News?

[Hyperstrike]

Pish-tosh.  60's hippy + 62 years old = herd dog with experience.  That's all.  It's kinda in the blood.

I remember you writing that you got your start playing volunteer rangler at Fantasy Worlds Festival.
Getting a bunch of enthused young volunteers to actually interrupt their con experience with food and sleep?

Talk about some hax-level controller powers here!

[Hyperstrike]

Er... somehow, I don't think herding us all together so NCsoft can unleash the AOEs on us is quite the image you really want. (wink)

Who said NCSoft is the one unleashing the AoEs?

Thus far, we've unleashed some powers that have whomped the length and breadth of the internet...

[KoA]

I'd like to see people create something like this on every server not only to have that physical presence, but to be there to inform those players who are just learning of the closure or are desiring more information.

On Virtue I have "Save CoH Information" logged in front of City Hall overnight.  I always come back to /tells thanking me as well, and in-game emails requesting information. It's a great way to boost our numbers! Here he is again:

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v456/IceGrover/SaveCOH2.jpg

This is great. I'll gladly do one of these, in fact I tried to do something similar (altho not as well) but pardon my stupidity, how do you get it to remain logged in and not time out and get kicked off the server as afk?

[StarRanger4]

This is great. I'll gladly do one of these, in fact I tried to do something similar (altho not as well) but pardon my stupidity, how do you get it to remain logged in and not time out and get kicked off the server as afk?

You go to the AE buidling.  Start ANY ae arc.  then instead of actually entring the mission, you walk back out and take up your position once more.

[KoA]

You go to the AE buidling.  Start ANY ae arc.  then instead of actually entring the mission, you walk back out and take up your position once more.

Well holy smack...........I never knew that trick!  Thanks!!!   :)

[Tanglefoe]

Hey VV, I'm really curious.  You mentioned earlier, or possibly in another thread, that you were given a lifetime sub for your MA story.  With the news of the player refunds, have you heard anything about how they will compensate you for your work?

[Chyll]

I'll admit that my sense of hope and spirits have been low since the announcement. (Things weren't help with my browser crashing each time I tried to sign the petition until I gave up - took it as a sign)


Anyway, reading this thread has given me hope for the first time...

[Teege]

Don't forget about this http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-840174  Spread the link around, get folks signed up and clicking Recommend.

[Victoria Victrix]

Hey VV, I'm really curious.  You mentioned earlier, or possibly in another thread, that you were given a lifetime sub for your MA story.  With the news of the player refunds, have you heard anything about how they will compensate you for your work?

I have not.  Unless I find out that other people (husband) has gotten a refund and I have not gotten any compensation, I will assume I will get a "refund" on the time remaining.  If I do not, I'll take some steps.

[Defcon Kid]

Still ticked Jack Emmert sold the City overseas in the first place. Superheroes are American, dag-nabbit!

2000AD... Grant Morrison... Carlos Pacheco... Judge Dredd... Daniel Acuña... Salvador Larroca... Pasqual Ferry... Jesus Saiz... Francis Portela... Alan Moore... Watchmen... did you EVER heard about them? ALL of them are EUROPEAN characters / comics / comic writers, pencilers... so what's the problem of selling CoH overseas? Ok, Superheroes are part of the American Culture, bbut also same way as hamburguers, NBA, Baseball and Hollywood films, they've been exported to the whole world, so they are shared and enjoyed by the whole mankind.

It's also true that across the pond there never was the same amount of population than in the US servers before the merging, but I can tell you I'm a moderator of a spanish website devoted to this game, and there's over 550 registered users of Spanish speaking language... can you imagine how many English, Turkish, Irish, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, French players can actually exist or existed along these years!?!

So plz, no jokes about being an "american game", WE ALL love this game and want it alive, with or without NCSoft, and no matter what side of the ocean we live.

[Victoria Victrix]

2000AD... Grant Morrison... Carlos Pacheco... Judge Dredd... Daniel Acuña... Salvador Larroca... Pasqual Ferry... Jesus Saiz... Francis Portela... Alan Moore... Watchmen... did you EVER heard about them? ALL of them are EUROPEAN characters / comics / comic writers, pencilers... so what's the problem of selling CoH overseas? Ok, Superheroes are part of the American Culture, bbut also same way as hamburguers, NBA, Baseball and Hollywood films, they've been exported to the whole world, so they are shared and enjoyed by the whole mankind.

It's also true that across the pond there never was the same amount of population than in the US servers before the merging, but I can tell you I'm a moderator of a spanish website devoted to this game, and there's over 550 registered users of Spanish speaking language... can you imagine how many English, Turkish, Irish, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, French players can actually exist or existed along these years!?!

So plz, no jokes about being an "american game", WE ALL love this game and want it alive, with or without NCSoft, and no matter what side of the ocean we live.

This.  So much.

[DrakeGrimm]

Paragon City, and it's ideals, transcend borders. We are men and women, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, of all nationalities, all faiths, all beliefs, and all creeds.

We are something larger than any one nation or people. Remember that, and act accordingly.

[JWBullfrog]

, depending on whether or not anyone still has the code for the OLD launcher around Paragon, and whether or not the deal will include the original servers.

looking through my bookcase prompts this question,

Would one of the old box sets published before everything shifted over to the NCSoft launcher still have the original launcher?

[downix]

looking through my bookcase prompts this question,

Would one of the old box sets published before everything shifted over to the NCSoft launcher still have the original launcher?

I have a copy of the collectors edition disk (both CoH and CoV) sitting here.

[Knightward]

The amount of books of yours I've been intending to buy is clearly not enough.  And I regret that up until the last few weeks my only exposure to you or your books was one of my crazier exes reading one of them.

I cannot thank you enough for your help.  And I certainly cannot thank you enough for the morale boost you've provided.  Whether or not we succeed in the end, we've already done the impossible.  No reason to stop now.

[Ampithere]

looking through my bookcase prompts this question,

Would one of the old box sets published before everything shifted over to the NCSoft launcher still have the original launcher?

Yes it would. It wouldn't do anything. But it'd be there.

[JWBullfrog]

Yes it would. It wouldn't do anything. But it'd be there.

Then might that be an answer for down the road? If the programming exists (and several other VERY big conditions are met) could that be used as a way to reconstruct a way to start the game without the NCSoft launcher?

[Victoria Victrix]

Then might that be an answer for down the road? If the programming exists (and several other VERY big conditions are met) could that be used as a way to reconstruct a way to start the game without the NCSoft launcher?

I think that is a question for Codewalker or one of the other experts, but I believe that the path goes: launcher connects to some intermediary server which connects you to specific "shard" server which then allows you to play.  So the launcher would need to point to something, and that something would need to point you to a specific "shard" server.  Have I got that right?

[DrakeGrimm]

I think that is a question for Codewalker or one of the other experts, but I believe that the path goes: launcher connects to some intermediary server which connects you to specific "shard" server which then allows you to play.  So the launcher would need to point to something, and that something would need to point you to a specific "shard" server.  Have I got that right?

Sounds about right, but I'm no code monkey.

[Colette]

"2000AD... Grant Morrison... Carlos Pacheco... Judge Dredd... Daniel Acuña... Salvador Larroca... Pasqual Ferry... Jesus Saiz... Francis Portela... Alan Moore... Watchmen... did you EVER heard about them? I can tell you I'm a moderator of a Spanish website devoted to this game...!!!"

"Oh, irony? Oh no, we don't get that here! We haven't had any irony here since about '83, when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at." -- Steve Martin

C'mon Defcon, I put in a "dag-nabbit" and wrote in pretty colors even. If we're gonna interpret each others' statements with so little charity, we might as well all give up and go home.

My real point stands: we find ourselves in this predicament because somebody sold City of Heroes to people who do not care about it or us, or appreciate the merits of its genre, who see it only as a source of money. It's not productive to assign blame, perhaps, but it is still so.