Questions about Demo Version

[corsairk8]

The planeshift team is always working hard to produce this great game, and I thought that it would be a good idea, since the demo is being released soon, to ask if anyone had any questions about it. On the 18th of February, the following was posted on the main site.

2002.02.18
 
Our team has grown, it\'s healthy and productive in all department.

Some news from our development team:
- Our server gurus had the first chat session in our PS client!
- We have modeled the plaza around the temple of Laanx, and we are working on houses and shops surrounding it
- We have now 3 good songs for the game. You will love them.
- Our setting team is working to define better the background history of all the races.
- We made an update to the overview of Ylikaum pages to have it more readable.

Some news about the demo. We are working hard to bring you the demo as fast as possible, but it\'s important to clarify some key points about it:
- That demo will be basically a technology demo, we will show some of the functions of the Crystal Space engine and of our server engine.
- The players will be able to look around and chat, but the combat system will not be there.
- The models, animations and textures are now VERY simple. That will enable us to test the performance of the game and then make proper models with higher polycount. That means that in the future releases you will see better models, don\'t be fooled by the ones in the demo.
- The server will be up/down for testing, so there will be no continuity of service.
- The characters that will be stored will be probably removed with next released of the demo.
- The world elements, such as houses, shops, etc... are placed only for testing purposes but will be probably moved/changed in future releases.

The actual target for the 1st demo is end of March.

If you have any additional questions please post them in this thread.

[Kada-El]

Thank you for the update guys, all sounds great

Any word yet which races will be available in the first demo and what character animations will be included?

[ninkwi njadro]

Some news about the first demo:
- You will have only a limited set of races to choose, because we are still creating the 3D models for other races. The races available will be StoneBreaker Dwarf, Enkidukai, Ynnwn. One more will follow.

this was in the news page somewhere

[corsairk8]

Sorry, you will have to find out the fourth race when the demo is released.

[Kada-El]

Thanks ninkwi, I\'m well aware of the exisiting info

Looks like we\'ll have to wait for the forth race , thanks for the reply anyway corsairk.

[Holy_spike]

I cant wait until it gets out even if it will look like RS heh

[Montenegro]

Do you mean, \'Even if it were to look like RS\' ?  Cause the way its being made now, it\'ll be more akin to ye old standard MMORPG, with decent FP or 3rdP graphics.  
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[ninkwi njadro]

I hope it doesn\'t look like RS. if it does THEY HAVE FALSE SCREENIES ON THE PAGE!!

and montemesomething one word about ur post:\"HUH??\"

[Nightbird]

What does everyone have against RS (Runescape?) I never played it, but there seems to be a lot of rage here against it, any particular reasons why?

[meket]

well #1 it sux
#2 it sux
#3 it sux

how many mroe reasons u want? people here are a bunch more into roll playing..not simply clickin a mouse a fe wtimes and repeating that mtion.

RS was jsut like that...miners use auto miners fighters can go afk for a bit as long as they move thier mouse every 5 min. was just some game where any 4 yr old child could go up into play and be great at it..u could teach a chimp to paly rs i think...

i think im gonna try that...anyone gota chimp i can borrow for a week?

[Nightbird]

Originally posted by meket
how many mroe reasons u want? people here are a bunch more into roll playing

I would actually of course prefer it if people here enjoyed roleplaying, not rollplaying ... if you catch the difference.

[meket]

lol...so im dumb....its not a secret

[ninkwi njadro]

nichtbirt stoop nagign abaut type erors U arren\'t perfekd!! everiebody maakes mizdakez soo sut up!!

[Nightbird]

lul, eye no, butt their is a snifigicant differance in conononotation wit \"roleplay\" adn \"rollplay\", 1 beign abut charactar and acting, 2 beign abut statisticses and numbbers and dicerollz.

[mistwalker]

Acutally, the reason people are so mad about Runescape is NOT because it sucks. It clearly dosen\'t, if this many people played it for so long. It is the best free MMORPG out there.

The reason that there is so much anger against it here is all these people got burned out on it, they got pissed off and frustrated with people being mean, or that they weren\'t powerful enough or something like that.

If you want to try it, its at http://www.runescape.com/runescape.html

When people are pissed off at something that they DON\'T HAVE TO PLAY, that person needs to get a life, really. I mean, a lot of people here are actually mad at the game, like it bit them or something... it\'s sad.

Its a pretty good game with pretty good graphics. It\'s not great, but then again, it\'s free.