Anything CB Related (FAQ) & Discussion:

[Gwath]

Could You please post some short notes once or twice per week? Eg. to tell us, how long do You think the phase 2 will take, why the phase 2 is still alive, what are the lastest works been doing and so on.

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Gwath
Could You please post some short notes once or twice per week? Eg. to tell us, how long do You think the phase 2 will take, why the phase 2 is still alive, what are the lastest works been doing and so on.

Mmmmmm--no. All that is being worked on is bugs, more bugs and simply putting everything into the game and make them run together. And it\'ll be running until the main site news says something diffrent.

[Hatchnet]

Q. Will guilds be able to have items like banners and standards? These would be a big help in multy combat.

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Hatchnet
Q. Will guilds be able to have items like banners and standards? These would be a big help in multy combat.

Not in the initial release. Some day, they might be done, but for now, people will just have to do without them.

[Ghosts|Jestal]

Q1: How will I be able to transfer my character to CB?

[Gentar]

Q: i have seen pictures of the magic shop so im hoping the answer is yes, but will there be ingame shops, insted of having to buy junk from a website?

sorry if this has been asked before.

[Xordan]

Originally posted by Gentar
Q: i have seen pictures of the magic shop so im hoping the answer is yes, but will there be ingame shops, insted of having to buy junk from a website?

Yes

[Isolis]

Will you be able to fly in CB?

[daecarne]

1) Please, use the search button ()
2) This post tell you about flying question

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Ghosts|Jestal
Q1: How will I be able to transfer my character to CB?

With the script that has been mentioned at least a dozen times, in various threads all over the forum. It will be uploaded as soon as the new server is ready, and not a minute earlier.

[Zetsumei]

Grono, is there any word on the status of whether the crystals will be transferred?  Have the devs decided whether to go through with it or not, because I noticed what looked like a crystal to tria/hexa/octa conversion thingie in the migration script.

Also, if they have actually decided to transfer crystals, have they ironed out a ratio yet?

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Zetsumei
Grono, is there any word on the status of whether the crystals will be transferred?  Have the devs decided whether to go through with it or not, because I noticed what looked like a crystal to tria/hexa/octa conversion thingie in the migration script.

Also, if they have actually decided to transfer crystals, have they ironed out a ratio yet?

No and no.

[Gwath]

Originally posted by Gronomist

Originally posted by Gwath
Could You please post some short notes once or twice per week? Eg. to tell us, how long do You think the phase 2 will take, why the phase 2 is still alive, what are the lastest works been doing and so on.

Mmmmmm--no. All that is being worked on is bugs, more bugs and simply putting everything into the game and make them run together. And it\'ll be running until the main site news says something diffrent.

The problem is that from my point of view (observer, gamer ) Every day in last month I was looking at all posts on this forum just for any piece of information about ongoing progress. I feel that I lost my time because it could be better organized.

Players are absolutely ok that you need to fix many bugs, and most of us (probably the older part ) can wait. But we\'d like to know what\'s going on. For example when one of developers writes \"we\'re not ready with CB\" i\'d like him to write \"because we still have some bugs. It should take us one week. stay tuned\" and i will stay tuned
Or when developer writes \"we need one week\" it would be great if he could write one week later \"ok, we need one more week because ...\" - otherwise after second week from his post i\'m starting to be curious why it\'s not yet there. But still no info. Finally somebody asks \"is phase 2 over?\" and anwser is \"no\" - and still we don\'t know why.
Yes, i can imagine it\'s all about bugs, but such lack of information and such lack of organized informations (for example news site is completly useless since nobody can get \"real news\" from there) when all news are spreaded around forums in some posts where somebody from crew anwsers for somebodys question makes the situation very tiring.

Very often there was a post with \"in a week there will be more screenshots\" - it was month ago. Where are screenshots?\" \"we found 50 bugs more, it will take us a week to take them down\" - and it was written 3 weeks ago. No update of this info avaible. Don\'t get me wrong. I do appreciate Your work a lot! I\'m only asking for some status updates like \"there is 30 more bugs, we belive it\'ll take us 4 days\" or \"sorry, we\'re still too buggy to release. we\'re finding more than 5 bugs per day so we will not release this version until this number drops down\" - such informations are very important for people who waits.

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Gwath

Originally posted by Gronomist

Originally posted by Gwath
Could You please post some short notes once or twice per week? Eg. to tell us, how long do You think the phase 2 will take, why the phase 2 is still alive, what are the lastest works been doing and so on.

Mmmmmm--no. All that is being worked on is bugs, more bugs and simply putting everything into the game and make them run together. And it\'ll be running until the main site news says something diffrent.

The problem is that from my point of view (observer, gamer ) Every day in last month I was looking at all posts on this forum just for any piece of information about ongoing progress. I feel that I lost my time because it could be better organized.

Players are absolutely ok that you need to fix many bugs, and most of us (probably the older part ) can wait. But we\'d like to know what\'s going on. For example when one of developers writes \"we\'re not ready with CB\" i\'d like him to write \"because we still have some bugs. It should take us one week. stay tuned\" and i will stay tuned
Or when developer writes \"we need one week\" it would be great if he could write one week later \"ok, we need one more week because ...\" - otherwise after second week from his post i\'m starting to be curious why it\'s not yet there. But still no info. Finally somebody asks \"is phase 2 over?\" and anwser is \"no\" - and still we don\'t know why.
Yes, i can imagine it\'s all about bugs, but such lack of information and such lack of organized informations (for example news site is completly useless since nobody can get \"real news\" from there) when all news are spreaded around forums in some posts where somebody from crew anwsers for somebodys question makes the situation very tiring.

Very often there was a post with \"in a week there will be more screenshots\" - it was month ago. Where are screenshots?\" \"we found 50 bugs more, it will take us a week to take them down\" - and it was written 3 weeks ago. No update of this info avaible. Don\'t get me wrong. I do appreciate Your work a lot! I\'m only asking for some status updates like \"there is 30 more bugs, we belive it\'ll take us 4 days\" or \"sorry, we\'re still too buggy to release. we\'re finding more than 5 bugs per day so we will not release this version until this number drops down\" - such informations are very important for people who waits.

Do you have any idea how many posts that will have simply said \"We need one more week\", if they had started doing that since December, 2003 where CB was initially scheduled for? That\'s quite a lot of weeks.

As long as the team doesn\'t work a set hours every day, it wont be possible to set a deadline for anything. One day, people might work for 8 hours straight and get a whole lot done, and the next day, they might not get anything done at all. It differs so much, and people get sick of excuses all the time, so it\'s better just to let them wait.

Anyway, more bugs. One more week and then we\'ll see how the world is looking, but a word of advice... Never trust a PS dev when it comes to a deadline for anything.

[fken]

Q1 : how many dev is there ? 20+ something. - Grono

Q2 : how many moderators ? One part-forum mod, and two full-forum mods. Paxx, Talad, Vengeance and acraig are devs, so they count more as devs than as mods. - Grono

@Gronomist : not a question in fact but see my post in http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=11211&boardid=13&sid=a6838c6608cca5cd7ecbb0b4b7126e8b&page=2

I think we are thinking the same Gronomist but my question is still alive : why is there a post like 31/10 if it\'s useless ? We do know they are in progress but I can\'t understand why there are some sentences like this following :
\"Please be aware that a new version (0.3)will be ready very soon. If you have a slow connection we suggest you to avoid downloading the current 0.2 version and wait for the next one.\" if cb comes next year...

I\'ll give you a list of options to chose from if you ever get bored;

1) Very Soon
2) Soon
3) When it\'s done
4) In a long time
5) Noone knows
6) The same day as the moon falls down

Pick the one you like the most, and stick with it. It\'s as close an answer that anyone will ever get, simply because there is no release date, there can not be a release date and there never will be a release date. Not as long as it\'s a sparetime project.

P.S. The options are sorted by time to release, just in case you didn\'t notice. - Grono

EDIT : Im not sure but.... mmmhhhh... maybe the day when sun will have a rendez-vous with the moon (after if moon want to fall down, I prefer that it\'s because it\'s in love...) so answer 6 my dear grono ;-)

thanks for your answer