The Shot Heard Around Paragon City - SCORE Public Release

[eabrace]

By the way,. The Paragon wiki section for issue 24 is not complete, is there a list anywhere of all the changes that were implemented for issue 24?

To the best of my knowledge (and I say that as someone who was heavily involved in documenting upcoming changes on the wiki at the time), the wiki was current at shutdown.  There appear to be a lot of things in the files they're currently using on the SCoRE server that were not in the game at that time.  We know the server team is currently using data files that were modified post-shutdown in order to get the server up and running as fast as possible.  They have stated that they plan to replace those with the stock data files that existed at shutdown once the server is stable and they have time to go back and look at those.

So, let's hold off on documenting things that look new until the stock I24 files have been put in place on the server.  Then we can get a clear picture of what was actually in the game at the time and see if there's anything missing.

[Sinistar]

That's fine though I do have a dusty memory that the melee/armor powers, kheld changes, and sorcery pool were indeed part of issue 24.

Now this Sentinel archetype I saw....that one I am not sure about.


Better yet did anyone ever do a complete issue 24 mida update from what was on beta server before the lights went out?

[eabrace]

That's fine though I do have a dusty memory that the melee/armor powers, kheld changes, and sorcery pool were indeed part of issue 24.

Now this Sentinel archetype I saw....that one I am not sure about.

This should be the full list of all the changes that were implemented for I24 before the shutdown.

[Nyghtshade]

I wish at this point NCSoft would just cut their losses and sell the IP to one of our negotiating teams
.  Seems that would be a Win/Win for everyone.

[Azrael]

2500 concurrent players. ****'s on fire, yo.

2150 plus 500+ villains?

Crazy stuff.

Azrael.

[Azrael]

Edited.  Because my mind is scrambled.

Azrael.

[Sinistar]

I wish at this point NCSoft would just cut their losses and sell the IP to one of our negotiating teams
.  Seems that would be a Win/Win for everyone.

If they did that would require

1. Code repair and reconstruction since as I recall it was in bad shape after shut down

2. Ncsoft to swallow their pride and pulls their head out of the sand

[Azrael]

If they did that would require

1. Code repair and reconstruction since as I recall it was in bad shape after shut down

2. Ncsoft to swallow their pride and pulls their head out of the sand

We'll see what, if any, their response is.

Azrael.

[Sinistar]

We'll see what, if any, their response is.

Azrael.

Well how many of their games exist in emulation now? Besides coh

[saipaman]

How many had time to build a following large enough to inspire emulation?

[Sinistar]

How many had time to build a following large enough to inspire emulation?

Well I have heard rumors about tabula rasa, auto assault and lineage

[slickriptide]

I thought you guys would be interested in seeing this post by VoodooGirl on Discord:

Hi @everyone
This weekend has been insane for us server admins.
First, I want to start with a couple numbers:
1. Nearly 14,000 Registered Forum Users
2. Over 2800 Online players at once

We never anticipated the number of people who wanted to get in and play City of Heroes.
Along the way you have broken our first cluster -- then, even after we migrated to a new cluster, that broke too. Around 20 Server upgrades occurred during these last couple of days. It has all been worth it after seeing how excited everyone is to play the game.

Over this week we will let the server run uninterrupted, unless it crashes.

We are planning to switch to a non-test server on Saturday 4/27.
During the coming week we will see if we need to add additional shards to combat load.
Right now, we don't believe we will, but we'll see.

Also, we are talking about characters, and whether or not to wipe them after the test.
We will involve the community and listen closely to find the best solution.

Thank you all for sticking around,
- Server Admins

14000+ registrations. 2800 simultaneous players. The mind boggles.

City of Heroes has one of the widest and most dedicated fandoms I've ever been a part of, and it even shows up in the most unexpected places. The other day, I was bowing out of a project I had been pushing for in regards to Magic the Gathering Arena, and I mentioned it was because I was switching my attention to the CoH server. Out of the blue, someone posts, "City of Heroes is back? That was my favorite MMORPG ever!"

I personally know of 10 or so past players I've kept loose touch with who are holding off due to the uncertainty of the past week, but who I'm sure that will eventually jump in when things are stable, if only just out of curiosity. I'm starting to think that 14000 may just be a fraction of the numbers who would eventually turn out to support a CoH server(s).

It's pretty smegging amazing.

[Vee]

They did settle on a wipe of test characters. So don't get too attached and save those costume files.

[saipaman]

I wish at this point NCSoft would just cut their losses and sell the IP to one of our negotiating teams
.  Seems that would be a Win/Win for everyone.

My advice to NCSoft would be to sell non-exclusive, non-commercial licenses to anyone that wants one, for a reasonable fee based on concurrent users.

Obviously, we're talking about an honor system here.  But I think a lot of people would like to get legal.  I would buy a license just to protect myself.

[saipaman]

I thought you guys would be interested in seeing this post by VoodooGirl on Discord:

14000+ registrations. 2800 simultaneous players. The mind boggles.

City of Heroes has one of the widest and most dedicated fandoms I've ever been a part of, and it even shows up in the most unexpected places. The other day, I was bowing out of a project I had been pushing for in regards to Magic the Gathering Arena, and I mentioned it was because I was switching my attention to the CoH server. Out of the blue, someone posts, "City of Heroes is back? That was my favorite MMORPG ever!"

I personally know of 10 or so past players I've kept loose touch with who are holding off due to the uncertainty of the past week, but who I'm sure that will eventually jump in when things are stable, if only just out of curiosity. I'm starting to think that 14000 may just be a fraction of the numbers who would eventually turn out to support a CoH server(s).

It's pretty smegging amazing.

Here's an unpopular prediction - 80% of those people will lose interest in the first 30 days.

[Arkasas]

They did settle on a wipe of test characters. So don't get too attached and save those costume files.

Everything is going down on April 27th at an as-of-yet undisclosed time.

[Sinistar]

A wipe of the test is inevitable.

As long as they get all systems running, like the AE, auction houses, holiday events, etc. And the code is stable with good admin interface for those that want their own servers and they can get the data out there for us to download and archive it for safe keeping we can then work on getting servers online.

As to buying licenses from ncsoft.....I am loathe to pay them one dime of my cash..but this would be an exception

I will happily leave the game in zombie mode forever unless I can easily implement some ideas I have to tune things up and customize it

[saipaman]

On the loading screen, all my characters are listed as being in Atlas Park 33.

A nice tribute.  Or an interesting bug.

[saipaman]

Fly (but a slow fly compared to Sprint) at level 4.   That's a poor change.

[Tahquitz]

A wipe of the test is inevitable.

And confirmed.  There were people who got Level bumped to 50 as part of the testing, so a character wipe is prescribed by the lead admin to level the playing field.  As they warned, save your costumes.  The rest is being reset April 27th, 2019 at a time to be announced.