I reread the hive thing on the devwiki since its supposed to come out today, and I have a couple questions.

1. Will there be epic cargo when the patch comes out? Or will that then need to be updated?

2. What happens if you kill EVERY bot around a leviathan, and the leviathan, and all the hive stuff in a system? Then does it not respawn for another ___ amount of time, or is it gone for good, or what?

Also, a question about the test server. I remember some dev saying that anything you do on it (xp, credits, etc) will not transfer over to your normal account. Does that mean if you have a free account it won't count the time you're playing on the test server?

Free accounts can NOT play on the Test server.

only subscribers are able to play on it... or that's what I've heard.

My account ran out this morning and I hadn't planned on registerring (that morning, I was going to within the next couple days), so I hopped on my free account (Which I used to post as Starbucks Ninja here) to shoot queens, and it let me on fine. And then later I decided I didn't want to be shooting them in a centurion 2 with light battery, so I resubscribed.

1) Epic items won't be in this patch. We need missions for them to be useful (and before we decide what items to make).

2) At the moment, if you kill the Leviathan, every member of its hive apart from observers will self-destruct (without the Leviathan, their systems malfunction, eventually fatally). The observers will congregate in an empty sector and after a certain amount of time, that sector will turn into a stronghold. The idea being that the observers create a new Leviathan. Therefore, theoretically, if you find and kill the observers before they can do this, the Leviathan wouldn't be created, but at the moment the stronghold will respawn anyway. It would be pretty easy to make it permanently killable, but we'll wait until we've gotten the difficulty to a proper level and there are more hives, and game-reasons for destroying the hives.

There's a bug where hive bots spawned by the new system don't count as kills for the Advanced Combat Training mission. Has that been fixed?

So, has the Tuesday date passed by without an update? or is it still gonna happen this evening? Not rushing, just curious if I will actually get to be here when it's released, or if I'll be back on the road for 2 or 3 weeks. :)

Tnx
Eize Ryda, EZR

We're still planning on releasing this evening if nothing big gets in the way.

Oh, and the combat mission bug should be fixed now.

The release time is almost always 10PM to 3AM central time.

Yay!

There was a combat mission bug?
Or are you talking about the BP mission?

the Advanced Combat Training mission wasn't recognizing hive-bot kills as valid. Now it does.

Does it recognize the queen? And if so, is the queen a bonus bot?!?!?!

*twiddles thumbs*

/points to news

*points to timestamps*

Tue 11:30PM Harry Seldon
*twiddles thumbs*

Tue 11:53PM incarnate
Release delayed slightly, see News.

Yeah, I figured it out just fine. :P

I really gotta stop staying up late everytime they give a deadline...