PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Talad on November 30, 2005, 11:13:34 pm
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(news taken from main site)
Today we hit the 150.000 accounts registered mark for Crystal Blue release! Thanks to anyone that contributed to make this release possible and to all the players and fans for their continuous support! New features await all of us to make our fantasy world more exciting, starting from some new quests functionality that will enable better progression.
Enjoy!
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Thanks for a great game and I hope they all don\'t log on at once :)
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*breaks out the party hats*
but the cynical part of me wonders how of those accounts are active?
*breaks out the kegs*
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The casual PlaneShift player usually stays around for about 2-3 weeks, so the \"active\" accounts are surely a completely different number.
What\'s interesting is that 150.000 people decided to register and to play. When the game will be more addictive we will see the number of concurrent players go up a lot.
Enjoy the non-crowded plaza until you can ;)
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there are 150,859 accounts, but only 43715 characters, what is third part of the accounts :P
Or these people deleted instanly their characters after trying game, or they didn\'t tried game at all ;>
Or there is somethink what i don\'t know, like not used characters are deleted automatically.
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Or there was a wipe... oh, wait... ;)
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steuben...please dont mention party hats! I want no item of that kind in this game. They might attract rabid players from you know what.
Also Congratulations!! Great work everyone on the dev team!
About the number of characters. It is likely that many people registered before downloading the game. Some people probably just never carried out the download process, some may have been dissuaded if they had a slow connection, others might have had updating/installation problems. Luckily I found the gam in its molecular blue stage where, at least for me it seemed pretty stable. Now I know for a fact, that if I had found the game at crystal blue, I would have thought that it wouldnt work on my computer, with all the problems I\'ve had. Luckily there are a lot of wonderful people within the community that provide help and answers to the problem ridden.
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Can we fight people now?
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Just a note about \"active players\":
A few days ago, I met a Menki who asked me confusedly where he was - he has never been in Ojaveda before.
Because Ojaveda did not exist during Atomic Blue times, probably? 8o
I would call this character a \"loyal veteran\"! :D
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@ Laskella:
Yes - if they agree to the duel challenge; but please try to find a roleplaying related reason, and announce the wish to duel verbally -- see Pipra\'s proposal about duelling rules. Thank you for cooperation. ;)
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Sorry.... I ment fighting Npc\'s
Cause when I ever get on it sorta gets boring without fighting
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Laskella - is it possible that you are missing the topic of this thread? Try to read the board before asking such trivial questions, dozens of times they told people that it depends on the bugs of the NPC client, if it is currently under development; you want to know if it is enabled right now - the forum is a bad place to ask this, much easier: Log in, try it.
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Theres an Ojaveda?!?! 8o :D
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I am gonna try to host a download for your game, as in people can download the game from me, um you asked so I\'m replying to your plea. I have a internet speed connection of 100mbps. So I don\'t think there should be a problem. I\'m trying to be nice and help thoughs who can\'t get the game fast enough so cheers. :)
PS: I live on the bottom west coast of canada, so I can\'t garantee your download if your far away from that location.
Sincerley: Balvear
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Originally posted by LigH
Just a note about \"active players\":
A few days ago, I met a Menki who asked me confusedly where he was - he has never been in Ojaveda before.
Because Ojaveda did not exist during Atomic Blue times, probably? 8o
I would call this character a \"loyal veteran\"! :D
Uhm if that Enki was called Ayanizz it was me...I asked 2 guys where I was a few days ago...But hey I started another character, Izzayan :D So now I\'m back in Hydlaa and it feels much better because I actually know my way around there...
And no, in Atomic and Molecular there was no Ojaveda...In Atomic there was only part of Hydlaa, but you couldn\'t see most of it because walking was NEARLY impossible. Oh and the temple didn\'t have an inside :D --Did see Hydlaa from BELOW the city very much tho--
Oh and just for your information, when I was trying to find my way from Ojaveda to Hydlaa I died and ended up in death realm...where I had never been before too :D
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Ayanizz - exactly!
I hope you did not delete the Enki, because they have their advantages...
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No I\'m certainly not deleting the Enki, they\'ve been my favourite since the beginning, but now I\'m first trying to get my Ynnwyn up and running a bit :)
Also, now that I know more about the new things that are there now with Crystal Blue I think that I\'ll soon go on with the Enki and keep the Ynnwyn as a backup :)
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Don\'t get me wrong here. I love the game (even in this pre-alpha state) and I\'m not trying to wet on your barbeque grill. Nevertheless, I would be very interested to know just what percentage of those accounts are active in some sort of current sense (within the last three months for example) instead of being merely the vestiges of curious people who passed through, never to return again.
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This rule congrats to the team for making it this far
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I would just like to say congrats to all the PS team! Both official and non-official for their great game. And to see it SO popular too must be a great feeling. If I had more skills, then I would certainly love to help, but I don\'t, so I have mentioned you on my website and put instructions for installing the linux version of PS at http://www.foxgamer.net So I am hoping that this will turn a few more heads for you.
Keep up the great work!
Foxy
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4 of those accounts are mine :D
all have active duties ^^
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wow. a lot has changed in the years since i last visited this place. i joined this forums when it used to have around 1000 members but left soon after because i didn\'t have a good net connection to play this game.
i remember, cynically reading all those posts about RPing and thinking to myself that i have read brags like those far too many times. wasn\'t that what the every conershop MMOG would claim. forunately, at least from the forums, i get the impression that i was wrong. it seems that PS is seriously gearing up to put the RPG back in the MMORPGs. hats off to all you guys, the developers and players, for that.
150,000 members! and the game still hasn\'t been released. good for you all.
i so wish i could play too, but my college net connection doesn\'t allows me to use any other port than 80. :(
the only question i can think of is that when the hell is the first complete release gonna come out? i think its been nearabout 4 years since the last time i saw the game in alpha built. Xp
that and you do need prettier player models. most of them look like the monsters on the CRPGs i grew up with. no offence meant.
ah well, i sure do wish that i could play this game. i have been waiting for so long.
regards and best wishes.
Quraid.
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Hmmh...I don\'t seem to remember you, Quraid. But maybe you just changed your name...or maybe you didn\'t. But my memory doesn\'t seem to go that well at some points anymore.
Hehe anyway... The old days you\'re talking about, you know...I still think of them as fun. You\'re talking about bragging and stuff, and just the usuall stuff and so on...I don\'t know, but I really had fun those days. You know, 2002, Atomic Blue came out, it was HELL to get ingame and once you were ingame it was even BIGGER hell. But it WAS fun nonetheless.
It was new. Talking and talking and talking about it and suddenly, there it was and...it was HELL :)) I\'m sure there are people on this forum who know what I\'m talking about ;) And oh yes, ofcourse the people that make planeshift also know what I\'m talking about :P You know, lots of bugs, LOADS of em, lots to talk about...
And..it was fun in a way like \"WOOOOOHOOOOOO Atomic, I just took two steps in like ten minutes and then I fell through the floor and I got stuck again.\"
Some people would get annoyed by this, but I liked it. I\'m still liking Planeshift.
And although I\'ve never created anything for it, I\'m just trying to test and play my way in it like everybody else, I\'m proud of Planeshift :)
See how it\'s grown. See how big it will be. *gets all nostalgic and soft*
Okay sorry for my little rant on Planeshift, hope you find a way to get in the game or frequent the forums more Quraid :))
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lol, yeah. even i don\'t remember what was my id at that time. but then again, i was just a lurker. i couldn\'t join most discussions as i hadn\'t played the game and didn\'t know what everyone was talking about. :D
there used to be regular posts how RPing hould be implemented in the game and even the developers would chime in from time to time. and who could forget the PvP debates. there used to be a loong but amazingly good thread about how to implement RP elements in the game with points like hiding monster levels etc. it was exciting just to read all that stuff.
sheesh. its only 150,000 registered members, what will happen when PS finally gets released? :D we will have a huge nostalgia thread. but despite the annoynces and all the bugs, the thing about PS is that most of people who are playing here have stuck since the beginning and looking at PS is like watching your baby grow. you saw it taking its first steps, you heard it utter its first words and now that it is on the verge of adolescence you can\'t help but reminisce about those days.
i still can\'t get in the game but i will try to lurk around.
regards.
PS: were you there when they started the implementation of weapons?
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I saw this thread and read through it thinking ????????????????????????????
It turns out that in the united states the delimator is a , instead of a . and so basically I thought that it said one hundred and fifty point zero zero zero accounts. I was like - there must be way way way more than 150 - then I figured it out - its early and I just woke up lol. Anyways tis a good mark of 150,000 ! Glad to be here and thanks for everything to everyone who has worked on this!
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Yeah once we\'ll have this gigantic nostalgy thread :D
Anyway about your postscriptum...Uhm I was here in the beginning for about half a year I think. Then I took a few months off and came back. After a while again I took some time off and came back for molecular. It was there that they implemented weapons but you couldn\'t do anything with them, and to have them you had to run around for ages gathering crystals in the newly implemented dungeons. When you had enough of them you could trade them in for weapons.
Again I took a few months off, came back for a while, took a few months off, and now I\'m back for Crystal :))
So I\'ve always been around, I\'ve always seen it grow, but I haven\'t been always active.
And you\'re right, I too have the feeling that it is like seeing your baby grow...I don\'t know if the other Planeshift\"Oldies\" have this feeling too, but if I, as a not always this active player have this feeling you most certainly must have it too :D
I have loads of good memories about Atomic, I have loads of good memories about Molecular, and I\'m building on my good memories from Crystal :)
Edit: Typos 8) [/EDIT]
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We have far fewer active accounts as some people have pointed out. But it is an important milestone. I just hope that the majority of those players are role-players...
Induane: I never see you on IRC any more! :(
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Just being optimistic, cha0s :D Nothing wrong with that. After all, inactive accounts or not, 150000 is a huge number, and even if we have a lot of inactive ones, we still have alot of active players left right?
EDIT: Just noticed you saying \"But it\'s an important milestone\". Must\'ve read over it. But indeed, as I said, it IS a milestone not to be forgotten :) [/EDIT]
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thats how WoW has 4 million members and GW has 1 million. if they were to count only the acttive members, the no. will be a lot lesser.
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im new to this game and i think its really good, but theres just 1 thing...... im pretty reluctant to make a good account because i would like it better when the character editing features come (ip), i think that would really bring the game together because everybody goes around looking the same.
would it be possible if you could bring this out soon
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I think everyone would like to see more character variety, the devs included :) But their attention currently lies on a few more important bits of code - and besides, you need artists with a lot of free time to provide all of that variety, and there has already been quite a bit of work done in that direction. \"Soon\" will come whenever, but it will come. Just don\'t prod the devs and go \"Do it nooooow!\" ;)
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every time i log on i notce more and more people.so more are coming active.
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soooooooooooooooo when do ya think soon will come?
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Half a year? :D Give or take another half a year. Well, more like give. Honestly, nobody knows what might come up to further push such additions back. Remember that PlaneShift is a hobby for everyone - it\'s not a fulltime job, and everything is volunteered - so all of the developers do this in their free time, however much of it they have. Then add onto this unexpected bugs they have to deal with, the features they are already currently working on, etc., and well... estimations never work :) But you could always get in-game now just to see how things are - and make friends, explore the areas, perhaps find a guild you think you\'ll like. Join the community, if you don\'t want to join the game yet.
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is there anyfink i could do 2 help?
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Ee! Yes! :D If you think you can help in the 2D/3D department, check the guide to contributing stickied in the Fan Art forum. If you think you can help out with the engine or code, music, or anything else for that matter, check the \"Help Us\" link on the main page :)