Week 2 Recap : AP334E
By
Billy Mailman,
Posted on: 2012-09-14 24:46 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Not featured -- if I feel industrious I'll link these/add more:
- An inspiring story of Uru Live's recovery,
- A ton of other inspiring stories of City of Heroes,
- Roughly one ZILLION screenshots,
- A wonderful blog post on the end of the world,
- War profiteering (seriously, guys, don't do this),
- Scott Kurtz, Felicia Day, and further awesomeness from Mercedes Lackey.
It was a pleasure reading your recap, looking forward to next week's edition!
Liberty!
Black Dawn/Shattered Dawn
Chaos Legion
Yeah, I put a mention of the Dinner's On Us bit into the Calls To Action part of the wiki's front page, and the very next time I checked the wiki, it was just like "Oh, well then, never mind. I... I guess I shouldn't have bothered. I'll just remove that, then. Huh."
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I'm getting this as either a tattoo or a jacket patch.
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Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
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My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Make sure to get gec72's permission! But, I probably will too; I definitely want it as a jacket patch if he's OK with that.
I feel like I need to work on the subtlety of my humor. I'm not sure if it's too subtle, not subtle enough, or not humor.
Put it up on Cafe Press. 
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Are you English? If so, it might not be humor...|
Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
I feel like I need to work on the subtlety of my humor. I'm not sure if it's too subtle, not subtle enough, or not humor.
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Test Subject 42 - lvl 50 Sp/DA Scrapper
Oku No Te - lvl 50 MA/SR Scrapper
Borg Master - lvl 24 Bots/traps MM
Pinnacle
Nyghtfyre - lvl 50 DM/SR Scrapper
Champion
Someday, when I'm driving around with that license plate, someone's going to ask me what it means.
And I'm going to tell them: Log into City of Heroes and find out.
There's way too much dooming and glooming going on. Even if we're coming up on the end, it's not here yet; we're only in round 2.
Welcome to the week 2 recap! Here's last week's, which was on Page 10. Y'all are prolific. Also, I was told entirely unironically that my enthusiastic presentation style kept at least one reader on the edge of their seat. So this week, my advice is:
Don't even pay for the seat because it's OVER THE EDGE!
I don't know what it means either.
Actually, I'm a little tired today and generating all those tiny little brackets is hard work, so I'll let the links and some of the gorgeous images of this past week speak for me.
We've had another action-packed week of zero public presence from NCSoft. However, there is at least tacit admission of the cancellation of City of Heroes due to its removal from their English website.
Although the Issue 23 launch is still one of their most recent news entries.
In other news, we've made the news! This past week has seen a front-page article on Kotaku, several articles on Massively, and a fan-submitted but officially approved report on CNN!
Wait, hold on. Here we go.
Most of those, of course, were inspired by the very successful Unity Rally held last Saturday. It's hard to pin down exact numbers of attendees, but judging from the Virtue server queue, it was at least 5000 -- it may have been even more. As a result of the heavy load, CoH got its very own numeric meme: the instance cap of 33 was reached for Virtue's Atlas Park, inspiring a thread devoted to the topic with some fantastic art. Including a personal favorite from gec72:
Of course, the Dynamic Duo of TonyV and Maressa hardly stopped there! No, it was mere moments (seriously, it was like, a few hours later) before they proposed a new avenue of attack:
Hero Dogs!
Er... wait. No, not the dog (Jake! Thanks, frostcoh! -- click through to see his cat Sophia also ready to save the day)... the mask. Maressa, with a little help from Philly Girl and billymailman, generated printable masks for the Masks and Capes Call to Action. I'm using them in a devious plot of my own -- I have a biweekly D&D game tomorrow, and I'm going to bribe, threaten, and beg everyone present into making one and mailing it to NCSoft (using the addresses Maressa handily provided in the Call to Action).
That wasn't the only Call to Action from this past week, though -- Dinner's On Us started yesterday, and I understand that to make the goal of a full grand we need...
Wait, what? He just did it yester-
Three hours?!
Seriously, I was blown away. I knew it was coming up and I figured I'd throw a few bucks in before heading to work, but between when Tony was talking about it and when I got up to get ready, it was done. People here are amazing.
Well. Alright then. There's another Call to Action coming up for Thursday September 20th and Saturday September 22nd -- Positron's Ally, a CoH-wide task force celebration! See, now, back in my day, we did the old school Posi, where you were lucky to get a half-asleep Controller, much less a Defender, and PUG runs took eight hours. No bios! Uphill both ways! (No, really, I've been on two 8-hour-plus Positron runs.)
Judging from the effects of the last Call to Action, this will probably result in the eradication of the entire Clockwork, Circle of Thorns, and Vazhilok factions.
There's actually a ton of other stuff that's happened this past week, and I have an inkling of some of what might be to come (protip : brush up on your Architect Entertainment skills), but I'm going to have to leave you with just two more images capturing my favorite parts of the week.
That's all for now!