PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wired_Crawler on August 21, 2005, 10:59:55 am
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Finally, Jayose has changed his mind. Some books are publicly available. Every inhabitant of Yliakum should acquire the knowledge contained in them. Remember to wash your hands before reading, otherwise You will be thrown away by the guards summoned by strict librarian.
(all below is half-serious)
And what are the consequences for us, the mere players ?
There are grizzly bears living somewhere in Yliakum. Yay! What a good news for hunters, leatherworkers and some warriors. Skin of bear is a very good material for light armor. Furthermore, bears like to eat fishes, ants and honey. We already know, that there will be fisherman and leatherworker skill. Now, for sure, bee-keeper skill will be implemented, we will be able to produce and sell honey :) And ants ? Erm... they can serve as pets :D
(Well, I believe that was a kind of bug report :P )
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At last! We are able to roughly estimate, when the full game will be released. By \"full\" I mean, that whole Yliakum will be accesible by players. According to some calculations and experiments, which I made with the aid of my friend, the game will be released in about x*(1020*k-1) years. The development of 3d version of PS has started x years ago (put the right number instead of x, was it 5 years ago ?), so everything depends on the factor k, so called \"development speed increase coefficient\" ;). It takes values from interval (0,1>. The existance of k originates from the fact, that it is easier to make additional elements of the game, than create everything from scratch. What is the value of it ? We shoud ask game developers (not necessarily PS developers). And why \"1020\" ? Try to figure it out yourself :P (consider it as a quest ;) )
Personally, for k I would assign the value not less then 0.5. Let\'s see. The result is... hmm... 2545 years ...? No, no way. There has to be an error in those calculations! But where?!
Anyway, it is the end of asking: \"When the game will be finished ?\" Everybody can now try to guess... or calculate by adjusting the above formula ;)
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Ok in response to your last question no one knows. But If I had to say when it would be complete (full world, all jobs, all races, magic, weapons, citys, house building, huge dr)
Well, Id give it at least 4 years. I think development will qiuckly pick up once more stuff is out and the game is more attractive. I\'ll be here long till my collage sitting around bored in your dorm room days so I\'m in no rush. :)
But, I think in 4 years graphics may become an issue in ps...
Only time will tell.
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Wow... And I thought Stats & Probs was confusing... I have an exact estimation of what you describe as \"Full.\" It will be released sometime within the next blink of the univeral \"eye.\" :P \"full...\" There is no such animal... If PlaneShift is ever \"finished\" then I think many people would become disapointed.
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If it were ever finished it wouldn\'t be the PS it would be today. For many time to rjoyce I hope but for many also a sad note as CB was already a sad note to the ones that loved MB.
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Yeah, it is kinda hard to go from one thing to something your not used to, but then every cloud does have a silver lining. I doubt though, that you will hear any real complaining sometime in the future when Steel Blue is released.
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Yes, I\'m expecting Steel Blue to be adding content, namely spells and skills.
What\'s the release after Steel Blue gonna be called?
Wait.. Atomic -> Molecular -> Crystal -> Steel -> Hmmm Planet? Alloy. Wild guesses. :P Wait.. steel is already an alloy. Machine?
Anyway, in that release, according to Venge were gonn have SEIGE WEAPONS!! :jumps up and down:
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I loved that in Elder Scrolls 3 almost all of the backstory and ambient story was done through books in the world.
Also I think some rare (expensive) books should give you experience when you read them.
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Course, they wouldnt be just found in the shelves.. you would either have to do quests for Jayose and he will show you the book, or mabye you would have to bribe him or somethng :P