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Update?

May 15, 2005 Chimaera link
I hear this game gets updated often.
What's the status of the next update?

It seems like the last one was about a month ago. Or at least that's what the news suggests.
May 15, 2005 macguy link
It used to be updated more. But the updates when they are released tend to be more intense now. I am hoping the coming update will include this. http://design.vendetta-online.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hive

You can bet since it's been taking so long. SOMETHING is coming.
May 15, 2005 Suicidal Lemming link
In addition to the hive stuff supposedly smaller player controlled cap ships are coming.
May 15, 2005 Person link
And something I've been thinking about FOREVER. And I mean since I first was making my character, and found out that the Itani and Serco were at war and I tried to home in a border system where I could invade enemy territory. I was soon disapointed to find out that that kinda thing didn't happen in this game. But correct me if I'm wrong, but a capturable system or two would be RELATIVELY easy to implement, and add a lot to the currently inexistant war.
May 15, 2005 mcnut link
that has been brought up before, and its a cool idea, but I don't think its very simple to implement... I think the sectors are hardcoded somehow, I could be wrong, I could be very wrong. I imagine that implementing that would require at least a revamp of their sector implementation
May 15, 2005 Suicidal Lemming link
Capture-able system being easy to do, wrong, but, there there is a capture-able system in the works, or so they say. Don't expect everything to come out at once, I'm sure there will be a bug on release night that will completely break something and it has to be pushed back.
May 16, 2005 kihjin link
It is also conceivable that many updates have been issued... just not to the client-side of the game. Guild doesn't _have_ to inform us of server updates :)

Oh and Lemming, don't jinx the next update!!! Sheesh! :) Have faith in the developers. I do :)
May 16, 2005 Starfisher link
Experience is faith's greatest enemy...

They'll come out with the update, but bugs are a fact of life no matter what software you're developing. It's little wonder the devs run into them whenever new stuff comes out.
May 16, 2005 Suicidal Lemming link
Kihjin, I have faith, but I'm just being realistic! The cap ship first had to be pushed back because it had this great idea to dock, then it crashed the sector it was in. In alpha, 3.3 worked perfectly on their server, then crashed horribly every minute when it was released.

But we can hope!
May 16, 2005 InsanePilot link
I think the devs are waiting t'ill some point t'ill its all up and tested and then they will add it all at once (at least I hope).

If we have to wait a month for an update it will be surely worth it. As I dont think they would have done nothing during those weeks. Something big IS comming.
May 16, 2005 Spellcast link
heh patches tend to come in spurts...

all through the development back into alpha, it works like this..

1- (start of cycle) Major new feature added to the game.
2- (next 2-3 weeks, usually at about 2-3 patches a week)lots of small bugfix patches to fix the small [or large] problems the new feature caused
3- (~2 weeks each) several minor features are added that are dependent on the main feature
4- (1 to 3 days following each minor feature) more small patches to correct any problems in the minor features
5- (1 to 2 months) fairly long delay while the next major feature is coded and tested in-house by our devs.
6- return to step 1

we are currently in step #5
May 16, 2005 epadafunk link
enough with step 5!

bring along step 6!
May 16, 2005 Black Omega link
Well someone has to say it.....

Soon (tm)
May 16, 2005 pirate_n00b link
WRONG its Soontm
May 17, 2005 Forum Moderator link