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Altoholic_Monkey

By Altoholic_Monkey,
Posted on: 2012-09-18 22:46 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Hey all, as probably most of you know, I'm one of the administrators at the Titan Network. This post might come off as a little self-serving, but the fact is that this web site and these forums are owned by NCsoft, run on NCsoft equipment, maintained by NCsoft (referring to the back-end, not front-end moderation), and paid for by NCsoft. As such, it's simply inevitable that along with the game, they are going to be sunset--possibly sooner rather than later.

The practical situation is that whatever happens, we need a way to keep in touch if all of a sudden the site goes dark. (Been to Tabula Rasa's old home page lately?) Please don't take away from this that I know something is imminent; I don't. They could be up for months. But they could also be shut down any minute.

Accordingly, you need to bookmark at least these three sites:

  • Titan Network forums: Once these forums go dark, this will probably be the primary hub of discussion among the player base. We'll be posting news and information as we have it, as well as asking opinions and engaging in discussions on our next steps in keeping City of Heroes alive. You can register and account on our home page.
  • Save City of Heroes and CoH Alumni: A couple of Facebook groups set up for players to connect to each other, post stuff for public consumption, and keep in touch. I know that there are more groups, and at some point we'll probably put a page up dedicated to links to those groups, but those are the two main ones I've been monitoring and posting on.
  • @TheTitanNetwork (Twitter): The Titan Network's Twitter feed. Eabrace is doing an awesome job maintaining this. Truth be told, he's doing a lot better job of keeping up with the latest and greatest of everything than I could possibly hope to. You'd do well to add it to your usual rounds of browsing for news and info.

Hopefully at some point we'll all be able to kick back and laugh at that time that we thought the forums might go down. Realistically, I think it's not a matter of if it happens, but when. I just don't want people to be left out in the dark. If they do go down, please be sure you publicize to everyone where they can go to contact us and get the latest (or as much of the latest as we know).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)

 

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Thank you, TonyV. Note made and will be passing this on to the SG.

You've been a voice of consilidation in all this, and thank you for all your hard work!!!

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I couldn't agree more.

 

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Already signed up to keep up to date. I will also point out there is far less conjecture and speculation over at Titan. Not that I don't understand that people need to vent, really I do. I went a week without turning my laptop on for gaming because I was so honked off. But at this point I want fact, not innuendo. So thank you for that, Tony.

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There's also the City of Heroes facebook group that has been around for a long time. Lots of folks in there will still be discussing the game, even if it closes its doors.



 

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I started a #pinnbadges IRC channel (the hashtag is for an IRC channel, NOT Twitter nonsense) on Foonetic, all Pinnacle-ites welcome (and what the hell, non-Pinnacle-ites too).

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We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...

 

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I've been trying to get on the Titan Network forums, but there's been a problem with my account. Sent in for help, but was informed that most of the guys capable of fixing the problem were pretty busy with #savecoh stuff (understandably). So I've only been able to lurk, but the lurking has been done!

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Am I wrong in thinking that there's separate accounts for cohtitan.com and the forums that exist there?

Be well, people of CoH.

 

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Originally Posted by Winterminal View Post
I've been trying to get on the Titan Network forums, but there's been a problem with my account. Sent in for help, but was informed that most of the guys capable of fixing the problem were pretty busy with #savecoh stuff (understandably). So I've only been able to lurk, but the lurking has been done!
Sorry, things have been crazy. Please do the following:

1) Clear all cookies from cohtitan.com or any subdomain thereof. (This is really important; we've had a lot of users over the years have issues because of stale cookies. It's definitely on our radar to fix.)

2) Try logging into cohtitan.com.

3) Try logging into www.cohtitan.com/forum.

4) If one or both of those don't work, send me an e-mail at tonyv@cohtitan.com. Make sure you let me know which (or both) aren't working, and if you're e-mailing from an address that's not registered when you first signed up, let me know what that e-mail address is so I can find you in the database. If I need any other validation information, I'll reply and ask. Otherwise, I'll log into the database, sync everything up, and I might reset your password in the process since we store a salted hash in the back-end database, not the password itself, and can't reverse it.

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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
Am I wrong in thinking that there's separate accounts for cohtitan.com and the forums that exist there?
In the back end, they are separate accounts, but when you change your password on the Titan Network site, our code changes it in the forum back-end as well. Likewise, when you sign up on the Titan Network, it creates a forum account for you at the same time.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)

 

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Question: I've had a user account on the Paragon Wiki for years. I think I remember reading something about that being integrated into a Titan account or something, but I've never attempted to learn the ins-and-outs of that whole system. Could you explain what I need to do to have a username on the titan network forums associated with my wiki account?

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I think this makes a thread bumping record for me for the past several years, but you know what?

For great justice, I'll take off every Zig and then some.

Read the OP. Stay in touch. The game and these forums are going away soon, but the heroes and villains of Paragon City aren't done yet.

Don't give NCSoft the last word. Keep an eye on the Titan Network.

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Adding to the chorus here but IF you haven't join one of the other sites in the first post or at least bookmark them to follow what's going on when these forums close. With Zwil gone I'd guess they'll disappear sooner than later.

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One benefit of the titan forums: Nowhere near as negative as the COH forums have gotten.

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