You will have to excuse me....

[raynes]

But I'm getting a bit tired of reading these glimpse inside articles, seeing imporvements, and not having anything changed in the game. I don't understand why you can release a rite a week. Nor do I understand how all the things you are doing in the glimpse inside articles are going to make it into the game.

According to the glimpse inside and other various things that have been written the following are in the works...

Spring Cleaning since at least Mid Feb (It's April now for God sakes. Was the game really that screwed up that it takes 3 months to fix the coding of it?)

1] Rite giver hint
2] Worn out items
3] Dead mektoubs
4] Primitive tribes characters names
5) Mail-forum in game
6) Death penalty removal service on Altars
7) Wall Auras
8) Inventory Improvements
9) Potion Like Consumables
10) 12 Rites that have been ready for testing for a month now.
11) Random Command Improvements
12) Mouse Improvements
13) Laser rays for the Karavan
14) Mektoub scaling
15) Run away from creatures
16) Camera path recorder
17) More rites just sitting waiting to be tested
18) Graphical Improvements with lots on on screen characters
19) Transparency Changes
20) Game configuration changes
21) NPC merchants tuning
22) Yet more inventory improvements
23) Date display on the map.

Add into this outposts and everything associated with them.

Basically the only way I see you doing this is in one big patch. Which is going to end up blowing up in your faces again just like the encylopedia did. I'm just very tired and very frustrated that you keep telling us all this stuff is being developed while we are stuck doing the same thing we have been doing for months.

Anyway no matter if this get a responce or not, next week is E3. I will be at E3. I just hope your ready to answer some very forward and tough questions becuase I will be there asking them.

[mboeing]

Spring Cleaning since at least Mid Feb (It's April now for God sakes. Was the game really that screwed up that it takes 3 months to fix the coding of it?)

Its May =P

As far as I understood it they had to change a lot of server code to serve their needs better. Most of the things they announced are cosmetics and changed in the client code. Not sure why they don't release the client side patches already, except they require some functions that the current server code doesn't offer yet. Maybe all the testing is only done with the new server code and they don't want to risk incompatibilities with the old (current) version.

I agree its a bad thing to have absolutely nothign new for 3 month, just lets hope that the wait is worth it and that its over SOON.

[micrix]

A sign might be that SGM is recruiting for ATS on the german forum. This looks like progress.

[defalgar]

well raynes i can only say if you get your answers on E3 i would be very curious in hearing about them.

(dont wanna know the brand of xavier's underwear tho thats to much info)

im not being sarcastic i really would like to know the questions you ask and the answers you get.

[xenofur]

Spring Cleaning since at least Mid Feb (It's April now for God sakes. Was the game really that screwed up that it takes 3 months to fix the coding of it?)

wasn't that obvious by the way how bugs crept back in, the mounts are still bugged and have been since early beta or how simple rites were completely messed up?

1] Rite giver hint
[...]
23) Date display on the map.

you forgot 24] - 123] bugfixes

I just hope your ready to answer some very forward and tough questions becuase I will be there asking them.

lol

[rushin]

yeah have to agree with Raynes on this.. The time since the last patch is getting silly, and if they are intendending to patch *everything* thats been mentioned by Xavier in one go then the oppertunity for screwing up ala rites is massive.

We know that there is a big reorginisation going on, and tbh i think we have been pretty patient because of that. So come on, give us a time scale, or at least some decent events to keep us occupied.

[defalgar]

bah for once i have to agree here.

usually i dont complain openly and try to stay positive but it could be nice to have a timeframe for when these things are coming.

(its good to set a deadline) muhahahaha

[thlau]

I have to agree that I like to see the promised enhancements as soon as possible, but on the other hand, I like Nevrax to have a solid code base, that allows to implement these features easier, and with less pain to all of us.

And I don't know if everyone noticed it, but there are several patches that have been applied in the server side during the last months.

Okay, they are small compared to the improvements Xavier mentioned in his glimps articles, but they are there.

For example it is no longer possible to kill Clopper and Kipees at the 'clopper death beach' in the Dew Drops.
Some carnivoures seem to lose interest in you, if you are able to bring a larger distance between yourself and the animal. A behavior that I haven't seen before.

[defalgar]

i did notice that but still people are exploiting there in dew drops even reported 2 of them 2 days ago

[lazarus]

I find myself agreeing with raynes.

That's scary...

*scuttles off to lie down in a darkened room to recover*