New City of Heroes?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Amateurish to say the least. I've done better and I'm a programmer rather than a web designer.

You don't need anything more than a text editor (syntax highlighting optional) and a few easily available tutorials to knock together a simple website within about an hour assuming you don't go for anything fancy. A bit more time-consuming if you use CSS to get better visual appearance, but there are many websites out there providing tutorials or entire stylesheets to use.

[dwturducken]

There is also this, which appears to be a link repository.

ION, it's possible someone has contacted the server host for newcityofheroes.net to report possible illegal activity. Not saying who it was, but it's possible that it was me.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Everyone who wanted to know how we got there server files well heres what we did. The last 3 weeks that COH was online we slowly copied each map file from the game we now have all the server files for the game. The only thing we need too do now would be reprogram the launcher so everyone can play on the server (Dave the programmer)

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Those would be the same map files in mapsCities1.pigg, mapsCities2.pigg, mapsHazards.pigg, mapsMisc.pigg, mapsMissions.pigg, mapsTrials.pigg, stage2.pigg and stage3.pigg, all of which are stored client-side?

[dwturducken]

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[NecrotechMaster]

first time i saw this mentioned, it sounded like a complete fallacy, and now after reading more of the details it definitely sounds like a massive scam

wont touch it with a 100 ft pole

[Lily Barclay]

first time i saw this mentioned, it sounded like a complete fallacy, and now after reading more of the details it definitely sounds like a massive scam

wont touch it with a 100 ft pole

It sounds to me like an idiot kid getting taken advantage of by a scammer. Especially with the mention of his parent's office and what not.  I feel kinda bad for him. He probably posted something publicly about being sad about the game going down, and someone took advantage. Wonder what his parent's computer is actually being used for now.

[Nyx Nought Nothing]

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Those would be the same map files in mapsCities1.pigg, mapsCities2.pigg, mapsHazards.pigg, mapsMisc.pigg, mapsMissions.pigg, mapsTrials.pigg, stage2.pigg and stage3.pigg, all of which are stored client-side?

The mind, it boggles. That "explanation" he gives is so clueless that... that... i'm at a loss for words. Just wow.

[dwturducken]

And that it's from "his programmer..."

I don't want to say anything on the actual FB page, because it's all so fun to watch.

[Victoria Victrix]

Exactly like watching a terrible trainwreck.  Someone really ought to make the effort to tell his parents.

[Golden Girl]

Exactly like watching a terrible trainwreck.  Someone really ought to make the effort to tell his parents.

Aren't they too busy protecting the White House?

[Aggelakis]

That's his uncle.

[Lily Barclay]

This thread is so full of lol. I feel wrong laughing, but laugh I do.

[healix]

[TonyV]

Color me very skeptical about this whole thing, but I'll be interested to see what the guy puts out.  I have a hard time that it's just a straight-up scam, trying to get people to download a trojan without any kind of back-end setup to sell it as real.  But I also have a hard time that they are capable of making a working version of a server.  Not that I don't think it's not possible; I'm sure it is.  It's just that we've had some of our best folks working on just this thing for months, and they still have a ways to go before they get anywhere near what these folks are hyping.  So... like I said, I'm genuinely interested to see exactly what it is they're going to put out and try to sell as "New City of Heroes".

[Kaiser Tarantula]

I have a hard time that it's just a straight-up scam, trying to get people to download a trojan without any kind of back-end setup to sell it as real.

Tony, as part of a job I used to have, I had to deal with guys like this day-in and day-out.  If you look at the "topsites lists" (sites that 'rank' other sites of a given category, often offering cash prizes for those who are in the #1 position) for private servers of  any game, you will find them loaded, loaded with sites that promise a private server, and yet don't deliver.  Some of them don't even have a site - their goal is just to get "in" clicks that immediately 404 or redirect you straight to a "VOTE FOR ME ON X TOPLIST" page.

This smells like an unscrupulous attempt to cash-in on a grieving fanbase desperate for a new home.  Until they demonstrate that they have a server up that's verified possible to log in on and play by someone I trust, then I'm calling B.S. on their claims.

If it looks like scam, walks like a scam, and quacks like a scam, it sure ain't a duck.

[Rotten Luck]

I agree something smells rotten with New City of heroes.

[dwturducken]

I'm more than half tempted to set my old desktop back up when he finally gets it online. I'd do a clean install of Windows, first, but it still has the CoH folder on it.

[The Fifth Horseman]

The alleged programmer has no bloody idea what he's talking about.

Alice, the map files are to big to be put in the program! If they were in your Coh file it would be huge (id say about 20 gigs) the only thing kept on your computer is the connection files. You connect to NCsoft who has all the files and they send you them in small amounts.

[Codewalker]

Just saw that too, Fifth. That comment right there tells me that have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. 20 gigs, hah!

[Elfin]

I never saw this in the game on Justice server, but then again when I get to playing I don't always pay a lot of attention to chat. Something about chewing bubble gum, and walking at the same time.

 Anyway I did not see this in the game, but I have had sveral discussions about this on facebook. Several of us have even reported it to facebook staff that it should not be on facebook.

 One individual I know reported them to NCSoft, and told them on the facebook page that they had done so, and got called every name in the book by some individuals who seem to support the effort. These sad individuals are obviously either part of the scam, or are obviously not seeing the obvious signs that this is a scam, even though many of us have warned all over the sight that this is a scam please don't fall for it.

 It seriously enrages me that these people would try to take advantage of this community that I love so much.

 I think as a whole most of us are way to smart to fall for this. I hope that there are none out there who allow there grief for losing COH to allow them self to throw caution to the wind, and fall for such an obvious scam.