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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: num4 on November 27, 2002, 06:40:52 am

Title: Molecular Blue
Post by: num4 on November 27, 2002, 06:40:52 am

I got a couple of questions.

1).  Is this thing commin out this month or maybe this month...maybe the next...or maybe even 3-4 months from now.
2).  In this one are you going to actually be able to play the game and interact with other people, or it just be the same as the other demo just with better graphics.
3).  Is this next one still a tech-demo or is it now the real thing.

Thats about it. :D

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Post by: Fiere on November 27, 2002, 12:44:36 pm

1) Yes... maybe . Sit tight ;)

2)Many additions (http://www.planeshift.it/main_01.html) have been made. I\'m sure the devs here could tell you a little more.

3) Still a tech demo

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Post by: Vengeance on November 27, 2002, 06:39:32 pm

The MB release is pretty close to being functionally complete at this point, and Boonet\'s levels look absolutely amazing.

The bad news is that right now, because the world levels are so large, MB also requires you to have 256MB of RAM to run it at all, which is way too much.  We, the coders, are spending our time at this point on quality control and on reducing the RAM footprint of this world.

Not sure about what question #2 means.  There is no combat in MB either, but you will have items and inventory and be able to talk to NPCs now as well as players.

Definitely still a tech-demo.  I think after MB we are still 2 releases away from the \"real thing\".

Just my opinion,
-Venge

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Post by: num4 on November 28, 2002, 04:53:46 am

Thanks for answering :D

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Post by: num4 on November 28, 2002, 04:58:18 am

What...hehe...one more question.  In this one will the server be faster and less laggy or is it just me that it jumps a little when i turn around and look at the whole town?  I am not worred about the MB i have over 300. :D

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Post by: BaretteDeBeurre on November 28, 2002, 09:40:11 am

yeah. Don\'t worry \'bout RAM, everybody should have at least 256Mo, by now. At least all gamers.

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Post by: Pheonix on November 28, 2002, 10:37:06 am

For those windows users out there with exactly 256 memmory it will be a problem ( Correct me if Im wrong)
Windows does tend to use Ram for services, background programs use ram,any apps you have open are using ram......
So when planeshift comes along and says it needs 256 then I suspect that if it runs at all it will be rather slow, as well as freezing often.

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Post by: Fiere on November 28, 2002, 04:43:41 pm

Curse that Bill Gates!! I love how you can buy a computer with 20gigs of space and 256mb of Ram and what it actually has is 17.6 gigs of space before windows and other baisc programming andthe ram is actually only 252! They should list exact numbers not round up and fudge it about!

Hehe bought my computer from Best Buy and got a Sony Vaio a few years ago, won\'t make that mistake again.

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Post by: ElMago on November 28, 2002, 09:01:24 pm

I think if it use less RAM is always better, it shoud load faster i think.

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Post by: Link on November 29, 2002, 03:45:07 pm

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Originally posted by ElMago
I think if it use less RAM is always better, it shoud load faster i think.

This is kind of wrong, you can load gigabytes in less then a second, so all you can really do by adding ram is speed things up, you can fill your ram up faster then you can think about it, but, the more ram you have the more world you can load, and, the more ram you can give to other things like windows.

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Post by: Cyonamie on November 29, 2002, 08:35:21 pm

i have no worries with my ram, 912:D

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Post by: Funhouse on November 29, 2002, 08:44:01 pm

912?...that\'s a weird amount to have

512, 256,128,16?  whats with the 16?

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Post by: Pheonix on November 30, 2002, 03:27:06 am

Hey Cyo why dont you be a nice satan spawn and buy me a gig of ram

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Post by: Link on November 30, 2002, 04:47:02 am

He might have On-Board video that takes up 16mb of shared ram.

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Post by: Cyonamie on November 30, 2002, 05:19:19 am

im running on winblows 98.  need i say more?

Title: answere's needed
Post by: Lord-Shem on November 30, 2002, 08:47:06 pm

ok i have sevrel questions about this game,
(f.y.i - this game has great potential)

1. is it going to run a mirror world on more than one server or only 1 world on 1 server?

2. is there gonna be a large data base of weapons and armour (like d2) or only classes, with the same armour made of different materials for better performance (like runescape)?

3. is there a current plot for the game, or is it going to be build your charecter and rule the world kind of thing.

4. what will the max player limit be per world , or for the 1 world.


if n e one knows n e of these answeres plz answere them thanx  :]

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Post by: Kiern on November 30, 2002, 08:48:47 pm

There is only going to be 1 world and  not sure on the # yet but it IS Massively Multiplayer so that should give ya a hint ;)

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Post by: Lord-Shem on November 30, 2002, 08:50:44 pm

so it\'ll be 1 world run on more than 1 server i\'m guessing

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Post by: Kiva on December 01, 2002, 03:26:09 am

1. is it going to run a mirror world on more than one server or only 1 world on 1 server?  

To start with, 1 world on 1 server - But maybe 1 world on 13582 servers sometime in the future. :)

2. is there gonna be a large data base of weapons and armour (like d2) or only classes, with the same armour made of different materials for better performance (like runescape)?  

LoL! If you knew the amount of items being made, D2 would look like Pacman next to it! :D

3. is there a current plot for the game, or is it going to be build your charecter and rule the world kind of thing.  

A plot? Erm.. Do quests and rule the world? :D

4. what will the max player limit be per world , or for the 1 world.  

A very high number. :)

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Post by: Lord-Shem on December 01, 2002, 05:35:37 am

so there will be a very wide assortment to weapons, almost no 2 will have the same properties? like in d2?

and how do u know that there is a huge database of weapons being made?

and finally , so there will (at the begining) be ony 1 world run on 1 serv?

thanx for ythe answeres, apreciate it

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Post by: Aduin on December 01, 2002, 04:54:26 pm

Uh oh... 256 required? I\'ve only got 128 =P. I tried to upgrade once, but it didn\'t work because I have a compaq piece-of-trash. Oh well.

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Post by: num4 on December 01, 2002, 05:36:21 pm

Yea but they said they are gonna get that down for the release after molecular blue..so just sit tit :D

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Post by: Vengeance on December 02, 2002, 07:52:44 am

I ran it the other night and we\'re down to 208MB already. :-)  Still working...

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Post by: BaretteDeBeurre on December 02, 2002, 09:51:02 am

what will we be able to do in Molecular Blue?
what won\'t we be able to do in Molecular Blue?

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Post by: Link on December 02, 2002, 08:41:33 pm

Haven\'t you already asked that? What does it have to do with the original question?

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Post by: Pheonix on December 02, 2002, 08:45:53 pm

I can safely confirm
 You will be able to walk, and talk.

you will not be able to pk.

=p

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Post by: Aduin on December 02, 2002, 11:38:52 pm

Will there be any new graphics changes for MB? Namely will there be any other charecter renderings? Or will we still all be male Dwarves?

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Post by: Aruneko on December 03, 2002, 12:20:13 am

Yes, yes, and yes.

Everything\'s going to be fairly improved, but not complete.

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Post by: Dumb Woob on December 03, 2002, 11:59:54 pm

MB sounds fun enough.... whee!  ne way i got 512 ram (ddr, haha) so it shouldn\'t be a problem... cept on that damn doom 3 leak... it sucks up so much memory.

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Post by: explorer on December 06, 2002, 05:42:00 am

do you think we\'ll be able to switch a character from the non pk one to the pro pk one?

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Post by: Link on December 06, 2002, 06:03:51 am

Uhhh, there is no, and never will be any, PKing, there will be arenas where you can dual but that is it. If you read anything you would know that.

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Post by: explorer on December 06, 2002, 04:21:32 pm

ok cool

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Post by: Kada-El on December 06, 2002, 09:29:09 pm

Aduin,

Looks like there are plenty of graphical changes for MB, check it out (http://www.planeshift.it/pics_screens.html) .

We will also have a wider character selection of characters - notably some female additions - about time too huh? :P  ;)

Title: skills?
Post by: Nikech on December 07, 2002, 05:23:24 pm

Will we be able to use mining and crafting skills in MB? And will the chars be deleted when the next version after MB comes out?

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Post by: Kiern on December 07, 2002, 06:57:03 pm

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Originally posted by Nikech
And will the chars be deleted when the next version after MB come out?

Yes, they will be deleted/restarted :)