It'd be a heavy risk considering NCSoft MIGHT go after any emulator runners. They did it for Tabula Rasa...who says they can't for City of Heroes.
Also, the coding for City of Heroes is like Jenga...but on fire.
This is one of the options that we're looking at - but there are legal as well a technical problems with it.
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We don't have a server emulator, so this is moot for now.|
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I was wondering if anyone would be up for maintaining a couple of servers for a CoX Emulator? Old SWG has one.
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Once we DO have a server emulator, I intend to host one where I live; my country is known to react to DMCA/IP legal threats in the following way: "lol, good luck enforcing that".
People in the US would have to deal with the 400ms latency I've been dealing with for the last 6 years, though.
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Originally Posted by blackbird7
I was wondering if anyone would be up for maintaining a couple of servers for a CoX Emulator? Old SWG has one.
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I don't think anybody suggesting amateur Emu stuff has the vaguest idea of how difficult and daunting such a project really would be, never mind how crappy and buggy and inferior it always is to pro code by real developers with professional backing.
And it costs an awful lot for how crappy it is.
Yeah, SWG has had one, for six years now supposedly, and it's still in a horrid state of beta and due for a complete nuking (characters and all) very soon. At least that's what a little birdie who actually bothers with that kind of stuff told me the other day. It's rather a disaster area.
It would be like turning Gone with the Wind into Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I'd kinda rather remember CoH as the proud, professional being it was than watch it degraded like that to be honest.
But I still think there's hope for both Paragon Studios and CoH to pass the torch into capable hands publisher-wise. And NCSoft is in enough chaos right now, financial and otherwise, not to mention that their public image has taken such a beating over the years, that they just may do it. They were actually amenable to selling Auto Assault back to Net Devil, they just couldn't secure the financing for it.
I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but it is possible.
You're supposed to keep private servers, you know, private.
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That is crazy talk. Hey, anyone know where I can download all the things?
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You're supposed to keep private servers, you know, private.
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| Also, the coding for City of Heroes is like Jenga...but on fire. |
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Oh your so funny :/
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That's at least what happens to the base code when they try to make changes to it. A catastrophic collapse.
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I know you are trying to be funny... But, no...
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Oh, is it actually offensive? I'll go back and change it then. My bad.
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I was wondering if anyone would be up for maintaining a couple of servers for a CoX Emulator? Old SWG has one.