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Gentar

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Why a steel blue?
« on: November 20, 2005, 06:44:14 am »
I got to thinking as I was reading threads about steel blue. Why does there even have to be a steel blue? The jump form molecular to crystal was a complete revamp, but isnt crystal blue at a level where things can just keep beeing added piece by piece until it is done?
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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2005, 07:13:56 am »
Isn\'t that what steel blue is?
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2005, 07:16:19 am »
updates to crystal blue come progressively (random but still progressive) building up ontop of what it first was at release.

from what I understand, Steel blue will be the next big overhaul, wipe, big fixes etcetera etcetera, but hey, this isn\'t my are of expertise! ... wait... i don\'t have one...
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2005, 07:26:31 am »
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Don\'t get too excited. Steel Blue is the red herring of the release lineup; unlike previous versions, there will not be a sudden release of an all-new client with tonnes of never-seen-before features and completely new looks and all that. Steel Blue is going to be, and already is, a progression of steady Big Updates leading to the next release\'s final goals list.

SB is not something that will one day be \'released\' like CB was. You are already playing CB with SB enhancements.


Moogie posted that on another thread, I believe it means that steel blue will be crystal blue when the devs are satisfied with it, or something along those lines :\\
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2005, 08:00:32 am »
There most likely won\'t be any serious changes when SB comes, that\'s true.
But:

ver 0.1 = Atomic Blue
ver 0.2 = Molecular Blue
ver 0.3 = Crystal Blue
ver 0.4 = Steel Blue

And so on.

Makes sense, I think.
« Last Edit: November 20, 2005, 08:01:09 am by Draklar »
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2005, 08:16:53 am »
It is more a landmark then a release to build up to. So we have a list of features that need to be in before we can call it SB, and a list of features that will not be worked on untill after SB is out. That is all.
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2005, 02:20:36 pm »
hmmm. Any chance of letting us know what features are getting priority atm then? :)

Always fun to look what to expect next ofcourse ;)

Hope crafting will be working soon and a cardgame mentioned before would be fun to have while talking or for when a bug makes the rest impossible ;)
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2005, 08:32:05 pm »
i personally cant wait till all the races are avaliable..maby that will be one of the updates of sb
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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2005, 08:36:17 pm »
Well all races are available with stats and all... It\'s just models that are missing :P
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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2005, 10:49:35 pm »
hmm indeed having all the models would give atleast that part of the game more the feeling of completeness. Rather surprised the models are taking so long.
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« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2005, 10:52:34 pm »
Let\'s put it this way:  for what is planned for Steel Blue, it will feel like a real game instead of a tech demo.  ;)
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« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2005, 12:04:20 am »
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Originally posted by Pestilence
hmm indeed having all the models would give atleast that part of the game more the feeling of completeness. Rather surprised the models are taking so long.


And it would make roleplaying that much easier.
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2005, 12:11:10 am »
Considering just how many artists are on the dev team and how much time they have and what their priorities are and just how much work it is to make models functional and effective and proper-looking, I\'m not surprised at all at the time it\'s taking.

But after a while, the time-issue stops being a surprise anyway ;)
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« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2005, 02:57:29 am »
LOL.

Well lets rephrase that then ;)

I am not surprised it\'s taking so much time in general I was however surprised to notice the devs put their efforts to other areas first ;)

Being surprised isn\'t always a bad thing mind you ;)
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« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2005, 03:02:48 am »
They\'d have more people on the team if they checked their e-mail....

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