Thank you, CrashPositron. I just noticed this thread. I would like to respond to the early comments -- there are no art assets taken from COH on the Ship of Heroes website. We created all of it from scratch, often using commercially licensable buildings and art objects that we purchased. It has taken a skilled team nearly a year to create this environment. In fact, our game is the least likely to be sued since we do not mention or continue any of the characters, places, missions, or copyrighted content of CoH. Even more, we are not re-creating a 20th century city with cops and robbers, firemen and arsonists, super villains and superheroes, and with newspaper buildings and fire hydrants on every corner. It's clear that Apotheosis City is NOT Gotham, Metropolis or Paragon. Our plan has always been to build a completely new game, but with a structure that would welcome former COH players (like myself).
I played COH on Justice, Freedom and Virtue servers. Most of our devs played COH, and some of us played it together. When the game closed, one of the most common discussions was "Do you prefer a new game, or do you want COH to just come back, unchanged?" At that time I was in the "unchanged" faction. But as the years have passed I've internalized that "unchanged" does not seem to be a real option. So our team is making the game we'd like to play. We hope many of you will join us.
Kickstarter begins April 4th. If you watch the videos on YouTube, you can see that we already have a working version of the game. It needs a lot more development. But you can see what you'll be getting, if you help us.
