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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Esprit Habile on March 22, 2002, 05:22:25 am

Title: To Firestorm or Thekkur
Post by: Esprit Habile on March 22, 2002, 05:22:25 am

Actually, this goes to anyone that knows how the demo
is coming along.

At first the demo was going to come out in Dec, 2001.
At least that is what I\'ve read. And now it\'s in the end of March.

This is my question: Is the demo really coming out in
march? I\'m just wondering because I am tired of
waiting. I hope that I don\'t sound bad or something by
asking this, but I would like to know how finished the
demo is at the moment. I don\'t mind if it will be released
in the end of May or even later, It\'s just disapointing
when the month is over and it turns out that it\'s still
months before it\'s coming out.

I may not be able to read what\'s on the forums for a
while, so If anyone reads this and responds, Thanks.

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Post by: ninkwi njadro on March 22, 2002, 09:34:23 am

It should be out end of this month. and it is in a real early stage.

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Post by: Kendaro on March 22, 2002, 12:26:32 pm

as someone from the server/client team put it... it shouldnt be considered a playable demo but only a technical snap shot. sure you can walk around a bit, chat with your friends but it will be very limited to what you will be able to do.

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Post by: Golbez on March 22, 2002, 04:28:27 pm

Even if it is as Kendaro said, it will give us the chance to do something while we wait for the other features to be implemented.  Users will be able to know a little more about the engine and to report any bugs that may appear,  which is very important too. Besides,  you can see how some of the races will be like.

I don\'t mind waiting for the full release, I am sure it will be the greatest MMORPG ever.

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 22, 2002, 07:40:17 pm

Thanks for responding.

I already know that it was only going to be a walk
around and chat thing, just to show the engine.
It was how finished the demo is that I was
wondering. The news on the main site said that they
have had a chat session in it, so it must be nearly
finished.

I\'m sure it will be worth waiting for the game to
finaly come out, I don\'t want to pay a monthly fee
like most other online RPGs. This will be the first
1st person online game for me to play, and I\'m very
excited.

Has anyone here played Everquest? I was wondering
what that game is like. $10 a month is alot of money
with atleast 150000 ppl playing it.

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Post by: Bill on March 22, 2002, 10:05:55 pm

I talked to Washi in irc chat, and he said that the demo was running pretty smoothly. He said, though, that it definitly wouldn\'t be out this weekend, which means its definitly next week/week end!

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 23, 2002, 02:34:33 am

Thanks for the info, Bill.

Who\'s Washi? Is he the programmer?

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Post by: whitti on March 24, 2002, 06:54:36 am

LoL washi is PR ;)

the demo looks promising, but different than many expect :D

Cya there!

whitti

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Post by: Cyonamie on March 24, 2002, 07:04:39 pm

eq is awesome*ducks from angry fists* and u can choose for it to be in 3 payment options, the one i do is 25 bucks every months, and for u small group who say it sux, say that to the 410,000(and growing) population of EQ.

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Post by: ninkwi njadro on March 24, 2002, 10:59:13 pm

25 bux for one month!!

that is f*ckin Xpensive!!! I will tell the stupid 410000 people They are f*ckin idiots!!! it doesn\'t matter how great the game is 25 bux?? man are those devs fubar or what!! they are out of their minds!!! thos f*ckin bastards!!

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Post by: Shinji on March 25, 2002, 12:15:05 am

Forget that blocky Everquest stuff!! I\'m happy with my little anime character sprites and their little emotion thingys.. hehe. Too bad I can\'t pay for it. Anyways, I\'d pay for Lineage,Nexus TK, or Ragnarok over Everquest ANY DAY >P Oh yeah, Final Fantasy XI But it\'s not out yet... So yanno ^_^;

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 25, 2002, 03:14:08 am

Wow! Everquest is making over $11,000,000/ month.

I would love to be able to play Everquest, but I
hate the thought of spending money on things
like that. Plus I live in a rural area, which means
I don\'t get city bonuses like a 56K modem(mine\'s
a 21.6K, and the phone line doesn\'t even support
DSL, cable and the like ;( ).

That problem brings up another question.
Can I even play Planeshift ?(  or any multi-player game?
I just bought an excellent computer:
1.6 P4, 512 MB Ram and all kinds of top of the line
things(a nice deal too, $800 for it and the monitor).
But the modem is the problem.

Does PR stand for programmer?
Thanks again for responding, and I hope I didn\'t
get any of you upset by bringing up Everquest.

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 25, 2002, 03:20:44 am

And one more thing. Where do you get your
pictures? The ones below the message.
I\'m guessing you guys/girls made them yourself(except
for Cyonamie and maybe Golbez).

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Post by: Flik on March 25, 2002, 04:55:24 am

PR stands for public relations.  I\'ll leave the modem question up to the programmers.  I\'m not too sure about the sigs myself, I never use them.

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 25, 2002, 05:21:56 am

Thanks Flik. Could you ask one of the programmers
about the modem? I would really appreciate it.
By the way, how\'s my pic? I know the Habile part
needs touching up though.

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Post by: Kendaro on March 25, 2002, 05:49:41 am

it\'s perty... but you should upload it to  http://yoursighost.com they will host it for free and dont have that stupid outer site image linking ban like geocities, freehomepage, and so many other free hosts have.

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 25, 2002, 06:17:57 am

Thanks Kendaro. I\'ll check it out right now.

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Post by: Nu Sham on March 25, 2002, 03:49:31 pm

1. nice sig, i like.. thats the wallpaper of windows xp right? i like the idea, and dont worry about the last part of the word not being readable, people will get what u ment =)
2. you should be able to play with any type of connection, even if it works on 0.000001kps =/
but the slower connection you have, the more lag you will have, the less you will get to enjoy the game itself.

if you bought an ultra-cool computer like you said, i could suggest u might want to thnk about getting ISDN, which im pretty sure is possible in your region, or dual isdn which is even better.
if u dont want to spend that much cash, you could buy a good \"Hardware modem\". they are alittle more expensive than the normal modems (which are software accelerated & based), but they work alot better..
my friend bought a cool US Robotics hardware modem, and he is getting like 10kps when he downloads

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Post by: ninkwi njadro on March 25, 2002, 04:30:07 pm

I want t1!! but I think it costs a fortune! now i have cable but it\'s too slow lately!! I hate IT!!

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 25, 2002, 04:57:59 pm

Well... I guess I can\'t say it\'s the modem.
It\'s the phone line that\'s the problem, that\'s more like it.
It limits the connection to a 26.4K at most. I\'ve searched
for DSL, Cable, T1, T3. My phone line is horrible. The ppl
that put the lines up will not upgrade them, because
there\'s hardly anyone that will use them.

I\'ll put a photo up showing where I live, it\'s a wonderful
place. My house is on the top of a hill, and is 3 stories
high.

My sig is the Windows XP background. Then I added
some stuff using 3D Studio MAX.

Here\'s the real pic.
(http://www.yoursighost.com/users/Soren/sig2.jpg)

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Post by: Cyonamie on March 25, 2002, 10:47:40 pm

ninkwi, its 25 bucks for 3 monthes

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Post by: Esprit Habile on March 25, 2002, 11:50:20 pm

Ah ha! Now that makes a big difference.

Cyonamie, what do you think of my sig?

(http://www.yoursighost.com/users/Soren/sig2.jpg)