Happy Mother's Day!  

Happy Mothers' Day to all our Arbitrater Mothers,



To all the mothers out there whether you have children, pets, nieces, nephews or whatever / whoever you 'mother', have a great day!

To all the kids, husbands, co-life partners out there, please do yourself the service of telling your mother how much she means to you, and how much you appreciate them.

For those that are unable to get out today,  look below and offer these to the mother in your life:


                                           


Happy Mothers Day!!

Base Enhancements  

Greetings Arbitraters and Allies,

Special thanks go out to those of you who have been filling the enhancement tables this past 2 weeks.

A note was put up in the MOTD in game, stating that we were short on assorted levels of heals, damages, endurance enhancements etc..

Several of you have risen to the challenge and have gone crazy filling the requests. The tables are now filling up with varied levels and its not fully loaded down with knockbacks and sleep enhancements any more ;-)


Anyway thanks to those who have spent their time, influence, salvage, recipes and enhancements to help out their fellow teammates. While many may never pay attention and notice the contributions you're making, they no doubt will appreciate it.


Have a great week all!

It's Here!  

Greetings Arbitraters and Allies,


Today, Friday May 2nd, 2008.... IRON MAN opens!

WOW!! look whats coming!  

The calendar also includes an Anniversary message from Matt “Positron” Miller, along with important dates for the next year, including:

• May 6th, 2008: Issue 12: Midnight Hour enters Open Beta Testing
  
• July 18, 2008: Double XP Weekend Begins
  
• October 20, 2008: Halloween Event Begins
  
• December 15, 2008: Winter Event Begins
  
• January 23, 2009: Double XP Weekend Begins

I can’t tell you how excited I am for our game’s future, and although we have some major announcements yet to be made, one of the things I can talk about is a feature that we are planning. Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. You’ll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it. Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall. It is features like these that we never dreamed of including when we first shipped, but are excited to be able to offer players very soon.

Soooo, see what wonderfull news Vixen has found for you now?   So, for you all heavy RPG guys, this is the next level to making it live...right?!?

Best Wishes to Lucid Deception and Gisell  

It is with sadness that today we say "until next time" to 2 of our longer running members. Lucid Deception and Gisell are moving today as Lucid has gone back into the military for a period of time

Gisell said she hopes to be back up and running once they are re-settled and she estimated it might be 2-3 months before that happens.

Regardless of the time frame, they have been assured that their characters will still have their place when they are ready to rejoin the fight.

Our thoughts, our prayers and certainly our best wishes go out to Lucid, Gisell and their family while they enter this next chapter in their lives.

Warmest Regards,


All of the Arbitraters and Arbitraters Legends on Guardian

PvP Fun  

Special Thanks go out to:

Avengergirl
Blizzack
Busta Move
Renegade Ranger
Vixen Healer
War-Angel

For earning some PvP Kills towards the Fusion Generator in Warburg.


Nicely done all. Keep up the great work!

FREE Server Slots  

NCsoft NorCal Studios is pleased to announce the pricing and details for the coming Optional Additional Character Slot feature. As we previously announced, we heard the request for a system to allow more characters on a single server and this is our answer. City of Heroes is a unique game that offers many playstyle options; options that are growing in a large way due to Powerset Proliferation and the addition of the Villain Epic Archetypes in the next free expansion, Issue 12: Midnight Hour. To accommodate playing more characters on your favorite server, we will be including the following features in Issue 12:

• All current subscribers will receive 2 free character slots, each of which can be used on the specific server of their choice. This is to help you make new characters to take advantage of the new features of Issue 12, even if you already have maxed out your “home” server’s character slots.
  
  
• 1 free character slot will be granted retroactively on a yearly basis through the current Veteran Reward system. Every 12 months that a subscription is maintained will unlock an additional free character slot that the user can apply to the server of their choice. Thus, existing players will be eligible for up to 4 additional character slots at the launch of Issue 12. This will continue into the future for Veteran Rewards given out every 12 months, so you get another slot for 5 years, another one for 6 years, etc.
  
  
• Additional Optional Character Slots will be available on a purchasable basis. These are one-time fees, not an addition to your monthly subscription rate. The additional slots can be had at the following price points:
  
  • 1 Optional Character Slot for a one-time fee of $5.99
  • 2 Optional Character Slots for a one-time fee of $9.99
  • 5 Optional Character Slots for a one-time fee of $19.99
  
  
• Players can have up to 36 slots per server, with an update to the character selection screen that lets you re-organize your character list by Drag and Drop, as well as easily flip between up to three pages of characters available on that server. All customers benefit from these great new User Interface features included with the revisions for Optional Character Slots.

The above features are planned to be made available at the launch of Issue 12: Midnight Hour, which is currently in closed beta testing. Be sure to check out this feature, along with the rest of Issue 12 when we enter the open beta testing period that should be starting in several more weeks.


For those of you that are maxed out on slots like me, this will be a HUGE help.  Thought i'd pass this along to the gang. 

Vixen

Weekend Congratulations  

Congratulations to:

Master Feedback

For successfully completing the Statesman Task Force in 1 hour and 27 minutes.

Equipped with:

1 Stone Tank
1 Scrapper
1 Bubbler Defender
1 Kinetic Defender
1 Dark Defender
3 Blasters

They ripped through the task force and even took on all 4 of the final AV's at once without a Rad. All accounts have it as quite a sight to be seen.

Fantastic Job and keep up the great work.

If anyone else has success stories of the weekend to report, please send me a message or an email to:   arbitraters@gmail.com

Redesign of Web Site  

Over the next while you may notice some redesigning of the website, in particular, the navigation buttons on the left hand side.

The first run through has not quite worked as hoped, but it will be fixed over the next week or so.

Believe me when I say its being worked on.

Sunday afternoon Arbitrater PvP fun?  

Greetings Arbitraters and Allies,


Yes, that's right... Arbitraters PvP. Some of us did it once before and with all of us on Ventrilo I think all involved would agree we had a blast.

We're trying to get as many of you together in Warburg as possible for some PvP. Click here:  http://www.guilduniverse.com/arbitraters/forumreply.aspx?tid=442937   to read what we're doing. HOW we did it will require you to scroll down that page a little.

The short version is this:

Step 1. Form up a team of 8
Step 2. Person #1 quits the team
Step 3. Person #1 takes out the remaining 7, those 7 do nothing to stop the attacks (turn off all buffs, debuffs,   auras, regen powers etc..).
Step 4. Once the 7 have been taken out, person #1 gets reinvited to the team.
Step 5. The next person quits the team and does the same.
Step 6. The process rotates around until all have had their turns.

As this is done in Warburg, you'll need to be at least lvl 30. We also found out last time that its much better if you bring your biggest damage dealers. There were a few instances of absolute hilarity when some of the team members had trouble doing any damage to the other 7.

Anyway we had a blast and it was good fun and it was all towards the fusion generator.

We would like to propose Sunday afternoon / evening as the time for it. There's no XP involved, minimal influence, but almost definitely guaranteed some laughs and a good time.

If you're interested, try to let the CEO's know this weekend. Even if we do it for a half hour or an hour, that'd put a good dent in what we're trying to do.


Have a great weekend all!