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== Before the Rally ==
== Before the Rally ==
=== Precursor ===
An "All Servers' Vigil" on September 3, 2012 was organized by Rubberlad through the official [http://web.archive.org/web/20120911085140/http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=296299 City of Heroes forums]. People from several servers turned out, and while it did not have the same response as the Unity Rally itself, some servers had multiple instanced of Atlas Park running during the vigil.
=== Announcement ===


The event was first announced by TonyV on the City of Heroes and Titan Network forums in the early hours of September 5.  DJ Pheonyx of The Cape Radio was quick to offer to broadcast the Unity Rally live, and word began to spread rapidly on various social media sites.  Players began suggesting that those in attendance should [[Emote HoldTorch|hold torches]] as a symbolic display of the flame that they carried for the game.
The event was first announced by TonyV on the City of Heroes and Titan Network forums in the early hours of September 5.  DJ Pheonyx of The Cape Radio was quick to offer to broadcast the Unity Rally live, and word began to spread rapidly on various social media sites.  Players began suggesting that those in attendance should [[Emote HoldTorch|hold torches]] as a symbolic display of the flame that they carried for the game.

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This article contains information about a past event in Homecoming: City of Heroes/Villains. It is provided for historical purposes.

Overview

In response to the Black Friday announcement, City of Heroes players gathered in Atlas Park on the Virtue server on September 8, 2012, at 5:00 PM Eastern, in a show of support for the developers at Paragon Studios.

Before the Rally

Precursor

An "All Servers' Vigil" on September 3, 2012 was organized by Rubberlad through the official City of Heroes forums. People from several servers turned out, and while it did not have the same response as the Unity Rally itself, some servers had multiple instanced of Atlas Park running during the vigil.

Announcement

The event was first announced by TonyV on the City of Heroes and Titan Network forums in the early hours of September 5. DJ Pheonyx of The Cape Radio was quick to offer to broadcast the Unity Rally live, and word began to spread rapidly on various social media sites. Players began suggesting that those in attendance should hold torches as a symbolic display of the flame that they carried for the game.

Rally Day

Players began to gather on Virtue several hours before the start of the rally. Many started flashback or Architect Entertainment missions in order to prevent the game from automatically logging them out while they camped out for the event. By the time the rally began at 5:00 PM Eastern, Virtue had filled with a backlog of 200 queued players waiting to join the server. Players began to overflow to Freedom in order to continue filling Atlas Park.

In addition to The Cape's brodcast, AFKRadio broadcast superhero music during the event and Massively covered the rally via live stream on Twitch TV.

Transcript of TonyV's Speech

Before the rally ended, 33 instances of Atlas Park had been spawned on Virtue with approximately 300+ people in the server's queue. Another 11 instances of Atlas Park had been spawned on Freedom and spillover from Freedom had started logging into Infinity.

Aftermath

Because of the overwhelming response, the servers automatically created new instances of Atlas Park. At the highest count, there were 33 instances of Atlas Park on the Virtue server. This led to the creation of Atlas Park 33 (or AP33) as a rallying cry of the SaveCoH movement.

Gallery

  • The Cape Radio's Unity Rally Flyer
  • Atlas 8
  • Atlas 9
  • Atlas 10
  • Atlas 11
  • Atlas 12
  • Atlas 14
  • Atlas 15
  • Atlas 17
  • Atlas 18
  • Atlas 19
  • Atlas 20
  • Atlas 21
  • Atlas 22
  • Atlas 23
  • Atlas 24
  • Atlas 25
  • Atlas 26
  • Atlas 27
  • Atlas 28
  • Atlas 29
  • Atlas 30
  • Atlas 32
  • AP33 Logo by Captain Bacon
  • AP33 Coin by Thirty7
  • Atlas Park 33 Torch by EspionageDB7
  • Real World Hero 2012 Commemorative AP33 Patch

Media Response

See Also

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