It’s been a long road, but we’ve finally dinged 50! Episode 50, that is.
In this episode we discuss:
- Winner of Knives of Artemis costume code: Flick Guy
- Free character transfers until the end of January:
- Starts:Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:59 a.m. PST (11:59 a.m. EST)
- Ends: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (2:59 a.m. EST)
- These are moves, not copies. You can move a character back with the same restrictions and caveats
- You cannot transfer characters between different accounts — same account only
- You can do up to 6 transfers a week. This could be anything from 1 character transferred 6 times back and forth between 2 servers, or could be 6 characters to different servers in any combination
- Cannot swap between US & European servers
- Lose Supergroup affiliation, prestige, and items
- Lose server friends list, but keep global list
- Leveling pacts will be broken
- Keep auction house items
- You may lose your character name if it is already taken on the new server. No warning is given, but you are given a free rename token. If you already have one character on the destination server you can do a name lookup check at the login screen.
- If you have a one or two letter/number name, you will loose it forever. The servers currently only allow three letter/number names.
- Character transfer tutorial
- City of Heroes® Super Booster IV: Martial Arts
- This Super Booster channels your chi while combining the perfect balance of style and power.
- Martial Arts themed costume set:
- The Martial Arts themed male, female and huge costume parts include robes, shoulders, legs, gloves, footwear, mask, belt and head pieces, as well as new hair styles, chest emblems, and weapons. Male and huge characters also have the option to select the top knot hairstyle, while females will have the option for crazy braided buns!
- Character Emotes:
- /em bringit
- /em pushup
- Costume Change Emotes:
- Smoke Bomb
- Ninja Leap
- Ninja Run power:
- Dash through the city with the agility of a ninja! Use Ninja Run to strike fear in the hearts of your enemies as you increase your run speed and leaping abilities, and the best part? It doesn’t use one of your power selections!
- This purchase enables these features for all characters on your game account from level 1. Ninja Run power is available at level 4. Costume change emotes* do require that you unlock at least one additional costume slot.
Promo: The Empress Sword by Paulette Jaxton
There will be two posts for this one. In the first we bring our traditional podcastiness in audio form. As you will hear at the beginning of the episode, there is also the video version of the episode here.
Too long in the making, we are proud to bring you our Transcendence Trial tutorial. At the start of the episode Viv breaks down the basics of the Trans Trial and how we go about running it. Then we actually run through it “live” with a full team.
Sorry, no news or fluff. The contest winner will be announced in a special drop this week.
The video is available in a few bunch of different formats, listed below:
- High quality iPod formatted download (428 Megabytes, 320×240)
- High quality MPeg4 download (2.2 Gigabytes, 720×480)
- Medium quality MPeg4 download (343 Megabytes, 720×480)
- Medium quality Ogg Theora download (363 Megabytes, 720×480)
- Medium quality Flash streamed:
We’d like to thank the team members who helped us run the trial:
- Will Hudson and Tai Kitty, Heroes of the first order
- Biscuit the Mighty of the Kulture Kast
- Heather Welliver and Marc Bailey of Grailwolf’s Geek Life
- Zigdon
- our son, M.
Items mentioned in the episode:
There will be two posts for this one. The first we bring here is our traditional podcastiness in audio form. As you will hear at the beginning of the episode, there is also a video version of this episode.
Since video files are so big we didn’t want to clog up your podcast feed with one. Head over to the video post and you can download it in a range of formats or stream it straight from the post!
Too long in the making, we are proud to bring you our Transcendence Trial tutorial. At the start of the episode Viv breaks down the basics of the Trans Trial and how we go about running it. Then we actually run through it “live” with a full team.
Sorry, no news or fluff. Contest winner will be announced in a special audio drop this week.
We’d like to thank the team members who helped us run the trial:
- Will Hudson and Tai Kitty, Heroes of the first order
- Biscuit the Mighty of the Kulture Kast
- Heather Welliver and Marc Bailey of Grailwolf’s Geek Life
- Zigdon
- our son, M.
Items mentioned in the episode:
Here is our second to last piece of audio from Dragon*Con. This is the City of Heroes panel which proved to be a very lively discussion about the game, Paragon Studios, and various other topics.
This episode includes:
- The winner of the impromptu contest we created at the panel
- Information to enter a drawing for a Knives of Artemis costume code
- The City of Heroes Panel at Dragon*Con
Special thanks to:
- Grimthorn
- Colin Seraphina Brennan from Massively
- Central Nexus
- Douglas Allan of the Paragonian Knights
We grabbed a decent amount of audio from our time at DragonCon. Today’s special episode consists of some player interviews we did after the CoH Panel.
We’ll be releasing the full panel audio soon, as well as a regular episode with news and patch note highlights from the launch of i16.
No promos or news in this one, but that’s coming soon. Promise 
We had an opportunity to sit down with Tee Morris the other night and talk about super hero movies, gaming, and a million other geeky topics.
This discussion is more about super heroes in various media than City of Heroes, but we do manage to talk about many features and aspects of the game.
Two warnings:
- Tthere are bad words. We drop the F Bomb a few times and discuss.. um.. anatomy.
- There are spoilers. We discuss all aspects of many different movie/book/comic properties and without pausing to give warnings, so be prepared to hit pause/fast forward if you hear a topic that you don’t want to get spoiled on
During our conversation we mention:
- Kulture Kast
- Watchmen
- Erotica Ala Carte
- Geek Radio Daily
- BSG
- El Cazador
- GURPS
- Green Lantern Mashup
- Transformers vs. Terminator Mashup
- Buffy/Twilight Mashup
- Grant Baciocco’s Christian Bale response
- Family Guy Christian Bale response
- Dance techno Christian Bale remix
- Apple Geeks
- J.C. Hutchins
- Murder At Avedon Hill
- Promo: Down From Ten
Tee Morris links:
- http://www.allatwitterbook.com
- http://www.birdhouserules.com
- http://www.teemorris.com
- http://www.imaginethatstudios.com
Happy July (shhhh – its still technically July!) Lots of exciting things have been happening in CoHLand and we’re happy to bring you an episode chock full of newsy goodness!
In this episode we discuss:
- We are Parsec Finalists again this year !!!
- We are going to Dragon Con!
- We’ll be dropping a special episode with Tee Morris into the feed soon, discussing movies from comic books
- Paragon Studios team hits Twitter
- @Positron_CoH
- @Niviene_CoH
- @MelissaBianco (WarWitch)
- @CoH_OCR (the community relations team)
- Honorable mentions include: @plaync, @thetitannetwork
- Of course, you can follow us too as: @choochus, and @vividmuse
- Paragon Studios at Comic Con
- Issue 15: Anniversary Releases info from forums
- Issue 15: Anniversary Releases info from news
- Double XP Save The Date
- Issue 16: Power Spectrum
- Migration of the message boards part 1 and part 2
- Purchase new MA story slots
- Issue 15: Anniversary Full Release Notes (cwned!)
- Promo: Mur Lafferty’s WAR
This outing we discuss:
- Todays listener meetup
- Chooch posted some screen caps to our website gallery
- We ran Drew’s arc (163236)
- Chooch’s team started Edgar’s Garden’s arc (101467)
- The other arcs that we didn’t get to include:
- Dribbler: 31757
- Criswell Predicts: Rescue Chuch
- Fantastic Foe: 200411
- Skye Rocket “Lab Rabbits”
- Drew’s: 164460
- Drew’s: 164186
- Going Rogue” expansion info and FAQ
- Issue 15 Overview – now on the test server
- Developer Diary 1
- Developer Diary 2
- Official forum post from Positron on i16
- Super Booster III: Super Science Hits the Training Room
- Champions Online Delayed Until September
- Wired Article on Mission Architect
- Dungeons & Dragons Online Goes Free-To-Play
- Good News for SinnerSaint and Cyborg Anna
We are pleased to bring you the i14 patch notes, along with a few announcements and news items!
Here’s the linkage:
- Super Booster II: Magic Pack Now on Sale
- i14 Architect – Release Notes – 4/8/09
- Mission Architect Video and Guide!
- Issue 14 Follow-Up From Positron!
- Justice Girls Summer Heat – Virtue – May 9 – 8-11pm Eastern
- Bumper: Cheyenne Wright
- Promo: The Seanachai
Well the show notes are a week late, but the audio is the important part, right? Right??
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!