3 Years ago today, NCSoft pulled the plug for the final time on our deeply beloved game. For some it was simply a way to pass on the time, but for some it forged friendships that have spanned the internet borders and into personal lives. 3 Years ago today, a home for people was lost, and with no game deemed adequate by some players, they were left...homeless.
But that doesn't stop us. Three years later, we have refound our home. Yes, it is not the complete game. But for some of us it keeps us going forward, and with news of the Deal happening between our friendly neighborhood Group of Gods (the people trying to get the IP rights. Yes I have dubbed them that), hope still remains.
I would like to thank Codewalker for his efforts in keeping this server up and running. It must be hard work, but I think it is definetely worth the wait. Everyone today is truly a hero. /e holdtorch (https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/v/t1.0-9/12313601_905929349503700_235870214506011851_n.jpg?oh=50f2c4510ce1448b30848fae174f35bd&oe=56EF17AF)
Hear hear! It's good too see so many folks still care even after all this time. :)
/em Holdtorch
*goes back to lurking*
Lyc~
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/em Holdtorch 8)
Hello there...
I came here for the torches?
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/em Holdtorch :P
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/em holdtorch :D, maybe I can make a 'CoH revival anniversary' gathering soon :3
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Here's for another year with no problems in the negotiations!
and possibly some form of something released today (the anniversary of the day after the shutdown) or thereafter.
/em holdtorch :o
*also goes back to lurking*
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"We now return you to your regularly-scheduled silence from Mindscythe. :)" -The Radio
/em hold torch
Everyone near by sees me say "hold torch" and I am deeply embarrassed, tries again.
I'll be here lurking, holding this torch... ;D
;holdtorch
Thanks to everyone for keeping the faith.
/em holdtorch
So grateful for first Icon and then Paragon Chat, as well as all the 'successor' games in the works, and for all the hard work everyone is putting into each of these. What a fantastic community CoH has.
Hey all. Haven't post in a while, but have been checking the forums a lot whenever I get the chance.
I still miss this game, and I'm still holding out hope that I might see it again. I regret that I kind of took it for granted when I played it back in the day.
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I want to /em torch and go to NC Soft telling them sooner is better!
/em holdtorch
Until we can go and hunt again.
Go. Hunt. Hold Torches.
Quote from: Joshex on December 01, 2015, 01:41:41 PM
/em holdtorch
Here's for another year with no problems in the negotiations!
Eh? "Negotiations" better not take another year... Ha!
/em torch
When the game comes back.....maybe we should all make fire related toons named Torchbearer. Then if that's taken Torchbearer1 ect ect. Until we all have an alt with the name. :)
/em holdtorch
I was assuming the game would come back before I finished my bachelors degree, and I'd choose playing over school-work, and end up never getting the degree. I just signed up for the final 4 credits from a class that runs January to March 2016. I guess I can set aside my fears of the game coming back and distracting me.
Since my employer reimburses, I'll probably keep going. I plan to start on a Masters program in the summer, as soon as I find a school that lets me take 9 to 12 credits per year, one course per semester, and stays close to the reimbursement limits ($5000/year). I want to continue with Computer Science (since that's my field and that's what they'll agree to reimburse). I haven't done much shopping yet. Any suggestions?!?!?
I sincerely hope I am not able to finish a Masters degree before we get the game back!
Quote from: chuckv3 on December 02, 2015, 04:16:03 PM
/em holdtorch
I was assuming the game would come back before I finished my bachelors degree, and I'd choose playing over school-work, and end up never getting the degree. I just signed up for the final 4 credits from a class that runs January to March 2016. I guess I can set aside my fears of the game coming back and distracting me.
Since my employer reimburses, I'll probably keep going. I plan to start on a Masters program in the summer, as soon as I find a school that lets me take 9 to 12 credits per year, one course per semester, and stays close to the reimbursement limits ($5000/year). I want to continue with Computer Science (since that's my field and that's what they'll agree to reimburse). I haven't done much shopping yet. Any suggestions?!?!?
I sincerely hope I am not able to finish a Masters degree before we get the game back!
are you talking about on ground classes or online? My college, Baker College does do a minimum of 4 credits a semester. With this this is for part-time students. Atm I am in the Bachelors in Information and Securities.
/em Holdtorch
All I want is to play COH again before I die. Three years on, three years closer.
Quote from: MWRuger on December 02, 2015, 08:00:34 PM
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All I want is to play COH again before I die. Three years on, three years closer.
Since every male in my father's line (except my father) has died at 51 (from a weirdly assorted variety of means, from cancer to heart problems to wrecks, etc) that gives me 4 years to go...
:(
Quote from: chuckv3 on December 02, 2015, 04:16:03 PM
/em holdtorch
I was assuming the game would come back before I finished my bachelors degree, and I'd choose playing over school-work, and end up never getting the degree. I just signed up for the final 4 credits from a class that runs January to March 2016. I guess I can set aside my fears of the game coming back and distracting me.
Since my employer reimburses, I'll probably keep going. I plan to start on a Masters program in the summer, as soon as I find a school that lets me take 9 to 12 credits per year, one course per semester, and stays close to the reimbursement limits ($5000/year). I want to continue with Computer Science (since that's my field and that's what they'll agree to reimburse). I haven't done much shopping yet. Any suggestions?!?!?
I sincerely hope I am not able to finish a Masters degree before we get the game back!
the University of Edinburgh has a fully funded Computer Science program at Phd level currently looking for students. I'm thinking of doing that myself, just finished my Masters of Science by research. (P.S. you may not need a masters level degree to get enrolled)
Scotland has some seriously good education policies, for citizens of Scotland higher education is free. period. that's how it should be everywhere now especially in america. I could rant for pages here about how america's freedom of education act was signed into law at a time when college education was not necessary to land a
job career, and how now it very much is necessary unless you are extremely lucky or want to bust your hump making your own unique product/business, and you have to hope that isn't a flop. >:(
yeah, I got my degree, I broke out of the system clean, I got no loans on me! I had just enough for the Masters, I skipped bachelor because of the repressive cost and repressive amount of time they expect me to spend doing it when I could just be working on a project.
On another note, I too was afraid CoH would come back amid studies and I'd be rabidly farming and streetsweping my way to several 50s and getting IOed when I needed to focus on other more important matters. Procrastination is my bane after all, and I apologize to people I'm doing things for because of it, though lately things have been hectic and procrastination time has been scarce.
Quote from: hurple on December 02, 2015, 08:10:24 PM
Since every male in my father's line (except my father) has died at 51 (from a weirdly assorted variety of means, from cancer to heart problems to wrecks, etc) that gives me 4 years to go...
:(
we need a project called "protect Hurple from mother nature at least until Hurple can enjoy CoH properly again." no, I'm serious. just gotta figure out how to achieve it through anonymity.
/em holdtorch
/em holdtorch
Never Give Up! Never Surrender!
Quote from: Angel Phoenix77 on December 02, 2015, 06:40:22 PM
are you talking about on ground classes or online? My college, Baker College does do a minimum of 4 credits a semester. With this this is for part-time students. Atm I am in the Bachelors in Information and Securities.
I work from home, and the last 2 years of my college has been online, so I'm planning to continue online. I sent out some inquiries earlier today, and got some immediate calls back. Southern New Hampshire University looks like a perfect fit. They have a hard-core "Computer Science" Masters (exactly how I roll) which can be done 100% online at around $1800 per course. They don't have a rigid pace (you can take up to 8 years to complete the program). At my tuition reimbursement cap that means I can pace myself to take about 3 courses per year, be done in about 3 years, and have my employer pay for 90% of it. There are cheaper schools, but not by much, and none of the cheaper schools are flexible about taking time away.
/e holdtorch
Quote from: Joshex on December 02, 2015, 08:21:09 PM
we need a project called "protect Hurple from mother nature at least until Hurple can enjoy CoH properly again." no, I'm serious. just gotta figure out how to achieve it through anonymity.
Yeah, my 52nd birthday,if I make it, will be a big big deal. My dad's was. He hired Leon Russell and band to play the party. So, that Rolling Stone interview with Elton John / Leon Russell where EJ said it was sad that LR's career had fallen to the level that he was playing birthday parties... Yeah, I'd like to think he was talking about my dad's. :D
Quote from: hurple on December 03, 2015, 03:12:52 PM
Yeah, my 52nd birthday,if I make it, will be a big big deal. My dad's was. He hired Leon Russell and band to play the party. So, that Rolling Stone interview with Elton John / Leon Russell where EJ said it was sad that LR's career had fallen to the level that he was playing birthday parties... Yeah, I'd like to think he was talking about my dad's. :D
well lets see, there's a long list of things doctors would suggest, chances are you're probably already doing them though.. basically you remember all those things you heard people say are bad for you and you shouldn't do? yeah well you should try to not do them. and remember all those things they said were good for you? well... er.. actually no that wont work.. for obvious reasons "a beer a day keeps the doctor away" for example of false presumptions. then there's societal things like always looking both ways before crossing roads and being extra careful and not taking too many trips or exposing yourself to dangerous situations frequently or sporadically or on a whim, aka try to cut out any spontaneous exposures to anything public (lets face it, 'out there' once you leave your front door, it's dangerous bo.. people be craaazy. and stupid. and generally too preocupied to pay attention to you or other things like 'the road' while they are driving.) Don't let them take you with them in their stupidity! only go out when you have to, stay alert and plan /Everything/ that you can.
this is the rules of self-protecting internet geeks like myself, not sure if it's helpful at all, but one thing that might be is stay calm, try not to let things get you riled up, it'll just raise your blood pressure and cause stress, also mind your salt and oil intake and mind your blood thickness with periodic antioxidants, just giving the same advice I follow lol.
yeah I've lived almost my entire life behind a screen of some sort, TV, handheld or computer or at least a good thick window. maybe I'm too paranoid, you don't have to follow any suggestions I give for reasons others will tell you about lol.
the other option is to go out with a bang, aka live the high-life till you break, but that's risky for multiple reasons, 1 it might end your life sooner rather than later, 2 what if you actually survive and blew all your finances? or the worst, survive and be called incompetent at taking care of yourself and end up in a retirement home with hoses up your nose getting you high off oxygen and hooked on pills to keep you from doing anything "fun".
I used to have a friend who lived next to an old folks home it was a tower surrounded by a huge lawn on all sides, every time we went by there was always an elderly person with a walker slowly moving on the sidewalk, we always joked that they were trying to escape... might not have been far from the truth now that I think about it.
seriously though it wont be 4 years from now. We'll hear something before then, the THeM would never keep us waiting that long. 6 years is long enough to be considered "strung along" and it would be determined that NCSoft was intentionally stringing it along and had no real intention to sell from the beginning. Anything over 4 an a half years total for the kind of negotiations we are waiting on would be an obvious ill intent from NCSoft in the deal.
Considering we are not even 3 years into the current negotiations, there's still plenty of time. Heck are we even 2 years in? (not counting time during the Nexon battle, that's lost time in my book, though work on CoT did continue, and as that might be one of the conditions in the deal; maybe I'm right/wrong and it wasn't lost time.) yes, right/wrong, when you're right in one theory and wrong in another but both coincide tot he same predicament.
Quote from: Joshex on December 03, 2015, 08:58:44 PM
well lets see, there's a long list of things doctors would suggest, chances are you're probably already doing them though.. basically you remember all those things you heard people say are bad for you and you shouldn't do? yeah well you should try to not do them. and remember all those things they said were good for you? well... er.. actually no that wont work.. for obvious reasons "a beer a day keeps the doctor away" for example of false presumptions. then there's societal things like always looking both ways before crossing roads and being extra careful and not taking too many trips or exposing yourself to dangerous situations frequently or sporadically or on a whim, aka try to cut out any spontaneous exposures to anything public (lets face it, 'out there' once you leave your front door, it's dangerous bo.. people be craaazy. and stupid. and generally too preocupied to pay attention to you or other things like 'the road' while they are driving.) Don't let them take you with them in their stupidity! only go out when you have to, stay alert and plan /Everything/ that you can.
My dad's brother, Ricky, was a fitness health nut. Ate all the right things, did all the right exercises. Died at 51 to stomach cancer.
His dad, smoked, drank like a fish, and never ate healthy... Dead at 51 from an auto accident.
Lesson I learned... Do what you want, you'll go when you go.
Quote from: hurple on December 03, 2015, 10:09:52 PM
My dad's brother, Ricky, was a fitness health nut. Ate all the right things, did all the right exercises. Died at 51 to stomach cancer.
His dad, smoked, drank like a fish, and never ate healthy... Dead at 51 from an auto accident.
Lesson I learned... Do what you want, you'll go when you go.
yep, it's true nothing man knows of in our realm of scientific understanding has a direct influence on life expectancy, unless it kills you outright or gives you some health condition. but that doesn't count because they are indirect or forced outcomes. it's the same thing with the forces that scientists say made life; none of them individually or combined has any direct effect on life-span. Me thinks they need to reconsider their theories.. especially when life doesn't follow the rules of physics in specific: energy in equals energy out (if that was the case, every time we make a new generation it's life span would lose whatever the parent spent before they were born and if they never had children they'd live longer). and man and woman combined can make life without the extraneous early earth circumstances scientists say are necessary.
not like we have a life gland that's constantly making life as we grow or we'd have more life the further we go. Bonus round style!
life is not a game, but I sure know a few secrets and passwords that can get instant reactions. good or bad. ;D
now I'm just flappin mah gums.
/macro GameBack "e holdtorch$$b Someday, Paragon City will raise again!"
/em holdtorch
I'm here until they turn my server off.
I will never stop hoping/believing we will have our home back...never
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I spent almost 6 years on CoX, during some of the hardest times of my then young life.
I honestly think this game may have kept me from going insane (although some may claim I've still done so).
If there's the faintest glimmer of hope to it returning, I'll gladly help fund another 6 years+.
Nothing else has ever come close; three years on and I still find myself going "CoX did that better" in every other game.
Excelsior.
I can't remember where I saw this, but I think it sums up most other games for me....
"EVERY OTHER GAME WAS A CRUEL FOSTER HOME!"
I'm a little late on this but, /em holdtorch. ;)
Quote from: Dev7on on December 06, 2015, 06:22:33 PM
I'm a little late on this but, /em holdtorch. ;)
I'll do it with you, so you don't look so bad doing it :P
/em holdtorch
Because we're late,
/e flashlight
Sorry for the hold up, but let me join in.
/em holdtorch
Like many have said there is no suitable replacement. Champions only holds my attention for a short time.
Waiting like all of you for news from COT or the IP project.
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/em pitchfork....errr, I mean /em holdtorch :o
It wasn't 3 years it was only yesterday, I blinked and the game was back.
Quote from: Ironwolf on December 14, 2015, 03:35:13 PM
It wasn't 3 years it was only yesterday, I blinked and the game was back.
Ironwolf says that the game is back!
Stop blinking, Ironwolf.
/em holdtorch
Third times/anniversary a charm?
Quote from: Ironwolf on December 14, 2015, 03:35:13 PM
It wasn't 3 years it was only yesterday, I blinked and the game was back.
Are you teasing us Ironwolf ;)
It wasn't until recently I found out this resurrection of sorts exists! Can't wait to get back in :)
/em holdtorch
I think I speak for everyone here, when I say:
It's /e holdtorch, the m doesn't need to be there.
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on December 20, 2015, 04:44:13 AM
I think I speak for everyone here, when I say:
It's /e holdtorch, the m doesn't need to be there.
Pretty sure you don't speak for everyone. ;)
Just like there were lots of right ways to play CoH, there were lots of right ways to hold a torch.
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/e holdtorch
;holdtorch
Well, 3, at least. That's kind of "lots."
~Wyrm
You can also do /emote and /me.
Quote from: Wyrm on December 20, 2015, 05:12:33 AM
Pretty sure you don't speak for everyone. ;)
Just like there were lots of right ways to play CoH, there were lots of right ways to hold a torch.
/em holdtorch
/e holdtorch
;holdtorch
/emote holdtorch
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I added Aggy's
Ok, you caught me.
So, would the Bizarro people use /me throwtorch?
three years already. time goes by swiftly it seems.
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/macro flame "e holdtorch $$ s pardon me $$ e fart "
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Sorry, I just got here...
Quote from: Destructaur on September 03, 2016, 09:20:36 PM
/e holdtorch
Sorry, I just got here...
Don't worry about it. The flame burns eternally.
Austerity, contemplation, pride...
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on December 20, 2015, 04:44:13 AM
I think I speak for everyone here, when I say:
It's /e holdtorch, the m doesn't need to be there.
Oh, nevermind.
So I was right; you don't NEED the "m". I didn't say that you must never use the "m"; we will hunt you down and throw M&M's at you.
/em holdtorch
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on September 09, 2016, 04:33:16 AM
So I was right; you don't NEED the "m". I didn't say that you must never use the "m"; we will hunt you down and throw M&M's at you.
/em&m holdtorch
No, you have to accomodate cavepeople as well. They're heroes too.
/me holdtorch
/— holdtorch
Quote from: Tahquitz on September 11, 2016, 06:27:00 PM
No, you have to accomodate cavepeople as well. They're heroes too.
/me holdtorch
Perhaps a macro Torch "e holdtorch $$ l Augh, me hold torch, me want game back, me sad, me want to eat little thing over there"
Quote from: healix on December 05, 2015, 04:33:04 PM
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I don't usually role-play, but when I do, I role-play in a supergirl costume.