America's Angel

Yeah 1v1 CoH PVP is kinda rock-paper-scissors. (Most of the time if you lost it's due to a bad matchup.) This is why we went with a points system over a knockout tournament; the idea being that if people have enough fights, eventually their rock will have fought an equal amount of scissors, papers, and rocks, and player ability starts to become the overall deciding factor in the winner. (As much as it can be.) Plus people get to play more, which is fun!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

We're not trying to stir up interest. We are stirring up interest. Loads of people have said they're interested. From hardcore PVPers, to casuals, to people who didn't even know this game has PVP. (We've got people from all servers looking at jumping over to join in the fun!) Feel free to come along and see for yourself.

Rough schedule in EST: 6:00 - People start showing up at the Sapphire Section of Peregrine Island Arena. 6:05 - Ranged entrants are asked to gather by a character of mine called RANGED SCOREBOT, Melee Entrants are asked to gather by a character of mine called MELEE SCOREBOT. 6:10 - Entrants are locked. 6:14 - Matchups are posted in the Request channel. 6:15 - Round 1 Starts 6:25 - 3-5 min break to collect scores/wait for everyone to come back from their matches / Round 2 matchups are posted in the request channel 6:30 - Round 2 Starts 6:40 - 3-5 min break 6:45 - Round 3 Starts 6:55 - 3-5 min break 7:00 - Round 4 Starts 7:10 - 3-5 min break 7:15 - Round 5 Starts 7:25 - 3-5 min break 7:30 - Winners announced! 7:30+ - People stay around to continue to duel for fun/revenge. We're aiming to get everything wrapped in under 90 mins to keep it casual-friendly. The tournament is going to be a "round robin". Everyone will fight five matches. We will announce who is fighting who in the Request channel before each round starts. Matchmaking will be at random. People will not fight the same person twice. After each round, the winner has to send a tell to one of the "scorebots". (I'll be triple-boxing with two alts called "MELEE SCOREBOT" and "RANGED SCOREBOT" whose entire job is to just collect /tells from winners each round.) If the winner doesn't send a /tell to the scorebot, their match will be scored as a draw. Wins are 3 points, draws are 1 point, losses are 0 points, and bye round are 3 points. (In the case of odd number of players. Bye rounds are awarded at random.) The overall winner is the player who, after five rounds, has the highest score. If we have multiple winners, there will be a tiebreaker knockout to determine the overall one. Krow and I have a live google spreadsheet that'll have all the players/brackets/scores in that we'll be updating as the tournament goes on. Happy to give you read-only access to that on the day. Multiple builds on one character are allowed. Anyone who wants to switch builds between matches, we suggest you use a macro for it rather than running to the trainer, as we'd like to keep everyone in the arena to make setting up matches easier for newbies. Here's a guide on how to switch builds using macros: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/6450-build-swap-macro-tutorial/

Yup! I know a few peeps who are putting together cheap builds to take part. Curiosity can be cheap! The PVP Discord is a great resource. Anyone interested can find it here: https://discord.com/invite/ACfXPxK That's the spirit! We're gonna have a good mix of long-timer, new, and casual PVPers. Everyone should have enough fights to end up fighting someone around their level of experience.

Ahem. >.>

The start time has been corrected to show the right starting time for PDT/GMT.

Corrected the start time. I got confused about the EST/PDT time differences. Sorry about that! ^^

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Because that's how the game works. Pool attacks don't usually bonus from the ATO. There are some exceptions, such as the fire APP.

This is working as intended.

The rules have been carefully selected to create the most balanced 1v1 tournament we can. If you have any suggestions for what we could do to improve balance, feel free to PM me. It's getting harder to tell these days, isn't it? Actually, the event is great for anyone, from any server, who is interested in balanced and fun 1v1 PVP. Newbies with cheap builds and hardcore vets with uber builds are equally welcome. The event is going to have a good mix. If you don't want to come? No worries! But maybe keep that sort of thing to yourself. It's not nice to rain on other peoples's parades, ya know?

Sure! Crey pistol animation cancelling = not allowed Emote animation cancelling = not allowed Redraw animation cancelling = not allowed Jump cancelling = allowed (as there is no way to police it, and it's hard to do on purpose/easy to do by accident) Also, for the fine print lawyers out there; if someone redraw cancels a few times by accident, they won't forfeit. (Judge's discretion on what constitutes "a few" and "accident".)

Electrified Net Arrow has been added to the list of banned powers.

Electrified Net Arrow has been added to the list of banned powers.

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing yourself and the other Indom people coming over for it. I know one of you won the last 1v1 tournament Everlasting hosted. (I think it was Sloth?) So our server has some pride to recapture. No probs. Hopefully see you there. 👆

Nova Form isn't banned. The only banned powers/archetypes/etc are the things listed under "Banned Stuff". Also - while I'm happy to clarify the rules, I will 100% not be debating them. This is a community event thread. Debates aren't welcome here. We want to maintain a positive vibe in this thread, and message board debates always turn toxic. Please respect this. If you've got any suggestions about what we could do differently to make the event more balanced, feel free to PM me. (Genuinely. I find that helpful. A couple of players have already done so.) All Kheldian builds (Dwarf/Nova/Duoform/Triform) are welcome in the melee bracket. You can bring your triform and compete just fine.

Only to people vet level 3000+. Sorry! That should say "Arachnos Soldier" instead of "Crab". My bad! Bane Spiders are more than welcome. Only the stuff on the banned list is banned.

Electrified Net Arrow has been added to the list of banned powers.

THE NAUGHTY CHAOS CUP - EVERLASTING 1v1 PVP TOURNAMENT ===INTRO=== Chaos United and The Sisterhood of Naughty Space Vixens are happy to announce a 1v1 PVP tournament to be held on the Everlasting Server! When: Saturday September 19th at 6pm EST/ 3pm PDT / 11pm GMT Where: Everlasting, Peregrine Island Arena, Sapphire Section Hosts: @CU Krow / @America's Angel ===RULES=== Two Brackets: -Ranged vs Ranged (Blaster, Defender, Corruptor, Controller, Dominator, Sentinel) -Melee vs Melee (Scapper, Brute, Tank, Widow, Arachnos Soldier, Peacebringer, Warshade) Minimum Level: 50 Incarnates Allowed: Alpha only Time: 10 Minutes Inspirations : Melee = no, Ranged = small only Allowed Maps: Office/Perez/Cargo/Graveyard/Tech Lab No Heal Decay/Travel Suppression Animation cancelling is not allowed Sudden death is treated as a draw All primary powers, secondary powers, pool powers, and accolades are allowed. All arena temp powers are allowed. === BANNED STUFF=== - -All incarnate powers except Alpha -Bio Armor Tanks and Brutes (Bio Scrappers are allowed!) -Masterminds -Stalkers -Electrified Net Arrow (Blasters) === SCORING=== PVP Tournament will be point-based instead of knock-out. We will use a points system method for keeping score: Win=3 points Draw=1 point Loss=0 points Winners are responsible for contacting the event organizers at the conclusion of their matches. ===PRIZE=== Ranged First Place: 1,000,000,000 influence Melee First Place: 1,000,000,000 influence

You can right-click and unslot incarnate abilities in the incarnate abilities window. Both Interface and Hybrid will need unslotting. (As Hybrid provides a passive bonus.) One character limit. Just show up on the day. Heck yeah! You defeat Hamidon on a daily basis. Letting you in the tournament at all would be unfair on everyone else. You can play in the melee bracket and enjoy trying to kill regens at range.

We were trying to spare them.

Heck yeah!

From its inception until now, City of Heroes has not been a hard game. Other MMORPGs, contextually within that same timeframe are also easy. The implication here being that CoH is operating fine at the difficulty level it has, for what it is, in the wider world it lives in. I'm sure that old MMORPGs from back in the day were hard. I'm sure that MMORPG's from millions of years ago in distant, pre-human, civilisations, were also hard (And, in the infiniteness of time and space: easier, the same, and somehow a mixture of all three possible relations.) But no matter how difficult the people of the X'Oti Empire found City of Zarkon, City of Heroes is, and always will be, easy. And defenses are fine.

City of Heroes has never been hard. The pace is too slow. Compare it to something like Street Fighter or a FPS.