bagfry

You do realize that the Homecoming team preached about the COMMUNITY being the ones to make this happen. Without OUR donations this project wouldn't be possible for these privateers. I still do not believe that there can be so many people involved with this project and they're all doing it for the sole purpose of bringing CoX back. I severely doubt their intents are malicious, but the true story is much more interesting. And for the majority of the community: it's not only the money that people are investing, but their time. To not even inform the community of the possibility of a C&D with this transfer is simply allowing the sheep to feel safe and the curious left hanging. I know that characters will never be wiped, if something happens to Homecoming all of that data will be simply handed to another "unaffiliated" group. It happened with one of the largest private servers in gaming: Nostalrius -> Elysium The players should be better informed of these possibilities. The existence of CoX has been a fighting story. The more the community knows, the more support Homecoming will receive.

So we're all playing on stolen code and it appears that the Homecoming team initially seeked refuge in the EU to circumvent Intellectual Property (IP) laws like most private servers do in order to laugh at cease and desist letters from the rightful IP owner. However, with the server migration from Digital Ocean in Amsterdam to somewhere in Canada on OVH servers (which I do believe is less about server stability and more about a movement in how IPs are viewed after the plug has been pulled). If we wish to continue playing, it would be best to know how to handle ourselves as a community against potential C&D letters in NA and any other potential legal discrepancy. What's your opinion, where do we stand, and what must we do as a community to keep our game alive for good?