Update coming.

[Mordaan]

Well, happy birthday, Ahriman.   

[TestLab]

i hope they come out with the download on the mirror on the same day as the torrent my computer hates utorrent,azerus,etc.I get 31 peers and 20 seeds and it only downloads 5.7 kilabytes per second    (i have dsl lite)

U oppened firewall ports ? Also, what's your max upload ? I would set the torrent program to max upload of 80% of your real max upload (You can check your max upload here http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp)

Anyway, Don't even DARE to release it on Friday afternoon/night. I want to go to the beach

[ThomPhoenix]

Congratiulations then Ahriman!

[hook]

Umm, I think you may have misread, I could be wrong though.  It's not as much updates like these, it was the update to CB that made many people leave PS.  The community became less of a family and more a bunch of different clubs.  I've just barely stuck around whereas in MB I was here daily.

That's correct ...OK, some *did* quit because of waiting forever for the Linux or Mac port - but mainly it was in the big migration and char wipe from MB->CB

I find the community ties were much stronger back then, but that is to be expected with a smaller number of people.  Whereas we had Zetsumei and Kixie (Who has improved...and always rocked in my books anyways) and got through it pretty easy, now we have Zanzibar, and though he is a lesser evil than Zetsumei, he has caused more damage community wise.

The MB players loved it for the family feeling, that's why they left...atleast, as far as I can gather.

Hear, hear!!!

I still miss those times every now and a then ...it was that we were just so tighter together

But I think we're still evolving ...right now we're just in the stadium where we just got introduced to guilds, trading, magic, fighting and training. I always look forward to updates - I might not always be 100% happy with what happens when they come out. Very much not so when suddenly there's a vast amount of noobies (which I usually really like, if they're good RP-ers!) who just don't get (yet) what PS is all about and try to play it as a hack'n'slash. Also sometimes I don't like some feature when they come out - but then again, you have to look at it all in the whole picture and remember that the picture's still faaaaaaar from complete. It's pleasant, but still needs some new layers of colour, some parts are still blank and some need some more work on them.

I would even be so bold to say, that I don't see a point in bitching at all until I see the
Until then I think we just need to support our lovely devs in all the ways we can, report bugs, make suggestions and _constructive_ criticism. ....ok, the same applies for the beta as well (and the later versions) - but the point is that PS is pre-alpha and until it reaches beta there is no telling what all can happen. The devs know it's not perfect, they know it needs improving, but right now they have more work to do on adding features and content. Of course these features need to be implemented as good as possible, but the beta is where the big tweaking will happen    ....or at least, that's how I see it.

P.S. Some may wonder what we had in MB then at all - well, crystals, the world and a _LOT_ of imagination and team play  

[Myrthe]

well waylander i may have because i cant remember where i saw it but i know it was somewhere else besides anne's post. but im pretty sure that it was quote "updates like this".

[mavrik]

I remember in MB when the crystals stopped spawning for about a week, there was alot of RP and hags games when that happened lol

[Dales Lierin]

 
having read all 17 pages, so far, i would like to address the idea of maturity
1)  yes, i realize many of us are only here because we are not actively playing "the game" and are therefore bored.  it is not a valid excuse for posting the same vent over and over.
2)  patience IS a virtue, but many of us, me included, find it in short supply.  accept this as an excercise in it.
3)  the PS team IS creating an imaginitive ideal... a place we can go to forget the RL monsters which are much worse than a tefusang.  that is worth waiting for.
4)  those who have been playing a long time and have maxed out on their statistics tend to forget that us newer people CAN easily get killed by those itty bitty monsters.  some of us, "slash and hackers" only wish to grow strong enough and wealthy enough to do the interesting things without the threat of being killed on the way to Oja, over and over.
5)  happy birthday ahriman (the post was way back there, i hope i spelled the name correctly)
6)  if necessary, i COULD start singing on this post???...and i KNOW that nobody wants that... 

[DaveG]

Well said Dales Lierin.

This thread really is rambling all over the place...

[Myrthe]

then we could lock it *hint*hint* 

[Ryvis]

This thread should remain open so the dev's can use it as a means of communicating it's revival. (this is the section the home page notice links to, so I think it's be yet another way to let peolpe know... COME PLAY! We all know posting it right on the main page doesn't work, because of all the "The server is down" whining)

[narita]

on the contrary, updates like these make people want to play the game even longer because it introduces new ideas, skills, etc that they can play around with. and during the 2-3 days that the server is down everyone gets so anxious that most people stay rather than leave.

Bimonthly downtime periods, because the server is upgraded one week or two before their client is ready, endear this game a lot to mac users then.

[hook]

4)  those who have been playing a long time and have maxed out on their statistics tend to forget that us newer people CAN easily get killed by those itty bitty monsters.  some of us, "slash and hackers" only wish to grow strong enough and wealthy enough to do the interesting things without the threat of being killed on the way to Oja, over and over.

So can my char still

I meant those that don't role play at all - like "yo, d00d! whazzap? you know i bet eye c0u1d frag y00 so bettah in <insert_something_totally_off_topic_here".

I like noobies - ask anyone who knows me in game I find little as rewarding then helping a fresh player in PS.

I just dislike players who don't want to role play - newcomers or not. It just happens that usually after a major update there's usually bound to come a vast number of noobies and with them a great number of those kind that don't want to RP.

[DaveG]

I only lock as a last resort.  The thread is fine; just needs to stay on-topic and stop repeating itself. 

[Myrthe]

ok

then do we have an update of what step we are on. ya know cuz last time we were on step "5/6"

[steuben]

i hope they come out with the download on the mirror on the same day as the torrent my computer hates utorrent,azerus,etc.

thet did that with the first cb release. poor servers. they melted under the strain. some recovered, some were never heard from again.