Okay, so..let me get this straight..avel comes in first speaking about how limited and confounded the old engine for CoH/The topic of 'just how dedicated are you to this "legacy" CoH and die hard fans(with the added mix of passive-aggressive subversion of the CoH fans here to support/play COT(mind you, I will support it, but not above CoH i23. I feel others will most likely act in the same manner.) Then, someone speaks about something math-based, Arcana is mentioned, someone brings up the lottery/chances of winning, and then avel spirals into this argument with Arcana. Someone then accuses avel of not playing/being active in CoH because they didn't know arcana, and they get offended. (I know I'm missing abit here and there but I think I got the jest of things).
P.S: Avel, I know you mean well and like was posted before, I'm sure your an absolutely swell person! , but, coming into a CoH revival thread, talking about how old and decreped CoH's engine was(very true on that one)/proceeding to question, if not directly, why stay with CoH legacy when COT will offer a much more modern engine, then(and, this is just how I took your post on CoH, I'm sure this is absolutely incorrect in founding) using subtle passive-aggressive undertones and diction to describe our dedication to a game that is a bit dated to divert our attention over to COT.(The deal as it stands, if I am correct, is that the legacy won't even be on that old engine(disk image), but instead will be on a new engine used by a third-company that is yet to be decided(at the time.) As well as APR making use of UE4 and the IP(along with y'all's very own character creator as well ))Forgive me for this assertion, but, you must understand how this makes you look to me, and, presumably from the post that followed after your initial post, others in this forum as well.
Hmm. I don't remember why exactly I brought up the CoH engine being old. but I know for a fact it was NOT the first thing I spoke about. I only brought up CoT initially to show I worked with Nate - the fact that he is part of the CoT project is actually in the OP. Part of me even speaking at all was to defend his silence. Maybe me mentioning the issues with the engine might have been the first thing you reacted to, but it's definitely not the first thing I said.
I do recall someone with inside contacts saying that Paragon Studios was planning on redoing the engine themselves (I think it was Tony V) in a private conversation. That was probably on my mind as replacing the engine was actually part of the plan for CoH's improvement and expansion over time.
CoT was formulated as a revival option ("Plan Z") but we have been stuck with the legal problems with hewing too closely to the old game. If this revival option that is the basis of this whole thread comes to fruition then that will clear a lot of that up. I do remember that we would still be stuck without a way to introduce the content that Paragon Studios was going to introduce. I also knew that I had been having issues with the old game running on newer hardware (just the chat thing for now).
Didn't anyone catch that I still wanted to play my old characters again? In the world they began in?
If we ever got CoH going back in full I would really be torn. I invested years into CoH and I've invested years into CoT, but my first love was CoH. You've read into things stuff I wasn't actually saying. Will I mention my work on CoT? Sure, because it IS part of the revival strategies and there is no reason I should not be proud of my very real efforts in contributing to that. For all I care the the company doing CoH (please let it happen!) could take over the CoT project or any of the others as long as I can play City of Heroes again!
I wonder if the reviving company could be a reborn Paragon Studios? With the old team back?