How is this game progressing?

[Quiiliitiila]

Hey everyone! I really love the concept of this game and the way it strives for roleplaying, but how is the development and progress going? I read on one of the threads that the game has been out for 20 years! That can't be right can it? If it's been out for 20 years and this is the extent to which it has developed, can I reasonably expect any type of update? Will it take 5 years for houses to be introduced (other than the guild ones that are auctioned)? Will the animations for combat take 7 years to improve?

Please throw me a bone here... I thought I had found a game that I could sink my teeth into, but I don't know if I want to get into a game that has become (for the most part) a stagnant puddle of hopes and dreams...

Thanks,
Quiiliitiila

[Sangwa]

EDIT: I like the other answers better.

[Quiiliitiila]

Well, at least it's not completely stagnant... I look forward to seeing improvements, however I may shop around for some other games in the mean-time.

Quiiliitiila

[Sangwa]

Hehe, first you should see if you like it in-game.

[Sarva]

In the two and a half years I have plays I have seen.

We went from the 0.4XX client to the 05.6.1 client
Revised the quest system making it much less frustrating ( IMHO)
A new section added to one city and the first part of the player designed city added to the game
Mounts added to the game
Pterosaur travel added
New quests
new skills and new craftable items ( Broadswords, Falchions, Helms and Shields)
glyphs that use to be available only vis GM events are now available via quests.
New items like robes and bracers are now available
The server is much more stable now
The client is much more stable.
Addition of the Gossip channel to chat 9 up to you to decide if this is good or bad.
New spells and new glyphs available
Improvements to the graphics and spell animations
Some NPCs now talk
Different typs of mobs added
Raising of the cap on skills and stats
Ranged weapons added

So progress is being made. The areas where progress is being made depends on those areas we have Devs for and what the devs are interested in so not all areas of the game are progressing at the same pace.

[Sangwa]

Seems I was off in my ratio.

17 / 2.5 = 6.8 updates per year. I always tend to exaggerate, sorry.

[novacadian]

Depending on what developments one is looking for, progression need not be seen as linear. For example the new quest system mentioned above. Now that that is in place more quests can be put together much quicker and easily than in the past. The same goes for many other aspects of the software. Once a good modular framework is in place then enhancements can take place in a much more speedier manner.

In my, almost, year involvement with PS progress seems to have moved along at a reasonable pace as laid out in Sarva's post.

- Nova

[lilura]

to add to sarva's list
 northirir female model [and armor for them ]
 Grey Klyros
 new hair styles and the female dwarfs arent as ugly

[ncfbn]

I thought I had found a game that I could sink my teeth into, but I don't know if I want to get into a game that has become (for the most part) a stagnant puddle of hopes and dreams...

A puddle of hopes and dreams is a lot better than most of the other puddles out there.

[Sarva]

I also forgot storage so houses aren't as important as they use to be now that anyone can store items with various NPCs. And has been noted many behind the scenes changes that make for easier future updating.

[BoevenF]

to add to sarva's list
 northirir female model [and armor for them ]
 Grey Klyros
 new hair styles and the female dwarfs arent as ugly

Grey Klyros don't count, as they applied only a color filter, that's what Weltall said...   
Klyros females! That will be a great step ahead, I'm sure 

[Knightspark9]

Then hammerwielder models.

[Caraick]

Then hammerwielder models.

I would think that developing other races who have clear differences than their models might beat this one out, the Ylian female, Xachas, and Lemurs, for instance...

[Knightspark9]

Then hammerwielder models.

I would think that developing other races who have clear differences than their models might beat this one out, the Ylian female, Xachas, and Lemurs, for instance...

Hammerwielder models seem like a top priority to me, plus there actually is difference between stonebreaker and hammerwielder, not visible for some, but surely some differences.

[Caraick]

So a subtle difference between two different clans of the same race is more of a priority than a human female being forced into using the Ynwnn female model?  Or a Xacha male using the human model?