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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Calvyn on July 13, 2003, 10:53:44 pm

Title: Roadmap?
Post by: Calvyn on July 13, 2003, 10:53:44 pm

Hi all,

well, i downloaded the client, installed it, tested it, and it does great what it does. Now i\'d like to know when more features will be added - i\'m not asking when the game will be complete, i\'m asking when we will have monsters, PvP, items, ANYTHING :-/

The graphics are nice, the handling is ok,  but you can\'t really call \"collect 1000 crystals to earn a mug\" gameplay (i found 1 crystal in the hour it took me to explore the whole dungeon, BTW).

Is there some roadmap - what features will be implemented, and when ?

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Post by: Keldorn on July 13, 2003, 10:58:44 pm

Well first off, Welcome to PlaneShift. :)

The next release will have fighting in it among many other nice new features. It will be called Crystal Blue and rumors have it that it will be out in december. (dont believe rumors tho  ;) )

There is currently not an official map, but it is more fun to explore without a map anyway. Go out and explore.

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Post by: Calvyn on July 19, 2003, 10:21:57 am

Thanks for the info :)

Sorry if i didn\'t express myself clearly - with \"roadmap\" i didn\'t mean a map of the game levels, but a \"roadmap\" as it is for example used for processors, e.g. a release plan with milestones (time marks for features).  Virtual example:

12/03 Crystal Blue
           Fighting (PvP)
           Item transfer
06/04  Magic
09/04  Monsters: Rats and slimes
12/04  Other skills finally working
04/05  detailed Explorable outside area
etc...


I hope with such a professional developer team (and they look pretty professional both from the \"job\" offers and from their results), they HAVE a release plan ;)

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Post by: lostprophet on July 19, 2003, 12:10:43 pm

Like a roadmap to peace.

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Post by: Caldazar on July 19, 2003, 12:31:30 pm

There wont be any PvP, or atleast it will be very limited. The devs havent announced anything yet, except for a few new races, fighting, items and perhaps grouping.
\"It will be more like a real game.\"

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Post by: Moogie on July 19, 2003, 05:01:48 pm

Let\'s just say it\'ll be a big leap forward. :)

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Post by: Caldazar on July 19, 2003, 05:07:20 pm

Go ahead, throw it in my face... how am I supposed to hold out for five long months now? :P

Title: Roadmap
Post by: Talad on July 19, 2003, 05:22:17 pm

Yes,
we have a roadmap of planned features, but it\'s not available to the public.

The reason for not being public is that we can\'t commit to features before we really delve into their implementation. Also want to have the option to change it without have people complain about changes. Being a free project, it\'s not easy to keep strictly in line with the roadmap, so some features may be skipped or kept for later depending on a number of factors. Those factors include mainly the Crystal Space improvements, availability of developers and problems encountered.

What we can say is that our roadmap has in it all the feature a real game needs, like fight, magic, quests, etc...

The next thing we want to have (at least in a preliminary state) is surely combat.

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Post by: Vengeance on July 20, 2003, 12:58:09 am

Besides, isn\'t it fun to discover new surprise features when it is out instead of reading about them for months and having them be old hat by then?  :-)

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Post by: Riley89 on July 20, 2003, 09:41:12 am

Roadmaps, shroadmaps phhh.  I know the whole game by heart already, and I\'ve only been playing for one day lol.

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Post by: Jefka on July 20, 2003, 03:11:05 pm

ah that\'s fine ; what you both told will stop these rumors certainly ; now we\'re sure of what\'s coming up, fine then

For the release, vengeance confirmed yesterday on the server it would be (latest) on January.

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Post by: Drilixer on July 20, 2003, 10:29:59 pm

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Originally posted by Mogura
big leap forward. :)

Ahh!!! Red China!!!

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Post by: druke on July 21, 2003, 02:02:18 am

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Originally posted by Mogura
big leap forward.  

 

if landing on the moon was a big leap forward then this is like the discovery of fire :P

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Post by: Drilixer on July 21, 2003, 02:07:26 am

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Originally posted by Jefka
ah that\'s fine ; what you both told will stop these rumors certainly

hehe, but it wont stop nOObs from asking :P