Evil_Legacy

Guess they figured their reputation is already down the tube with this set of customers and want to just bury it the quickest way possible without being shown up if they release the property to someone else and risk the new owners making more money than they were making. That would be bad buisness/look for the decision makers.

ah ok. Just was wondering. So it's working as intended.

in COX in instances, I keep getting the "no signal" message when trying to call in a mish while still inside one. Is this a bug that I thought up to now was normal?

yeah. so this closingshould be not a single bit of a surprise, given that track record.

yeah, he was a great wrestler.

yea Champion seems to be pretty lively and still easy to form stuff up and get it done at just about anytime.

three teams is 24 people.

When I'm talking about empty I'm more talking about actual activity overall not a team of friends planned a day to get together and run a TF. 3 teams running sara moore on one saturday is nice but sara moore can be and is ran about anytime any day on virtue/freedom and dont have to plan with an SG, or a bunch of friends to do it. Usually easy to form team and go. On many other servers, outside peak hours and sometiems during peak hours, the better part of an hour is trying to form a team. And redside on those lower population servers can just about forget about it unless you know a group of peopel that is planning on running something and have a spot. aka, dead server.

ah country folk, if there are 2 people within 300 miles, they think they are in a big city.

About as irrelevant as someone saying the chances of theis game being shutdown was a 75% chance back in July. Yet most people would have said no way in hell, or at most slim to none. Yet, here we are on the way there. Even if there is a slim chance or rarely happens, such as someone entering a club and shooting anything that moves, or someone goign to work and bowing people up are slim chances, yet it happens. AT many establishments, there are policies in place to prevent that, thus the pat down at many clubs. Do crap still happen? Sure. But think of the outrage if you learned your loved on got shot because someone refused to check people at the door because they felt that "oh it rarely happens, no point in checking people."



And no I didnt say all Kins. And it probably have less to to do with the fact they are a kin and more with the type of person that just so happen to play that particular kin and just so happen to have a power or buff that is more love it or hate it and had to power to place that power on anyone they pleased, just because they can, and nothing anyone could do to stop it...until of course the change occured.

ah my favorite scene in that movie.

is that where you all are planning on taking this?

What areas are these areas?

So will they just plan on ignoring the C&D order if it happens? Will it be a case of the Resistance (Players dedicated to run an emulator regardless of the legalities and etc and stolen IP all for the common enjoyment of themselves and players like them) vs Emperor Cole (NCSoft)?

yep, actually.


yes again but in the short run may lose the casual feel and casual gamer but when it comes down to buisness and money and long term, what you said would need to happen for good population growth.

wait wait there already was COX emulator before?

That how it should of been a long time ago. Most other servers were dead zones but alas, the coding and engine limitations and the way the servers were set up along with the problem of name transfers and people not wanting to risk having to rename their character kind of shut down that idea.

I think three servers should suffice.

Sometimes hackers are domestic and not part of large organizations and sometimes people do stuff just because they can.

And I rather not even have an email address hacked, but can be solved by using a false one. And sometimes an email address is all someone needs. Most of the time it's mundane stuff like junk mail though.

Yeah, more than likely it will be ran by someone who loves this game and dont want to see it end but even those people are not devoid of ulterior motives or automatically have the means to protect themselves from hackers in some form or fashion. Even for exploited hacks that merely affect their characters. Yes they probably will be banned but if it's easy to hack then people will do it, even if it's only because they can. Like people used to drive by speed boost and regardless of the protests and messages and PMs, they continued to do it just because they can. Until the devs killed their fun with Null the Gull.

But the main thing is that unlike NCSoft and Paragon studios where the game is ran by an actual company, if something was to happen, there are steps that can be taken to address it. With private servers, I imagine that if something was to happen, it would be "Well tough luck. That is the risk of playing on a private server. There is nothign to be done but all you can do is hope for the best now."

yes assuming the community dont contribute to the downfall again.

Remember that this game attracted many casual gamers that dont deal too well with the "usual" constant and "demeaning/insulting" trash talk that comes with it. Probably should include a system that rid of those types of players lot quicker and more effeciently to prevent them from running/turning off new players/inexperienced players which can cut into the population with fixes to fix that end up leaving hardcore pvpers jaded and leaving instead thus still taking a hit in population. Or have separate zone for pure hardcore people and one for beginners, yet I'm not sure where would the line be crossed to identify each side and or how to stop the hardcore ones from going in a beginner zone and having a field day at the expense of others and still end up with the current PVP problems that this game has now.

It's fun to me in CO. I kind of like it better over there. It does nice damage but doesnt feel endurance heavy and thus allows more attacks. It's over all about the same speed as titan weapons, a little slower than with momentum but hell of a lot faster than the initial COX attack but just as fluid, to me.

Ok. As long as someone is there when or if or just in case crap hit the fan, then it should work.

So basically as long as it's not a backyard amatuer night thrown together thing, it should be good to go.
And we have someone with the expertise to build an emulator, safe emulator, here for COX?

yea.

Ah yes and something going from niche to mainstream usually dont happen fast nor on the first few attempts. Even with good ol Ford, his mainstream success actually came with his third major automotive company with the Detroit Automobile Company being the first (1899). The second one, Henry Ford Company, failed and the remnants of it became Cadillac headed by a Ford associate named Leland, which was eventually bought by GM. Then in a turn of irony, Leland founded Lincoln but came into trouble and good ol Ford was more than happy to get revenge on Leland and bought Lincoln for the lowest price prossible, way less than what the company was worth and basically kicked Leland out.

But people tend to forget all the other automotive companies out there that didnt make it that came before Ford and when cars were niche and considred only a mere noisy smoking hobby. Only one that came from one of the original companies is the Mercedes-Benz (from the Benz car of 1885 and Daimler of 1889). The first Ford company was founded in 1901. The second, current one came a little later.

The point is that it may take a few tries to go mainstream and I think we are about there with super hero MMOs, but not quite. Then again, gaming itself was considered niche until very recently and online gaming is relatively new and still considered niche outside the gaming world. In about ten years or so, COX would be considered an early attempt to break into the super hero market. WoW is Ford. COX is like DeLorean. Cool car, features, unique, yet didnt hit mainstream very well.

Basically. But when they get into a pinch they want to use our tax dollars to bail them out, yet call the indivudals that they got rid of to make more profits and need assistance leeches.

Sure. As rare as hacking may be, just like home invasions out of the hundred of millions of people that rent or own homes are rare, still what stuff goes into preventing hacking. Or do they wait until it happens then clean up the mess and hope no one's personal information has been affected?

yea.

yes. And most of the time no one does anything to attempt to rid of them or let them know that the behavior can be dangerous for some. It's just brushed off here as "oh it's the internet what can you expect? Dont like it, dont log on." especially by the people that had and were appointed to have the power to do something about it.

Wow. Learn something new everyday. Always thought games were created for fun and people played for fun and not to show off stuff and or ego strokes but if that wasthe case grindfests wouldnt be popular and if grinding was fun, then there wouldnt be so many people trying to find ways to get around it to get through it as quick as possible. That really explains a lot though.