Hi, my email is benn@4efix.com, and I very much want this project to succeed. I have been playing CoX since beta over eight years ago, and if I had my way I would be playing for another eight years.
I am an all around geek and professionally a computer consultant, but I do not have many deep tech skills, being more of a jack-of-all-trades and small business consultant, so I am not sure I have a lot to offer skill wise.
However, I would be pleased to either donate a lump sum of cash ($500?) to a kickstarter-esque fund to make this happen, or pay a monthly subscription up to $30 to 50/month indefinitely, or both. So if that becomes a helpful option, I would love a heads up.
IF this is going to happen - and I realize that this is a BIG if - could I **strongly** recommend that if given an option the codebase that gets used going forward is the one they had on the *beta* server with the issue 24 code already implemented? As great as City was before Issue 24, they weren't kidding when they referred to it as the "fix everything" patch - blasters, pool powers, new sets, etc.
Could this be in the back (or better yet, front) of someone's mind - a preferential treatment towards getting and implementing the Issue 24 codebase? I mean, if we are going to dream, why not dream big? If there's any chance to get the codebase, I can't see how it would lessen our chances one iota to be going after the I24 codebase.
Right?
Thanks for doing this guys. I feel to frightened to truly hope that it can happen - but on the other hand I am refreshing these pages often because I so NEED CoX to continue - just like we all do. My greatest hope is that you get the whole kit and caboodle - every zone, power, resource, incarnate ability, and all 24 issues of code, as well as perhaps the store stuff too.
And while it would be the icing on the cake to retain our previous characters, *please* know that I would be ecstatic even if I lost all my characters and had to start from scratch - ecstatic just to have City a place where I can continue to game. I've raised dozens of characters to 50, I can do it again.
Thanks, and I dearly hope that this comes to fruition. Contact me if you think there's *anything* I can do.