The i25 binaries are now out in the wild.

I won't link them here, but there's an i25-binaries channel in the main City of Heroes discord that has the download links.

It should now be possible to host an i25 server, though you'll probably still need some very beefy hardware - getting beefier the more players you want to fit onto your server.

Most, if not all, the coders in the main discord are still focused on getting i24 to work. I personally don't mind i25 at all, so it'd be cool if we could get a couple of smart folks working on figuring out how to get it running. The furthest I could get was booting up the authserver - looks like you need an SQL server/db to get past that, and that is woefully beyond my level of expertise (which is next to zero).

(and for people who don't know - i25 is the unofficial name for the custom additions made to the secret server that we found out about last week, while i24 was the last version of live CoH before it was shut down in 2012)

Update 1: Trinexx on the Discord is running a solo server right now. It doesn't seem super demanding for a single player, meaning that within a day or so, anyone will be able to run their own solo server - just gotta wait until someone puts together a step by step guide. As for running a server that other players can connect to, and what hardware configs that will require, we don't quite know yet.

Update 2: Currently it seems as though launching into the game and playing some solo CoH is quite possible. However, every time you access a new door mission or zone, the RAM usage goes up dramatically and that may cause problems. Things might be a little rough for a while, but it works, at least!

Update 3: While the i25 release definitely looks fully functional, I should mention here that no one has done a thorough scan on it for sketchy stuff like bitcoin miners. None of my virus scanners picked up a peep when I unrar'd the archive, so we're probably good there, but just thought you guys should know that the files have not been 100% confirmed to be completely clean of any weird surprises.