of them pop their head's up in beta, and the folks who did that are the one's who make it possible for the information to be out there for everyone at release or soon after. I won't name names because my memory isn't good enough. I'd be leaving too many hard workers out. |
Then there are the people on the forums that answer the questions and welcome the new players and that mentor project group and so on.
Lots of helpful people here are part of what anchors me to the game.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I'll go ahead and say that all the user-made resources make City of Heroes a far better game than it would be just on its own. I don't know if they're all unified under the Titan Network now, but I WILL say that the work these folks do for the benefit of the game can sometimes rival that of the actual development team in terms of how much of a difference it makes.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Gotta add my kudos to everyone that's added so much to the game. Herostats.... Badge-Hunter.... Titan Network... VirtueVerse (Even though I'm a liberty native, I LOVE reading that stuff). Awesome, and greatly appreciated.
Now for my pitch:
JOIN THEM.
I'm not associated with ParagonWiki. but, for as much use as I've gotten out of the site, I really feel like I should be contributing to it. I refuse to use my lack of time as an excuse any longer. There are Going Rogue stories and contacts that still need fleshing out... and I19 is around the corner, adding even more to be updated.
Consider contributing too.
Make a pledge to get involved with one of the community-provided sites. I can't list them all, but if you find a fan-based item useful... ask if there's any way you can be useful back.
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While they're "fan" projects and not official, I'd say the game would be woefully incomplete without their work. When Red Tomax's first solid Hero Designer arrived, the game truly became interesting to me since I could finally quantify progress and not end up with having to rely on the more or less random nature of the in-game information.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I'll go ahead and say that all the user-made resources make City of Heroes a far better game than it would be just on its own. I don't know if they're all unified under the Titan Network now, but I WILL say that the work these folks do for the benefit of the game can sometimes rival that of the actual development team in terms of how much of a difference it makes.
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Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Now for my pitch:
JOIN THEM. I'm not associated with ParagonWiki. but, for as much use as I've gotten out of the site, I really feel like I should be contributing to it. I refuse to use my lack of time as an excuse any longer. There are Going Rogue stories and contacts that still need fleshing out... and I19 is around the corner, adding even more to be updated. Consider contributing too. Make a pledge to get involved with one of the community-provided sites. I can't list them all, but if you find a fan-based item useful... ask if there's any way you can be useful back. |
Blue: ~Knockback Squad on Guardian~
Red: ~Undoing of Virtue on [3 guesses]~
If people want to join in on community sites, one that I think needs love is the Ouroboros Portal Wiki. If you're at all familiar with wiki editing, it's pretty easy to just start making pages for your characters there.
Proud member of Everyday Heroes (Infinity Heroes), Dream Stalkers (Infinity Villains), Devil Never Cry (Freedom Heroes), Enclave of EVIL (Pinnacle Villains), Phobia (Infinity Villains), Les Enfant Terribles (Freedom Villains), Gravy Train (Virtue Heroes), and more!
Full, detailed character list
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MapMaster was the original owner of VidiotMaps and Badge-*****[now Hunter], I believe.
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Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
The map pack is Beef Cake's now, but even he took it over at one point. I don't remember who started vidiotmaps and the map packs, but it was around long before Badge Hunter started.
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[url="http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/User:SaintNicster"]ParagonWiki User Page[/url]
[url="http://cit.cohtitan.com/profile/214#list"]City Info Tracker[/url]
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There it is! I'd lost that link... was working on some of my characters info offline then couldn't find it. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Patteroast
If people want to join in on community sites, one that I think needs love is the Ouroboros Portal Wiki. If you're at all familiar with wiki editing, it's pretty easy to just start making pages for your characters there.
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"In all this excitement I can't remember if I posted six times or only five."
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Originally Posted by SwellGuy
To misquote the great Dirty Harry "I'm a legend in my own mind."
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The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
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And he played on the Infinity server. I actually ran into him, once upon a time ago....
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
David Parker a/k/a Red Tomax made one of the best sources of information about City of Heroes/Villains.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
You guys are going to go bananas for the next thing we here at Titan Network are getting ready to throw at ya.
But forget I said that. Still no definite ETA.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
You guys are going to go bananas for the next thing we here at Titan Network are getting ready to throw at ya.
But forget I said that. Still no definite ETA. |
Tease!
Is there a history of the Red Tomax website and the people who started the project?
Now I'm wondering if theres a history written up of hero stats, mids and (I feel bad I can't remember the name) the people who put out the map packs?