City of Heroes Top Cow series 2 and 3

[ozaline]

Comments

[repto]

I really want to say "Magical resurrection does not work that way!" but, you know, who's to say it doesn't?

[matrix_dragon]

Death in CoH always was a weird concept at the best of times. Thanos would HATE it there.

[rainspirit]

A good time to be remembering City of Heroes. I'm sad the secret server shut down.

[ozaline]

Do you mean the secret server or the public test server? Cause the latter was taken down on monday after a false legal claim, there is a new one up and another group is in talks with NCsoft anout a licensed server.

[rainspirit]

Oh, cool! That's great to hear! I didn't know.

I stopped playing years ago because I felt it was kind of hostile to RPers, so I wouldn't know where the hell to find it now. Could maybe bug my friends about it and see what's changed.

[ozaline]

Really? What server were you on, because Virtue was the unofficial RP server there was an internet radio station started as an in-universe radio (it's still around but of course it's gone on to service other games and isn't quite as in character anymore), there was even a wiki for virtue-RP'ers. Super bases, a a ski chalet, a dance club... there was lots of great RP venues too. I never had trouble finding people to RP with. On the CoH discord channel there's lots of people chomping at the bit to RP again though most of them I think are waiting for a stable release.

[matrix_dragon]

I have soooooo many fond RPing memories from those days on Virtue. My best friend and I even planned out some of our leveling and quest chains because we needed to have the right two characters on the same mission for story purposes.

[rainspirit]

Oh, RP was hopping on Virtue back in the day. I meant that Leandro and his buddies tended more towards hardcore PVP on the secret server and there was more than a little disdain for RPers, with descriptions like, "Oh god! Not Pocket D! I'm NOT moderating this forum!" and GMs actively trolling RPers by setting the D on fire. Shit like that on the server when I played on it around 2013-14.

Maybe things have changed though, idk. Would be interesting to see.

[matrix_dragon]

... I keep forgetting CoH had PvP. Mostly because I only went there once or twice to get the badges and got the hell back out.

[ozaline]

Well the new server(s) is not the secret server, Just based on it's code.

The short version of the story is someone leaked the existence of the Secret server (which I was never on, so I didn't know about all that), and Leandro released the code, now there's I think a few servers but one group in particular has been working towards getting a workable public server up and going, they're doing stress tests now (had to start over once cause an admin freaked out after a fake legal threat), and they're goal is to make a server in a box version of i24.

At the very least the discord channel for the test server has channels to discuss RP, and promote RP discords (I'm on two now). I do think people are waiting on a more stable public server to really get into it.

[matrix_dragon]

Yeah, my circle of friends are waiting for a more permanent server before getting the old characters back into action. As for i24 server in a box, someone announced on the discord got a somewhat stable small server up and running, and they're doing stress testing and working out what some sane requirements would be.