Widower

The issue there is that the Closed Beta CIT pulls live game data instead of being a manual upload as CIT was pre-shutdown. On a server with a max capacity of 200 players, that's not a huge issue. On a server with an average primetime peak of 4.5k, and keeping in mind that we're anticipating that to go up in the near future, that's not possible without a lot more resources.

If you aren't able to improve Paragon Wiki within ten months, I'll eat my hat. (Disclaimer: If you're not able to improve Paragon Wiki within ten months, it's unlikely you'll be able to track me down to remind me to eat my hat.)

So, yeah.

We do believe that a deal would result in quite a large influx of new players, yes.

Sounds like a good idea, yes.

I wouldn't have thought that this thread, of all threads, could provoke so many people to anger. Could we all tone it down a bit?

Hey, if you listen to the other groups, we want to be all the groups. :P We knew about this exploit before this thread was posted, and the person most vigorously advocating for its removal internally is actually a RPer. You should actually thank the PvPers, as otherwise you wouldn't have known about it in advance.

Okay.

There will be a maintenance today, August 27, at the usual time. This maintenance should, barring some great catastrophe in the next six hours, bring most-if-not-all of the Justin changes to the live servers.

The Guardian AT was an experiment undertaken on Closed Beta some years ago which, I'm told, was found unenjoyable by most people. I suppose it's possible it might be revisited at some point in the future, but it's not in the cards for us right now. We wish Rebirth the best of luck with it, though. (And before you ask - it's apparently Assault primaries with a weird combo of armor and support secondaries, or something like that.)

No, that's Cipher. The NA servers are outside Montreal, and Reunion is in Frankfurt.

Indeed, this is going nowhere fast, and with the OP nope'ing out, I will lock it.

Okay, story time with Widower. A long time ago, in the far-off days of 2005, TonyV thought to himself "'aight, time to make a wiki." And so Paragon Wiki was born. However, hosting providers didn't like it very much because there was a lot of it. In come the Wikia people, who say "hey, want to join with us?" and to them TonyV said "no." And again the Wikia people came, and again TonyV said "no." But by the third time, the last hosting provider TonyV tried was proving to be too small, so TonyV said "okay!" And all was good for about a year (the move was in 2007, iirc, so this is 2008) until people started complaining for, as Wikia was wont to do, they started infesting the place with ads. And so, TonyV nope'd right out of there, merged with Titan, and you know where that story goes. Paragon Wiki continues to be regularly updated to this day; the Wikia version (for they do not pull their version down when the community forks the site) hasn't been regularly updated since, uh, i17, I think? So the moral of this story: use Paragon Wiki. Don't use the Wikia version (or FANDOM or whatever they call themselves now).

It's a false positive, whitelist it in your AV and it'll function again.

If you want those servers, you'll need to add their manifests, which are listed on their sites.

Ooh, I volunteer. As my application, I will note that you are actually incorrect. Task Force Hail Mary originally referred to attempt #2, as evinced by the oldest contents of the eponymous board on your forums. The downix attempt just happened to end up there.

When we switched from SMF to IPB, all the votes in preexisting polls got lost. I imagine that's the issue here.

There will be maintenance this morning, probably around the usual time and probably lasting a little longer than usual.

Never say never, as we've seen with the SG cap, although that was a much simpler (sort of) technical leap, as I understand it.

Are you using the Island Rum beta?

Cipher and I have investigated, and it appears that the default Cream Soda manifest has not been updated in two months, and we believe it is unlikely that it will be maintained in the future. If you continue launching CoH through that manifest, you will not be able to connect to Rebirth, Victory, or even /coxg/, and eventually will lose the ability to connect to Homecoming. We strongly recommend that all players connect to Homecoming through Tequila, which we guarantee will be maintained until a future solution becomes available. If, for some reason, you absolutely must use Cream Soda, you should delete the thunderspy.com manifest and add ours; http://patch.savecoh.com/manifest.xml.

I asked Cipher, and he made the point that if the default Cream Soda manifest is patching the wrong bins, it won't work, since /petition is enabled in the bins. Since we stealth-patched that, I wouldn't be shocked if the Cream Soda dev didn't update it. So, your solutions are either 1. Don't use Cream Soda at all (highly recommended) or 2. Use our manifest instead of the default Cream Soda manifest.

I am yelling at Tempest about this now and we are working to rectify the issue.