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Issue 9

Daaamn, new issue already. Inventions, lots of new stuff. Keep the faith, we'll update at some point.

New Issue, New Winds

New Issue means lots of new fun. And Issue 8 is all about Heroes, which makes it double the fun for us!

Faultline has been reborn with damn great new storyline, AVs, Clockwork and Arachnos. Heroes finally got their version of newspaper and mayhem missions. And Villains got some updates to their dominators, I think.

For College of War, the new Issue means it's time to Protect and Serve, in the sense that we'll finally fully focus on our hero side. There will be slight updates to the homepage in the near future - biggest of them is the fact we're ditching EVIL U. We've been bickering over the VG for a while, and come to the conclusion we can only focus on one thing. And that thing is College of War.

The webpage update schedule is a bit unclear at the moment, but it will happen as soon as we can find a new owner for EVIL U. A feature that will be added is an RSS news/gallery -feed.

Taking a break

Alvan (Site manager), aka me, has been taking a break from CoX because of the weather we've been having here in Finland.

I'd love to convince you guys I'm the type of guy who sees lovely weather outside and says "today is not a good day to play videogames", but the real reason is that the computer room is just unbearably hot now. I can use the laptop to write forum posts and manage the rudimentary details on the site, but actual playing is not enjoyable at the moment.

I'll be attending the Hami Raid on 24th, but otherwise I'll be away from the game until it starts raining and gets colder here again.

I7

Well, Issue 7 is currently being updated into the servers. This hopefully means there will be some improvements coming our way as well.

While waiting, take a look at some info on the new zone from the zone dev himself: Tips and Stratagems, Recluse’s Victory by Thomas Foss - Senior Staff Designer & Zone Director, provided kindly to us by the European Community Cordinators over at NCSoft.

Villain titles work

Still no cure for cancer, or a way to add new people to the site, but the Villain titles work now. Which is always nice.

Crimson Cannonage and New playerage

Crimson finally dinged 50 last night, after taking his ages-long detour to Oblivion's clutches. Instead of rolling up a squid like all the other people, he said "ooh, I think I'll play some more with a blaster" and un-idled his Archery/Energy Blaster... We'll be waiting with anticipation if he's going to build his attack chains around Rise of the Phoenix on higher levels.

In other news - lots of new people have joined the SG, and I still haven't fixed the problem with creating new user accounts on the pages. I'll look into it first thing next week, this week is dedicated to my school project that needs to be finished on Sunday and I'm 65 hours behind schedule.

Grats to Crims once again.

Crimson Cannon is the first PvP God of CoW

Crimson Cannon is the first character from College of War to reach PvP Reputation of 400, thus earning himself a badge and some praise from his peers!

Way to go CC!

High Priestess gets to the top!

Well, CoW is really graduating. The fourth of us who got to lv 50 is High Priestess, who has been playing since EU CoH opened, and was amongst the three CoWites who were in Justice Server "Back in the Day".

Suspiciously enough, High Priestess said that the path has only begun. Whatever that means.

Aldwych gets to 50

Well, this is the third 50 for College of War in a short time - congrats to ald, who started after the rest of us were already going, but got to the top real fast!

Hamidon Uniowned

Hamidon, the big bad Jelly, went down last night with the combined efforts of two hundred heroes of the Union Server.

Of the College of War, Tenebra, Aldwych, Crimson Cannon and Coldest War were present.

Big thank you to Jiaozy for organizing the raid and all the 200 people who made my shiny new damage/accuracy Hami-O I put in trip mines possible.

And big thanks to the couple of Brutes at Siren's who let me test the shiny new Trip Mines on them.

Coldest War "ding"s

Yesterday Coldest War joined Tenebra in the old people's club by dinging the magical level 50.

When asked about this great achievement, War responded in his natural way: "In Russia the level limit is 100. I'm not even close."

Congratulations to Coldest War!

Gongas to Tenegra

Well, typos aside, Congratulations to Tenebra, College of War's first level 50 character.

Congrats to Matthaius

A big congrats to our own Matt, who got to level 40 in CoV, even if he hasn't updated his character yet. :)

Merry XMAS!

The College of War and E.V.I.L. University would like to wish everyone a very merry XMAS! or Bah! Humbug! if you prefer it that way ;)

Also we got something little from the Freaks Unleashed:

Check it out

Congratulations, Evil Ms Red

Evil Ms Red is the first EVIL-U member to reach level 40! Congratulations!

EVIL U: Stuff

Also some notes - EVIL U is growing fast and we're getting new members and old members get new rights and responsibilities. Would hope the same thing happen with CoW, but I think that's just too much to ask, so I wont. What I will do is point out a couple of things:

I'm adding people to the SG website slowly but surely, so if you're not here yet, don't worry. You will be.

The other thing is that with the base-editing rights given to people, we'll need some base guidelines, and I will be writing those soonish. Important thing is that we can actually use our coalition-mates bases for teleporters and such, so we're not in a big hurry to get things up and running 100%. The next thing we're going to need is the big Control Aux (Bookshelf) for the Control Room. It's about 106k prestige, so it will take a couple of days to get there.

Speaking of coalitions, EVIL U has some new coalitions formed, with Fallen Phoenixes being the latest. These are nice people, so be nice to them.

And as a last thing, the Global Chat channel for both CoW and EVIL U is "CoW-EVILU" (original, ain't it :P).

Quick note on upcoming event.

An upcoming official event everyone able should participate to. It will be a lag-fest comparable to a Hamidon Raid if tons of people head to Siren's, but so be it..

Major Page Update

Welcome our new Forum overlords.

Due the update, your saved passwords in the browser might not work, so I'm sending in-game emails to your main characters (the ones on the main page list) to remind you what your passwords were. The people I meet on IRC will not have the username/password by ingame email, but will have to ask me on IRC for it.

IMPORTANT When changing your password, be sure to update your email address to an active one. The system will automaticall send you a confirmation email when you change either the email or the password. And you will not be able to access the forums until you have clicked the link sent to you in the email, or I have noticed that your account is bugged.

So when you change your password, update your email address to a correct one as well.

Front page change

Notice that the character-lists on the right in the front page now only show your Main Characters, that is - the highest level character you have in the supergroup. To see full list of supergroup-membership owning characters, click on the "Characters" link.

The reason of the change was simple: because of the need for prestige, many alts have been added to the Supergroups lately, and the lists were growing out of control.

Hamidon = pants

Well, another week, another Hamidon sob story behind us. The heroes weren't strong enough to defeat the mastermind behind Devouring Earth. We can only hope future brings better tactics and more powerful controllers to the frey.

Game called on account of rain

Michi (CT's player) is out of town today, so there will be NO PvP gooness today. Instead, E.V.I.L. University will try to get some more foothold in the rogue isles by gaining levels and doing that sort of stuff.

Wartime!

"Fellow heroes, fellow defenders of the truth. I bring you terrifying news that require our immediate attention..."

Full details here

Note that the date has changed to 19th, because 13th is Father's Day, which means many of us will be offline.

Coalitions

College of War will be quitting it's coalition with Angels of Oblivion, as the sister Supergroup is fading out of existence. We did form a new, more fulfilling Coalition with Freaks Unleashed after Filth (also known as El Pollo from S4 tourney) bashed Coldest War (aka. Gamma) once again in Warburg. And who said nothing good ever came from introducing a free-for-all PvP Zone to the game.

On Villainy side we have a coalition with Fallen Stars, which according to Jackhobo will be the official Paragon Allstars substitute on City of Villains.

Latest Updates

The gallery system has been updated - it now has folders. The thing that has come with the change is that there is no-longer a "spoiler free" system in place - all screenshots will be viewable no matter what your level is.

Also, as can be seen, we are now sharing space with our sister-organization: E.V.I.L. University, which means there are going to be people on the pages that you might never meet in-game.

Also a big welcome to the new people on the pages: Toy and BooRalis (and deanjo2000, when he gets his stuff working). Toy is playing in the supergroup on the CoV side and BooRalis on CoH.

City of Villains upgrades will follow soon (including the title system, which doesn't work at the moment for villains)

Archdeans do Headstart

Archdeans will be mostly unavailable until monday, because of the City of Villains Headstart they are all partaking in. In case of Archdean assistance being needed (to invite somone to the supergroup, or something like that) please send an in-game tell to Lady Argenta who is my primary City of Villains character.

Issue 6: Along Came a Spider

Latest CoH Patch is up now. Full details Here.

SG-relevant stuff: There will be a Supergroup Base for College of War. There will be 5 ranks of members in SGs. There will be a new form of reward called Prestige that you get for doing stuff in Supergroup Mode.

Lord Recluse and Statesman on Invasion

Both Statesman and Lord Recluse have spoken about the events that took place on 26th October:

Statesman's version, Recluse's letter

My Page / My Stuff

The My Stuff -uploader should work in "My Page" now. Also wrote (copied from PHPBB manual) a guide to using the variant of BBCode that is used in the page-texts. This should make editing character biographies and news a bit easier (as now you can insert pictures and know what you're doing)

City of Villains event upcoming

If you have a City of Villains beta character, remember to add it to the list of participants in This Event and participate in The Invasion.

Bugs and stuff

There seemed to be some sort of a bug in writing character biographies. The bug is now fixed. I should add a new feature to pages so that people can report the bugs more easilly :D

Also there were problems browsing the Gallery, fixed that too. *sigh*

Problems with log-in?

If you still have problems with log-in, please send me (Alvan/Coldest War) an in-game email or a tell, I'll try to get things fixed asap. There was a bug caused by the gallery "non-spoiler" -script that disabled log-in from players with no characters. And here I was wondering why no-one new created a character :D

Icons Ready, Create Characters.

Power Icons are now almost fully ready - check your own powersets and see if there are any errors (wrong icons to wrong powers, powers at wrong levels, etc) and report them to Coldest War / Alvan. The errors might appear in powers that were previously just fine because I updated the graphics of all powers a bit. So check carefully.

It also would be appreciated if those members who have City of Villains Beta Account tried to recreate their Villain characters, just to see if the powersets are a match.

The only powersets that are nonfunctional are Peacebringer and Warshade sets.

City of Villains

City of Villains is now in Open Beta, and according to this, it means City of Villains screenshots and characters are now fair game. I'll hopefully have time to update the character system a bit more to make the Villain powersets work properly.

Adding new members to the pages

New members cannot be added to the page by the Archdeans just yet - they must be manually entered by me (Alvan), so give a shout to me if you want someone to be added. And a big "Welcome" to the new members to the pages... You should have your usernames/passwords in your in-game emails. Remember that both the username and the password are case-sensitive, so a "Gorilla" is different from "gorilla"

Also in character creation, the first two fields (type and server) are limited to one since we don't have activity on other servers yet.

Character system now almost fully functional

Made some changes to the character system, which means that Warshades, Peacebringers and Epic Pools are now available. The Icons to the three are not yet ready, but will be later this week.

Pages now at "Open Beta" stage

The pages are now open to the public, but still lack a lot of vital stuff, like adding or deleting characters and players. Try to bear with us, hope this update eliviates the pain.

News Section Fully Up

Just a quick note that the news section of the pages now fully works.

News Section Works

Yay, finally got the news -machinery working, this means that you can now write new news yourself. Now all someone has to do is write some sort of guidelines so that this doesn't become the original zookeeper badge with typewriters.

Testing if the editing works

Welcome the insect overlords

The testing of the news system is toddling along perfectly. In few more moments we will have great, inspiring news from all around the world brought to us by ... us.

Editing seems to work - Jere