...The best bit.

Foreword for New Users
This game is a little different from most. For one thing, it will never be "finished". Guild Software, the four people who made this game, hope to continue building onto it, and adding new gameplay and content for many years to come. Patches with new content are released as often as once a week, less frequently for major features. All the new features come free with your subscription; there are no plans to charge for new content (addon packs). There will be benefits for players who have maintained accounts for longer (special equipment and options for "veteran players" each time new content is added).

Secondly, this is a game where the community plays an important part in the ongoing creation of the game. If you have an idea, please post it to the Suggestions forum on the Vendetta Online Messageboard. Changes to the game are avidly debated there, both by the userbase and the developers. It is not uncommon for good suggestions to appear in the next patch, in only a few days. Some ideas are more difficult and involved to implement than others, and some will not be agreeable to the developers, but all suggestions are welcome (and read).

So, if something about the game makes you unhappy, come up with a way to solve it, and post it. Or, if you wish for a certain Coolest Feature, then come up with how you would like to see that implemented, and suggest it. Clear, concisely worded suggestions are recommended. You, as the gamer, play an important part in making this game better for everyone. No one is in a better position to determine what's good and what needs improvement. So please, be an active, positive, contributing member of the community.

Well said.

Ah, dare I ask what suddenly brought this reading about?

Possibly the recent ranting of some of the 8-hour-trial players who go on about how the game isn't "finished."

hmm what does the RTFM stand for?

Read
The
Free
Manual
(for the teen rating of course)

I always say Friendly

Related to making suggestions, please read the "PLEASE READ PRIOR TO POSTING A SUGGESTION" thread first, so you have a general idea of what's been suggested before. We do occasionally get tired of hearing the same suggestion to give the Itani shields several times every month.

Yes please anyone here on a trial RTFM! You really need to actually know the backstory. As capital ships are coming into play now and new ships etc. Soon there will be backstory supported things going on or ships appearing etc. So please read the backstory. I know it's long, but it is REALLY worth the time. It's also a kick butt story!

Oooh, did I post this? I was going to, then decided not to, hehe.

I suppose what sparked this was me reading that bit of text for the first time, as I had read the manual a long time ago, and could recite most of it to you, I had not seen that text till now.

(yes, maybe I should rename myself to manualofborg)

Sorry for the bump, but maybe the above text does need putting in a more promanent place, i mean, who reads the manual?

I read the manual...

And the backstory... this game rocks!

Now to find a job... so I can start to actually play!

yoda, where would you suggest placing the text?

[irony]I can think of a couple of places to put it.[/irony] :-p

Anyway...

I believe that our boy Yoda is requesting that this thread be made sticky.

and how many read the sticky threads?

Hmmmm, download page maybe? Ok, those in a hurry wont really read it, but some might, more than currently are... ...No, not many new users even read the forum, until its mentioned ingame, ect, so a sticky thread would be just as useless.

maybe a big billboard in space outside the initial spawn areas for each nation? :)

The more I think about it, the more I think this is a good idea, keep the current http://vendetta-online.com/manual.html , but change http://vendetta-online.com/x/download to a simaler page. maybe just stick the text at the top of the current dl page.

And a nice little add at the bottem that says: BLAK keeping grey space arrrrmazing!