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| + | [[Image:Badge event jester.png|left]] The Jester badge image was added to the pigg data files around the beginning of March, 2006. The image led to much talk about the possiblility of an April Fool's event. After April had come and gone, [[Positron]] revealed the joke by saying: | ||
| + | <blockquote>April's Fool never being gettable IS the joke. It was put into the files as a joke badge that was never going to be given out. There is no honest way to get this badge, and there was never anything planned, either. The only way to get the badge is to be a dev and use a special command, and even then, it doesn't last upon zoning.</blockquote> | ||
== Events == | == Events == | ||
Revision as of 19:36, 2 October 2006
Overview
"Easter Egg" is the slang term used to describe a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, CD, DVD, computer program, video game, or other computer related product. The "City of" franchise has many easter eggs hidden within it.
Visual References
- A photo of the beta city of heroes design team can be found behind the nurse's counter in most hospitals.
- In Sharkhead Isle, a Monkey Fight Club can be found, where cage-matches between teams of Rikti monkeys can be watched every five minutes or so. The enterance is a warehouse door near the Natural Store. Look for a faded grafiti of a monkey on one of the nearby building walls, pointing to the fight club door.
- In Grandville, deep in the tunnels under the zone, can be found a Developer's Dungeon, with cubes for most of the design team.
Names
- Technician Naylor (aka Portal Technician Grant Naylor), Grant Naylor is the "name" of the author of the BBC's Red Dwarf series. In actuallity, its the last names of the two writers combined as if it was one person. - Wikipeidia's entry on Red Dwarf
- Perez Park, and it's various neighborhoods, are named after various famous comic book creators.
Powers
Badges
April's Fool never being gettable IS the joke. It was put into the files as a joke badge that was never going to be given out. There is no honest way to get this badge, and there was never anything planned, either. The only way to get the badge is to be a dev and use a special command, and even then, it doesn't last upon zoning.
Events
NPCs
Caliban - The name of Julius Caesar's sword, also a charecter in William shakespear's "The Tempest". Wikipedia's page on Caliban
