Did you like the new DevSpotlight format? We'd like to hear from you! Did you hate it? Well go to- I mean. We'd still like to hear from you! Head over here to discuss it:
We don't want to forget our amazing RPers! One of the hottest and most active forum RP threads I've ever seen was started by Gladatoria. Take a read even if it's just to see the scope that the writers have incorporated!
This week also saw a few new interviews. Check out what we said to our friends at Rolling 20s (starting at 2:02:00): http://ow.ly/xRwPe And our interview with Connor from MMOfallout.com: http://ow.ly/xSGvF.
Hazard zones - do you love them or hate them? Plexius is a fan, and would like to see us include them in City of Titans. What do you think? http://cityoftitans.com/forum/hazard-zones
And Radiac wants to know if there are any symbols that will be considered 'taboo' for costumes and bases. How do you draw the line between realism and offensiveness when it comes to symbols and sigils? http://cityoftitans.com/forum/forbidden-art.
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If you don't watch anything else on the web, watch this:
A very big, very important and looked forward to update landed Wednesday! Our June State of the Game update by our resident bossman Warcabbit! Read all about it here:
It seems small when you first think about it...but doesn't our hair (or lack thereof) really say something about us? Check out this oldie but still going strong goodie from ZigZag simply tilted: Male and female hair!
We were happy to bring a very big, exciting update to our loyal followers this week! Check out "Mastering Your Character - A Primer on Masteries" for a peek at what lies in store to help you define your character!
Here's an interesting discussion (before the spelling wars started! ;) ) about achievements/badges and ways to show them off, possible rewards, etc. Were you a badge hunter in CoH? Come toss some ideas into the mix.
An exciting and in-depth discussion about the origins of the universe, superpowers, and god-like beings in various comic universes, and how these might affect CoT.
What's a weekly post without a bit of nostalgia? Here's a thread brought to us by Gideon Cross as a virtual memory lane. Post screenies of your characters from CoH and relish the past.
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See the world in an animated light thanks to Hombre_McSteez and some creative use of animation cells!
(Dubstep Frog might be my new favorite thing ever - Hiro)
We had a busy week! From updates, to new community managers, to having our first iteration of the Code of Conduct on our forums - it's been a lively week!
This week we welcomed two new Community Managers -Shadow Elusive and HiroA. You can read their greetings to the City of Titans community here: http://cityoftitans.com/forum/meet-our-new-community-managers
Egads! Our Report Post button has apparently done gone ran away with the last forum software update, so in the interim you can private message toShadow Elusive, HiroA, Minotaur, or myself (VDG) if you feel a post needs to be reported for violating any of the forum rules. Read that post here: http://cityoftitans.com/forum/reporting-posts
http://cityoftitans.com/forum/collab-central
Have I not shared this before? What's wrong with me? Check out ChristopherRobin's collaborative art thread - some truly awesome work in there.
From: Radiac For: Business & Marketing When should I expect the receive the T-shirt I bought with my Kickstarter money? Also, will the non-physical stuff (e.g. Iconic, Mogul, etc) be dealt with before the game is released or after? Thanks.
Terwyn, Marketing Manager: Given the sheer size of donations we received during the Kickstarter, it should be no surprise that it has taken us a long time to track down our benefactors to confirm specific details. Since some people have surprisingly contributed well over a thousand dollars, and haven't read their e-mails instructing them where to sign up for their goodies, we've had to extend the deadline and reach out to these individuals personally. So, eventually, we started collating the results, and found that some people had left shipping addresses in Titan City. A nice thought, but unfortunately unhelpful for items existing outside of the game world. As well, more than one person had left the default size of t-shirt in the system, and we're quite sure that half of our base do not wear a women's Extra Small. Needless to say, that started off an entirely new sequence of back and forth communications, forcing us to have to collate the list again.
Good news, however, despite all of that, the orders are going out more or less as we speak, and they'll start shipping as soon as they can. Everyone should be getting the shirts more or less at once, presuming that local postal systems are equally efficient. As for the digital goods, they will be plotted out and dealt with accordingly well before the final build of Titan City.
http://cityoftitans.com/forum/comic-recommndation-thread
Always worth re-recommending, the comic recommendation thread, by Skaargoroth http://cityoftitans.com/forum/goats-color-book
Awesome art and coloring by Lord Goat Ask-A-Dev Got a question? Ask it here: http://tinyurl.com/askadev From: Darth Fez For: Composition / Lore How does Titan City manages to (presumably) remain largely peaceful despite so many heroes and villains, and those who fall between those extremes, pursuing their goals? Will be a question of suspension of disbelief?
Robin, Composition Lead: This depends a lot on your definition of 'peaceful'. In part, people have learned to work around the super-battles. The heroes do a good job of handling the villains, and the TCPD and the TCFD are both excellent at keeping civilians out of harm's way."
It's also worth noting that super-criminals -- at least, those who aren't out to deliberately kill as many people as possible -- tend to try and avoid getting people killed because if they're to the point where they'e fighting a super, they know they might be caught, and if they might be caught, they don't want to make their sentence worse."
Another thing is that citizens of Titan City understand this to be a part of life. They don't mind putting up with it in exchange for living in what they consider the greatest city in the world. The can-do attitude common among the locals means that instead of worrying about it, they come up with solutions, and honestly the supers help; heroes will often do their own cleanup, and there's a number of city workers with their own powers."
Supervillains often end up helping as well. Not voluntarily, of course, unless they're seeking good PR. But for convicted criminals with suitable abilities, cleaning up superbattle sites is often part of their sentence as hard labor, and it is also accepted as community service.
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*Shakes head* I never thought it was this possible to fail that hard.
