I agree in the sense that we don't know what NCSoft is going to do. It could all go away tomorrow, or it could be open sourced and live forever on GitHub.
That said - your statement is not immediately useful to the core question this thread raises, given SCORE team has already made changes and updates and we're playing on a server with those updates (see the patch notes I linked). We're just trying to clarify what direction the future will take, which I think is important if the game does live on - if the main path forward will not incorporate the SCORE updates and people don't know that, there will be some drama.
The changes/updates they have done are already present within the game. I'm talking about further expansions to the game itself.
"Issue 25" is Issue 24 with custom content added. This is what the Homecoming Servers are running on, thus a lot of imbalanced power combinations and custom archetypes. These 'updates' were not present on the LIVE game or the TEST SERVER version of the LIVE game, they are custom modifications to Issue 24. Issue 25 to my knowledge isn't even 64-bit, so cannot utilise the power of modern hardware/software so well. Issue 24 is being worked on so that it does.
Issue 24 which was on the Test Server hosted by the official source, this is what is being worked on by the OuroDev team for the future of City of Heroes emulation.
Issue 23 was the last source on the LIVE game and cannot be worked on because the code is not available.
