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We want to announce that Issue 10 will be entering into closed beta testing today, June 13th. This means the Training Room Test Server will be closed to normal access while we conduct this phase of the beta test. Our experience with the closed beta testing of Issue 9 earlier this year showed that such a process pays big dividends in the end quality of the release version. We are driving toward similar results with Issue 10!

We know that this closed testing will impact those looking to use the Training Room for other activities. Whether to test out character respecs via the test character copy tool or people looking to meet for global PvP, we hope those affected can understand our reasons and support us while we work toward a fun and bug free Issue 10!

As to the exact timing of how long the Training Room will be in closed beta testing, I can only say that it will be multiple weeks. The actual timing will depend on how testing proceeds. Our aim is to conduct the closed testing as quickly as possible to deliver a robust version for everyone to check out in an open beta test. Everyone who wants to play Issue 10 and provide feedback before it goes live will have the chance to do that in the open beta test.

We are excited by everyone’s enthusiasm for Issue 10 and looking forward to bringing this next free expansion to you!


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Issue 10: Invasion, the tenth upcoming free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes® in April 2004, will introduce a host of new content and challenges. The Rikti invasion force returns with a vengeance, bent on destroying Earth!

Click here to read more about this coming Issue.

Issue 10: Invasion, the tenth upcoming free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes® in April 2004, will introduce a host of new content and challenges. The Rikti invasion force returns with a vengeance, bent on destroying Earth!

Click here to read more about this coming Issue.


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Lemur, I think everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Flareback, My experience with the players creating the City Scoop is that they are pretty open and welcome new input. Why don't you take advantage of the contact info Ex Libris posts above and offer up your idea(s)?

We updated the game on June 6th! Be sure to visit the Patch Notes for details!

Despite the downtime for the update on Training Room, we had a great time on Training Room in Sirens Call. Thanks to everyone who came out and for the player PvPEC who put the event together!

For those heading to the Training Room this evening for the PvPEC kick off Party (as announced here) and the calendar of events here, you should be aware that our update of the Training Room to our next Live Build Candidate will likely have the server down for some of that time. Unfortunately, we really need for this build to "cook" over the weekend on the Training Room and well, it just is what it is.

So, if you are firing up the Test Server Client and you can't log in, give it a bit and come back in a short while!

Sorry about all of this. I wish we had a better solution for it, but the wheels of progress must turn! Thanks in advance for your understanding

Did you cross post this in the Player Guides section? Probably good information to have there (because guides there are never deleted by forum maintenance).

If not, drop me a private message and I'll get you set up.

Use this thread to discuss Positron's announcement of the coming Double XP weekend.

We want to thank everyone who participated in the recent Power Set Polls! Those polls have been closed. We received thousands of votes and a lot of great feedback and ideas from the ensuing discussion!

Please keep in mind that these polls are for informational purposes. We can certainly see that powersets are very interesting to the game’s player base and that is a strong factor for the team in considering future features. The results of the polls will only be seen by the Development Team. We know that won’t excite anyone, but we don’t want to tacitly endorse any one set.

We would like to reiterate that these powersets are not for Issue 10. We are nearly locked down with that issue already. Consideration for future power sets are for an Issue beyond #10 and will be included for as many archetypes as it makes sense for.

Thanks again to everyone who voted!

As a reminder, the badge celebrating City of Heroes 3rd year anniversary will no longer be granted after the end of the month of May. Don't miss out! The badge is automatically given out to characters who log in through the end of May. So, be sure to log your characters in and obtain the badge!

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The Comic Book Creator Contest was very popular and we underestimated the time necessary to properly judge and evaluate the hundreds of submissions received. You can get a feel for some of these submissions by browsing the over 300 entries that are displayed on the Hypercomics website.

In order to allow sufficient time for the judging process, we are moving the announcement of winners out to June 15th. A big thank you to all the contest participants and your patience while we proceed with the judging process!

The Comic Book Creator Contest was very popular and we underestimated the time necessary to properly judge and evaluate the hundreds of submissions received. You can get a feel for some of these submissions by browsing the over 300 entries that are displayed on the Hypercomics website.

In order to allow sufficient time for the judging process, we are moving the announcement of winners out to June 15th. A big thank you to all the contest participants and your patience while we proceed with the judging process!



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With the recent Issue #19 of the Top Cow produced City of Heroes Comic hitting the shelves, there has been some renewed discussion regarding the comic. We wanted to update everyone that the coming Issue #20 will be the final City of Heroes comic. If you are interested in receiving this issue, sign-up for the comic will be available through May 31st through the PlayNC Account Management web page.

The comic has had a great run. It has always served as an ambassador for the game; showing comic readers the potential that can be found in City of Heroes or City of Villains to set their imagination free! However, when we evaluate the production and distribution of the Comic, our current feeling is that the needed time and energy can be more wisely spent and net a more direct impact to the game. This includes things such as organizing more player meet and greets, additional in-game events, focusing on great in-game content like the recently released 9th free expansion, Issue 9: Breakthrough, more contests and promotions such as the Comic Book Creator Contest and more support of quality player initiatives like the PvPEC and City Scoop.

So, while the City of Heroes comic comes to a close, that in no way diminishes the energy we are devoting to maintaining and enriching the City of Heroes experience! We look forward to your support and involvement as we work to make our many community goals a reality!

Yours truly,

Alex "Lighthouse" von Minden

Online Community Manager
City of Heroes / City of Villains

With the recent Issue #19 of the Top Cow produced City of Heroes Comic hitting the shelves, there has been some renewed discussion regarding the comic. We wanted to update everyone that the coming Issue #20 will be the final City of Heroes comic. If you are interested in receiving this issue, sign-up for the comic will be available through May 31st through the PlayNC Account Management web page.

The comic has had a great run. It has always served as an ambassador for the game; showing comic readers the potential that can be found in City of Heroes or City of Villains to set their imagination free! However, when we evaluate the production and distribution of the Comic, our current feeling is that the needed time and energy can be more wisely spent and net a more direct impact to the game. This includes things such as organizing more player meet and greets, additional in-game events, focusing on great in-game content like the recently released 9th free expansion, Issue 9: Breakthrough, more contests and promotions such as the Comic Book Creator Contest and more support of quality player initiatives like the PvPEC and City Scoop.

So, while the City of Heroes comic comes to a close, that in no way diminishes the energy we are devoting to maintaining and enriching the City of Heroes experience! We look forward to your support and involvement as we work to make our many community goals a reality!

Yours truly,

Alex "Lighthouse" von Minden

Online Community Manager
City of Heroes / City of Villains



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In order to allow a wider audience sample on the power set polling, we have re-opened new polls (with the same selections) for a week.

Melee power set poll - here.

Melee defense set poll - here.

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Damn, LH; that's a wee bit early for you folks to go applying patches, ain't it?

Out of curiosity, any particular reason why?

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One of the "behind the scenes" corrections includes a fix for our friends who play on the European servers. The publish time is to simultaneously publish to both the EU servers and the US servers.

Please use this thread to discuss the Announcement of the game update on May 24th.

We will be updating the Live servers to version 14.20070508.2T on the morning of Thursday, May 24th starting at 2 AM Pacific (4 AM Central / 5 AM Eastern). Estimated downtime is 2 hours.

Patch notes for this version can be viewed here.

Known Issues for this version can be viewed here.


We want to make sure users of the Consignment Markets are aware of the first item on the Known Issues list:

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You cannot pull partial stacks of items from the Consignment Market User Interface if you've hit your inventory limit.

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We know that this issue is likely to cause some annoyance when managing stacks of items on the Consignment Market. However, we needed to bring this build live to address some larger issues (as well as bring in the additional fixes included in the build). Our apologies for this unintended change in functionality.

Please know that we are working hard to incorporate the many changes and corrections we have in development and bring that subsequent build to the Training Room and then to Live as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.


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Forum Announcement Discussion is back open! Thanks again to everyone who voted!

We have closed the Forum Announcement Discussion section to collect the data from the Polls. We do want to re-iterate that this polling was to gather information to help fine tune our development process with the aim of working on items desired by a good cross section of the community. While we can't guarantee that any of these power sets will make their way into game, we can say we are certainly evaluating and working on such.

A big thank you to everyone who voted and also to those who posted their feedback on the associated discussion threads!

Sorry everyone, you will need to re-vote. We had to correct something with the polls. Thanks for voting!

As of 12:50 PM Pacific (3:50 PM Eastern) the issue appears to be resolved.

As of apx 12:30 PM Pacific (3:30 PM Eastern) the following servers are not available for new log ins:

Justice
Virtue
Guardian
Protector
Champion
Training Room

To resolve this issue these servers will need to be restarted. Our apologies for this interruption in service and our thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.

Update on Issue #17 and #18 on the web.

Well, they aren't cut into the web page yet, but you can nab them directly from our FTP server at ftp://ftp.coh.com/comics/topcow. Enjoy!