Meanwhile, in the Halls of Titan...

If you can get this to that point, I'll contribute to fundraising.

Also, thank you.

I will happily contribute to fundraising, and whatever video talents I have are yours for getting the word out.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I can contribute too and if you need any acting or male modeling for promotions I can do it too!

I'd be willing to add my not-so-usual-anymore subscription that was meant for the game into the fund instead. I calculated that into my finances anyway.
If every player would do that... that alone should raise a nice amount, right?

Also, I'm doing what I can to let people know about their new mission: Save Paragon City.

Huge hugs for TonyV for starting this mission.

CoH Fan-Art Sale still several slots open!

Read my in-game stories and check out my DeviantART page.
- coXso - It was a memorable time filled with art!

I am not a rich man but I will gave what I can and help in any way.


I want to thank you guys for this thread. It gives hope. And if we go out we will go out swinging

I will gladly contribute to fund raising when you're ready for that to start.

And, since I am retired and don't have a job to which I need attend, I can also donate my personal time for any little odd jobs that might come up. While I don't have the technical skills displayed by others in this thread, I am excellent at organization (Spreadsheets HOOOOOOO!) and written communication.

I would be happy to donate/invest what I can. $15 a month just freed up so... yeah.

Also was thinking about building a private server myself, if that becomes a possibility. Please update me if it does, as I am not a Forum junkie. PrinceRecluse@gmail.com

What I really think would be the best possible outcome IMHO in a CoH death senario would be that once NCSoft closes the doors on CoH and Paragon for good (and if they don't release the code or IP), the entirety, or at least majority, of the employees of Paragon Studios form together as their own new small buisness company, and get back to work! Go under a new name (i.e. "Rogue Island Studios"... see what I did there?), and start the creation of a new, oddly similar (but just before Copyright Infringement), Super Hero game called something like "Galactic Heroes", and start taking my money again without the likes of NCSoft, seems like people like the idea of going through Valve. Apparently many people would be willing to contribute to a kickstarter, or w/e, for the creation of your new, yet similar, company. Then, we make you the Super Hero version of Blizzard or Bungie, and you go on to make even more awesome games. I had always heard that the reason a lot of requested things could never happen is because the engine the game was originally built for was too limited, and the only way to fix it would be to build a new game... Now is your chance. I love this game just as much as anyone, and more than most, and this is exceptionally devastating to me for a grab bag of reasons. Life will be forever significantly different, and not necessarily in a good way. But, if it has to end, let's make some BOMB *** lemonade out of these god-aweful, rotten, natsy, bitter lemons. In order to rebuild the game, we must rebuild Paragon Studios. Let's make City of Heroes all of what it was, but also everything it could never have been, but could have been great. Let's make the infamous City of Heroes 2!

...hmm

Sorry. At some point in there I was overcome and started talking directly to the staff over at Paragon Studios somehow. But I think the point gets across. I want more than just to keep CoH, I want to keep the wonderfully geniused people that make and maintain what it is to this day. If any other group takes CoH over, it will no longer be CoH.

Whatever happens, I am interest and down to help. Already hit up the petition.
PrinceRecluse@gmail.com

Whatever happens, your all the best people I have ever had the privileged of knowing. Know that you have my strongest wishes to be blessed by whatever it is that you hold dear or sacred. Even if I don't know you on a personal level, please believe that you will be missed.

As long as I am alive (30yrs down, ? to go) Paragon City will exist, within me. The sun will shine in Atlas Park, the waves will crash on the shores of Mercy, and the buildings of Nova Preatoria will continue to cast their shadows. The rescue effort will continue in Galaxy. And as for me... If you are looking for me, you can find me repeatedly killing 100 infected in the danger zone of Outbreak.

(Here's to CoX2!)

If we're getting serious about just bypassing NCsoft entirely, you've got my suport. I'm an international lawyer, so not much use in IP stuff, but I can call in a favour or two for the scud work of figuring out how to protect the project.

Depending on where you incorporate the entity, you'd be surprised at what you can just do and get away with. There are some countries out there that we'd be able to get away with literally hijacking the game code and reconstructing it word-for-word.

I'd prefer a less-extreme option, of course. Reverse-engineering a similar game is much more defensible, and won't require funding an office in Kazakhstan. Almaty has low start-up costs, strong internet support in the major business district, and the traditional -stan country's 'go to hell' attitude towards legal attacks on its businesses.

How do I get on a mailing list?

The.Elf.Boy@gmail.com

I only use emulators to play entirely legal roms/isos.









Stop looking at me like that.

I have had a Facebook page running since yesterday where I have gathered pertinent links to petitions, player group pages, most importantly the Titan forums posting where Tony announced his intentions, and contact information for NCSoft and its chief executive. http://tinyurl.com/9g4m72t

Any constructive feedback provided to NCSoft in support of Tony's endeavors would be greatly appreciated.

Quick question if someone can help here: I can log on to the titan network, but when I go to the titan forum, it asks me for my login again, and says that security have been upgraded, asks me for login again, and won't let me in.

You have my support! NCSoft wasn't willing to give anything for Auto Assault or Tabula Rasa, but let's face it the community for City of Heroes is a lot bigger and a lot more family like than either of those mmo's had. God speed, Titan Network!!!

Like a lot of people hearing the news, I am coming out of the woodwork to say something. I will also follow and contribute as this progresses.

We are losing some of the last bastions of golden era MMOs like CoH. Even EQ and DAoC are kind of shaky now, and it just seems inconceivable that any of these would ever disappear. I won't get into my hatred for the modern MMO focus and f2p, just know that I consider it a cancer that absolutely ruins the spirit and intentions of a solid and fair-minded MMO. I know why MMOs might convert and cater to it, often out of need, but that doesn't excuse it.

I have returned to CoH over the years and resubbed because it was always worth it, just to fly again, see the zones and listen to the very evocative music queues. The original login screen theme, Atlas Park, Steel Canyon, etc.

I hope someone is archiving ALL the current zones with fly-throughs and instance runs, to document what is where, mob spawns, music queues and such. Something tells me you are going to need them.

I guess I will never see the changes I wished would eventually be updated into CoH:
- continous zones
- all buildings have interiors you can access
- skyscrapers with huge vertical atriums, working elevator shafts you could hide-and-seek PvP in
- a DAoC-like spin on RvR for superheroes, complete with 100% open-world relics, sanctuaries (keeps) and such - oh, and 3 or 4 sides not just 2 fighting (let's face it, CoH's PvP was *never* even close to the scope and epicness to compliment its awesome PvE universe)

I've been on and off the forums and the game for about 7 years now starting at age fourteen and playing still at age twenty-one. This community has always been nothing but warm and supporting and I'll be damned if this game shuts down without me trying to help anyone who's trying to stop that from happening. Just need to know what to do.

For me the legality of an emulator is no longer morally wrong once NCSoft shuts down CoH. By playing a CoH emulator after that, we're not stealing from NCSoft because we couldn't give them money to play CoH if we wanted to.

If NCSoft won't work with the community and shuts the game down an emulator is the only choice for keeping CoH going in some way.

I know we wouldn't have the wonderful staff and dev team we have now, CoH would I assume exist in a perpetual state of i23, maybe i24 maintenance mode and I'm ok with at least that.

CoH should keep going in some way, shape or form and if that's a stagnant emulator, at least its something.

That said, I'm 100% behind Titan's plan and I hope it pans out, I'll help however I can.