Todays screenshot ( http://images.vendetta-online.com/screenshots/dump0005.jpg )
Guess its the old universe, but the color scheme is realy beautiful.

I agree.

There's also a really cool station I didn't recognize on the IMG review gallery. I'll have to have another look at it. It looked really great.

17

odd... no bots crashing on the docks?

That sector was a nightmare.

OOOOOooooh, I've been through 17 in a govbus with no name! Yes I have! Then I homed in s18 and haaad a weeee bit o'troubleee with being too poor for a medium battery.
Then I learned to play nice with the furies and steal the mad botters' cargoes.
Weee.

Edit: Mind you, as I learned later, I didn't NEED the medium battery.
Heard some newbies got stuck up there pretty well. Ran out of moneys looking for the exit, whined a bit, begged a bit, got a bit of money, and so on ad infinitum. Funneh stuffs.

TEH ROIDS TEH HOLY ROIDS!!!

Holey Roids. Get it right!

There was nothing like boosting through the two hollow roids while being chased by furies on your quest for sector 18...

Man... Ash has an "eye"...

/me grins

yeah i got stuck up in 18 for a little bit, got in to get myself a valk and lost the exit.. had to get somone to enter 18 so i could lock on to them and find the exit that way...

Wonder what the time frame is for them adding color back into the universe . Sure would like to see nebulas and other dazzling eye candy.

Oh the eye candy is definitely in the new universe too, you just have to look around a little harder to find it.

I even got two off them Seta ;) <= oh wait, thats just one (I dont wear an eyepatch tho) */me slaps himself and tosses Seta a Rammer™*

Remember that the 'old' universe was hand built over a long period of time. The devs have said they intend to hand tweak some of the more important sectors to add more interesting detail and objects when time permits; things like the goliath cannons with luck.

For us n00bs, where the hell was Sector 17?

Off of Sector 11. 'twas hidden.

For all you new people, an ascii map of the alpha. Designed to be read in Times 16.

I make no guarantee of its accuracy or visual quality.

EDIT: forget the map, I'll just tell you all the links from top to bottom. (then the secret sectors)

1: Links to 4. Itani (Blue) newb start location.
4: Links to 7 and 8. Itani (Blue) botting sector.
7: Links to 4,8,9,10. Sector 40 is linked through a hidden wormhole. Verasi I-5 roid/station.
8: Links to 4,5,9. Sector 14 is linked through a hidden wormhole.
10: Links to 6,7,11. Sector 15 is linked through a hidden wormhole. Hidden (and unmarked) station in shattered roid.
9: Links to 5,7,8,13.
5: Links to 8,9,10. Sector 16 is linked through a hidden wormhole. Has two stations.
6: Links to 3,10,11. UIT (NT, Gold) botting sector.
11: Links to 6,10,13. Sector 17 is linked through a hidden wormhole.
13: Links to 5,9,11,12. Dau G-11 roid.
12: Links to 2,5,13. Serco (Red) botting sector.
3: Links to 6. UIT (NT, Gold) newb start location.
2: Links to 12. Serco (Red) newb start location.
40: Links to 7. Sectors 41-6 are linked through GTS signs. 41-6 are the Sedina racecourses.
14: Links to 8. Stronghold-style roid cluster, only in ice.
15: Links to 10. Sector 16 is linked through a hidden wormhole. Former site of the black market.
16: Links to 5. Sector 15 is linked through a hidden wormhole. Frigate (now HAC) lived here.
17: Links to 11. Sector 18 is linked through a hidden wormhole.
18: Sector 17 is linked through a hidden wormhole. Former site of the black market. Final home of the black market.
0: Dev-sector. Not reachable without dev commands. Think Devlopia A-1.

I dug up some Alpha pictures. Look at lower-center of the HUD to see old sector locations.

http://homepage.mac.com/flip402/VO_Alpha/PhotoAlbum33.html

[edit - you'll notice in the first pic that FiReMaGe has, like, 2.6 million points more than I do!!]

What happen to the color in the universe? Why do all the ship engines sound the same? Where are my shoes !!!