Hey, I'm up for this, count me in!
Ooo, a smiley for how I'll look at the end... :o
This is a weekend I myself am not available (and this is probably a dumb question because I just can't see the answer from work), how can I become a sponser to support the effort (and give to charity :) ) even if I can't actually play that day?
Can we get this stickied so it doesn't get lost ? :)
Sure, I stickied it.
<sigh> Sadly, this is the only way I will get away with gaming for 24 hours straight, anymore... ;)
Hm. Somebody mentioned that this might conflict with a "media day" event if they ran on the same day, but I actually think this might work in coordination with such a thing, if we could work it out. I'll re-read the OP in this thread and see if anything in it would conflict with trying to invite media people to come see the game first-hand. Showing them an active charity event going on at the same time and even offering them a chance to interview participants (or to participate themselves) might be very powerful.
Hm. Somebody mentioned that this might conflict with a "media day" event if they ran on the same day, but I actually think this might work in coordination with such a thing, if we could work it out.
Done! You can do it Drake!
I will do the next best thing. I will "run" the marathon. I hope you all support me, and the rest of our team, and we'll stand tall and proud together.
Can you send me a link to a list of hospitals in the UK? All I could find were hospitals in the US, and it might be hard to get folks here in the UK to contribute to those when we have children's hospitals like Great Ormond Street in London that need support.
Can you send me a link to a list of hospitals in the UK? All I could find were hospitals in the US, and it might be hard to get folks here in the UK to contribute to those when we have children's hospitals like Great Ormond Street in London that need support.
-- Ireland --
Cork University Hospital
Mercy University Hospital
Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin
Temple Street Children's University Hospital
The National Children's Hospital, Tallaght
-- United Kingdom --
Children's Hospital for Wales
Royal Hospital for Sick Children
The Helping Hand Charity to the Royal Belfast Hosp
-- Australia --
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
-- International Grant --
Direct my donation to the international grant fund
Maybe not, check out the FAQ: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=cms.page&id=1005&eventID=508
While its true you can do it anytime I don't think it is really the best idea unless you have a buddy. 24 hours is a long time especially if you're doing it alone.
For the last two years I have participated in in-game charity events for Real World Hero, and have been devastated that I could never contribute financially. I still can't, this year.
is there a way to get this for a twitter feed? that might be able to get us some major sponsors for this event.
if we need sponsors we can get some of the big kahunas that we have been getting awareness for our cause to become sponsors for us like Kevin Smith, Felicia Day, Wil Wheaton, Stan Lee just to name a few to see what we are doing to help as well?
Ugh, camping trip that weekend. Pity, my wife and I already have a perfect character combo lined up to go with a such a charity event. :'(
I cannot run it all day but I will be more than happy to join a great hero brigade (or two) for a mission (or three) or even a task force! I have already donated but I won't say to who!Ah, then someone has a mystery sponsor!
Okay, looking for some answers before I sign-up.
1. I can do this 24 hour thing solo and/or teamed if I want?
2. It doesn't have to be 24 hours straight on the same character, does it?
If both those are yes solo and/or teamed is fine and yes you can switch characters as much as you want I cannot help but say yes and try even if 24 hours straight is a bit crazy.
I LOVE the idea of the money going to a certain local hospital and would not be shocked if there's a decent amount of support from my facebook page alone for that hospital even in this lousy economy. I'm not feeling terribly well today so sorry if my questions have been answered (I really did read the whole thread twice-but this sinus/headcold thing is not helping me think straight).
Pretty sure we can team up if we want to. Not sure about the second question. I personally intend to play the same character for that entire time, and it will be one I create just for the event. That doesn't necessarily mean you have to, it's just what I plan to do. ;)
Pretty sure we can team up if we want to. Not sure about the second question. I personally intend to play the same character for that entire time, and it will be one I create just for the event. That doesn't necessarily mean you have to, it's just what I plan to do. ;)
Fair enough. I have this crazy tendency to switch through characters per play session because I see something and think "oh man, why am I NOT playing that right now?" and tend to switch to whatever "that" is shortly after being reminded of it. If this is a one character is recommended only to play kind of thing I would have to go brute because I tend to go "brute raging" and not get distracted that way at least. ;D
Sorry for not getting to the questions earlier, I was at a wedding all day. You are welcome and encouraged to team but by no means do you have to. And as for staying on one character you can if you want to or you can alt every mission if you want. Its completely up to you.
Most excellent, thank you for the quick reply. Hope the wedding went great! You have now given me zero reasons to say no to doing this (minus my husband going out of town for work that weekend last minute-knocks on wood). Figure I'll sign myself up in the next day or two!
I have decided I will make a new toon for this event. Trying to decide what atm....leaning towards a heroic corruptor. I am open to creating this on any server so please let me know if we have a charity team planned on any specific server. I will be stocking up on Coffee, Pepsi max, and snacks lol. I am in the Mountain time zone (-2 hours from Eastern).
Would really like to be with a team of others doing this event so we can document our progress with pics/videos etc :)
Possible Toons (Hero Side):
Ice/Kin Corruptor
War Mace/Electric Brute
Empathy/Dark Defender
My husband and I will for sure be playing on Virtue. We haven't decided what characters we will bring but I imagine we will certainly want to alt around a bit to get xp on several of our characters. We're also rpers, but anyone is welcome to join us.
I'll be blue side on Virtue as well. Not sure what I'm bringing to the party yet, but I've got a few concepts in mind.
HI all!
my global is @mwruger & @mwruger2. I am signing up this event as well. I'm putting the link up, but please Do not Sponsor Me. There are plenty of other gamers on here for you to choose from. Let me explain. http://www.extra-life.org/participant/36884 (http://www.extra-life.org/participant/36884)
I am a community activist and an environmental organizer in Houston Texas. I have access to a listserv with over 11,000 addresses. If I can convince my boss I am going to tap that list and our social media outlets. I know 2 or 3 professional fund raisers. Many local organizers in various communities. My thought is that since this is for a good cause, a world wide known local hospital, that I can convince them to promote this as a human interest piece.
My sister, also plays and will spell me if needed.
I'll update as soon I can.
I've signed up and here's my participant page link:
http://www.extra-life.org/participant/alty
Which server do you think you will be playing on for the event?
I have toons on almost every server, so I can attend events with an alt.
But I suspect the majority of time will be on Liberty.
I know it's low pop, but it has been my COH home since I started playing. I can't count the hours of fun and companionship I have had there and I can't bear to see it not represented in what could be COH's finest and final hours. So I will stand for Liberty.
HI all!It doesn't seem to show you as part of the City of Heroes team for some reason.
my global is @mwruger & @mwruger2. I am signing up this event as well. I'm putting the link up, but please Do not Sponsor Me. There are plenty of other gamers on here for you to choose from. Let me explain. http://www.extra-life.org/participant/36884
I am a community activist and an environmental organizer in Houston Texas. I have access to a listserv with over 11,000 addresses. If I can convince my boss I am going to tap that list and our social media outlets. I know 2 or 3 professional fund raisers. Many local organizers in various communities. My thought is that since this is for a good cause, a world wide known local hospital, that I can convince them to promote this as a human interest piece.
My sister, also plays and will spell me if needed.
I'll update as soon I can.
It doesn't seem to show you as part of the City of Heroes team for some reason.
Burnt Toast,
I am on CST.
Any who want to join me I have 4 themed SG's if you need an SG and I have Inf to give away if needed!
When is everyone planning on starting?
I'm planning to nap on Friday evening and start my run at midnight PST. Smersh will probably run from when Munchkin gets up Sat. AM to whatever 24 hours later is (so neither of us has to be a totally sleep deprived parent).
Ok, just making sure here, since I've never done this before"
I have a prior engagement, but the missus and I plan to put $$ from the NCSoft refund to good use. We just select a player to donate through, or is there a "general team" "donate" link somewhere?
Ok, just making sure here, since I've never done this before"
I have a prior engagement, but the missus and I plan to put $$ from the NCSoft refund to good use. We just select a player to donate through, or is there a "general team" "donate" link somewhere?
Careful what you wish for. :)
(No, it wasn't me. Sorry. I will give, because I think that I've come to the conclusion that doing that and then logging in to play with you does more good than anything else I can do that day)
You must not have kids in band or a daughter in Girl Scouts... ;)
I don't think anybody was offended; he was commenting on how much those organizations make the kids go out and force their parents to beg everybody to buy overpriced stuff "for the school."
Right. What Segev said. I must have my "give offense" power toggled, cuz I keep accidentally giving people the wrong idea when I post. Is that my hint to stop paying attention to this and get to work? :D
Work is overrated :)
Sorry - I'll shut up now. Wasn't trying to offend people.
Right. What Segev said. I must have my "give offense" power toggled, cuz I keep accidentally giving people the wrong idea when I post.
Do we know a good contact point to invite NCSoft to put up "matching funds" donations to this?
A completely stupid question, and I realize this, but between work and school, I've been very busy, and haven't been able to sit down and word for word read this thread.
As a player, wishing to participate, is this a Free sign-up, or is a donation from me required?
As much as I would love to donate, that simply isn't in the cards for me, this month. So, I want to clarify that I can do this, without spending money I don't have.
Thanks, and sorry if this has already been covered :(.
A completely stupid question, and I realize this, but between work and school, I've been very busy, and haven't been able to sit down and word for word read this thread.
As a player, wishing to participate, is this a Free sign-up, or is a donation from me required?
As much as I would love to donate, that simply isn't in the cards for me, this month. So, I want to clarify that I can do this, without spending money I don't have.
Thanks, and sorry if this has already been covered :( .
Lemme know who you are when you are signed up... DrakeGrimm and I will donate to you .. ok well maybe Drake won't :P
I logged into Extra Life to find that we are 30th! We've raised $2,437.98 (someone donate 2 cents so we have a round number! :P) and that is 1% of the total that has been raised by the entire event! 1% doesn't sound like much but that is huge! Most teams will never even make it to a full percent of what is raised.
Out of curiosity, how many teams have entered? Can we check that somewhere too? XD
I can't seem to send out thank you e-mails to my anonymous donors (which kinda makes sense) so I've been posting general thank yous were I've been posting my link. So a BIG thank you to my two mystery donors!!!! It's a nice feeling to know someone's got your back and I genuinely appreciate that feeling right now. You're also helping me set a good example for my kids as well as helping out an awesome cause so I hope you feel as good as I do about this event! :)
I must be missing something here... is there a way to register on the site just to make donations without flagging myself as a participant? I'd like to make a series of donations and spread my contribution around, but it seem like the only way I can find to set up a login so that I don't have to keep typing my info in is to register as a participant and set a fundraising goal.
There are 1,750 teams right now. But teams can be as small as one person. I can see it as part of the Team Stats.Wow, then that 1% is pretty damn amazing indeed!
Wow, then that 1% is pretty damn amazing indeed!
I'm just blown away by how fast my pledge bar has filled. I'm still about two bucks shy of my (admittedly, rather small) goal, but props to everyone here who has contributed. Thank you. :)Not anymore. 8)
Wow, then that 1% is pretty damn amazing indeed!There's something slightly off about us being able to legitimately say, "We are the 1%."
Hm. Somebody mentioned that this might conflict with a "media day" event if they ran on the same day, but I actually think this might work in coordination with such a thing, if we could work it out. I'll re-read the OP in this thread and see if anything in it would conflict with trying to invite media people to come see the game first-hand. Showing them an active charity event going on at the same time and even offering them a chance to interview participants (or to participate themselves) might be very powerful.
I hope it does, I am hoping we can coordinate the media day event with Extra Life... I'm the idiot with the media day event...Actually, though I've let the thread (http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,5388.0.html) fall to the second page due to having been unable to make progress the last couple of days on advancing it, I've been organizing the media day event. If you want to move in and take some of the effort up, I'd more than welcome your aid! My current plan is to write tonight or tomorrow a "press release" style invitation and put it in the thread for people to review and help me make sure it's professional. Then, tomorrow, I'm going to take the day off work (flex time is a wonderful thing) and look at where to SEND it to get news institutions' attention and hopefully get some reporters from major sources to come and participate.
I want all the events to achieve their goals and more....
Actually, though I've let the thread (http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,5388.0.html) fall to the second page due to having been unable to make progress the last couple of days on advancing it, I've been organizing the media day event. If you want to move in and take some of the effort up, I'd more than welcome your aid! My current plan is to write tonight or tomorrow a "press release" style invitation and put it in the thread for people to review and help me make sure it's professional. Then, tomorrow, I'm going to take the day off work (flex time is a wonderful thing) and look at where to SEND it to get news institutions' attention and hopefully get some reporters from major sources to come and participate.
I put $100 in, depending on what 'after bills' looks like, I might do some more. :)
Its a good cause.
~Catgirl Eve
We're 25th at $2705.00 now! Only $40 away from 24th, too.Go team! ;D
Can the Team Captain edited the team page to include a logo for the SAVE COH movement? It's odd having it just be an empty default.
The reason I've left it blank up until now is because I didn't want to restrict us by making it look like we're only members of the Save CoH movement. When in reality anyone who has ever/does play City of Heroes, including devs are more than welcome to join us.
How about an avatar of the CoH logo or States or Posi or something?
A friend and I are both participants in this and have both raised $63. My goal is $200....sloooowly getting there. Extra Life is an excellent organization as is the Children's Miracle Network.
Team CoH is currently at $3,165.00!!!
I would love to see just 1/4 of the players who were VIP donate their monthly sub to this cause... that would be an AMAZING amount and truly show how this community is truly Heroic. So that is my challenge for the community. It's easy to say you are a hero...but it's another thing to actually play the role in real life. There are thousands of children and families who are assisted daily by CMN...and this is your chance to be a hero to those families and children.
I want team CoH to be in the top 10; preferably the top 5 of this campaign, but to do that we need your help. I'm not saying you have to donate $15...heck even $5 from the thousands of players of this game would make a world of difference.
The top team in this campaign is sitting at $25,304.98. So in order to overtake them and show what an awesome community this game has...that it is full of heroes (and villains with ulterior motives ) all we would need is for everyone to donate $5 to easily overtake the top spot...and then some
So please... take the 5 minutes and few dollars it would take and donate to the Extra Life campaign. If we MUST go out... I want our impact to be felt throughout the world...in a positive way...being heroes and helping families in need.
We are heroes...this is what we do!
Team CoH Main Webpage: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?...am&teamID=9445
I'm not going to "advertise" my own personal link...I would rather people just pick a random person and donate. It doesn't matter if I reach my goal or not...what truly matters is that we raise the funds to be true heroes.
Thanks
On October 24, I'll be participating in a 24-hour video game marathon to raise money for my local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Children's Miracle Network Hospitals treat thousands of children each year, regardless of their family's ability to pay. They help kids facing scary stuff like cancer, cystic fibrosis, and injuries from accidents.
I can only imagine how difficult it must be for these families. Facing a life-threatening illness or injury is bad enough without having to try to scrape together funds to pay for very expensive treatments.
The game I'll be playing is called "City of Heroes". In the game I'll get to play a superhero, but it's just a game. This marathon is an opportunity for you and me to be REAL heroes, helping to save kids' lives.
Please consider whether this might be something you'd be willing to donate towards. All proceeds go directly to helping children. You can donate securely through my page at the Extra Life website: http://www.extra-life.org/participant/36685
My husband works in development in the non-profit sector, so he's knowledgeable of "best practices" that work for fundraising efforts. I had him help me when I got going on my efforts, I figured it'd be helpful if I passed along the advice he gave me to the rest of you.
Make sure you set a profile picture. Not having one makes it seem like you couldn't be bothered. Having one makes it more personal and allows people to better relate to you -- and that means they're more likely to donate, and more likely to donate more.
Make sure you personalize the appeal message on your profile page. You don't have to write it from scratch, but it's crucial that you make it personal. Why are you participating in this campaign? Why is this important to you? Connect it to you on a personal level. The generic language is good, but putting it in your own words is much, much better.
As an aside to that point, please don't say your primary reason for doing this is to raise awareness for City of Heroes. We don't want to make it seem like we're just using this event to further our own aims. Hopefully everybody participating believes that this charity is worthwhile on its own merits, independent of the pending events in our own community. Focus on that. It might be okay to reference those events lightly, but make sure they don't seem like your primary motivation here.
Make sure you set a fundraising goal! Ideally, you should set your goal low enough that you're pretty confident you can easily reach it. Then once you reach it, set a new goal that's a bit higher. And when you reach that goal, set an even higher one. You want to keep your progress such that you always seem like you're close and within reach of your goal, but not quite there. That is apparently proven to increase donations. For an example, I started mine at $100; when I hit $104, I raised it to $150; when I hit $204, I raised it to $250; when I hit $304, I raised it to $400.
A good way to raise funds is to approach people individually. Posting to Twitter or Facebook may help bring in some donations, but directly approaching someone will be much more successful. The Extra Life website has an interface to make it easy to send out an email, but I encourage you to write your own email and send it to each potential donor one at a time. That makes it feel much more personal, and less like you just clicked a button to send them an automatic message.
Once you've received a donation, make sure you follow up with a thank you message as soon as possible. Do not wait to think people until after the event is over! People need to be thanked immediately. This improves a donor's sense that their contribution was appreciated and, even more importantly, it helps improve donor retention -- that means that if you run the event again next year, they're more likely to donate again and they're also more likely to increase their donation.
After the event is over, it's also a good practice to send out a final message thanking everybody again and letting them know the wonderful success you and our team have had. That's separate from the first thank you message, though.
A little bit of extra work goes a long way towards raising money for these kids! :)
These apply equally well to our team page!! We do have a personalized the appeal message for the team page. But we definitely need to get some sort of image on there, and we definitely should set a team goal.
Maybe use this (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/File:Hero_side_icon.jpg) if nothing else, though hopefully someone can suggest something better. It shouldn't be a "SaveCoH" graphic. It should just be a graphic that represents the City of Heroes game and community. This is pretty important, and it's easy to make happen! :)
A goal is also easy to set. Right now a goal of $4000 would be good.IfWhen we hit that, then we can raise it to $5000.
In case it helps anyone, you can look at my donor page to see how I personalized it a bit: http://www.extra-life.org/participant/36685 (http://www.extra-life.org/participant/36685) As you can see, I didn't rewrite the whole thing. I just added some personal touches. And here's the email I sent out to some of my family:
Please, don't just copy and paste what I wrote. Put it in your own words, it'll be far more effective! :)
Your personal profile says October 24.... The Extra Life campaign is for October 20th.?.? Not sure if that's a typo or you really plan on doing ti on a Wednesday/Thursday.
The reason I've left it blank up until now is because I didn't want to restrict us by making it look like we're only members of the Save CoH movement. When in reality anyone who has ever/does play City of Heroes, including devs are more than welcome to join us.
I'm in. ;) Go team City!
@no hero
(https://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu114/DarkLordOfTheDance/Save%20CoH/screenshot_120118-11-39-53.jpg)
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=38832 (http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=38832)
UPDATE:Wow, great job everyone. I sorely wish I could contribute. Keep up the good work though!
Team COH is at $3,340.00!!!! We are currently ranked #21 out of 1832 teams. We are only $13 away from the top 20 spot!
Question for folks who have made donations... Is it a pledge style, or do they charge the amount right away?
I got my boss to pledge, but it's contingent on me actually making it for 24 hours... Mwuahahahaa... he doesn't know my love for CoX and dedication to a good cause.
fyi... $10/hr that I actually make it.
Question for folks who have made donations... Is it a pledge style, or do they charge the amount right away?
I got my boss to pledge, but it's contingent on me actually making it for 24 hours... Mwuahahahaa... he doesn't know my love for CoX and dedication to a good cause.
fyi... $10/hr that I actually make it.
Could he/she make that donation after the fact then? That's a pretty awesome pledge and I may not know you personally, but I totally know you'll do it so would hate to see you not be able to take their money for CMN!
I still keep on tweeting and hoping someone in the twitterverse feels compassion and donates LOL!
Anyone think there's a chance to get this on the media sites before it happens? Maybe it'll get more donations?
"Even at the twilight of their home, the City's Heroes are fighting for the lives of others"
Thursday Morning
City of Heroes team - $4316 (4296 on ranking page list)
Ranked #19 in donations!
about $362 dollars behind the #18 ranked team, and only $447 dollars behind the #17 ranked team
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=9445 (http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=9445)
If you wish to take part, click the link on that page to "Join This Team".
If you wish to Donate, click any team members name on the list at the bottom of the page, then click the "Support Me!" link on that team members page for an easy and secure online donation.
Don't think you have to give a lot to make a difference. For some teammates a $5 donation would be a doubling of their total! and chipping in the $15 VIP subscription that got cancelled for Oct (or November) would be around a 50% increase for 1/2 of the folks on the team!
If you didn't get a chance to make a Donation for the Dev's Dinner (like I didn't) then consider donating for this.
(The donation page takes credit cards and PayPal)
WE are doing great so far! The G4TV team has just under double our donations. The difference is we have 38 team members, and they have 145 team members.
I agree!
I still think we can rival the folks in the top 10 though.
If we had $1 more for every Hero in Leandro's Unity Rally Video (3700 heroes), we would be breathing down the neck of the #10 team.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XRsj2DtLCQs
If the a large part of the VIPs in the Unity Rally donated their OCT $15 VIP dues (that they aren't being charged in Oct or Nov)... say 2000 VIPs? -- $30, 000 we would be number 2 and in striking distance of #1. (even at $10 we would be #2)
That's without considering the amount of Rally folks on Freedom and spillover into the other servers... and without considering donating Nov VIP payment.
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your cash/check donor information to ensure your donors
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Note: If your donor does not have an email address please email
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If you go here:
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=portal.resources
There's a PDF you can download with instructions for handling offline donations. Excerpt:
Not a lot of donations on my end either, but all the same, who cares if it was a dollar or a million. Every little bit helps. :)
I'll be running on Freedom on my main Obsidian Light (@Obsidian Light), if anyone wishes to join me there. If there's a #TeamExtraLife group up at some point or another, don't hesitate to get ahold of me and pull me to wherever everyone is, only picked Freedom because it's home and my bucket list toon is there. :)
Amazing job everyone :) I know I'm proud of all of us, and it's just another reason why it's so sad this community is being ripped apart so unceremoniously. It has been a pleasure, and honor, to fight the good fight with all of you for so long. :)
Stay Heroic :)
A friend and I will be running every hero side TF on Freedom. He is also in the Extra Life campaign. Look me up...we can always use another player :) @I Burnt The Toast. I will be on beginning at 8AM EST.
I was planning on starting on Infinity and try to march my Tank from 40 to 50, but if you guys can use a Level 32 Peace Bringer I'd be more than happy to join you until your TFs out level me. :) Are you planning on starting on Posi and work your way up?
I just created a global channel: ExtraLife. I thought that might help with coordinating during the event. Also means that people who want to team up with us during the event can join in even if they aren't actually running the marathon.
Can also be used for simple chat, across servers even. ;)
I tried to help the IWK but I only got $100 :( sadface
Hmmm, I was thinking I would tweet through this, using #TeamCOH and #Extra-Life as hashtags. What do ya'll think?
Every dollar helps, Pandora. Don't sell yourself short, no one is doing this alone. I know MY donations didn't put CHoW in the top ten, it was MANY people banding together. Just like our team (Sorry, I think of those doing the Fundraiser as a Multi-Server Super Group) is not a single person. It is a GROUP EFFORT to fight a Real Life problem. Be proud of what you've done and what you're about to do tomorrow morning, because YOU answered the call. The vast majority (Even those who have been "Heroes" for years) DID NOT.
You have nothing to be down about, you SHOULD be holding your head up high and say, "I am a Hero and this is what we do!"
#ExtraLife seems to be the hashtag Extra Life uses.
...I'm gonna go pass out now.