[uPDATED BASED ON ADDITIONAL RESEARCH]
Hi Homecoming team! Thanks so much for everything!
I've seen a few points of discussion around the i24/i25 plans. I believe, however, that the implications to the player base may not be clear WRT creating characters based on i25 content.
The foundation:
- One thing came out to certain individuals as NCSoft was shutting CoH down: Source code circa i24
- i25 was entirely developed by SCORE (patchnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cLJiSYlfueJheOumRywG8Evip2Mjmu_30Y6ePaetqY/edit#heading=h.3dy6vkm)
To implement any non-trivial fixes/future improvements, we obviously need the source code
- As a result, many of the plans for the long term involve builds off of i24, as SCORE's i25 has not been released
- It is possible (?) to take the character/account db from the i25 servers currently running and "roll them back" to a future i24 build to facilitate this transition*
- However, this means any characters created based on i25 content would effectively be wiped when the long-term servers come up
If this is true, it seems like we would lose the following (noted in the i25 patch notes) if the servers do indeed use i24 as the base for moving forward:
- New archetype: Sentinels
- New power sets: Atomic Manipulation, Ninja Training, Radiation Armor, Radiation Melee, Radioactive Assault, Tactical Arrow, Temporal Manipulation
Can someone comment/clarify?
* If this is not possible, it means your characters created on the current servers will effectively be marooned if you want to join the servers that will grow from i24 - even if they leave the i25 servers up.