2012 Real World Hero Charity Drive!

((Posting on behalf of MrWentworth since they are no longer on these forums.))

The Wentworth Country Club and its many friends and supporters proudly announce the


We invite the City of Heroes community on all servers to come together
once again this holiday season in support of this player created charity drive.

Thursday, November 1, 2012
- through -
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Please join us for a variety of fun events aimed at promoting awareness of the charity drive
within our City of Heroes community and beyond. A list of these events is included below
and will be updated as new events are added. Visit RealWorldHero.com
for additional updates and information throughout the charity drive.

Over the last three years, City of Heroes players have donated over $29,000 to charity through the Real World Hero charity drive! We're very excited to see the community come together once more to help those in need, and judging from an onslaught of emails we've received, you're just as excited as we are! Not familiar with Real World Hero? Well, read on heroes!

With your support, RealWorldHero.com will aid the following charities this holiday season and 100% of your donations will go directly to these non-profit organizations.

• Child's Play - A community based charity grown and nurtured from the game culture and industry. Since it's founding by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of the online comic strip Penny Arcade in 2003, Child's Play has donated more than $9 million dollars in toys, games, books, and cash for sick children in hospitals across the U.S. and the world. (Tax ID 20-3584556)
• Donate Games - Founded upon the belief that people can change the world by simply donating their unwanted video games, Donate Games is a charity dedicated to funding research and support for children and their families of “orphan” diseases and the millions of Americans affected by them. Donate Games collects new and used video game donations and then resells them online to help the millions of young people suffering from these neglected disorders. (Tax ID 26-3438815)
• Operation Gratitude - Sending over 100,000 care packages annually filled with snacks, entertainment items and letters of appreciation to U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions, their mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member's face and express to all our armed forces the appreciation and support of the American people. (Tax ID 20-0103575)
• Heifer International - Heifer International works to end the cycle of chronic world hunger and poverty and protect the earth. Through gifts of livestock, training and "passing on the gift," Heifer has over thirteen million families in more than 125 countries around the world improve their quality of life and move toward greater self-reliance since 1944. (Tax ID 35-1019477)

Feel free to reply to this thread about contests, parties and other in-game events held throughout the drive that you hear about or decide to host.

• 2012 Real World Hero Kick-Off Party
  • Date: Friday, November 2nd, 2012
  • Time: From 6:00pm PST to 8:00pm PST.
  • Location: Atlas Park 33 on Virtue.
  • Come to show your support at the kick-off for the charity drive. Get inspired, get informed and get back to your home server to spread the word!
• Online Charity Auction
  • The auction is very popular event and helps raise thousands of dollars each year while generating additional interest in the charity drive.
  • If you are a person or business interested in donating items to the auction, please contact info@realworldhero.com
  • Bidding opened at 9:00pm PST on Thursday, November 1st, 2012
  • Bidding closes at 9:00pm PST on Saturday, November 10th, 2012
• Auction Countdown
  • Date: Saturday, November 10th, 2012
  • Time: From 7:00pm PST to 9:00pm PST.
  • Location: Virtue, starting in Peregrine Island's Arena: Emerald section. Then to Pocket D at 8:00pm PST.
  • Join us as we watch the end of the Real World Hero auction. It's always exciting to see the flurry of bids and find out who has won!
• To Be Continued... Rally
  • Date: Friday, November 30th, 2012
  • Time: From 6:00pm PST to lights out
  • Location: Atlas Park 33 on Virtue and anywhere heroes and villains gather to share final moments
  • In the hours leading up to midnight, please drop by and share some time with friends.

There are a lot of easy ways you can support Real World Hero and help make this a year to remember!
Help raise awareness of the charity drive both in-game and elsewhere.

• Add a Real World Hero banner to your website, forum sig, etc.
  Several sizes are available here.
• Mention Real World Hero in your Supergroup or Global Channel MotD.
  It's easy to do!
  • To change your Channel MOTD use something like:
    /chan_motd "Channel Name" Make a heroic donation at realworldhero.com
  • To change your SG or VG MOTD use something like:
    /sgsetmotd Make a heroic donation at realworldhero.com
• Mention Real World Hero at an event you are hosting.
  It doesn't have to be an event specifically for Real World Hero. You can always give a shout out for the charity drive! Want to host an event just for Real World Hero? That's great, too! Please post in this thread details about your event or a link to your event so we can join in.
• Talk about Real World Hero on Facebook and Twitter.
  Like RWH on Facebook http://facebook.com/realworldhero
  Follow RWH on Twitter http://twitter.com/realworldhero

Please contact info@realworldhero.com with any questions, suggestions, comments, etc.
Would love to hear from you!

[Disclaimer: This is not an NCsoft event, but one created by players and members of the City of Heroes community.
Please contact the event creators @Mr. Wentworth and @Sultry Siren via info@realworldhero.com with any questions]

Kick-Off Party

The opening party was mild compared to pasts years because Mr. Wentworth and others had problems staying connected due to the interference of Hurricane Sandy. Still, enjoyed a couple hours with a good crowd under Atlas Statue in Virtue AP33. (Click images for full size.)





Special thanks to DJ Angelica who gave regular shout-outs during their show on The Cape Radio!

Went to do some biding and when I do bid it is not showing my actual bid it is showing $.50. Is that normal?

Yes. It increments in amounts of .50 above the current bid. That way you don't have to be bidding every minute.

If you put in a bid of, for example only, $100 for an item and the current bid is $2.50 it will list your bid as $3.00 and it will keep bumping the amount up to keep yours as the top bid unless someone bids over $100. If I were to bid $10.00 on that item it would still show you as the top bidder with a bid of $10.50 currently.

No problems.

I think it worked slightly differently last year as well.

IIRC my winning bid on the hat ZwillhelastatEAthistine donated was $50.01 so it wasn't $0.50 increments.

You guys done so much good with this Real World Hero Charity Drive, Please don't stop doing this even if this game ends.

I have a question regarding the 90 Minute Live Radio Show Of Your Own. The description says: 90 minute live radio show, with 60 minutes of additional recording time available that can be heard on the replay, on Blog Talk Radio. The winner will be able to have a radio show on any subject (no sexual content please) or just play their favorite music (they will also be able to pick songs to be played on the show).

So does that mean that I would be like a Co-DJ? If that were the case I would be interested. I always wanted to become a part of the various "Radios" out there but never had the chance due to RL.

Any more info on this would be greatly appreciated

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

*shrug* Your guess is as good as mine, I Burnt The Toast.

Sadly I am not directly involved in the Real World Hero charity event auction, so I can't answer any questions concerning individual listings.

Please contact the event creators @Mr. Wentworth and @Sultry Siren via info@realworldhero.com with any questions. They are good about responding pretty quick. If you don't receive a reply by Monday gently prod them a second time.

Hi all! Mrs. W and I are indeed still around on the boards. I had been planning to make a nice big post for Real World Hero this evening, but saw that Llydia had beaten me to it. Thank you! I would have done so sooner, but we spent a good part of last week making sure that some good friends were getting some support after Hurricane Sandy and that put us behind in our RWH promotion efforts. Not to worry! With such great help from everyone in the community things just have a way of getting done around here. Right?

So, Llydia, you are now the defacto thread updater and I know we can count on you.

Things are a little different this year, naturally, but we are determined to continue on and have felt the support of quite a number of our fellow heroes. The auction is indeed underway and has over $200 in bids with 6 days remaining before bidding closes. We are indeed working on additional revelry to share time with you in game and promote Real World Hero to any friends who have not yet heard of what it is.

Most importantly, we want everyone to know that the charity drive is not ending on November 30th when the servers go dark for City of Heroes. As terribly sad and upsetting as it is, we hope the Real World Hero charity drive can continue on and do good for a long time to come. Bring Real World Hero with you into whatever game or community you may find yourself and let us know where you are. We hope to find welcome among the broader world of gamers and invite them to take part.

Let's make this a really great time of fun, good works, and community! We won't have spiffy gold titles anymore, but we will always consider you all to be Real World Heroes! (with a little invisible title floating just above your heads.)

I am assuming that someone will be able to help set up etc etc as I would be a complete NOOB to it LOL! I would actually rather be the cohost with an experienced DJ as I would be kinda nervous out there solo on my first go around :P I mean I could come up with some songs etc...but would like to do a "Coffee Talk" kinda show with someone else who is experienced. Is there a way to see if that is possible? A way to "choose" which DJs would be willing to co-host?

I am really interested in this btw LOL!

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Originally Posted by MrWentworth I can help with this! The live, online radio show is 90 minutes live, but an extra 60 minutes can continue after you go off the air, making a total recording time of 150 minutes. You will be the host of your own show and can include co-hosts and have call-in guests as well, if you choose.

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

Did you get the news that most of the Real World Hero auction items also come with a special Commemorative Unity Rally Patch donated by Tim The Enchanter?

And did you hear about the new auction item where Layla Rei will recreate your CoH character as one of her popular hand-crafted plushies?

Or that as well as Samuraiko's video, she has donated five custom-designed t-shirts?

Did you hear about how Firemoth donated signed copies of their novels "Memory of Prophecy" and "Memory's Darkness"?

There are now 70 auctions available, ranging from CoH collectables to handmade items to art commissions to radio shows and more...

We're going to gather in AP33 Virtue to countdown the end of auction bidding this Saturday, November 10th, from 7:00-9:00pm PST. Hope you can swing by to join us and have a little fun.

If it were any server other than Virtue ...

Sure. I'll log in after I get home from our Varsity Girl's volleyball Playoff game.

I should be on by 8:00 PM Central at the latest.

We're adding another event to the schedule... We are working on some ideas to help make our final hours in-game a time to remember.

• To Be Continued... Rally
  • Date: Friday, November 30th, 2012
  • Time: From 6:00pm PST until the servers are turned off!
  • Location: Atlas Park 33 on Virtue and anywhere heroes and villains gather to share final moments
  • In the hours leading up to midnight, please drop by and share some time with friends. (Additional event details to come. We will do our best to make it worth your while.)

Psst. Did you notice that there is now a Red Arachnos Cape available?

The Three Werewolves T-shirt is mine. Hands off.

Wow just noticed RWH did a lil over $7,000 last year....

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

Last day for the auction!

*Goes to re-claim Three Werewolves T-shirt. Again*