What is the possibility of adding story content past i24? I know it would involve more than just writing a story (scripting, etc) but I think the CoX community has some talented people. Most emulators/private servers I've been on never add content past what the official live servers had but I think it would be interesting to see what the community could come up with.
Well. That's where the CoH community, I suspect, will be different. (See my comment above.)
Not only has the game been preserved. A narrative all of its own. But I suspect the 'modding' tools the devs themselves used or variations of them will follow once i24 has been re-written to be more stable and more efficient to...
...use more modern dev' tools to add content and improvements.
Once there are tools for maps, missions etc. You'll be able to create your own narrative. Issue 25. 26. 27. 28. Your own maps. Your own 'batallion' story arc.
Possibly some will quietly canvas the ear of the original developers to get the skinny on the plans the moonbase...or the batallion plans. (I think that was the near 'final' plans they had before shut down...) But they hadn't got that far on those...just a 'bug pass' required for the launch of i24 which never made it.
But again, the community can use their own imagination and modding tools to do this. Eventually.
There will probably be 'large communities' on a large set of servers that may cluster to create a more 'official' line of content that alines with the dev's plans as Matt Miller outlined in his final farewell interview.
But again. We'll see.
What we do and don't call things from this point on? Largely semantics.
But the 'never ending story' will continue.
Fairly convinced on that....
Azrael.
