[Instead of offering to donate money, we should be donating servers]

What do these types of servers cost? Could we do a Gofundme run by fans with the express results of buying servers? Then at the end of the run, the person in charge (or persons most likely) buys said servers and has em shipped to the devs as a happy birthday gift. Or would that still be crossing into legal action territory?

 

A lot less than you might think - something like this

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-DL380-G7-2U-RACK-SERVER-2x-E5620-48GB-P410i-256MB-3TB-STORAGE-2x-PSU/253970907009?epid=222672092&hash=item3b21d87f81:g:Oa8AAOSwxOFaWMil

 

or

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-DL380-G6-16-Bay-2x-Six-Core-Xeon-48GB-RAM-P410-FBWC-ProLiant-2U-Rack-Server/143158078828?hash=item2154e2ed6c:m:mos8_vGlLJDU6OnvPgwZanA

 

more than 2 processors and costs can go up

 

but not always

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IBM-X3850-X5-Server-4-x-E7-4830-8-Core-CPU-32-cores-2-13Ghz-128gb-Ram-No-HDD/372642294000?hash=item56c33628f0:g:0tAAAOSwEfVcUZ1z

[Multiple Accounts]

I'd agree - it was generally used because of difficulties in getting a team later in the game - people playing at odd hours on underpopulated servers - not really an issue at present.

[Multiple Accounts]

It used to be (and I can't see any reason isn't now) log in twice on separate instances of the game each on a different game account. You could then set one toon to follow the other (typically the second account acting as a heal or buff bot) - or could leave one at the door - the issue was that you couldn't really control both independently. You also needed to be sure your PC was up to handling multiple versions of the game - unlikely to be an issue today

[Anyone have a copy of the CoH Fanzines? Issues 0-2?]

1 to 6 are here

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ruRicpV369xzRzexsmjrgMKtITwZLs9k

[Any Pinnacle expats?]

@Deadly Doc was my US account - solely on Pinnacle until creating a toon on Freedumb to hold a torch at the end.