• Voicemails
• E-mails
• Comments
• iTunes Review
• Much talk of knupples.. and knuckles.. and for that matter, nipples..

• The t-shirts are in! They’ll be posted “real soon now ™”
• Contest: Win a copy of the debut issue of comic book Twilight Guardian by Troy Hickman! The rules are as follows:
  • Send an Email, starting immediately to cohpodcast@gmail.com
  • We will do 2 random drawings, and Troy will mail them to the winners.
  • Make sure you include the subject: “Twilight Guardian Contest”; your full name; age (over 18); and complete mailing address.
  • If we draw you name and don’t have that info, we will go to the next name we draw.
  • Also, specify how you want it signed- either with just Troy’s signature, or with your name/character name/ or inscribed to your Aunt Fannie.
• CoH News
• I ran out of editing time, so this is getting split into a two parter. Feedback will come a little later this week.

 Here is the linkage mentioned in the episode:

• Happy 4th of July from the City of Heroes Dev Team
• Game Update - Wednesday, July 9th at 6AM Pacific
• Double XP is Coming Soon to a Server Near You!
• 51 Month and 54 Month Veteran Rewards Announced!
• Player Video Commemorates City of Heroes Lore
• City of Heroes Bay Area ‘Hero Con 08′
• Join Moderator Niviene Looking at Global Channels!
• PvPEC Presents: Two Against the World, a duo FFA!
• Updated Known Issues - July 9th
• Promo: Form Letter Rejection Theater

This time we talk about:

• Our nephew’s recovery (update: He’s home now and doing GREAT! You’re our hero RD!!)
• T-shirt status (tester shirts are in the mail and shirts will be available to buy soon! Prices are ranging from about $14 to $26 depending on one side vs. two side, colors, etc.
• Contest - Copies of Twilight Guardian are in the mail and on their way to Troy. We have decided on the following rules:
  • Send an Email, starting immediately to cohpodcast@gmail.com
  • We will do 2 random drawings, and Troy will mail them to the winners.
  • Make sure you include the subject: “Twilight Guardian Contest”; your full name; age (over 18); and complete mailing address.
  • If we draw you name and don’t have that info, we will go to the next name we draw.
  • Also, specify how you want it signed- either with just Troy’s signature, or with your name/character name/ or inscribed to your Aunt Fannie.
• Listener meet-up
• Paypal button
• Parsec awards
• North American Forum Maintenance on Monday!
• Time Stamps on the Dev and Community Digests
• Optional In-Game Advertisements
• City of Heroes is going to Comic Con!
• Live Server Update: Tuesday AM 17.200800612.1T
• Global Chat Down on Live as of June 27
• Win a New Car in the Matrix Machinima Contest!
• New Fanzine! Spotlighting Fan Art, Stories & More
• In-Game Store and Account Services Unavailable
• Promo: Double Share, A Traders Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper : Book 4

In this episode we discuss:

• Listener meet-up June 28th at 2pm, Guardian server. We are going to hit the new Hollows content, so you will need a level 5 toon to enter the zone. Meet at Wincott.
  • Viv will be playing either Vico Viv or her new character, Sive the Shining.
  • Chooch will be playing The Incredible Hulk Hogan (an homage to a friend that used to play)
• T-shirt status -still in progress, but coming soon.
• Contest - In the mail and on their way to Troy. We have decided on the following rules:
  • Send us an e-mail with the subject “Funny Book Contest”
  • We will do 2 random drawings, and will mail them to the winners. Make sure you include your full name, age (over 18), and complete mailing address. If we draw your name and don’t have that info, we will go to the next name we draw.
  • No current deadline set; we’ll announce it in the next episode.
• Still I say, go check out Twilight Guardian while you can still get your hands on it! We’ve read it, and I’m really hoping it gets picked up because I want to see what her motivations are and just generally more about the character!
• “This American Hero” Wins Machinima Contest
• Re: Skirt problem
• Wikia to Send Two Lucky Gamers to Pax!
• June 17th update to the live servers
• Sync Bug? Character Can’t Move? Read More Here
• Update on the “Sync Bug”
  • Confirmation about possible bug with Rularuu Bow
• Massively.com - CoX Issue 13: All your base are belong to us?
• Accolade spotlight: Freedom Phalanx Reserve Member Badge
• SG Spotlight: Viper
• Promo: Chasing The Bard, Murder at Avedon Hill, The Metamor City Podcast, Morevi: Remastered

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

This week we talk about:

• Announcements:
  • Listener meet-up June 28th at 2pm, Guardian server. We are going to hit the new Hollows content, so you will need a level 5 toon to enter the zone. Meet at Wincott.
  • T-shirt status
  • Contest coming soon!
• Rikti Invasion Returns
• CoH Desktop Calendar
• Hover change discussion & link 2
• News
• Main Feature - IO’s Part I
• Discussion of cool weapons
• Feedback
• Paragon University Archaology Department 4th Anniversary Flash (sorry, I totally forgot to add the link when I posted the episode.. thanks for the catch, WordSmythe!)
• Promo: Murder at Avedon Hill

Enjoy!

In the episode we mention meeting and interacting with the following awesome people, in quasi alphabetical order. No offense if I left somebody off of the list- please let me know so I can fix it!

• Brand Gamblin, Allie and Elf Princess
• Chris Lester
• Christiana Ellis
• Command Line and Andrea
• Dan The Fan
• David Kanter
• David Moldawer
• Doug Rapson
• Earl Newton
• Fantastic Foe
• Grailwolf
• Greg Wright
• Heather Welliver
• Indiana Jim
• Jack Jaffee
• JC Hutchins
• Jared Axelrod
• Jason Adams
• Jett
• John Cmarr
• JR Blackwell
• Laura Burns
• MAinPA
• Martha Holloway
• Martyn Casserly
• Matt Wallace
• Max
• Nobilis
• Jim Van Verth
• Mur Lafferty
• Nathan Lowell
• Paul Fischer
• PG Holyfield
• Paulette Jaxton
• Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit and Carissa
• Philippa Ballantine
• Scott & Mae Breakall
• Scott Phillips
• Susan Z and Biscuit of Kulture Kast
• Tee Morris

Its too late for clever.. here are the patch notes

This post has the correct attachment - Episode 25!

This week we discuss

• Mids Joins Titan Network! Issue 12 Version Soon!
• Positron Broadcasts Live on MMORPG.com!
• There was Server Maintenance, Wednesday, May 28th
• May 28th Patch Notes
• Executive Producer Talks with MMOABC.com
• Community Digest is Fixed
• Stone Melee nerfage
• Twilight Guardian from Top Cow, written by Troy Hickman - Support one of our own!
  • Interview with Troy Hickman
  • Review of Twilight Guardian by Wizard Universe
• Calls for Cthulhu
• Promo: Parsec Awards

This time we discuss:

• Issue 12: Midnight Hour is Live and Info Links!
• Issue 12 Patch Notes
• Free Respec With Issue 12
• Re: Free Respec With Issue 12
• Developer Diary: Ken Morse, Stretching the Genre!
• Issues Affecting Billing Processing
• Issue 12 Comic Book Now Available!
• Promo: Stranger Things

• Free Respec
  This will grant a respec to characters that does not stack with any previous free respecs a character may have. Given this non-stacking nature, if you have a free respec currently, you may want to use it before the grant is run.
• Free Tailor Token
  This will apply free tailor or facemaker session tokens for each costume slot a character has.
• Global Chat Handle reset
  All accounts initially start with the ability to change their global chat handle one time. This grant will reset that and allow accounts who had previously changed their global chat handle to do so again. This is a one time chat handle change, so please use it wisely.

We just received news that NCSoft will be offering a special “Reactivation Weekend” in a few days! This means that all accounts that were a prior retail account (as in they were a subscriber not a free trial) will be reactivated during the following window:

Start: Thursday, May 22nd 10am PST / Noon CST
End: Sunday, May 25th 8:59pm PST / 10:59pm CST

So let all of your friends that have unsubscribed know about this special event and take this opportunity to try out Issue 12!!

We ended up with a show chock full of news and comments, but didn’t want to postpone the Intro to Bases further, so you gets the whole jumbo sized episode in one shot!

If you have a problem downloading the whole thing, I’ve split it into two (lower bitrate) pieces which you can directly download here: Part 1, Part 2 (note: right-click and choose “Save Link As” or your browser’s equivalent).

This time we discuss:

• News
  • NCSoft and Vivox Announce Collaboration
  • Exclusive Video Look at the Midnight Squad!
• Discussion of SI radio interview which leads to a mini-Paladin spotlight among other things
• Feature: Intro to Bases
• Our first listener meet up
• Listener comments/iTunes Reviews
• Listener feedback in email/voicemail
• The Wandering Geek Podcast
• Promos: 7th Son Obsidian and Takeover.

We had planned on this being a featurecast, but there was just so much other content that we’re going to save the feature until next week!

In this episode we discuss:

• City of Heroes 4 Year Anniversary address from Positron
• Issue 12 open Beta
• The 4 Year Anniversary Calendar with important dates (double XP weekends, etc)
• City of Heroes staff at Summer trade shows
  • Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Sdattle
  • Comic-Con in San Diego
• Many, many comments, an e-mail, and a voicemail from a celebrity guest (kind of)
• SG Spotlight: The Knuckleheads. Both Hero AND Villain side SG on the Pinnacle server. A casual/fun group that enjoys some PLs and other advanced play.
• Promo: Chasing The Bard (an amazing free audiobook)

We’ve noticed that some people with spotty Internet connections are having a difficult time downloading the episode. To try and alleviate this, I just exported the show at a lower bitrate. This means that the sound quality won’t be as good, but the file will be much smaller. Also, I’ve split the file into two parts to further shrink the size.

You can download the pieces with these links:
Part 1 of 2
Part 2 of 2

As a last resort you can read the transcript from the official forums.

Cheers!
-Chooch

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

Of course we talk about some i11 stuff, i12, lots about NCSoft and writing. I know we mention Playing For Keeps and Paragon Wiki, but can’t remember beyond that.

Oh and don’t forget, open beta starts Tuesday, May 6!

Enjoy!

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!

• We will be interviewing Joe “Hero 1″ Morrissey, Lead Writer of the CoH Development Team!!
• Read Joe’s Developer Diary at mmorpg.com
• Post your questions in the Official Forums for the interview
• There is an excellent review of our show at Massively.com

In this episode we talk about:

• Issue 12 Villain Epic Archetype Video
• Official discussion Acrobatics Power Weakening
• Faction Spotlight: Knives of Artemis
• Accolade Spotlight: Watchman/Watchwoman
• Warcry Positron and Castle Interview
• Promo: Buffy Between The Lines
• Feedback

Viv brings to you:

• Additional Character Slots Announcement by Positron
• Rikti Return
• Vanguard info on rikti assault patterns
• Posi’s response in the WARNING: Spoilers to the VEAT storyline follow!
• Hero Dawn Bash Party – April 19
  
• Loads of listener comments, reviews, and a voicemail
• Promo: Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts

• April Fools Prank - Visual Sounds
• BAB’s link indicating his acrobatic moves (we promise promise promise this is NOT a RickRoll!)
• Optional In-Game Advertising
• Powerset Proliferation FAQ form Doc Brainstorm
• i12 Closed Beta starting next week
• Powers counts and clarifications (some info from Suckerpunch’s CoH Planner
• Civilian NPC’s
• Accolade Spotlight - Atlas Medallion
• CoHPodcast forums
• Promo: Morevi Remastered

Fear the chicken scissors!

This is part two of our guest interview with Rich. There was some very important, last minute news that was added just before we posted though which takes a little time to get through.

In this episode we discuss:

• A last minute news item from Lighthouse and Positron
• Dr. Brainstorm’s Discovery
• Powerset Proliferation
• Improved Character Creator
• Back to the Burrow for us
• The new Forums are rocking - come join us (they got their first porn submissions!)
• Chooch went to lunch with Mur Lafferty, Tee Morris, Marc Bailey & Heather Welliver, and many other creative peoples
• Don’t forget our new voicemail number: 206-333-3206
• Some explanations of why some powers did or did not make it into the proliferation, including letting us know that eventually ALL of the powers should make it over!!
• Rich’s tour of villainy
• Promos: Balticon Podcast, The Next Fix

So, here is the actual podcast episode… again.. I tried once before and it didn’t seem to take. So I just renamed the file, and we’ll see what happens!

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Episode is a bit late… but there was an injury involved, so please don’t debuff us
This episode is part one of a two part interview with a friend of ours dedicated to villains!

We discuss:

• Viv’s on drugs
• News [more complete show notes on actual news items to come]
• Bab’s sig file link
• New Gallery software on cohpodcast.com !
• New Listener Forums !
• Go buy Scott Sigler’s Infected on April 1st! Oh, and in case you don’t know if you’d like it, Scott is letting us attach a free PDF version to this episode!! That’s right, the ENTIRE Novel in no-DRM PDF form is in the feed. However, this is a “3 day only” deal, so I will be removing the PDF from the feed on April 1st.
• New feedback phone number (the old one got disconnected because nobody called in 30 days
• Interview with Rich
  • What draws Rich to the Rogue Isles
  • CoV contacts strategy
  • Differences between COH and COV
  • Task Forces/Strike Forces
  • Level restricted zones
  • Giant Monsters
  • The villain Archetypes
  • Feelings on the announced villain epic archetypes
  • Player populations between Villains and Heroes
  • Villain player attitudes compared to Hero side
  • Thanks to Rich for helping fund the VEAT
  • Villain temp powers and accolades
  • Six Paragons
  • Weekend Hero
• Promos: Chasing the Bard, MetaMor City

This episode is part one of a two part interview with a friend of ours dedicated to villains!

We discuss:

• Viv’s on drugs
• News [more complete show notes on actual news items to come]
• Bab’s sig file link
• New Gallery software on cohpodcast.com !
• New Listener Forums !
• Go buy Scott Sigler’s Infected on April 1st! Oh, and in case you don’t know if you’d like it, Scott is letting us attach a free PDF version to this episode!! That’s right, the ENTIRE Novel in no-DRM PDF form is in the feed. However, this is a “3 day only” deal, so I will be removing the PDF from the feed on April 1st. Sorry, time is up and I had to remove the file from the post and the server. You can still listen to the book for free on Scott’s site though! I just found out that the limited time was on Random House/Crown’s side — but we are allowed to mirror it indefinitely. So, I’ve put it back up
• New feedback phone number (the old one got disconnected because nobody called in 30 days
• Interview with Rich
  • What draws Rich to the Rogue Isles
  • CoV contacts strategy
  • Differences between COH and COV
  • Task Forces/Strike Forces
  • Level restricted zones
  • Giant Monsters
  • The villain Archetypes
  • Feelings on the announced villain epic archetypes
  • Player populations between Villains and Heroes
  • Villain player attitudes compared to Hero side
  • Thanks to Rich for helping fund the VEAT
  • Villain temp powers and accolades
  • Six Paragons
  • Weekend Hero
• Promos: Chasing the Bard, MetaMor City

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

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This episode we discuss:

• Gary Gygax passing
• Rikti invasions return
• “Final” Task Force/Strike force changes
• 48 Month Veteran Reward announced
• A call from Ex Libris to please update account information
• Intro to Base Raids event
• Some very funny forum comments from Back Alley Brawler
• Lots and lots of feedback!
• Promo: Scott Sigler’s Infected

Good hunting heroes!

I wasn’t completely satisfied with the results, so I just reverted everything back to the was it was before I started messing with it. I have a lot of editing and real world work to do tomorrow, so not sure if I’ll be able to work on it again until mid-week.

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

This episode was recorded last week but was delayed due to some technical difficulties (and minor construction at our base!)

We discuss;

• Ex Libris links to us on the official forums!
• We’re moving our studio around
• Blaster damage bug corrected
• Further veil fixes
• Clarification from Positron on the TF changes
• A new TF change on Test Server to address some of the gripes
• Main topic: Cryptic Studios Champions Online MMO now in development
• Feedback
• Hop into our new Character Gallery to see what our listener’s characters look like — and add your own!
• Promo: JC Hutchin’s Ultra Creatives Interview Series

As we go over in the episode, we are aware that Defenders are much more than healers (that they indeed are more buffers/debuffers than healers), but since there was a request specifically about healing, here it is.

In this episode we discuss:

• Some quick news (Rikti portal XP update, and a contentious TF/SF change)
• Villain Strike Force information
• New Valentine mish in Atlas Park
• Information about the Manticore/Sister Psyche wedding event
• Our Defender/Healer disclaimer
• Listener feedback
• Another request for SGs to promote - here is your chance to get your SG some exposure and recruit some new blood! Send us your SG details: Name, Server, Website if you have one, the type of SG it is (role play, farming, PVP, etc.), and how to contact you in-game.
• Also, let us know a preferred day/time for an in-game meet up!
• Promo: Geeklabel Radio