Coming Soon

[AmberOfDzu]

Are you near Atlas Park?

"Is that close to the AE building?"

[Kyriani]

where are those old videos anyways? I've been wanting to watch them again and cant recall where they are.

[RogerWilco]

Meeting some old CoH friends next week, this will be good news.

Thanks for all the hard work.

[Achilles6]

YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!  ;D

[captainalmos]

SO psyched for this!! It might not be our game back entirely, but I will take anything resembling it at this point! Way to go!

[Drauger9]

I don't think I've commented here yet (been sick for the past week so my memory is meh...).

YAY!!! Even if it's not the full game back, the community here is very creative and I'm sure we'll be able to make the best of this.


I was thinking has anyone been watching Geek and Sundry? With their live streams of their D&D sessions? Seeing some of the creative ways they used their abilities was inspiring and made me want to kinda try it but I'm not really into mid-evil fantasy.

I was wondering if maybe we could do something like that in the CoH universe? It'd be kinda cool since if we have characters and zones, then the only thing left to really imagine is the enemies and the powers being used. Plus we could have destructible enviroments ect....

In short, I just want to be a master mind again...... :(

[woodard2040]

Hoping they make a way for you to create new characters as well.  It'll be awesome to be back in Atlas Park again either way.

[Ultimate15]

Damn, I'm excited.

...Y'know, I was trying to think of something lengthier or more substantial to say, but I genuinely believe that short sentence nearly perfectly sums up any/all feelings I might have regarding Soon™ for the immediate time being. Of course, like everyone - and I mean EVERYONE, as social media and gaming websites galore are starting to talk (no pressure, Codewalker <3) - I have 1908390550983 questions. But I think I'mma save them all for the formal update/FAQ/Q&A whatever you wanna call it. I know there's already been some talks about "Soooooo does this mean eventually...?" but honestly, I'm just happy this much has already been pieced together. This is a HUGE step for the COH fanbase as a whole, and just goes to show how committed and dedicated this community of players really is. 

Also, I think I'm gonna hold off on installing ICON until things with Soon™ are ready to launch...right? Is that smart, or stupid? Or does it not even matter? And Codewalker - I'm sure you're probably already aware of this, but I wouldn't be surprised if important individuals or personnel from the COH community (perhaps even people whom are part of the current IP negotiations w/ NCSoft) start contacting you directly once they get wind of this - be it with good, bad, or indifferent thoughts/feelings. Hell, perhaps they already have? Either way, I think you should tell them something SILLY like "...I coded this using spaghetti and a George Foreman grill. Yes, it was messy."

Laaaaaaastly - I'm not sure if ya'll knew this or not, but yesterday was apparently the anniversary of the passing of the player whom created/rolled Ascendant on the Virtue server. He was an iconic RP figure on that server and an all-around great player. It seems oddly fitting that this should all be announced around the same time.

/e holdtorch. Thanks, Codewalker + team.

[Drauger9]

"Is that close to the AE building?"

*Facepalm* "I'll just tp you...one sec" :P

[Todogut]

https://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx188/Elenlanta/GordonSoonTM_zpsksy0vdzh.jpg

[Arcana]

Hoping they make a way for you to create new characters as well.  It'll be awesome to be back in Atlas Park again either way.

You'll certainly be able to make new characters, because they won't have any data for the old characters.  However, at least initially "character" will really be just a body and a costume (or given our player community, a body and half a costume).  And you probably won't be able to shoot, stab, or kick anything, and in fact will probably only be able to jog around or (if they allow it) pseudo-teleport around with location commands.  And talk.

Just like Icon, you'll probably go through the character creator to make a character.  Its just that everything besides appearance will be text without distinction, at least until they get powers working.  And that might take a significant amount of time to make work.

[Victoria Victrix]

On legal stuff:

NCSoft currently has one person on staff at the "restructured NCSoft West."  One.  Not sure if this is an actual lawyer or just a paralegal.  They are allegedly about to release the non-censored "Blade and Soul" (complete with visible anatomical features on underage-appearing female characters) in the US, and I have an inkling that this single legal person is going to find a lot more on his hands to worry about than us....considering that several jurisdictions have ruled that illustration/depictions of underage females in questionable states of attire/non-attire are, in fact, child pornography.

[Lightslinger]

I never stopped reading Titan, and it's so good to get posting again for this fantastic news!

CW & team, thanks so much. Seriously, your work is our community's lifeline. I was no RPer, but I definitely can't wait to hang out with friends, old and new back in the City again.

Apologies if this has already been answered, but how many people per zone?

[Piledriver]

Haven't piped up here in ages, but I notice that this is being referred to as "the Titan server," and if I read correctly, that a server will be running off the same hardware as these forums. If there's any chance of legal backlash at all, that seems, to me, a risky path. That TonyV and co. are risking getting this forum and the Paragon Wiki interfered with if NCSoft legal reps decide to be nobs about the chat server.

Am I being overly paranoid?

[Victoria Victrix]

Apologies if this has already been answered, but how many people per zone?

Depends on how robust your XMPP server is.

[Arcana]

Haven't piped up here in ages, but I notice that this is being referred to as "the Titan server," and if I read correctly, that a server will be running off the same hardware as these forums. If there's any chance of legal backlash at all, that seems, to me, a risky path. That TonyV and co. are risking getting this forum and the Paragon Wiki interfered with if NCSoft legal reps decide to be nobs about the chat server.

Am I being overly paranoid?

Hypothetically speaking, they could demand that Titan shut down the server with a cease and desist.  Usually companies don't send people to repo the server hardware unless there are very odd extenuating circumstances.

Separately, it appears Titan is hosted by Linode, a cloud provider.  This means the titan team probably spun up another virtual host to run their XMPP server (or could at any time if they so chose).  So "same hardware" doesn't have any real meaning in this context.

[TonyV]

Haven't piped up here in ages, but I notice that this is being referred to as "the Titan server," and if I read correctly, that a server will be running off the same hardware as these forums.

Arcana is correct...

Separately, it appears Titan is hosted by Linode, a cloud provider.  This means the titan team probably spun up another virtual host to run their XMPP server (or could at any time if they so chose).  So "same hardware" doesn't have any real meaning in this context.

The servers are two separate servers.  Barring some upstream issue or some MAJOR hacking through very tight security, nothing that happens on the chat server can affect what happens on the Titan forums/wiki/other web sites server.

[Arcana]

The servers are two separate servers.  Barring some upstream issue or some MAJOR hacking through very tight security, nothing that happens on the chat server can affect what happens on the Titan forums/wiki/other web sites server.

Given the history of chat server software, I probably would have put it on a completely different virtual switch if I could.  Or pushed it to a zone in Tahiti.

[FloatingFatMan]

Hypothetically speaking, they could demand that Titan shut down the server with a cease and desist.  Usually companies don't send people to repo the server hardware unless there are very odd extenuating circumstances.

I don't see how they could... From what little CW has said, all that's running on the Titan side of things is just an XMPP server with extension support.

[Colette]

Wow...!

I haven't checked in the CoH community in ages. But I heard the "Soon!" rumors and... the rumors are true?

Ohmygosh! You have no idea how happy I would be to see our beloved Paragon City again. Thank you, thank you, all involved!