Thanks, Pogoman! I'm on Pacific, so I missed it, but I'll listen to the recording for sure!*
Solitaire, check your PMs.
I've posted two threads for people to respond to in the next week:
Grand Marshall - Help us appoint a Titan Network community member to be the honoree for our event this year! Nominations accepted from now until Tuesday night, vote from Wednesday - Saturday.
Call for Help - We don't have enough volunteers for the Player Mission. This post explains what is going to happen if we can't make the Player Mission work out.
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Edit: Reply to your dialog in #SaveCOH Radio -- The name is Tah-KEETS, you got it right.
AP33R3S is Atlas Park 33 Revelry, Remembrance, and Reunion Society - R3S being shorthand for RRRS like W3C is short hand for WWWC - World Wide Web Consortium.
And my god, you read that entire post on the air?! I've wrote that last week, and yeah, I've learned my lesson. I've pulled the Assemble the Team post off of the Activities thread. I'm just asking for enough people now to help me pull off the basic stuff, the rest is crossed fingers at this point. I shot too high.
For the "Paragon Chat is not CoH" crowd, yeah, you're right that I can't address people who won't use it at all because it's not CoH. But I didn't want to blow off Paragon Chat and run this event on Champions because there's simply more of a game there, either.
I disagree with the view of "Paragon Chat isn't CoH" personally, because there was a significant group of people that enjoyed costume contests and SG Events like what we were putting on when the game was live, and I knew people who were tired of grinding and radio/newspaper missions who saw stuff like this as a break from the ordinary. I'm not trying to argue the virtues and failings of what we have. Such arguments already exist on here, and go on for miles already. Showing up to the anniversary event doesn't mean you now suddenly accept Paragon Chat as a regular part of your weekly online regiment, nor are going to become an RP enthusiast if you're not into that. It just means that you showed up.
My rationale is simple: Paragon Chat is enough of a husk of the original for us to meet up in. The cost of admission for both venues (Paragon Chat and Champions Online) remains free. So why did I side with Paragon Chat instead of Champions Online? This is the first year we've had Paragon Chat available on CoH's anniversary. So, I figured, let's at least give it a shot.
And as you aptly called out, yes. This is my first time running something like this. I've been a participant when the game was live as others have organized the events, and I've used those events as a framework for this. I've made mistakes, I know. I can't treat people on Paragon Chat like we did in CoH. Titan Network is extremely casual, and pushing rules and de rigueur doesn't work around here. And next time, (That is, if I'm lucky to see a next time and next year everyone ignores me) I'll line up the volunteers before announcing anything at all.
If Paragon Dawn wants to run a event in Champions Online, they have our support. I'm personally unable to Livestream or do too much Voice Chat as my home connection is fairly weak (8MB down, 2MB up... realistically it's 3MB on most nights. Rural Internet, yay!) But I'm open for other ideas linking the two events together.
If Paragon Dawn's group isn't on Titan Network, if you (Pogoman) can relay me an email address I can reach them at in PM, we can discuss further. I'm not looking to compete against them for attendance, but I don't want to ignore them either: in later years when Plan Z projects like City of Titans, Heroes & Villains, Valiance, APR, etc. go beta, we can branch out further.
Edit 2: I have since met with Paragon Dawn. We've touched base, and will cross-promote for the Anniversary Celebration. There will be a meetup in Champions Online at Millennium City Hall (next to the Globe statue INSIDE the City Hall building) on April 28th. Details TBA.
Edit 3: Same volunteer roster now than when I started. We'll figure it out.