TimTheEnchanter

I'm looking for links to any news media coverage of the CoX shutdown, and the player response (petitions, rallies, etc)

Anything you have, please post them here.

http://kotaku.com/5941607/city-of-he...e-to-city-hall

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-837330

Well this is a pickle... I have toons on other servers, but used all my unlocks on Virtue.

Lost connection to mapserver, logged back in, then when I click the server the game hangs on trying to load characters and then dumps me back to the login window.

Props from Zwill to the earlybirds:

Globus - Wyatt Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxS47H2nge4 (I was originally introduced to this song by a tribute to SWG in its final months)

Looking down at this barren land
Once known as home before
Destruction, all the world
It's an ending we have brought

The world we wrote a million times before
And what we allow to break this all down
The world we broke a million times before
What should have been stunned is now all struck dumb

Cities they fell, life's a choke
On bittersweet warnings took for a joke
Misspent days, spent in a haze
Pumped from our factories into our graves
They must know that they're so close to bringing nothing
So they show
They've brought success at bringing nothing

The world we wrote a million times before
And what we allow to break this all down
The world we broke a million times before
What should have been stunned is now all struck dumb
Struck dumb

Still looking down at this broken land
Once grass has turned to sand
Hindsight's broke, sky is smoke
We've passed this point of doubt
They must know that they're so close to bringing nothing
So they show they've brought success at bringing nothing

The world we wrote a million times before
And what we allow to break this all down
The world we broke a million times before
What should have been stunned is now all struck dumb

The world we wrote a million times before
And what we allow to break this all down
The world we broke a million times before
What should have been stunned is now all struck dumb



Pink Floyd - High Hopes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OTBK5HBx3M

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

****

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

That would still more or less require the server code to run it locally, which has already been confirmed that we are NOT getting.

I can't find it now, but I know I read something somewhere that suggested this was still being planned, and that was less than 12 months ago.

So what exactly is this? An interactive RP board? Brainstorming for an indie game?

So, I went to order 2 copies of Going Rogue. I had to call into Amazon because this was the first time I was trying to order more than one item and couldn't find a way to determine how many copies of something a vendor has in stock. So while the guy is talking to me, he asks me to add it to my cart so he could check on availability. And then immediately his voice changed and I thought he was going to tell me that my account was hacked, or they were out of copies.

As it turned out, the change in his tone was the sound of a CSR being transformed into an excited child. "Wow, this looks so cool, what is it?!" I was then stuck trying to give him the full story of everything that was going on in less time that it would take for a supervisor to get mad at him.

Somebody is already dabbling with an emulator dummy server, methinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI

Yeah, I know it was intended to be silly, particularly the very end, but hey, if the shoe fits...

So is there a confirmation that gametime cards will work?

Overall, very annoyed how NC handled this. Just dropping the bomb on a random day with no forewarning at all.

When SOE found out SWG had to be closed, they worked their hearts out for the final months to get something cool to the players, and let them see what the future was intended to be.

But this... who knows how many would've bought VIP again even just for 2 months? Give the devs time to at least give the game a proper sendoff. Sheesh.

Tyvm

Got a level 34, Blueside, (freedom, non-VIP account) looking for enhancements at my level, whether they be SO or not, and I can't find anyplace that is selling them. Everyplace I've been to that is listed as a magic store on the higher levels shows nothing for sale. The only stores I've found that sell magic enh's are in zones below my level.

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/242813132425293824

If Mishii does have some kind of insider information, it's quite logical to assume that for legal reasons, she isn't allowed to say any more than she has. NDA's and things like that. Especially if the companies involved don't want one another to know that they're in the bidding.

But I agree with the pessimists. Assume there is no professional savior lurking in the shadows, and focus on independent efforts to save the City.

Poking through the website, came across the Freedom page, and irony caused the word "Forever" to jump out at me.