official information blitz

It's the 5th anniversary of City of Heroes and there's been a lot announced over the last few days to commemorate it! Yesterday, the developers were online spawning GMs and giving out gold titles. As of today, the 5th year badge will be awarded (per toon, so log all the ones you want to have it in in the next couple weeks).

They are having a t-shirt/logo contest for it! There's some good prizes so I might be entering myself! Find details here!

Or you can make a video for their COH Homage Contest. Find details here!

They have also announced Issue 15 will be hitting beta very soon. The title of this issue is Anniversary. It's appropriate because it's their annual issue of jack squat: some new costume pieces/face textures, a TF, a SF, and the return of the villain group, the 5th Column. Woo hoo. :( Find Positron's address here or you can go here for all the official overview on Issue 15 here.

There's been some awesome architect stuff going on by our group! Go to the end of this post for a listing of those that I was able to find in the MA search function!

Colder babysitting Lil Azrhiaz and Divine One on DB: a Mini History #95699
#49283 Strange Lands - Divine Angel - Euw! What IS infesting the sewers and can you save us from them?
#28383 TW Drama - Baba Kanoosh - a fun romp through the LOLz of what you sometimes see on our favorite channel
#14582 Getting the Band Back Together - Baba Kanoosh - Will dead musicians get to renew their contract at your expense?
#63934 - Creatures of the Night - Divine Angel - a personal favorite. Get ready to get wrecked by the dead!
#122814 - The Chip - Ruby (aka shaolinmonk) - there's new technology and everyone wants it! Fun stuff here too!
#1367 - It's All Just a Game - Kyatt (aka leakydawg) - Can 3 real life guys defeat you in your virtual environment? Whee!
#36822 - Dead Men Tell No Tales - Kyatt - Ooo! Pirates!
#71800 - Animal Farm - Frankie Foster (baba) - Poor Farmer John's farm has gone crazy! I give this shortie 5 stars!
#122711 - My BFF Frostfire - Planty Girl - What's Frostfire like at 50? hmmm
#72104 - Bingo Riot - Electron Kid - Hell's broken out at the casino!
#102598 - Badgeapalooza - Electron Kid - work on your glowie, rescue, destroy object badges in this easy-breezy mission
#95713 - The Red List - Ebon (black praetor) - Someone's kidnapped SG members! What evil is this?!
#22832 - And Hell Hath No Fury - Azrhiaz - The rival gang of the Knives of Artemis have come to call. Will you aid the Knives or be the instrument of their destruction?

Need power sets

Making a Death Brigade mish and want powersets for some of our long standing villains.

Melqar?

Boosagi?

What was Chaud's villain and any screenies of her?

Ebon?

Anyone else post yer baddy, powers and a screenie now puhlease

PS I love the Magic Pack

One of my many alts that was getting dusty until I got him a new costume with the Magic Pack

Mission Architect

So I'm hoping everyone is enjoying the Mission Architect. Here are some tips I've discovered along the way:

Republishing Arcs So You Don't Lose Ratings: Want to fix something in your arc and not lose the ratings? Make sure to go into the My Published Arcs tab and use the editing function there. It will then give you the option to Republish (as opposed to Publish which will put another arc up).

Deleting Custom Critters: Ebon found this one. You can't delete them out of the editing screen or in the MA unless you go into My Custom Groups. From there, you can find the option to delete them.

TMARC: If you add this to your title card somewhere (I put it in description), people from the Triumph server can find your arc. This was a player suggestion.

For more detailed info, try http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Category:Mission_Architect

Debt Brigade: A Mini-History

I have finished The Debt Brigade: A Mini-History for anyone who would like to play it. I designed it to be relatively easy. I also will make a follow up which will be a "Base Raid" with The Debt Brigade (small map with most of us as AVs/EBs) that I thought might be fun as a group outing.

I also still have And Hell Hath No Fury which was built to be very challenging. I can solo it heroic on my blaster if I'm careful, so give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

Baba has a few arcs in the system. I LOVED his Animal Farm (under @frankie foster). Ebon also has one that I've been dying to play so let's get a group going and see what he's come up with.

Is 14 your lucky number

Magic Female Costume

Issue 14: Mission Architect is now live! Create your own arcs and customized opponents! New PvP IO sets! New base storage permissions and badges galore. Log in and have at it! Let's make a library of DB arcs just for ego's sake! Make sure to post 'em here so we know about 'em!

There is also a new Super Booster Pack (Magic Details) coming out on April 14th. Details here. New costumes, emotes, and the ability to read people's fortunes!

I changed the permissions on storage in the hero base. The one in the planetarium is for Captains and up. The two in the workrooms are open to anyway. The inspiration storage is also open to everybody.