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Welcome to the Paragon Wiki!
Welcome to City of Heroes and City of Villains, the online world that's home to an entire universe of heroes and villains, where you and thousands of other players take on the roles of super powered heroes and villains in a stunning, 3D graphical world.
This wiki is intended to be a central repository of all things that have to do with NCSoft's two MMORPG's, City of Heroes and City of Villains. This wiki is a community effort. If you cannot find the information you are searching for, please add it to the wiki for other users to see.
To find information, use the search box on the left, or feel free to browse the available categories or view the table of contents.
This wiki is provided by the Paragon City Free Press, a fansite dedicated to the enjoyment of City of Heroes and City of Villains by providing more depth to the game.
Please see the Editing User's Guide for information about how to write and create articles for this wiki.
Recent Updates
- A link to the forums has now been placed in the navigation tool bar. Be sure to check in often to see what is new and planned for the wiki!
- The site now has an icon! Some browsers (Firefox and Opera, among others) support icons in the address bar, and you will now see it there. Others (such as Internet Explorer) support the icon, but only in bookmarks.
- The sites formerly listed on the front page have been moved to the Community portal page, accessible by a link in the navigation box on the left from every page. Please check out some of these sites, as many of them provide a wide variety of utilities and services and in-depth information!
- The effort to complete the documentation of the City of Villains exploration badges in a standardized format is done. (See News item below for more information.)
- Added a Warburg Missile Launch Mission article to describe the steps involved in completing this mission and receiving your Warburg temporary powers!
- Confused about how coordates work in City of Heroes and City of Villains? Check out the new article that details the coordinate system!
- The site has recently changed hosting providers. This process should be rather transparent, as everything works as it did before. There is one change, however: the site URL has now changed to http://paragonwiki.com. The old site (http://www.pcfreepress.com/wiki) is redirecting to the new site, so all old links will still work, but please use the new URL going forward.
- Yes, we do stay on top of everything! Within hours of the Valentine's Day Event 2006, Paragon Wiki had articles about the event itself and the two badges (Heart of Light for heroes and Heart of Darkness for villains)!
- Thanks to the dedicated efforts of StarGeek and Yakovlev, there is a ton of new content about villain groups in the wiki. Check out the Enemies category for the list of enemies, expanding daily through the hard work of these users.
News
June 6, 2006
Domain Names Re-registered
Good news, the Paragon Wiki and its sister site, the Paragon City Free Press, aren't going anywhere anytime soon. I received a 30-day notification today that the domain names were going to expire soon, so I went ahead and re-registered them. In fact, I went ahead and registered them for six years, so all of the names (paragonwiki and pcfreepress, .com, .net, and .org) are now protected for at least that long, and you can rest assured that no cybersquatters will be sitting on these sites anytime soon due to my forgetfulness!
May 1, 2006
Issue 7 Rolled Out in Training Room
That's right, Issue 7 is now on the test server! For details on how to copy a character over and give it a whirl before it goes live, check out the article on the Training Room server.
March 12, 2006
User Database Change
As mentioned in a notice at the top of the site, the user database has changed to use the PC Free Press/Paragon Wiki forums users and passwords instead of maintaining separate usernames and passwords for each. If any problems are experienced, please post a message on the forums or notify tonyv@pcfreepress.com.
March 8, 2006
Site Listed on Fansite Portal
This site was submitted to the official Fan Site Portal at the same time that the new Heroic theme was rolled out. Today, one of the members of the CoH Web Team (Awry) sent the following message:
"After careful review we thought your site looked great and has been approved. It should be up very shortly. Thanks for submitting!"
User Database Integration Testing Completed
Final testing of the user database integration between MediaWiki and phpBB has been completed, and by Sunday, March 13, 2006, all user account validation will be checked against the PC Free Press/Paragon Wiki forums user database instead of the wiki maintaining its own separate user databse. Wiki users will be forced to create a forums account in the process, but this change will enable users to maintain the same username and password between the wiki and the forums instead of having two separate accounts.
A notice has been placed at the top of the front page of the wiki to alert users of the change.
March 5, 2006
New Heroic Wiki Skin Implemented
Changes are afoot! There is a new skin called "Heroic," and it has been set to the default skin of the wiki. All existing accounts have also been switched over to the new skin. If you prefer the old skin, simply go to your Preferences under the Skin settings, and set your skin back to MonoBook.
The changes are purely cosmetic and do not affect the look or feel of the actual wiki content, merely the outer navigational, header, and footer appearance. If you experience any difficulties with this skin or you have any comments or questions, please post a message on the wiki forums and let me know. Otherwise, enjoy!
February 27, 2006
Software Upgrade
The Paragon Wiki has been upgraded! This weekend, after extensive testing and and development of software installations and automation scripts, the MediaWiki software that runs the Paragon Wiki was upgraded from verstion 1.4.9 to version 1.5.6. (If interested in the technical details, please see the MediaWiki release notes.)
When all was said and done, the upgrade went very quickly and smoothly. The wiki was down from 3:20 am EST until 3:23 am EST. For a pretty major upgrade, that's not bad at all. Still, if you notice any glitches or problems, please e-mail tonyv@pcfreepress.com or post a message on our forums.
If you happened to try to access the wiki between 3:20 am EST and 3:23 am EST early Monday morning, I apologize for the inconvenience.
February 20, 2006
City of Villains Exploration Badges Complete
Hey all, a rather intensive effort over the past couple of days to document and audit all of the City of Villains Exploration Badge articles is complete. In addition to the normal wiki information fare, each article has got the badge description, a detailed explanation of how to get to the badge, and an in-game picture showing you exactly where the badge is. Also, each has been formatted according to a rational standard and categorized correctly.
Valentine's Day Event 2006 Wrapping Up
If you have not participated in the Valentine's Day Event 2006 activities, you should be sure to log on now. The event wraps up the morning of Wednesday, February 22, 2006, so you only have a little time left!
February 8, 2006
Valentine's Day Event 2006
Wow, a brand new unpublished event was sprung on us today! At midnight Eastern (for the east coast servers) and 9 pm Pacific (for the west coast servers), heroes and villains who logged in received a new costume part and an accolade! Read more about the event in the Valentine's Day Event 2006 article!
Contact Info
TonyV is the administrator of this wiki. If you need to contact him, please send an e-mail to tonyv@pcfreepress.com.
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