Remember when the game shut down the community was told for YEARS that it was almost impossible for a private server to...

>also imagine how autistic you'd have to be to want to play a bad emulation of a painfully mediocre MMO in private anyway.
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Can someone give me a run down on what happened

>Painfully mediocre MM

Every MMO is painfully mediocre, this one was still better than most

Leandro was working on Paragon Chat before he got the code.

>WE CAN'T RELEASE THE SERVER CODE OR SOE WILL SUE US
>browbeaten into releasing the server code even after news of this runs around for a week
>nobody has gotten a C&D yet

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>Game shuts down.

>Some shifty Argentinian named Leandro gets the game's source code AND a copy of the live server's database from a dev.

>Instead of leaking it to the public, he starts his own private server and starts ruling it with an iron fist, making "improvements" that make the game easier and insta-bans anyone who acts out of line

>he does this for SEVERAL YEARS while lying to those oblivious about the private server's existence

>suddenly an autistic fattie posts videos of himself playing on the private server

>all hell breaks loose, Leandro goes into damage control

>after receiving death threats he releases useless parts of his new server code, knowing only he had the full tools to run it

>meanwhile a real dev leaks the original server data, people start working with the original build but they're weeks behind getting a fully-working build

>Leandro panics, and finds someone experienced with running servers to host his version of the game

>Everyone flocks to Leandro's server which has all the ez-mode additions

>Leandro installs his team of bootlickers and trannies to take up community management and development positions

Leoandro didn't actually give a shit about that he just wanted complete control over the community because he was on a power Trip

it was pretty crazy.

does anyone still play the private servers that came out, I thought it was cool to check out but then i remembered the game is 90% grinding one generic dungeon again and again. really need some social investment to get into

Leandro's servers are still the most active

You are a nigger

The /vg/ server never worked out huh?

i think they're still active on the weekends but you won't get to enough people to run trials or raids.

It's not an emulation, they have the actual source code.

Worked out great. Had 150 people online last night.

This is total bullshit lmfao.

the /vg/ server just got a massive population increase because the leo server shot themselves in the foot

Ironically, the Yas Forums server doesn't even share their code either. So atm, only Ourodev fully shares their code, and Rebirth, which has the game as it was originally.

the Yas Forums server did share it's code until HC people started begging and attacking the Yas Forums server on top of it

>Didn't Cr1tikal out himself as being part of the secret server group

Do you really think Cr1tikal is the brand of comedy that the boomers running the secret servers liked?

/vg/ server blows both of Leo's fagfests out of the water in every regard minus population

Literally every server cooperates and shares data except for HC and the servers they merged with.

This was back when he was doing N64 glitch videos so yes, dumbass.

The Titan Network and City of Titans arent related - totally different people head it, totally different stuff. They only share the word in common.
That said, city of titans is a fucking disaster and will only ever look and play like a shitty unity porn game.

Yes. He outright admitted it after the public server showed up, and was suspiciously flippant about it while the controversy was happening.

And given Leo just banned streaming and gameplay videos of the server, that last bit may be changing. It's already more populated than I've seen since opening week, and I've been playing at really odd hours that are normally deserted.

He admitted to being on it, yeah.

Yeah, but they don't anymore. Which sucks. Imagine what the community could create in 8+ years IF it weren't everyone being paranoid asshole pushing everyone away because they might "stealing my content". Which, ironically anyone can steal anyway using multiple tools, but the only thing being stolen is customization options? Seems no one cares about shitty ATs/powersets.

Even funnier that Cipher YEETed Leandro's ass and Leandro's private server sent out an e-mail to the people on it that they were, once again, in need of financial support.

And Homecoming's donation askings dropped by $3,000 or so. Kek.

Whatever happened with Ladyrayne? I remember making characters based on her with blood oozing out of her crotch in the main server. She didnt use her Ladyrayne name on the server so I got it before any one else did and people actually believed I was her.

All the CoX clones have been nothing but a procession of abominations and I honestly don't understand how so many people could make so many different things that all look so bad. You'd think someone would have come up with something decent just by chance by now.

Really? So is why is the /vg/ server gatekeeping all their changes atm? Even Brain made an announcement saying code wasn't been shared anymore.

All the servers have different ideas on balance so they generally don't mesh well, Thunderspy/Cake/that new Guardian server do share some class changes though like the level 1 Controller/Dominator pets and Wind/Water Control

She changed accounts and started playing on the Yas Forums server as BannableOffence

Last I heard it was on a personal case by case basis, because a bunch of people they were sharing with ended up signing up with Homecoming and pulled a bunch of Sovereign Citizen tier nonsense legalize ULAs out of their ass about asset ownership and claiming the rights to all coding work past and present and they demanded all their input and contributions be removed from all other servers, so everyone just threw up their hands and said 'fuck it'.

That's why we can't have open source cooperation anymore.

Considering how HC got the chance to 'take a look through' Thunderspy's asymmetrical glove coding and formulate their own off it it isn't really the case at the moment, and I seriously doubt they would stymie another server that isn't HC because they're all on generally good terms with one another

Well, that is what happens when you leave Game Design to people without talent or professional education. Look at all the private City of Heroes servers, every single "new" piece of content created everywhere has been incoherent with the existing Cryptic/Paragon content. Usually just making the game easier, flashier, balance being heavily tilted towards overpowered player characters, increased XP rates, etc.

TonyV (the guy at the head of paragonwiki and the fraudulent half-measure they put out to steer people away from the secret server, paragon chat) also got squeezed out by cipher, to the point where he was about to hand over titan network in its entirety to homecoming, but the rest of titan network mutinied at the last minute and stayed independent.
Dude fucking snuck in as a simple server admin and somehow managed to, in a manner of a few months, usurp the leaders of a cultish conspiracy who had been at it for over six and a half years. He's a fucking cunt but you have to admire the balls on him.

Guardian server? Rebirth or something made by people who played in Guardian on live?

>spend years wishing COX was back
>get really excited to play it after the server drama last year
>realise it's not as fun as I thought
I hate growing up

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Yeah, I found the clip now of him admitting to it.

>everyone on good terms
>he doesn't know about the Cake drama

Nah I just couldn't remember the name properly as it released like a day ago, it's called Sanctuary and it seems to be an offshoot from the We Have Cake server.

I'm talking about everyone with TS, who are at least for the time being entirely neutral on the Cake/Sanctuary situation.

>Leo's server
>Cipher booted Leo
which is it?

the sheer amount of HC drones sucking Leo's dick means it'll always be Leo's server

Both, Cipher is a malformed clone of Leo

Oh yeah, the Hixxy server. Pretty much they took the Cake code and ran away with it after Neptune said that all "his" Devs/GMs were replaceable.

So most of them left Cake to die lmao.

No idea, Leo has fled to the shadows for a long time, I just use the name to offhandedly refer to the homecoming server. I don't actually know how much he has to do with it and don't stay up to date on its admin activity.

Cipher is just American Leo.

>City of Heroes thread
>No screenshots
The fuck you assholes doing

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Isn't Leo working with Thunderspy now?

Aren't those people now getting sued by NCSoft?

fuck no

>banning streaming because they want to "legitimize" their server
This is nothing more than delusions of grandeur, and Leo actually wanting a job with those crooked fucks at NCSoft should be proof enough that nobody should go on that god-forsaken server.

That would be the fucking day, haha. No, he went back to SCORE

>Everything contributed by the community into ourdev is immediately appropriated by HC.

The hell we're going to share anything anymore

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Where the fuck did you hear that from?

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fuck man

i honestly think they're just getting bamboozled by the suits, like "yeah kill your own server slowly and maybe we'll let you wear the crown one day"

You think "the suits" are talking to them? lmfao

The best part about this whole saga is that for years the CoH community was held up as basically one of the most friendly and welcoming online communities on the internet, and then the video releases and in less than an hour it became just as horrible and toxic as any other internet community.

God, it's almost been a year already since all this. It was a wild ride.

Like tossing a bag of blow into the middle of a rehab meeting.

>>>after receiving death threats he releases useless parts of his new server code, knowing only he had the full tools to run it

>>meanwhile a real dev leaks the original server data, people start working with the original build but they're weeks behind getting a fully-working build

I was in the original "secret" coding group. The i25 internal build had issues with interruptible powers and the bins related to costumes, but it was fine otherwise if you took 2 minutes to read errors.

Myself and Vahz literally had it working like day 1 - The first boot-up was me falling through the Galaxy City tutorial because there was a bin issue that we fixed in about an hour. Then Vahz noted the Interruptible power issue, which was resolved like the next day.

From there, we went underground into a separate group for Ouro with Leandro basically dumping everything to us as he could. His dogshit Argentinean internet and all the spergs doxxing him was slowing his pace. The actual cleaner for the SCORE code that would get dumped on Ouro's git was also in our group.

We had chosen not to go with Ouro, because it was pure chaos. But I wrote up some basic bitch guides that Ouro had copy-pasted from Discord onto their wiki for the first month or so.

After that, we separated further to avoid that bullshit that would become ThunderSpy, and as far as I know that group died off in the process.

I wound up in a group that pretty much died within a month cause we all got sick of CoH bullshit, but we had been doing actual changes like changing the encryption and compression as well as securing a verbal license from PW/Cryptic lawyer to use their later formats for the engine.

People on Cake were saying that there was a known Leo alt Discord account on COXG now and that was were you were getting most of your "new" developments from.

>man, it really sucks that [thing] is gone forever
>>yeah bro I know, such a good thing I managed to get this game that's almost like [thing] up and running tho, right?
>>>HEY GUYS, [thing] STILL EXISTS, AND >> HAS BEEN PLAYING IT FOR YEARS
>YOU MOTHERFUCKER
>>don't be toxic bro, I thought we were friends

People at Rebirth are still nice, like in the old days, but everywhere else...lmao

And I bet that staff-wise, they are just as "fuck HC" as everyone else.

Lol, no.

It's an i24 server. The codes cannot be interchanged easily.