The problem is that Leandro has not made the i25 source public, so most of the development effort is around the i24 source, which we do have. It is best to be self sufficient and be able to get a working game from the ground up for long term usability to handle OS changes or new hardware developments, etc. We're in it for the long haul.
That's fair comment.
SCORE worked on i25. It's 'their' version of the Dev's game.
Most of the dev' work being around i24 makes sense. That's going to be the version 'most' people accept as legitimate (despite playing i25 on test thanks to Leandro's help...) as it was 'cruelly' snatched from a public release. And it that's the 'only' copy they have it makes to base development around 'what we do have.'
In short, I agree, it is best to be 'self sufficient'... And a promising development from the discord channels I spied... A 'girl' coder has her own home brew server running on her set up? Surely not. A hoax? An imaginary red kryptonite tale...
The sooner that 'i24' is democratised and in the hands of the coh community at large, then the game will never go away again. A clean, stable, from the ground up copy that can use modern dev' tools to expand the game even further and adapt to OS/Hardware changes...
If we can get it into a 'smaller' hardware requiring package that will run on today's more powerful PCs? Great. With nice simple admin' tools.
I'm enjoying i25 by SCORE. They did a good job. Leandro (and the rest of SCORE) did a fine job on it. But I'm also looking towards and voicing my support of all the initiatives. i25 by SCORE. The DISCORD CoH server variations (one working on i24 and one temp' Test server using Leandro/SCORE's i25...'for now.')
And yes. I really hope Tony V (top bloke as we say here in the UK) gets a result from his 'talks' with the NC Soft corporation (good luck, he'll need it.)
There's going to be splintering. It already has. Alternative realities. Good. The more the merrier.
NC and Paragon Studios aren't going to write the next chapter. The community is. In all it's ice cream flavours.
Elec/Elec domis hit like a snow flake. (But boy do I like them...) Stone/WP tank? Got to love that hammer.
Azrael.