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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #100 on: December 05, 2012, 06:28:52 PM »
I reported them to Tucows. It's not their server host, but it is their web host.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #101 on: December 05, 2012, 08:06:07 PM »
I just did the same. This kind of thing is inexcusable. I heard about this first I think in mid-November, and knew point blank it was a scam. I've had VirtueVerses intentionally made to be crappy reproductions of the internet circa 1998 that looked better and were more convincing than that website. And just one sentence from them makes it clear that this is not a thing that will happen, now or ever.

At least, not from them.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #102 on: December 05, 2012, 08:24:20 PM »
Quote from: The Fifth Horseman on November 25, 2012, 12:24:22 AM
This is going to crash and burn either way - I'll watch from the sidelines with a bag of popcorn.

Here's your gif for that:

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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #103 on: December 05, 2012, 10:13:57 PM »


I was always partial to this one.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #104 on: December 05, 2012, 11:06:45 PM »
That one is also superb. I didn't have it uploaded though :D
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #105 on: December 05, 2012, 11:13:21 PM »
It's actually better than the first one, because of the semi-troll face expression :P
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #106 on: December 05, 2012, 11:16:28 PM »
Hah! Good point! The King of Pop = The King of Unicorn-Face :D
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #107 on: December 05, 2012, 11:36:45 PM »
There's another sockpuppet throwing itself in support of him.
Took all of five minutes to confirm the suspicion that account is one, can't they do anything right?
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #108 on: December 06, 2012, 07:16:34 PM »

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The only programming I have really done work be making small programs. Computer programming is a skill I picked up after the hours a day I spend on the computer. I've gone to a couple classes about it and know a lot but I don't have any degree or jobs that I've programmed for. This is the biggest job I've ever done for it! (Dave the programmer)
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« Last Edit: December 07, 2012, 02:08:03 PM by The Fifth Horseman »
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #109 on: December 06, 2012, 08:24:51 PM »
...too bad we can't plant someone on the inside of this, and bring it down from within...couldn't be that hard, given their obvious ignorance....  :D
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #110 on: December 06, 2012, 08:55:10 PM »
To be honest, I have mixed feelings about it.  If it's a scam (which I'm almost 100% certain it is), then yeah, they're scum and they deserve whatever's coming to them.  If someone actually managed to get hold of the code base, though (because I don't for a second believe they've managed to reverse engineer and write a server in this short a time frame), then I actually don't care what they do.  I'm certainly not going to help NCsoft fight whatever battles they want to fight.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #111 on: December 06, 2012, 09:12:10 PM »
That was the crux of my dilemma. I don't want to fight NCSoft's battles, but it takes very little effort to call the appropriate authorities on someone trying to take advantage of us.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #112 on: December 06, 2012, 09:14:54 PM »
That was actually my next idea...link the NCoH fb page to a post on NCSoft's page, then sit back and watch the fireworks!  ;)
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #113 on: December 06, 2012, 09:18:02 PM »
Quote from: Blitzwing on December 06, 2012, 08:24:51 PM
...too bad we can't plant someone on the inside of this, and bring it down from within...couldn't be that hard, given their obvious ignorance....  :D

I don't think we need to do anything to bring it down - they seem quite capable of doing it all by themselves :P
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #114 on: December 06, 2012, 10:44:02 PM »
Indeed. I suspect that their own foot is firmly in their gun-sights.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #115 on: December 09, 2012, 01:09:51 AM »
Another FB user just dug this up. Seems that's "Dave the programmer"'s FB profile.
https://www.facebook.com/david.eschelbacher.7

And now let's take another quote from a while back:
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My Brother (17) My uncle (who runs the security on the white house) and me (19)
The FB profile's creator = not a programmer.
The FB profile's creator = 19 years old.
David Eschelbacher = 19 years old.
"Dave the programmer" = David Eschelbacher
"Dave the programmer" = The FB profile's creator and only user. No other person used that FB profile.
"Dave the programmer" = not a programmer.

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« Last Edit: December 09, 2012, 01:17:42 AM by The Fifth Horseman »
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The end occurred pretty much as we predicted: all servers redlining until midnight... and then no servers to go around.

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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #116 on: December 09, 2012, 01:15:23 AM »
That page disappeared fast. What did we miss?
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #117 on: December 09, 2012, 01:27:42 AM »
 ??? Everything's still there.
Here's a shot of his profile: http://i.imgur.com/SintK.jpg
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #118 on: December 09, 2012, 02:25:59 AM »
Probably because I don't have a facebook account? Most pages show up there even if I can't comment or anything, but maybe that one is set not to.
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Re: New City of Heroes?
« Reply #119 on: December 09, 2012, 03:00:03 AM »
Anyone think Dave the Programmer would be able to get this further down the pipeline if Joe the Plumber cleaned it for him?
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