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I've been running trivia as part of the Underground Trials on Tuesday and Thursday nights.  I've been posting it under the #lore channel on discord, but thought I would make this post a reference to those posts so that you can find them as they start to get buried in other #lore discussions.  It may turn out that two full length quizzes a week is a bit much, but we'll see.  Currently I'm reusing the trivia at MSRs so, the answers won't be posted until after that:

11/2/2021:   Inaugural Quiz: Testing the Waters
11/4/2021:   Topics: Devs and Their Secret Identities, Defense, and Lore Analogies
11/9/2021:   Topics: Game History, Hero Agencies, and Damage
11/11/2021: Topics: Enhancements, Villain Leaders, and Famous on the Forums
11/16/2021: Topics: Do You Even Build?, Players in the Game, and Rularuu
11/30/2021: Topics: Name that Zone, the End of the Rainbow, and Costumes
12/2/2021:   Topics: Villain Identities, Inspirational, and Let it Snow!
12/7/2021:   Topics: In the Beginning, Hamidon Raids, and Name that Badge (Issue 2)
12/14/2021: Topics: The Price is Right, Meet the Coles, and Have You Been Paying Attention?
12/21/2021: Topics: Real People, It's a Race, and Our Alien Friends
1/4/2022:     Topics: Knockback, Name that Group, Digital Goodies
1/11/2022:   Topics: Fledgling Heroes, The Dead Doctor, Endurance and How to Get It
1/20/2022:   Topics: Shop 'til you drop, Task Forces, the Cake is a Lie!
1/25/2022:   Topics: Order of the Four Winds, Where's Waldo, Inspirations, again.
2/3/2022:     Topics: Hazards, Go Faster, Badges (Issue 3)
2/8/2022:     Topics: True Love, Don't Lose Your Head, Valentine's Day
3/10/2022: Topics: Community, Souvenirs, and The Best Defense is Damage!
3/22/2022: Topics: The Comics, Badges (Issue 4), Hero Identities
3/29/2022: Topics: Sisters, April Fools, First Ward
4/21/2022: Topics: Costume, Vindicators, Meat Shields
5/31/2022: Topics: GMs, Day Jobs, and 'I'd like to be your Neighbor
7/12/2022: Topics: Corps, Inherents, Procs and Globals
8/11/2022: Topics: Plots, Badges (Issue 5), Awful Park
9/20/2022: Topics: Villainous, "ARE YOU NOT CONTAINED!", and This Space for Rent.
12/6/2022: Topics: All You Can Eat, Baby It's Cold Outside, and Flashback!

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This thread is to discuss the economy changes currently on the test server: https://forum.cityofheroesrebirth.com/index.php/topic,145.0.html

Note that this is only the first patch of the economy/grind overhaul and there are more changes coming.

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Lore Discussions / The Van Dorns
« on: May 30, 2021, 02:45:31 am »
I was excited when I finally got my hands on the City of Heroes lore bible to look up my favorite curiosity which was that Countess Crey and Clamor shared a last name: Clarissa Van Dorn and Eve Van Dorn.  When I met the developers at conventions I asked about this connection, I was met with blank looks, but I hoped there was something hidden away in the lore bible that they just weren't familiar with.

Well, having read through the bible, I am saddened to say there truly does not appear to be any connection.  They just both had family that came from Dorn (Van Dorn meaning "from Dorn").  In fact, there is almost no information about Clamor at all in the bible (which seems sort of surprising given that she was and is the AV on a task force.)  On the upside, this means that my AE story exploring this connection from live (It definitely did not occur to me that I should have saved my AE missions at shutdown...) didn't contradict any existing lore.  At the rate I'm going with my current AE arc, I should get around to recreating this story in 5 years or so...

Do folks have their own secret theories about connections between characters in the game despite there being no supporting evidence?

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Howdy folks.  I have a planned four story arc that I've been working on since at least November (obviously not working very hard, but I find AE to be surprisingly laborious), so at the rate I'm going, I think it will be a while until the full arc is actually ready to go, so I've decided to release just the first mission for feedback.  Unfortunately, I need to work inside the constraints of the mission architect, so it doesn't play out exactly how I'd like, but I think most of the mechanics trigger as desired, at least and hopefully isn't too confusing:
D 789: A Public Persona

Note that this is really only the setup for the mission, and so probably won't be very satisfying story wise.  Any feedback is welcome.

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Player Help/Guides / A Guide to Using Event Herald
« on: May 18, 2021, 08:29:09 pm »
For folks that are unfamiliar, Event Herald (Harold) is our local town crier who pipes messages between the Discord channels #in-game-rebirth, #in-game-help, and #in-game-lfg to the in game channels Rebirth, Help, and Looking for Group respectively.

If you don't see those channels in the discord, add the rebirth role in #pick-your-roles by clicking the rebirth button, seen here in the lower right:

Any time you see Event Herald say something prefaced by [Discord: @name] that isn't actually Event Herald saying it, rather he is just parroting what @name has said in the corresponding discord channel.

However, Event Herald does so much more than this.  He can also be used to schedule events which he will advertise publicly 2 hours and again 30 minutes prior to the event, as well as responding to queries from players about events.  If you would like Herald to announce the time to an upcoming event you can issue the command
!e next
in Looking for Group and Herald will announce the next event in chat for everyone to see and the time until it starts.

You can even include a hashtag after next to get him to announce the next event of a certain type:!e next #itrials
In fact, Herald will even respond to a !e command by someone from discord.
A list of supported hashtags is provided at the end of this guide.


(You can find out information about all of the commands I'm about to detail by sending Event Herald the message "help")
If you would rather not let everyone in a global channel know that you are checking event times, you can also just send Event Herald a direct tell "next #msr".  This has the advantage that in addition to time until the next event, it will also give you the time in your local time zone, provided you have configured that with Event Herald.

In addition to taking a #tag, the next command can also take an optional date argument, provided before the tag.  The data can be provided in a number of formats including a date string "/t Event Herald, next 5/20" or with a weekday "/t Event Herald, next Friday." Also supported are today and tomorrow.

While next provides a single event, list will provide the next three events and can similarly take date and tag argument:

(list can also be called in "Looking For Group" with "!e list", but will have the same effect as "!e next")

To set your local timezone, simply tell the Event Herald "tz [time zone code]"
You can find your local time zone code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
I'm on the west coast, so I would send "/t Event Herald, tz America/Los_Angeles"

For most standard American Time Zones:
Eastern: America/New_York
Central: America/Chicago
Mountain: America/Denver
Pacific: America/Los_Angeles

You will notice that all of the events have an ID#.  If you would like to find out more about a particular event, say the European Version Incarnate Trials listed earlier (ID#14), you can "/t Event Herald, info 14"


Now that you know how to find out about events, let's say you want to schedule an event.  This ability is open to everyone and does not require any special privileges.  The full command to add an event is: "add [-w -b -m] date time desc [#tags]" where the arguments in brackets are optional.
  • The -w, -b, -m arguments are for an event that you want to repeat weekly, biweekly (that's every other week) or monthly
  • For the date as discussed earlier, you can give MM/DD, today, tomorrow, or day of the week.  (For the monthly option you specify a date, 11/29 for example, which is then interpreted moving forward as the nth weekday (4th Sunday in this case).)
  • For time, you can provide 10p, 10:00p, or military time 22:00 (Remember to have configured your time zone, mentioned above).  (If you only provide a number (say 10) it will be interpreted as that number of hours from the current time.)
  • Enter a short description of your event
  • Finally, any hashtags that you want people to be able to filter on
So, let's suppose I wanted to add a recurring event every week running a Speed run Imperious Task Force after Incarnate Trials at 8 pm pacific on Monday.  I've already configured my time zone earlier, so I can just say:
"/t Event Herald, add -w Monday 8p Draggynn's Race Through Rome! #itf #speedrun"
NOTE: here /t is the in game command to send a direct tell, it is not an Event Herald specific directive.  This command must be issues from in game and not through discord.

If I realize I'll be unable to run my event, I can cancel it using its ID#.  Let's suppose my speed run had ID number 25.  I can cancel my event using
"/t Event Herald, cancel 25 Spilled Enriche on keyboard"
Event Herald will now let people know that the event has been cancelled when he would normally advertise it.  If it's a recurring event, this will only cancel the next instance of the event, and the Event Herald will continue to advertise next week once my replacement keyboard has arrived.

If my keyboard arrives early I can uncancel the event using:
"/t Event Herald, uncancel 25"

If I realize I'll no longer be able to run the event, I can delete it entirely:
"/t Event Herald, delete 25"
and the event will no longer show up, and will remove all knowledge Event Herald had of the event.

You can also use the ID number to change the description:
"/t Event Herald, desc 25 Draggynn's Speedy Toga Party!"

Since only the event owner can modify an event, you may wish to transfer ownership at some point to another player.  You can do this by using "transfer ID# playername":
"/t Event Herald, transfer 25 Avalo"
will transfer ownership of Draggynn's speed runs to Avalo.  Note that in order to transfer an event, the recipient player must have used event herald at least once before.
 
You can also more generally modify an event by using the update command.  It has the same format as the add command except you can use -0 to remove the recurring nature and #0 to remove any applied hashtags.  For any field you don't want to change, use a -.
So Avalo might want to run an hour later and only biweekly. So he could do this with:
"/t Event Herald, update 25 -b - 9p Avalo's Toga Race!"
where the second "-" signals that he doesn't want to change the date

But wait, there's more!  Event Herald can roll dice for you using roll "ndx" for which he will roll n x-sided dice and tell you their sum:

He can also make a selection for you, given a a list of choices separated by commas "Choose A, B, C, ....".

You can even get Herald to respond in "Looking For Group" to these commands by using !e, just like the "!e next" option we started with (This only works for next, roll, and choose).  The choose option is how the PvP IO winner is selected on Sunday nights.

If at any point you get confused simply send Event Herald the help command, and all of this information is available from him.  It should also be mentioned that Event Herald is developed and maintained by the incomparable D'Spite.

The currently supported tags are:
#posi1: Positron Task Force, Part 1
#posi2: Positorn Task Force, Part 2
#synapse: Synapse Task Force
#yin: Penelope Yin Task Force
#sutter: Admiral Sutter Task Force
#moonfire: Moonfire Task Force
#citadel: Citadel Task Force
#hess: Ernesto Hess Task Force
#katie: Katie Hannon Task Force
#manticore: Manticore Task Force
#numina: Numina Task Force
#drq: Dr. Quaterfield Task Force
#moore: Sara Moore Task Force
#justin: Justin Augustine
#faathim: Faathim the Kind Task Force
#mltf: Miss Liberty Task Force
#kahn: Dr. Kahn Task Force
#tarikoss: Virgil Tarikoss Strike Force
#silvermantis: Silver Mantis Strike Force
#mortimer: Mortimer Kal Strike Force
#renault: Strike Force Operative Renault Strike Force
#icemistral: Ice Mistral Strike Force
#lrsf: Lord Recluse Strike Force
#barracuda: Barracuda Strike Force
#itf: Imperious Task Force
#lgtf: Lady Grey Task Force
#apex: Apex Task Force
#tinmage: Tin Mage Mark II Task Force
#wst: Weekly Strike Target (task forces, strike forces, and trials selected weekly to award double merits, extra xp, and a notice of the well for 50s.  Highlighted in purple in the lfg tab)
#dfb: Death from Below Trial
#cot: Cavern of Transcendence Trial
#dib: Drowning in Blood
#respec: Terra Volta Respecification Trial
#treespec: Thorn Tree Respecification Trial
#sewer: Abandoned Sewer Network Trial
#eden: Eden Trial
#pain: Cathedral of Pain trial
#itrial: Incarnate Trial
#baf: Behavioral Adjustment Facility Incarnate Trial
#lambda: Lambda Sector Incarnate Trial
#keyes: Keyes Island Reactor Incarnate Trial
#ug: The Underground Incarnate Trial
#tpn: TPN Campus Incarnate Trial
#mom: Minds of Mayhem Incarnate Trial
#dd: Dilemma Diabolique Incarnate Trial
#magi: The Magesterium Incarnate Trial
#contest: Any kind of contest
#farm: Any kind of mission farm, not to be confused with developer FarmTank
#gm: Giant Monster Hunt (also not to be confused with GM FarmTank)
#holiday: Holiday content like the winter trial, valentines day missions, or summer blockbuster
#mayhem: Mayhem missions
#msr: Rikti Mothership Raid
#pvp: Player versus player events, in zones or arenas
#restart: Server restart
#rp: Roleplaying event or group for folks that want to play in character
#safeguard: Safeguard missions
#speedrun: Speedrun, either to try to set a server record, or just to be fast
#tips: Hero, Villain, Rogue, or Vigilante tip missions
#xp: Just a good old fashioned group for gaining experience
#hami: A hamidon raid in the hive or abyss

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Just in case folks haven't been on discord or made it to the test server, I thought I would post some of the amazing capes that SilverAgeFan has designed for us:



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Trading Board / Draggynn's Purple IO Bazaar (CLOSED)
« on: February 23, 2021, 08:06:56 pm »
Updated: 9/7/2021

UPDATE: Due to the changes with Ri2 of both attuned and unattuned enhancements and drastically increased drop rates, I am no longer offering this service

I've been sitting on a bunch of Purple IOs, and would be happy to exchange any of them for a different purple so that someone doesn't need to play the conversion lottery.  Please craft your purples prior to trading with me so I don't risk accidentally selling the recipe.  You can reach me in game @Draggynn:

Absolute Amazement:
  - Stun
  - Stun/Recharge
  - Stun/Recharge/Accuracy
Apocalypse:
  - Damage
  - Damage/Endurance
Armageddon:
  - Damage/Recharge
  - Recharge/Accuracy
  - Chance for Fire Damage
Coercive Persuasion:
  - Confuse Duration
  - Confuse/Recharge
  - Confuse/Recharge/Accuracy
  - Recharge/Accuracy
  - Contagious Confusion
Fortunata Hypnosis:
  - Sleep/Recharge
  - Recharge/Accuracy
  - Chance for Placate
Gravitational Anchor:
  - Immobolize
  - Immobolize/Recharge
  - Immobilize/Recharge/Accuracy
  - Chance for Hold
Hecatomb:
  - Damage/Endurance
Ragnarok:
  - Damage/Recharge
  - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
Souldbound Allegiance:
  - Damage/Endurance
  - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
  - Recharge/Accuracy
  - Chance for Build Up
Unbreakable Constraint:
  - Hold/Endurance
  - Hold/Recharge/Accuracy
  - Recharge/Accuracy

I also have a few PvP IOs left that I'm willing to exchange for any other lvl 50 PvP IO

Javelin Volley:
  - Dam/End/Recharge
Gladiator's Net:
  - Accuracy/Recharge

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Looking for Group / Rebirth Weekly Schedule of Organized Events
« on: February 23, 2021, 01:09:36 pm »
Updated: December 29, 2023
There are a number of events on Rebirth that currently happen on a weekly basis that might help you enjoy the server more.  (All times are provided in US Pacific Time, because that's where I am, and as these are player run events, they are subject to cancellation with limited notice, but that has been unheard of for the incarnate trials, and rare for the other events)

  • Monday 6-8 pm: Incarnate Trials for level 50 characters in Pocket D, lead by Bright Revolver
  • Tuesday 6-8 pm: Incarnate Trials for level 50 characters in Pocket D, lead by Dalza Twin-Moon
  • Tuesday 8 pm: Secret Master of Task Force run for level 50 characters by Draggynn.  Additional information day of in game and on discord.
  • Wednesday 7-9 pm: Incarnate Trials for level 50 characters in Pocket D, lead by Destan
  • Thursday 8-10 pm: Incarnate Trials for level 50 characters in Pocket D, lead by Dalza Twin-Moon
  • Friday 7-9 pm: Rotates between Magisterium Trials for Hybrid unlock (Lore and Destiny slots must be unlocked), Badge Night (+2 or +3 level shift requested) where we tackle some of the badges that are harder or require more coordination led by Ephy and ElBee
  • Saturday 8-9 am: Incarnate Trials for lvl 50 characters in Pocket D, lead by Master Dragon
  • Saturday 11-1 pm: Mothership Raid in the Rikti War Zone (Two raids back to back, typically starting on the hour) organized by Gothic Alpha
  • Sunday 11-1pm: European Version Incarnate League in Pocket D, with Ephy (here European Version just means that the time is different, hopefully to work better for European players)
  • Sunday 6pm: Server Reset. This is when Paragon Reward Tokens are awarded.  Typically this is only a couple minutes unless there is a patch released.
  • Saturday or Sunday 7-9 pm: Player vs. Player (either in a zone or in the arena) lead by Gothic Alpha or Nekrovile (Participating enters you in a raffle for a rare PvP IO.  Weeks typically alternate between zone and arenas.  Votes on which zone and day are held in the #pvp channel of discord.)

The Weekly Strike Targets are typically pinned in the discord "Looking for Group" channel (and will likely start being posted on the forums again now that they're back)

Of course, there are lots of Task Forces and teams that get organized at other times throughout the week, but if you like operating on a schedule, having some fixed events may be helpful.  You can also monitor the "Looking for Group" channel on Discord, as that is often used to organize events (and tends to have less chatter than the in-game-lfg channel which you can also monitor through Discord when not in game).

We have a character, Event Herald, in game that keeps track of all of these events and will advertise them in global channels at 2 hours and again at 30 minutes before the event starts.  You can send Event Herald the message "next", to find out what the next scheduled event is or "list" to see the next several events.  You can learn more about the Event Herald from: https://forum.cityofheroesrebirth.com/index.php/topic,81.0.html

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