This charity drive is a live, online auction to raise money for the trust fund of Tee Morris’ daughter who lost her mother on January 5, 2010. There will be at least 5 hours of entertainment hosted by Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit. We’ll be in the live audience cheering everybody on, and likely on camera on the main feed as well. It’s shaping up to be a really fun time. You’ll be able to bid from the chat room, through e-mail, proxy-bid on the website, and I think via video or audio on Skype or UStream.

And with over 70 items up for auction (so far!!) there is something for everyone to get excited about and bid for! Everything from jewelry, to pictures, paintings by celebrities, custom music, book dedications, food, clothes, signed DVDs and books, knitwear, and even Mozart’s Balls!! Seriously, go check out everything up for auction!

Hope to see you there!

Since we weren’t able to get the next episode out like we planned to this week I wanted to at least get an announcement out to everybody.

By the power of loophole – we are happy to bring you Listener Meetup IV: A New Hope!

We were thinking that it would be cool to make this another “Pimp My Arc” event and run through some listener generated content!

So, here are the deets:
We’ll meet up on Guardian Server – Atlas Park Galaxy City – Architect Entertainment Building at 2pm Eastern on Sunday, June 28th.

which is:

• 1pm Central
• Noon Mountain
• 11 am Pacific
• 10 am Alaska, or
• 10:30am Monday in Tehran

Plan to goof around, chat and catch up for 30-45 minutes, and then start running arcs. In the past the events have lasted about 2 hours, so that’s what we’ll shoot for — essentially, if you come late, don’t worry about it — just say hi when you get there and jump onto a team to run an arc!

Hope to see you there!!

Head over there for details on where we’ll be during the con as well as the unfolding details of the New Media Costume Party that we’ll be hosting!

In this episode we discuss:

• We’re cutting back, but we’re still Yay! New Casting
• A word regarding outside solicitations
• Announcing: New SG/VG leadership rank for Issue 14
• Introducing player proup: City of Comic Creators!
• Weekend update!
• Issue #14: Architect coming to live servers soon Wednesday, April 8 !!!
• LT makes an appearance to give his opinions on the shields powers and character creator options
• Bored at work Haiku
• Nerd Girl Deathmatch. A Short Play in One Act. (Inspired by actual events)
• Promo: Balticon 43 – May 22 – 25, 2009. We totally forgot to talk about it, but we’ll be there and will be speaking on a few panels!

By the way, the pie was epic WIN!

One nasty side effect (which I absolutely hate as a listener) is that it may have caused the feed to puke up every episode as if they were new. I’m really, really sorry if it hits you. It’s something that happens now and then with podcast feeds

At this point, I think that I have the feed updated and working correctly. That was priority 1, so now I can start working on the other stuff. None of this other stuff should effect the feed, but it means that the site will be plain vanilla for awhile, and you might have some login errors until it stabilizes. I’m particularly worried about the integration between the blog, forum, and photo gallery. I’ll get the problems sorted out as quickly as I can!

Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.

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Nothing game related mind you – this one’s all fluff!

The song used for this special episode is The Lark in the Morning by Dongas Tribe

1st Annual Pink and White Homecoming hosted by Virtue’s Justice Girls!

November 14th from 9-11p est.

Location: Virtue Server – Galaxy City at the Freedom Corp Headquarters.
Themes: Pink and White Homecoming Party
Contests: Costume Contests! Best Male, Female, Groups/Couple, Best Bio (costume not required), and a low level Costume Contest for lvls 1-10.
Prizes: Over 100 Million in prizes!
DJ’s and Radio Staff: The Cape’s very own.. DJ Templar will be providing the music!
Details about the event: Its a party! Stop by and say hello. Come hang out and see faces you may not have seen in a long time.

The bad news: A nemesis plot has been unleashed to stop this content from seeing the light of day. Dark operatives have doused our beloved Macbook with soda rendering it inoperative!!

Our best scientists have the device dismantled and are fastidiously working to save it. Another group of top agents are mounting a data recovery mission. They are attempting to get the harddrive to an extraction point so that the contents can be rendered to a Windows compatible drive so that they can then be edited.

Fear not, fair listeners, the content WILL be saved. How long, however, is a mystery only time will bear out.

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These are high quality cotton t-shirts with professional transfers that will hold up to being washed. You are able to customize these designs by changing the shirt styles, colors, and sizes. Modifying the designs will increase the cost because we chose the lowest cost option for our base shirts.

We’ve got plans to add some other stuffs too – so I built a permanent page which you can always see at: http://cohpodcast.com/merch

Time is very limited, though – the deadline to enter is June 11th at 11:00 PM PDT! Sorry for the short notice.

In addition, we’re told that there will be translations into other languages made available for EU players!

Save the Date!

Who: Any Level One character you would like to play!
When: Sunday, May 4th
Time: 4:00PM Eastern (3:00 Central/2:00 Mtn/1:00 Pacific/12:00 Alaska/etc.)
Where: City of Heroes, Guardian Server, Atlas Park, Miss Liberty
What: Just a casual bit of gameplay, having fun and hanging out.

We’d like to keep this simple, so are requesting folks bring a level 1 toon. Don’t worry about build or team needs, just make what you like and we’ll make it work!

So skip Outbreak and head to Atlas Park for some sewer fun or street sweeps!

Sorry for folks that can’t attend, but I have a feeling we’ll be doing this again at some point, so no worries!

This is part one and we’ll have a couple site announcements in the next episode.

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Yeah, I’ll work on that. but not tonight, its bedtime!

In the spirit of giving! More Prestige!
#9809474 – 12/11/07 12:23 PM

In the words of Oliver Twist, “Please, Sir, can I have some more?”

With this morning’s maintenance, we had intended to run the prestige grant and debt wipe on the Training Room Test Servers. However, it looks like some villains snuck in and crossed a few wires and it was applied to all the live servers.

Oh well! We hope you all enjoy the added bonus!

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Lighthouse
Community Relations Manager

Viv verified earlier today that one of our SGs indeed jumped from a 3 million influx to a 6 million influx. It will be interesting to hear how many SG leaders immediately did a purge of “filler” members right after the initial prestige grant, only to miss out on the metric ton of icing on the cake!

In addition to this flub, the devs actually released the defiance changes, animation changes, and delivered two new costume sets today! Yep, there’s your sneak peak on our next news cast

Oh, and in case you didn’t notice the bright red letters to the left, we now have a proper voicemail line. Feel free to give us a ring and leave comments, feedback, suggestions, or corrections:  206-338-2911

Posted by Lighthouse last night at 8:26 PM:

We are pleased to announce that Issue 11: A Stitch In Time will be made available on the Live City of Heroes servers on Wednesday, November 28th. All servers will be coming down for extended maintenance starting at 7 AM Eastern (4 AM Pacific) and we estimate they will be back up by 1 PM Eastern (10 AM Pacific).

* Free Costume Token

Given the debut of Weapon Customization in Issue 11, a free costume token will be granted to all characters on Wednesday, November 28th with the launch of the Issue.

* Free Respec

Additionally, with the many changes to powers included in Issue 11, we will be making a Free Respec available to all characters on Friday, December 7th. Read the full announcement of that here.

If you are not familiar with the many features included in the 11th free expansion to City of Heroes, click here to read the highlights!

Something to keep in mind is that if you already have a free respec token from a previous Issue release they do NOT stack. So, you’ll want to burn it off before they are issued on December 7th and then get the new tokens. To be clear, this only applies to tokens that were given from previous Issue launches (i10, i9, i8, etc.) not Veteran rewards or respecs earned in missions – they stack.

A quick recap of changes with i11:

The Ouroboros System which allows you to travel back in time to re-run your past missions (or story arcs you might have missed), a chance to reclaim an echo of a previous temp power, or run entirely new missions where you fight alongside (or against) the signature Heroes/Villains in the mythos.

Two new powersets:  Dual blades and Willpower available to all melee types (Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes, Stalkers) and weapon customization which allows you to change the style and color of your weapons.

New ultra-rare, high level Invention Sets that will give epic bonuses and effects to end game toons.

Among many other smaller enhancements and under the covers tweakage.

Are there any sections, information, or links that you’d like to see here?

Podcast production is commencing. I hope to do some recording tonight. Will drop the episode by Thursday morning. This weeks topic will be  teaming, and traditional roles for running missions.