The planeshift team is always working hard to produce this great game, and I thought that it would be a good idea, since the demo is being released soon, to ask if anyone had any questions about it. On the 18th of February, the following was posted on the main site.

2002.02.18
 
Our team has grown, it\'s healthy and productive in all department.

Some news from our development team:
- Our server gurus had the first chat session in our PS client!
- We have modeled the plaza around the temple of Laanx, and we are working on houses and shops surrounding it
- We have now 3 good songs for the game. You will love them.
- Our setting team is working to define better the background history of all the races.
- We made an update to the overview of Ylikaum pages to have it more readable.

Some news about the demo. We are working hard to bring you the demo as fast as possible, but it\'s important to clarify some key points about it:
- That demo will be basically a technology demo, we will show some of the functions of the Crystal Space engine and of our server engine.
- The players will be able to look around and chat, but the combat system will not be there.
- The models, animations and textures are now VERY simple. That will enable us to test the performance of the game and then make proper models with higher polycount. That means that in the future releases you will see better models, don\'t be fooled by the ones in the demo.
- The server will be up/down for testing, so there will be no continuity of service.
- The characters that will be stored will be probably removed with next released of the demo.
- The world elements, such as houses, shops, etc... are placed only for testing purposes but will be probably moved/changed in future releases.

The actual target for the 1st demo is end of March.

If you have any additional questions please post them in this thread.

Im wondering, alot of games let you just restart in town or some thing like that. Other games like Diablo 2, have a hardcore mode causing theyre character to die permanently. Whereas, others let you die under some circumstances but not under others. What system would you like seen in planeshift?

I was thinking, if this world is so large people may have trouble contacting others. People may wanna chat with friends but not be able to. In real-life we have a number of systems to communicate and transport, which versions of which may be useful in this game.

• Telephone
• Mobile Phone
• Pager
• Written Letter
• Computer / Email
• Computer / Chat
• Network / Internet
• Bus
• Car
• Taxi
• Subway
• Airplane
• Space-craft
• Train

Im thinking if we are to keep things interesting we need simular devices for this game. Perhaps a telephone-like device for all houses and appartments, I dont think a mobile-phone would be realistic nor would a pager. I would love to have a telephone system and a letter writing system where you purchase stamps and send it to a post office. We could even have post men who deliver it to each house.

One thing that would be great would be a network-within-a-network sorta idea. This would be to have an internet in the game. This would mean, if there is technology like computers, or perhaps some races may discover magically-driven devices simular to computers, there could be a network simular to the internet with pages on magic, personal pages, roleplay pages, magic-mail and the magi-internet-chat-system or mics.

Another thing that would be great would be transportation, a good job could be a taxi driver who makes money by transporting people to areas and stuff. I for one would like to put myself for hire as a mercenary for fun, and perhaps drive my employer to areas of the wilderness and then rent out weaponry all for a charge. We could incorperate this into a law-system by having contracts where if broken a court appearance be made, and if they fail to turn up the guards can hostile them and kill / forcefully make them show in course.

This may make things a little too realistic, but I think some of these ideas may be quite useful and when worked effectively into the game could make it much better. These are just ideas so please comment on them on which ones you like, thanks!

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