Texas Justice

Hey now, spelling his name incorrectly in interesting ways is my shtick.

Find your own.

Actually, there is a previous Dev team to a large extent.

Back Alley Brawler is gone. Castle is gone. pohsyb is gone. Ken Morse is gone. JLove is gone. Hero 1 has moved to the other project. The Dark Watcher has moved to the other project (I think Vince was part of that group but I could be wrong).

Considering that the group that stayed on the game was known as the Freem 15, well, that's a good sized chunk of the Dev team that made up NCSoft NorCal (NCNC) after Cryptic sold their share of the game to NCSoft.

And considering that this was planned for Issue 3, I'm not even sure that BAB or Castle was working there yet. pohsyb did so much bouncing back and forth it's hard to tell if he was part of the CoH team at that time and it might have even pre-dated JLove's tenure there. I think Manticore and Gilgamesh were still on the game then working from Austin and possibly Arctic Sun, although I might have my timing wrong on him.

So yeah, we have a few Devs that were here then (Positron and War Witch, possibly Ghost Falcon, anyone else?) but a large number of the ones that were here when the SSOOCS was being worked on are likely long gone.

In any event, the Devs have stated that they'd prefer to work on implementing new ideas that the current team comes up with rather than digging up discarded ideas that someone that used to work there came up with. That's not to say that an old idea might not be a jumping off point for a new thought process for something else that's similar or uses a similar theme, but it wouldn't likely be exactly the same thing that was proposed before.

You can have fun with the Incarnate System doing it alone.

It's called Dark Astoria.

As for the last part ... TMI.

We heroes tend to stop plagues, like the Vahzilok plague.

We don't want to add plagues to honor dead heroes.

That would just be ridiculous.















And for once, I have to agree with Techbot Alpha.

Agreed.

The Devs have told us that they'd rather work on new ideas that they have than old ideas someone had at one time in the distant past, even if the person that had the idea is still there.

If you click the link in the quote (next to the posters name), it will actually take you directly to it.

You can see for yourself where and when it was posted.

Here's the latest word.

Here's the word.

An underground memorial is not a statue.

The claim was made that there were statues of Hero 1 and everyone else.

We asked where the statue of Hero 1 was that they were talking about.

There is none.

Exactly, just as Cryptic (while still part owner of CoH) was working on another IP that dealt with superheroes. And part of the team that was working on it was the same team that had originally helped design CoH. That was the Marvel MMO.

After selling their share of CoH to NCSoft, that same company and team started working on another superhero MMO. That was CO.

Neither of those was CoH2 despite both being superhero MMO's with some of the people working on it that had previously worked on CoH.

What was the difference there? They were each a different IP. One IP was the CoH universe. One was the Marvel Universe. One was the Champions universe. Same genre, different IP for each game.

Because "an exciting new IP" doesn't say "same universe from before, just with a new engine". It says "new universe, new settings, new characters".

Since some of the job postings have referred to it as "an exciting new IP" that would tend to make me think it is not CoH2. The term "NextGen MMO" used in some of the postings could be inferred to mean CoH2, but that's not a new IP.

I think yoiu misread something there Father Xmas.

The card that went out is a 5850. They put in the old 8800 as a temporary step so they could get on the computer.

They are looking at the tiers from the 5850, not the 8800.

My post had nothing to do with your issues, it was a response to Energizing_Ion's post directly before mine.