How to Scalp the market

Issue 13-14 announcement

The long-awaited Issue 13 Architect has been re-named "Power & Responsibility" with the oft-talked about "Architect" feature being postponed to Issue 14 instead to allow more time for development.


Three new features of I13 that caught my eye:

1) the ability to have TWO builds available for any character. This gives the flexibility of say having a toon built for PVP AND PVE, and not just one or the other. Implications - market prices are going to skyrocket, unless they increase the frequency of drops. Will build 1's enhancements be reusable in build 2's? Where do the "spare" enh go?

2) PVP vs PVE powers. From this letter by Positron, it reveals that they're taking a different approach to power-balancing in PVP and PVE. I suppose because of point (1) above, they can now have separate stats for PVP/PVE. Implications - NO MORE NERFING!! YAY!

3) Leveling Pact - This allows two toons to synchronise XP such that they always level together. I suppose this would mean 1 of the toons will get reduced XP if he's playing alone more and the other benefits. hmm..

Edit: it seems I was right -

Here is the gist of how this works, when players enter the leveling pact (level 5 and below) their experience is all flattened to whoever was the lowest. Any incoming experience to any member is effectively split by the member count of the pact (which we are limiting to 2 initially). From that point foward, all members will have the exact same experience and always be the exact same level. If player A logs out and lets player B do all the work, it will take player B twice as long.

And of course more content for my favourite new zone - Cimmerora.

E3 2005 LEET Video

I never saw this video till today. It's damn.. funny.. check it out!

Hamster-controlled villains?!

Introducing Roborovski MK-II, @Tragos' new Robots/Traps Mastermind. No, the robot is just one of Sony Ttark's creations, Roborovski is the hamster pilot within! This illustrious hamster's claim to villainy is the liberation of caged hamsters in Paragon City. His persuasiveness was such that even Mr Ttark's personal hamster was converted over to the Hammy Liberation Force!

Watch out for him in the next issue of the Paragon Times for sure!

Issue 12 is out!

The Midnight Squad storylines let players embark on a host of new missions and unlocks a set of Roman and Greeek inspired zones unlike anything you've seen in Paragon City™ or the Rogue Isles™. On the evil side we introduce Villain Epic Archetypes. Powerset Proliferation brings two new powersets to each Hero and Villain archetype, and the list of overall gameplay improvements is by far the biggest and best that we've ever introduced.

Want CoX music?

Didn't know this site existed but... you can download the in-game music from here, among other stuff. =)
We surely want it as our mobile phone ring-tones! ANSWER THE CALL!


COH File Transfer Protocol

Renewed CoX accounts!

Who would've thought the break would be over already.. We've renewed our accounts some days ago!
Looking forward to I12: Midnight Hour, when the romans come a-knocking! =D

Spotted along the streets

We may soon be seeing Speed-Boosted Traffic Officers out of Paragon City, speeders and law-breakers, BEWARE!

Farewell CoX

We've finally decided to put my subscription on hold. Still love the game, but We'd like to do other things (read: play other games) for a while. Here're a few parting shots.. enjoy!

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Chaucer had better expectations of the staff at Wentworth's.

Good bad boys Hardo Gey and Hemingway in Sepia - only possible with the appearance of Oroboros.

Dual Banana Scrapper doesn't like sharing his bananas

the brand on Gallop the Nightmare indicates his high-bred lineage