PARAGON CHAT by Roland Grey

So, the folks over at Titan Network have done something VERY nice for all of us die-hard fans of City of Heroes and it's also pretty useful for folks who like to roleplay.  They have unveiled Project Soon(TM) and released it as Paragon Chat.  A lot of folks have dubbed it as basically a chat room using the City of Heroes engine, and for what we can do, yeah, that's a pretty good estimation.

But it's not complete yet.  That's only the beginning and it's a Hell of a great start.  It's a work in progress, with the developer, Leandro, making little changes here and there every couple of days.  Sometimes things go a little haywire and content you had to purchase when the game was running is suddenly locked again, but he's usually quick to fix that.

Now, the main reason I want to discuss it is because of the capability of the program.  It's a great roleplaying tool.  The game was described by Penny Arcade as "People watching at its finest."  As much as we would love to be able to use powers and beat up bad guys again (whole swaths of bad guys), it's still just good to be able to get in there and talk to other people, see other people and their ideas.  It's fun to see the different ways people cobble their costumes together.  Plus, you can have characters just sit around the different locales and roleplay.  Unlike the Icon program, your characters have access to the emotes, too.

So, if you're looking to slap together a quick design for your character (or long, incredibly detailed design as you get lost in the costume creator), you can find information on how to get into Paragon Chat here:

www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.p…

To download the Tequila client and have the pertinent CoH files installed to your computer you can find that here:

patch.savecoh.com/tequila.exe