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No, we haven't. Contrary to "common knowledge", Titan Network hasn't been involved in any of the prior buyout attempts beyond providing a space to talk about them on their forums. The Paragon attempt died pretty early on, Hail Mary never bore fruit, and the downix attempt just sort of disappeared years ago (and for all we know, may have been much less serious than it was made out to be). This is the real deal. I'm not saying it's absolutely guaranteed, but my understanding is that it's much closer than any previous attempt.

Well, there are 10-15 private servers and the source code is out in the wild, which is a big change.

Bloody hell - fixed, thanks. I mean, you did post in it a page before! 😃

There was a whole discussion on this in a previous announcement which you can read here.

Hello, friends. Please refrain from personal attacks and grandstanding, thanks.

I'm sorry, Abraxus, but that sounds an awful lot like logic and reasoning, and that's not allowed here. Please move along. /s

NCsoft isn't blind. There's going to be a target on us no matter what, unless this succeeds. (And to your inevitable counterpoint, I'd advise cautious optimism - the lay of the land has changed quite a bit from the downix attempt.)

Ah, hold on - City of Titans and Titan Network are two completely different entities. We are wholly unaffiliated with City of Titans and their success or lack thereof has no bearing on our efforts.

Won't do you any good, I banned her hours ago.

Accounts were synced this morning, so everyone who made an account in the last ~6 weeks should be able to access Justin now.

Indeed, Good work, though.

Uh, try this: http://patch2.homecomingservers.com/tequila.exe

Okay - for the moment (and I want to emphasize that like the last time, this is a temporary manifest) you can add http://patch2.homecomingservers.com/manifest.xml to Tequila (in options at the bottom) and play.

We're aware of the issue and will let you know what to do as soon as there's something to do.

Highly variable. In theory Atlas (and Kallisti) can hold up to 200, and other zones 100, but because of a memory leak in mapserver, a map instance will more likely cap out once it's consumed 1.8 GB of RAM, which can happen at any population.

Around 2500 per shard.

8/2/19 Update: The maintenance is concluded; play ye now in peace.

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it, and Mr. User is apparently well-qualified.

Well, it is true, four GMs have responded here and are actively trying to understand what Mr. User is asking. Mind you, we're just GMs, we don't set economic policy, and I'm the only one of us who was even in the room when the market was seeded. We're not really looking at major policy changes, here, unless Mr. User really convinces me and I send it to Jimmy.

He means WoW Classic, I imagine. Since the core CoH population has always been rather disdainful of WoW, I'd guess "not much, if at all".

Well, no. We don't care how you flesh out your builds, exactly. We do care about providing people with multiple ways to do so, and we also care about limiting the endemic market PvP from live Beyond that, the economy is going where it's going - hang on for the ride. For your edification, I'll also tell you that we didn't set the rates for salvage. Those were devised by Leo and his GMs years ago in order to limit market PvP and let people focus on playing the actual game to build their characters rather than the market.

That's the plan!

In Tequila, click the options button, then type -uiskin 2 into launch parameters.

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