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Halcyon

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  1. I know there are multiple groups working to compile i24 and stand up servers. But in those cases it is clear what the situation will be. I am asking specifically about the 4 "test" servers currently maintained by the (awesome!) homecoming team. There are thousands of players on these. If, at some point, the homecoming team will respin these some or all of these servers to base them off of i24, it would be useful for people to know that. Conversely, if they have the SCORE i25 source and intent to move forward from there, that's good to confirm, too.
  2. I have no objection to this, in fact I agree with it. My point is that there seems to be a lot of confusion from folks about what that means, and I am suggesting there be an official statement so that folks playing with the i25-based powersets on these specific servers don't get surprised, resulting in drama.
  3. Updated based on finding and reading the SCORE i25 patch notes.
  4. 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.
  5. I continue to notice differing expectations on this front. Would really recommend there be an official statement to avoid drama about whether or not the future i24-based servers will or will not drop i25 content. Has anyone seen anything official here that I've missed? I found this on reddit which seems to clarify: Is this correct? tl;dr: - i23 was in production at time of CoH closure; we don't have this - i24 was on the live test server at closure; we have source - i25 was entirely developed by SCORE (patchnotes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cLJiSYlfueJheOumRywG8Evip2Mjmu_30Y6ePaetqY/edit#heading=h.3dy6vkm) 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
  6. Well, it also claims between 4,000-6,000 active players through much of 2018. Even with the "secret server", that seems...unlikely. Haha.
  7. So, the AT never existed on production prior to CoH's closure. My understanding is that the AT was something the original CoH team was trying out, possibly on an internal test server as I don't recall seeing it on the public test server either (I played on it a fair bit, esp when the new powers were announced that never saw light of day). From a build/play perspective, I'd think of it as a ranged scrapper. The "opportunity" mechanic is interesting but I haven't tested the numbers on it. One word of caution - the things from the i25 binaries that came out of the death of city of heroes are not in the i24 code, and it does not appear anyone has the actual i25 source code that contains the i25 enhancements. My wild guess is that whoever gave out the code happened to have a backup of i24 master/mainline code but not binaries, and a copy of some internal i25 test build but not the development branch with it. The end result is: if/when the various teams standing up servers are allowed to continue, they almost certainly will focus on moving forward with i24 as a base. If they do that, it's likely you will not be able to play with characters based on i25 content unless they leave those servers up (or manage to reverse engineer the i25 powersets/content).
  8. Hmm. This seems unlikely, given the content that was announced for I25 by the original team exists in the I25 binaries but not in the I24 source (as far as I can tell anyway, have just started sorting through it this weekend, so totally possible I am just not seeing it yet). I'm...doubtful...that Leandro went through and implemented all those planned features by himself?
  9. [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.
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